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

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Malaysia Airllines Will Be First To Monitor Its Planes By Satellite
By David Lumb/ Latest in Gear/ Engadget/ engadget.com

"Three years ago, Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared over the South China Sea, starting an multinational hunt for the plane. Despite rumors of a sophisticated hijacking or seizure of the aircraft by a foreign government, it was presumed lost in the ocean. To prevent another disaster over open water, the UN pushed for particular plane signal system that can be tracked from the ground or by satellite. But Malaysia Airlines just struck a deal to use a network of the latter that will enable them to monitor their planes anywhere they fly on earth -- including over the polar ice caps...."

Olivia Harris / Reuters


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[Talent312]

This thread was started by "Clemson Fan," who hasn't posted on TUG since January.
... It looks like he's disappeared, too. <again>
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[WalnutBaron]

Maybe he was so overwhelmed by Clemson's national championship on January 9 that he has been on life support ever since.

 

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Drift Analysis Says MH370 Likely Crashed North of Search
The Associated Press (Rod McGuirk)/ News/ Bloomberg/ bloomberg.com

"Canberra, Australia (AP) -- Analysis of a genuine Boeing 777 wing flap has reaffirmed experts' opinion that a missing Malaysian airliner most likely crashed north of an abandoned search area in the Indian Ocean, officials said Friday.

The $160 million search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ended in January after a deep-sea sonar scan of 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) of ocean floor southwest of Australia failed to find any trace of the Boeing 777 that vanished with 239 people aboard on March 8, 2014. But research has continued in an effort to refine a possible new search.

Australian government oceanographers had obtained a wing flap of the same model as the original and studied how that part drifted in the ocean, the Australian Transport safety Bureau said in a statement. Previous drift modeling used inexact replicas...."

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MH370: U.S. Firm Ocean Infinity Offers to Hunt for Missing Jet
By Associated Press/ News/ Missing Jet/ NBC News/ nbcnews.com

"CANBERRA, Australia — An American seabed exploration company said Friday it has offered to take the financial risk of conducting a renewed search for missing Malaysia Airlines MH370.

Ocean Infinity's offer comes after victims' families have been urging the Malaysian government to agree to a private-sector hunt for Flight 370's wreckage.

After nearly three years, Malaysia, Australia and China suspended a 46,000 square-mile search of remote seabed in the southern Indian Ocean. They failed to find any trace of the Boeing 777.

Ocean Infinity said it remained hopeful Malaysia would accept its offer to continue the search using a team of advanced, fast-moving deep-sea drones fitted with sonar equipment..."

The missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that went missing in March 2014 flies over Poland around a month earlier. Tomasz Bartkowiak / Reuters


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[pedro47]

Maybe he was so overwhelmed by Clemson's national championship on January 9 that he has been on life support ever since.

The latest is that other University just recruited Elliott from the Dallas Cowboys for their first six (6) games this season. I am joking guys.
Both programs are outstanding.

 

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New Satellite Photos Show Objects On Water Near Potential MH370 Crash Site
By Ben Westcott, CNN/ Asia/ cnn.com

"(CNN)Newly-discovered satellite photos may have given scientists a fresh clue as to the location of Malaysian Airlines 370, one of the world's most famous aviation mysteries.

The four satellite photos, shot less than a month after MH370 disappeared in 2014, show 70 objects drifting on the ocean in the vicinity of the predicted crash zone, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said Wednesday.
"(Geoscience Australia) analysis classified 12 objects as 'probably man-made' ... but cannot determine whether they are aircraft debris," the report said...."

Four satellite photos taken shortly after MH370 vanished in March 2014.


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MH370: New Crash Site Identified For Missing Boeing 777 Plane, Say Scientists
By Simon Calder, Travel Correspondent/ Travel/ News & Advice/ Independent/ independent.co.uk

"Leading Australian scientists have calculated the crash site 'with unprecedented precision and certainty'.

The crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is a lonely spot in the southern Indian Ocean, 1,250 miles due west of the southern tip of Western Australia and 2,000 miles south-south-west of Kuala Lumpur - the place where the 239 people on board were last seen alive.

