Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is Missing

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t2contra said:

Search now focuses Straits of Malacca. Goodness, like a cannonball run. Maybe, someone missed Phi Phi Island.

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Geez.. If they are searching the Malacca straights wouldn't that meant mh370 traverse the entire peninsula after the ATB?
Malaysian Air force radar would've picked her up. Could it be the LOC is hidden under some jungle canopy? I know a large portion of Malaysia is dense jungle.

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kwaigonegin said:

Geez.. If they are searching the Malacca straights wouldn't that meant mh370 traverse the entire peninsula after the ATB?

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Equivalent or more, I think.

kwaigonegin said:

I know a large portion of Malaysia is dense jungle.

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If it was daytime, I doubt it would have gone down unnoticed even if it was the remotest part of the peninsula. North to south about 500 miles and west to east about 250, not like Mexico.

Very, very strange!

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Jeff Head said:

Yes, I showed that picture of the Singapore Rescue tender and its submersible earlier today when showing all of the major naval vessels committed. It is the 9th picture down...

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At this point, sadly, if they find any underwater wreckage at all, it will be a recovery operation and not a rescue operation.

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As somebody mentioned earlier the average dept of the sea is 45 meters. At this dept, if the plane lies on the sea bed, can't they spot it from the air?

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This report denies the report that the two holding stolen passports are Iranian.

Also on Monday, Malaysia said tests on a sample of the oil slicks found off the eastern Malaysia coast revealed that it was not from the missing flight, and the two passengers on board with false European passports, an Austrian and an Italian one, are not with Asian appearance.

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t2contra said:

Search now focuses Straits of Malacca. Goodness, like a cannonball run. Maybe, someone missed Phi Phi Island.

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Since there's no telling whether it was still travelling on course from the last blip on the ATC radar, AND if it indeed disintegrated at cruising altitude, the possible trajectories of the wreckages could cover a mind-boggling area. And that still not counting the oceanic currents in these last 3 days; fortunately, the weather over the region has been mild so lesser variables have to be included.

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Philippine Navy Deploys Air and Sea Assets in Search for Missing Malaysian Airliner



2014-03-10 02:44 AM EST

The Philippines continued its search operations for the missing Malaysian plane in the South China Sea, a military spokesperson said on Monday (March 10).Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished after climbing to a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing in the early hours of Saturday (March 8). Search teams have not been able to make any confirmed discovery of wreckage in seas beneath the plane's flight path almost three days after it took off.Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesperson Ramon Zagala said they have sent a team to search for the missing plane."Out of solidarity, we dispatched three naval vessels and two aircraft to help in the search.

We are in our third day of search and we are doing our best in order to find the missing aircraft," he said.The Philippine military has been combing the South China Sea west of the Philippines in coordination with the Malaysian government, but so far no traces of the plane have been found, Zagala said."It is believed that there is a possibility that from Kuala Lumpur, as upon takeoff, it has veered into our side of the South China Sea, so this is very far from the Philippines, although we have the necessary aircraft that can fly towards that direction," he said.Zagala said they have additional resources ready to provide humanitarian aid. "We have other assets on standby should the airliner be found, and that can easily be focused into the area. What's important right now is really the search," he said.The Philippines is among the countries taking part in an international effort to locate the missing aircraft, which was carrying 239 passengers onboard.
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For the plane to veer of course so much and travel so far without any of the crew realising a problem and broadcasting an emergency, leads to the most worrying option of all. That the Aircraft had become infected with a Stuxnet type virus and nobody on board was any the wiser.

I do not buy this unable to transmit clearly argument, frankly its baloney, Aircraft bounce signals of Satellites just like everyone else and there are no shortage over South East Asia. Add to that, the Gulf of Thailand or indeed now the Straits of Malacca are hardly comparable with the Atlantic Ocean. They are small shallow seas, bounded by densely populated areas and the seas are teeming and include some of the worlds busiest sea lanes.

If a nation has a guilty secret, it may explain why so many countries and ships are now searching for what is most likely to be a recovery and salvage operation rather than rescue. It will also be indicative if co-operation rapidly turns to "disagreement" once the wreck is located.

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Change and change again.

one of the Mystery passengers' with a questionable stolen passport has been identified as a 19 year old Iranian born man a asylum seeker. The other is still a international man of mystery.

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More and more bizarre by the passing minute.

If you heard that the London to Helsinki plane had vanished without trace or warning over the North Sea and that the search area now included the Western End of the English Channel, what would you think?

I give the above example as it is a pretty good match for the size and nature of the waterways and land masses being searched.

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SampanViking said:

For the plane to veer of course so much and travel so far without any of the crew realising a problem and broadcasting an emergency, leads to the most worrying option of all.

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Brat, you're the most experienced here. We need your comments.