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Post by auntym on Aug 31, 2015 14:43:09 GMT -6
gizmodo.com/the-case-of-the-mh370-wing-segment-keeps-getting-weirde-1727429146?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gawker%2Ffull+%28Gawker%29 The Case of the MH370 Wing Segment Keeps Getting Weirderby Maddie Stone Filed to: MH370 8/29/15 A policeman and a gendarme stand next to a piece of debris from an unidentified aircraft found on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, on July 29, 2015. Photo: Yannick Pitou/AFP/Getty Images The Case of the MH370 Wing Segment Keeps Getting WeirderWhen a wing section of a Boeing 777 washed up on the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion last month, the Malaysian government quickly ascribed the part to missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. But an ongoing investigation has failed to verify this claim, and the story just keeps getting weirder. Shortly after the flaperon washed up, Boeing engineers confirmed that the wing segment belongs to a 777. And MH370, which went missing in March of 2014, is the only 777 unaccounted for. So case closed, right? Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak figured it was, and on August 5th, he released a statement announcing as much to the world. But minutes later, French investigator Serge Mackowiak countered the prime minister’s remarks, saying that more tests were needed to conclusively determine the wing segment’s origin. Those test results were supposed to come within a day. Then it became a few days. Now it’s been several weeks. What’s the hangup? According to New York Magazine, the ID plate that should have been attached to the inboard edge of the flaperon is missing. This plate, affixed to all 777 flaperons, ought to contain a serial number linking the part to MH370. Its absence has not only stymied the verification process, it’s resulted in other aspects of the wing segment coming under (perhaps excessive) scrutiny. For instance, the flaperon was covered in barnacles. Barnacles everywhere! And people are freaking out about it. Barnacles all over seems to suggest the wing segment spent the last several months suspended beneath the ocean surface. But how? While it’s easy to imagine a submarine or a scuba diver hovering peacefully 10 or 20 feet under the surface of the water, this is not something that inanimate objects are capable of doing on their own: Either they are more buoyant than water, in which case they float, or they are less buoyant, in which case they sink. So, how could a six-foot-long chunk of airplane remain suspended beneath the ocean surface for a long period of time? At this point, there aren’t any simple, common-sense answers; the range of possible explanations at this point runs from as-yet-unidentified natural processes to purposeful intervention by conspirators. There’s certainly a logical explanation for all of this, and we’ll find it eventually — perhaps we’ll even learn a thing or two about barnacle ecology in the process! In the meanwhile, the sleuths of the internet are sure to come up with all sorts of outlandish origin stories for the untagged flaperon. And the fate of flight MH370 remains as mysterious as ever. gizmodo.com/the-case-of-the-mh370-wing-segment-keeps-getting-weirde-1727429146?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gawker%2Ffull+%28Gawker%29About That Airplane Part That Was Supposed to Solve the MH370 Mystery ... nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/08/strange-saga-of-the-mh370-plane-part.html?wpsrc=nymag HOW CRAZY AM I TO THINK I KNOW WHERE MH370 IS? nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/jeff-wise-mh370-theory.html MH370: What the Wing Flap Tells Us and What It Doesn’t nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/08/mh370-debris-or-no-this-case-is-still-weird.html
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2015 10:14:27 GMT -6
Why is it so hard for people to use a tad of common sense? The plane went down..a wing came loose ''almost''...it was trapped by undersea debris (they do have rocks down there and vegetation) it was there long enough to acquire barnacles..then because of ocean currents and possibly storms in the area causing turbulent seas..the loose piece broke off and was carried to shore. Eventually...more stuff will probably work it's way loose and end up on some shore. People are just apt to make anything into a mystery. Why it has not been located? The ocean is huge. There is no way of knowing when the engines ran out of fuel..they would not have died at the same time. No way to know it's air speed or what tail or head winds applied to slow it or speed it or blow it off course. I read that the auto pilot would recalculate course and take the plane to the closest refueling location. Well maybe the auto pilot had a break down and calculated wrong. Tooooo many variables to make this easy. But oooooh so much fun for conspiracy theorists LOL.
One thing that will always trouble me. An ocean surveying business claimed to have found wreckage huge enough to be this plane in the Bay of Bengal. No one ever investigated it..but they posted pictures of their imagery and it sure looked like a big plane to me. They tried several times before giving up..to get someone out there. I think there were a lot of mistakes made..that people got territorial over the search and things might have been over looked. What I saw in my mind..was not a plane hijacked by ufo's or terrorists..but one flying silently through the dead of night..lonely and awful..until it ran out of fuel. Seems to be what a lot of 'psychic's' saw too. Not exciting..not conspiratorial just awful.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 11:41:56 GMT -6
They have a certainty that the flaperon is from the missing plane..numbers on the wing edge match. Eh...maybe the UFO spit that part out..or terrorists decided to plant that part in the ocean (long enough to get barnacles) then fetch it up and tow it to land. Never know. I still think it ran out of fuel and crashed..but I just don't have the imagination I used to I guess. news.yahoo.com/france-confirms-wing-part-found-reunion-flight-mh370-152452302.html
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Post by auntym on Sept 3, 2015 14:15:10 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 17:55:21 GMT -6
I think they're pretty convinced now..this is the latest article:
THE FRENCH MINISTRY of Justice has now officially, absolutely, definitely, postively confirmed that the piece of plane debris that washed up on the island of Réunion in late July belonged to MH370, the jetliner that disappeared in March 2014 with 237 people onboard.
It is “possible to say with certainty that the flaperon discovered on the Reunion Island on July 29 2015 corresponds to the one on MH370,” the French Ministry of Justice said in a statement, according to Reuters. Réunion is a French overseas department, so the debris was sent to a lab in France. There, investigators used an endoscope to look inside the part, and found serial numbers matching the missing plane.
This is a more official confirmation than the Malaysian prime minister’s August 5 statement that “an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370.”
Maybe they will study the barnacles now and figure what waters they prefer and lead to finding the rest of the plane. I am a big believer in forensics.
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Post by skywalker on Sept 3, 2015 19:46:36 GMT -6
Do certain species of barnacles only live in certain parts of the ocean? Couldn't they have attached themselves as the plane was floating around? I tried to read the article from the link you posted yesterday but this big giant pop-up ad kept popping up and advertising all over my puter and I couldn't get rid of it.
Stupid ads.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 22:45:56 GMT -6
Like certain bugs..apparently barnacles have certain areas..maybe some like it warmer and others colder..and there are different species of barnacles. I don't think they can attach to something floating..but maybe that's worth looking up I'll get right on it
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 22:50:12 GMT -6
They do attach to things floating like whales.
Although they have been found at water depths to 600 m (2,000 ft),[2] most barnacles inhabit shallow waters, with 75% of species living in water depths less than 100 m (300 ft),[2] and 25% inhabiting the intertidal zone.[2] Within the intertidal zone, different species of barnacles live in very tightly constrained locations, allowing the exact height of an assemblage above or below sea level to be precisely determined.
