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Title: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: cherdZ on March 09, 2014, 12:07:17 AM

CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Saturday, March 8, 2014 7:08AM EST
Last Updated Saturday, March 8, 2014 10:24AM EST



The two Canadians on board the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that went missing have been identified.
A passenger manifest posted online identifies them as Xiaomo Bai, 37, and Muktesh Mukherjee, 42.
A multinational search operation was launched after Flight MH370 lost contact approximately an hour after it departed from Kuala Lumpur at 12:41 a.m. local time on Saturday. The Beijing-bound flight carrying 239 people, including two infants, was expected to land approximately six hours later.
Vietnamese Air force planes on Saturday spotted two large oil slicks close to the region where the plane vanished.
The slicks, each between 10 and 15 kilometres long, were spotted off the southern tip of Vietnam.
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The Vietnamese government did not confirm that the slicks were related to the missing plane, but said they were consistent with the kinds that would be left by a crashed jetliner.
A statement from Malaysia Airlines said an air search has been temporarily suspended and will resume at daylight; crews will continue the search by sea.
Families of the passengers on board the missing plane are being “informed,” the airline said. Two-thirds of the passengers were Chinese nationals, while others were from Malaysia, Indonesia, and the U.S.
In a statement issued late Friday night, Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development said they had received preliminary reports indicating that two Canadian citizens may have been “affected” by the missing plane.
“Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with those affected by the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370,” the statement said. “We are working with local authorities to gather more information on the situation.”







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first thought ko nung nabalitaan ko to is terrorism nanaman. hays... biglaan kaya talaga ang nangyari at hindi na nagawang magreport ng mga piloto if ever may trouble man?

kayo, ano ang first thought nyo nang mabalitaan ito?

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: kylun on March 09, 2014, 02:08:23 AM

parang ung mga nwawalang eroplano dn sa bermuda triangle...bgla na lng nag lalaho...kinabahan 2loy ako aumakay ng eroplano... :x :x :x

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: IORI™ on March 09, 2014, 02:39:19 AM

Nung umuwi ako kaylan lang sa pinas malaysian airlines ako .. masasabi ko lang na napaka lowtech ng eroplano nila .. sa dami na ng nasakyan kong airplane dito ako nadismaya .. kaya next vacation ko pipilitin ko sa ibang airlines mag pa book company namin .. dapat mag conduct sila ng inspections sa lahat ng airlines .. kasi pagkasampa mo sa eroplano parang kalahati ng buhay mo eh alanganin na..

sent from ... ahmmm .. .. .. sorry I forgot .. :D

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Kurimasu on March 09, 2014, 06:22:33 AM

Baka kinain ng time space warp at napunta sa ibang dimension.


Pero kidding aside, nahanap na ba yung eroplano o wala padin til now? Makapanuod nga muna ng news.

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Itachi101 on March 09, 2014, 05:49:22 PM

until now wala pan rin silang concrete
idea kong ano talaga at nasaan na yung plane

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: cherdZ on March 09, 2014, 10:03:11 PM

deym... mukang nalipat na sa asia ang bermuda ah..

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: EreimondB on March 09, 2014, 10:15:39 PM

Ano na kayang totoong nagyari dito? Tsk tsk tsk  :book1:

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: c0rn3lius on March 09, 2014, 10:26:06 PM

baka naman napunta dun sa "island" mala-oceanic flight 168...if u know what i mean...


seriously, tinitignan na rin nila yung angle na terrorism since na 2 or 4 (not sure) passenger ay gumamit ng fake passports...

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: IORI™ on March 10, 2014, 04:44:33 AM

Kung terorism yan malamang naka park na yan sa hideout nila .. tas lalagyan ng maraming bomba .. baka ulitin nila yun 9-11 style ???

sent from ... ahmmm .. .. .. sorry I forgot .. :D

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: jamesbond on March 10, 2014, 05:19:57 AM

When you happen to open this thread, please pause for a minute and say a little prayer for the repose of the souls of the ill fated plane... May they rest in peace...

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: GHOST PROTOCOL on March 10, 2014, 06:12:03 AM

search nila sa bakuran ng mga bansang may alitan sila. (malaysia vs sulu sultanate, china vs mongolia, china vs india)

on the other hand, nang mawala ang air france flight from brazil to france, halos 2 yrs bago nakita ang wreckage ng airbus sa atlantic ocean.

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Troll Montero on March 10, 2014, 07:15:57 PM

parang yung series na LOST yan haha, napunta sila siguro sila sa isang lugar na sekreto lol...

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Zurca on March 10, 2014, 07:34:37 PM

some follow-up news

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Malaysia 'mystified' as no jet debris found

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysia said Monday, March 10 there is still no trace of wreckage from a jet that vanished with 239 people on board, deepening the anguish of relatives two days after the "mystifying" disppearance.

A potential breakthrough emerged Sunday when an aircraft scouring waters off southern Vietnam – part of an international search and rescue effort – spotted two objects authorities said could be debris from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

But Malaysian authorities said there was no confirmation they came from the Boeing 777 which slipped off radar screens early on Saturday, an hour after leaving Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.

"Unfortunately ladies and gentleman, we have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft itself," said Malaysia's civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman.

"This unprecedented missing aircraft mystery – it is mystifying and we are increasing our efforts to do what we have to do," he told a press conference.

Malaysia has launched a terror probe after at least two of the passengers on board were found to have travelled on stolen passports.

But Azharuddin had few answers to the burning questions surrounding the plane's fate. Asked whether it was possible the plane had been hijacked or disintegrated mid-air, he said nothing could be ruled out.

"We are looking at every angle. We are looking at every aspect of what could have happened," he said. "Again, we have to get concrete evidence... we have to find the aircraft."

More than 150 Chinese are among the missing passengers and Beijing's state media on Monday lashed out at Malaysia and its national carrier over their handling of the crisis.

