[2014] Most plausible explanation of mystery of Malasyian Flight 370

[pedro47]

Prediction the down under nation will find nothing.

 

[CarolF]

A Dutch firm has been chosen to carry out the underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australia has announced.

Fugro Survey will use two vessels to search a swathe of the Indian Ocean.

The ships would use side-scan sonar, multi-beam echo sounders and video cameras to locate and identify the aircraft debris, a statement said.

The search of the 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq mile) area will begin in September and is expected to take up to a year.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28659734

 

[MULTIZ321]

Attempt to Call Missing Jet May Alter Search Area - by Rod McGuirk/ Associated Press/ apnewsarchive.com

"Shortly after the missing Malaysian airliner disappeared from radar, airline officials on the ground tried repeatedly to call the crew of the Boeing 777 using a satellite phone that might have left clues to the jet's flight path..."


Richard

 

[pedro47]

Prediction the down under nation will find nothing.

As of this date have anyone found this plane ?

 

[Patri]

They were going to tell you first when it happens.

 

[easyrider]

Another 11 airliners missing.

It looks like when Tripoli recently went under the Islamist control at least 11 jet airliners went missing. It is assumed these airplanes will be used for terrorist type activities.

http://freebeacon.com/national-secu...ise-fears-of-suicide-airliner-attacks-on-911/

Intelligence reports of the stolen jetliners were distributed within the U.S. government over the past two weeks and included a warning that one or more of the aircraft could be used in an attack later this month on the date marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against New York and Washington, said U.S. officials familiar with the reports.

“There are a number of commercial airliners in Libya that are missing,” said one official. “We found out on September 11 what can happen with hijacked planes.”

The official said the aircraft are a serious counterterrorism concern because reports of terrorist control over the Libyan airliners come three weeks before the 13th anniversary of 9/11 attacks and the second anniversary of the Libyan terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi.

Bill

 

[Clemson Fan]

It looks like when Tripoli recently went under the Islamist control at least 11 jet airliners went missing. It is assumed these airplanes will be used for terrorist type activities.

http://freebeacon.com/national-secu...ise-fears-of-suicide-airliner-attacks-on-911/




Bill

Just another crazy internet blog.

 

[easyrider]

Just another crazy internet blog.

Here is an article from the daily mail. I guess the one thing learned from the Malaysian incident is that all a pilot needs to do is turn off the transponder to become somewhat invisible. Also there is no way that these jets could pose a real threat to the USA as they would be destroyed before reaching our coastlines, imo. Maybe a run on Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel or Syria ?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-carry-terrorist-attack-9-11-anniversary.html

Mekkaoui said there is 'credible intelligence' that the Masked Men Brigade 'is plotting to use the planes in attacks on the Maghreb state' on the 9/11 anniversary.
Sebastian Gorka, a counterterrorism expert, told the Free-Beacon that the planes could be used in two ways to strike North Africa or even as far as the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

'The first would be how commercial airliners were used on Sept 11, 2001, literally turning an innocent mode of mass transit into a super-high precision guided missile of immense potency,' Gorka, the Maj Gen Charles Horner chair at the Marine Corps University, said.

'The second tactic could be to use the airframe with its civilian markings as a tool of deception to insert a full payload of armed terrorists into a locale that otherwise is always open to commercial carriers,' he added.

Bill

 

[MULTIZ321]

MH370: Sonar Reveals Secrets of Sea Floor - by Paul Rodgers/ Tech/ Forbes.com

"The hunt for missing Malaysian plane MH370 has revealed unsuspected secrets about the Indian Ocean, including underwater volcanoes and trenches dating back up to 100 million years.

High-resolution sonar has found no clear signs of the plane’s wreckage, but instead discovered a wealth of unexpected geological features between Australia and Antarctica, The Sunday Times reported..."

Richard

 

[MULTIZ321]

5 Missing Flights That Eerily Echo MH370 - by Bruce Dorminey/ Tech/ Forbes.com

"Nearly seven months after its disappearance, officially, what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) remains almost as much of a mystery as in the wee hours of March 8th.

Theories about the Boeing 777-200’s loss on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing continue to proliferate. Yet it may still go down as one of commercial aviation’s worst unsolved tragedies.

Over the decades, however, there have been more than a few aircraft disappearances that eerily echo that of MH370 ; including:.."


Richard

 

[Chrispee]

I guess the one thing learned from the Malaysian incident is that all a pilot needs to do is turn off the transponder to become somewhat invisible.

Turning off the transponder does not make an airplane invisible to radar.

 

[easyrider]

Turning off the transponder does not make an airplane invisible to radar.

It does in regards to commercial radar like the air traffic control and other airplanes.

