Malaysia Airlines 'loses contact with plane'

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Pakistan says MH370 did not land there

KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 — A Pakistani official today dismissed reports suggesting that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have landed in the South Asian country.



Pakistan’s Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Aviation Shujaat Azeem told news portal Dawn.com that the country’s military did not observe the Boeing 777-200ER approach or enter its airspace.

“It’s wrong, (the) plane never came towards Pakistan,” he was quoted as saying in the report.

India today similarly discounted the possibility of the plane entering its airspace.

Yesterday, Malaysia revealed that satellite data has allowed investigators to arrive at two “corridors” where the plane could possibly be located: a northern arc from northern Thailand to the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in central Asia, or a southern one from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.

The northern corridor would have brought the plane towards South Asia.

The northern option crosses heavily-militarised zones that made it unlikely that an unidentified aircraft the size of the Boeing 777 could have slipped past unnoticed. A defence industry executive said interceptors would have been deployed immediately once its presence was detected.

- See more at: Pakistan says MH370 did not land there | Malaysia | The Malay Mail Online

[Retz]

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Opinion mo yan sir.


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[basti08]

Para sa akin, reports on CNN paulit ulit na lang and so depressing kasi hindi naman ma-connect ang facts gathered sa mga theories and leaves more question than answer.

Until I saw this article, I choose to believe the newly formed theory about the fate of the MH370

http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/in...#axzz2w7ZKEsWZ

[SiRbossR]

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Opinion mo yan sir.


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That's what everybody here thinks

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[chrismarte]

OT:

Anyone find it odd that the aircraft in the missing Malaysia Airlines flight is the 404th Boeing 777 produced. 404 meaning Not Found : conspiracy

Redditor i-am-SHER-locked:

eto talaga coincidence na ang lumabas sa lottery sa middle east (thai lottery) X-X-X 4-0-4

[Retz]

MH370: The 634 runways where Malaysia Airlines flight could have landed.

634 runways possible landing site of malaysian airlines flight 370. There is also a map provided on the various possible landing sites.

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Plane was still flying somewhere when MAS declared the plane was missing...

Why didn’t Malaysian military react to MH370 blip on radar screens, ask investigators
The Malaysian InsiderThe Malaysian Insider – 17 hours ago

Investigators are puzzled over Malaysian military's inaction in responding to an unidentified blip on their radar screens that was later said to be the missing flight MH370, the New York Times reported today.

It reported that the plane flew past three military radars and over Penang but nothing was done to identify it, which would have helped prevent its disappearance.

"The watch team never noticed the blip, it was as though the airspace was his," a person with detailed knowledge of the investigation reportedly told the NYT.

Still, the report said that this was not the first, nor would it be the last of the long series of errors the Malaysian government has made, which complicated the task of finding the missing Boeing 777-200ER (9M-MRO) with239 onboard.

Today is the eight day since the plane disappeared from radar and the trail had gotten weaker as the search expands to Kazakhstan to the vast Indian Ocean.

While no one can say with certainty whether the delays had doomed those onboard the jet, mistakes have accumulated at a remarkable pace, NYT said.

The paper highlighted that MH370 flew over the peninsula without the military realising or identifying it – a damning fact, quoting David Learmount, operations and safety editor of Flightglobal, a news and data service for the aviation sector.

It was also reported that senior Malaysian military officers only became aware of the radar data soon after news spread that MH370 had disappeared.

Yet, the government organised and oversaw an expensive and complex international search and rescue effort in the Gulf of Thailand for a full week.

Only yesterday did Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak admit that satellite data had shown the plane continued to fly for six more hours after leaving Malaysian airspace.

According to the NYT report, a four-person air force crew based in Butterworth watching for intrusions into the country’s airspace either did not notice or failed to report a blip on their defensive radar and air traffic radar that was moving steadily across the country from east to west, heading right towards them.


Even the crews at two other radar installations at Kota Baru did not designate the blip as an unknown intruder, while the jetliner continued to fly across the country without anyone watching or alerting a superior or the national defence command, despite the fact that the radar contact’s flight path did not correspond to any filed flight plan.

And as a result, combat aircraft never scrambled to investigate.

Instead the radar contact was only discovered when military officials began going through tapes later on March 8, after the plane failed to land in Beijing.

And as the morning unravelled, it became clear that something had gone wrong.

Malaysian air force chief Gen Tan Sri Rodzali Daud (pic) on Wednesday, openly acknowledged the existence of the radar signals for the first time, five days after the plane went missing.

Still, he had said that further analysis was necessary because the radar plots of the aircraft’s location were stripped of the identifying information given by the plane’s onboard transponders, which someone aboard the aircraft appeared to have switched off.

