Thread: Contact lost with Malaysia Plane.

Breaking news: A Cathay pilot has reported large pieces of debris in the S. China sea, no proof that it's linked to the flight.

Originally Posted by Ronin

Originally Posted by bangkokbonecollector

The blackbox will probably have to be kept in a bucket of water from Mecca during transportation to land.

It has to be anyway.

Yes Ronin I know that, that's why I made the joke out of it.

It's got to be sea water in this case.

What's amazing is i can track my mobile phone if it goes missing.
But you can't find a 777.
From now on my phone stays on inflight.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Breaking news: A Cathay pilot has reported large pieces of debris in the S. China sea, no proof that it's linked to the flight.

Wasn't yesterday Cuda ? debris field east of Vietnam coast ?

Not sure if you know it, but you guys are way ahead of all the news channels on this one. And that includes the "unconfirmed report" scenario.

Originally Posted by bangkokbonecollector

"Where the Malaysian plane was flying, the signals are picked up by sites only once a minute and only at a plane's cruising height above 29,000 feet. So a dramatic loss of altitude could conceivably also see a plane drop off their radar but potentially continue to travel for some distance."

Originally Posted by bangkokbonecollector

Can't see how that's right.

Pretty much correct.

But they won't say what is making them put so much effort into looking into the other side of the peninsula. Which means they are hiding something or they haven't got a ****ing clue what's going on.

But of course it could be both.

Missing MH370: Don

Really Malaysia...really

^I'd never really had much of impression of Malaysians previously - positive or negative. It may be the only Asian country to which I have never traveled. I'm starting to grasp why..........

Missing flight MH370: Co-pilot entertained Melbourne woman and friend on a previous international flight

No Cookies | Herald Sun

^Well, that link is the first place I have seen pictures of the two Iranians traveling on the stolen passports. The one using the passport for the 60 year old Austrian is identified by name, and as being 19!

Certainly not Asian. Certainly not black/African footballers. Persians. How could the Malaysian authorities get that sooooooooooo wrong for sooooooooooooo long. Amazing.

Pouria Nour Muhammad Mehrdad. 19 year old Iranian headed for Germany to seek asylum has now been identified as one of the stolen passport holders.

Somebody else will make this amazing discovery after another 200 posts....



Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar​ told reporters the 19-year-old Iranian man was believed to be planning to enter Germany to seek asylum. He said the man was not believed to be a member of a terrorist group.

He said the young man's mother was waiting for him in Frankfurt and had been in contact with the police. He said she contacted Malaysian authorities to inform them of her concern when her son didn't get in touch with her.

Khalid said the other man travelling with the Iranian had arrived in Malaysia on the same day, and had yet to be identified.

Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad is second from the left. The young man on the far right is believed to have travelled with him on the missing plane

BBC News - Malaysia Airlines MH370: Stolen passport 'no terror link'

Well, that pretty much closes out the stolen passports angle of this tale.

Now, where's the plane?

Originally Posted by taxexile

Missing flight MH370: Co-pilot entertained Melbourne woman and friend on a previous international flight No Cookies | Herald Sun

Now its sounding like the Russian pilot who had his son up flying the plane, and he managed to crash it killing all on board. Try to get a little tail, and forgot to pay attention to what was happening. Aeroflot, 593

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Certainly not Asian. Certainly not black/African footballers. Persians. How could the Malaysian authorities get that sooooooooooo wrong for sooooooooooooo long. Amazing.

Initial reports that Mr Rahman had implied the men looked like African-Italian soccer star Mario Balotelli were clarified by Malaysia this afternoon.
Officials pointed out that Mr Rahman was actually saying a person’s appearance is not necessarily a reliable indicator of their nationality, using the footballer as an example.
Balotelli is Italian, having been born in Italy to Ghanaian parents.

chinese whispers

MH370 detected above Malacca Straits at 2.40am


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Malaysian air force confirms signal of MH370 turning back on Saturday

The search for Malaysian Airlines MH307 plane has been expanded to Sumatran waters, north of Straits of Malacca, as military radar may have detected the missing plane in the vicinity of Pulau Perak.

A Berita Harian report today quoted the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) as saying the plane may have reversed course further than expected while on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Air Force chief Rodzali Daud ( left ) is quoted as saying that based on military radar readings from its station in Butterworth, MH370 may have turned west after Kota Bahru and flew past the east coast and Kedah.

"The last time the plane was detected was near Pulau Perak, in the Straits of Malacca, at 2.40am," Berita Harian quotes Rodzali as saying.

This contradicts with earlier reports that the aircraft had disappeared from radar screens 120 nautical miles off Kota Bharu and over the South China Sea, at 1.30am on March 8.

The Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) had previously said the search for the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, which is missing for the fourth day, had previously been focused around the waters between East Malaysia and Vietnam.

Berita Harian also said that military radar noted that the plane was flying about 1,000 metres lower than its original altitude of 10,000 metres after the about turn.
There are 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members on board the plane. Of these, 152 are Chinese nationals, 38 are Malaysians and the rest are from 12 other countries.

Meanwhile, Utusan Malaysia reported that 20,000 fishermen nationwide have been roped in to help in the search-and-rescue operation.

The newspaper quoted Agriculture and Agro-based Industries Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob as saying that this would involve 1,788 fishing boats around the waters off Kelantan, Terengganu, Perlis, Perak and Penang.

The fishermen were roped in at the request of acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, Ismail said.


MH370 detected above Malacca Straits at 2.40am




Why has it taken 4 days ?

New theory, co pilot murdered his colleague, took the aircraft off its course and headed the opposite direction like a kid running away in panic. Ultimately decided to commit suicide with all on board. Just saying

Interpol having a press conference on the passports, nothing really new to report.

Originally Posted by taxexile

"The last time the plane was detected was near Pulau Perak, in the Straits of Malacca, at 2.40am," Berita Harian quotes Rodzali as saying.

Huh....??? WTF...why would it take all this time for that to get announced?

Everybody seems to be quoting somebody else, and it appears that nobody knows WTF they are talking about. We have nobody checking Interpol's database for stolen passports, pilots partying and smoking up in the cockpit.....radar systems that can't tell the East coast from the West coast..... 19 year Iranians though to be 30+ year old Africans..... talk about a smorgasbord of misinformation....

Never mind...we have the guys over on Thaivisa to figure it all out for us.....

Could it be that the pilots lost all communication and disorientated set a path up the gulf of Thailand towards Bangkok ??? The Thai military thinking this could be a hijacked aircraft by southern militants heading for a 9/11 type attack in Bangkok and thus shot the plane down ???????

Here you go fellas, you dont even have to wear speedos

You can help the search and rescue efforts for the missing #MH370 flight now by visiting Tomnod.com. The crowdsourced effort that is being spearheaded by Digital Globe requires users to help go through 1200 square miles of ocean, and tag any suspicious objects that could lead SAR teams to the location.Digital Globe, an earth-imagery company based in Longmont, has directed two of its five satellites to the search are in and around the gulf of Thailand after the plane went missing early Saturday morning. They now have huge amounts of high resolution images from the area and need as much help as possible to go through thousands of square miles of images to find any clues to the whereabouts of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 which is still missing after 72 hours.

http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014

You know that actually makes sense if they are genuinely up to date images.

Why not?

They could give a prize, it could be like Spot the Ball comp.