So they prefer more shallow depths..but have been down to deeper ones. I'll bet someone could sort of plot a barnacle map and help find the right direction to the crash site.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2015 22:11:23 GMT -6
gizmodo.com/the-case-of-the-mh370-wing-segment-keeps-getting-weirde-1727429146?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gawker%2Ffull+%28Gawker%29 The Case of the MH370 Wing Segment Keeps Getting Weirderby Maddie Stone Filed to: MH370 8/29/15 A policeman and a gendarme stand next to a piece of debris from an unidentified aircraft found on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, on July 29, 2015. Photo: Yannick Pitou/AFP/Getty Images The Case of the MH370 Wing Segment Keeps Getting WeirderWhen a wing section of a Boeing 777 washed up on the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion last month, the Malaysian government quickly ascribed the part to missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. But an ongoing investigation has failed to verify this claim, and the story just keeps getting weirder. Shortly after the flaperon washed up, Boeing engineers confirmed that the wing segment belongs to a 777. And MH370, which went missing in March of 2014, is the only 777 unaccounted for. So case closed, right? Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak figured it was, and on August 5th, he released a statement announcing as much to the world. But minutes later, French investigator Serge Mackowiak countered the prime minister’s remarks, saying that more tests were needed to conclusively determine the wing segment’s origin. Those test results were supposed to come within a day. Then it became a few days. Now it’s been several weeks. What’s the hangup? According to New York Magazine, the ID plate that should have been attached to the inboard edge of the flaperon is missing. This plate, affixed to all 777 flaperons, ought to contain a serial number linking the part to MH370. Its absence has not only stymied the verification process, it’s resulted in other aspects of the wing segment coming under (perhaps excessive) scrutiny. For instance, the flaperon was covered in barnacles. Barnacles everywhere! And people are freaking out about it. Barnacles all over seems to suggest the wing segment spent the last several months suspended beneath the ocean surface. But how? While it’s easy to imagine a submarine or a scuba diver hovering peacefully 10 or 20 feet under the surface of the water, this is not something that inanimate objects are capable of doing on their own: Either they are more buoyant than water, in which case they float, or they are less buoyant, in which case they sink. So, how could a six-foot-long chunk of airplane remain suspended beneath the ocean surface for a long period of time? At this point, there aren’t any simple, common-sense answers; the range of possible explanations at this point runs from as-yet-unidentified natural processes to purposeful intervention by conspirators. There’s certainly a logical explanation for all of this, and we’ll find it eventually — perhaps we’ll even learn a thing or two about barnacle ecology in the process! In the meanwhile, the sleuths of the internet are sure to come up with all sorts of outlandish origin stories for the untagged flaperon. And the fate of flight MH370 remains as mysterious as ever. gizmodo.com/the-case-of-the-mh370-wing-segment-keeps-getting-weirde-1727429146?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gawker%2Ffull+%28Gawker%29About That Airplane Part That Was Supposed to Solve the MH370 Mystery ... nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/08/strange-saga-of-the-mh370-plane-part.html?wpsrc=nymag HOW CRAZY AM I TO THINK I KNOW WHERE MH370 IS? http:// nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/jeff-wise-mh370-theory.html MH370: What the Wing Flap Tells Us and What It Doesn’t nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/08/mh370-debris-or-no-this-case-is-still-weird.html Sorry. This picture keeps 'nagging at' me. Where's all the barnacles?(they used the wrong picture, I guess. )
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Post by online01 on Nov 18, 2015 4:51:16 GMT -6
What does big radio do exactly? correct me if i am wrong, radios purpose are fro detecting enemy and keeping your teammates visible on map but if they are for scouting then whats the point of big rad...
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Post by auntym on Jan 7, 2016 14:48:21 GMT -6
www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/mh370-search-families-of-chinese-passengers-claim-theyre-alive-and-being-held-captive-as-prisoners/news-story/f5f18b2f8e89f7c042d2bc9d6f27b32dMH370 search: Families of Chinese passengers claim they’re alive and being held captive as prisonersJanuary 8, 2016 Shoba RaoNews Corp Australia Network MH370 search area ... New map showing the indicative priority search area in purple. Picture: Supplied Shoba RaoNews Corp Australia Network FAMILIES of the Chinese passengers who were on board MH370 are not giving up hope, claiming they’re alive and want the search to be widened. In a statement released in Malaysia, the families of the 154 passengers said they believed they were still alive and being held as “prisoners” at a secret location. “In the absence of proof to the contrary, we believe it is possible the missing may still be alive. “If this is so, we would willingly grant to the perpetrators amnesty in return for the release of the missing,” they said. They also said they did not believe the flaperon found on Reunion Island last year was from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet. MORE: MH370 did not break apart: www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/malasian-news-agency-speculates-mh370-floated-for-awhile-after-coming-down-in-indian-ocean/news-story/8342d7542e5e63f61ebcd5932032f18a
PLANE MISSING: The images that sparked a second search: www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/worth-a-second-look--whats-being-revisited-in-mh370-search/news-story/0716a7543af520cb5efbe445f0eac461They also wanted the search operations to continue even though they are due to finish in June this year. They sent their statement to Australia, Canada, China, France, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine and United States, who also had passengers on board the missing aircraft. The families said they did not trust the official account of the incident. “We do not believe any of the series of official statements starting from March 24, 2014, up to and including that of September 3, 2015. “There is no real proof justifying any of these statements,” they said. MORE PHOTOS & CONTINUE READING: www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/mh370-search-families-of-chinese-passengers-claim-theyre-alive-and-being-held-captive-as-prisoners/news-story/f5f18b2f8e89f7c042d2bc9d6f27b32d
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Post by auntym on Mar 4, 2016 14:23:06 GMT -6
www.express.co.uk/news/weird/649479/MH370-FOUND-GOOGLE-EARTH-ex-US-Air-Force-man-claims-THIS-missing-planeMH370 'FOUND on Google Earth' – ex US Air Force man claims THIS is the missing plane COULD this fuzzy outline beneath the waves be the final resting place of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane?By Jon Austin / www.express.co.uk/journalist/122435/Jon-AustinPUBLISHED: Fri, Mar 4, 2016 Could this really be the missing MH 370? A UFO investigator looking for evidence of flying saucers inadvertently stumbled across the suspected aircraft in an eight-month-old Google satellite image. If Scott C Waring is correct, the plane had travelled to the Cape of Good Hope, off Cape Town, South Africa. His claim today coincides with the discovery of debris on the east coast of Africa in an area between Mozambique and Madagascar. The wrecked parts are being sent to Australia for tests to see if they came from MH370. Mr Waring, who is editor of UFO Sightings Daily, posted details of his discovery online. Close up: A plane or surf on rocks? If he has discovered the aircraft, it would appear the plane has survived the mystery crash largely in one piece. The Boeing 777 disappeared on with 239 people on board en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. "I was looking around the Cape of Good Hope for an old UFO sighting I found three years ago, and was hoping to make an update when I came across a shadow in the water, which resembled an airliner" Scott C Waring Mr Waring speculated a Boeing 777-200 like MH370 would have enough fuel to fly between 6,000 miles and 7,700 miles and the "crash site" was about 5,400 from where it took off from. He added: "The Google earth photo is dated July 26 2015 and it crashed on March 8 2014. It's had 16 months of moving about." He now fears it could have moved since the picture was taken last July. He said action was needed urgently to confirm or rule out his findings. He said: "I know there is less than one per cent of one per cent of a chance that this is MH370, but it's better than we had five minutes ago right. The site of the debris find is about 1,200 miles from Cape Town. Mr Waring today blogged: "I was looking around the Cape of Good Hope for an old UFO sighting I found three years ago, and was hoping to make an update when I came across a shadow in the water, which resembled an airliner. “I used to work on B-1 bombers back at Ellsworth SD, at an SAC