Malaysia Airlines 'loses contact with plane'

[NiCe2KnowU]

baka pinasok na ng terorista at pinasabog sa ere? wag naman sana

[Monseratto]

Tehran, Iran...

"Find Mr Ali": Iranian man bought tickets for stolen passport pair on missing Malaysian Airlines jet
Mar 10, 2014 19:45 By Andy Lines

A mystery Iranian called “Mr Ali” bought tickets for two passengers who used stolen passports on the missing Malaysian plane, it has been revealed.

“Mr Ali” purchased them - in cash - from a travel agent after insisting he wanted “cheap” flights.

There was still no sign of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 which has disappeared without trace with 239 people onboard.

Authorities admitted the incident was an “unprecedented mystery”.

The FBI are now involved after a Thai travel agent admitted she had arranged the travel for the two suspects via an Iranian customer she only knew as “Mr Ali.”

Grand Horizon travel agency owner Benja**** Krutnait said she had been asked to book inexpensive flights for Europe on March 1st.

Eventually she purchased the two tickets for the doomed flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and on to Amsterdam.

When she tried yesterday to contact “Mr Ali” on the Tehran based mobile he provided it was dead.

The development came as a mysterious group called the Chinese Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack and amid unconfirmed reports that Vietnam had finally found some wreckage.

Officials sad they were sceptical about the ‘Chinese Martyrs Brigade’ claims and said they believed it was a hoax.

The group - unheard of before now - sent an email that read: “You kill one of our clan, we will kill 100 of you as pay back."

The message was delivered through an anonymous, encrypted Hushmail service that is virtually impossible to trace.

Today, as 34 planes and 40 ships were still scouring the South China Sea, Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation chief said they were looking at “every angle” to explain the plane’s disappearance.

As it emerged five passengers checked in but did not board the plane, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said: “Unfortunately we have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft.

“As far as we are concerned, we have to find the aircraft.

“We are looking at the possibility of a stolen passport syndicate.

“There are many experts around the world who have contributed their knowhow and knowledge.

“As far as we are concerned, we are equally puzzled as well.”

Malaysian authorities have now given US investigators biometric details on the two passengers who used stolen passports to travel.

It is hoped the move could accelerate identification of the two men.

Hishamuddin Hussein, Malaysia’s defence minister said closed circuit TV footage of the two was also handed to US officials.

The two men were travelling on Italian and Austrian passports that were later confirmed to have been lost or stolen. They were then scheduled to fly together to Amsterdam, before catching separate connecting flights to Copenhagen and Frankfurt.

The two stolen passports, one belonging to Austrian Christian Kozel and the other to Luigi Maraldi of Italy, had been entered into Interpol’s database after they were stolen in Thailand.

A senior police official said people armed with explosives and carrying false identity papers had tried to fly out of Kuala Lumpur in the past.

“We have stopped men with false or stolen passports and carrying explosives, who have tried to get past airport security and get on to a plane,” he said.

“There have been two or three incidents, but I will not divulge the details.”

The two passengers who boarded missing Malaysia Airlines flights MH370 were not “Asian-looking” but resembled footballer Mario Balotelli.

Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said CCTV footage revealed what the two suspect passengers looked like, before referring to the Italian footballer.

The comment prompted laughter at the news conference, but sparked anger on social media at its “insensitivity”.

Mr Azharuddin also said the suitcases of five passengers who had checked in to the flight but did not board were removed before it departed.

He insisted a airport security was strict according to international standards.

One senior source involved in preliminary investigations in Malaysia said the failure to find any debris indicated the plane may have broken up mid-flight.

This could mean the wreckage was dispersed over a very wide area.

“The fact that we are unable to find any debris so far appears to indicate that the aircraft is likely to have disintegrated at around 35,000 feet,” said the source.

He said there was still no evidence of foul play and it was possible the aircraft could have broken up due to mechanical causes.

Still, the source said the closest parallels were the bomb explosions on board an Air India jetliner in 1985 when it was over the Atlantic Ocean and a Pan Am aircraft over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988.

Both planes were cruising at around 31,000 feet at the time.

