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Re: BREAKING : MH370 PILOT Did It!
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...-probes-deleted-data/articleshow/32307776.cms
Authorities said investigators had discovered that data had been deleted from the home flight simulator of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah about one month before the plane vanished early on March 8. But they cautioned against a rush to judgement.
"Some data had been deleted from the simulator and forensic work to retrieve this data is ongoing," said Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.
Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
time to focus on pilots who are on leave, or left MAS within the past year.
http://www.mareeg.com/could-mh370-have-been-swapped-mid-air-our-expert-examines/
Could MH370 have been ‘swapped’ mid-air? Our expert examines
Posted on March 18, 2014 by Warsame in Asia with 0 Comments
Could the aircraft have been ‘swapped’ mid-air?
Generally air traffic radars use something called a “Squawk” code – this is 4 digits, say ’1234′ – that is then used to transmit information to the ground radar of the aircraft’s position and other relevant detail. This is very easily disabled – it is operated with a simple on/off switch. The Boeing 777 has two separate systems for safety in the event of failure.
There is another angle which i think might be a possibility that the MH370 switched codes. If MH370 had a code of, say 4376, then it would be pretty easy to get another aircraft, say a Gulfstream 5 private jet, to fly up behind it and swap codes. The Gulfstream sets its squawk code to the same as MH370′s code of 4376 then the B777 takes on the Gulfstream’s code, and they then split… It would certainly make it easier for the B777 to continue on undetected.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...-probes-deleted-data/articleshow/32307776.cms
Authorities said investigators had discovered that data had been deleted from the home flight simulator of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah about one month before the plane vanished early on March 8. But they cautioned against a rush to judgement.
"Some data had been deleted from the simulator and forensic work to retrieve this data is ongoing," said Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.
Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
time to focus on pilots who are on leave, or left MAS within the past year.
http://www.mareeg.com/could-mh370-have-been-swapped-mid-air-our-expert-examines/
Could MH370 have been ‘swapped’ mid-air? Our expert examines
Posted on March 18, 2014 by Warsame in Asia with 0 Comments
Could the aircraft have been ‘swapped’ mid-air?
Generally air traffic radars use something called a “Squawk” code – this is 4 digits, say ’1234′ – that is then used to transmit information to the ground radar of the aircraft’s position and other relevant detail. This is very easily disabled – it is operated with a simple on/off switch. The Boeing 777 has two separate systems for safety in the event of failure.
There is another angle which i think might be a possibility that the MH370 switched codes. If MH370 had a code of, say 4376, then it would be pretty easy to get another aircraft, say a Gulfstream 5 private jet, to fly up behind it and swap codes. The Gulfstream sets its squawk code to the same as MH370′s code of 4376 then the B777 takes on the Gulfstream’s code, and they then split… It would certainly make it easier for the B777 to continue on undetected.
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Re: BREAKING : MH370 PILOT Did It!
i prefer MMPR.
fark lah... these marine hillbilly beverlies talk c0ck... simi white and red.
obviously they neber seen ultraman before.
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Re: BREAKING : MH370 PILOT Did It!
Phone records checked as mystery surrounds lack of contact with Malaysia Airlines passengers
Absence of phone calls or e-mails from people onboard could provide clues for investigators struggling to solve one of the greatest mysteries of modern aviation
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 19 March, 2014, 3:57pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 19 March, 2014, 10:51pm
Agence France-Presse in Bangkok, Thailand
US Navy crew members on board a P-8A Poseidon assisting in search and rescue operations for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Photo: AFP
In the age of smartphones and social media, one question surrounding the disappearance of the Malaysian airliner is why none of the passengers tried to contact relatives, as they did during the 9/11 attacks.
Even the absence of phone calls or emails from those on board the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 could provide clues for investigators struggling to solve one of the greatest mysteries of modern aviation.
It may indicate that the plane was flying too high or was over water, or that the passengers were unconscious, possibly due to a change in cabin pressure.
Malaysia Airlines chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said on Monday there was no evidence of any attempt by the people on board to make calls, but that “millions of records” needed to be processed.
