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MALAYSIAN Airlines flight en route to China is missing.
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I thought can get free 2 coconut.
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Re: Plot thickens with MH370 flight; hid under radar using SIA flight,like spy movie
really blockbuster material. plane went dark, intercepted and stalked neightbour's flight on ghost mode. mysteriously separated and vanished....countrys went on wild goose chase in the wrong sea....
really blockbuster material. plane went dark, intercepted and stalked neightbour's flight on ghost mode. mysteriously separated and vanished....countrys went on wild goose chase in the wrong sea....
Re: Plot thickens with MH370 flight; hid under radar using SIA flight,like spy movie
Truly amazing. Some even come up with the theory that MH370 was doing terrain masking to avoid radar detection.
Seriously, a Boeing 777 doing terrain masking?
Might as well say a sumo wrestler doing a cartwheel
Truly amazing. Some even come up with the theory that MH370 was doing terrain masking to avoid radar detection.
Seriously, a Boeing 777 doing terrain masking?
Might as well say a sumo wrestler doing a cartwheel
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Re: Plot thickens with MH370 flight; hid under radar using SIA flight,like spy movie
sia denies any plane was tailing the sq flight.
sia denies any plane was tailing the sq flight.
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Re: Plot thickens with MH370 flight; hid under radar using SIA flight,like spy movie
This pilot can take down all RSAF pilots in a dogfight.
This pilot can take down all RSAF pilots in a dogfight.
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Residents of remote islands in the Maldives spotted a “low flying jumbo jet” on the morning the MH370 disappeared, according to local news site – Haveeru.
The islands are outside both the northern and southern flight corridors currently being searched – they are roughly mid way between the two. It is also very late to be getting sketchy eyewitness reports of something that happened more than 10 days ago.
In Maldives, eating coconut.
The islands are outside both the northern and southern flight corridors currently being searched – they are roughly mid way between the two. It is also very late to be getting sketchy eyewitness reports of something that happened more than 10 days ago.
In Maldives, eating coconut.
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Have to move on........I'm getting fixated like the rest of you guys.
Looks like we can forget about finding the plane. I'm surprised only Inmarsat satellite is tracking the plane and this MAS did not pay for even.
What a screw-up and sad tragedy.
May the crew and passengers RIP.
Looks like we can forget about finding the plane. I'm surprised only Inmarsat satellite is tracking the plane and this MAS did not pay for even.
What a screw-up and sad tragedy.
May the crew and passengers RIP.
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Lots of things do just disappear..yeah
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vetter investigate them n the angmoh rigger they could b part of elaborate hijacking scheme.
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No wonder Bomoh lift up his COCONUTS... It's already a clue.
BREAKING : MH370 PILOT Did It!
Berita Harian, a Malaysian newspaper, is reporting that Captain Zaharie Shah's homemade flight simulator had software for five practice runways around the Indian Ocean.
The simulator was taken away from the pilot's upmarket home last Saturday.
It has been reassembled at police headquarters so it can be examined by investigators.
According to Harian, software on the simulator included practice landings at runways in the Maldives, three in India and Sri Lanka and another belonging to a US military base in Diego Garcia.
"All have a runway length of 1,000 metres," a source told the Malay daily.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-live-3219331#ixzz2wKi9KNUa
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Berita Harian, a Malaysian newspaper, is reporting that Captain Zaharie Shah's homemade flight simulator had software for five practice runways around the Indian Ocean.
The simulator was taken away from the pilot's upmarket home last Saturday.
It has been reassembled at police headquarters so it can be examined by investigators.
According to Harian, software on the simulator included practice landings at runways in the Maldives, three in India and Sri Lanka and another belonging to a US military base in Diego Garcia.
"All have a runway length of 1,000 metres," a source told the Malay daily.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-live-3219331#ixzz2wKi9KNUa
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the ACARS for Rolls Royce engine was not paid for, but it does not use satellite, only VHF
the SATCOM use INMARSAT, they subscribe to it, since it is the system where you can make calls using credit card
the INMARSAT does not track the plane, only receive ping from the plane.
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http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/54062
[h=1]Maldives island residents report sighting of 'low flying jet'[/h] Farah Ahmed and Ahmed Naif, Haveeru Online
Mar 18, 2014 - 02:55
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Residents of the remote Maldives island of Kuda Huvadhoo in Dhaal Atoll have reported seeing a "low flying jumbo jet" on the morning of the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Whilst the disappearance of the Boeing 777 jet, carrying 239 passengers has left the whole world in bewilderment, several residents of Kuda Huvadhoo told Haveeru on Tuesday that they saw a "low flying jumbo jet" at around 6:15am on March 8.
