Malaysia Airlines Flight Vanishes

[jmra]

http://m.4029tv.com/national-news/URGEN ... n/25277168
(CNN) -- Malaysian Police Chief Khalid Abu Bakar said the investigation into Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 is now classified as a criminal investigation, The Wall Street Journal reported.

[philip964]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014 ... ror-Attack" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Spanish newspaper is reporting that the investigators are considering the possibility that the plane was shot down by a countries military to prevent a terror attack and that government has not yet reported that event.

[RoyGBiv]

I feel the worst for the families, who seem to be a very long way away from having any closure.
Imagine not knowing the fate of your loved ones.

Tragic.

[jmra]

A pulse signal has been detected in the search for the missing plane.

Here is a link from CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/05/world/asi ... nes-plane/

(CNN) -- A Chinese patrol ship looking for signs of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean discovered Saturday a pulse signal with a frequency of 37.5 kHz, state news agency Xinhua reported.
"That is the standard beacon frequency" for both so-called black boxes -- the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, said Anish Patel, president of pinger manufacturer Dukane Seacom.
"They're identical."
But experts cautioned that no confirmation had been made that the signal was linked to the missing plane.
"We are unable to verify any such information at this point in time," the media office of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre said in an e-mail.
"This could be a variety of things," said oceanographer Simon Boxall, who said the frequency is used by a variety of instruments.
"We've had a lot of red herrings, hyperbole on this whole search," the lecturer in ocean and earth science at the University of Southampton told CNN. "I'd really like to see this data confirmed."

[jmra]

Getting closer?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-a ... -1.2600582

"The Australian navy's Ocean Shield, which is carrying high-tech sound detectors from the U.S. navy, picked up two separate signals within a remote patch of the Indian Ocean far off the west Australian coast that search crews have been crisscrossing for weeks. The first signal lasted two hours and 20 minutes before it was lost. The ship then turned around and picked up a signal again — this time recording two distinct "pinger returns" that lasted 13 minutes, Houston said."

[Beiruty]

Getting closer?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-a ... -1.2600582

"The Australian navy's Ocean Shield, which is carrying high-tech sound detectors from the U.S. navy, picked up two separate signals within a remote patch of the Indian Ocean far off the west Australian coast that search crews have been crisscrossing for weeks. The first signal lasted two hours and 20 minutes before it was lost. The ship then turned around and picked up a signal again — this time recording two distinct "pinger returns" that lasted 13 minutes, Houston said."

It seems so, dispatch a sub or robot ASAP.

[jmra]

Getting closer?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-a ... -1.2600582

"The Australian navy's Ocean Shield, which is carrying high-tech sound detectors from the U.S. navy, picked up two separate signals within a remote patch of the Indian Ocean far off the west Australian coast that search crews have been crisscrossing for weeks. The first signal lasted two hours and 20 minutes before it was lost. The ship then turned around and picked up a signal again — this time recording two distinct "pinger returns" that lasted 13 minutes, Houston said."

It seems so, dispatch a sub or robot ASAP.

The "Ocean Shield" is going to launch an unmanned sub tomorrow that will start mapping the ocean floor in search for debris. They believe they may have found the haystack, now it's a matter of finding the needle.

[Beiruty]

My theory, a terrorist hi-jack ended with shooting down the airplane, or using a classified super-secret weapon (biological warfare?), all on board were killed and the airplane crashed in the ocean when it run out of fuel.

[jmra]

Sounds like garbage to me but,

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... ve-3363802
BREAKING NEWS: Russian sources claim missing plane landed in Afghanistan after being hijacked and flown to the Afghanistan border.
A source, reported to be a member of Russia's FSB secret service, told the Russian paper: "All the passengers are alive.
"They have been divided into seven groups and are living in mud huts with almost no food."
The Russian report said 'Asian specialists' from the passengers and crew have been taken to a bunker in Pakistan.
The details, reported here by the Sun, will add to the uncertainty for the loved ones of those on board the missing plane.

[jmra]

The "Ocean Shield" has detected the pings again.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?secti ... id=9496071

Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search for the missing plane in the southern Indian Ocean, said that the Australian navy's Ocean Shield picked up the two signals in a sweep on Tuesday.

"I think we are looking in the right area but I am not prepared to confirm anything until such time someone lays eyes on the wreckage," he said.

The Ocean Shield first detected the sounds late Saturday and early Sunday before losing them, but managed to find them again on Tuesday, Houston said. The ship is equipped with a U.S. Navy towed pinger locator that is designed to pick up signals from a plane's black boxes - the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder.

"Hopefully in a matter of days, we will be able to find something on the bottom that might confirm that this is the last resting place of MH370," Houston said at a news conference in Perth, the starting point for the search in the southern Indian Ocean.

"I'm now optimistic that we will find the aircraft, or what is left of the aircraft, in the not too distant future - but we haven't found it yet, because this is a very challenging business," he said.

[Dragonfighter]

The "Ocean Shield" has detected the pings again.
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"Hopefully in a matter of days, we will be able to find something on the bottom that might confirm that this is the last resting place of MH370," Houston said at a news conference in Perth, the starting point for the search in the southern Indian Ocean.

"I'm now optimistic that we will find the aircraft, or what is left of the aircraft, in the not too distant future - but we haven't found it yet, because this is a very challenging business," he said.

Someone a week or so ago said, "It's impossible to find the needle in the haystack until you've found the haystack," or words to that effect. Sums it up pretty well.

[philip964]

http://news.yahoo.com/malaysia-flights- ... ector.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Copilots cell phone tried to make a call after plane went off course. Or not. Seems news about this event is hard to verify.

[jmra]

Air search is done.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/world ... .html?_r=0
SYDNEY, Australia — Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia announced on Monday an end to the search by air for debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, but he said the underwater search would be intensified and expanded.

[philip964]

http://news.yahoo.com/malaysia-assessin ... 02716.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Some outfit who looks for minerals or something has found some images that look like a plane on the bottom of the ocean. But its in the Bay of Bengal, which I guess is near India.