“It’s being done as part of the investigation,” he said, without elaborating on exactly what checks are being carried out.
Experts say the chances of the 239 people on board Flight 370 being able to use their mobile devices would have been better the closer they were to a mobile network on the ground.
Many are sceptical that the passengers or crew would have been able to establish and maintain a call using cellphones while travelling at speed, particularly at cruising altitude.
For mobile phones to be used, there must be a contact between the handset and the network – known as a “handshake”. This requires a strong enough signal from both a transmission tower and the phone.
A passenger walks before the Air traffic control tower at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur. Photo: AFP
“Theoretically, 23,000 feet [7,000 metres] and 45,000 feet are a cell range that terrestrial mobile network could work with,” said Singapore-based telecommunications consultant Koh Chee Koon, referring to unconfirmed reports of changes in the plane’s altitude after it lost radar contact.
But given the limited transmission power of a commercial mobile phone, as well as the barrier presented by the plane body, “for the mobile phone to connect to the mobile network with acceptable strength and quality would require some luck”, added Koh.
Experts note that in the case of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, the planes were flying at relatively low altitude over areas with cellphone coverage.
In any case most of the calls are believed to have been made from seatback phones and not mobile devices.
Recently some airlines have introduced technology to enable passengers to use their phones in the air using a small cellular base station on board, but Malaysia Airlines said this service was not available on Flight 370.
Without this, a cellphone cannot be used at an altitude of more than roughly 0.5 kilometres in the case of a commercial airliner, and must not be too far from a cell tower, according to A.K. Dewdney, professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
“No cellphone could possibly succeed from an airliner in mid-ocean, even if flying low over the water,” he said.
“At normal cruising altitude no cellphone could possibly succeed in making ground contact as it is completely out of reach of the network of towers, in any case,” added Dewdney, who conducted experiments after the 9/11 attacks to test the capability of mobile telephones to make calls from the air.
A relative of a Chinese passenger on flight MH370 points and shouts a Malaysia Airlines representative after a briefing for families on Wednesday left many unanswered questions. Photo: Reuters
Deepening the mystery, Chinese media have reported that relatives heard ringing tones when trying to call passengers’ mobile phones.
But experts believe this does not necessarily mean the phones were still functioning.
Even if nobody on board the plane tried to make a call, logs of the ”handshakes” might provide some clues about the route taken by the jet after it disappeared.
While many phones would have been switched off in line with airline rules, some people may have forgotten to deactivate their devices.
But to trace any “handshakes” investigators face the challenge of collecting the unique identity numbers for the passengers’ mobile devices, as well as signal data from network operators in countries along the possible flight paths, such as Myanmar which still has limited network coverage.
As the flight turned back and crossed over Malaysia after disappearing from radar en route to Beijing, it probably passed over a network area.
After that, the chances of any “handshakes” depend on how low and close to mobile towers the plane flew.
“Police track cellphones all the time by the last phone call they made,” said Ken Dulaney, a US-based analyst with technology research firm Gartner.
But he added that this was only possible if the devices were in reach of a network.
“If they are not in coverage then no one can do anything,” he said.
Phone records checked as mystery surrounds lack of contact with Malaysia Airlines passengers
Absence of phone calls or e-mails from people onboard could provide clues for investigators struggling to solve one of the greatest mysteries of modern aviation
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 19 March, 2014, 3:57pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 19 March, 2014, 10:51pm
Agence France-Presse in Bangkok, Thailand
US Navy crew members on board a P-8A Poseidon assisting in search and rescue operations for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Photo: AFP
In the age of smartphones and social media, one question surrounding the disappearance of the Malaysian airliner is why none of the passengers tried to contact relatives, as they did during the 9/11 attacks.
Even the absence of phone calls or emails from those on board the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 could provide clues for investigators struggling to solve one of the greatest mysteries of modern aviation.
It may indicate that the plane was flying too high or was over water, or that the passengers were unconscious, possibly due to a change in cabin pressure.