Given the uncertainty, it is not possible to know yet whether action by the Malaysian government or military could have altered its fate.

The report noted that Najib took pains when he addressed the media yesterday to say that Malaysia had not concealed any information, including military data. – March 16, 2014.

[jhnkvn]

That's what everybody here thinks

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Hehehe.. ayan ang straight forward. Nasaan na ba yun tikoy ko Retz :naughty2:

Mabilis lang naman yun sagot on why nobody is picking up their phone. Let's say it's hijacked and you have an armed terrorist just a few meters away from you. Sasagot ka pa rin ng phone? Maybe not?

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Some of the communication systems were already turned off when the tower last contacted MH370...

Final words from jet came after systems shutdown

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — When someone at the controls calmly said the last words heard from the missing Malaysian jetliner, one of the Boeing 777's communications systems had already been disabled, authorities said, adding to suspicions that one or both of the pilots were involved in the disappearance of the flight.

Authorities have said someone on board the plane first disabled one of its communications systems — the Aircraft and Communications Addressing and Reporting System, or ACARS — about 40 minutes after takeoff. The ACARS equipment sends information about the jet's engines and other data to the airline.

About 14 minutes later, the transponder that identifies the plane to commercial radar systems was also shut down. The fact that both systems went dark separately offered strong evidence that the plane's disappearance was deliberate.

On Sunday, Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a news conference that the final, reassuring words from the cockpit — "All right, good night" — were spoken to air traffic controllers after the ACARS system was shut off. Whoever spoke did not mention any trouble on board.

[kinyo]

if indeed the plane was hijacked by the pilot/s themselves ... there's a good chance it landed at an airport and all inside are alive

[deafault]

^ edi nareport na agad if it did actually land on an airport.

"Even though the ACARS system was disabled on Flight 370, it continued to emit faint hourly pulses that were recorded by a satellite. The last "ping" was sent out at 8:11 a.m. — 7 hours and 31 minutes after the plane took off. That placed the jet somewhere in a huge arc as far north as Kazakhstan in Central Asia or far into the southern Indian Ocean.
While many people believe the plane has crashed, there is a small possibility it may have landed somewhere and be relatively intact. Affendi, the air force general, and Hishammuddin, the defense minister, said it was possible for the plane to "ping" when it was on the ground if its electrical systems were up and running."

[chua_riwap]

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How did the investigators deduce the general area using satellite pings?

Based on the hourly connections with the plane, described by a U.S. official as a "handshake," the satellite knows at what angle to tilt its antenna to be ready to receive a message from the plane should one be sent. Using that antenna angle, along with radar data, investigators have been able to draw two vast arcs, or "corridors" — a northern one from northern Thailand through to the border of the Central Asian countries Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and a southern one from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean. The plane is believed to be somewhere along those arcs.

Air crash investigators have never used this kind of satellite data before to try to find a missing plane, but after pursing other leads it's the best clue left.

"The people that are doing this are thinking outside the box. They're using something that wasn't designed to be used this way, and it seems to be working," said William Waldock, who teaches accident investigation at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona. "In terms of search and rescue, they're probably going to have rewrite the book after this."

[Retz]

If we don't hear anything from the hijackers within the week, mh370 might suffer the same fate as egypt air.

[claRkEnt]

If we don't hear anything from the hijackers within the week, mh370 might suffer the same fate as egypt air.

saang forum mo naman nabasa ito and then copy/paste?

[Retz]

Malaysian airplane investigators look at suicide as possible motive

ito rin hunch ko. pero ano kaya motive ng pilot or co-pilot? sa egypt air ang babaw ng dahilan ng frist officer nung nag suicide....

[falken]

If the plane was indeed hijacked and they were able to land it without anybody noticing. Then maybe the hijackers are saving the plane for future terrorist attacks like 9/11. Anyway, that's my crazy theory from watching too much spy movies.:-D

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[Retz]

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and they have to feed those 239 passengers? ang hirap nun sir na hangan ngayon wala pa rin demands if indeed the plane landed.

[falken]

Hmm...wasn't one passenger using the fake passport an Iranian asylum seeker? Conspiracy theory senses tingling...

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and they have to feed those 239 passengers? ang hirap nun sir na hangan ngayon wala pa rin demands if indeed the plane landed.

They need the plane, not the passengers. Keeping the passengers alive is not part of their plans.

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[badkuk]

Until that plane is found, the "9-11" hunch is still in play.

Then again, i doubt if they can do a sneak attack with that plane on US soil...not unless they retrofit it with cloaking technology? But if their target is not the US...