"The Malaysian side cannot shirk its responsibilities," the Global Times newspaper, which is close to the ruling Communist Party, wrote in a scathing editorial. "The initial response from Malaysia was not swift


China Grief

At a Beijing hotel, Malaysian embassy officials were processing visa applications for families wanting to take up an airline offer to travel to Kuala Lumpur to be closer to the rescue operations.

Scores of relatives made their way into the room, some in groups of five or six, clutching handkerchiefs and wiping away tears from their faces.

Others said they would not go. "There is more we can do here in China," one woman told the Agence France-Presse. "They haven't even found the plane yet."

A team of Chinese officials from government ministries headed for Malaysia on Monday, tasked with investigating the incident and helping family members already there.

As the search entered a third full day, other families of missing passengers gathered at a hotel in Malaysia's administrative capital, Putrajaya, sharing breakfast as they stared intently at television news bulletins.

The search effort has zeroed in on waters off the remote Vietnamese island of Tho Chu, near where two large oil slicks – suspected to be caused by aircraft fuel – as well as the suspected debris were spotted on the weekend.

"All night we mobilised our most modern equipment for the search... but we found no sign of the objects," Vice Admiral Ngo Van Phat told the Agence France-Presse of the hunt centred on Vietnam's southwestern tip.

Tests on the oil slick that could indicate whether it came from the missing plane could be completed by later Monday, Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency director general Amdan Kurish told AFP.

Malaysian authorities said they were also combing waters closer to their shores, further south of Tho Chu.

A total of 40 ships and 34 aircraft from an array of Southeast Asian countries, China and the United States have been involved in the search, with two Australian surveillance aircraft joining.


'Asian features'

As they scramble to discover what happened, Malaysian officials have said there was a possibility that MH370 may have inexplicably turned back towards Kuala Lumpur.

The plane, captained by a veteran MAS pilot, had relayed no indications of distress, and weather at the time was said to be good.

Questions have also swirled over how at least two passengers boarded the jet on stolen passports, sparking an investigation into possible links with terrorism and a probe into the sale of passports in Thailand -- where the documents were stolen over the past two years.

Two European names – Christian Kozel, an Austrian, and Luigi Maraldi of Italy – were listed on the passenger list, but neither man boarded the plane.

Malaysia's Home Minister Zahid Hamidi reportedly said Sunday that the two passengers who did board using those passports looked Asian in appearance.

"I am still puzzled how come (immigration officers) cannot think: an Italian and Austrian but with Asian facial features," Zahid was quoted as saying by Malaysia's national news agency Bernama.

Interpol confirmed that "at least two passports" recorded in its Stolen and Lost Travel Documents database were used by passengers on the Malaysian flight.

The United States has sent an FBI team to help investigate the passengers, but US officials stressed there was as yet no evidence of terrorism.

Malaysia Airlines shares lost 10% in early trading Monday as the market reacted to the jet's disappearance.

The incident is a massive blow for the carrier which has hemorrhaged cash for several years amid mounting competition from low-cost rivals such as AirAsia.

From Rappler.com (http://www.rappler.com/world/regions/asia-pacific/52619-still-no-confirmed-debris-from-missing-plane)

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: darqsphere on March 10, 2014, 08:04:44 PM

 :(   how sad... imagine describing it as  "Mysterious Disappearance"...it means tragic with-in minutes lang ang naganap. Parang mga napapanood lang natin sa TV but now, realidad na ito..  :( :( :( ......

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: monde8 on March 11, 2014, 07:20:37 AM

Abangers din ako sa mga updates dito. Mysterious, very mysterious.

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Ozone on March 11, 2014, 07:34:29 AM

parang puwedeng pumasok ang story sa "Twilight Zone". Abangerz din ako.

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Kurimasu on March 11, 2014, 08:14:09 AM

Paano nga kaya kung talagang nahigop sila ng isang time warp at napunta ng ibang dimension? Paano nga kaya kung totoong merong kakaibang kaganapan sa ating mundo wherein we can really travel time and space? Then biglabigla na lang magpapakita ulit yung eroplano after a year or so..... Misteryoso nga ang pangyayaring ito. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.... Time space warp, NGAYON DIN!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: IORI™ on March 11, 2014, 08:53:24 AM

Nakakalungkot at nakikidalamhati na rin sa mga pamilya nila .. hindi man natin kalahi .. pero mga tao din na nag pipilit mabuhay sa magulong mundo na ito ..

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: cherdZ on March 11, 2014, 09:02:53 AM

Yeah.. parang mas ok na lang na malamang bumagsak ang plane. At least may reason na ang pag iyak ng mga naiwan nila at mula dun maguumpisa silang mag move on. Kesa ung ganito. Walang ending... pati pagdadalamhati nila. Hays..

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: bohica on March 11, 2014, 09:21:39 AM

My theory: the plane crashed and sank and the transponder failed. 

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: beck on March 11, 2014, 07:59:59 PM

para ngang "Lost"

or baka naman pinasabog ng mga North Koreans?

or alien abduction?

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: GHOST PROTOCOL on March 12, 2014, 08:06:18 AM

ang sabi sa latest report ay bumalik daw at biglang nawala sa malaca straight between thailand and sumatra. hmmm baka naman nagland na sa sumatra at tinatago ng mga hijackers or..... tumuloy sa indian ocean at doon nawala kasi 7 hours lang kargang fuel...

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Kurimasu on March 12, 2014, 08:27:42 AM

Tsaka imposibleng wala man lang kahit isang piraso na galing sa eroplano na makita kung sakaling nagcrash ito. Mahiwaga talaga ang nangyaring yun.

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: cherdZ on March 12, 2014, 09:02:09 AM

Quote from: bohica on March 11, 2014, 09:21:39 AM

My theory: the plane crashed and sank and the transponder failed.

