Malaysia Airlines 'loses contact with plane'

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retz......basa.

The phrase 'good riddance' means the action of getting rid of something, without feeling bad about it.

ayan.......alam mo na ha. next time behave ka na.

patawarin na natin si retz.

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i think retz finger is much faster than his brain motor. kung mods ako, i'll tell him that this is his last chance to shape up

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^ kaso sa isang thread nawarningan na siya ni sir clavel na one more strike nalang

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After a couple of hours of speculation, Associated Press has reported that Vietnamese air force planes have spotted two large oil slicks that authorities suspect are from the missing plane.

A Vietnamese government statement said the slicks, spotted off the southern tip of Vietnam, were each between 6 and 9 miles long (10-15km). It said the slicks were consistent with the kinds that would be left by fuel from a crashed airliner.

Oil slicks spotted in search for Malaysia Airlines plane ? live | World news | theguardian.com

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Final destination...

'By the grace of God we missed our flight to China'

'By the grace of God we missed our flight to China'
BY KATERINA FRANCISCO
POSTED ON 03/08/2014 2:02 PM | UPDATED 03/08/2014 7:24 PM


MANILA, Philippines – The initial frustration over missing a flight has turned into more than just a feeling of relief.

Based on a Twitter conversation, two passengers apparently missed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that left Kuala Lumpur past midnight Saturday, March 8, and which was expected to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 am local time (2230 GMT Friday).

The Boeing 777-200 – carrying 12 crew members and 227 passengers, including two infants, of 14 different nationalities – disappeared at 2:40 am local time (1840 GMT Friday), about two hours after leaving the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

The man exchanging tweets with a friend said he and another friend missed their flight – a fortuitous turn of events that saved their lives. Tweets from user *KaidenDL showed the series of events that led to their escape from the ill-fated plane.

Twitter user *KaidenDL initially expressed anger at missing their flight bound for China. A friend had gotten sick and he had to cover for her work. But after news broke of the missing plane, their mistake turned out to have been a life-changing one.

"I was very angry at Ria, because she'd gotten sick and I had to cover her. I was working on that, missed my flight to China. Grew angrier," he tweeted.

"By the Grace of God we missed our flight to China. I am okay, as is Rory, my companion," he added. "Now Rory and I shake. But for the Grace of God we'd be on that flight. Damn my ego."

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Kayo naman baka naman Ang gusto sabihin ni Retz eh goodness gracious or good gracious. Nagkamali lang ng type at masyado na excite dahil meron bagong thread. hahaha


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#retzing

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^I think so too. He admits needing a refresher on English 101 naman Retz might not be familiar with the idiom, pero ginamit pa rin. *face palm*

Idioms
good riddance, a welcome relief or deliverance from something: He's gone, and good riddance!

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Oil Slick Is Sign Malaysia Airlines Jet Crashed Into Sea
By KEITH BRADSHERMARCH 8, 2014

HONG KONG — A 12-mile-long streak of oil across the surface waters of the Gulf of Thailand was an early clue to the mysterious disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet with 239 aboard that vanished in predawn darkness Saturday morning during a flight from Kuala Lumpur that was supposed to end in Beijing.

But as the sun set over the gulf and the adjacent South China Sea on Saturday, the disappearance of the plane was a reminder that even the most modern planes can suddenly and disconcertingly disappear with few traces. In 2009, an Air France Airbus 330 slipped off radar screens into the deep waters of the Atlantic off Brazil, another case in which the wreckage proved difficult to find.

As of Saturday evening, the Malaysian plane, a Boeing 777-200 on Flight MH370, had not yet been confirmed to have crashed, though the limits of its fuel tanks mean that it came down somewhere instead of reaching Beijing at dawn on Saturday. The Gulf of Thailand, if that is where the plane ended up, has one advantage for rescuers in that it is a shallow arm of the South China Sea, with no comparison to the inky depths of the Atlantic.

Malaysia’s deputy minister of transport, Aziz bin Kaprawi, said the authorities had not received any distress signals from the aircraft.

In a development that raised fears of foul play, foreign ministry officials in Vienna and Rome confirmed that the names of two citizens, an Italian and an Austrian, listed on the manifest of the missing flight matched the names on two passports reported stolen in Asia, news reports said. The Italian man, Luigi Maraldi, told the Italian news media that he was currently in Bangkok, and was not the Luigi Maraldi listed on the plane’s manifest. An Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman would not identify the Austrian.

