MALAYSIAN Airlines flight en route to China is missing.

[steffychun]

They will search the sun after sunset maybe??

they can't. Moon probaby.

 

[red amoeba]

As mentioned many times, you think it is so easy to track all planes?

thats what ATC such a stressful job.
any unknown ID are to be tagged & identified.
normally, plane IDs are easily identified...there is no alarm.
its only when its strange objects. So probably, the army radar thinks its friendly therefore ignore it or simply the radar man is sleeping.

there have been reports our F16 taking the air to escort errant planes that did not ID themselves, recent one that i remembered was a light aircraft with navigation radio spoilt.

 

[steffychun]

thats what ATC such a stressful job.
any unknown ID are to be tagged & identified.
normally, plane IDs are easily identified...there is no alarm.
its only when its strange objects. So probably, the army radar thinks its friendly therefore ignore it or simply the radar man is sleeping.

there have been reports our F16 taking the air to escort errant planes that did not ID themselves, recent one that i remembered was a light aircraft with navigation radio spoilt.

The high and mighty NORAD was taken by surprise during 9/11. They failed to tag which planes were hijacked and which were not.

 

[laksaboy]

The high and mighty NORAD was taken by surprise during 9/11. They failed to tag which planes were hijacked and which were not.

NORAD was told to stand down on 9/11 so that Bush and his companions could proceed with the false flag operation which then ushered in the 'War on Terror'.

I suspect MH370 is another false flag operation. Too many discrepancies and the search area grows and grows.

 

[GoldenPeriod]

On CNN, some analyst said, the plane might have landed and taken off again. lol.

 

[rockerfella]

helllo there i have just joined like 10 mins back could you help me please

 

[steffychun]

NORAD was told to stand down on 9/11 so that Bush and his companions could proceed with the false flag operation which then ushered in the 'War on Terror'.

I suspect MH370 is another false flag operation. Too many discrepancies and the search area grows and grows.

so what is the actual game here? Force countries to search until they run out of fuel?

 

[GoldenPeriod]

Aussies searching at Cocos islands, South indian ocean.
http://my.news.yahoo.com/australia-scour-indian-ocean-missing-flight-mh370-says-115041291.html
Malaysia has asked Australia to begin searching the southern parts of the Indian Ocean for missing flight MH370, just days after it announced that the search areas for the aircraft had been widened, The Wall Street Journal said today.

Australia’s Chief Defence Force chief General David Hurley told the business daily that Malaysian authorities coordinating the search had diverted an Australian AP-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft to begin searching for the vanished wide-body aircraft to the north and west of the Cocos Islands.

The Cocos Islands, an Australian Territory, is located midway between Australia’s west coast and Sri Lanka. It also has an airstrip used by military patrol aircraft to work in areas of the Indian Ocean that are not easily accessible.

 

[neddy]

Aussies searching at Cocos islands, South indian ocean.
http://my.news.yahoo.com/australia-scour-indian-ocean-missing-flight-mh370-says-115041291.html
Malaysia has asked Australia to begin searching the southern parts of the Indian Ocean for missing flight MH370,

The Cocos Islands, an Australian Territory, is located midway between Australia’s west coast and Sri Lanka. It also has an airstrip used by military patrol aircraft to work in areas of the Indian Ocean that are not easily accessible.

The airstrip is also used for commercial flights, Virgin Australia, flying the Embraer E190 3 times per week from Perth. At 2440m long, the pilot can land there to look for his Cocos Malays friends.

 

[sochi2014]

One question, why do they let pilots the ability to turn off transponders har?

 

[GoldenPeriod]

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Luggage found floating at sea, possibly from Flight 370, by Elka Athina

Crew on a Greek flagged oil tanker are responding to radio reports of suit cases found floating in the Straits of Malacca, between Malaysia and Indonesia, Greek media reported.

The Oil and chemical tanker, the Elka Athina, reported to media that it was steaming toward a zone identified as a field of debris, including what appeared to be aircraft passenger's luggage.
http://www.bigbreakingnews.com/2014/03/luggage-found-floating-at-sea-possibly.html?m=1#.UyW8tvl_tv_

Plane might have been found. Dunno yet. Unverified.