during my USAF days. I know a plane when I see one." Mr Waring speculated a Boeing 777-200 like MH370 would have enough fuel to fly between 6,000 miles and 7,700 miles and the "crash site" was about 5,400 from where it took off from. He added: "The Google earth photo is dated July 26 2015 and it crashed on March 8 2014. It's had 16 months of moving about." He now fears it could have moved since the picture was taken last July. He said action was needed urgently to confirm or rule out his findings. He said: "I know there is less than one per cent of one per cent of a chance that this is MH370, but it's better than we had five minutes ago right. “I feel awful for those families who lost friends and family this plane and I hope this might get them some closure.” Mr Waring has a knack for spotting well-know objects in satellite and other NASA images taken in space. He regularly posts alleged sightings in images talked by the NASA Curiosity Rover droid that he says prove aliens exist such as beings, buildings, UFOs, ancient ruins, animals, fossils, the list goes on. But most scientists agree he is simply falling victim to a phenomena known as pareidolia, when the brain tricks they were into seeing familiar objects like faces or animal shapes in textures or patterns like a rock surface. To try and prove the theory, Mr Waring has tweeted Malaysia Airlines to alert them to the discovery and is awaiting a response. WATCH VIDEO & CONTINUE READING: www.express.co.uk/news/weird/649479/MH370-FOUND-GOOGLE-EARTH-ex-US-Air-Force-man-claims-THIS-missing-plane
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Post by auntym on Mar 5, 2016 15:23:09 GMT -6
this is soooo interesting... Flight MH370 Found? On Google Earth Map Near Cape Of Good Hope, March 2016, UFO Sighting News. Flight MH370 Found? On Google Earth Map Near Cape Of Good Hope, March 2016, UFO Sighting News.by Scott Waring
Published on Mar 2, 2016
www.ufosightingsdaily.com
*Date of discovery: March 2, 2016 *Location of discovery: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa *Google Earth Coordinates: 34°21'21.82"S 18°28'56.02"E *Date of Google Earth Photo: 7/26/2015
I was looking around the Cape of Good Hope for an old UFO sighting I found there years ago, and was hoping to make an update when I came across a shadow in the water. The shadow resembled an airliner. I use to work on B-1 bombers back at Ellsworth SD, at a SAC UFAF base. I know a plane when I see one. I certainly crawled onto them and in them enough.
Some sources on the Internet put a Boeing 777-200 fuel at having a range of 12,779 km, which is 1,000 more than it needs to get to Cape of Good Hope, however other sources states that the aircraft has a range of only 10,000km, so thats a problem, because then it would crash about 300-500 miles from Cape of Good Hope.
The Google Earth photo is dated 7/26/2015, and it crashed on 3/8/2014. Its had 16 months of moving about. The Cape of Good Hope is going to have powerful currents moving around it with deep crevices, and since the photo on Google is 8 months old, it could have moved 30-60km if its floating only 4-9 feet under the water.
I know there is less than 1% of 1% of a chance that this is MH370, but its better than we had 5 minutes ago right? I will go to Twitter and tweet this to Malasian Airways @mas to let them know. If you can retweet it, it give it a better chance that they will see it, and consider it. I feel awful for those families who lost friends and family on this plane and I hope this might help get them closure.Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
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Post by auntym on Mar 6, 2016 13:14:08 GMT -6
bigstory.ap.org/article/f82c9cfafe6141d097eae72a55800234/hijackers-aliens-theories-over-flight-370s-fate-abound The Associated Press ✔ Hijackers? Aliens? Theories over Flight 370's fate aboundBy KRISTEN GELINEAU / bigstory.ap.org/content/kristen-gelineauMar. 5, 2016 SYDNEY (AP) — From a hijacking to an alien abduction, countless theories have arisen about the fate of the Malaysian airliner that disappeared nearly two years ago. With search crews just months away from finishing their thus-far fruitless sweep of a remote stretch of seabed where Flight 370 is believed to have crashed, officials appear no closer to solving one of the most mind-boggling mysteries of modern times. That stubborn lack of resolution has only increased speculation about what might have happened to the Boeing 777 after it vanished with 239 people on board on March 8, 2014. Some believe officials are simply looking in the wrong part of the Indian Ocean, while social media sites are peppered with comments suggesting they're looking on the wrong planet: "MH370 was abducted by aliens," reads a typical tweet. "We knew this was a very high-profile, publicized event and because it was such a great mystery, there was going to be a lot of scrutiny," says the Australian Transport Safety Bureau's chief commissioner Martin Dolan, who is leading the search for the plane far off Australia's west coast. "We are always open to informed criticism. What we find a bit more difficult is when occasionally people criticize us on the basis of a misunderstanding or a misrepresentation of what we're doing or saying." Here's a look at a few of the theories that investigators have considered but view as unlikely: CONTINUE READING: bigstory.ap.org/article/f82c9cfafe6141d097eae72a55800234/hijackers-aliens-theories-over-flight-370s-fate-aboundFirst things to be raised if MH370 found: More questions bigstory.ap.org/article/87cd37151a8b44d995925e277585e766/first-things-be-raised-if-mh370-found-more-questionsTheory guiding Flight 370 hunt running out of sea to search bigstory.ap.org/article/521a250458eb49dcade1574e9a491808/theory-guiding-flight-370-hunt-running-out-sea-search
Monotony and 'moments of terror' mark search for Flight 370 bigstory.ap.org/article/4a18907c417c47b690a73f87299a8031/monotony-and-moments-terror-mark-search-flight-370
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Post by auntym on Jun 11, 2016 22:19:37 GMT -6
www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/world/asia/australia-mh370-malaysia-airlines.html?partner=msft_msn&_r=0 Australia Reconsiders How Far Flight 370 May Have FlownBy KEITH BRADSHER / topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/keith_bradsher/index.html?action=click&contentCollection=Asia%20Pacific&module=Byline®ion=Header&pgtype=articleJUNE 11, 2016 Messages of hope in Kuala Lumpur at a March remembrance of the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared in 2014. Credit Joshua Paul/Associated Press PERTH, Australia — The search for Malaysia Airlines’ missing Flight 370 on the floor of the southern Indian Ocean is nearing an end with no sign of the plane in the area that investigators had concluded it most likely went down, prompting a last-ditch reassessment of assumptions used to calculate its final descent and draw the search zone. At issue are estimates of how far the plane may have traveled after it ran out of fuel, notably whether it followed a tight or broad spiral down as it fell or glided toward the ocean, officials said. “We’re really doing further work to test our assumption about the end of flight, which defines our search area,” said Martin Dolan, the chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. “It’s really testing to make sure we haven’t missed anything, and that our assumptions remain valid.” The failure to find any wreckage in the area also raises the possibility that the plane began descending earlier, or perhaps changed course in an attempt at an emergency landing at sea, though investigators have discounted these outcomes as inconsistent with other evidence. There is still hope that the plane will be found in the search zone, an expanse of 46,000 square miles, about the size of England. But ocean survey vessels have scoured about 90 percent of the area and are expected to finish the rest in August. Unless new information emerges, that is when the governments of Australia, Malaysia and China plan to abandon the search, leaving one of the greatest mysteries in the history of modern aviation unsolved. Flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, carrying 239 passengers and crew members from 15 nations. An analysis of radar and satellite communications data determined that the Boeing 777-200 made several turns and then flew south for five hours with little deviation. But investigators never pinpointed where the plane ran out of fuel. “There is no reason we should give up the search — at least they have to give us an answer.” Steve Wang, whose 57-year-old mother was on Flight 370 Instead, they identified a 400-mile arc from which the plane most likely sent its last satellite signal. Survey vessels have been going back and forth at walking speed across that swath of the southern Indian Ocean for two years, using sonar devices towed over the seafloor to scan the Stygian depths more than two miles below the waves. Investigators are now asking whether they have been looking in the right place. They are reconsidering an assumption that when the plane’s engines ran dry, the aircraft spiraled into the sea without traveling a horizontal distance of more than 10 nautical miles — a relatively tight spiral. Analysts at Boeing and elsewhere have been re-examining their models of how the aircraft operating under autopilot might have responded to an initial loss of