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Missing Plane......
Missing Plane......
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When 9/11 happened they talked about turning the transponder off so the plane could not be tracked .
Do this plane not have a transponder and if does would it not show the position before it vanished ? |
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they be on auto pilot if they had a failure similar to helios, that flew on for ages after they all passed out until it ran out of fuel, the malaysian plane would have just carried on at 30 odd thousand feet and would have been tracked on radar, this one dropped off the grid
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626, yes it had a transponder, so either it was turned off, failed (electrics) or they crashed, it can also be switched to an emergency setting so that it is highlighted on radar, as well as in an emergency can be used if radio failed or might be used to show up a hijack etc
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just to add if civil radar can't see them because they are low then they wouldn't see the transponder, so they could have been below radar
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Doctor WHO is going to take the blame
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maybe kim jonny wrong un the neigbour from hell has been setting fire works off again ....
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I don't wear it. What about satellite surveillance?The yanks would have seen it.
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Just read today Boeing issued a warning re cracks in 77 aircraft which had to be rectified by
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April 9
Already spotted a 16 inch crack on another plane Crikey Better check what plane I flying with next week |
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It is day six of the search for missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 and new evidence could suggest it flew without radar contact
The missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 could have flown for an extra FOUR hours after it lost contact with air traffic controllers, according to reports. In another dramatic twist, aviation experts believe the plane flew for a total of five hours under radar. It is based on data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the aircraft's Rolls Royce engines as part of a standard monitoring programme. The possibility means the plane could have travelled for another 2,200 miles to Pakistan or Mongolia, according to the Wall Street Journal. It sparks fear it could have been hijacked and taken to an unknown location - one of many theories as to what may have happened to the disappearing plane. The Wall Street Journal said it isn't clear whether investigators have evidence of a hijacking - but they haven't ruled the possibility out. US investigators are looking into the prospect and counter terrorism officials are investigating the idea that the plane's transponders were turned off intentionally and the aircraft was diverted. The flight left Kuala Lumpur at 4.41pm GMT bound for Beijing, but less than 50 minutes later it lost communication with air traffic control. But a senior Malaysia Airlines official told Reuters that no such data relating to the potential extra flight time existed, while a second official said he was unaware of it too. A spokesperson for engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce had no immediate comment. Malaysia Airlines said previously the engines stopped transmitting monitoring signals when contact with the plane was lost. The engines should transmit live data to the ground every 30 minutes. |
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^ So many confused accounts coming out now, this is getting ridiculous.
This new theory that the missing plane may have flown on for hours beyond its last reported sighting. A couple of expert US investigators familiar with all the details said the plane may have stayed in the air for about another 4 hours. They also said that satelite images have been checked for any sign of a mid-air explosion but nothing was found. But no distress signal at all, I suppose with no evidence, all angles have to still be considered. |
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if hi-jacked why weren't cabin locked
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The Malaysians have dismissed the flying on for four hours theory saying Boeing and Rolls Royce are in Malaysia working with them.
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^ fact is, if they just don't know, how can they rule out anything ?
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chinese complaining about confusion
chinese release images of plane wreckage!! chinese say images released by mistake chinese with egg on their faces chinese have just added to the confusion they complained about |
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http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014/map/23985
Is that just an oil rig? |
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no,just pleased to see you
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It's mind boggling that in this age of ultra high technology, we cannot locate a bloody jet that's fitted with more electronic monitoring devices and communications gadgetry than the early space flight of Yuri Gagarin over 50 years ago !
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Wall street journal stand by their version that the plane flew for another 4 hours.
U.S. investigators suspect Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 flew for hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location, based on an analysis of signals sent through the plane's satellite-communication link designed to automatically transmit the status of onboard systems, according to people familiar with the matter. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said investigators based their suspicions on signals from monitoring systems embedded in the plane's Rolls-Royce PLC engines and described that process. |
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Even that is confusing - transponder is turned off and no communcation from the systems in the Rolls ROyce engine. But there is commincation from the planes sat-communication link?
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Its in hanger 57...............
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Its in hanger 57...............
Don't be daft. It's actually in 1588: [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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shortly someone will locate somthing in the Indian ocean imo
All the misinfo is somewhat confusing although perhaps thats just the media at its worst . http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2579955/US-officials-convinced-two-separate-communications-systems-Malaysian-jet-DELIBERATELY-shut-14-minutes-apart-emerges-aircraft-pinging-FIVE-hours-vanished-flying.html |
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no wreckage, no signals transponder or radio, lots of mystery, lots of red herrings ...
is it's david blaines latest trick? |
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just on that iran thing with iranians on board etc, when they originally gave the beijing fuel / flying hours out for this plane including its contingency, iran was the absolute limit and given it would have had to climb over india / pakistan to clear the mountains it must have come up on military radar at some point
it's not impossible they tried but this seems to have no reasoning behind it, if they had landed the world would know by now, ransom, political rants whatever, if it was hijack they didn't make it and whatever their ultimate goal they have more likely stuffed it and the plot has gone t1ts up the malaysians have made a total mess of the search, they are still running around trying to check the places that have already been checked and that's throwing everyone off the scent until they are 100% sure it's not where it should be they have a search area that extends almost 3000 miles in every direction just think, if this plane has landed at some base and been refueled, it's now a huge bomb about to turn up in europe |
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Imagine the flight did turn west.
Every passenger would be able to see this from their seats using the inflight tracker on their screens. Imagine the panic?! |
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rosewell 57
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Chinese claiming a "seismic event" that may have been the plane - seems rather unlikely
.http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1448353/us-suggests-search-missing-flight-expand-indian-ocean-mh370-satellite |
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Just as a point of geography, the place within range that the plane could land with perhaps the least chance of being spotted, other than by the folks at the place where it landed that is, is Diego Garcia - mid Indian Ocean, labelled 'British Indian Ocean Territory' on goo-goo maps. Brits don't use it anymore, but the USA does. Zoom in and count the B52s.
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a huge bomb about to turn up in europe ....
 ffs why Europe ....? why not a huge bomb about to turn up in asia ? this is starting to look like a sophisticated plot imo ,plane disappears as soon as it leaves Malay airspace ,com systems switched off ,cuts back accross known radar weakspot and proceeds to vanish .Chinese keep releasing info suggesting its east and in the sea , whilst us are off out west and are releasing info its engine performance/diagnostic reporting was picked up (prob by spy satellites) hours after others think or were led to believe it has crashed . i smell shoite .....i wonder if the "geek" pilot with a 777 stimulator in the spare room has a gambling problem ? |
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the countries involved here aren't big on transparency and face-saving is the top priority
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Seems the radar print indicated another 5 HOURS flying
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anywhere
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question IF the plane/parts of it were never found....does the airline still have to pay compensation?
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First contact.....
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fantastic film plot this will make if it turns out to be the iranians or cia nicking the plane because there are 20 scientists on board who build cloaking devices, tom clancy is a lightweight imo
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Looking like communications deliberately switched off
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suicide or hijack
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still going to be loads more to come from this
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50 empty seats yet they resold the 5 no shows (they peeps worth a look ) so the suggestion is that the craft was up to its weight limit with cargo ...heavy cargo
 summit heavy heading for china and its been nicked and now chinese keep saying plane is in sea and yanks say its way out west ,its cargo will be long gone ,lets hope its a chance for the passengers to turn up safe and well ,if i was a relative i would be getting my hopes up . |