So possible na hindi tlga nakapagreport man lang mga dapat mag report from the plane na nagkakaproblema na sila bago nag crash?

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: GHOST PROTOCOL on March 12, 2014, 09:06:12 AM

may mga umaaligid na bali balita sa malaysia na natatawagan pa daw nila ang mga cellphone ng kamag anak nila na pasahero din ng nawawalang eroplano

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: cherdZ on March 12, 2014, 09:10:00 AM

Ay.. kung totoong natatawagan pa, medyo good news yan. Baka may buhay pa.

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: IORI™ on March 12, 2014, 09:15:00 AM

(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/12/hagutuhy.jpg)

Philippines, vietnam, indonesia, korea, japan and malaysia are in one mission ... to find the missing airplane

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Zurca on March 12, 2014, 09:22:39 AM

Missing Malaysia jet draws comparisons to AF447 case

PARIS, France – The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which was yet to be located 3 days after it dropped off the radar, has drawn comparisons with the 2009 crash of Air France flight AF447.

Here are main the similarities and differences:

Similarities

Still missing 3 days into the search. The Air France plane was located nearly 2 years after its disappearance. Only a few pieces of the tail were retrieved a week after the crash.

Cruising. Airliner was above sea and at cruising altitude.
Number of passengers. MH370 had 239 and AF447 had 228, including 12 crew in both cases.

Safety. Both the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200 and Air France Airbus A330 have outstanding safety records.

No mayday call. Aviation experts say that is not surprising, arguing that in the event of a sudden technical problem the crew's priority is to find a solution.

Repairs. Both jets suffered minor damage on the ground and underwent repairs. In the case of flight AF447, it was established there was no correlation with the crash.


Differences

ACARS. The Airbus had sent 24 automatic messages listing technical "events" in four minutes through the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS). The Malaysian jet was equipped with ACARS but the airline has not yet said whether any messages had been received.

Cruise phase. Both planes were cruising when they disappeared but in the case of flight MH370, the cruise phase had just begun, meaning the captain was likely in command of the flight deck. On the Airbus, the captain was resting and only returned to the cockpit moments before the jet went down.

Weather. Conditions appeared good on the Malaysian aircraft's path while the Air France flight encountered major turbulence.

Radar. Flight MH370 went missing in a busy area for air traffic, likely to be well monitored as it is close to several countries. The Rio-Paris flight went down over the Atlantic, outside of radar coverage.

Recovery. The Air France jet crashed further away from the coast and into very deep waters, a complicating factor for the investigation.

Relevant authorities. The AF447 crashed in international waters, allowing for French investigators to take the lead. Since the MH370 has yet to be located, it is unclear whether the Malaysians, the Vietnamese or other authorities should be in charge.

From Rappler.com (http://www.rappler.com/business/industries/171-aviation-tourism/52689-malaysia-airlines-mh370-air-france-af447)

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: GHOST PROTOCOL on March 12, 2014, 09:29:13 AM

hindi nabanggit sa CNN na kasama sa search team ang pinas kasi nga dyan lang sila naghahanap sa west philippine sea. (baka kasi kulangin sa fuel at sila naman ang bumagsak)

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: GHOST PROTOCOL on March 12, 2014, 09:32:58 AM

kung totoo man ang report ng malaysian airforce na "bumalik" nga ang MH370 papuntang malaca straight, at ito ay nagtuloy tuloy lagpas pa ng sumatra indonesia, malamang nasa indian ocean na ito. pero pwede rin na nag land ito somewhere na pwedeng "safe" para sa mga kulprits at gawing hostage ang mga chinese passengers nito.

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: EreimondB on March 12, 2014, 09:36:09 AM

Quote from: zu®©a on March 12, 2014, 09:22:39 AM

Missing Malaysia jet draws comparisons to AF447 case

PARIS, France – The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which was yet to be located 3 days after it dropped off the radar, has drawn comparisons with the 2009 crash of Air France flight AF447.

Here are main the similarities and differences:

Similarities

Still missing 3 days into the search. The Air France plane was located nearly 2 years after its disappearance. Only a few pieces of the tail were retrieved a week after the crash.

Cruising. Airliner was above sea and at cruising altitude.
Number of passengers. MH370 had 239 and AF447 had 228, including 12 crew in both cases.

Safety. Both the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200 and Air France Airbus A330 have outstanding safety records.

No mayday call. Aviation experts say that is not surprising, arguing that in the event of a sudden technical problem the crew's priority is to find a solution.

Repairs. Both jets suffered minor damage on the ground and underwent repairs. In the case of flight AF447, it was established there was no correlation with the crash.


Differences

ACARS. The Airbus had sent 24 automatic messages listing technical "events" in four minutes through the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS). The Malaysian jet was equipped with ACARS but the airline has not yet said whether any messages had been received.

Cruise phase. Both planes were cruising when they disappeared but in the case of flight MH370, the cruise phase had just begun, meaning the captain was likely in command of the flight deck. On the Airbus, the captain was resting and only returned to the cockpit moments before the jet went down.

Weather. Conditions appeared good on the Malaysian aircraft's path while the Air France flight encountered major turbulence.

Radar. Flight MH370 went missing in a busy area for air traffic, likely to be well monitored as it is close to several countries. The Rio-Paris flight went down over the Atlantic, outside of radar coverage.

Recovery. The Air France jet crashed further away from the coast and into very deep waters, a complicating factor for the investigation.

Relevant authorities. The AF447 crashed in international waters, allowing for French investigators to take the lead. Since the MH370 has yet to be located, it is unclear whether the Malaysians, the Vietnamese or other authorities should be in charge.

From Rappler.com (http://www.rappler.com/business/industries/171-aviation-tourism/52689-malaysia-airlines-mh370-air-france-af447)

Pinanood ko nga yung documentary na naka post sa youtube about Air France 447. Sayang din yun kasi may pagkakataon pa pala sana silang maisagip yung eroplano bago dumausdos pababa ng Atlantic Ocean.