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[FONT=Arial, Verdana]They said that it was a white aircraft, with red stripes across it – which is what the Malaysia Airlines flights typically look like.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Verdana]Eyewitnesses from the Kuda Huvadhoo concurred that the aeroplane was travelling North to South-East, towards the Southern tip of the Maldives – Addu. They also noted the incredibly loud noise that the flight made when it flew over the island. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Verdana]"I've never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We've seen seaplanes, but I'm sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly," said an eyewitness.
"It's not just me either, several other residents have reported seeing the exact same thing. Some people got out of their houses to see what was causing the tremendous noise too."[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Verdana][FONT=Arial, Verdana]Mohamed Zaheem, t[/FONT]he Island Councilor of Kuda Huvadhoo, said that the residents of the island had spoken about the incident.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Verdana]A local [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Verdana][FONT=Arial, Verdana]aviation [/FONT]expert told Haveeru that it is "likely" for MH370 to have flown over the Maldives. The possibility of any aircraft flying over the island at the reported time is extremely low, the expert added.
The Malaysia airlines jet disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing. Investigators say it was deliberately diverted off course.
Twenty-six countries are now helping to hunt for the plane after satellite and military radar data projected two huge corridors through which it might have flown.
Satellite data suggests that the last "ping" was recieved from the flight somwhere close to the Maldives and the US naval base on Diego Garcia.
But the Maldives is not amongst the countries that Malaysian authorities had sought help from in its search for the missing jet. Malaysia has listed the countries that it had appealed for assistance: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and France.[/FONT]
[h=1]Maldives island residents report sighting of 'low flying jet'[/h] Farah Ahmed and Ahmed Naif, Haveeru Online
Mar 18, 2014 - 02:55
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- A map showing the route that the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is believed to have travelled. PHOTO/ BBC
Residents of the remote Maldives island of Kuda Huvadhoo in Dhaal Atoll have reported seeing a "low flying jumbo jet" on the morning of the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Whilst the disappearance of the Boeing 777 jet, carrying 239 passengers has left the whole world in bewilderment, several residents of Kuda Huvadhoo told Haveeru on Tuesday that they saw a "low flying jumbo jet" at around 6:15am on March 8.
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]
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[FONT=Arial, Verdana]They said that it was a white aircraft, with red stripes across it – which is what the Malaysia Airlines flights typically look like.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]
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[FONT=Arial, Verdana]Eyewitnesses from the Kuda Huvadhoo concurred that the aeroplane was travelling North to South-East, towards the Southern tip of the Maldives – Addu. They also noted the incredibly loud noise that the flight made when it flew over the island. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]
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[FONT=Arial, Verdana]"I've never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We've seen seaplanes, but I'm sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly," said an eyewitness.
"It's not just me either, several other residents have reported seeing the exact same thing. Some people got out of their houses to see what was causing the tremendous noise too."[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]
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[FONT=Arial, Verdana][FONT=Arial, Verdana]Mohamed Zaheem, t[/FONT]he Island Councilor of Kuda Huvadhoo, said that the residents of the island had spoken about the incident.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]
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[FONT=Arial, Verdana]A local [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Verdana][FONT=Arial, Verdana]aviation [/FONT]expert told Haveeru that it is "likely" for MH370 to have flown over the Maldives. The possibility of any aircraft flying over the island at the reported time is extremely low, the expert added.
The Malaysia airlines jet disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing. Investigators say it was deliberately diverted off course.
Twenty-six countries are now helping to hunt for the plane after satellite and military radar data projected two huge corridors through which it might have flown.
Satellite data suggests that the last "ping" was recieved from the flight somwhere close to the Maldives and the US naval base on Diego Garcia.
But the Maldives is not amongst the countries that Malaysian authorities had sought help from in its search for the missing jet. Malaysia has listed the countries that it had appealed for assistance: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and France.[/FONT]
Orchard road is flooded today with us navy....they docked yesterday....a week ago this might have put them somewhere in the vicinity of the plane.
Some heavily armed ships, and a plane flying like its not supposed to....food for thught.
Some heavily armed ships, and a plane flying like its not supposed to....food for thught.
