Malaysia Airlines 'loses contact with plane'

**yebo** · March 14th, 2014 09:05 AM

Time really to look at the alien abduction angle...

**falken** · March 14th, 2014 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by Gumusut_Amige

my malaysian colleague in front of me right now is very disgusted and disturbed with this report

He is a national embarassment for them according to my Malaysian friend.

**Monseratto** · March 14th, 2014 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Gumusut_Amige

my malaysian colleague in front of me right now is very disgusted and disturbed with this report

Reminds me of Wilde Almeda...

**Monseratto** · March 14th, 2014 11:14 AM

http://gma.yahoo.com/malaysia-airlin...ries.html?vp=1

Two U.S. officials tell ABC News the U.S. believes that the shutdown of two communication systems happened separately on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. One source said this indicates the plane did not come out of the sky because of a catastrophic failure.

The data reporting system, they believe, was shut down at 1:07 a.m. The transponder -- which transmits location and altitude -- shut down at 1:21 a.m.

This indicates it may well have been a deliberate act, ABC News aviation consultant John Nance said.

U.S. investigators told ABC News that the two modes of communication were "systematically shut down."

That means the U.S. team "is convinced that there was manual intervention," a source said, which means it was likely not an accident or catastrophic malfunction that took the plane out of the sky.

U.S. officials said earlier that they have an "indication" the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner may have crashed in the Indian Ocean and is moving the USS Kidd to the area to begin searching.

It's not clear what the indication was, but senior administration officials told ABC News the missing Malaysian flight continued to "ping" a satellite on an hourly basis after it lost contact with radar. The Boeing 777 jetliners are equipped with what is called the Airplane Health Management system in which they ping a satellite every hour. The number of pings would indicate how long the plane stayed aloft.

It's not clear, however, whether the satellite pings also indicate the plane's location.

The new information has greatly expanded the potential search area into the Indian Ocean.

"We have an indication the plane went down in the Indian Ocean," the senior Pentagon official said.

The official initially said there were indications that the plane flew four or five hours after disappearing from radar and that they believe it went into the water. Officials later said the plane likely did not fly four or five hours, but did not specify how long it may have been airborne.

**Retz** · March 14th, 2014 12:06 PM

kung nag crash na wala man lang floatnig debris until today? ung air france 447 after a few days meron nang nakitang debris. impossible naman na walang mag float ni isa doon sa wreckage.

**Retz** · March 14th, 2014 06:12 PM

I read some post in news and other forum site and can't believe that some people think that the commercial jetliner did actually landed just like the fictional oceanic flgiht 815.

**ghosthunter** · March 14th, 2014 06:17 PM

( I am definitely showing my age with this )

Maybe....

**Monseratto** · March 14th, 2014 06:47 PM

Okay...now they are back to the theory the transponders were deliberately switched off and it was flown west ward... A hijacking for what???

BBC News - Malaysia plane: Indian Ocean search for missing jet

The US has sent surveillance teams to the Indian Ocean to help search for the missing Malaysian plane, after claims emerged that it may have flown for longer than investigators had thought.

Unnamed officials said the plane sent signals to satellites for up to five hours after its apparent disappearance.

However, investigators stressed that the information was not conclusive.

Rescuers have so far failed to find any trace of flight MH370, which vanished last Saturday with 239 people on board.

The plane, which was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, last made contact with air-traffic control over the South China Sea to the east of Malaysia.

The US, which is one of a number of countries helping in the search for the plane, has sent a navy destroyer and a sophisticated surveillance aircraft to the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles west of Malaysia.

The Indian navy, air force and coast guard are also now assisting after a request for help from the Malaysian government.

The BBC's Jonathan Head in Kuala Lumpur says there have already been a number of false leads in the search for the missing plane.

However, he says the latest claims are being taken seriously by the US.

Several US media reports on Thursday cited unnamed officials as saying that the Boeing 777 was "pinging" satellites for hours after its last contact with air-traffic controllers.

That led searchers to believe the plane could have flown more than 1,600 km (1,000 miles) beyond its last confirmed radar sighting.

White House spokesman Jay Carney confirmed that US teams were shifting their focus to the Indian Ocean because of "new information", but he gave no further details.

Some 153 of the passengers on board the Malaysia Airlines plane were Chinese, and Beijing has been putting pressure on Malaysia to intensify its search.