Seven months to the day after the search for the doomed Boeing 777 was officially called off, leading Australian scientists have calculated “with unprecedented precision and certainty” that the plane crashed at a point 35.6 degrees south of the Equator and 92.8 degrees east of Greenwich...."

Narrowing down: the white line in the centre of the map shows possible locations for the crash site of MH370, just outside the search area marked by the magenta line / CSIRO


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MH370'S Location An 'Almost Inconceivable' Mystery - Final Report
By Christopher Knaus/World/ Malaysia Airlines/ Flight MH370/ The Guardian/ theguardian.com

"Investigators say re-analysis of satellite imagery has narrowed likely resting place to area of less than 25,000 sq km.

Australian investigators have delivered their final report on the disappearance of Malaysia airlines flight MH370, saying the inability to bring closure for victims’ families was a “great tragedy” and “almost inconceivable” in the modern age.

It has now been three-and-a-half years since MH370 and its 239 passengers and crew were lost during a journey between Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Despite the largest and most expensive underwater search in history, the plane’s location has remained a mystery.

On Tuesday, the agency that coordinated the underwater search, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), released its final report into MH370’s disappearance.

The report gives significant detail on the search but offers little in the way of new evidence about the plane’s location. The search is only likely be reopened if credible new evidence emerges.

“It remains a great tragedy and we wish that we could have brought complete closure to the bereaved,” the ATSB chief commissioner, Greg Hood, said. “I hope, however, that they can take some solace in the fact that we did all we could do to find answers.”

The operation to find MH370 was suspended in January, after 1,046 days, causing anger among the relatives of some victims...."

Malaysia Airlines’ aircraft in Kuala Lumpur. Australian investigators’ final report says the failure to provide closure to families has been a ‘great tragedy’. Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images


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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: The Conspiracy Theories
By Edouard Morton/ Malaysia Airlines Flight 370/ South China Morning Post/ scmp.com

"Suicide, hijack ... aliens?

The mystery surrounding flight MH370 has stirred up endless conspiracy theories from armchair investigators, aviation enthusiasts and industry experts...."

Be sure to continue to scroll and read the additional article by Florence De Changy - titled "The Gaping Holes in the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Search Report"

Very interesting read.

The towed pinger locator on the deck of the Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield, in the Indian Ocean. Photo: EPA


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MH370: Maylaysia In Talks With US Firm to Restart Plane Search
From BBC News/ bbc.com

"Malaysia is negotiating a "no find-no fee" deal with a US company to renew the search for downed flight MH370.

The government announced in a statement that it was in talks with Texas-based salvage firm Ocean Infinity.

If the deal goes ahead, Ocean Infinity will foot the bill and recoup costs only if it finds the missing plane.

The disappearance of MH370 remains shrouded in mystery. The flight fell off radar on 8 March 2014 en route to Beijing, with 239 people on board...."

Getty Images
Image caption A search operation that went on for almost three years failed to find the wreckage


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Flight MH370 Didn't Just "Disappear": Historian Suggests Mystery Was First Case of Remote Skyjacking and 'was Diverted to Prevent Delivery
of Secret Cargo to China'
By Claire Carter/ News/ World/ MSN/ msn.com

"It is a mystery that has yet to be solved.

How did a plane carrying 239 passengers on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, suddenly and inexplicably vanish?

All that has been found so far of the ill-fated flight MH370 is a handful of parts, such as part of a wing, washed up on remote islands across the world.

Data shows the strange path taken by the Malaysia Airlines plane as it suddenly jerked from west to east, away from its destination of China on March 8, 2014 - but no one has been able to explain why it took this strange path, or where it lay now.

Large scale underwater searches focused on an area in the Indian Ocean, close to Australia, where the plane was originally believed to have crash landed into the sea.

But after little success, these were called off after two years. The plane, nor any trace of the people aboard it and families are still desperately campaigning for answers about what has happened to their loved ones lost in the sky.