power on one side of the aircraft, and, up to 15 minutes later, on both sides. The simulations assume the right engine ran out of fuel first, because over its years of service that engine on the aircraft had tended to burn slightly more fuel than the left engine, according to records from Rolls-Royce, the engines’ manufacturer. The three countries bankrolling the search for the missing Boeing 777-200 agreed in April last year not to expand the search area unless new information provided clear clues that the plane was somewhere else. So far, no evidence has emerged that would justify an expanded search, Mr. Dolan said. While the search for Flight 370 is already the largest and most costly in aviation history, relatives of passengers on the plane have called for it to be extended, as have many scientists, pilots, hobbyists and others mesmerized by the mystery of its disappearance. “There is no reason we should give up the search — at least they have to give us an answer,” said Steve Wang, a technology company salesman in Beijing who has served as an unofficial spokesman for the families and whose 57-year-old mother was on the plane. “Everything about MH370 remains a mystery — what happened, and how?” The search zone was calculated using the last automatic signal sent by the aircraft’s engines to a satellite right before it disappeared. The signal indicated that the satellite system had been reset, suggesting a power failure, possibly caused by the engine’s running out of fuel. Though the signal did not include location data, analysis of the time it took the transmission to travel to and from the satellite led investigators to focus on the 400-mile arc. But Duncan Steel, a scientist on a panel of experts that has advised the Australian government, said the arc might have been drawn too far south. Investigators have assumed the plane was at cruising altitude when it sent its last signal, he said, but if the plane had started descending earlier as it ran low on fuel, it would have covered less distance before it hit the ocean. Investigators said on May 12 that two pieces of debris recovered in March from South Africa and from Rodrigues Island, part of Mauritius, were “almost certainly” from the missing plane. But neither part — a piece of the interior panel in the main cabin and a piece of engine covering — provided significant information about the aircraft’s final location. Australia’s minister of infrastructure and transport, Darren Chester, announced on May 26 that two more pieces of debris had been found in Mauritius and another in Mozambique that would also be examined for possible links to the missing aircraft. The Australian government said on Friday that four more pieces of debris, three found on Madagascar and one on a southern Australian island, would be checked to determine whether they came from the missing plane. CONTINUE READING: www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/world/asia/australia-mh370-malaysia-airlines.html?partner=msft_msn&_r=0
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Post by auntym on Jan 7, 2017 16:41:27 GMT -6
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/07/mh370-found-searchers-race-to-new-site.html MH370 Found? Searchers Race to New Site With time running out, the vessel looking for the jet dashes north to the area where scientists say it went down, suggesting that something significant has shown up.Clive Irving 01.07.17 The Daily Beast has learned that in the final days of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the search vessel scouring the depths of the Indian Ocean has suddenly moved at high speed to a new location more than 200 miles north. The site is close to an area that experts have recently identified as far more likely to contain the remains of the Boeing 777. The Dutch-owned vessel Equator is using an autonomous underwater vehicle in a pattern of maneuvers near the seabed similar to that used on two previous occasions when significantly large objects were identified. Both of these turned out to be shipwrecks. This change of mission was detected by Dr. Richard Cole, of University College, London, who has been following the search operation for many months via satellite tracking. It comes after the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, directing the search operations, admitted that the area of 46,000 square miles that has been searched for 27 months is unlikely to contain the remains of the jet. Equator was making its final sweeps in that area when it was suddenly diverted. The Australians determined, after an intense scientific effort, that the most likely site was further north, between latitudes 32 to 36 degrees south. The Equator is now operating close to latitude 32 degrees south. Cole told The Daily Beast: “Equator has re-centered the search to the north, away from the area originally identified in late 2014 by the Australian Defense Science and Technology Group. Using a sonar system, it is now checking sea floor not previously scanned. The search has only limited time left, but they are investing this remaining time in scanning the area they now believe is the most likely location of MH370.” Although this part of the sea floor had not previously been scanned for wreckage it had been mapped, using bathymetric technology that would not detect debris or wreckage. In 2014 and again late in 2015 searchers were alerted when sonar scans of the seabed indicated large items of debris in the original search area. On the second of those contacts the searchers were so sure they had found the wreck of MH370 at a depth 12,100 feet that they notified Australian politicians to be ready to announce a successful end to the search. On closer examination it turned to be the wreck of a late 19th century iron ship, 260 feet long. (The Malaysian 777 was 209 feet long.) MH370 disappeared in March, 2014, with 239 people on board,and the current search began in October 2014, based on the best scientific analysis then available. But the discovery of more than a score of pieces debris from the Malaysian 777 on beaches in the western Indian Ocean, beginning in the summer of 2015, has provided vital new guidance on where the jet likely spiraled down into the ocean, having run out of fuel. Now the $150 million funding for the search is exhausted and the Australian, Chinese and Malaysian authorities are facing increasing pressure to fund a new search in an area of 9,600 square miles to the north. An international group representing the families of the passengers, Voice 370, said “Extending the search to the new area defined by experts is an inescapable duty owed to the flying public in the interest of aviation safety.” However, Malaysia’s transport minister, Liow Tiong Lai, has said that the search was “at the final lap” and indicated that a new search would not begin until results of the current search are published in a final report. He did not say when that would be. CONTINUE READING: www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/07/mh370-found-searchers-race-to-new-site.html
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Post by auntym on Jan 17, 2017 2:13:30 GMT -6
www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2017/01/17/after-three-years-search-for-missing-malaysian-airlines-plane-ends/YpWEKZlcWRy2sA4oNIjyDO/story.html After 3 years, search for missing Malaysian Airlines plane ends By Kristen Gelineau Associated Press January 17, 2017 Messages were left last year on a “wall of hope” during a remembrance event. Search crews have finished their operation in the Indian Ocean and failed to find any trace of the doomed Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which went down in 2013.SYDNEY — After nearly three years, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ended in futility and frustration Tuesday, as crews completed their deep-sea search of a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean without finding a trace of the plane. The Joint Agency Coordination Center in Australia, which has helped lead the $160 million hunt for the Boeing 777 in remote waters west of Australia, said the search had officially been suspended after crews finished their fruitless sweep of the 120,000-square kilometer (46,000-square mile) search zone. ‘‘Despite every effort using the best science available, cutting-edge technology, as well as modelling and advice from highly skilled professionals who are the best in their field, unfortunately, the search has not been able to locate the aircraft,’’ the agency said in a statement. ‘‘Accordingly, the underwater search for MH370 has been suspended.’’ Officials investigating the plane’s disappearance have recommended search crews head north to a new area identified in a recent analysis as a possible crash site. But the Australian government has already nixed that idea. Last year, Australia, Malaysia and China — which have each helped fund the search — agreed that the hunt would be suspended once the search zone was exhausted unless new evidence emerges that pinpoints the plane’s specific location. Since no technology currently exists that can tell investigators exactly where the plane is, that effectively means the most expensive, complex search in aviation history is over. www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2017/01/17/after-three-years-search-for-missing-malaysian-airlines-plane-ends/YpWEKZlcWRy2sA4oNIjyDO/story.html
