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Breaking news

Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with a plane travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board.

The airline said in a statement that flight MH370 disappeared at 02:40 local time on Saturday (18:40 GMT on Friday).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26492748

I'm praying the plane is found and people on the plane survive.

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Perhaps Roselvr means Military Radar and Australia's powerful Jindalee Radar which has a range of 3,000km

And, perhaps, that is why Australia knew exactly where to look for the aircraft. jmo

Yes; military radar. The search areas do not look that far from Australia. What if this was similar to 9/11 & the intended target was Australia? This is assuming MH370 had more fuel to get there. When would they have noticed it?

Rescue operation underway as South Korean passenger ship sinks

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/15/world/asia/south-korea-sinking-ship-students/

How horrible!
 

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http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...e-has-been-found/story-fnizu68q-1226885865464

It is estimated it will take sonar-equipped Bluefin-21 six week to two months to scan the entire search area.

Hopefully, they will find something sooner..these searches have been going 24 hours..I applaud all the women and men on board those Ships for their hard work and dedication.

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..the key breakthrough in locating the missing aircraft was made during the analysis of MH370’s flight path.

“Somewhere out of some place, fantastic pieces of intelligence were put together to really narrow it down to a small, small area,” he said.

“And that’s how these guys have been able to find it so quickly.

“The Ocean Shield was out there a couple of days and they got a hit. That has been a tremendous success and miraculous. People were searching for a miracle. This was one.”
 
What happened to the Chinese ship that detected the first ping? I haven't heard anything about it since then.
 
Weren't the Chinese pings in another area? I presume they were a false alarm/red herring.
 
What happened to the Chinese ship that detected the first ping? I haven't heard anything about it since then.

Weren't the Chinese pings in another area? I presume they were a false alarm/red herring.


It turned out to be a False alarm
They sent the British ship HMS Echo to the area the Chinese were searching but the sound did not come from MH370's flight recorder locator beacon

We did post about it on an earlier Thread..

Trying to find an MSM link for you..:findinglink:

UPDATE
Sorry haven't found the msm link that said the Chinese pulse signal heard last weekend was a false alarm
 
I don't understand. Are they saying they found the plane?

Not following
Who is saying they found the plane?

The Australian ship Ocean Shield has narrowed down the search area with the towed pinger locator and now they are searching that underwater area with the Bluefin-21
 
I don't understand. Are they saying they found the plane?

No. I think they just have a high degree of confidence (based on Inmarsat data, likely flight path, and black box pings, plus info that perhaps only military is privy to) that they're in the right area, and a reasonably small area at that. Small is relative, though, and the submersibles move slowly, which is why they keep warning people it will be time-consuming. But they are investing that time based on, again, a high degree of confidence based on an aggregate of data that's been collected over the last few weeks.

EDIT: I should also mention that on other forums I'm on, the loss of the black box signal is considered a good thing--the batteries were supposed to run out right about when they did, which is more proof they're in the right area.
 
I don't understand. Are they saying they found the plane?

The black boxes in airliners have a sonar pinger that sends out a Ping every second. The batteries that power this device are designed to last about a month. A ship sent to the area where the missing 777 is believed to to be heard a pinger for a while, but it has now gone silent. Presumably because the battery power has run out. The pinger data doesn't tell us precisely where the aircraft is, but leaves us with a much smaller area to search.

The searchers are now using a remote controlled submarine to search the ocean floor using an active sonar system. This should be able to find the wreckage, but it is a slow process that may take weeks or even months.
 
The last report I read said the missing airliner was somewhere in a 100 square km region. Has that figure been revised?
 
I heard mentioned on CNN ( Wolf Blitzer) that something like a bread basket was found (floating I think) and was being analyzed. Anyone else hear anything on this?
 
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