Intelligence sources at the time linked the Iranians to the Lockerbie tragedy.

And even now 26 years on many believe they were behind the planting of the bomb in the 747 which exploded over the the Borders town.

Missing Malaysia Airlines flight: Iranian man 'Mr Ali' bought tickets for stolen passport pair on flight MH370 - Mirror Online
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[testament11]

baka pinasok na ng terorista at pinasabog sa ere? wag naman sana

Kung ito pinasabog, dapat may debris nang nakita somewhere near kung saan ito huling na-detect. Pwede mangyaring pinasabog pero kung nagkaganun man, how come walang makitang debris?

[beni23]

Parang non stop movie lang to ah? Hindi pa rin nahahanap yung plane hanggang ngayon?


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[testament11]

I have a feeling na yun oil streaks na nakita nila eh setup lang. Kung nag-crash yun sa dagat, bakit parang wala pa silang makitang lumulutang na wreckage?

[crazy_boy]

^1. Wala pang nakikita na wreckage.

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[Ry_Tower]

May debris nanng nakta but for confirmation pa if dun nga sa plane. nakita ata kahapon nang gabi kaya hindi nakuha at ma-identify nang husto nung aircraft na nakakita. Bandang Vietnam daw.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: possible debris may be linked to plane | World news | theguardian.com

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^ Mahirap talagang makita , kahit na h-tech yung eroplano...

There is a precedent for a modern jetliner to fall from the sky while "in the cruise" and lie hidden for months, according to CNN aviation correspondent Richard Quest.

On June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 was en route from Rio De Janeiro to Paris when communications ended suddenly from the Airbus A330, another state-of-the-art aircraft.

It took four searches over the course of nearly two years to locate the bulk of flight 447's wreckage and the majority of the 228 bodies in a mountain range deep under the ocean. It took even longer to find the cause of the disaster.

In May 2011, the aircraft's voice recorder and flight data recorder were recovered from the ocean floor after an extensive search using miniature submersible vehicles.

It was not until July 2012 that investigators published their report, which blamed the crash on a series of errors by the pilots and a failure to react effectively to technical problems.

[Gumusut_Amige]

May debris nanng nakta but for confirmation pa if dun nga sa plane. nakita ata kahapon nang gabi kaya hindi nakuha at ma-identify nang husto nung aircraft na nakakita. Bandang Vietnam daw.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: possible debris may be linked to plane | World news | theguardian.com

i don't know why vietnam is the only country giving some "updates" right now. bakit hindi ba na cross-check ng malaysia yung sinasabi ng vietnam about the slick and debris that were sighted by them?

[Monseratto]

Door?

"We received information from a Vietnamese plane saying that they found two broken objects, which seem like those of an aircraft, located about 50 miles to the south-west of Tho Chu Island," an unnamed official from the National Committee for Search and Rescue told AFP news agency.

The state-run Thanh Nien newspaper quoted Lt Gen Vo Van Tuan, deputy chief of staff of Vietnam's army, as saying searchers in a low-flying plane had spotted an object which resembled an aeroplane door.

The potential debris was in a similar area to a possible oil slick seen by Vietnamese navy planes on Saturday, but officials have cautioned that this too may be nothing to do with the disappearance of Flight MH370.

[Gumusut_Amige]

real time monitoring device is all the aviation industry need in times like this?

Why is a normally safe aircraft – the Boeing 777-200 – missing over the South China Sea, with all 239 passengers and crew on board Malaysia Airlines flight 370 presumed dead?

I'l tell you why: it was a fireball ignited by faulty lithium-ion batteries carried on board by cellphone-wielding passengers.

No, it wasn't. It was a bomb planted by terrorists – possibly the passengers who were reportedly carrying stolen passports.

Rubbish: it was structural failure triggered by internal damage sustained in an airport fender-bender involving the same aircraft two years ago.

These, of course, are not answers. It would be generous to call them theories. They are really a tiny sample in an online orgy of wild guesses that erupted on social media over the weekend, in the hours after the aircraft was reported missing off the coast of Malaysia.