Sana talaga mahanap na yung debris, if ever nga na nagcrash ito. At kahit papaano mahanap na yung mga katawan. Tsk tsk tsk.

Nakakakilabot din yung balitang natatawagan pa nila yung mga cellphones ng mga kaanak nilang sakay ng MH370.

Include pa rin natin sa prayers ang nakakalungkot na pangyayaring ito.

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Troll Montero on March 12, 2014, 12:03:21 PM

well baka inangkin din ng china ang malaysian airline kaya nawawala lol..

or

 pinakawalan na naman ng Japanese si Godzilla..

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Itachi101 on March 13, 2014, 12:14:54 AM

ilang days na ang nakalipas
wala pa ring sign
ng plane

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Troll Montero on March 13, 2014, 11:59:44 AM

"New Bermuda Triangle detected in Vietnam waters, well-equipped sophisticated devices are of no use!"

tweet ng isang malaysian politician

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: IORI™ on March 13, 2014, 12:23:29 PM

Sana nga at least buhay pa sila .. yun nga lang ano ang meron doon is its up to them to survive ..

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: cherdZ on March 14, 2014, 01:14:51 PM

Parang hindi ko mapaniwalaan ang explanation na to. I work for a large telecom company. And i as far as i know, it doesnt work katulad ng sinabi nung analyst.

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Mystery of Flight MH370 Phone Calls
Explained
BY JEAN ALBA – MARCH 13, 2014
POSTED IN: TECHNOLOGY , WORLD, WORLD
NEWS
The strange phone connection to the mobile
phones of the passengers of Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370 had created hope for their relatives
who remain hungry for information since the
flight’s disappearance on Saturday, March 8.
Their phone call attempts were greeted with
ringtones instead of immediately going to voice
mail, fueling speculation that the plane remains to
be intact.
One Facebook user commented, “Frustrated! …
There are reports from family members that
phone calls to their missing loved ones have
‘rung through,’ indicating the phones aren’t on
the bottom of the ocean.”
However, technology industry analyst and “E-
Commerce Times” columnist, Jeff Kagan, told
CNN in an interview that the ring tone does not
establish anything and points out that it is one of
the “sad parts of technology.”
“When you place a phone call on a wireless
phone, what happens is you start hearing ringing
but the other phone isn’t ringing yet. The network
has to find the phone and they have to send the
call there. If it doesn’t find the phone after a few
minutes or after a few rings, then typically, it
disconnects and that’s what’s happening,” Kagan
explained.
He continued, “So, they’re hearing ringing and
they’re assuming it’s connecting to their loved
ones, but it’s not. It’s the network sending a
signal to the phone letting them know it’s looking
for them.”
Kagan also pointed out that most smartphone
batteries don’t last for a day.
He ended the interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer
saying, “Just because you’re getting ringing, just
because the signs that we see on these cell
phones, that’s no proof that there’s any — that’s
just the way the networks work.”

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Zurca on March 14, 2014, 02:47:02 PM

What happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370?

BANGKOK, Thailand – Nearly 5 days since it disappeared while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, there is still no trace of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Conflicting information, false alarms over debris and confusion over the focus of the search have produced more questions than answers.

Here we take a look at the possible scenarios being weighed up by industry experts as the world waits for clues as to the fate of the Boeing 777, which has one of the best safety records of any jet.


THEORY 1: Explosion on board

WHY: According to Malaysian authorities the plane was cruising at 35,000 feet (11 kilometers) above sea level when it last made contact and vanished without making a distress call, pointing to the possibility of a sudden catastrophic event.

The presence on board of two suspect passengers travelling on stolen passports fuelled fears of a terrorist attack.

It was revealed Tuesday they were probably just Iranian migrants, but CIA Director John Brennan said a terror link had not been ruled out.

Other possibilities include a strike by a missile or military aircraft.

EXPERT VIEW: "I don't believe it has anything to do with the serviceability or the design of the aircraft," Neil Hansford, chairman of leading Australian airline consultancy Strategic Aviation Solutions, told Agence France-Presse.

"The way I see it there are three scenarios. There was a bomb on board... the aircraft was hit by a military aircraft or a rogue missile; or...the captain is locked out of the cockpit and the plane is put in a dive," he said.


THEORY 2: Technical difficulties

WHY: The sudden disappearance could also point to a technical problem that could have led to a rapid descent. Reports from the Malaysian authorities that the jet may have made a sharp turn west before it lost contact, possibly pointing to the pilots struggling to rectify a problem, have bolstered this theory.

EXPERT VIEW: "To me that (the veer) suggests there was a stall," says former Inspector General of the US Department of Transportation and aviation lawyer, Mary Schiavo.

"That doesn't mean you lose your engines. It means that you're losing your air flow over your wings, sufficient speed to keep the plane in the air...it would lose altitude really dramatically."

She compared the possible scenario to the fate of Air France 447 – which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 after its speed sensors malfunctioned – in an interview with Australia's ABC television.

If the plane did crash, a combination of technical difficulties and pilot error would be a likely scenario, Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific aerospace consultant Ravi Madavaram said.

"There is no single factor which generally leads to an airplane crash, but a combination of technical glitches and pilot decisions. Each of these glitches and decisions taken independently are harmless and often happens. It is the combination of these factors that lead to a catastrophe."


THEORY 3: Structural disintegration

WHY: The lack of wreckage or black box transmission has led to speculation that the plane may have disintegrated mid-air.

EXPERT VIEW: While structural disintegration has been behind some previous aircraft disappearances, new planes use "better materials, technology and maintenance schedules", Madavaram says.

"This last happened to China Airlines flight 611, during its cruise at 35,000 feet in 2002. Flight 611 was a Boeing 747 aircraft and the reason for that crash was faulty repair."

He added that the technology on a Boeing 747 was 20 years older than on a 777.