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Post by jcurio on Jan 17, 2017 8:21:59 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jan 17, 2017 13:33:33 GMT -6
apnews.com/64823918a61a4354aab2214e30b15fa8?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APInternational News
Air France searcher recalls defeat's pain as MH370 hunt endsBy KRISTEN GELINEAU / Today 1-17-2017 SYDNEY (AP) — Searchers' frustration over Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is difficult to overstate, from the monstrous waves that battered search crews in one of the world's most desolate stretches of ocean to the dearth of information on the plane's flight path that stymied investigators. And now, perhaps most brutal of all, comes the admission of defeat. Australia's announcement on Tuesday that the fruitless, nearly three-year hunt for the plane in the Indian Ocean was officially suspended has sparked the inevitable second-guessing of those who led the $160 million search. Few know the agony surely being felt by the Flight 370 search crew better than American oceanographer David Gallo. Back in 2010, Gallo and his team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts were given a task: They had two months to help find Air France 447, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. When they didn't find it by the deadline, officials halted the search. Gallo was sick over the failure, couldn't sleep, stared at pictures on his desk of the people who had been on board the plane. He was tortured by self-doubt, wondered if they had somehow missed the aircraft. "It was horrible," he remembers. "The families were disappointed in a big way, the companies involved — Airbus, Air France — were wondering what had happened ... wondered who are these guys who claimed they could find it and didn't?" After a year of lobbying, officials agreed to let Gallo and his crew look again. They found the plane in just over a week. Much like the Flight 370 investigators, Gallo and his team were initially accused of not knowing what they were doing, of misreading data, of using the wrong equipment. But Gallo, who has been in close contact with the Australian search officials leading the hunt for Flight 370, feels confident they have done everything they could, given the limited data available. Recently, investigators reanalyzed all the information available on the Malaysian plane and suggested that crews scour a new area north of the 160,000-square kilometer (46,000-square mile) search zone they just finished combing. Australia's government nixed that idea, but Gallo says it is imperative crews be allowed to do so. "If you finish that area, you can say with good conscience, 'We did everything we could do at the time to try to find that plane,'" he says. "But if they don't do that area, it will always haunt us. Forever." And there is a crucial need to find the plane, he says, for so many reasons. Gallo still thinks about the people who lost their lives on Air France 447. He lives in coastal Massachusetts, where he often watches planes heading out over the Atlantic on journeys from Boston to Europe. He thinks of the passengers on board, each of them with loved ones back at home. Their safety weighs on him. And it's one of the major reasons he feels it's crucial to find Flight 370 — for the security of everyone who flies, and for the families of those on board the doomed plane. "Those 239 people with their loved ones, they just vanished without a trace. So what price do you put on that?" he says. "And then the flying public ... until we know what happened there, it could happen to any of us." apnews.com/64823918a61a4354aab2214e30b15fa8?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
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Post by auntym on Sept 2, 2017 17:38:41 GMT -6
www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/assassination-of-malaysian-consul-zahid-raza-in-madagascar-fuels-new-mh370-conspiracy/news-story/dfdeaf35a42f44e201e3cfccfa968243 ‘Assassination’ of Malaysian consul Zahid Raza in Madagascar fuels new MH370 conspiracySeptember 2, 2017 by Marnie O’Neill / www.news.com.au/the-team/marnie-oneillREVELATIONS that a Malaysian diplomat murdered in Madagascar last week was tasked with transporting pieces of suspected MH370 wreckage to investigators in Malaysia has fuelled more dark conspiracy theories about the missing plane. Hoannary Consul of Malaysia Zahid Raza was gunned down in the centre of the island nation’s capital Antananarivo in an apparent assassination on August 24. American adventurer-detective Blaine Gibson, who has been gathering suspected MH370 debris as it washes up on Madagascar and Mozambique, said Mr Raza had been due to deliver new items to Malaysian investigators in Kuala Lumpur when he was unexpectedly slain. The timing has rattled Mr Gibson, who says he has been receiving death threats because of his self-financed mission to solve the baffling aviation mystery. He had planned to keep details of his latest finds — which included two items he considered particularly promising — under wraps until they had been safely transported off the island but changed his mind after Mr Raza was killed. “For the protection of those involved we decided not to make this report public until the debris was safely delivered to Malaysia,” Mr Gibson reported in his blog. “However tragic events have intervened. Under the agreement between the two countries, debris is supposed to be collected by Hon. Zahid Raza, the Hoannary Malaysian Consul in Madagascar, and delivered by private courier to Malaysia. “On August 24, the Hon. Zahid Raza was assassinated in Antananarivo.” Dr Victor Iannello, who was an original member of the independent group of specialists that helped Australian investigators try to pinpoint MH370’s crash site in the southern Indian Ocean off WA, said Mr Gibson had good reason to be concerned. “Last December, Reuters reported that Mr Raza assisted Blaine Gibson in transferring the custody of pieces believed to be from MH370 from Madagascar to Malaysia,” Dr Iannello wrote in his blog about the disturbing chain of events. “At that time, six pieces were transferred. This has raised questions as to whether there was a link between those MH370 parts and Mr Raza’s death. “What makes a possible link to MH370 even more suspicious is that in the time period surrounding his death, Mr Raza was expected to visit the Malagasy Ministry of Transport, retrieve additional recovered pieces, and deliver those pieces to Malaysia.” Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 vanished on August 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 crew and passengers, including six Australians, on board. Multiple pieces of wreckage, including a barnacle entrusted flaperon, the iconic “No Step” piece and at least one section of interior cabin, have been confirmed as having come from the missing Boeing 777 after washing up on islands off Africa’s south-east coast. The fuselage and black box have never been found, leading to countless conspiracy theories about how, where and why the plane went down and whether authorities and associated companies such as Boeing orchestrated a cover up to protect their interests. So it should come as no surprise that Mr Raza’s assassination is being viewed by some as a warning to anyone getting close to the truth. However, local reports suggest Mr Raza was a marked man long before Mr Gibson came along. The French-language news website ZINFOS 974 speculated Mr Raza was killed as payback for his alleged involvement in the 2009 abduction of several residents of Indo-Pakistani descent known collectively as Karens. “Zahid Raza was the manager of an office supply business, Z & Z Center, in the Malagasy capital. He lived a few years in La Reunion before returning to Madagascar about three years ago to take up the post of consul in Antananarivo,” the article, published the day after the slaying, said. “In Madagascar, his name is associated with the kidnapping of members of the Karen community in Fianarantsoa in 2009. Suspected of having participated, he is imprisoned in Tsiafahy and then in Antanimora prison. He was able to return to his country freely in December 2010, provoking indignation within the Karen community.” But Dr Iannello said it appeared Mr Raza had not been convicted of any such crime. “The association of Mr Raza with the kidnappers has not been confirmed, and could be disinformation,” he said. “Hopefully, the facts surrounding this will surface. Surprisingly, the assassination of Mr Raza has been met with stony silence from both Malaysia and France, despite his ties to both countries.” Meanwhile, as the investigation into Mr Raza’s murder continues, Mr Gibson’s new possible MH370 debris remains with Madagascar authorities until new arrangements can be made to send them to Malaysia. WATCH NEWS VIDEO: www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/assassination-of-malaysian-consul-zahid-raza-in-madagascar-fuels-new-mh370-conspiracy/news-story/dfdeaf35a42f44e201e3cfccfa968243
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Post by swamprat on Feb 5, 2018 9:30:44 GMT -6
MH370 search vessel mysteriously switches off tracking system and no one knows whyBy Marnie O’Neill | news.com.au February 5, 2018
The state-of-the art vessel tasked with finding missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 mysteriously switched off its Automatic Identification System (AIS) for more than three days, sending some observers into meltdown.
