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Missing Plane......
Missing Plane......
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I think they know the direction and rough speed now from the intervening hourly pings, just not making them public. Looking pretty certain its in south indian ocean to me. Wont know more until black box comes up if it ever does.
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10 days after the aircraft disappeared, Thailand's military said yesterday that its radar detected a plane that may have been the Malaysia Airlines jet, minutes after its communications went down, but did not share the data earlier because officials “did not pay any attention to it” and were not specifically asked for it.
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well it has certainly turned into a farce, the press must be loving this.
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http://www.theonion.com/articles/malaysian-airlines-expands-investigation-to-includ,35524/
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Now I am confused. The west turn was programmed into Flight Management system before ACRAS sent this information back at 1.07am
If it was a hijacking/suicide the pilots turned off the ACRAS system after putting this turn in. Did they not know this information would be sent out? |
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Allianz have apparently already started insurance payouts
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Reports coming in about pieces being spotted in the sea off Western Australia
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this takes another twist, 1500 miles sw of perth, if it is the plane it's just flown south out into the ocean until the fuel ran out
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Nothing spotted today "except for a freighter and 2 pods of dolphins".
Search continues tomorrow. |
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I hope they fed them
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Would it not be possible that the Russians shot down the plane out of the blue (Opportunity) using a super secret stealth type aircraft (Means)in order to deflect media attention from them being naughty in Crimea? (Motive)
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Could be something along the lines of what happened to Helios Airways Flight 522,some how the pilots have passed out 1st ,there can have been no warning other wise pilots would have said they had a problem,maybe one of the planes cockpit windows has blown out ,the transponder could have been been turned off by accident by someone
entering the **** pit who obviously didnt know what they were doing .. Failing that it can only be Pilot Suicide imvho .. |
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The search for two large objects that may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet has resumed in the southern Indian Ocean.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said Friday's operation would involve four military aircraft, including two RAAF Orions, scouring a remote area of 8,800 sq miles (23,000 sq km). The planes, which set off from Perth, are expected to arrive in the area around midnight (UK time). A Norwegian merchant ship - the first vessel to reach the vicinity - has been using searchlights through the night to try and locate the objects. They were spotted by a satellite last Sunday and could potentially be debris from flight MH370. One is thought to be 24 metres in length and the other about five metres. The sightings have been deemed "credible" and a "potentially important development" by authorities - as the search for the passenger plane enters its 13th day. A New Zealand Orion and a US Navy Poseidon aircraft are also involved in the search. Australian naval vessel HMAS Success, which is capable of retrieving debris, is also en route to the search area but is some days away. A British naval survey ship, HMS Echo, is also heading to the region. There has been no trace of the aircraft since it vanished from radar a short distance into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8. Wider searches, including of a northern corridor from northern Thailand to Kazakhstan, are set to continue until investigators are certain they have located the plane. Some 18 ships and 29 aircraft are taking part. Those areas were targeted after faint electronic "pings" picked up by one commercial satellite suggested flight MH370 flew on for at least six hours after it disappeared from air traffic control screens. china sending 9 ships to the debris area |
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All that for a floating (for now) cylinder..
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cnn live..wall to wall covered for those intrested....
http://www.playlivenews.com/2010/08/watch-cnn-news-live/ |
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I'm watching Mr Tictac. As I have for the last few nights. Always liked CNN.
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We dont think there are any vehicles in the world that can travel that far without running out of fuel.(to stay in that area very long to search.
BUT WE CAN SEND A ROCKET TO THE MOON FFS  |
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The US have drones that can pick out a man from thousands of feet ,then bomb an kill anything within a certain radius ,yet we cannot with all the satellites in the world find the wreckage of a plane ,Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 sleeps with the fishes
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"yet we cannot with all the satellites in the world find the wreckage of a plane"
Satellites aren't much use finding something that is probably 10-15k feet under the sea |
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and none of the passengers were wearing Turbans....
