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Originally Posted by 2BNTV
With the finding of finding remains of the plane, I think it's safe to assume the plane is in the ocean, with no survivors. They don't have rafts, and parachutes on commercial airliners.
How and why this happened, is yet to be determined.
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You are correct that commercial airliners do not have parachutes, but they have always had life rafts. The inflatable slides that passengers use to evacuate a plane can be disconnected from the plane and become a life raft for 25-30 people. Each raft has provisions attached, like locator beacons, etc. Even before inflatable slides were used on planes, there were life rafts on some planes stored in the aircraft ceiling.
Has anyone heard any speculation of why no cell phone calls were placed from passenger phones while they were still over land in Malaysia?