Seabed Constructor’s AIS was disabled on January 31 — exactly 10 days into the new search — and not reconnected until last night, leaving approximately 80 hours unnaccounted for.
Amateur aviation specialists and MH370 watchers have been charting Constructor’s progress since it left Port of Durban on January 2 for the new search area, located just outside the previous 120sq km previously scoured along the 7th Arc.
The vessel has been contracted by Texas-based exploration company Ocean Infinity,which signed a “no cure, no pay” deal with the Malaysian Government which will see it receive more than AUD$70 million if it finds the plane within 90 days.
But unlike its predecessors Fugro Equator, Fugro Discovery and Havila Harmony, whose progress was meticulously mapped via satellite by investigators, both amateur and professional, at their own expense, following the Constructor has proved more challenging.
It reached the new search on January 21 and trusted observers such as UK-based space scientist Richard Cole and US-based precision machinist Kevin Rupp were able to post regular maps to followers on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.
But that changed last Wednesday when Constructor “went dark”, sending everyone into a spin.
“I think that the AIS transmission from Constructor has been disabled. The question is whether this is finger-trouble by someone adjusting the AIS system settings ahead of departing for Fremantle, or deliberate action.” Mr Cole posted in a subreddit dedicated to Seabed Constructor position updates.
Comparisons have also been made with the missing plane itself, which vanished from radar after its aircraft communications, addressing and reporting system (Acars) system was switched off less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur on March 8 2014.
The irony was not lost among MH370 watchers online, with one Reddit user commenting: “Rogue captain?” and another responding “If it starts pinging in the Malacca Strait that would be something.”
As predicted some observers used the blackout as an opportunity to back more outlandish theories about Ocean Infinity’s “back up plan” should they fail to find the missing Boeing 777.
Some speculated the Constructor took a secret detour to check out the wreckage of what is believed to be the S.V Inca, a Peruvian-built transport ship that vanished en route to Sydney more than 100 years ago.
In January 2016, MH370 search vessel Havila Harmony stumbled across the shipwreck almost four kilometres below the surface inside the 7th Arc, initially mistaking it for the plane’s fuselage.
S.V Inca was last seen on March 10, 1911 when it set sail from Callao, Peru bound for Sydney. There has been speculation about what cargo the vessel may have been carrying and inevitable chatter about sunken treasure.
Last night Seabed Constructor turned its AIS back on and is currently making its way to Perth in Western Australia, where she is scheduled to dock at Fremantle on February 8.
Ocean Infinity is expected to given another update on the progress of the search late this week but it’s anyone’s guess if it will explain why it disabled its tracking system for such a long period of time.
Aviation journalist and documentary maker Jeff Wise has been critical of the new search in his blog, which has followed the mystery of MH370 since in vanished en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board.
Mr Wise was an original member of the independent Group (IG) of investigators who advised the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) led search for MH370 but left after falling out with other members over the plane’s fate.
“Before the release of this new report, Malaysia hadn’t signalled that it would be issuing updates on the search progress, let alone regular weekly ones, so its appearance is a welcome development,” Mr Wise wrote in response to the report last week.
“The report notes that first section of the search, namely the outermost portion of the Primary Search Area, has been completed without finding any wreckage. This section had previously been identified by Australian scientists as the most likely endpoint for MH370’s flight.
“As I write this, the scan of the innermost section of the Primary Search Area has been completed, but the assessment has not yet been released. However, the fact that Seabed Constructor has moved on to another area suggests that probably nothing was found there, either. A big caveat: we don’t really know how long it takes the search team to assess the data collected during each pass.
“A failure to find any wreckage in the Primary Search Area would come as a disappointment to David Griffin and his team at Australia’s CSIRO, who declared in a June, 2017 report that after analysing satellite imagery and drift patterns “we think it is possible to identify a most-likely location of the aircraft, with unprecedented precision and certainty.” The report specified three target points, all located within the Primary Search Area.”
Seabed Constructor is expected to dock in Freemantle to refuel and top up supplies before returning to the search area.
www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/02/05/mh370-search-vessel-mysteriously-switches-off-tracking-system-and-no-one-knows-why.html
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Post by auntym on Feb 6, 2018 15:14:36 GMT -6
i still believe the aliens grabbed that plane and all the people in it...
