Malaysia Airlines 'loses contact with plane'

[Monseratto]

And that didn't last long....

Signal reports are 'inaccurate'

Hussein opened the press conference by denying reports that the missing plane sent out engine data after it disappeared from contact with air traffic control. He said:

I would like to refer to news reports suggesting that the aircraft may have been flying for some time after the last contact. Those reports are inaccurate. The last transmission from the aircraft was at 01:07, which indicated everything was normal. Rolls Royce and Boeing teams are here in Kuala Lumpur and have worked with MAS and the investigation teams since Sunday. This issue has never been raised ... Since today’s media reports MAS has asked Rolls Royce and Boeing specifically about the data. As far as Rolls Royce and Boeing are concerned those reports are inaccurate.

“We did not receive anything beyond 1.07,” he said.

Updated at 10.21am GMT

[Monseratto]

And most of these "inaccurate" news about MH370 made it to major news networks... panay kuryente pala.

Transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein : Chinese images "did not show any debris from MH370"

Chinese satellite images that were said to show debris from a missing Malaysian airliner were released by mistake, Malaysia's transport minister says.

Mr Hussein told reporters at Kuala Lumpur International Airport that the Chinese embassy in Kuala Lumpur had said Beijing's satellite images were released by mistake and "did not show any debris from MH370".

The grainy satellite images were released by China's State Administration of Science on Wednesday.

Mr Hussein also denied a report in the Wall Street Journal that the plane had sent engine data to the ground for more than four hours after it lost contact with air traffic control.

He said that his team had spoken to Malaysian Airlines and Rolls-Royce, the engine's manufacturers, who both said that the report was "inaccurate".

"The last transmission from the aircraft was at 0107 which indicated that everything was normal," Mr Hussein said.

He added that efforts to locate the aircraft were ongoing, promising to "spare nothing in our efforts to find MH370".

"There are currently 43 ships and 40 aircraft searching the South China Sea and Straits of Malacca," he said.

[boybi]

Kaya puro kuryente ang mga news, everybody is desperate to know what happened to MH370 and where is it now.


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[Walter]

Missing MH370: Bomoh uses 'magic carpet' to find Boeing

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Natio...o-find-Boeing/

[NightRock]

Is there a possibility that MH370 never really took off? And MAS and/or the Malaysian gov't are covering this up? Cellphones of passengers ring when called. This can't happen if the airplane crashed in the sea, walang signal dun.

Diba pwede naman mag ring ang phone baka diverted sa ibang number like i used to do pag may flight ako naka divert sa ibang number phone ko like relatives or secretary incase may important calls

[170kphlang]

^ possible naka-divert pero dapat may sumagot na or texted back kung sa ibang tao naka-divert

Sent from Constantinople

[Gumusut_Amige]

Missing MH370: Bomoh uses 'magic carpet' to find Boeing

Missing MH370: Bomoh uses 'magic carpet' to find Boeing - Nation | The Star Online

my malaysian colleague in front of me right now is very disgusted and disturbed with this report

[boybi]

Diba pwede naman mag ring ang phone baka diverted sa ibang number like i used to do pag may flight ako naka divert sa ibang number phone ko like relatives or secretary incase may important calls

Several days ng tinatawagan yung mga phones ng mga passengers, dapat meron ng sumagot if diverted.


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[Gumusut_Amige]

Several days ng tinatawagan yung mga phones ng mga passengers, dapat meron ng sumagot if diverted.


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hindi ba dapat low battery level na lahat mga cp nila after so many days? hard to believe pa rin ito para sa akin na may cp na nag ring.

[boybi]

hindi ba dapat low battery level na lahat mga cp nila after so many days? hard to believe pa rin ito para sa akin na may cp na nag ring.

Non-smartphones can have several days of battery life.


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[yebo]

Time really to look at the alien abduction angle...

[falken]

my malaysian colleague in front of me right now is very disgusted and disturbed with this report

He is a national embarassment for them according to my Malaysian friend.

[Monseratto]

my malaysian colleague in front of me right now is very disgusted and disturbed with this report

Reminds me of Wilde Almeda...

[Monseratto]

http://gma.yahoo.com/malaysia-airlin...ries.html?vp=1

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.

[Retz]

kung 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.

[Retz]

I read some post in news and other forum site and can't believe that some people think that the commercial jetliner did actually landed just like the fictional oceanic flgiht 815.

[ghosthunter]

( I am definitely showing my age with this )


Maybe....

[Monseratto]

Okay...now they are back to the theory the transponders were deliberately switched off and it was flown west ward... A hijacking for what???

BBC News - Malaysia plane: Indian Ocean search for missing jet

The US has sent surveillance teams to the Indian Ocean to help search for the missing Malaysian plane, after claims emerged that it may have flown for longer than investigators had thought.

Unnamed officials said the plane sent signals to satellites for up to five hours after its apparent disappearance.

However, investigators stressed that the information was not conclusive.

Rescuers have so far failed to find any trace of flight MH370, which vanished last Saturday with 239 people on board.

The plane, which was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, last made contact with air-traffic control over the South China Sea to the east of Malaysia.

The US, which is one of a number of countries helping in the search for the plane, has sent a navy destroyer and a sophisticated surveillance aircraft to the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles west of Malaysia.

The Indian navy, air force and coast guard are also now assisting after a request for help from the Malaysian government.

The BBC's Jonathan Head in Kuala Lumpur says there have already been a number of false leads in the search for the missing plane.

However, he says the latest claims are being taken seriously by the US.

Several US media reports on Thursday cited unnamed officials as saying that the Boeing 777 was "pinging" satellites for hours after its last contact with air-traffic controllers.

That led searchers to believe the plane could have flown more than 1,600 km (1,000 miles) beyond its last confirmed radar sighting.

White House spokesman Jay Carney confirmed that US teams were shifting their focus to the Indian Ocean because of "new information", but he gave no further details.

Some 153 of the passengers on board the Malaysia Airlines plane were Chinese, and Beijing has been putting pressure on Malaysia to intensify its search.

[Retz]

^

Diba sabi ng CIA they are also looking towards the angle that the pilot might have committed suicide.

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