Missing Malaysian Airline flight.
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Hate to quote Jayne, but I saw this comin'.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Doubts about military track of plane
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: The Malaysia Air Force now says they are not certain that the aircraft spotted by military radar west of Malaysia is Flight 370.
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA AND PHU QUOC, VIETNAM
Malaysia's military has traced what could have been the jetliner missing for almost five days to an area near India's Andaman and Nicobar islands, hundreds of miles from its last known position, the country's air force chief said on Wednesday.
After a series of at times conflicting statements, the latest revelation underlined that authorities remain uncertain even where to look for the plane, and no closer to explaining what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 or the 239 people on board.
The flight disappeared from civilian radar screens shortly before 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, as it flew northeast across the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand bound for Beijing. What happened next is one of the most baffling mysteries in modern aviation history.
Malaysian air force chief Rodzali Daud told a news conference that an aircraft was plotted on military radar at 2:15 a.m., 200 miles (320 km) northwest of Penang Island off Malaysia's west coast.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0312/Malaysia-Ai
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The Situation Room ?@CNNSitRoom 1h
Chinese satellite images are 1st solid lead consistent w/ #MH370's path, Fmr NTSB official tells @jaketapper #TheLead pic.twitter.com/5zTRQEgtE3
Not looking like the happy ending after all.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
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Good thing China has a satellite to capture these pictures. I guess all the American satellites were too busy processing tweets and porn requests to notice a silly thing like a missing plane.
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Meanwhile, after 5 days authorities still cannot give any relevant information about the two Iranians on board with stolen passports. One way tickets to Beijing paid for with cash? Uh huh.
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Meanwhile, after 5 days authorities still cannot give any relevant information about the two Iranians on board with stolen passports. One way tickets to Beijing paid for with cash? Uh huh.
Hey, they've been cleared of any suspicion. So it had to be the pilot or mechanical issues. Maybe the fuel some how vaporized and was ignited by faulty wiring.
Yeah. That's the ticket.
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Still missing
And the debris picked up by Chinese satellite ? Apparently NOT from the missing 777.
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Wall Street Journal reports today that the plane's engines continued to transmit maintenance data to Rolls Royce for 4 hours after the transponders went dark. So the plane could have flown another 2,200 miles from the last reported check-in spot. Of course the Malaysian Govt. is denying this news from the WSJ, which is to be expected, because so far that Govt. and Mayalsian Air have stonewalled, lied, and been dead wrong on everything they've said. And also today, China is saying that the satellite images they held for 4 days and then released were not released by them. 2,200 miles puts the plane just about anywhere, including Pakistan.
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I'm wondering, if the WSJ report is being misreported, or they go their info wrong, in whether the engines DID actually transmit data, or just that they were designed to do so.
Also, per the mobile phones still being active... how is it that no one has done a check on this ? If there's a signal, can't they find the location? Seems like step 1 for any investigation, unless there's some asinine privacy laws or restrictions which is keeping " the authorities " from doing so. What a freaking tragic joke, if the one time civilian phones AREN'T tracked , is when they're actually needed to be ,in a life or death situation.
I bet they know, and simply aren't saying. Either way, there should be SOME word on this matter.
And how does one fly a 777 over the subcontinent of India, and not get detected ? I'm wondering if that 2,200 miles includes taking the feet wet route around the southern coast of India.
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I'm wondering, if the WSJ report is being misreported, or they go their info wrong, in whether the engines DID actually transmit data, or just that they were designed to do so.
Only Rolls Royce can confirm if info was sent. I don't know if they have confirmed anything yet.
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Also, per the mobile phones still being active... how is it that no one has done a check on this ? If there's a signal, can't they find the location? Seems like step 1 for any investigation, unless there's some asinine privacy laws or restrictions which is keeping " the authorities " from doing so. What a freaking tragic joke, if the one time civilian phones AREN'T tracked , is when they're actually needed to be ,in a life or death situation.
The phones could have been collected by hijackers, or they might be at the bottom of the ocean. Or something else.
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I bet they know, and simply aren't saying. Either way, there should be SOME word on this matter.
Not necessarily. If terrorism is or was involved, then the cone of silence is lowered and they say nothing to the public.
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And how does one fly a 777 over the subcontinent of India, and not get detected ? I'm wondering if that 2,200 miles includes taking the feet wet route around the southern coast of India.