“We are not ruling out anything,” the chief executive of Malaysia Airlines, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, told reporters at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Saturday night. “As far as we are concerned right now, it’s just a report.”

A senior American intelligence official said law enforcement and intelligence agencies were investigating the matter. But so far, they had no leads.

“At this time, we have not identified this as an act of terrorism,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the continuing inquiry. “While the stolen passports are interesting, they don’t necessarily say to us that this was a terrorism act.”

Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, reported that the Chinese prime minister, Li Keqiang, held an urgent telephone call with his Malaysian counterpart, Najib Razak, telling him, “The urgent task now is to quickly clarify the situation, and use a range of means to enhance the intensity of search and rescue.”

Malaysia Airlines said the plane had 227 passengers aboard, including two infants, and an all-Malaysian crew of 12. The passengers included 154 citizens from China or Taiwan, 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French and three Americans, as well as two citizens each from Canada, New Zealand and Ukraine and one each from Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and Russia.

Malaysia, the United States and Vietnam dispatched ships and aircraft to the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand on Saturday to join an intensive search. China said it had sent a vessel to the area at top speed that would arrive there on Sunday afternoon.

Lai Xuan Thanh, the director of the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam, said a Vietnamese Navy AN26 aircraft had discovered the oil slick toward the Vietnam side of the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand.

Fredrik Lindahl, the chief executive of Flightradar24, an online aircraft tracking service, said the missing plane had been equipped with a transponder that regularly transmitted its position via GPS satellites. The last recorded position of Flight MH370 was 93 miles northeast of Kuala Terengganu, a port on the northeast coast of Peninsular Malaysia, he wrote in an email.

Mr. Ahmad of Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that there had been speculation that the plane landed safely somewhere along the route to Beijing, and said the airline was investigating. But in a telephone interview before reporting the sighting of the slick, Mr. Lai expressed concern about the aircraft’s fate.

“The possibility of an accident is high,” he said.

Relatives of those on the missing flight who were waiting at Beijing Capital International Airport were taken to a hotel and kept waiting in a room for hours, prompting complaints. One woman said no one from Malaysia Airlines had come to the room to talk to relatives.

Liu Meng, 26, who works for a communications company, said he had been waiting for his boss to arrive from Malaysia since 6 a.m. “I was able to contact him up until yesterday afternoon,” Mr. Liu said. “After that, nothing.”

At the Kuala Lumpur airport, a grief-stricken relative of a passenger aboard MH370 screamed uncontrollably as he was escorted out of the terminal by airline employees.

“Be truthful about this!” said the man, Koon Chim Wa, whose booming voice echoed through the cavernous terminal.

“They say they don’t know where the plane is,” Mr. Koon said, his hands and body shaking. “Is this a joke?”

Lt. Col. Pham Hong Soi, the head of the propaganda department of the Vietnam Navy for the region near the crash site, said one rescue vessel had already been ordered to sea and two more were ready for departure.

Malaysia’s prime minister, Mr. Najib, said in a statement that 15 aircraft and nine ships were searching for the missing plane. Without saying where his government suspected that the plane disappeared, he added, “Our priority now is to widen the search area and provide support to relatives of those missing.”

The United States Seventh Fleet said it was sending a destroyer, the Pinckney, and a P-3C maritime surveillance aircraft to join the search for Flight MH370.

In addition, the Chinese State Oceanic Administration said it had sent a Coast Guard ship to the area where the plane might have gone down. “It is traveling at full speed to the waters, and is expected to reach there on the afternoon of the 9th,” said a statement on the administration’s website.

The Chinese Ministry of Transport said a team of scuba divers who specialize in emergency rescues and recovery had been assembled on Hainan, the southern island-province, to prepare to go on Sunday to the area where the where airliner may have gone down.

China Central Television said that according to Chinese air traffic control officials, the aircraft never entered Chinese airspace.

Boeing said in a statement that it was assembling a team of technical experts to advise the national authorities investigating the disappearance of the aircraft.

One uncertainty about the flight involved the timing of its disappearance from radar. Malaysia Airlines said it took off at 12:41 a.m. Malaysia time and disappeared from air traffic control radar in Subang, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, at 2:40 a.m.

That timeline seemed to suggest that the plane stayed in the air for two hours — long enough to fly not only across the Gulf of Thailand but also far north across Vietnam. But Mr. Lindahl of Flightradar 24 said that the last radar contact had been at 1:19 a.m., less than 40 minutes after the flight began.