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From RYAN PARRY and EMMA FOSTER, and RHODRI PHILLIPS in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Last Updated: 18th March 2014
THE captain of missing flight MH370 had the runways of five airports near the Indian Ocean loaded into his home flight simulator.
Investigators found landing simulations based on runways at the Male International Airport in the Maldives, a US-owned runway and three others in India and Sri Lanka on the home-made machine of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
A source said: “We are not discounting the possibility that the plane landed on a runway that might not be heavily monitored, in addition to the theories that the plane landed on sea, in the hills or in an open space.”
The latest news emerged as desperate relatives of Chinese passengers onboard the Malaysia Airways flight threatened to go on hunger strike if they are not given better information.
Wen Wancheng, whose son was on the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, said: “Now we have no news, and everyone is understandably worried.”
The 63-year-old added: “Relatives are very unsatisfied. So you hear them saying ‘hunger strike’.”
Malaysia's transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the search for the missing plane has taken on international dimensions.
He revealed a number of countries are involved in the bid to find the jet, including China, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Japan, the US and Australia.
Mr Hussein said nine countries had sent more planes and helicopters to search two corridors measuring 160,000 square nautical miles each.
He also said the Malaysian navy has sent another two ships to the southern corridor, bringing the total number to four.
Mr Hussein went on to say that officials still believe the aircraft communication system was disabled deliberately between 1.07am and 1.37am.
He added: "Our priority has always been to find the aircraft."
Meanwhile, experts believe there are two most likely scenarios of what has happened to the jet. Theory one says the flight could have skimmed across land at 5,000ft to avoid radar before being crashed in a pilot suicide.
Theory two fears the jet could have crashed in a remote area of ocean not covered by radar or spy satellites.
THEORY ONE
VANISHED Flight MH370 could have flown as low as 5,000ft and skimmed across land to avoid radar, it emerged yesterday.
The new line of investigation comes as the hunt for the 200-ton Boeing 777 and its 239 passengers and crew enters its eleventh day.
Malaysian authorities believe the jet was deliberately diverted and its communications gear shut down as it headed to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8.
They say it flew for hours after leaving its scheduled flight path. It may then have blended in with other airlines over sea before dropping to 5,000ft once above land.
Investigators believe the plane might have headed along the Himalayas — where it was deliberately crashed.
They are also exploring the theory the jet was hijacked by at least one person on board.
The last ACARS transmission — digital messages between the plane and the ground — was at 1.07am, 40 minutes after take-off.
The transponder — which identifies the plane to commercial radar systems — shut down at about 1.20am.
But Malaysia has confirmed its air force then tracked the flight for hours — without taking action.
Yesterday Malaysian authorities said they had twice searched the homes of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid. They also confirmed that it was Hamid, 27, who spoke the jet’s final words — “All right, OK” — to ground controllers.
The plane’s ACARS communication system was disabled from inside the cockpit 12 minutes before those last words.
Yesterday Malaysia’s transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein revealed two million square miles still needed to be searched.
But he said: “The fact there was no distress signal, no ransom notes — there is always hope.”
Was it pilot’s suicide plot?
A TOP security and terror expert yesterday claimed there was a growing consensus that either the pilot or co-pilot was suicidal — and crashed the jet deliberately.
Pete King, who is also a leading US congressman, said: “One or the other would have to kill or somehow silence the other.”
He said the plot only made sense if the jet was crashed into the ocean — where it could sink to the bottom leaving no clue to what happened.
That meant love ones would still be entitled to life insurance payouts — void in cases of suicide.
Malaysia’s acting transport minister confirmed suicide was being considered. And Mike Glynn, 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.”
THEORY TWO: Black Hol
By EMMA FOSTER
THE jetliner may never be found if it crashed in what experts describe as a vast “black Hol” — remote ocean not covered by radar or spy satellites.
US experts increasingly believe that was its fate after civilian radar contact was lost.
Senior congressman Mike Rogers yesterday said it was likely to become “a whole new window of this investigation”.
He added: “It may lead to the biggest dead end of all — that the plane is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.”
Although the plane did send out a series of signals to satellites after radar lost track of it, the data is useless in terms of pinpointing where it was. The automated signals simply indicated whether the jet’s communications system was turned on. They were yesterday likened to “noises you might hear when a mobile phone sits next to a radio or a television speaker”.
While the US does have spy satellites over the Pacific and Indian oceans they are focused on monitoring volatile North Korea, northern Pakistan and Afghanistan — plus Chinese activities.
