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[Momoffourboys]

MH370 data released, can’t be deciphered
FMT Staff | May 27, 2014
The raw data from British satellite firm Inmarsat were used to trace the path of the missing plane.
UPDATED
PETALING JAYA: The Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) today released the data communication logs of Flight MH370.
The raw data which is from British satellite firm Inmarsat were used to trace the path of the missing flight.
Although explanation was given with the data logs, expert help is needed to decipher the logs.

The release of the data followed calls from missing passengers’ relatives for more transparency in the probe into the aircraft’s mysterious disappearance.
The communication logs consists of data from “handshakes” between the aircraft and the satellite, said Inmarsat.

DCA has released 47 pages of raw satellite data used to conclude that the missing Malaysia Airlines jet crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.

That Inmarsat data consists of a few electronic pings between the plane and the British company’s satellite network. It was analyzed and used as the basis for focusing the recovery search — so far without success — on a remote section of the southern Indian Ocean west of Australia.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/ca...70-data-logs-released-but-cant-be-deciphered/

 

[marlywings]

The data logs....

http://www.dca.gov.my/mainpage/MH370 Data Communication Logs.pdf

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Satellite 'Handshakes': Data on Missing Jet Released

By Alastair Jamieson

Malaysia's government and satellite firm Inmarsat on Tuesday released the data used to determine the path of missing flight MH370, responding to calls from passengers' relatives for greater transparency.

The data from satellite communications with the Malaysia Airlines plane, which runs to 47 pages in a report prepared by Inmarsat, features hourly "handshakes" - or network log-on confirmations - after the aircraft disappeared from civilian radar screens on March 8.

Families of passengers are hoping that opening up the data to analysis by a wider range of experts can help verify the plane's last location, nearly three months after the Boeing 777 with 239 passengers and crew disappeared.

Separately, Australian investigators said the plane was likely running out of fuel when it stopped communicating with the satellite.

In a new analysis of available information, the Australian Transportation Safety Bureau said the final "handshake" was "consistent with the satellite communication equipment on the aircraft powering up following a power interruption," adding: "The interruption in electrical supply may have been caused by fuel exhaustion."

It added that calculations based on the amount of fuel on board were consistent with the jet running out of fuel at the point where the final "handshake" occurred...

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mis...leased-n115001

 

[time]

http://www.kansas.com/2014/05/26/3475946/ap-news-in-brief-at-558-pm-edt.html

But at least one independent expert said his initial impression was that the communication logs didn't include key assumptions, algorithms and metadata needed to validate the investigation team's conclusions that the plane flew south after dropping off radar screens 90 minutes into the flight.
"It's a whole lot of stuff that is not very important to know," said Michael Exner, a satellite engineer who has been intensively researching the calculations. "There are probably two or three pages of important stuff, the rest is just noise. It doesn't add any value to our understanding."

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/05/26/3475946/ap-news-in-brief-at-558-pm-edt.html#storylink=cpy

More at...

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/no-value-in-malaysia-plane-data-30308069.html

Sarah Bajc, whose husband was on the flight, does not believe that the plane few south and had been critical of the Malaysian government. She has been at the forefront of a campaign to press the government for more transparency.

She said that "a half dozen very qualified people were looking" at the information and she hoped to have their take soon.
But along with Mr Exner, she was also critical of the way it was released. The government put it in a PDF file not in its original data form, making working with it far more time-consuming.

"A little tweak to make people work harder needlessly," she wrote in an email.

 

[time]

I'M CYNICAL...

The lion's share of the information released relates to data from MH370 while it was still on the ground in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.

It goes on to give information about the electronic pings or 'handshakes' received from the aircraft after its ACARS communication system was switched off shortly after it took off for Beijing.

Aviation analysts say one of the so-called pings - at 11.41pm on the night the aircraft disappeared - is omitted from the data.

We don't know why.

They also say that additional data giving the exact position of satellites and their distance from the aircraft have not been released.

It is this kind of detail which makes further interpretation by others difficult.

http://news.sky.com/story/1270022/mh370-data-leaves-many-unanswered-questions

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

MH370: Is Inmarsat right?

By Richard Quest, CNN

updated 10:21 AM EDT, Tue May 27, 2014

(CNN) -- In the aviation mystery which has baffled the world there is one fundamental question which continues to swirl: Has Inmarsat got its numbers right?

It was these very calculations which led the search for MH370 far from the plane's original route across South East Asia and deep into the southern Indian Ocean, off the west coast of Australia. No piece of work is more important in the search for the plane.

I was given exclusive access to the satellite experts who did the ground-breaking work. Time and again, I would ask them the toughest question: "Are you right?"

But before we get there ... How did the data come to light in the first place?