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Post by auntym on Feb 10, 2018 13:53:29 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/search-for-lost-airliner-turns-up-mysterious-sunken-treasure-chest/ Search for Lost Airliner Turns Up Mysterious Sunken Treasure Chestby Brett Tingley mysteriousuniverse.org/author/bbtingley/February 10, 2018 The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been the source of conspiracy theories and rumors for its disappearance ranging from the absurd to the terrifyingly banal. All manners of explanations have been thrown around, ranging from hijacking and kidnapping plots conducted by North Korea or Russia, rogue cyberattacks committed by terrorists, or even corporate espionage plots. All of these are still mostly just idle speculations, as there is very little evidence supporting any theories at this point including simpler ones like mechanical failure. While a few pieces of debris have been found, the final moments and current location of the plane and its 239 passengers and crew members are still shrouded in mystery. Due to the total lack of answers, MH370 remains a prime target for conspiracy theories. While multiple investigations have concluded that the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean, little else is known about the final moments of the aircraft or its passengers. Even almost four years after its disappearance, the missing airliner continues to inspire all manner of intrigue. The search for the ship is still very much underway in the Indian Ocean, where the Texas-based ship Seabed Constructor is busy scanning the seafloor for any signs of the aircraft. The Seabed Constructor was the subject of conspiracy speculation this week when maritime watchdogs noticed the ship turned off its Automatic Identification System for three days before reappearing outside of its search area. Neither the company which controls the ship nor the Malaysian government have offered an explanation for the disappearance, so naturally, many concerned observers thought they smelled something fishy. Who knows how many unsolved mysteries lie on the bottom of the seas? A family member of one of the missing passengers told The Guardian that the lack of transparency surrounding the search and the Seabed Constructor’s disappearance is disconcerting to say the least: I found the development quite odd, and worrying. If this silence and becoming invisible was intentional, to ward off suspicion, a satisfactory explanation is due. If it was for other reasons, then in the interests of transparency, we ought to be told what caused it. I hope ongoing official disclosure is of such a high order that there is little room for speculation, controversy or a whiff of conspiracy. To add to the mystery, Australian news outlets are reporting that a group of nearby shipwrecks could have something to do with the three missing days of the Seabed Constructor. The ship was seen to complete a large circle several kilometers wide in the vicinity of the shipwrecks just before turning off its identification system for three days, prompting many to speculate that the Seabed Constructor might have found something interesting or valuable. In 2015, a different ship searching for MH370 captured images of an unknown shipwreck thought to be 200 years old based on the construction of an anchor spotted nearby. That same ship also captured images of what appears to be a sunken treasure chest sitting on the seafloor 4000m below the surface, sparking theories that perhaps the Seabed Constructor was attempting to retrieve the mysterious chest with an autonomous underwater vehicle. Anyone’s guess is as good as any at this point, as the crew of the Seabed Constructor and the ship’s parent company aren’t offering any further information. What’s in the box?For now, the ship is docked near Perth in Western Australia for refueling until it will head back out to sea on February 12 to continue the search for MH370. Could the Seabed Constructor have discovered a lost sunken treasure? Or could something stranger have been found on the bottom of the sea? The pulp adventure fiction fan in me sure hopes so. It’d sure be a lot cooler than a fuselage full of skeletons. mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/search-for-lost-airliner-turns-up-mysterious-sunken-treasure-chest/
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Post by jcurio on Feb 11, 2018 17:32:25 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on May 14, 2018 11:57:43 GMT -6
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Pilot Crashed Plane Deliberately, '60 Minutes' Panel SaysBy Rafi Letzter, Staff Writer | May 14, 2018
Aviation experts think they know what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared shortly after takeoff on its way to Beijing in March 2014, according to a report from "60 Minutes Australia."
More than four years after the airplane disappeared with 227 passengers and 12 crewmembers on board, an investigation by a panel of experts brought together by the news show has concluded that the disappearance was in all likelihood the result of a deliberate act by the pilot, Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
The report, conducted by an independent team of aviation experts and presented on the news show with much drama, has no official weight. But it does lend credence to speculation dating back to at least 2016, when it became clear that Shah had deliberately plotted the plane's unexpected course.
According to CBS News, one expert on the panel used military radar data to precisely reconstruct the plane's path. He found that the aircraft skirted along the edges of the Malaysia-Thailand borders — an effective tactic for deliberately avoiding radar detection. He also found that the Boeing 777 "likely" dipped its wing over Shah's hometown of Penang in northwest Malaysia, which the panel suggested might have been for a look out the window.
"He was killing himself; unfortunately, he was killing everybody else on board, and he did it deliberately," Canadian air crash investigator Larry Vance, a member of the unofficial panel, told "60 Minutes Australia."
The panel also concluded, based on physical evidence recovered by official investigators, that the airplane did not strike the water in a sharp dive as earlier reports suggested but was likely controlled until the end, crashing far from shore and outside the earlier search area.
Again, it's important to recognize that this panel's conclusions do not bear any official weight and that those conclusions are inferences, not actual knowledge of Shah's intentions. Shah's family reportedly disputes the panel's conclusion, citing the need for direct evidence upon recovery of the plane.
www.livescience.com/62556-malaysia-plane-mh370-report.html?utm_source=notification
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Post by skywalker on May 14, 2018 15:35:36 GMT -6
That's the same conclusion we conspiracy theorists came up with four years ago.
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Post by auntym on Jun 3, 2018 12:36:26 GMT -6
www.thedailybeast.com/mh370-didnt-just-disappear-it-was-caught-in-a-swamp-of-corruption?ref=scrollPhoto Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast MH370 Didn’t Just Disappear, It Was Caught in a Swamp of Corruptionby Clive Irving / www.thedailybeast.com/author/clive-irving06.01.18 From the beginning, the crash investigation fell victim to a regime in Malaysia now revealed to have been one of the most corrupt in the world. There are other scandals, too. It seemed that they did not want to quit. Even as the end of the search for the remains of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 was announced the crew of the ship conducting the search continued to scour the deep ocean floor in one last sweep. But it’s over now. Any hope of finding the remains of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 any time soon—or maybe ever—has died. The Texas-based deep-sea search company Ocean Infinity has pulled the plug on its self-funded search in the Indian Ocean after three months. This means that the world’s most advanced deep-sea search technology has been defeated by the same challenges that ended the previous 27-month search. It also means that the fate of the 239 souls on board the Boeing 777 that disappeared on March 8, 2014, remains part of the most baffling mystery in modern aviation history. But this is so much more than a mystery. It is a calamity that indicts the organizations charged with setting the safety standards for international air travel for their failure to anticipate and remove a long-evident weakness in regulations. And, equally seriously, it highlights the problem that air crash investigations can be seriously compromised by the political culture of the nations under whose jurisdictions they fall. In the case of MH370, that has exposed a singularly egregious example. At the heart of the corruption was a sovereign wealth fund, 1MDB. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, at least $4.5 billion was diverted and laundered from the fund. Around $680 million is alleged to have ended up in Razak’s personal bank account. Searches ordered by the new government of properties used by Razak and his family discovered 284 boxes of designer handbags, including Birkins, 72 bags stuffed with cash, watches, and jewelry—including a 22-carat pink diamond necklace valued at $27.3 million belonging to his wife. These mind-boggling details bring their own chilling perspective to the way the Malaysians met their largest single responsibility to the outside world during more than four years of being in charge of investigating the disappearance of MH370. Forty percent of government spending under Razak was—according to his opponents—lost to corruption, and the effort to cover the enormous debts of the looted fund means that the new government will impose an austerity regime. The new Malaysian government has also made it clear that it is not prepared to fund or devote any resources to new searches for MH370. But here is an unpalatable illustration of the equation involved and its ethical message: Three nations, Malaysia, China, and Australia funded the first unsuccessful search which is estimated to have cost $180 million. Of that, Malaysia contributed $100 million, Australia $60 million, and China $20 million. For Malaysia that works out at just over $400,000 per passenger lost, or little more than the cost of a Birkin bag. Finding a ScapegoatFrom the beginning, in March 2014, the Razak government displayed a combination of incompetence and a natural instinct to avoid public scrutiny. Suddenly