Flying low under the radar and in darkness might explain how it could cross India undetected. Six days and nothing. It's amazing.
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Here's the latest I'm hearing , as it's being relayed over the local news radio station -
The Rolls Royce engines ran for 5 hours after the last known signal from the transponders. Supposedly the engines ping maintenance data every hour they're in operation. RR received 5 pings.
The 777 has the longest flight capacity of any airliner in the world. While it wouldn't have full tanks for this flight, it likely would have enough for the distance needed, plus a couple of hours extra.
( I think I heard that flight370 was lost approx 1 hour into its flight plan )
As for the phones, there are reports that family members were getting connect rings long after the plane was lost. If hijackers had them, it didn't matter. There should still be a way to track those phones. Or should have been, until and unless they were turned off.
The issue of piloting a plane, in the dark, w/ out ATC assistance, over who knows where, for 5+ hours, seems a tall order for some hijacker. At least, I doubt they could have landed safely under those circumstances.
ETA - Just watched some guy on FOX, experienced pilot who seems to know a thing or 2 about the 777. It needs 3,500 ft to land, which he says isn't all that hard to find. ( At least here in the US ).Says there are airfields all over the place, some from WW2 even, that could be used. ( Again, not sure how many there are in that part of the world ). Landing would be relatively easy. It's taking off again that would be an issue.
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Haven't been following this closely, and haven't read thru this thread, just wondered if this had been brought up:Quote:
Sabotage Suspected on Missing Jet, as Search Area Expands
Malaysian officials investigating the disappearance of Flight MH370 say evidence from military radar-tracking suggests it was deliberately flown off-course.
A report indicated Friday that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 might have been deliberately flown off course when it vanished without a trace almost a week ago, as the search radius for the missing jet expanded once again amid conflicting reports and dashed hopes.
Reuters, citing unnamed sources familiar with the investigation into the disappearance, reports that military radar-tracking evidence suggests the Boeing 777 was deliberately flown across the Malay peninsula toward the Andaman Islands, a chain of isles between the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal. An unidentified aircraft was apparently spotted following a route between navigational waypoints, indicating the pilot had considerable aviation training. The revelation has renewed questions about whether foul play was involved in the disappearance of a plane that was carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and for which authorities have scoured the ocean for days to no avail.
“What we can say is we are looking at sabotage, with hijack still on the cards,” one source, a senior Malaysian police official, told Reuters.
Malaysian officials said Thursday that two communications systems on board the aircraft—the data reporting system and the transponder transmitting location and altitude—shut down 14 minutes apart. Some analysts claim this points toward a deliberate attempt to conceal the aircraft’s movements. But retired Colonel J. F. Josephs, an aviation accident investigator, said “this seems speculative and somewhat of a reach.
“You could choose to shut down both systems simultaneously, and it could just as well have been caused by an electrical failure,” he told TIME.
The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Kidd is currently cruising toward the Indian Ocean, the opposite direction of the ill-fated flight’s original route. Malaysian authorities have requested the vessel’s help there after it emerged that “pings” may have been picked up from the plane’s service data system up to five hours after its transponder emitted its last signal.
“Certain ships and aircraft stay in the east, and some go to the west,” Cmdr. William Marks of the U.S. 7th Fleet told CNN on Thursday. “We’re moving to the west.”
Mark said moving into the third largest ocean in the world will be like going “from a chess board to a football field.”
“It’s a completely new game,” he said. “Now we have to come up with a new strategy, new tactics.”
Josephs, who took part in locating the Air France flight 447 that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009, called it a “daunting task.”
“Even if you’re in the right grid coordinates, there are so many variables that affect the probability of detection,” he said. “The illumination, the sea stack, weather, salt. You could be able to see for millions of miles at an altitude, but at the surface you’re relying on acoustics equipment and looking through binoculars for hours at the time.”
Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday. The jetliner had just reached cruising altitude of almost 35,000 feet and was located at the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand. No distress call was received. Twelve nations have become involved in a search and rescue operation involving scores of ships and aircraft, scouring an expanding area on both sides of the Malay Peninsula.
While U.S. officials told CNN that the Indian Ocean is a likely crash site, other facts continue to deepen the mystery. An electrical failure of the magnitude Josephs suggested would be a somewhat catastrophic scenario, which would likely also have impacted the pilots navigating capability.
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