So praying this to be true...

I can't believe that to, in 8hours or so it should be possible to inform the airline about the landing. And in that case they would never had announced that they miss that flight.

I'm skeptical, first because it's Nanning, not Nanming. Second, because if they had electrical difficulties and lost contact about two hours into the flight, they presumably would have decided to fly *past* PNH, SGN, and HAN before diverting to a small airport in a minor city in China. Why?

Nothing about this adds up. It seems like there is some big piece of information that would tie everything together (either positively or tragically) that hasn't been released

It was last heard of 10+ hours ago, you don't think someone would know by now that it had landed?

I am so hoping this is true and accurate.

Posters more knowledgeable than me might weigh in and explain how much time might have been lost trying to address the electronics failure (if that's possible, and how long it would take to go into backup mode (the paper maps pilots haul around with their manuals?) and what sort of course the plane might be flying while the pilots were working out a plan of action.

The issue of a suitable airport might possibly have been a factor. They need one big enough to safely land, within fuel range, but possibly not a very heavily tracked one if they are unable to communicate.

I agree. Even in case of total airplane communication systems failure, surely even in the smallest airport there must be a landline or Internet link, allowing to notify the airline.

It is Daylight now in Asia, hope and pray for survivors.

Maybe there is some time zone calculation error.

While I am so hoping this is true, surely the airline would have updated their website/facebook page by now if it is. If the crew had informed their families, surely they would have also informed the company.

Sadly - and I sincerely hope I'm wrong - I'd say expect the worst at the 9:30 press conference.

As much I wish for this to be true, what would this say about Chinese ATC and MH's communications procedure. Do you really believe they fail to check in with their OPC 7hrs after last contact?
I fear this is a mean hoax.
Although I would honestly love to be proven wrong.

I find it hard to believe, how can they keep a complete black out of news or contact for that length of time ?

Well unless the plane was hijacked and all the electronic devices were taken away by the hijackers which still very unlikely

CNN now states on their front page that, according to the airline, the plane "likely ran out of fuel".

This is just a tasteless joke. Really sad when many lives have likely been lost.

Hope it wasn't hijacked.

that news story sounds like a fake. Malaysia airlines have no idea where the plane is, with news stories like that they have to chase it up and see if its true.

I cannot find any information regarding its landing in any Chinese media and I don't think Nanming is a city in China.

:(

I agree. If an aircraft lost all comms and landed somewhere, the first thing they would do after securing the aircraft would be to contact HQ.

10 hours, did they even have the fuel for a flight that long? I read they were carrying 7.5 hours worth of fuel.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/world/...ing/index.html

I don't think we should take anything from facebook or twitter as legitimate news.

At this point I hope it WAS hijacked, landed, and China or whoever has a news blackout for negotiations, storming the plane, etc.

Nanning is, and roughly on the route.

I hope I am wrong
 

but given the lack of information for a long time, and the sudden lost of contact, it may have been decomposed in the sky. Authorities know it.:(

Someone is going to lose their job over this. Didn't the pilots notice an hour or so before lost contact that there wasn't going to be enough fuel???

Honestly.... hopefully it was and not a catastrophic failure.

within one hour of take off?

KUL-PEK isn't 10 hours, someone upthread had mentioned they landed ~10 hours later. They should have had more than enough fuel for the scheduled route.

What do you mean? They were reported to have ~7.5 hours' worth of fuel an hour before losing contact. Why wouldn't that be enough?

What I read said that CNN was reporting that IF the plane were still in the air it WOULD HAVE run out of fuel by now, not that it actually did. And not that it's exactly shocking that a plane on a 7-hour flight doesn't have a 10-hour fuel supply...

PNH basically shuts down after the KE/OZ flights depart around midnight. I'd guess SGN and HAN would be similar.

Waiting for the upcoming press conference but not expecting any good news. :(

That says that when they lost contact - 2h 40 mins into flight, there would have been about 7.5 hours worth of fuel remaining.

Where would the hijackers want to land? Borneo?

The comment was that by this point in time, if the plane hasn't landed, it will almost certainly have run out of fuel based on what they loaded for the route. I don't think it was at all implying that there was some mistake in fuel loading...

And that length of flight time should have put them over Vietnam or Halong Bay I'd think.

They mean by now it would have run out. Not cause for it being missing.

I'm just praying for everyone. Every frequent flyer's worst fear.

That isn't quite how I read it. In the context of having "7.5 hours of fuel" I think they mean it would have run out of fuel by now. But as they lost contact only 2hrs after takeoff it unfortunately seems unlikely it was still flying after that point.

Here's the data from Flightaware.