Re: Aussies aboard missing Malaysian airliner

by buckSH Wed 12 Mar 2014, 15:21

note the legs.

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by buckSH Wed 12 Mar 2014, 15:52

this email floating around the net ..

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by taipan Wed 12 Mar 2014, 17:48

I didn't realise hotmail was still running.

by skully Wed 12 Mar 2014, 22:22

This whole thing sound like a massive balls up by the Malays. Very embarrassing search and rescue effort.

by horace Thu 13 Mar 2014, 01:49

taipan wrote:Wasn't Goebbels part of the Western media

his spirit did spin work for FW, Vorster, Terreblanch and Hansie in old Yarpville

by G.Wood Thu 13 Mar 2014, 02:02

The chinese have released satellite images of potential debris southeast of the last point of contact. Given they have been critical of the way the Malaysians have handled confusing and contradictory info you would think they would make bloody sure of what they found before they released.

However, the seppo "experts" are poopooing it because they think the pieces are too large to come from a 777. Of course that could just be inherint whitey racism because a yellow man beat them to the punch

by buckSH Thu 13 Mar 2014, 03:13

they found the sat images of debris on Sunday and releasing it on Thursday, surely not highest on their list of priorities ..

BBC wrote:The website of China's State Administration of Science carries three satellite images taken on Sunday - a day after the plane went missing.

The images, which appear to show fragments in the sea, were only published on Wednesday. Co-ordinates alongside them would place the objects in the South China Sea between Malaysia and Vietnam.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26541057

by buckSH Thu 13 Mar 2014, 03:44

this may well explain why the Malaysian authorities are bulls'ing everyone. They may be in negotiations with the hijackers and are playing for time. Meanwhile they mislead everyone on false leads, waffling on location every now & then, false chase and fake sightings.

Special Comment: Malaysia is a modern wealthy country that, with British and Commonwealth help, defeated a communist insurgency more than 40 years ago. It was a long hard fight.

Malaysia's state religion is Islam. Its leaders pride themselves that no Islamist terrorist attacks have taken place in Malaysia. Malay elites are strongly pro-UK and mildly hostile to Americans. Educated Malays have become increasingly and openly more devout since 1979.

Malaysia is tolerant of Islamists. It is a place where they can go to ground, rest, plan and prepare attacks, provided they cause no trouble in Malaysia. A suburb of Kuala Lumpur, the capital, was a production site for Pakistan's A.Q. Khan's nuclear weapons proliferation syndicate.

This background, based on decades of watching Malaysia, helps explain Malaysia's pathetic and almost criminal lack of cooperation with international efforts to find the missing Boeing 777-200 passenger aircraft. The NightWatch hypothesis is that the Malaysian authorities suspected terrorism, but did not want to share that suspicion to avoid losing face.

Almost three dozen ships from 9 or 10 countries wasted their time searching in the wrong place and senior Malays knew it. For at least three days the Royal Malaysian Air Force and the government failed to come forward with radar tracking information in their possession that the aircraft was not lost over the South China Sea, but over the northern approach to the Malacca Strait - off the west coast of Malaysia. They have not explained their behavior.

It is premature to conclude the missing aircraft was involved in an act of air terrorism. If the aircraft was downed by terrorist action, it would be an embarrassing first for Malaysia. The failure to provide timely and accurate information for the international search is inexcusable. Malaysia has lost face.

http://www.kforcegov.com/NightWatch/NightWatch_14000050.aspx

by buckSH Thu 13 Mar 2014, 05:35

another tidbit

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579434653903086282

Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours
Engine Data Suggest Malaysia Flight Was Airborne Long After Radar Disappearance, U.S. Investigators Say

By ANDY PASZTOR CONNECT
Updated March 13, 2014 12:50 a.m. ET
U.S. investigators suspect that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stayed in the air for about four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location, according to two people familiar with the details, raising the possibility that the plane could have flown on for hundreds of additional miles under conditions that remain murky.

Aviation investigators and national security officials believe the plane flew for a total of five hours...

by G.Wood Thu 13 Mar 2014, 05:39

How did they get engine data if the transponder wasn't sending data? or is that just another malay furphy?

edit
don't worry the link finally opened.

Seems important information to only be coming out now

by The One Fri 14 Mar 2014, 07:45

so now they are looking in the andaman sea. you'd have to fly over malaysia to get there. you would think the malaysian ATC would notice that a 777 is crossing its airspace when it is not supposed to

this is a real mystery to most of the world. someone somewhere surely knows more

by Red Sat 15 Mar 2014, 04:39

Official says investigators have concluded missing flight MH370 was hijacked, according to press agency AP.

by lardbucket Sat 15 Mar 2014, 05:03

It might have refuelled in Yemen by now, who knows ... but whatever happened, none of those passengers are with us now.

by taipan Sat 15 Mar 2014, 06:34

So hijacking basically confirmed.

by Big Dog Sat 15 Mar 2014, 06:36

Malaysian PM just held a news conference. He stopped short of saying it was hijacked but did say that the tracking systems were deliberately disabled & that the plane turned west & may have been headed for Turkey.

by taipan Sat 15 Mar 2014, 06:39

Big Dog wrote:Malaysian PM just held a news conference. He stopped short of saying it was hijacked but did say that the tracking systems were deliberately disabled & that the plane turned west & may have been headed for Turkey.

The way I understood it they didn't know whether it turned north or south after re crossing the Malaysian Penisula.

by The One Sat 15 Mar 2014, 12:03

an impossible task now. if it was a successful hijack it would have been public by now. no one hijacks a plane and keeps it a secret, its all for getting attention to your cause. could also possibly be a suicidal pilot. who knows

the time that has gone past and the size of the new search area suggests we might never find it

by PeterCS Sat 15 Mar 2014, 12:35

They are now suggesting a possible destination of the Caspian or Black Sea!

Is it some thuggish attempt to assist Vlad the Impaler's bid to take over Eastern Europe?

None of it bodes well for the passengers, in any case. I fear they are lost.

by lardbucket Sat 15 Mar 2014, 23:00

Yep.

But the airliner may still be intact to fly another mission ...

by JGK Sat 15 Mar 2014, 23:18

Surely there is more hope now for the passengers being alive than there was when we all thought it crashed and sank in the sea?

by Henry Sat 15 Mar 2014, 23:19

lardbucket wrote:Yep.

But the airliner may still be intact to fly another mission ...

If it had flown north (north-west) for up to six hours, then radars in India ad the 'stans' would have picked it up, which they didn't. If it had flown south, then there is nothing but ocean for thousands of kilometres, and it would have run out of fuel and crashed. The nearest land would be North-West Australia.

Chances are it crashed in the Indian Ocean, somewhere in the vast area between Western Australia and Madagaskar. It's a stretch of around 5000 kms, so it could take months or even years before the plane is found. There will be SOME debris somewhere. A commercial airliner has many things on board that float. It could eventually wash up on the coast.

by lardbucket Sat 15 Mar 2014, 23:28

PASSENGERS PROBABLY ALL DIED HYPOXIC DEATHS ... but a renegade pilot could have brought his own supplementary supply aboard

by JGK Sat 15 Mar 2014, 23:45

But then what's the point of it all?

by Henry Sat 15 Mar 2014, 23:50

The pilot must be a seriously unstable individual if he killed 238 people and himself protesting against a five year jail sentence.

by tricycle Sun 16 Mar 2014, 02:52

Divorced from wife but lives in the same house... definitely got issues.

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