MALAYSIAN Airlines flight en route to China is missing.

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MH370 'debris' handed to Australian agency by amateur investigator

AFP on September 12, 2016, 9:52 pm

Canberra (AFP) - An American amateur investigator handed possible debris from missing flight MH370 to Australian officials Monday and said several pieces were blackened by flames, raising the prospect of a flash fire onboard.

Mystery has surrounded the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 since it disappeared on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 passengers and crew on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

The Boeing 777 is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean after inexplicably veering off course, but its final resting place has not been found despite an intense underwater search off Australia's far west coast.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), which is coordinating the search, said Blaine Gibson had handed over unspecified debris on Monday.

"We are seeking advice from the Malaysian authorities regarding how they would like to proceed," an ATSB spokesman told AFP.

Gibson, a lawyer from Seattle who has travelled the world trying to solve the MH370 mystery, told local reporters the debris which had washed up in Madagascar included what appeared to be an internal panel.

He has handed his findings to authorities in the past and said he had brought the recently found pieces to Australia for forensic investigation.

- 'Signs of melting' -

"The top layer of paint has been singed, scorched black," he told Channel 7 of one piece. "It also shows some signs of melting... as you see when something is exposed to fire.

"It appears to be from the interior of the plane but not the main cabin, perhaps the cargo hold, perhaps the avionics bay."

Gibson told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the pieces could be a "real game changer" if they were found to belong to MH370.

"One of the theories is that there was a fire on the plane," he said, adding that there was as yet no evidence to support this theory.

Gibson has said he is paying his own travel costs and searching for the missing aircraft "just out of personal interest".

The debris was handed over as eight relatives of those onboard the flight had a private visit with ATSB officials.

The relatives from China, Malaysia and Indonesia had earlier been shown around one of the search vessels in Western Australia.

Canberra has been leading the massive search for MH370 within the 120,000-square-kilometre (46,000-square-mile) search zone set to be fully scoured by December.

But the underwater hunt has so far failed to find a single piece of debris from the plane, fuelling speculation that the crash site may be outside the current search zone.

The zone was defined under the "most likely" scenario that no one was at the controls as the plane ran out of fuel.

The first piece of debris found from MH370 -- a two-metre wing part known as a flaperon -- washed up on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion in July 2015.

Since then a range of debris linked to the flight has been found along western Indian Ocean shorelines.

AFP

 

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Malaysia suspected MH370 downed in murder-suicide: Tony Abbott
Ex-Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. (Photo: AFP/Saeed Khan)
19 Feb 2020 11:18AM
(Updated: 19 Feb 2020 03:41PM)
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SYDNEY: Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has claimed "very top" level Malaysian officials believed vanished Flight MH370 was deliberated downed by the captain in a mass murder-suicide.
The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished on Mar 8, 2014 carrying 239 people - mostly from China - en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
No sign of the plane was found in a 120,000 sq km Indian Ocean search zone and the Australian-led search, the largest in aviation history, was suspended in January 2017.
A US exploration firm launched a private hunt in 2018 but it ended after several months of scouring the seabed without success.
READ: 'I will never give up': Relatives of missing Chinese on MH370 vow to keep searching
The disappearance of the plane has long been the subject of a host of theories - ranging from the credible to outlandish - including that veteran pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah had gone rogue.
In an excerpt from a Sky News documentary airing Wednesday, Abbott claims he was told within a week of it vanishing that Malaysia believed the captain had intentionally downed the jet.
"My very clear understanding from the very top levels of the Malaysian government is that from very, very early on here, they thought it was murder-suicide by the pilot," he said.
"I'm not going to say who said what to whom but let me reiterate, I want to be absolutely crystal clear, it was understood at the highest levels that this was almost certainly murder-suicide by the pilot - mass murder-suicide by the pilot."
Zaharie's family and friends have long strongly rejected such claims as baseless.
Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, the former head of Malaysia's civil aviation regulator, criticised Abbott's remarks and said there was not sufficient proof to support the idea.
"It is only a theory," Azharuddin, who led the regulator when Flight MH370 disappeared, told AFP.
"You do this speculation and it will hurt the next of kin. The family of the pilot will also feel very bad because you are making an accusation without any proof."

 

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Malaysia never ruled out 'murder-suicide plot' by MH370 pilot, says former PM Najib
FILE PHOTO: Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak confirms debris found on Reunion Island is from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, early August 6, 2015. REUTERS/Olivia Harris
19 Feb 2020 08:25PM
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has never ruled out the possibility that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could have been downed by a suicidal pilot, the country's former prime minister Najib Razak said on Wednesday (Feb 19).
Najib, who was premier when MH370 vanished with 239 people on board nearly six years ago, was responding to remarks by former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott that Malaysian leaders had considered from the outset that flight captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah may have committed mass murder.
"My very clear understanding from the very top levels of the Malaysian government is that from very, very early on here, they thought it was a murder-suicide by the pilot," Abbott said in a clip from a Sky News documentary on the tragedy airing Wednesday.
Najib told online news portal Free Malaysia Today that Malaysian officials had considered such a scenario during their investigation but had chosen not to make their views public.
"It would have been deemed unfair and legally irresponsible since the black boxes and cockpit voice recorders had not been found and hence, there was no conclusive proof whether the pilot was solely or jointly responsible,” Najib was quoted as saying.
"Again I must stress that this possible scenario was never ruled out during the search effort and investigations, where no effort was spared."
A spokesman for Najib confirmed his remarks.

