Malaysia Airlines 'loses contact with plane'

[wowiesy]

Passports stolen in 2 seperate incidents in Thailand. One 2 years ago, the other last August. Both tickets were bought from China Southern website in China. More than 50 percent of passengers were mainlanders...

Walang bang CCTV sa KL airport?

for sure yan may CCTV sa KL airport.. but to properly identify each and every passenger (through positive ID pic from CCTV) may be more difficult.. depende sa pagka design ng security ng KLIA...

in China.... at least most of the major airports in China... may barcode ang ma generate na boarding pass... .. then you pass by security... sa security.. they scan barcode... sabay kuha ng picture mo... para pag board mo sa plane... iscan uli boarding pass... mag flash uli sa terminal ng boarding gate yung picture mo taken from the security counter..

[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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[_Cathy_]

I need to hear what OB has to say about this...

[BratPAQ]

Exactly. Any deviation from the flight plan needs atc permission except if you are in between two ATCs, a dead zone. think of it as two circles spaced out from each other.

yes, between 2 ATC, but the report said it lost contact with a control tower. i would venture a guess that it means the plane is still in range of control tower pero cannot contact it.

[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?

[K.I.L.L.]

And the plot thickens... I can imagine I have to take off my shoes, belt and watch every time I go through Bangkok now or any other airport as well as possibly getting swabbed by those bomb detection devices.

[Monseratto]

Sa immigration matatagalan. Bubusiin lahat ng passports sa Interpol database...