A Malaysia Airlines spokesman said on Saturday evening that the last conversation between the flight crew and air traffic control in Malaysia had been around 1:30 a.m., but he reiterated that the plane had not disappeared from air traffic control systems in Subang until 2:40 a.m.

Arnold Barnett, a longtime Massachusetts Institute of Technology specialist in aviation safety statistics, said that before the disappearance of the plane, Malaysia Airlines had suffered two fatal crashes, in 1977 and 1995. Based on his estimate that Malaysia Airlines operates roughly 120,000 flights a year, he calculated that the airline’s safety record was consistent with that of airlines in other fairly prosperous, middle-income countries but had not yet reached the better safety record of airlines based in the world’s richest countries.

Malaysia, near the Equator, is a popular winter vacation destination for affluent residents of chilly, smoggy Beijing.

The list of Chinese passengers aboard the missing flight included the names of artists who had attended a meeting in Kuala Lumpur, said the newspaper Beijing News. Other reports said the missing included members of a returning delegation of Buddhists.

If the plane is confirmed to have crashed into the sea, the disaster would add to a difficult week for China and its government. Last Saturday, a group of assailants used knives and daggers to kill 29 people and wound more than 140 at a train station in Kunming, a city in southwest China.

China’s growing wealth has brought a steep rise in the number of its citizens traveling overseas, especially throughout Asia, and the government has sometimes faced allegations, especially from Internet users, that officials failed to adequately help victims of emergencies abroad and their families. This time, President Xi Jinping of China and other senior officials swiftly issued statements to show they were closely following developments.

Correction: March 8, 2014
Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article referred incorrectly, on second reference, to the chief executive officer of Malaysia Airlines, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya. He is Mr. Ahmad, not Mr. Yahya.

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^Terror attack? ...

Are terrorists behind Malaysian Airline crash? Fears grow after it emerges two passengers were using stolen passports
Mar 08, 2014 18:48 By Lewis Panther


Fears terrorists were behind the Malaysian Airline crash were growing tonight as it emerged two passengers were using stolen passports, the Sunday People reported.

An Italian and an Austrian were feared to be among the 239 victims presumed dead after the Boeing 777 crashed into the South China Sea.

But Luigi Maraldi contacted his family to say he was safe and well and Christian Kozel was found at home by Austrian police.

The plane was heading from the Malaysia to China, where last week 33 people were killed and 143 injured in a terrorist attack in the south-western city of Kunming. The attack, in which a gang of men ran amok in a Chinese railway station, was blamed on pro-separatist ethnic Uigurs, who come from the mainly Muslim areas of the Xinjiang region that borders Pakistan and Afghanistan. Some Chinese media have branded it the country’s own “9-11”..

China Southern, which operated a codeshare on the flight, said both the passengers using stolen passports had booked through its ticketing office.

Even before news of stolen passports emerged, experts had raised the spectre of a terrorist bomb.

Pilot David Learmount, who is operations and safety editor of Flight Global magazine, said: “Something happened and the pilots did not tell anyone. Why? It’s a good question.

“It’s extraordinary the pilots failed to call because they had plenty of time to. Unless there was a bomb on board but there has been no evidence of that.”

Aviation expert Chris Yates told Sky News: “We simply don’t know the circumstances behind what caused that crash at the moment.

“There will be two areas for the investigation: the maintenance of the aircraft and also possible terrorism.”

Speculation about the involvement of terrorists took hold after Luigi Maraldi, 37, from Cesena, was named as one of the passengers on board the plane.

But he spoke to his parents from Thailand to tell them he was not on board - and that his passport had been stolen last August.

Then it emerged that the passport of Austrian Mr Kozel was onboard the flight.

A foreign ministry spokesman in Vienna said the Austrian national was safe at home.

He said: “Our embassy got the information that there was an Austrian on board. That was the passenger list from Malaysia Airlines. Our system came back with a note that this is a stolen passport.”

Police found the man at his home. The passport was stolen two years ago while he was travelling in Thailand, the spokesman said.

He added: “It’s interesting that there were two cases on the same plane but we just know that our Austrian was not on board.

“Someone used a document to get on the plane. But whoever used that, we have nothing to say about that, we don’t know, that would be for the authorities to look into.”

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Huwag nyo naman i-good riddance si Retz hehehehe! Baka naman ang ibig niya sabihin e "good grief!"

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and we will all keep on speculating.. until the plane is found..