 

[Chrispee]

It does in regards to commercial radar like the air traffic control and other airplanes.

ATC and military radar still picks you up, you just aren't transmitting as much info (precise altitude, ground speed, and squawk code) but you show up as a primary blip on radar. If anything, turning off your transponder while flying IFR would arouse more suspicion as you would be the only unidentified plane on a controller's screen. In this instance it would be my guess that turning off the transponder would have no bearing on what happened to MH370 given that they were in the middle of nowhere, but had they tried to fly into controlled airspace with their transponder off they would have experienced a military jet intervention pretty darn fast.

 

[PrairieGirl]

ATC and military radar still picks you up, you just aren't transmitting as much info (precise altitude, ground speed, and squawk code) but you show up as a primary blip on radar. If anything, turning off your transponder while flying IFR would arouse more suspicion as you would be the only unidentified plane on a controller's screen. In this instance it would be my guess that turning off the transponder would have no bearing on what happened to MH370 given that they were in the middle of nowhere, but had they tried to fly into controlled airspace with their transponder off they would have experienced a military jet intervention pretty darn fast.

Correct - when we fly with flight following we often get "traffic at X o'clock, type and altitude unknown" for those folks that aren't using a transponder code.

 

[MULTIZ321]

After Mapping Ocean Floor, Crews Renew Search for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - by Dante D'Orazio/ US & World/ TheVerge.com

"Six months ago, Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared with 239 passengers on board after departing from Kuala Lumpur. After an initial frantic search to find the Boeing 777's black boxes before their batteries petered out, rescue crews called off efforts and began a major undertaking to map the seafloor. Now, four months later, those maps are complete, and the search is beginning anew this month as three ships plan to scour the search area for debris by dragging a sensor device just 330 feet (100 meters) above the seabed at a speed of seven miles per hour, according to the Associated Press..."

Richard

 

[MULTIZ321]

Australia Resumes Search for Malasia Airlines Flight 370 - by Scott Neuman/ International/ The Two-Way/ npr.org


This link has essentially the same information as the link I provided in my post #415 in this thread. I included it for the pic of the Fugro Discovery Search Vessel

A photo made available on Monday of the Fugro Discovery search vessel moored at Fremantle Port in Perth, Australia. The vessel is one of three that will resume the search for possible wreckage from MH370.
Angie Raphael/EPA/Landov


Richard

 

[MULTIZ321]

Australia Says Missing Plane Hunt Will Take Months - from Associated Press/ Yahoo!News/ yahoo.com

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — "The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in a remote patch of the Indian Ocean is progressing well but will likely take many months because of the huge area involved, an Australian official said Friday.

Peter Foley, an Australian search coordinator, said there is optimism with two ships using high-tech sonar devices to search for the Boeing 777, which disappeared in March while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board..."

This map provided Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, by The Australian Transport Safety Bureau shows the area surveyed so far which is marked in yellow in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean. The hunt for the passenger plane in a remote patch of the Indian Ocean is progressing well but will likely take many months because of the huge area involved, an Australian official said Friday, Oct. 24. Peter Foley, an Australian search coordinator, said there is optimism with two ships using high-tech sonar devices to search for the Boeing 777, which disappeared in March while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. (AP Photo/The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, File)



Richard

 

[MULTIZ321]

Nine Months Later, No Trace of Missing Jet - by NBCNews.com

"NBC's Tom Costello reports on the long, and technically challenging search for missing Malaysian flight MH370, which disappeared with 239 people on board...
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Richard

 

[MULTIZ321]

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Passengers Likely Suffocated, Australia Says - by Lincoln Feast/ Reuters/ HuffPost Live/ The World Post/ Huffington Post and Berggruen Institute on Governance/ huffingtonpost.com

"The passengers and crew of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 most likely died from suffocation and coasted lifelessly into the ocean on autopilot, a new report released by Australian officials on Thursday said.

In a 55-page report, the Australian Transport Safety Board outlined how investigators had arrived at this conclusion after comparing the conditions on the flight with previous disasters, although it contained no new evidence from within the jetliner.

The report narrowed down the possible final resting place from thousands of possible routes, while noting the absence of communications and the steady flight path and a number of other key abnormalities in the course of the ill-fated flight.

"Given these observations, the final stages of the unresponsive crew/hypoxia event type appeared to best fit the available evidence for the final period of MH370's flight when it was heading in a generally southerly direction," the ATSB report said.

All of that suggested that the plane most likely crashed farther south into the Indian Ocean than previously thought, Australian officials also said, leading them to announce a shift farther south within the prior search area..."


