Malaysia Airlines Articles

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/12/14 at 11:16am

I was loathe to start a new post but I find myself unable to post in the original thread. I can open it and I can click on "reply to message". But once the dialog box is open I am unable to paste the link or even type in any of the boxes. I cannot even click on the "return to message board" button. The only way I can leave the thread is by closing the window. And, it's the only thread I've had that issue with and has been since last night.

Anyway, I found this article to be interesting. Always good to see people pitching in to help their fellow man.
Crowdsourcing volunteers comb satellite photos for Malaysia Airlines jet

[Marianne2]

Posted: 3/12/14 at 11:45am

You aren't the only one having a problem with that thread. It did exactly as you described to me, except I can't click on the reply button at all.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 11:59am

Transponder's fate may prove key to solving Malaysia Airlines puzzle

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 12:07pm

WSJ reported this morning that the manufacturer of the engines received an automated maintenance update, which indicates the plane flew another 4 - 5 hours after the transponders had been shut off. Of course Malaysia completely denies this claim and says this report doesn't exist. What a mess.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 12:13pm

Officials deny report that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 kept flying for hours

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 2:31pm

Well, whatever it was it happened fast, since the pilot made no distress call. So, a mid-air explosion, a terrorist attack, complete power failure, electronic warfare, hijacking, pilot error, structural failure, pilot suicide, or an aeronautical black hole. What a nightmare.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 3:14pm

aeronautical black hole.

Let me just say what we are all thinking: "aliens".

There, it's out there.

[BudFrump23]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 3:39pm

Saw this article floating around Facebook. Don't know if these things hold true, but it's still an interesting read.


6 Things To Know

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 3:59pm

Sounds like a Twilight Zone episode The Odyssey Of Flight 33

Updated On: 3/13/14 at 03:59 PM

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 7:08pm

http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-officials-malaysia-airline-crashed-indian-ocean/story?id=22894802

U.S. investigators told ABC News that the two modes of communication were "systematically shut down."

That means the U.S. team "is convinced that there was manual intervention," a source said, which means it was likely not an accident or catastrophic malfunction that took the plane out of the sky.

[Addison D.]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 7:18pm

I hope they solve this thing before Tsoukalos & Co. show up...

Seriously, though--the updates all seem to be of the "Still no news" variety. The fact that the systems were "systematically shut down" suggests planning and malicious intent, but don't terrorists usually claim responsibility for acts of terror?

You're not doing your cause much good if no-one knows who you are and why you did it.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 7:25pm

It's such a mystery.

I can't imagine the anguish of the families of those on that flight.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 3/14/14 at 9:36am

I can't wrap my head around all of this!
(pardon my back-to-back posts!)

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/14/14 at 9:41am

Satellite Data Reveal Route of Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane

[HorseTears]

Posted: 3/14/14 at 11:03am

While of course sympathetic to the anguish the families must be experiencing, I thought it was a bit silly the way people were obsessed with this disappearance--I just assumed they'd find the wreckage in a few days. But each day we get more puzzling revelations. This is just getting nuts.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 3/14/14 at 11:28am

"You're not doing your cause much good if no-one knows who you are and why you did it"

The WSJ article from yesterday speculates that someone stole the plane to use in a future terror attack.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/14/14 at 11:32am

I cannot even imagine what it is like to be living in a hotel room and waiting day after day for news on what happened to your loved on

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/15/14 at 3:28pm

Malaysian leader: Plane's disappearance deliberate

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/15/14 at 4:55pm

I seem to remember years ago an Egyptian air plane crashed because the pilot committed suicide and crashed the plane.

Something like this might have happened or it may have been hijacked. There is a very real possibility they may never find either the wreckage or the plane intact if hijacked.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 10:03am

I'm imagining the beginning of a catastrophic terrorist attack against Moscow by an Islamist separatist group from one of the Russian Muslim republics, timed to strike when Putin invades Crimea. It would be parked in Kazakhstan, the passengers killed or imprisoned, and they are waiting to take advantage of a Crimean attack by Russia as a distraction. At that point, the weaponized plane will be flown directly into the Kremlin.

Or perhaps, having nothing to do with the timing of Crimea, it will be used by Chinese Islamist separatist group for a strike against Beijing.

Updated On: 3/16/14 at 10:03 AM

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 10:51am

This part of the newest CNN update is absolutely fascinating to me:

Adding to the intrigue, ABC News reported that the dramatic left turn was preprogrammed into the plane's navigation computer. It's a task that would have required extensive piloting experience. Two senior law enforcement officials also told ABC that new information revealed the plane performed "tactical evasion maneuvers" after it disappeared from radar.


Growing Suspicion of the Flight's Pilots

[PalJoey]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 11:06am

Okay, this is weird, but the Daily Mail (which we know is a trashy British tabloid), reports that the older of the pilots, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, was a fanatical follower of the country's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim--who just so happens to have been jailed for homosexuality under the Muslim country's repressive laws...just HOURS before the jet disappeared.

And the Captain ATTENDED the trial and left, upset.

Read--and, as Mr. Ripley used to say, believe it or not.




DAILY MAIL: 'Democracy is dead': 'Fanatical' missing airliner pilot pictured wearing political slogan T-shirt as FBI reveals passengers on flight MH370 could be at a secret location

Updated On: 3/16/14 at 11:06 AM

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 12:15pm

I was watching a news show this am and it was said that there are ways to make a plane disappear. I guess these jerks knew how.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 12:18pm

Another update added into CNN's Noon report:

Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12:41 a.m. on March 8. The last satellite communication from the plane occurred at 8:11 a.m., Najib said, well past the scheduled arrival time in Beijing. It is possible this contact could have been made from the ground, as long as the airplane still had electrical power, Malaysia's civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said Sunday.

That last communication, Najib said, was in one of two possible traffic corridors shown on a map released to the press. A northern arc stretches from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand, and a southern arc spans from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.

"Due to the type of satellite data, we are unable to confirm the precise location of the plane when it last made contact with the satellite," Najib said.

Because the northern parts of the traffic corridor include some tightly guarded airspace over India, Pakistan, and even some U.S. installations in Afghanistan, U.S. authorities believe it more likely the aircraft crashed into waters outside of the reach of radar south of India, a U.S. official told CNN. If it had flown farther north, it's likely it would have been detected by radar.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 9:51pm

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 makes it clear: we need to rethink black boxes