 

[GoldenPeriod]

One question, why do they let pilots the ability to turn off transponders har?

Interference. Sometimes a transponder can result in radio interference, so the ATC might ask you to turn it off as you approach landing.

 

[steffychun]

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Luggage found floating at sea, possibly from Flight 370, by Elka Athina

Crew on a Greek flagged oil tanker are responding to radio reports of suit cases found floating in the Straits of Malacca, between Malaysia and Indonesia, Greek media reported.

The Oil and chemical tanker, the Elka Athina, reported to media that it was steaming toward a zone identified as a field of debris, including what appeared to be aircraft passenger's luggage.
http://www.bigbreakingnews.com/2014/03/luggage-found-floating-at-sea-possibly.html?m=1#.UyW8tvl_tv_

Plane might have been found. Dunno yet. Unverified.

No hope is better than false high hopes.

 

[zhihau]

Luggage found floating at sea, possibly from Flight 370, by Elka Athina

if it were the missing MH370, would there be any difference if the search team looked at the straits of malacca first?

 

[InformationSociety]

Re: MALAYSIAN Airlines flight en route to China is STILL missing.



'No link' between pilot's politics and loss of Flight 370

PUBLISHED : Monday, 17 March, 2014, 4:54am
UPDATED : Monday, 17 March, 2014, 4:54am

Adrian Wan in Kuala Lumpur [email protected]

A message for pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah (centre) is pictured at an event to express solidarity to the family members of passengers onboard the plane.

Reports linking the pilot's political affiliation to the plane's disappearance were dismissed as wild, groundless allegations by the Malaysian opposition People's Justice Party, of which the captain is a life member.

The party said reports that captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was at the court that sent opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to jail on sodomy charges several hours before the pilot was to fly the plane to Beijing were untrue.

"Allegations that some tabloids in the UK have made about captain Zaharie were wild and not supported by facts," party spokesman Fahmi Fadzil said.

"I was at the trial during the two days and do not remember seeing him," he added. But he also said he did not know Zaharie was a party member until the news about the plane broke on March 8.

Fahmi said he hoped that the federal government would not use such reports to "label" opposition party members.

The Daily Mail ran a widely circulated story yesterday claiming Zaharie was a "political fanatic" and an obsessive supporter of Anwar, who was sentenced to five years' jail.

Citing unnamed colleagues, the report said that Zaharie planned to attend the court case involving Anwar on March 7 - just hours before he was to pilot flight MH370 to Beijing - and that he was reportedly there, adding that Anwar's conviction left Zaharie profoundly upset.

Investigators have so far not been able to confirm if Zaharie was in court, according to a source close to the investigation.

Sivarasa Rasiah, a member of Parliament and a lawyer representing Anwar in the case, told reporters yesterday: "He has been a party member since early last year and campaigned for us during the general election but this is irrelevant to the case.

"Even though I was not there at the trial for its entirety, I can say that he was not there. Because if he was, I would have been notified," he said.

Speculation is mounting as to who might be responsible for the disappearance of the plane. Investigations have revealed that the plane flew under the radar and that its communications systems were switched off, lending plausibility to the theory that the plane was hijacked by a person with aviation skills.

Police had intensified their checks on the two pilots, and on other crew members and passengers on the plane, Malaysian defence and acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said yesterday.

Hishammuddin said that the police searched the homes of the two pilots and were looking at the captain's flight simulator.

Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said: "Police have dismantled it and reassembled it to examine it. Meanwhile we're getting experts to look at it."

Hishammuddin said that the pilot and co-pilot did not ask to fly together, and said reports that the pilot's family had moved out a day before the flight vanished were untrue.

 

[InformationSociety]

Re: MALAYSIAN Airlines flight en route to China is STILL missing.


