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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.
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March 14th, 2014 11:14 AM #1Last edited by Monseratto; March 14th, 2014 at 11:17 AM.
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March 14th, 2014 12:06 PM #2kung 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.
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March 14th, 2014 03:59 AM #3^ possible naka-divert pero dapat may sumagot na or texted back kung sa ibang tao naka-divert
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March 15th, 2014 01:27 AM #4Nangangamoy hijacking daw deliberately turning off the transponder and flew for another hours at low altitude to avoid detection. Kung may problema sa plane pwede naman mag emergency land pabalik sa airport.
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March 15th, 2014 01:36 AM #5kung na hijack, saan nag landing?
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March 15th, 2014 01:51 AM #6Nakapaglanding daw . . . sa North Sentinel Island!!!! Yari pa rin sila! Originally Posted by chua_riwap
kung na hijack, saan nag landing?
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March 15th, 2014 09:45 AM #7Un na nga sir ang mysterio. May mga small islands ba sa indian ocean? they might be attempting to land but unsuccessful. Originally Posted by chua_riwap
kung na hijack, saan nag landing?
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March 15th, 2014 10:21 AM #9^
hindi ba titignan ng CIA psychological records ng bawat pasahero including the pilot. mdyo lumalabo na ang angulo ng mechanical/electrical failure imo.
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March 15th, 2014 09:37 PM #10Ano yan under 50ft lumipad ung eroplano? Originally Posted by Retz
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March 16th, 2014 06:11 PM #13To avoid radar detection, an aircraft must fly under 50ft avg Originally Posted by Retz
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March 15th, 2014 10:53 PM #14Diba 9hrs lang based sa fuel capacity and consumption ng boeing 777. Aabot ba un hangan pakistan ?
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March 16th, 2014 09:28 AM #15Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Hijacking ? Did Terrorists Fly To Pakistan? - Hollywood LifeMalaysia Airlines Flight 370 Hijacked: Could It Be In Pakistan?
Sat, March 15, 2014 9:52am EDT by Andrew Gruttadaro
After Malaysian officials confirmed that Flight 370 had been hijacked by a person or people ‘with significant flying experience,’ they also announced that they believe the plane took one of two paths. And in a bone-chilling turn of events, one of those paths was towards Pakistan, a country that has been known to harbor terrorist sects like Al Qaeda.
Now that the Prime Minister of Malaysia has concluded that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which was carrying 239 passengers, was hijacked, the next question is where the plane was taken. One theory is that the plane headed south towards the Indian Ocean, but unfortunately, the other theory is that the aircraft flew along a northern corridor near southeast Pakistan, which is known to be a hotbed of terrorism.
Flight 370 last made contact between Malaysia and Vietnam, CNN reports. Subsequent radar pings suggest that the plane could have then taken two possible paths after its communication devices were turned off. The more dire path — one that reinforces that this hijacking was an organized terrorist attack — extends from northern Thailand to the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan border, an area range that includes Pakistan.
Taking the aircraft’s fuel reserves into account, it’s possible that the plane could have flown long enough to land in southeast Pakistan, which right now seems to be a worst case scenario. Pakistan has long been a home to terrorist cells — it is where Osama bin Laden founded Al Qaeda, and the terrorist group still exists in parts of the country. The fear is that Flight 370 was allowed to land in the country, and that now a dangerous terrorist group is planning to use the plane for an attack — or at least set up a hostage situation with the 239 passengers who were on board.
This is all just grand speculation at the moment — a theory that would suggest that governments are assisting the hijackers.
The other proposed flight path proposes that the plane flew south into the Indian Ocean after its last contact. Authorities suggest that the plane then crashed into the deep sea. There is much less of a motive connected to this corridor of flight, but search and rescue teams have subsequently amped up their efforts in the vast ocean.
This southern path could explain why authorities haven’t been able to find Flight 370 yet, because the area it supposedly would have ended up in is so vast and uninhabited. But we’re obviously still very far away from having all the answers in this mysterious, tragic episode.
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March 16th, 2014 11:57 AM #16"With significant flying experience" - Yahoo news
Malaysian: Investigators conclude flight hijacked
Sino lang ba ang may significant na flying experience doon sa loob ng aeroplano? hindi kaya connected ito sa Al Qaeda? kung buhay pa mga pasahero at nag ring ang phone, wala man lang nag send ng text message or tumawag man lang ni isa sa mga pasahero? and the plot thickens.....
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March 16th, 2014 01:22 PM #17Missing Malaysian Airlines: Fears over Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's links to opposition - Mirror OnlineDid pilot hijack missing plane HIMSELF in anti-government protest? Fears over Captain Shah's links to Malaysian opposition
Fears emerged tonight that the pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet may have hijacked the plane himself as an anti-government protest.
Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was a fervent supporter of his country's opposition leader who was jailed for homo***uality - illegal in Malaysia - only hours before flight MH370 vanished with 239 passengers and crew on board, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.
And in a new twist, it emerged that the pilot's wife and three children moved out of the family's home the day before the plane's disappearance.
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March 16th, 2014 06:14 PM #18Mga sinasabi mo alang wenta paulit ulit, non-sense Originally Posted by Retz
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March 16th, 2014 04:18 PM #19Baka naman lumipad ng sobrang taas yung eroplano tapos napunta sa outer space.
Another possibility is nag crash yung eroplano tapos sakto sa sinkhole kaya wala ng makitang debris.
Or baka may kinalaman dito si David Blane or Chris Angel, maybe one of their "tricks".
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