'Contact lost' with Malaysia Airlines plane

[LOAM]

Tomnod searching is surely more or less pointless now inst it? What wreckage that is visible at the insanely small scale the map is available at, is still going to be floating now after a week? and a debris "field" will have been so dissipated by currents that you wouldn't recognise is anyway.

 

[BuffetSlayer]

Tomnod searching is surely more or less pointless now inst it? What wreckage that is visible at the insanely small scale the map is available at, is still going to be floating now after a week?

Probably, I hear tractor beams are powerful on alien ships!

 

[Drukk]

Anyway hope you are well, haven't seen you about in a while.

Doing okay thanks mate although you probably heard about the big contract ending with BA, that will have an impact, we have other work but its not a great situation for us!

Not seen you for awhile on the school run, will have to catch up for a chat sometime, maybe bring your lad over in the upcoming holidays for a morning?
Omg, I'm sounding like one of the mums organising a coffee morning!

 

[Cosimo]

The abducted by aliens theory isn't looking so ridiculous now is it!

It's still ridiculous.

 

[kindai]

If I was a criminal on the run, I'd be heading straight for Malaysia.

If they can't find a 777, what chance have they got of finding little me.

Ouuuuchhh

 

[Atlas23]

It's still ridiculous.

NO. You are ridiculous

 

[Cosimo]

NO. You are ridiculous

Well it is Friday.

 

[VoG]

The Americans probably spotted it on satellite the moment it went down/off course. Probably going to release bits slowly so as to not embarrass the Malaysians.

The Malaysians are doing a grand job of embarrassing them selves, i don't think any thing the Americans do at this point in time will add to the Malaysians discomfort.

 

[spookywillow]

is it known if anyone of importance was on the flight?

 

[Lance9394]

This strange to not even find anything for this long already

 

[Lysander]

This strange to not even find anything for this long already

Not that strange when you consider a cover-up or abduction.

 

[Devlish]

If I was a criminal on the run, I'd be heading straight for Malaysia.

If they can't find a 777, what chance have they got of finding little me.

Their internal security is very good, and they have neat little laws like the ISA, with which they lock you up, throw away the key, and there is nothing you can do about it.

However, if you went swimming in the Indian Ocean... yes you may well be a lot tougher to find.

 

[Atlas23]

Well it is Friday.

Yeh you're right. Demnon Friday

 

[weeble]

Maybe the Somalian pirates decided to switch from hijacking ships to planes, and ran out of fuel across the indian ocean...

Whatever has happened, it is certainly intriguing (having followed this thread from the beginning).

 

[Zbornak]

Have the press asked what cargo was on board?

 

[Cosimo]

Now saying that it was flown towards India's Andaman Islands:

Reuters) - Military radar-tracking evidence suggests a Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing for nearly a week was deliberately flown across the Malay peninsula towards the Andaman Islands, sources familiar with the investigation told Reuters on Friday.

Two sources said an unidentified aircraft that investigators believe was Flight MH370 was following a route between navigational waypoints - indicating it was being flown by someone with aviation training - when it was last plotted on military radar off the country's northwest coast.

The last plot on the military radar's tracking suggested the plane was flying toward India's Andaman Islands, a chain of isles between the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, they said.

Waypoints are geographic locations, worked out by calculating longitude and latitude, that help pilots navigate along established air corridors.

A third source familiar with the investigation said inquiries were focusing increasingly on the theory that someone who knew how to fly a plane deliberately diverted the flight, with 239 people on board, hundreds of miles off its intended course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

 

[Amp34]

While this sounds plausible, or even if there was a slow decompression causing crew and passenger incapacitation, there is no way a plane flying on autopilot, not responding, possibly deviating off course, wouldn't be intercepted... I just can't see how a plane can travel for 4 to 5 hours, essentially unauthorised, and not catch anyone's attention.

How did it fly that far off track on autopilot as well? The Greek one linked above ended up in a holding pattern over Athens airport so the logical assumption would be that the plane fell out of the sky around Beijing if everyone was incapacitated. If they knew there was a problem then they probably would have reported it and I assume reprogrammed the autopilot?

 

[Lysander]

How did it fly that far off track on autopilot as well? The Greek one linked above ended up in a holding pattern over Athens airport so the logical assumption would be that the plane fell out of the sky around Beijing if everyone was incapacitated. If they knew there was a problem then they probably would have reported it and I assume reprogrammed the autopilot?

I think it's pretty safe to assume now that it wasn't autopilot and that it was flown deliberately off course [by the pilot perchance]. I think the decompression theory can be scrapped.

 

[Amp34]

I also doubt that it could fly for hours and go unnoticed.

The only clear thing about all this is just how bad it's being dealt with. It's so bad that I can't help but think someone isn't being totally honest with the facts at hand.

If they are looking in the wrong place: With all this time passing, It's highly likely that everyone is dead from that flight, sadly.

What's I keep thinking is the possibility that it has crashed and then sunk in an unusual way, leaving next to no trace.

How powerful are the black box transmitters?

Is it being dealt with that badly or is it that they have no idea where it is and spend most of their news conferences refuting "evidence" printed in newspapers by journalists getting "information" from UN named sources. So far there have been so many suggestions of last contact by many newspapers reporting "sources" but none, other than the last contact and handover to vietnamise ATC have come from official sources. Boeing and RR haven't stated anything officially.

This is pergahaps why there are rules keeping information secret until after the plane is found, to stop misinformation hampering the search.

 

[Lysander]

Is it being dealt with that badly or is it that they have no idea where it is and spend most of their news conferences refuting "evidence" printed in newspapers by journalists getting "information" from UN named sources. So far there have been so many suggestions of last contact by many newspapers reporting "sources" but none, other than the last contact and handover to vietnamise ATC have come from official sources. Boeing and RR haven't stated anything officially.

The speculation has been ravenous. I don't think it's been dealt with that badly, they're following leads and trying to keep those leads quiet for the most part [e.g. the mistake on the Chinese website about the 'debris']. This is a prime example of the media making a total hash of it. Some of the articles have been ridiculous.