Malaysia Airlines chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said on Monday there was no evidence of any attempt by the people on board to make calls, but that “millions of records” needed to be processed.
“It’s being done as part of the investigation,” he said, without elaborating on exactly what checks are being carried out.
Experts say the chances of the 239 people on board Flight 370 being able to use their mobile devices would have been better the closer they were to a mobile network on the ground.
Many are sceptical that the passengers or crew would have been able to establish and maintain a call using cellphones while travelling at speed, particularly at cruising altitude.
For mobile phones to be used, there must be a contact between the handset and the network – known as a “handshake”. This requires a strong enough signal from both a transmission tower and the phone.
A passenger walks before the Air traffic control tower at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur. Photo: AFP
“Theoretically, 23,000 feet [7,000 metres] and 45,000 feet are a cell range that terrestrial mobile network could work with,” said Singapore-based telecommunications consultant Koh Chee Koon, referring to unconfirmed reports of changes in the plane’s altitude after it lost radar contact.
But given the limited transmission power of a commercial mobile phone, as well as the barrier presented by the plane body, “for the mobile phone to connect to the mobile network with acceptable strength and quality would require some luck”, added Koh.
Experts note that in the case of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, the planes were flying at relatively low altitude over areas with cellphone coverage.
In any case most of the calls are believed to have been made from seatback phones and not mobile devices.
Recently some airlines have introduced technology to enable passengers to use their phones in the air using a small cellular base station on board, but Malaysia Airlines said this service was not available on Flight 370.
Without this, a cellphone cannot be used at an altitude of more than roughly 0.5 kilometres in the case of a commercial airliner, and must not be too far from a cell tower, according to A.K. Dewdney, professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
“No cellphone could possibly succeed from an airliner in mid-ocean, even if flying low over the water,” he said.
“At normal cruising altitude no cellphone could possibly succeed in making ground contact as it is completely out of reach of the network of towers, in any case,” added Dewdney, who conducted experiments after the 9/11 attacks to test the capability of mobile telephones to make calls from the air.
A relative of a Chinese passenger on flight MH370 points and shouts a Malaysia Airlines representative after a briefing for families on Wednesday left many unanswered questions. Photo: Reuters
Deepening the mystery, Chinese media have reported that relatives heard ringing tones when trying to call passengers’ mobile phones.
But experts believe this does not necessarily mean the phones were still functioning.
Even if nobody on board the plane tried to make a call, logs of the ”handshakes” might provide some clues about the route taken by the jet after it disappeared.
While many phones would have been switched off in line with airline rules, some people may have forgotten to deactivate their devices.
But to trace any “handshakes” investigators face the challenge of collecting the unique identity numbers for the passengers’ mobile devices, as well as signal data from network operators in countries along the possible flight paths, such as Myanmar which still has limited network coverage.
As the flight turned back and crossed over Malaysia after disappearing from radar en route to Beijing, it probably passed over a network area.
After that, the chances of any “handshakes” depend on how low and close to mobile towers the plane flew.
“Police track cellphones all the time by the last phone call they made,” said Ken Dulaney, a US-based analyst with technology research firm Gartner.
But he added that this was only possible if the devices were in reach of a network.
“If they are not in coverage then no one can do anything,” he said.
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Flight MH370 pilot Zahirie Ahmad Shah's simulator scoured for clues
Investigators reveal they are trying to restore data wiped from system a month before ill-fated flight
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 19 March, 2014, 10:50pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 20 March, 2014, 12:40am
Danny Lee in Kuala Lumpur [email protected]
Malaysia's acting transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein (second right), during yesterday's press briefing. He said experts had been recruited to examine the pilot's flight simulator. Photo: AFP
A flight simulator seized from the home of the captain of the missing Malaysian passenger jet is now at the centre of the investigation into how the airliner with 239 people on board disappeared.
Investigators, including agents from the FBI, are trying to restore deleted files from the simulator installed at the Kuala Lumpur home of Malaysia Airlines captain Zahirie Ahmad Shah in the hope that they might contain clues about the aircraft's disappearance, which has sparked an unprecedented search spanning 6.2 million square kilometres and 26 countries.