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Black Box only has 30 days battery time? Really?
 this unfortunate episode has shown how backward we still are... |
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minium of 30 days battery life,then the signal becomes weaker, afew aircraft accidents and the signal was still going 40 plus days.
looking more like human error or elecrical/ fire failure..cnn/ fbi reporting tonight |
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Satellites aren't much use finding something that is probably 10-15k feet under the sea
Well however the USA keep tack of Russian submarines perhaps this technology could be used ,I believe the plane is underwater thats what my post was referring to ... as in SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES ... |
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20 Freescale semiconductor (a US company - electronic warfare research among their specialities) employees on the plane bound to Beijing.....
....perhaps some of them had intentions to disseminate classified info ...like how to cloak a plane from radar...which would be very useful...and this was found out... ..and technology such as that espoused by Dr Judy Wood was used on the plane....hence no wreckage.. or none that is easily identifiable... ...maybe...perhaps.... ..although that wouldn't explain the satellite info that suggests...if it is accurate or real...that the plane flew for several hours after contact was lost. |
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Tony Abbott (Aussie PM) has just said that the search for the plane in the southern Indian Ocean will go on "indefinitely" that's good to know and I really hope they find something soon as those relatives surely need some closure one way or the other
BUT ... Three things spring to mind (1) Are all resources now concentrated on the southern Indian Ocean based on those two grainy satellite pictures ? sure they could be part of a plane but they could be lots of other things too ... why fly back over Malaysia before turning left to head south instead of making a right and heading directly south ? (2) If the search continues to be fruitless, how long does "indefinitely" actually mean? (3) Who is paying for all this as it can be cheap ? |
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Chinese have got more satellite photos of debris in area
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"looking more like human error or elecrical/ fire failure..cnn/ fbi reporting tonight"
IF it was then it was a huge coincidence that it happened during that very short time period between air traffic controllers - when they were effectively in a radar black hole. Because loss of contact at that point would have been an ideal time to take over the plane. And during that short time space no one on the ground would be aware what it was doing. Looks more like a well-planned event to lose contact at that point than anything else (?) |
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cockpit recorder likely to be useless unless whoever did this left a nice message towards the end, the actual takeover and the majority of the flight won't be on it
the flight date recorder will show the track and that it ran out of fuel, it will show what human intervention was made, but it is unlikely to tell them who did it unless there are voices at some point in the final couple of hours of flight i reckon all bar one were dead by then, they may never know which man did this |
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I would say this will still be solved. Its incredible how they tend to be despite the many difficulties in doing so.
Few things that might make it difficult though.......cant the cockpit voice recorder be turned off by pulling the circuit breaker? If so then surely this would be done by whoever sabotaged the plane. |
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Looks like the waiting is over.
"The following SMS message has been sent to relatives: "Malaysia Airlines deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board survived. As you will hear in the next hour from Malaysia's Prime Minister, we must now accept all evidence suggests the plane went down in the Southern Indian Ocean." |
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confirmed,found in indian ocean
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I'm a tad confused. The Brits haver supplied satellite info of the plane?
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13 days to "refine data?"
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me thinks pilot wanted to take plane somewhere and fcuked up the flying time of aircraft
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confirmed ? by whom ? the Malay could not confirm the world was round imo .
all sounds pretty secret squirrel stuff and if i was a relative i would be needing a bit more than a text saying "beyond reasonable doubt" that the plane was lost and there were no survivors. It could be that the Malay were just incompetent and failed to monitor their radar and then allowed many countries to waste valuable resources looking in completely the wrong areas ,granted the Chineses were quick to release satellite pictures but that was based on the flight ending where the where the Malay indicated .Exactly how and by what route the flight ended where it did is still a long way from being public knowledge . It could be that the flight has now been accurately tracked using data from a number of places but by whom and how is simply not going to be divulged any time soon . you would think at least a piece of the plane would be needed to confirm ? there is a lot of plastic and foam on an aircraft ,not a single bit has been recovered as far as i know ,just images ? all very strange . |
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anyone suggesting the Malay gov want everyone to quickly forget and move on to the F1 at the w/end is just a sado .
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