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are rare. Out of roughly 40 million scheduled passenger flights in 2012, only 119 ended in an accident, of which just 15 involved fatalities. Accidents during flight, as opposed to take-off or landing, are rarer still, comprising just eight percent of the total. Put simply, planes don't just fall out
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I don't know how the press is reporting it but the "internet" didn't happen until the invention of TCP/IP, which was first implemented in 1977 in a demonstration project, and finally in 1983 in production. ARPANET in 1969 wasn't really the Internet since it was only one network, the first and
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A perennially popular article, but owes its current high position to a one-day spike on March 14; one-day spikes are usually the result of bots, though it's possible this one might have something to do with a recent spike in coverage for YouTube user
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on the planet. It's no wonder people are spooked, or that the cable news channels are running 24/7 on pure speculation. But until more genuine information emerges, transfixed viewers, not to mention desperate relatives, have little else to go on.
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Into thin air: The utterly mystifying events surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has not fallen from the sky so much as vanished from it entirely, has left an information-starved public scrambling for precedents, some logical, some...
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The lead-up to one of the biggest drinking days of the year (and in the USA at least, opportunities for grade-school cruelty) on March 17 is not generating nearly as much interest as last year. It seems people have other things on their minds.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: We know that communication channels went off, we do not know if that was deliberate or not. There may be other explanations. We should refrain from stating the theory as fact above, more in line with the article.
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for this event. The Triangle is largely a work of science fiction (ship disappearances are no more common in the purported area than elsewhere in the region) but when the real world makes no sense, sometimes nonsense gains credence.
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in the event's Wiki page is chilling in retrospect: "No other passenger jet in modern history had disappeared so completely – without a Mayday call or a witness or even a trace on radar." That is certainly no longer true.
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as it has annually, the page was protected in advance. Many persons wanting desperately to correct perceived inaccuracies were sent packing and the vandals never had a chance.
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has led to a spike in interest in this article, despite the fact that the Web and the Net are not the same thing (the Internet was invented by the US military in 1969).
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In the absence of facts, people turn to myths, so again it's not surprising that this old malarkey resurfaced, despite the fact that there is a
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The relatively new model wide-body aircraft with an exceptional safety record came under scrutiny thanks to the events of Flight MH370.
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We do have a RS for "deliberate" being both an assumption, the view of Malaysian officials, and the majority view
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That bold claim isn't in the article and should be if there's a RS. Without one we should remove it from here.
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For the week of March 9 to 15, the 10 most popular articles on Knowledge, as determined from the report of the
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This 2009 air flight eerily prefigured the still-unresolved fate of Flight MH370 by crashing into the
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of the sky. Except, of course, when they do, and the utterly mystifying events surrounding
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important, but there were other networks as well, which were interconnected by TCP/IP. --
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Some have speculated that the attention given to the 25th anniversary of the
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Anent theories about MH 370: would it be too distracting to mention I have
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The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article.
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The flag of the first island chain to be affected by the blast of a
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Honestly, I think that's entirely within the realm of possibility.
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I believe he's referring to the transponder, which was deliberate.
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during cruising, an exceptionally rare event. A quote from the
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This year, rather than wait for the flood of vandalism to hit
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Shouldn't that be 1969 for the birth of the internet?
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However affected we may be by their inherent drama,
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