THEORY 4: Hijacking

WHY: The absence of debris around the intended flight path, the possibility that the flight turned back, and conflicting reports over whether the plane was spotted by Malaysian military way off course have added to speculation of a hijack, which has still not been ruled out by investigators.

Malaysia Airlines says that all its aircraft are equipped with the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) system – which puts out information about location and airspeed – but has so far declined to release whatever data it got from flight MH370.

EXPERT VIEW: The reports of a "turn back" raised yet more questions, says Scott Hamilton, managing director of US-based aviation consultancy Leeham Co.

"If it were near the Vietnam coast, why turn back when there probably would have been a closer airport in the event of an emergency?" he wrote on his company website.

The larger question was whether the turn was intentional "under the command of the pilots (or hijackers)," or due to other causes such as engine problems or an explosion.

But Frost & Sullivan's Madavaram believes several factors rule out a hijack, including a lack of a credible claim of responsibility and the difficulty in evading radars and witnesses.


THEORY 5: Pilot suicide

WHY: While rare, there have been cases in the past of pilots crashing planes to take their own lives. According to the US Federal Aviation Administration, pilot suicides account for less than 0.5 percent of all fatal general aviation accidents.

EXPERT VIEW: A suicide bid "is possible and if that's the case there might not be a lot of debris because the plane would have come down in relatively structural integrity," said Terence Fan, aviation expert at Singapore Management University.

"The airplane is not meant to float and if the airplane sinks in the water, water will go inside because the door seals are not meant to seal water."

From Rappler.com (http://www.rappler.com/world/regions/asia-pacific/52847-malaysia-airlines-flight-what-happened)

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Itachi101 on March 17, 2014, 08:13:47 PM

one week na ang nakalipas
wala pa ring sign ng plane

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Zurca on March 17, 2014, 09:12:56 PM

Police search homes of MH370 pilots

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysia said Sunday, March 16, that police had searched the homes of the pilots of a missing jet and examined a home flight simulator after revelations that the flight was deliberately diverted triggered a full-scale criminal probe.

As a multi-nation operation began a new push to locate the vanished Boeing-777 somewhere within a vast arc of land and ocean, criminal investigators sought other clues to the fate of the Malaysia Airlines plane.

The transport ministry said police searched the pilots' homes on Saturday, March 15, and were examining the captain's home flight simulator but cautioned the public "not to jump to conclusions."

In line with "normal procedure," police were probing all the missing plane's 239 passengers and crew, as well as engineers who may have had contact with the aircraft before take-off, the ministry said in a statement.

The police action followed Saturday's startling revelations that the plane's communications systems had been manually switched off before the jet veered westward and flew on for hours.

Briefing the press, Prime Minister Najib Razak declined to use the word hijack but said the new data suggested "deliberate action" by someone on board – raising more perplexing and deeply troubling questions about the plane's fate.

"Who? Why? Where?" was the front page headline of the Malaysian government-controlled New Straits Times.

For anguished relatives, the news was a double-edged sword – holding out the slim hope that hijackers had landed the plane somewhere while ushering in another agonizing open-ended waiting period.

Relatives of Bob and Cathy Lawton, a missing Australian couple, said they were horrified by the notion of a drawn-out hijack ordeal.


What did they put up with?

"That's one of the worst things I could have hoped for," Bob's brother David Lawton told News Limited newspapers.

"Even if they are alive, what did they have to put up with?"

The scope for speculation is as broad as the new search area that stretches from Kazakhstan to the southern Indian Ocean.

India on Sunday suspended its search around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and in the Bay of Bengal pending fresh instructions from Malaysia.

Expert opinion that disabling the communications system required specialist knowledge intensified scrutiny of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and his First Officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid.

Friends and colleagues of both pilots have testified to their good character, but questions have been raised over the simulator Zaharie installed at home – even though aviation commentators have said this is not uncommon.

Fariq's record was queried after a woman said he had allowed her and a friend to ride in the cockpit of an earlier flight.

The alternative scenario – that the cockpit was taken over or the pilots coerced – opens a Pandora's Box of possibilities as to who might be involved and with what motive.

Two passengers who boarded the plane with stolen EU passports have been identified as Iranians by Interpol, who said they were most likely illegal immigrants who did not fit terrorist profiles.

The fact that most of the passengers on board the Beijing-bound flight were Chinese has raised speculation of involvement by militants from China's Muslim ethnic Uighur minority.


Still early days

Security experts warned against reading too much into partial data.

"We still really don't have a lot of evidence to go on," said Anthony Brickhouse, a member of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators.

"We don't have any wreckage. We don't have the plane itself. We don't have a lot of electronic data from the aircraft."

The search is now focused on two flight corridors – a northern one stretching from Thailand to Kazakhstan and a southern zone from Indonesia towards the southern Indian Ocean.

The last satellite communication from the plane on March 8 came nearly 8 hours after it took off – around the time the airline has said it would have run out of fuel.

Sunday's transport ministry statement stressed that both corridors were being treated "with equal importance," but a number of analysts said the southern route encompassing a large swathe of ocean was more likely.

Flying along the northern corridor would have required the plane to travel undetected through numerous national airspaces in a strategically sensitive region.

"I just can't think of a scenario where this aircraft is sitting on a runway somewhere," said Brickhouse.

Scott Hamilton, managing director of US-based aerospace consultancy Leehman Co, said a crash in the ocean was the likeliest scenario and one that presented a daunting search and recovery challenge.

"Any floating debris will be widely dispersed and the main debris on the sea floor," he said.

China led fresh criticism of Malaysia's crisis management, saying it had "squandered" precious time and resources by releasing key information a full week after the plane vanished.

"Given today's technology, the delay smacks of either dereliction of duty or reluctance to share information in a full and timely manner," the state-run Xinhua news agency said in a scathing editorial.

"That would be intolerable," it said.

