Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is Missing

Brumby said:

According to Bloomberg, Australia’s radar network includes a long-range system capable of detecting air targets as small as a single-engine, two-seater jet. A base station in Laverton, Western Australia state has a range of about 3,000 kms (1,864 miles) covering most of the ocean south of Java and west from Perth. Satellite transmission data analyzed by U.S. investigators showed that the MAS jetliner’s most likely last-known position was in a zone about 1,000 miles (1,609 kms) west of Perth, Australia. Rather strange that nothing has turned up - as yet. This may add weight to the theory that the plane is somewhere in Pakistan/Afghanistan. If this is a possibility, then someone has a long range delivery vehicle for a dirty bomb or a crude nuclear device. That will be bad news.

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AssassinsMace said:

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I was watching CNN and they basically were gloating at China's lack of ability to do anything like back during the tsunami disaster. Be careful of your taunting. The countries laughing at China back then for its inability to carry out disaster relief are now alarmed because China has acquired those capabilities which translates to military capabilities. I'm sure the technological gaps that were exposed from this incident will be lessons learned for China's domestic airliner program. Also, it's interesting how it's being portrayed on who's to blame or behind this when it's all just speculation. You know the saying where the most simplest explanation is the most likely? What's the most simplest explanation? Mechanical failure that resulted in a major catastrophic end. China can't do much because it's not Chinese hardware. China didn't design and build the system on the 777. Don't you think the country that did would know more on how it works? Which means it's the US and Boeing's credibility on the line. Interesting how the speculation all centers on anything but the most simplest explanation. How strange is it that search areas pop-up no where near the most likely location if there was a mechanical failure. Look at the GM recall on a mechanical failure that resulted in a dozen deaths. That went unreported and happened during the same time of Toyota's trouble with the accelerator. As a result Toyota who was number one in the world in auto sales was no longer number one afterwards.

If China's news media mirrored the mentality of the likes of CNN, these questions would come up.

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Quickie said:

That's downright unfair. Why blame the rumor mongering on a single country when it's the world's media that are doing the rumor mongering through many of the wild speculations that they're putting forth?

It doesn't matter how good is a country's information management system is, most media will continue with all the wild speculations (or rumor mongering) because that's almost their bread and butter.

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solarz said:

Rumours are inevitable among the public. I saw just yesterday a rumour on Wechat that the plane had been found.

The problem is that China, arguably the country with the most at stake in this incident aside from Malaysia itself, feels it has not been given enough information by the Malaysian government. The recent revelations certainly do seem to support that feeling.

I can understand not releasing information to the public during an investigation, but Chinese officials are not the public. They are, or should be, part of the investigation. This is far more likely a case of Malaysia not wanting to reveal the really bad news until they have no choice.

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Quickie said:

The problem really is there's not much of information that can be revealed. The public probably knows as much as the investigation team albeit minus the important myriad details. So far it seems like only Malaysia is willing to release the highly sensitive military radar data to the investigation team. It was not until the revelation that the Inmarsat satellites received pings from the missing airplane that there was a breakthrough forward to the next phase.

After so many days of searching the great expanse of seas on both sides of the Malaysian peninsula and now the 2 corridors, they can't find even a single evidence of the MH370. In the news briefing today, the officials were saying that they've not received any hijack notes or communications from anyone claiming responsibility. They were also saying the telephone companies did not find any records of the passengers making a phone call or sending messages. The investigation of the local police and Interpol have so far unable to linked any of the crew and passengers to terrorism. There're just so many unknowns which can only lead to more speculations and rumors.

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Quickie said:

The problem really is there's not much of information that can be revealed. The public probably knows as much as the investigation team albeit minus the important myriad details. So far it seems like only Malaysia is willing to release the highly sensitive military radar data to the investigation team. It was not until the revelation that the Inmarsat satellites received pings from the missing airplane that there was a breakthrough forward to the next phase.

After so many days of searching the great expanse of seas on both sides of the Malaysian peninsula and now the 2 corridors, they can't find even a single evidence of the MH370. In the news briefing today, the officials were saying that they've not received any hijack notes or communications from anyone claiming responsibility. They were also saying the telephone companies did not find any records of the passengers making a phone call or sending messages. The investigation of the local police and Interpol have so far unable to linked any of the crew and passengers to terrorism. There're just so many unknowns which can only lead to more speculations and rumors.

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