Unspecified data recording which airports and runways the captain tried to land and take off from was wiped from the flight simulator on February 3, little more than a month before flight MH370 vanished from radar screens on March 8, according to Malaysia's police chief, Khalid Abu Bakar.
"What we have found out is that the simulator… the data logs of the games has been cleared,'' he said yesterday.
The latest twist is likely to rekindle speculation that one or both of the cockpit crew may have been responsible for the airliner's disappearance.
"Local and international expertise has been recruited to examine the pilot's flight simulator," Malaysia's acting transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, said, adding: "Forensic work to retrieve this data is ongoing.''
Malaysian officials renewed appeals for people not to rush to judgment, stressing that the crew and passengers remained innocent until proven guilty.
Officials also revealed that the Boeing 777's flight-management system may have been manipulated after 1.07am on the night the flight disappeared, around the time the plane's communications system was switched off.
The new details come amid reports that new co-ordinates - not in the original flightpath - were added during the flight.
"I can confirm that the aircraft flew on normal routing up until the waypoint IGARI [around the area where the plane disappeared from civilian radar]. There is no additional waypoint on MH370's documented flight plan, which depicts normal routing all the way to [its scheduled destination] Beijing," Hishammuddin said.
Claims a plane was seen by villagers flying low over the Maldives in the Indian Ocean search area has been ruled out.
After China's ambassador to Malaysia ruled out foul play involving any of the nation's 153 nationals on board, India did likewise yesterday. A US report said Indonesia had also cleared its nationals of any wrongdoing.
Malaysia said it had received passenger background checks from all countries except Russia and Ukraine. No information of significance had been found.
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Angry Chinese family members storm Malaysia press briefing to protest slow MH370 search
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 19 March, 2014, 5:39pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 20 March, 2014, 12:27am
Danny Lee, Adrian Wan and Satish Cheney
A relative of a passenger onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 screams as she is removed from the media conference at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: Reuters
Distraught family members of Chinese passengers who were on flight MH370 stormed a meeting room in Kuala Lumpur ahead of a Malaysian government press conference, as investigations into the missing airliner entered a 13th day but yielded few conclusive answers.
"Where are my sons, I need to know where they are," said one woman from Beijing.
A handful of relatives evaded heavy security at the Sama Sama Hotel near Kuala Lumpur International Airport and unfurled a banner saying: "We protest against the Malaysian government withholding information and holding up search efforts."
The relatives burst into the hall as reporters were preparing for the latest update on search efforts to find the missing aircraft.
"It's been 12 days. How can the Malaysian government not let us know of our son's whereabouts?" one woman demanded.
"Not one Malaysian official has said one comforting word to us," she said.
The Beijing resident said they were a group of relatives of more than 20 passengers on the plane.
"The Chinese embassy has been sending its officers to talk to us and make sure we're fine every day, but not one Malaysian official has appeared," she said.
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Shortly before the press briefing started, security guards corralled the protesters into a room opposite the conference hall and locked them in. The relatives were then held back from reporters as they were later led away.
Security officers grabbed onto one distressed relative in front of journalists, and appeared to pull her away against her will.
About 20 Chinese relatives of those on the plane have come to Kuala Lumpur in the past week. It is not clear how they managed to evade their minders in their respective hotels to make their way to the Sama Sama hotel, where the daily press briefing is held.
Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that it would now send out SMS alerts with brief updates to the families, in addition to phone calls.
Malaysian officials have been giving separate daily briefings to the families in Kuala Lumpur about the latest developments, including the scope of the search and points of interest in the investigation.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been monitoring the findings of an investigation team composed of the Federal Aviation Administration, the minister of transportation and other Malaysian agencies.
Twenty-six countries are participating in the search.
Families have been increasingly frustrated by the lack of definitive answers on where the jet went, and what happened to the 227 passengers and 12 crew.
Acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said in yesterday's press conference that it was still time to "look for the aircraft" and not to apologise to the families yet.
"I actually understand what they are going through. Emotions are high and this is something that I discussed with the French delegation this morning," he said.
"We are sending another high-level team to Beijing to explain what we're doing and I hope and I appeal to everybody that I fully understand, we are trying our very best," he said.
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even area 51 doesnlt get this much attention.
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Father defends flight-engineer son on board missing Malaysia Airlines plane
Malaysian investigators say navigation skills were needed to divert plane
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 19 March, 2014, 11:21pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 19 March, 2014, 11:31pm
Angela Meng, Adrian Wan and Satish Cheney in Kuala Lumpur
Selamat bin Omar, said his son did not have the technical knowledge to divert the aircraft from its set course
The father of an aviation engineer on board the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has vehemently defended his son, who is under investigation because his training may have equipped him with the technical knowledge and skill to control the jetliner.
Investigators were examining Mohd Khairul Amri Selamat, the Malaysian engineer, and crew members aboard flight MH370 as police renewed theories that the plane could have been hijacked, officials said.
Selamat bin Omar, and son
The engineer's father, Selamat bin Omar, said his son did not have the technical knowledge to divert the aircraft from its set course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Malaysian authorities said that someone with substantial knowledge of aviation navigation diverted the plane from its original path on March 8. The search area now spans from Kazakhstan to the south of the Indian Ocean.
"I can't change what other people think of my son, but I am 100 per cent sure he was not responsible," said Selamat, 60. "He repaired plane engines, he doesn't know how to change the route."
Selamat said his "good son" had excelled at school, cared for his family, and had friends of many races. He had a wife and 15-month-old baby at home in Shah Alam, and was a soccer fanatic.
Investigators are scrutinising the background of each of the 239 people on board MH370.
Khairul identified himself as an employee of Swiss-based ExecuJet Aviation Group in a photograph posted on social media in 2011. Graeme Duckworth, the Asia managing director for ExecuJet, said the 29-year-old had been an aircraft engineer at the company for more than three years. "Without question, he was one of our better engineers, but he specialised in business jets, not commercial jets," he said.
Duckworth said Khairul was travelling to Beijing to service a Learjet when the plane disappeared.
Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia's acting transport minister, has said all passengers, crew and ground staff responsible for the flight are being investigated but that every person involved is innocent until proven otherwise.
"For the sake of their families, I ask that we refrain from any unnecessary speculation that might make an already difficult time even harder," Hishammuddin said yesterday.
Selamat said that police had not contacted him or any member of Khairul's family.
"If they do, I'll be ready. I have nothing to hide," Selamat said. "I just hope he will be found soon."
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There are proper place to post a religious thread like this propagating religion. May I direct you here http://www.sammyboy.com/forumdisplay.php?11-Discussions-about-Religion
For this matter I have to show my disagreement with this particular post of yours and I am sure the moderators will not object to my concern reading your post.
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Someone needs to mentally prepare the relatives. They are all dead. If the target is the plane, then they do not need the passengers. If it were a ransom attempt, then why no demands yet? If they crashed, how long do you think they will survive? Please stop with the positive and religious nut job bs and speak the truth
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Student claims to have spotted missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on satellite
Yahoo! and agencies March 19, 2014, 2:38 pm
A university student from Taiwan claims to have found an image of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 by searching satellite images on a map service assisting in the investigation.
The Taiwan China Times reports that the image sourced from Tomnod, a map search website being used by hundreds and thousands in the search for the missing Boeing 777-200 passenger jet, had not yet been verified by authorities.
The satellite image appears to show a plane in the skies above a jungle, which is claimed to be the missing Malaysian Airlines flight.
A university student from Taiwan claims to have found an image of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 by searching satellite images on a map service assisting in the investigation. Photo: DigitalGlobe/Reddit.
According to satellite firm DigitalGlobe, which owns Tomnod, more than three million people have participated in the search of an area that now covers around 24,000 square kilometres, including a new area in the Indian Ocean.