The eyes in the sky are also likely to prove little help if the jet is lying at the bottom of the sea, according to experts. The best hope is the human eye — spotting debris.
THE captain of missing flight MH370 had the runways of five airports near the Indian Ocean loaded into his home flight simulator.
Investigators found landing simulations based on runways at the Male International Airport in the Maldives, a US-owned runway and three others in India and Sri Lanka on the home-made machine of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
A source said: “We are not discounting the possibility that the plane landed on a runway that might not be heavily monitored, in addition to the theories that the plane landed on sea, in the hills or in an open space.”
The latest news emerged as desperate relatives of Chinese passengers onboard the Malaysia Airways flight threatened to go on hunger strike if they are not given better information.
Wen Wancheng, whose son was on the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, said: “Now we have no news, and everyone is understandably worried.”
The 63-year-old added: “Relatives are very unsatisfied. So you hear them saying ‘hunger strike’.”
Malaysia's transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the search for the missing plane has taken on international dimensions.
He revealed a number of countries are involved in the bid to find the jet, including China, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Japan, the US and Australia.
Mr Hussein said nine countries had sent more planes and helicopters to search two corridors measuring 160,000 square nautical miles each.
He also said the Malaysian navy has sent another two ships to the southern corridor, bringing the total number to four.
Mr Hussein went on to say that officials still believe the aircraft communication system was disabled deliberately between 1.07am and 1.37am.
He added: "Our priority has always been to find the aircraft."
Meanwhile, experts believe there are two most likely scenarios of what has happened to the jet. Theory one says the flight could have skimmed across land at 5,000ft to avoid radar before being crashed in a pilot suicide.
Theory two fears the jet could have crashed in a remote area of ocean not covered by radar or spy satellites.
THEORY ONE
VANISHED Flight MH370 could have flown as low as 5,000ft and skimmed across land to avoid radar, it emerged yesterday.
The new line of investigation comes as the hunt for the 200-ton Boeing 777 and its 239 passengers and crew enters its eleventh day.
Malaysian authorities believe the jet was deliberately diverted and its communications gear shut down as it headed to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8.
They say it flew for hours after leaving its scheduled flight path. It may then have blended in with other airlines over sea before dropping to 5,000ft once above land.
Investigators believe the plane might have headed along the Himalayas — where it was deliberately crashed.
They are also exploring the theory the jet was hijacked by at least one person on board.
The last ACARS transmission — digital messages between the plane and the ground — was at 1.07am, 40 minutes after take-off.
The transponder — which identifies the plane to commercial radar systems — shut down at about 1.20am.
But Malaysia has confirmed its air force then tracked the flight for hours — without taking action.
Yesterday Malaysian authorities said they had twice searched the homes of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid. They also confirmed that it was Hamid, 27, who spoke the jet’s final words — “All right, OK” — to ground controllers.
The plane’s ACARS communication system was disabled from inside the cockpit 12 minutes before those last words.
Yesterday Malaysia’s transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein revealed two million square miles still needed to be searched.
But he said: “The fact there was no distress signal, no ransom notes — there is always hope.”
Was it pilot’s suicide plot?
A TOP security and terror expert yesterday claimed there was a growing consensus that either the pilot or co-pilot was suicidal — and crashed the jet deliberately.
Pete King, who is also a leading US congressman, said: “One or the other would have to kill or somehow silence the other.”
He said the plot only made sense if the jet was crashed into the ocean — where it could sink to the bottom leaving no clue to what happened.
That meant love ones would still be entitled to life insurance payouts — void in cases of suicide.
Malaysia’s acting transport minister confirmed suicide was being considered. And Mike Glynn, 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.”
THEORY TWO: Black Hol
By EMMA FOSTER
THE jetliner may never be found if it crashed in what experts describe as a vast “black Hol” — remote ocean not covered by radar or spy satellites.
US experts increasingly believe that was its fate after civilian radar contact was lost.
Senior congressman Mike Rogers yesterday said it was likely to become “a whole new window of this investigation”.
He added: “It may lead to the biggest dead end of all — that the plane is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.”
Although the plane did send out a series of signals to satellites after radar lost track of it, the data is useless in terms of pinpointing where it was. The automated signals simply indicated whether the jet’s communications system was turned on. They were yesterday likened to “noises you might hear when a mobile phone sits next to a radio or a television speaker”.