Once the plane went missing, the ground station in Perth checked the logs and discovered that while the aircraft's communications systems were switched off, the plane and the satellite still kept saying "hello" to each other, every hour.

"Having messages for six hours after the plane is lost is probably the biggest disbelief," admits Inmarsat's vice president of satellite operations Mark Dickinson.

These messages are the raw data upon which everything rests...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/27/world/asia/mh370-is-inmarsat-right-quest-analysis/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

 

[Amee]

The raw data released today covers transmissions from the aircraft, a series of so-called electronic handshakes, but does not include more sensitive information on how Inmarsat’s ground station in Perth, Australia, receives and records satellite transmissions.

This ensures that intelligence agencies from countries such as North Korea are unable to track flights elsewhere based on the raw data. This is also because various aircraft use different types of satellite transmission terminals on board, the NYT report added.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/...0-crashed-in-indian-ocean-says-new-york-times

 

[ElleElle]

"So why is Dickinson so sure he is right? Because the model they created showing arcs and Doppler readings was rigorously tested, initially on other aircraft on the satellite at the same time, and then against previous flights by the same aircraft. With minor disagreements both the position and the Doppler reading of those aircraft was predicted accurately."

Why are they comparing against previous flights?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/27/world/asia/mh370-is-inmarsat-right-quest-analysis/

 

[Momoffourboys]

MH370 relatives accuse Malaysia of withholding data

Many relatives are frustrated over the lack of progress, and have little faith in the complex process used to form the theory that the plane veered off course for reasons unknown after losing contact, and then crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.

Michael Exner, a US-based satellite engineer and one of the most prominent independent experts to analyse the findings, said Malaysia had failed to provide crucial supporting details together with the Inmarsat logs.

“There is a little bit more new information that may help us. But there is just a very large body of metadata that is missing,” he told AFP.

“They are not being transparent,” he added. “It may not be possible to draw any conclusions. Why don’t they just release all? Why do they hide so much of it?”
Exner said it would take days to properly examine even the limited technical data that had been released.

Steve Wang, a spokesman for a support group of relatives of the flight’s 153 Chinese passengers, accused authorities of holding back data.
“We want a complete report releasing all the information on how the theory behind the plane’s position was reached, so that we can invite experts to give their independent opinion.”

“So much time has passed and nothing has been found, so we doubt that the calculated position of the plane is correct,” he said.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/ca...elatives-accuse-malaysia-of-withholding-data/

 

[Amee]

The four acoustic underwater ‘‘pings’’ picked up last month are no longer believed to have come from the flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorders, in a major setback in the ongoing search, says Michael Dean, the US Navy’s deputy director for salvage and diving.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/missing...ficial-says-20140529-zrrdo.html#ixzz333W3rSf4

 

[Amee]

It has been suggested in the flood of international commentary about the aircraft’s disappearance and the so far fruitless search for it that communications giant Inmarsat’s interpretation of its data could be wrong and might not demonstrate that flight MH370 necessarily came south.

The data and technique used by Inmarsat has been independently peer reviewed by a number of organisations outside of Inmarsat, in both the UK and USA,” Mr Houston said.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...-theory-spurned/story-e6frg95x-1226935428695#

 

[Amee]

The US Navy has moved to dismiss comments from one of its officials who said pings thought to have come from MH370's black box were probably emitted by the search ship itself.

"Mike Dean's comments today were speculative and premature, as we continue to work with our partners to more thoroughly understand the data acquired by the towed pinger locator.

"As such, we would defer to the Australians, as the lead in the search effort, to make additional information known at the appropriate time."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-...sses-experts-comments-on-search-pings/5485970

 

[Amee]

A NEW 3D map of the Indian Ocean floor could help with the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Underwater mapping experts Walter Smith and Karen Marks of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry have created an underwater map of the Indian Ocean were MH370 is thought to have vanished.


http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...-in-indian-ocean/story-fnizu68q-1226935259145

 

[Amee]

Breaking news
ATSB "discounts" Indian Ocean search area where pings heard as final resting place for MH370


The Joint Agency Coordination Centre searching for missing flight MH370 says it has completed its search in the Indian Ocean where pings were detected and have discounted the zone as the final resting place of the Malaysia Airlines plane.
more to come

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-29/mh370-search-zone-not-resting-place-of-plane/5487052

 

[Amee]

Media Release
29 May 2014—pm

Joint Agency Coordination Centre

Yesterday afternoon, Bluefin-21 completed its last mission searching the remaining areas in the vicinity of the acoustic signals detected in early April by the Towed Pinger Locator deployed from ADV Ocean Shield, within its depth operating limits.

The data collected on yesterday's mission has been analysed. As a result, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre can advise that no signs of aircraft debris have been found by the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle since it joined the search effort.