11 more countries join the search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane

Investigators now looking at all the people on board the missing plane

PUBLISHED : Sunday, 16 March, 2014, 3:39pm
UPDATED : Monday, 17 March, 2014, 5:33am

Adrian Wan in Kuala Lumpur

Investigators dismantled and reassembled the flight simulator captain Zaharie Shah had built at his home. Photo: SCMP

Eleven more countries joined the search for the missing airliner yesterday as investigators intensified the probe of passengers on board the flight, with the pilots under particular scrutiny.

The number of countries involved in the search operation increased from 14 to 25 after Saturday's announcement that investigators believed the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that vanished on March 8 was deliberately diverted from its flight path.

The vast search area was focusing on two corridors: one stretching from northern Thailand to the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and the other from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.

Pilots Zaharie Ahmad Shah (left) and Fariq Abdul Hamid were described as respectable, community-minded men.

Countries assisting in the search range from the former Soviet central Asian republics in the north to Australia in the south, along with France, which administers a scattering of islands.

Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Malaysia had requested further satellite data from the United States, China, France and other countries.

"We are asking countries that have satellite assets ... to provide further satellite data. And we are contacting additional countries who may be able to contribute specific assets relevant to the search and rescue operation," he said.

He said the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (Acars) was switched off before the last message from one of the pilots to air traffic control: "All right, good night."

The latest revelation suggests that the person who delivered the message was aware that Acars had been manually shut down.

Experts said it would have taken specialist knowledge to disable the communications system, intensifying scrutiny of captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and his first officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid.

Journalists stand outside the home of Fariq Abdul Hamid, the co-pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo: AP

Police searched the homes of the pilots on Saturday and dismantled and reassembled a flight simulator belonging to the captain, the country's police chief, Khalid Abu Bakar, said.

Khalid stressed the probe was covering "all" the 239 passengers and crew, as well as engineers who may have had contact with the aircraft before take-off.

With no clear motive established as to why someone diverted the plane, all possibilities - hijack, sabotage or personal or psychological problems of someone on board - were being investigated.

Hishammuddin said authorities had not received any ransom or other demand.

Background checks of passengers on the flight have not found anything suspicious, but not every country whose nationals were on board has responded to requests for information, Khalid said.

Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse

 

[InformationSociety]

Re: MALAYSIAN Airlines flight en route to China is STILL missing.



Pilot suicide a taboo topic in past crash probes

Associated Press By NICK PERRY and ROD McGUIRK
Sunday, 16 March, 2014

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — As police investigate the two pilots of a Malaysian passenger jet that disappeared more than a week ago, a possibility they must consider — however remote and improbable — is that one of them committed suicide.

While such incidents have happened before, the topic remains almost taboo, with investigators and officials reluctant to conclude that a pilot purposely crashed a plane in order to commit suicide even when the evidence appears compelling.

A dozen years ago, U.S. investigators filed a final report into the 1999 crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near the Massachusetts island of Nantucket, killing all 217 aboard. They concluded that when co-pilot Gameel El-Batouty found himself alone on the flight deck, he switched off the auto-pilot, pointed the plane downward, and calmly repeated the phrase "I rely on God" over and over, 11 times in total.

Yet while the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the co-pilot's actions caused the crash, they didn't use the word "suicide" in the main findings of their 160-page report, instead saying the reason for his actions "was not determined." Egyptian officials, meanwhile, rejected the notion of suicide altogether, insisting instead there was some mechanical reason for the crash.

There was also disagreement over the cause of the crash of SilkAir Flight 185, which plunged into a river in 1997 during a flight from Jakarta, Indonesia, to Singapore, killing all 104 passengers and crew. A U.S. investigation found that the Boeing 737 had been deliberately crashed, but an Indonesian investigation was inconclusive.

Mozambique officials have been investigating a crash that killed 33 people in November. They say preliminary investigations indicate that the pilot of the Mozambican Airline plane bound for Angola intentionally brought it down, and they're continuing to look into his possible motives.

A 2014 study by the Federal Aviation Administration indicates that in the U.S. at least, flying remains a remarkably safe mode of transport and pilot suicide is a rare occurrence.

The study found that during the 10 years ending in 2012, just eight of 2,758 fatal aviation accidents in the U.S. were caused by pilot suicide, a rate of 0.3 percent. The report found that all eight suicides were men, with four of them testing positive for alcohol and two for antidepressants.