From Rappler.com (http://www.rappler.com/world/regions/asia-pacific/53152-pilots-targeted-malaysia-plane-probe)

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: jamesbond on March 17, 2014, 10:53:00 PM

Quote from: Troll Montero on March 13, 2014, 11:59:44 AM

"New Bermuda Triangle detected in Vietnam waters, well-equipped sophisticated devices are of no use!"

tweet ng isang malaysian politician

naalala ko lang tol troll... di ba pauwi ka ng Pinas? hayan tol mura lang ang ticket ng Malaysian Airlines.... ano? discounted pa!

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: IORI™ on March 18, 2014, 06:02:56 AM

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Some of the passengers pictures posted on tweeter ..

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: IORI™ on March 18, 2014, 06:05:20 AM

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Sana makita na sila ..

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Kurimasu on March 18, 2014, 11:03:25 PM

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: cherdZ on March 19, 2014, 08:03:32 AM

Quote from: Kurimasu on March 18, 2014, 11:03:25 PM

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Ay wow!! Ahahaha.. layo ng nilakbay! Amazing! XD

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: IORI™ on March 19, 2014, 08:40:52 AM

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Kurimasu on March 19, 2014, 08:48:34 AM

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: IORI™ on March 20, 2014, 04:50:09 AM

Totoo kaya ito ??? Or coincident lang ???

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: GHOST PROTOCOL on March 20, 2014, 07:39:52 AM

FAKE yan. hindi yan BOEING 777 kundi AIRBUS A380. eto ang original AD na yan.

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: IORI™ on March 20, 2014, 07:59:39 AM

Abay dapat ibitay nag ps neto .. walang magawa tsk!

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: cherdZ on March 21, 2014, 11:51:33 AM

pano naman kaya napunta sa ausie area ang plane? hindi sasapat ang gas nya at kakailanganin nyan magrefill diba? hays.. labo pa rin


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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: IORI™ on March 21, 2014, 03:09:21 PM

Latest chika .. nandito daw sa jeddah yung missing airplane na yan .. hinayjak daw ng prince .. anu ba yan ..

Out topic :

Sis cherdz pde ka ba dito??

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: cherdZ on March 21, 2014, 05:46:05 PM

Ay oo nga ano ba ung tungkol sa ginawa daw ng prince? Lol

anung meron sa pt venus bukod sa puro girls?

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: IORI™ on March 22, 2014, 02:24:23 AM

Out topic ulit

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: GHOST PROTOCOL on March 22, 2014, 08:46:09 AM

hindi kaya sadyang dinala ang eroplano sa Diego Garcia island sa indian ocean?

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: IORI™ on March 22, 2014, 09:13:26 AM

Quote from: cherdz on March 21, 2014, 05:46:05 PM

Ay oo nga ano ba ung tungkol sa ginawa daw ng prince? Lol

anung meron sa pt venus bukod sa puro girls?

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http://urdujamaria.pinoytambay.com/2014/03/20/malaysian-airline-found-hijacked-by-prince/

Eto un link sa saudi prince ..

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Itachi101 on March 22, 2014, 10:39:35 AM

two weeks past away na
wala pa ring sign ng plane

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: cherdZ on March 22, 2014, 11:04:39 AM

wTF naman unh ninakaw na plane nung prince!! Pati passengers ninakaw nya! Tengeneng yan! May problema na sa utak yan

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: HashtagMac on March 22, 2014, 12:30:19 PM

Hoax lang ung about sa prince

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: cherdZ on March 22, 2014, 01:08:54 PM

Really? Whew.. buti naman.. kawawa naman ung mga taong sakay nun kung magkataon. Pakainin daw ng sheep testicles.. errr..

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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Zurca on March 22, 2014, 07:53:16 PM

China spots possible MH370-linked object

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NEW IMAGES. This photo released by Chinese state television CCTV shows a new satellite image of a large floating object in the Indian Ocean that could be related to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Chinese officials announced on March 22, 2014. Photo from CCTV/AFP

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – China has a new satellite image of a large floating object in the Indian Ocean that could be related to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, officials said Saturday, March 22.

Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein announced the news during his daily press briefing when he was handed a note by an aide.

"The news that I just received is that the Chinese ambassador received satellite images of floating objects in the southern corridor and they will be sending ships to verify," Hishammuddin said.

In a later press statement, the transport ministry clarified that there was one "suspected" object with an estimated size of 22.5 meters by 13 meters (74 by 43 feet).

Hishammuddin had provided different dimensions which the statement said was the result of a telephone miscommunication.

Chinese state television CCTV later released a copy of the undated, grainy satellite image.

Attached coordinates suggested it was in roughly the same area of remote ocean as two possible objects spotted on satellite images taken March 16 and released by the Australian government on Thursday.

China's Xinhua news agency said the object was spotted 120 kilometers from those spotted by Australia.

Australian and US spotter planes have been scouring the area for the past three days, but without finding any sign of the suspected wreckage.

From Rappler.com (http://www.rappler.com/world/regions/asia-pacific/53626-malaysia-mh370-china-new-images-floating-objects)

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: GHOST PROTOCOL on March 22, 2014, 09:29:49 PM

may malaking sabwatan. bakit ayaw nilang tingnan sa diego garcia island dyan din sa indian ocean

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Ozymandias on March 24, 2014, 11:01:54 PM

MH370 ended at the southern Indian Ocean


MANILA, Philippines - Based on new analysis, missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 "ended at the southern Indian Ocean."


In a hastily organized press conference, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced Monday, March 24 at 10pm Malaysian time that satellite experts concluded "MH370 flew along the Southern Corridor and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean west of Perth."


"This is a remote collection far from any landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in at the southern Indian Ocean," he said.


He did not take any questions, but said the Malaysian government will be holding a press conference on Tuesday with further details.