While the US does have spy satellites over the Pacific and Indian oceans they are focused on monitoring volatile North Korea, northern Pakistan and Afghanistan — plus Chinese activities.
The eyes in the sky are also likely to prove little help if the jet is lying at the bottom of the sea, according to experts. The best hope is the human eye — spotting debris.
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[h=1]Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Terror Threat Made Against Beijing Airport Before Jet's Disappearance[/h]
A US Navy SH-60R Seahawk helicopter takes off from the destroyer USS Pinckney in the Gulf of Thailand, to assist in the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370Reuters
A terror threat was made against the Beijing Capital International Airport days prior to the abrupt disappearance of the Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
China Airlines has revealed they had alerted the authorities at the Civil Aviation Administration of China regarding the terror threat which was made on 4 March by an unknown man.
The airline operator's chief representative in Beijing, Peng Rong-min, said the unidentified man made the phone call threatening that a terrorist strike would take place at the Beijing airport.
The spokesperson added that they had informed the authorities concerned immediately after the call, the China Post reports.
The anonymous caller started off the conversation in French but later spoke in Mandarin as the China Airlines's staff do not understand French. He said he represented the East Turkestan Liberation Organisation; the authenticity of the phone call or the person's identity could not be verified.
As the mystery surrounding the sudden disappearance of the Boeing 777 continues to deepen, strong speculation that a terror strike had downed the aircraft is doing the rounds citing the travel by two passengers with stolen passports and fake identities.
However, investigators involved in the matter have so far said there is no direct evidence to corroborate the role of terrorism in the incident.
China has already appointed two separate teams to probe the vanished flight which originated from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur and lost contact en route to Beijing when it was cruising over Vietnamese airspace.
Nearly two-thirds of the 227 passengers on board the airliner were Chinese nationals.
"We have a responsibility to demand and urge the Malaysian side to step up search efforts, start an investigation as soon as possible and provide relevant information to China correctly and in a timely manner," said Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Qin Gang.
"The missing plane belongs to the Malaysian airline, so it is reasonable that the Malaysian side takes the major responsibility for the search and rescue work."
Search operation
Dozens of ships and jets from several nations have been scouring the South China Sea for the past four days in vain.
Malaysian authorities have pledged to boost their search efforts in the coming hours.
"Unfortunately we have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft. As far as we are concerned, we have to find the aircraft, we have to find a piece of the aircraft if possible," head of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Authority, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, told reporters.
[h=1]Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Terror Threat Made Against Beijing Airport Before Jet's Disappearance[/h]
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A terror threat was made against the Beijing Capital International Airport days prior to the abrupt disappearance of the Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
China Airlines has revealed they had alerted the authorities at the Civil Aviation Administration of China regarding the terror threat which was made on 4 March by an unknown man.
The airline operator's chief representative in Beijing, Peng Rong-min, said the unidentified man made the phone call threatening that a terrorist strike would take place at the Beijing airport.
The spokesperson added that they had informed the authorities concerned immediately after the call, the China Post reports.
The anonymous caller started off the conversation in French but later spoke in Mandarin as the China Airlines's staff do not understand French. He said he represented the East Turkestan Liberation Organisation; the authenticity of the phone call or the person's identity could not be verified.
As the mystery surrounding the sudden disappearance of the Boeing 777 continues to deepen, strong speculation that a terror strike had downed the aircraft is doing the rounds citing the travel by two passengers with stolen passports and fake identities.
However, investigators involved in the matter have so far said there is no direct evidence to corroborate the role of terrorism in the incident.
China has already appointed two separate teams to probe the vanished flight which originated from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur and lost contact en route to Beijing when it was cruising over Vietnamese airspace.
Nearly two-thirds of the 227 passengers on board the airliner were Chinese nationals.
"We have a responsibility to demand and urge the Malaysian side to step up search efforts, start an investigation as soon as possible and provide relevant information to China correctly and in a timely manner," said Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Qin Gang.
"The missing plane belongs to the Malaysian airline, so it is reasonable that the Malaysian side takes the major responsibility for the search and rescue work."
Search operation
Dozens of ships and jets from several nations have been scouring the South China Sea for the past four days in vain.
Malaysian authorities have pledged to boost their search efforts in the coming hours.
"Unfortunately we have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft. As far as we are concerned, we have to find the aircraft, we have to find a piece of the aircraft if possible," head of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Authority, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, told reporters.
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