The cases ranged from a pilot celebrating his 21st birthday who realized a woman didn't want a relationship with him, to a 69-year-old pilot with a history of drinking and threatening suicide by plane. Seven of the cases involved the death of only the pilot; in the eighth case, a passenger also died.

"Aircraft-assisted suicides are tragic, intentional events that are hard to predict and difficult to prevent," the FAA's report found, adding that such suicides "are most likely under-reported and under-recognized."

In at least one case, a major international airline allowed a pilot who had expressed suicidal thoughts to continue flying. He flew nearly three more years, without incident, before he resigned in 1982 with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and depression.

The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported that the Workers Compensation Commission heard that the Qantas pilot struggled several times to resist an overwhelming urge to switch off the plane's engines. Once during a flight to Singapore, the pilot's hand moved "involuntarily" toward the start levers and he was forced to "immobilize his left arm in order not to act on the compulsion."

"He left the flight deck and, once he felt calm enough, returned to his seat," the newspaper reported.

After telling his colleagues of his urges, the newspaper said, the pilot was examined by several doctors and ultimately declared fit to fly.

Malaysia's government said police on Saturday searched the homes of both the pilot and the co-pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet. It said police were examining an elaborate flight simulator taken from the home of 53-year-old pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah.

Police also are investigating engineers who may have had contact with the plane before it took off.

Mike Glynn, a committee member of the Australian and International Pilots Association, said a pilot rather than a hijacker is more likely to be able to switch off the communications equipment, adding that he thinks suicide was to blame in the EgyptAir and SilkAir crashes.

"The last thing that I, as a pilot, want is suspicion to fall on the crew, but it's happened twice before," Glynn said.

Still, there is no explanation why the pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane would spirit the jet away to an unknown location and not crash it soon after taking off if he had wanted to commit suicide.

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Perry reported from Wellington, New Zealand.

 

[InformationSociety]

'Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 plane found in Bermuda Triangle!' Viral Facebook links are profiting hackers

Videos are links to fake sites or spreading malware that hackers make money from

Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
Saturday 15 March 2014

Viral Facebook posts claiming the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight has been found are pieces of malware and links to fake surveys posted by hackers, who are now profiting from people’s growing interest in the story.

The posts contain videos that look legitimate and claim the plane has been found in various places, from the Bermuda Triangle to having been spotted at sea, with many stating its passengers are “alive” or “saved”.

Many of the links are prefixed with the worlds “Breaking” or “Shocking video” to grab people’s attention.
Latest: Did jetliner fly into area controlled by Taliban?

Chris Boyd, a malware intelligence analyst for Malwarebytes, told Wired.co.uk that his company first saw the links spreading on Twitter, with “a mixture of tweets leading to known sites originally posted to Facebook and a new batch of spamblogs, survey scams [and] imitation news sites”.

Some of the fake video sites ask people to share groups such as “Pray for MH370” on Facebook, while other links take people to realistic looking news sites where users have to click “share” before being able to watch the videos.

The same scams have been seen with previous disaster stories such as the Japanese Tsunami from 2011 and the Philippines earthquake last year. Boyd, who previously tracked scams in relation to these events, said: “They ranged from Malware and 419 scams to fake donation pages and search engine positioning.

“Anything involving a potential disaster is big money for the scammers, as there’s a split between clickers with a penchant for salacious content and those who simply want to know if a relative is OK, or if there’s any more news on a breaking disaster.”

Scammers then profit from the fake surveys that appear when users follow the links in the posts, while users that fill out the surveys will be sharing personal information with third party marketers who have bought the information.

Boyd said popular fake scam pages can be shared “hundreds and thousands of times” and that “there’s big money in it for anybody willing to plumb the depths of human misery.”

 

[InformationSociety]

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This CCTV footage of the pilots going through security before they boarded flight MH370 has been leaked online.

Captain Zaharie Shah and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid walk through metal detectors before being lightly frisked by a security guard.

They both seem relaxed as they pick up their luggage and walk on.


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[Suicide]

the pilots committed Jihad?