Since Bluefin-21 has been involved in the search, it has scoured over 850 square kilometres of the ocean floor looking for signs of the missing aircraft.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has advised that the search in the vicinity of the acoustic detections can now be considered complete and in its professional judgement, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place of MH370.

Ocean Shield departed the search area last night and is expected to arrive at Fleet Base West on Saturday.

As advised by the Australian Deputy Prime Minister on 5 May 2014, the search for MH370 continues and now involves three major stages:

reviewing all existing information and analysis to define a search zone of up to 60,000 square kilometres along the arc in the southern Indian Ocean;
conducting a bathymetric survey to map the sea floor in the defined search area; and
acquiring the specialist services required for a comprehensive search of the sea floor in that area.

The expert satellite working group continues to review and refine complex analyses of radar and satellite data and aircraft performance data to determine where the aircraft most likely entered the water. The findings of the review will be made public in due course.

The Chinese survey ship Zhu Kezhen has already begun conducting the bathymetric survey—or mapping of the ocean floor—of the areas provided by the ATSB. Its operations are being supported by the Chinese ship Haixun 01 and Malaysian vessel Bunga Mas 6 which are assisting with transporting the survey data to Fremantle weekly for further processing by Geoscience Australia. A contracted survey vessel will join the Zhu Kezhen in June.

The bathymetric survey is expected to take about three months. Knowing the seafloor terrain is crucial to enabling the subsequent underwater search.

The underwater search will aim to locate the aircraft and any evidence (such as aircraft debris and flight recorders) to assist with the Malaysian investigation of the disappearance of MH370.

It is anticipated that this component of the search will begin in August and take up to 12 months.

The ATSB will shortly release a formal request for tender to source the capability to undertake the underwater search. A single prime contractor will be chosen to bring together and manage the expertise, equipment and vessels to carry out the search.

The request for tender will be done via AusTender, the Australian Government Tender System: www.tenders.gov.au

http://www.jacc.gov.au/media/releases/2014/may/mr048.aspx

 

[Amee]

Along with surface searches, examination of satellite data and the undersea sonar searches, authorities have asked the United Nations' Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) to check its system of hydrophones, designed to pick up possible nuclear tests, for any clues as to where the aircraft may have crashed.

"Both the CTBTO and institutions from our 183 Member States ... have analyzed all relevant International Monitoring System data - infrasound, seismic and hydroacoustic - without finding any signal that could point to the fate of MH370," a spokesman from CTBOT said in an emailed response.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/2...missing-malaysia-plane-not-where-pings-heard/

 

[Elley Mae]

MH370: Australia rules out main search zone

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-the-indian-ocean-search-zone-authorities-say

The missing Malaysia Airlines plane is not in the Indian Ocean search zone where underwater “pings” were detected, the Australian search authorities have announced, after a US navy officer cast doubt on whether the signals were from a plane's black box flight recorder.

 

[marlywings]

May 29, 2014 7:13PM

Transport Minister Warren Truss told parliament today the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane will continue in the Indian Ocean even though it was not found in the recent search zone. He said search is about to move into a new phase and Australia was committed to doing everything it can to find the plane.

“We are still very confident that the resting place of the aircraft is in the Southern Ocean,” he said.

The next search begins in August and is expected to take about 12 months.

“Unfortunately this is a painstaking effort in a very large ocean.” The next area could be 800 kilometers long and 70km wide, he said.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...g-mh370-jetliner/story-fniztvng-1226935425606

 

[dotr]

Any chance at all that the flight landed/ crashed in the Arctic?

http://cryopolitics.com/2014/04/02/the-tyranny-of-time-and-distance-in-arctic-sar/

http://www.iasc.info/home/service/n...malaysian-international-seminar-on-antarctica

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/oceans-narrated-by-sylvia-earle/oceans-arctic

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Search area for MH370 can now be 'discounted'

After thorough search, missing plane nowhere to be found

Author: By Ed Payne, Rene Marsh and Mike M. Ahlers CNN

Published On: May 29 2014 01:07:50 AM EDT Updated 1 h

(CNN) -
The 850-square-kilometer swath of the Indian Ocean where officials have focused their hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 probably isn't the right place, the joint search agency said Thursday.

The area off the coast of western Australia is not the "final resting place of MH370," the Australia-based Joint Agency Coordination Centre said.

Officials zeroed in on that zone after acoustic pings originally thought to be from the black boxes of the missing plane were detected in early April.

"The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has advised that the search in the vicinity of the acoustic detections can now be considered complete and in its professional judgment, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place of MH370," a statement from the JACC said...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/search-area-for-mh370-complete-can-now-be-discounted/26221220