As search teams continue scanning the waves for signs of debris, these online truth-seekers should be asking a different question: why couldn't the plane itself tell us exactly what happened when it went off-radar?

In one of the most galling anachronisms of modern aviation technology, the "black box" that carries most if not all of the answers seems to have vanished, too.

Depending on the location of the wreckage, it could be days, months or even years before anyone turns up the black box – which is usually orange – and there remains a remote possibility that the device and its precious recordings of audio and flight sensor data will never be found at all.

The ongoing mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is the fault of a bizarre quirk in our networked society. Even cars have broadband connectivity now, but the modern jet airliner – perhaps our most technologically evolved mode of transport – still exists in the age of radio.

Air traffic controllers today must orchestrate the most congested airspace using primarily voice commands. You can send and receive text messages from most aircraft, surf the web and even stream House of Cards. The system that powers the plane is limited to pre-dial-up internet connection speeds.

There is simply no datalink onboard an aircraft with the bandwidth to continuously stream the volumes of data collected and stored during every second of a flight by the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder.

The result is a dangerous silence in the immediate and sometimes extended aftermath of what appears to be the worst airline crash in more than a decade. In the absence of data, the biological temptation to seek patterns within the flimsiest of available evidence is overwhelming.

In the aftermath of the Air France flight 447 crash in 2009, speculation focused on particular technologies with the Airbus A330. It took nearly two years for an international search team to locate and raise the flight recorders lying at the bottom of 4,700 meters of water. The actual data told a different tale of a bizarre sequence of fatal errors made by a confused and disoriented flight crew attempting to fly through a major storm.

Until the wreckage of Malaysian flight 370 is found, it is impossible to know how long it will take to recover that little box inside the 777-200.

We shouldn't have to wait at all. There are technologies in existence or development today that can address this glaring gap in the aviation safety net.

To be fair, it's not quite that easy. It's relatively simple and cheap for a black box to gather and store megabytes worth of flight data every second. It is much harder and much more expensive to continuously transmit that information by satellite or radio transmission.

But even a little data is better than almost none, which the disappearance of flight 370 makes clear. It should be rather straightforward to install a processor connected to the black box that can select a subset of the most relevant data. A recent patent application filed by Boeing describes such a system, which specifies a limited data set including the precise location of the aircraft and the flight control inputs by the pilot or the automation system.

There will be costs to mandating such a system, but the benefits are clear. Multi-national search and recovery teams involving a fleet of ships and search aircraft should no longer be necessary. Critical safety data could provide clues of system or structural failures much faster, making the entire air transport system safer.

Most of all, the commercial aircraft upon which we depend for transportation and economic growth need to finally enter the Information Age. Then searches for missing planes won't have to resemble the hunt for Amelia Earhart.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 makes it clear: we need to rethink black boxes | Stephen Trimble | Comment is free | theguardian.com

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#retzing

[stickers]

Where would the terrorists land that plane without anyone noticing it? Kung nagcrash naman the phones shouldnt be ringing anymore.


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[Gumusut_Amige]

from CNN this afternoon... 5 checked-in passengers decided not to continue their flight with MH370. as reported, all of their check-in baggage were retrieved back. if this was true, is this coincidental?

[falken]

from CNN this afternoon... 5 checked-in passengers decided not to continue their flight with MH370. as reported, all of their check-in baggage were retrieved back. if this was true, is this coincidental?

They're the luckiest guys in the world.

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[falken]

Samples from the oil slick they found has been tested and are deemed not from the airplane.

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[chua_riwap]

Samples from the oil slick they found has been tested and are deemed not from the airplane.

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so nasaan yung plane?


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[SiRbossR]

Umamin kana Retz.







jk

[jhnkvn]

Umamin kana Retz.


jk

Sumakay si Retz in midair and it crashed.

[Retz]

The Boeing 777-200 was in cruise mode when it suddenly lose contact with the control tower. Is there a possibility that a sudden turbulence might cause the plane to revert to alternate law similar to what happened in air france? and it would be highly unlikely if the aircraft suddenly stall due to electrical or mechanical failure.


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