It also said that system was's computers were overloaded for some time, with over 250 million map views and nearly three millions areas "tagged" by users.
- Missing plane 'spotted in Maldives' -
Witnesses in the Maldives said that they saw a low-flying plane on the day it disappeared in what could be the latest possible sighting of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Residents saw a jet with markings similar to a Malaysia Airlines plane flying around Kuda Huvadhoo, a remote Maldives island in Dhaal Atoll, local news site Haveeru Online reported.
This coincides with reports that several airport runways were found programmed on the flight simulator at Zaharie Ahmad Shah's home.
One of those runways was Male International Airport in the Maldives.
According to the report, several locals saw a plane at 6.15am local time on March 8.
"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," a resident said.
"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."
Family members of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 wait for news at the Lido Hotel. Photo: Getty Images
Thailand denies withholding information
Thailand's military said Tuesday that its radar detected a plane that may have been Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 just minutes after the jetliner's communications went down, and that it didn't share the information with Malaysia earlier because it wasn't specifically asked for it.
A twisting flight path described Tuesday by Thai air force spokesman Air Vice Marshal Montol Suchookorn took the plane to the Strait of Malacca, which is where Malaysian radar tracked Flight 370 early March 8. But Montol said the Thai military doesn't know whether it detected the same plane.
Thailand's failure to quickly share possible information regarding the fate of the plane, and the 239 people aboard it, may not substantially change what Malaysian officials know, but it raises questions about the degree to which some countries are sharing their defense information, even in the name of an urgent and mind-bending aviation mystery.
With only its own radar to go on, it took Malaysia a week to confirm that Flight 370 had entered the strait, an important detail that led it to change its search strategy.
When asked why it took so long to release the information, Montol said, "Because we did not pay any attention to it. The Royal Thai Air Force only looks after any threats against our country, so anything that did not look like a threat to us, we simply look at it without taking actions."
Members of the social group Christian Muslim Alliance Pakistan take part in a candlelight vigil for passengers that were aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane. Photo: AP
He said the plane never entered Thai airspace and that Malaysia's initial request for information in the early days of the search was not specific.
"When they asked again and there was new information and assumptions from (Malaysian) Prime Minister Najib Razak, we took a look at our information again," Montol said. "It didn't take long for us to figure out, although it did take some experts to find out about it."
Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12:40 a.m. Malaysian time and its transponder, which allows air traffic controllers to identify and track the airplane, ceased communicating at 1:20 a.m.
Australia is leading the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 along the southern search corridor. Photo: AP
Montol said that at 1:28 a.m., Thai military radar "was able to detect a signal, which was not a normal signal, of a plane flying in the direction opposite from the MH370 plane," back toward Kuala Lumpur. The plane later turned right, toward Butterworth, a Malaysian city along the Strait of Malacca. The radar signal was infrequent and did not include any data such as the flight number.
He said he didn't know exactly when Thai radar last detected the plane. Malaysian officials have said Flight 370 was last detected by their own military radar at 2:14 a.m.
The search area for the plane initially focused on the South China Sea, where ships and planes spent a week searching. Pings that a satellite detected from the plane hours after its communications went down have led authorities to concentrate instead on two vast arcs — one into central Asia and the other into the Indian Ocean — that together cover an expanse as big as Australia.
Thai officials said radar equipment in southern Thailand detected the plane. Malaysian officials have said the plane might ultimately have passed through northern Thailand, but Thai Air Chief Marshal Prajin Juntong told reporters Tuesday that the country's northern radar did not detect it.
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If it did turn south, surely it must have been in range of Singapore's fanciful highly expensive radars.
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Malaysia is the one looking. Other countries only want to heap blame.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/19/mh370-malaysian-police-remove-relatives-missing-flight
PRCs known how to protest to produce no help over the investigation. They are lucky they can protest in Malaysia. At home they will be shot.
PRCs known how to protest to produce no help over the investigation. They are lucky they can protest in Malaysia. At home they will be shot.
They have the support of their government to protest. If they get arrested/jailed their government will take further actions.
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