Razak said he received a call from Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot, and was informed that the "UK company that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern and southern indicators have been performing further calculations on the data using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort."


"They have been able to shed more light on MH370's flight path," he said.


Families were called to a meeting about half an hour before the announcement was made.


Malaysia Airlines reportedly told relatives of the 239 people on board a missing passenger jet that it believes the plane had no survivors.


"Malaysia Airlines deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board survived," it said in a text message to relatives, the BBC reported.


On Monday morning, aircraft from several nations swarmed over the southern Indian Ocean as the search for the missing Malaysian passenger plane was energized with mounting evidence of floating objects suspected to be linked to the plane.


But the challenge of recovering the still-unidentified flotsam took on added urgency as a tropical cyclone rumbled toward the search zone, threatening to worsen already rough conditions that have thwarted spotters.


China said also on Monday that one of its aircraft scouring the area had seen "suspicious" debris, adding to an Australian aircraft's visual sighting Saturday of a wooden pallet alongside strapping and other debris.


France and China both released satellite information on the weekend that also indicated floating objects far off Australia's west coast – findings that have buoyed hopes of a breakthrough in the more than two-week-old puzzle.


A growing international fleet of military and civilian aircraft has converged on the region, supported by Australian and British naval vessels tasked with retrieving any objects from the forbidding waters.


Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished without warning on March 8 after suddenly veering off course over the South China Sea en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew. - Rappler.com/with reports from Agence France-Presse

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: Zurca on March 25, 2014, 12:02:17 AM

Flight 370 passenger's relative: 'All lives are lost'

(CNN) -- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down over the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Monday, citing a new analysis of satellite data by a British satellite company and accident investigators, and apparently ending hopes that anyone survived.

A relative of a missing passenger briefed by the airline in Beijing said, "They have told us all lives are lost."

The Prime Minister based his announcement on what he described as unprecedented analysis of satellite data sent by the plane by British satellite provider Inmarsat and the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch. He didn't describe the nature of the analysis.

But he said it made it clear that the plane's last position was in the middle of the remote southern Indian Ocean, "far from any possible landing sites."

He begged reporters to respect the privacy of relatives.

"For them, the past few weeks have been heartbreaking," he said. "I know this news must be harder still."

The Prime Minister's statement came after the airline sent a text message to relatives saying it "deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those onboard survived."

Reporters could hear wailing from a briefing for relatives of missing passengers in Beijing. Some relatives were wheeled from the conference room on stretchers, and one group of relatives smashed the lens of a reporter's camera. A woman walked out of a briefing for relatives near Kuala Lumpur crying.

A Facebook page dedicated to the only American aboard the flight, Philip Wood, said of relatives that "our collective hearts are hurting now."

"Please lift all the loved ones of MH370 with your good thoughts and prayers," a post on the page said.

Sarah Bajc, Wood's partner, canceled all media interviews after the announcement.

"I need closure to be certain, but cannot keep on with public efforts against all odds," she wrote. "I still feel his presence, so perhaps it was his soul all along."


Debris spotted in Indian Ocean

The announcement came the same day as Australian officials said they had spotted two objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be related to the flight, which has been missing since March 8 with 239 people aboard.

One object is "a grey or green circular object," and the other is "an orange rectangular object," the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.

The objects are the latest in a series of sightings, including "suspicious objects" reported earlier Monday by a Chinese military plane that was involved in search efforts in the same region, authorities said.

So far, nothing has been definitively linked to Flight 370.

Earlier, Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia's acting transportation minister, said only that "at the moment, there are new leads but nothing conclusive."

A reporter on board the Chinese plane for China's official Xinhua news agency said the search team saw "two relatively big floating objects with many white smaller ones scattered within a radius of several kilometers," the agency reported Monday.

The Chinese plane was flying at 33,000 feet on its way back to Australia's west coast when it made the sighting, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.

But a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft, one of the military's most sophisticated reconnaissance planes, that was tasked to investigate the objects was unable to find them, the authority said.

With the search in its third week, authorities have so far been unable to establish where exactly the missing plane is or why it flew off course from its planned journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

China has a particularly large stake in the search: Its citizens made up about two-thirds of the 227 passengers on the missing Boeing 777. Beijing has repeatedly called on Malaysian authorities, who are in charge of the overall search, to step up efforts to find the plane.

Malaysian and Australian authorities appeared to be more interested Monday in the two objects spotted by a Royal Australian Air Force P-3 Orion aircraft.

The Australian's navy's HMAS Success "is on scene and is attempting to locate the objects," the Australian maritime authority said.

Hishammuddin said Australian authorities had said the objects could be retrieved "within the next few hours, or by tomorrow morning at the latest."


Satellites focus search

Recent information from satellites identifying objects in the water that could be related to the plane has focused search efforts on an area roughly 1,500 miles southwest of the Australian city of Perth.

A total of 10 aircraft -- from Australia, China the United States and Japan -- were tasked with combing the search area Monday.

The aerial searches have been trained on the isolated part of ocean since last week, when Australia first announced that satellite imagery had detected possible objects that could be connected to the search.

Since then, China and France have said they also have satellite information pointing to floating debris in a similar area. The Chinese information came from images, and the French data came from satellite radar.

But Australian officials have repeatedly warned that the objects detected in satellite images may not turn out to be from the missing plane -- they could be containers that have fallen off cargo ships, for example.

On Saturday, searchers found a wooden pallet as well as strapping belts, Australian authorities said. The use of wooden pallets is common in the airline industry, but also in the shipping industry.

Hishammuddin said Monday that Flight 370 was carrying wooden pallets, but that there was so far no evidence they are related to the ones sighted in the search area.

The investigation into the passenger jet's disappearance has already produced a wealth of false leads and speculative theories. Previously, when the hunt was focused on the South China Sea near where the plane dropped off civilian radar, a number of sightings of debris proved to be unrelated to the search.


