asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Re: Malaysia Airlines Plane is Missing
I reckon the plane is somewhere in Central Asia like Kazakstan or something
I reckon the plane is somewhere in Central Asia like Kazakstan or something
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.
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.
From this I point to15 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.
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.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
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.