faced with a tragedy that gripped the whole world’s attention, ministers showed little grasp of what had happened and even fled from press briefings when their lack of grip was exposed. Within a week the government selected the easiest targets to blame for the tragedy, the pilots. They staged a deliberately public raid on the home of the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah. Soon after they suggested that Captain Shah had used a flight simulator on his home computer to rehearse a plan to hijack his own airplane. Some of the people ordering this search and promoting the theory have now had their own homes publicly searched in the course of the corruption investigation. A year later the government had to admit that it had found no evidence or motive for either of the pilots to have planned a mass murder-suicide. Under a regime like this it was not surprising that the country has come nowhere near to meeting its obligations under international treaties to make the investigation into MH370 publicly transparent. Officially, the investigation is led by Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation, always headed by government appointees. In an administration that incorporated patronage, cronyism, and the intimidation of opponents as a matter of course there was no semblance of transparency. Nor was there any chance that the Malaysian media would take a deep dive into how the investigation was being handled. The main newspapers and news channels were either owned or controlled by friends of the ruling party. Websites critical of the government were accused of publishing “offensive” content and to silence them Razik, picking up his tone from the Trump White House, introduced the so-called Anti-Fake News Act. Fifteen of his political opponents were charged with sedition. Repressive police powers were enabled by a new “anti-terror” law. The international agreement covering air accident reports states: “The sole objective shall be the prevention of accidents, it is not the purpose of this activity to apportion blame or liability.” But as the campaign against the pilots indicated, assigning personal blame to people who could never answer was the government’s first instinct and the role of the government ministry has offered no protection from overt political interference. “Websites critical of the government were accused of publishing ‘offensive’content and to silence them Razik, picking up his tone from the Trump White House, introduced the so-called Anti-Fake News Act.” There were also indications that the airline’s observance of international regulations was lax. A year before the flight vanished, the company auditors at Malaysian Airlines discovered that the airline was not compliant with its own rules governing the airplane’s on-board system for automatically sending bursts of data reporting its vital systems to managers at its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. The auditors pointed out that because of this, by law, MH370 should not have been cleared to fly. The Malaysian transport minister knew of the audit but never admitted to it. Technically the investigation team includes representatives from America’s National Transportation Safety Board, the U.K.’s Air Accident Investigation Branch, China’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Department, the Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses of France, and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. But apart from a bare-bones “factual report” issued on the first anniversary of the disaster nothing remotely resembling a normal air investigation report, which would include regular updates, has ever emerged. There have been signs that career civilian investigators have been clashing with the military establishment over technical issues. Early this year the Australian news network ABC reported that there had been a power struggle that had led to four civilian air crash investigators, including the lead authority on analyzing black boxes (flight data recorders retrieved from crashes), being sidelined and replaced by members of the Royal Malaysian Air Force. Of the international partners involved, the Australians have been by far the most active. The ATSB issued regular detailed reports of the 27-month long initial deep-sea search. Australian oceanographers spent more than two years attempting to predict the most likely location of the airplane with an analysis of debris from the Boeing 777 that washed up on beaches in the western Indian Ocean—but, as it turned out, to no avail. And now, with the cleaning of Malaysia’s Augean stables, there is a new transport minister, Anthony Loke, who announced as the search for MH370 ended, “There will be no more extensions. It cannot continue forever.” But he did say that he was committed to transparency and will release details for public scrutiny “in due time.” For Voice 370, the organization that represents the families of the victims, that is the kind of promise they have heard before. For a while they have demanded an independent review, particularly including any possible falsification or elimination of maintenance records for the Boeing 777 involved. Perhaps this time they will get the answers they deserve. An Industry Fails to ActAs this catastrophe unfolded in 2014 the world’s first response was, reasonably: How could this happen? How could you lose an airplane of this size in an age where the privacy of movement has been so intruded upon and where there are so few ways left for people (or things) to just disappear? Fingers pointed, rightly, to the regulator responsible for the safety of international air travel, the International Commercial Aviation Organization, a United Nations body based in Montreal. The ICAO has a long history of bureaucratic torpor. Like most of the airline industry, the ICAO didn’t think that it was any longer likely that an airplane could disappear without trace while crossing an ocean. That belief was shaken in 2009 when Air France Flight 447 vanished on a flight from Rio to Paris. It took two years to find the Airbus A330 and during that time the French air crash investigators, the BEA, urged that all airplanes regularly crossing oceans should be equipped to constantly send their position via real-time tracking using existing satellite communications systems. Nothing happened. The ICAO was abetted in its nonchalance by the airlines’ lobbying organization, the International Air Transportation Association, whose view was that the chances of another Air France 447-type disaster were so minimal that it wasn’t worth spending the money required to install the tracking technology—even though, at the same time, the airlines were spending millions to equip airplane cabins with new entertainment systems, part of which used links with satellites. The loss of MH370 finally forced a response. But, incredibly, the ICAO displayed little sense of urgency. They set a deadline of 2024 for new tracking technology to be in universal use. However, the European Aviation Safety Agency, EASA, was having none of that. They mandated that airlines under its authority should have its airplanes equipped to report their position from anywhere in the world every 15 minutes by the end of this year. The ICAO could not be seen to allow double standards, one for Europe and one for the rest of the world, and was forced to mandate the same deadline, November 2018, for the first phase of its new tracking regime, the Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System. This is only a half-measure, at best. A lot can happen to an airplane in 15 minutes—for example, a Boeing 777 at cruise speed can cover 150 miles in that time. A deadline has been set of January 2021 requiring that all airplanes should have a failure detection and alert system able to transmit an automatic distress signal once a minute—that includes data bursts indicating specifically what has happened. “A lot can happen to an airplane in 15 minutes—for example, a Boeing 777 at cruise speed can cover 150 miles in that time.” In fact, technological change is outpacing the bureaucracies. This year a satellite operator, Iridium, launched the first batch of a fleet of mini-satellites capable of providing real time tracking and transmitting all the crucial data once every second—wherever in the world a flight operates. Competition between satellite fleet operators has reduced the cost of installing the new tracking systems so markedly that many airlines are not waiting for the new regulations to kick in. They will install the systems in their trans-oceanic fleets as soon as they are available. But a truly effective system will have to include three abilities—to know precisely where the airplane is; to know what has failed, and an ability, in the words of the ICAO, to recover the essential data from the airplane’s black box “in a timely manner.” This was always the fundamental failing of the international air safety regime—that the critical data, the detailed record of what doomed an airplane, went down with the airplane. Obviously, if it went down into an ocean the chances of retrieving the black box recorder were greatly lessened. As the case of MH370 demonstrates, this problem can still defeat the most advanced deep-sea search technology in the world. Seabed Constructor, the vessel operated by Ocean Infinity, deployed a swarm of as many as eight autonomous underwater vehicles simultaneously. In little more than three months they swept more than 112,000 square kilometers of deep and challenging seabed—almost the same area that it took 27 months to cover in the initial search with earlier generation equipment. Wherever the 239 victims of MH370 are entombed, they represent a comprehensive failure of the systems and people that were supposed to protect them from such an appalling fate. For sure, air travel is safer today than it has ever been. Nonetheless, the last thing that we can tolerate is that the cause of a crash should remain unknown. As all crash investigators will tell you, the cause might well be something that has never happened before. And might happen again. www.thedailybeast.com/mh370-didnt-just-disappear-it-was-caught-in-a-swamp-of-corruption?ref=scroll
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Post by auntym on Jun 3, 2018 17:24:59 GMT -6
i believe the aliens got it, or it flew into a black hole or another dimension, similar to whats in the bermuda triangle making all the ships & planes disappear...
i don't think we'll ever find it... my heart goes out to all the relatives & friends of the passengers and crew ...
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