Plane said to have flown low

The sighting of the objects of interest by the Chinese plane came after a weekend during which other nuggets of information emerged about the movements of the errant jetliner on the night it vanished.

Military radar tracking shows that after making a sharp turn over the South China Sea, the plane changed altitude as it headed toward the Strait of Malacca, an official close to the investigation into the missing flight told CNN.

The plane flew as low as 12,000 feet at some point before it disappeared from radar, according to the official. It had reportedly been flying at a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet when contact was lost with air traffic control.

The sharp turn seemed to be intentional, the official said, because executing it would have taken the Boeing 777 two minutes -- a time period during which the pilot or co-pilot could have sent an emergency signal if there had been a fire or other emergency on board.

Authorities say the plane didn't send any emergency signals, though some analysts say it's still unclear whether the pilots tried but weren't able to communicate because of a catastrophic failure of the aircraft's systems.

The official, who is not authorized to speak to the media, told CNN that the area the plane flew in after the turn is a heavily trafficked air corridor and that flying at 12,000 feet would have kept the jet well out of the way of that traffic.


Malaysia disputes reprogramming

Also over the weekend, Malaysian authorities said the last transmission from the missing aircraft's reporting system showed it heading to Beijing -- a revelation that appears to undercut the theory that someone reprogrammed the plane's flight path before the co-pilot signed off with air traffic controllers for the last time.

That reduces, but doesn't rule out, suspicions about foul play in the cockpit.

Last week, CNN and other news organizations, citing unnamed sources, reported that authorities believed someone had reprogrammed the aircraft's flight computer before the sign-off.

CNN cited sources who believed the plane's flight computer must have been reprogrammed because it flew directly over navigational way points. A plane controlled by a human probably would not have been so precise, the sources said.

Malaysian authorities never confirmed that account, saying last week that the plane's "documented flight path" had not been altered.

On Sunday, they clarified that statement further, saying the plane's automated data reporting system included no route changes in its last burst, sent at 1:07 a.m. -- 12 minutes before the last voice communication with flight controllers.

Analysts are divided about what the latest information could mean. Some argue it's a sign that mechanical failure sent the plane suddenly off course. Others say there are still too many unknowns to eliminate any possibilities.

CNN aviation analyst Miles O'Brien called the fresh details about the flight a "game changer."

"Now we have no evidence the crew did anything wrong," he said. "And in fact, now, we should be operating with the primary assumption being that something bad happened to that plane shortly after they said good night."

If a crisis on board caused the plane to lose pressure, he said, pilots could have chosen to deliberately fly lower to save passengers.

"You want to get down to 10,000 feet, because that is when you don't have to worry about pressurization. You have enough air in the atmosphere naturally to keep everybody alive," he said. "So part of the procedure for a rapid decompression ... it's called a high dive, and you go as quickly as you can down that to that altitude."

Authorities have said pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah was highly experienced. On Monday, Malaysian authorities said Flight 370 was co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid's sixth flight in a Boeing 777, and the first time when he was not traveling with an instructor pilot shadowing him.

"We do not see any problem with him," said Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya.

From CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/24/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1)

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: HashtagMac on March 25, 2014, 10:40:51 AM

I smell something fishy here..

Sattelite experts confirmed the plane's last position was in the middle of the indian ocean. They haven't even found the plane yet nor have solid proof that the plane did crash for whatever technical or abnormal reasons. And yet they suddenly confirmed that the plane ended in the indian ocean?
There are debris floating around the area, but it still 'not' confirmed if it is still related to the missing plane.
Are they hiding something from us?


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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: dupax0210 on April 28, 2014, 03:33:58 PM

I hope the plane, the passengers, and crew are found soon to bring closure to this agonizing and tragic mishap.

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: jamesbond on May 18, 2014, 04:33:52 PM

so what's the latest update do we have for this missing plane? Nobody has any clue as to its propriety... i've been following this mishap and it seems it has been forgotten already... 

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: HashtagMac on May 18, 2014, 10:40:53 PM

It's a big cover up.
Their hiding something obviously. Who declares that a plane crashed just because that is where it is last spotted by radar without actually finding any debris or the plane itself.

They just declared it crashed so that the case may be concluded and the media and the people will slowly forget about the issue. What are they hiding?


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Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: iookl on May 19, 2014, 08:07:27 PM

Quote from: HashtagMac on May 18, 2014, 10:40:53 PM

It's a big cover up.
Their hiding something obviously. Who declares that a plane crashed just because that is where it is last spotted by radar without actually finding any debris or the plane itself.

They just declared it crashed so that the case may be concluded and the media and the people will slowly forget about the issue. What are they hiding?


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Well, they found the whole Air France 447 cabin after two years. The ocean is really deep and we are currently facing technological challenges navigating the lower portions.

Siguro after 50+ years hindi pa nila ito mahahanap.

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: jamesbond on May 19, 2014, 08:28:53 PM

Oh my Geezzz... Two years sir? Naku... Matindi pala ang hanapan kung sakali....

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: caligula on May 19, 2014, 08:35:07 PM

What was the analogy they used to compare the challenge of finding MH370? It's like looking for a mutilated ant under a carpet that spans 100 football fields. Good luck finding that.

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: razorsharp on June 12, 2014, 10:01:35 AM

parang titanic yan, makikita din yan sa ilalim ng dagat after 75 years.

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: caligula on June 14, 2014, 06:05:32 PM

They knew precisely where Titanic lies right after it sank, so no, they're not the same.

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: elmeroctavo on July 03, 2014, 12:18:21 AM

i hope if ever they find it in the future, may silbi pa rin ang black box para kahit papaano makita kung ano nangyari

i pray for the lives lost

Title: Re: The missing flight (MH370)
Post by: crashtest on July 05, 2014, 12:54:02 PM

Anu na kaya nangyari dito. parang ang bagal na ng progress. Hope they find it real soon.

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