Norman Davies, a historian and author, believes one possibility could be that the plane, a Boeing 777, could have been glided for several hours and landed in Antarctica - the perfect hiding spot, where it could be buried beneath the ice sheet for decades.

Outlandish theories have abounded about what could have happened to the plane - from an alien take over to a hijack that involved Vladimir Putin, to claims that rapper Pitbull predicted it would crash years before.

But the technology on board, designed to stop a repeat of the 9/11 terror attack by allowing it to be controlled on land, could mean the disappearance of MH370 may be due to the first recorded case of a remote skyjacking...."

© Provided by Trinity Mirror Shared Services Limited Credits: ITV


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[x3 skier]

From the article, the “expert” says, "I could of course be completely wrong."

I completely agree with that observation.

Cheers

 

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MH370: Search For Malaysia Plane Resumes As Ship Leaves South Africa
From Australian Associated Press/ Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370/ World/ The Guardian/ theguardian.com

"US seabed exploration company Ocean Infinity charters Norwegian ship under ‘no find, no fee’ arrangement with Malaysia.

The search for MH370 has resumed after a research ship left South Africa, bound for a search area off the coast of Perth.

The Malaysian government has enlisted the US seabed exploration company Ocean Infinity, which chartered Norwegian ship Seabed Constructor, due to arrive in Perth on 7 February after it set sail from Port Durban on Tuesday.

The Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared on 8 March 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board, sparking the largest search in aviation history.

Its disappearance is one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries and sparked the largest ever search, costing about $200m.

The Australian-led search for the aircraft was suspended in January 2017, much to the anguish of distraught relatives.

At the time it was suspended, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau released findings from international and CSIRO scientists that identified a smaller 25,000sq km area with “a high probability” that it contained the aircraft.

Ocean Infinity, which entered into a “no find, no fee” arrangement with Malaysia in October 2017, will focus its search on that part of the ocean floor..."

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A Fantastical Ship Has Set Out to Seek Malaysian Airlines Flight 370
From Science and Technology/ The Search for MH370/ The Economist/ economist.com

"ON JANUARY 2nd, at 8pm local time, a strange vessel weighed anchor and sailed out of the Port of Durban, in South Africa, heading east. Her hull was orange. Her superstructure bristled with antennas—some long and pointy, some sleek, white and domed. Her stern sported a crane and also a strange gantry, known to her crew as the “stinger”. Her bow looked so huge and ungainly as to be on the point of tipping her, nose first, into the depths. And below deck, invisible to the casual observer, she carried eight autonomous submarines called HUGINs, each six metres long, weighing 1,800kg, and containing a titanium sphere to protect the sensitive electronics therein from the pressure of the ocean’s depths.

The strange ship’s name is Seabed Constructor. She is a Norwegian research vessel, built in 2014 and owned by Swire Seabed, a dredging and surveying firm in Bergen. At the moment, though, she is leased to Ocean Infinity, a company based in Houston, Texas. And the task Ocean Infinity has hired her for is a hard one: to find whatever is left of flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200ER that left Kuala Lumpur on March 8th 2014 with 239 people on board and vanished over the Indian Ocean...."

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Where is Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? Hunt Resumes for Plane's Wreckage
From Associated Press/ News/ NBC News/ nbcnews.com

"KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia's government said Saturday that it has approved a new attempt to find the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, nearly four years after the plane's disappearance sparked one of aviation's biggest mysteries.

The U.S.-based company Ocean Infinity dispatched a search vessel this past week to look in the southern Indian Ocean for debris from the plane, which disappeared March 8, 2014, on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew members.

The governments of Malaysia, China and Australia called off the nearly three-year official search last January without solving the mystery. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau's final report on the search conceded that authorities were no closer to knowing the reasons for the Boeing 777's disappearance, or its exact location.

"The basis of the offer from Ocean Infinity is based on 'no cure, no fee,'" Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said Saturday, meaning that payment will be made only if the company finds the wreckage.

"That means they are willing to search the area of 9,653 square miles pointed out by the expert group near the Australian waters," he said...."