Richard

 

[MULTIZ321]

Australia to Test New Method of Tracking Planes in Wake of MH370 Disappearance - Air Transport/ TheGuardian.com

"Australia is joining Indonesia and Malaysia in trialling a new method for tracking aircraft over remote oceanic areas.

Airservices Australia, along with its Malaysian and Indonesian counterparts, will test the new method that tracks aircraft every 15 minutes compared with 30 to 40 minutes previously.

It will use existing technology fitted to 90% of long-haul aircraft.

The new measures come after the disappearance of Malaysian airline MH370 a year ago..."

And some additional information on the same story:

Better Plane Tracking Trialed After Malaysia Plane Mystery - by Kristen Gelineau/ Associated Press/ apnewsarchive.com

and in a different article with the same title by Kristen Gelineau she writes:

"There is no requirement for real-time tracking of commercial aircraft and ever since Flight 370 disappeared, air safety regulators and airlines have been trying to agree on how extensively planes should be tracked. The Boeing 777 veered sharply off-course and vanished from radar shortly into its flight on March 8.

An international team of experts who analyzed a series of hourly transmissions between the plane and a satellite later determined that the plane traveled for another seven hours before crashing somewhere within a remote 60,000 square kilometer (23,000 square mile) patch of the Indian Ocean. An extensive, monthslong search of that area is still underway, but nothing has yet been found.

Houston warned that new method being trialed would not necessarily have allowed air traffic controllers to monitor Flight 370 — whose transponder and other tracking equipment shut down during the flight — to the point where it crashed.

"I think we've got to be very, very careful because you can turn this system off," he said. "What would have happened while the system is operating, we'd know exactly where the aircraft was. If somebody had turned the system off, we're in the same set of circumstances as we've experienced on the latter part of the flight of MH370."..."


Better Plane Tracking Trialed After Malaysia Plane Mystery - by Kristen Gelineau/ Associated Press/ pulse.me

Richard

 

[HatTrick]

No Plane, Many Discoveries in Yearlong Search for Flight 370

The yearlong search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has turned up no sign of the plane, but that doesn't mean it's been unproductive. It has yielded lessons and discoveries that could benefit millions, including coastal Australians, air and sea travelers and scientists trying to understand ancient changes to the earth's crust.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/plane-discoveries-yearlong-search-flight-370-29305258

 

[Passepartout]

Australia says they may call off the search for MH370

Australian officials say they cannot go on searching indefinitely and that they may call off the search within weeks...... http://news.yahoo.com/australia-says-hunt-missing-mh370-jet-may-called-210759268--finance.html

 

[MULTIZ321]

One Year Later, the Mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is Still Just That - by Nina Porzucki/ Science, Tech & Environment/ Public Radio International/ pri.org

"One year ago today, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappeared over the Indian Ocean. The plane travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing has still never been found, but the search — even for any bits of its wreckage — is still ongoing..."

The shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion maritime search aircraft can be seen on low-level clouds as it flies over the southern Indian Ocean looking for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 on March 31, 2014.
Credit:Rob Griffith/Reuters


Richard

 

[MULTIZ321]

MH370 One Year Later: Why Can't We Find the Plane? - by Joel Hruska/ Extreme/ extremetech.com

"This Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the MH370 disappearance. Despite tens of millions of dollars spent and the concerted search efforts of multiple countries, the fate of the Boeing 777-200ER remains unknown. Why have we been unable to find the craft — and why have so many conspiracy theories risen to fill the void?

The state of the search

In the immediate wake of the accident, multiple nations sent naval vessels to assist in the search efforts, including Australia, the People’s Republic of China, Malaysia, the UK, and the United States. After the initial fervor had died away, Australia and Malaysia assumed joint responsibility for the continuing efforts. Those efforts have not ceased; multiple vessels remain on-location, including the MV Fugro Supporter and MV Fugro Equator, two Dutch ships that joined the search in late January..."

Richard

 

[MULTIZ321]

MH370 Search Zone Will Have Been Covered by End of May, Says Australia - by Shalailah Medhora/ World/ Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370/ TheGuardian.com

"The search in the priority zone where Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is thought to have gone down exactly one year ago is likely to be completed by the end of May, the Australian government has said.

Sunday marks a grim milestone of one year since the plane went missing, along with all of the 239 crew and passengers aboard.

“Assuming no significant delays with vessels, equipment or from the weather, the current underwater search area should be largely completed by the end of May,” the deputy prime minister, Warren Truss, said in a statement.

“Currently four vessels are involved in the underwater search. These vessels employ a range of equipment including side scan sonar, multi-beam echo sounders and video cameras to locate and identify aircraft debris in waters up to 6km deep.” ..."


Richard