Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is Missing

asif iqbal

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Re: Malaysia Airlines Plane is Missing

I reckon the plane is somewhere in Central Asia like Kazakstan or something
 

broadsword

Brigadier
Re: Malaysia Airlines Plane is Missing

I think Kazakhstan would beyond the range of MH370. It is an additional 914 nautical miles further away from Kuala Lumpur than Beijing and it had already made a turn to the Indian Ocean.
 

getready

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Re: Malaysia Airlines Plane is Missing

I think Kazakhstan would beyond the range of MH370. It is an additional 914 nautical miles further away from Kuala Lumpur than Beijing and it had already made a turn to the Indian Ocean.

the pilot could have requested reserve fuel without officials knowing if it was an inside job


By the way, china should ditch their expensive j20 j31 stealth programs. Why need to spend billions to develop aircrafts
that can avoid radar detection, all is needed is to get a normal plane and switch all the electrics off and apparently even with all the sophisticated radar And satellites, no one can possibly find you! After almost a week!
 

AssassinsMace

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I'm seeing on the news that the search area has expanded into Central Asia and Indonesia. That really says they absolutely know nothing even this engine pinging thing seems unreliable. Does that mean the ships sent into the Indian Ocean searched the area already? That's pretty quick.
 

plawolf

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A little outside the box, but has anyone checked cargo? Was someone carrying something unusually valuable on board? This scenario would require that the pilots could manually shut off the oxygen supply to passenger masks and also to be able to manually decompress the plane, but the second part is not essential.

Let's say some billionaire bought a big old bag of diamonds and was either carrying them in person or had a trusted aid carry it on the flight and someone knew about it, then this might have been a robbery.

After the robbers took control of the plane, the steep climb was to get the plane high enough that the pressure difference gets so high and beyond what the plane was designed for that either a breach occurs, decompressing the main passenger compartment and killing everyone outside the cockpit, or the pressure difference allows the hijackers to fool the safety systems into lowering main cabin air pressure enough to incapacitate or kill the passengers and crew.

Once the rest of the crew and passengers are incapacitated or killed, the hijackers followed navigation way points to get to their intended destination and parachuted out of the plane, either over land, or if they have military grade training and skills, over water to an awaiting boat.

The plane would then continue on the last course that was set and potentially fly on for hours before crashing thousands of miles away deep in the Indian Ocean, and no one would ever know anything valuable was taken.

Same thing could have happened if there was either a scientist or government agent onboard the flight carrying highly sensitive information, but if that information was the target of the robbery, its a far more sinister tale as that would mean a national government was likely behind the hijacking and murder or over 200 people in order to get that information.
 

SampanViking

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I still think that most of you guys are being extraordinarily generous towards the Malay authorities over this matter and giving them a trust for today's version of events, that the contradictions, evasions and omissions of the last week just do not afford them.

Assuming that we are now hearing a true account, the immediate question to the Malay's, is why did you track this aircraft off course and without transponders for over an hour across your airspace, without dispatching fighters to investigate and notify the region of an emergency?

Like Wolfie I suspect State level involvement in this business and have done so since day one, given the wholly incredible story being sold. Today's revelations do nothing to dispel that feeling.
 

AssassinsMace

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What I've been seeing on TV is only someone with intimate knowledge of the plane's systems could only do what they say happened to mask the flight. The most simplest explanation is one of the pilots was crazed and suicidal and he knew what to do and flew the aircraft somewhere where no one can find it easily and crash it.
 

AssassinsMace

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Re: Malaysia Airlines Plane is Missing

I still think that most of you guys are being extraordinarily generous towards the Malay authorities over this matter and giving them a trust for today's version of events, that the contradictions, evasions and omissions of the last week just do not afford them.

Assuming that we are now hearing a true account, the immediate question to the Malay's, is why did you track this aircraft off course and without transponders for over an hour across your airspace, without dispatching fighters to investigate and notify the region of an emergency?

Like Wolfie I suspect State level involvement in this business and have done so since day one, given the wholly incredible story being sold. Today's revelations do nothing to dispel that feeling.

The fact is it only takes one country lying to create all this confusion. People also have to remember that the area and flight path goes by a lot of disputed territory by all countries in the region. All it takes is someone with an itchy trigger finger. Look at how the South Korean military fired upon a passenger jetliner on a normal approach into Seoul thinking it was a North Korean intrusion.
 

delft

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From the BBC web site:
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15 March 2014 Last updated at 08:40 GMT
Missing Malaysia Airlines plane 'deliberately diverted'
The communications systems of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were deliberately disabled, Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak has said.

According to satellite and radar evidence, he said, the plane then changed course and could have continued flying for a further seven hours.

He said the "movements are consistent with the deliberate action of someone on the plane".

The plane disappeared a week ago with 239 people on board.

The Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight last made contact with air traffic control as it headed east towards the South China Sea, about one hour after take-off.

Mr Razak told a news conference that new satellite evidence shows "with a high degree of certainty" that the one of the aircraft's communications systems - the Aircraft and Communications Addressing and Reporting System- was disabled just before it reached the east coast of Malaysia.

ACARS is a service that allows computers aboard the plane to "talk" to computers on the ground, relaying in-flight information about the health of its systems.

Shortly afterwards, near the border between Malaysian and Vietnamese air traffic control, the plane's transponder - which emits an identifying signal - was switched off, he said.

According to a military radar, the flight then turned and flew back over Malaysia before turning north-west.

A satellite was able to pick up a signal from the plane for some seven hours after it lost radar contact, although it was unable to give a precise location, Mr Razak said.

He went on to say that based on this new data, investigators "have determined the plane's last communication with a satellite was in one of two possible corridors":

a northern corridor stretching from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan through to northern Thailand
a southern corridor stretching from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean

This has gone from being a difficult search to being a really enormous, almost impossible, search for the plane, the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.

Mr Razak said that in light of the new evidence, the investigation had "entered a new phase" and would focus on the crew and passengers on board.

Addressing reports that the plane had been hijacked, he said only "we are still investigating all possibilities as to what caused MH370 to deviate".

The families of those on board the flight have endured an agonising wait for news since the plane disappeared on 8 March.

An extensive search of the seas around Malaysia - involving 14 countries, 43 ships and 58 aircraft - have proved fruitless.

Mr Razak confirmed much of what had been leaked to the media, from US agencies and satellite companies, in the last 48 hours.

His government had been facing severe criticism for not being more open about what it knows, our correspondent says.
From this I point to
a northern corridor stretching from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan through to northern Thailand
a southern corridor stretching from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean
I do not think all of the countries on the Northern would neglect to intercept an anonymous plane. Besides I suppose the US are still flying AWACS aircraft from Manas. So I think it took the Southern route and ended up near Diego Garcia. Still I do not see the US hijacking the aircraft and hoping no-one on the island will ever speak about that plane landing there.

P.S. Perhaps I'm wrong. Does the Southern corridor go much further South?
 
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Quickie

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The US Navy is tasking more and more effort to the Indian Ocean.

They are not doing so on a lark...and apparently the US is not being as forthcoming now with Malaysia. This indicates the US is on to something, and for whatever reason, may not trust Malaysia to be able to coordinate it effectively.

But the US is being very straight forward about the 14 satellite transmissions from the aircraft.

The US shouldn't be less forthcoming with any information, just so the rest of the 14 countries know where to concentrate their Search & Rescue efforts. If there's a reason why the U.S. is moving to other areas, the rest of the countries should know about it.

I would also question: why the delay of 6 or 7 days in the release of information about the satellite transmissions?
 
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