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Another Search Begins for Long-Missing Malaysian Airliner
By Richard C. Paddock/ Asia Pacific/ World/ The New York Times/ nytimes.com

"BANGKOK — The government of Malaysia and an American ocean exploration company began a new effort on Wednesday to solve one of history’s greatest aviation mysteries: the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 nearly four years ago.

Ocean Infinity, a Houston-based company, could receive as much as $70 million if it finds the plane’s debris field or two data recorders within 90 days, Transportation Minister Liow Tiong Lai said Wednesday at a signing ceremony with company officials at Putrajaya, Malaysia’s federal administrative center.

But under the agreement, the company will receive nothing if it does not find the missing Boeing 777, which disappeared over the Indian Ocean on March 8, 2014, with 239 people aboard.

Mr. Liow called it a “no cure, no fee” agreement.

Under the contract, Malaysia will pay Ocean Infinity $20 million if it finds the wreckage or data recorders early in the search. The potential fee rises in staggered amounts to as much as $70 million, depending on how large an area the vessel searches before locating the plane.

The Seabed Constructor, a ship operated by the company, left Durban, South Africa, a week ago to get in position for the search. Weather can be harsh in the Indian Ocean, and the Southern Hemisphere’s summer, which is nearly half over, offers the best search conditions...."

An undated photo showing the launch of one of Ocean Infinity’s underwater search vehicles. The company could receive as much as $70 million if it finds Flight 370’s debris field or two data recorders within 90 days. Credit Ocean Infinity


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MH370: Search Ship Disappears for 3 Days
By Naaman Zhou/ Malaysia Airlines/ Flight MH370/World/ The Guardian/ theguardian.com

"Seabed Constructor, which has been looking for missing plane, turned off its monitoring system.

The ship searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared from tracking screens for three days after it turned off its own satellite monitoring system with no explanation.

At the beginning of January, the US-based company Ocean Infinity was hired by the Malaysian government to search for the missing plane, which disappeared in March 2014.

Its ship, Seabed Constructor, began the search on 22 January, but on Thursday, after only 10 days, it turned off its Automatic Identification System (AIS) with no explanation...."

Map of the new MH370 search area, with the first week’s search in orange. It contains the CSIRO priority area, where no contact with MH370 was made. Photograph: Supplied/Malaysian government


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[pedro47]

This was the last chance to find this plane in my humble opinion.

 

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MH370 Report: Plane Not Yet Found But No Word on Search Ship Disappearance
By Naaman Zhou/ Malaysia Airlines/ Flight MH370/ World/ The Guardian/ theguardian.com

Malaysian officials have confirmed missing flight MH370 has not been found after a second week of searching, but questions persist about a three-day period during which the designated search ship disappeared from satellite tracking.

"On Tuesday the Malaysian government released its second weekly update in the renewed search, which confirmed no contact had been made with the wreck of the plane.

But officials said nothing about a three-day period between 1 and 4 February when the search ship turned off its satellite tracking without explanation, sparking confusion and conspiracy theories...."

The points of interest investigated by Seabed Constructor in the second week of its search for MH370. Photograph: Malaysian government


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This was the last chance to find this plane in my humble opinion.

Hi Pedro,

The Search is not over. Seabed Constructor is returning from Freemantle to the seach site later in February.


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MH370 Mystery Brings No Change
By Angus Whitley/ Orlando Sentinel/ USA/ Press Reader/ pressreader.com

"Key Tracking Requirements Still Haven't Taken Effect..."


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[Passepartout]

I wonder if bits are still washing up on Indian Ocean beaches?

 

[Talent312]

IMHO, someone may stumble across it in 60-80 years or so.

But according to Star Trek: Voyager, Amelia Earhart was abducted by aliens.
So why not this plane? I'm sure Mulder & Scully (X-Files) would agree.

 

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MH370 Search to End in June as Families Mark 4-Year Anniversary
From SBS News/ sbs.com.au

The American seabed exploration firm Ocean Infinity chartered Swire Seabed’s subsea vessel Seabed Constructor.
AAP


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