Malaysia Airlines loses contact with plane en route to Beijing with 239 aboard

clint308

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Multiple US media reports, citing American officials, said the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777's communication system continued to "ping" a satellite for a number of hours after it disappeared off radar with 239 people aboard, on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
"It's my understanding that based on some new information that's not necessarily conclusive, but new information, an additional search area may be opened in the Indian Ocean," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
Meanwhile, Chinese researchers have announced that a "seafloor event" took place in an area between Vietnam and Malaysia, an hour and a half after the plane disappeared.
The researchers said the slight seismic activity could be the missing plane hitting the ocean.
"It was a non-seismic zone, therefore judging from the time and location of the event, it might be related to the missing MH370 flight," a statement read.


March 09, 2014: Video recorded from an online flight tracker shows the chilling moment Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 vanishes from the live display.

Two different communications systems aboard the missing MH370 flight were shut down separately, according to reports, suggesting they were deliberately turned off.
CBS News reports the two systems were switched off sequentially, just before the Malaysia Airlines plane is believed to have changed course and turned west.
But the systems could have turned off in a domino-fashion rather than all at once during a catastrophic electrical failure, but that is considered unlikely.
A US Navy official told AFP the guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd was "transiting the Strait of Malacca en route to the Indian Ocean". It was initially deployed to the Gulf of Thailand on the other side of Malaysia's coast. The development is the latest in a series of tantalising leads that have pulled the search for flight MH370 in multiple directions and deepened one of the biggest mysteries in modern aviation history.
Delhi-based aviation analyst Kapil Kak, a former Indian air marshal, called the situation "inexplicable, unprecedented and shocking".
Map of the flight path of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

However, Gerry Soejatman, an independent aviation analyst based in Jakarta, was sceptical that the plane could have flown undetected to the Indian Ocean given the number of military radars operated in the region by Malaysia, India, Thailand and Indonesia.
"How could it get past all of that?" Soejatman said. "And if it did, how many people in the military are going to lose their jobs?"
The new lead opens an additional search front of daunting magnitude. The Indian Ocean is the world's third largest, and has an average depth of nearly 3900 metres.
It is like going "from a chessboard to a football field", Commander William Marks of the US 7th Fleet told CNN.
Marks insisted the search remained co-ordinated with the Malaysian authorities and the US Navy was not "freelancing".
Malaysia has not responded directly to the latest US information.


March 08, 2014: Flight MH370 carrying 239 people to Beijing has lost contact after departing Kuala Lumpur International at 12:40am local time, Saturday.

"The investigation team is following all leads that may help locate the missing aircraft," a government statement said on Friday afternoon.
It said Malaysia continued "to work closely" with US officials sent to Kuala Lumpur to help in the investigation. Malaysian officials were expected to hold a news conference later on Friday.
The lack of results from the investigation and search so far has created a volatile mix of grief, anger, frustration and speculation that the Malaysian authorities have struggled to control.
ABC news said US investigators believed the aircraft's data reporting system and its transponder - which reports its position in flight to ground-based radar - shut down separately.
The 14-minute interval suggests they might have been deliberately disabled, or at any rate did not fail as a result of a catastrophic airframe incident, the US network said.
 

gioua

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Gioua - To what end? So are you saying the thing landed?

And Neo, what kind of info are they withholding from the non US? Does the NSA have their own trackers on these bitches? Would not surprise me one bit.... Considering.

the pilot helped aid in the taking of the ship
landed safely in Indonesia...



^trying to help
 

neosapien

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For reals tho. Where's that fucking plane? I just read a satellite company got a ping from the plane or something. As if it's not in pieces on the ocean floor. Weird shit. Not sure why but this saga has really fascinated me.
 

SnapsProvolone

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A couple days ago I told my wife that pilot stole the plane. Why, muslim, underpaid pilot, I dunno.. it just made me jump to that as soon as I heard about his home flight simulator. Practice runs. They need to forensic that hard drive for deleted flight plans is what I said two days ago. Lol
 

Indoor Sun King

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well it really does seem that one or both of the pilots were involved, especially when one had a very hi-tech flight simulator at home

Personally I believe both pilots were involved as this would be very hard to achieve solo, but possible. It been said the plane went to 45,000 feet, which would have killed everyone with the limited oxygen available for passengers

The big question is did they reach their goal, which could have been either ditch it in the deep India Ocean, or land it on a remote air strip.

If this plane has landed, one would think the terrorists would quickly use the plane for a devious mission before it's located, or use it as a ransom to release of fellow terrorists

I do not believe these Islamic terrorists are clever enough, as they couldn't even kill a 14 year old girl in a school bus with a fully automatic AK-47....absolute useless twits

Odds are that Israel, USA and/or China military intelligence would likely have heard rumours by now if it was parked in hanger and wouldn't be wasting time searching the ocean

Now if it was suicide, one would think they would either have crashed the plane as soon as they could, or would have crashed it into the backyard of whom ever they hated the most.

At the end of the day, this is one huge mystery that may never be solved
 

Unclebaldrick

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Well I certainly never expected it to go on this long, and a quick resolution seems increasingly unlikely. This morning they reported that elements of the tracking system were shut off before the last (otherwise normal) pilot communication. That seems to imply pilot control. I'm sticking with pilot suicide with 238 other victims.

Does it seem to others that there is a disturbing trend these days to take out a lot of other people in a suicide? I suspect that it is an unfortunate consequence of society's increased interactivity made possible by the internet. Not that I can make a compelling arguement. Nor do I necessarily think that the internet itself is to blame. My arguement (fuzzy as it is) is more along the lines of society being fundamentally reorganized by it and having a bit of a freak-out in the transition.
 

Unclebaldrick

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I feel increasingly bad for the families. This is a level of uncertainty that few ever have to deal with. What a horrible roll coaster ride they must be having.
 

puffdatchronic

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Chuck Norris says he's just back from his vacation , and he's on his way.

[video=youtube;PrhXTIy12Zg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrhXTIy12Zg[/video]
 

SouthAussieStoner

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There is deffinatly something sus going on here.. The news update i just saw reacon the plane flew through several countries at very low altitudes to avoid radars.. My thoughts go out to the passengers on board who have gone through god knows and the family's that may not ever see their loved ones again
 
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