 

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Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 left 'false trails' before disappearing, new research suggests
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The research indicates the Boeing 777 crashed around 34.5 degrees south.( Reuters: Edgar Su )
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The pilot in command of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 deliberately made a series of turns to avoid detection before flying the doomed plane into the southern Indian Ocean, according to research that relies on new aircraft tracking technology.
Key points:

• The significant number of changes of track and speed suggest that there was an active pilot during the flight, the study says
• Two searches, one co-ordinated by Australia, and the second by Malaysia, scoured a vast area of ocean in the southern Indian Ocean, but failed to find any trace of the plane
• Mr Godfrey says applying new technology to the search could provide "credible new evidence that was not available during the previous underwater searches"

The research indicates the Boeing 777 crashed around 34.5 degrees south, which aligns with previous searches for the plane, but that its flight path was "significantly different" from earlier theories based on satellite data.
Instead, the pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah had made numerous turns and changed speed to avoid commercial flight routes and leave "false trails" on unofficial routes around the western end of Indonesia and the Indian Ocean.
Aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey — a member of the so-called Independent Group of Scientists set up to try to solve the MH370 mystery — says global tracking of aircraft is possible using weak radio signals that cover the globe, known as WSPR, or the "weak signal propagation report" network.
He says any plane — commercial, private or military — will set off invisible "electronic tripwires" as they cross these signals, which can then be used to trace their location.
"WSPR is like a bunch of tripwires or laser beams, but they work in every direction over the horizon to the other side of the globe," Mr Godfrey says.
He says these radio signals can be used in conjunction with data sent from the Malaysian Airlines plane to Britain's Inmarsat satellite, to help solve the mystery of MH370.
'Flight path appears carefully planned'
Mr Godfrey — seen as one of the world's leading investigators of the MH 370 disappearance — invented his own aviation tracking system known as GDTAAA (Global Detection and Tracking any Aircraft Anywhere Anytime) to analyse these WSPR signals every two minutes over the specific period that MH370 was in the air, in March 2014.
His analysis points to a crash site at 34.5 degrees south, south-west of Western Australia, near the imaginary line known as the "seventh arc" — which shows possible locations of the plane at the time of its seventh satellite "ping".
The findings are largely consistent with previous analysis of the plane's satellite data and of the location of floating debris from the plane, which also suggest it crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.
But Mr Godfrey's research suggests the pilot had changed direction and speed multiple times to avoid giving any clear idea where he was heading.
"The pilot of MH370 generally avoided official flight routes from 18:00 UTC (2:00am AWST) onwards but used waypoints to navigate on unofficial flight paths in the Malacca Strait, around Sumatra and across the Southern Indian Ocean," he said.
"The flight path follows the coast of Sumatra and flies close to Banda Aceh Airport.
"The pilot appears to have had knowledge of the operating hours of Sabang and Lhokseumawe radar and that on a weekend night, in times of little international tension the radar systems would not be up and running."
In the case the plane was detected, Mr Godfrey said, "the pilot also avoided giving a clear idea where he was heading by using a fight path with a number of changes of direction.

Researchers say the plane crashed somewhere along this line, known as the seventh arc.( Supplied )
"These changes of track included toward the Andaman Islands, towards South Africa, towards Java, towards 2°S 92°E (where the Flight Information Regions of Jakarta, Colombo, and Melbourne meet) and towards Cocos Islands," he said.
"Once out of range of all other aircraft, at 20:30 UTC (4.30 am AWST) the pilot changed track and headed due south.
Hopes new technology may provide new evidence
The significant number of changes of track and speed, Mr Godfrey says, suggest that there was an active pilot during the flight.
"The level of detail in the planning implies a mindset that would want to see this complex plan properly executed through to the end."
Mr Godfrey says there are more than 5,000 WSPR radio stations in the world.
On the night that MH370 disappeared, there were "518 unique transmission paths that cross the area of interest around Malaysia, the Malacca Strait and the Indian Ocean".
"With the WSPR data provided every two minutes and the ability to check against the satellite data every hour it is possible to detect and track MH370 from two independent sources," Mr Godfrey said.
The Malaysian Airlines plane disappeared on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board.
Two searches, one co-ordinated by Australia, and the second by Malaysia, scoured a vast area of ocean in the southern Indian Ocean, but failed to find any trace of the plane.

The Malaysian Airlines plane disappeared on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board.( 7.30 Report )
Mr Godfrey says applying the WSPR technology to the search for MH370 could provide "credible new evidence that was not available during the previous underwater searches" by the Australian or Malaysian-run searches.
He says the GDTAAA system is a low cost alternative aircraft detection and tracking system, that could help pinpoint the location of MH370 within 18 nautical miles.
The Independent Group of Scientists, of which Richard Godfrey is a member, was acknowledged in a report into the Australian led search for MH 370 in 2017, released by the Australian Transport Safety Board.
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The last Malaysian airliner gone missing was gun down by usa secret nuclear site. This time again

 

[LordElrond]

Every now and then some smart alec will come out to make some motherhood statements