Malaysia airlines plane may have crashed 239 people on board #16

lol, I agree entirely, I was not clear in my wording sorry, I meant the sea, I never for a split second from day one entertained the possibility of the plane being anywhere other than the ocean

 

Weather adds to searchers woes

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/22169428/weather-adds-to-searchers-woes/

 

Someone mentioned the possibility of the hijackers parachuting out. That might explain the dip to 12,000 feet, if that altitude reporting is correct.

But where would they land? They would have to parachute out AFTER the South turn, right? The only possible land after that would be Indonesia.

Unless they jumped out right after they programming the left turn, but that would be in the middle of the water.

 

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2014/03/09/16/30/pilot-heard-mumbling-from-malaysia-airlines-mh370

The pilot was asked to relay a message to MH370 to establish its position on his plane's emergency frequency as authorities could not contact it.

"We managed to establish contact with MH370 just after 1.30am (4.30am AEDT) and asked them if they have transferred into Vietnamese airspace," the pilot said.

"The voice on the other side could have been either Captain Zahaire or Fariq, but I was sure it was the co-pilot.

"There was a lot of interference… static… but I heard mumbling from the other end.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/15/flight-mh370-malaysia-hunt-speculation

The pilot who said he tried to reach the flight at the behest of Vietnamese air traffic control shortly after 1.30am – when the transponders were already off – said he could hear only mumbling amid heavy interference, but believed he was probably speaking to the first officer.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...-made-contact-with-missing-malaysian-flight/#

The captain, who declined to give his name, said his Narita, Japan-bound plane was well into into Vietnamese airspace when controllers — who could make contact — requested that he relay with his plane’s emergency frequency a message to MH370 so that it would establish its position.
“We managed to establish contact with MH370 just after 1:30 a.m. and asked them if they have transferred into Vietnamese airspace,” the pilot reportedly told New Straits Times. “The voice on the other side could have been either Captain Zaharie (Ahmad Shah, 53,) or Fariq (Abdul Hamid, 27), but I was sure it was the co-pilot.

 

We'll find out in a few hours if the search can happen today there. Only 3:17 a.m. in Perth.

Meanwhile, (this article also includes a video, looks like you have to make it play, at work no speakers, so I don't know if it auto starts or not.)

Search for MH370: Suspected debris lies above undersea volcanoes

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/sear...a-volcanoes-20140325-35gij.html#ixzz2x0I3tPLO

 

Wow! that's crazy, thanks for posting this. It's really interesting.
Almost makes you wonder if someone didn't want it found, and that is the remotest place to ditch the plane

 

One thing really good I heard from the Australian officials at their news conference last night.

He indicated they did in fact drop GPS marker bouyees out at the spotted debris site. So that means they will easily be able to go find that debris since the marker bouyees with GPS tracking will float along with the debris.

It may separate somewhat due to its different shape and weight. But I do think it will be close enough to help searches relocate the spotted debris.
He seemed very confident it will not be an issue and was one reason he is in no hurry to danger any of the searchers till weather gets better.

 

That is truly fascinating. I don't know how well known that info is though (until now, lol). Humans don't know a lot about the ocean - still!!! Amazing, but true.

Thanks for letting us know. I am not awake when all this goes on, so I did not get to hear that.

It is hopeful. :tyou:

 

I disagree with Richard Quest re: "all right, good night." He's saying it's no big deal because he's heard many pilots being that casual.

But if the Telegraph transcript is correct - we have to look at the previous communication of the co-pilot of 370 with ATC - he responds with "copy that" after every instruciton.

He was given an instruction: Contact Ho Chi Minh City ATC, good night.

He did not include "copy that" in his response.

He was also a young co-pilot flying with a very veteran pilot.....I would think he would want to be precise and "formal" and show that he could do this.

I think someone has breached the cockpit and disabled the pilots at that point.

JMO.

 

Jon Stewart ridicules CNN's coverage of the tragedy:

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/6...of-flight-370?xrs=synd_facebook_032514_tds_46

 

Unless they had a partner in a boat that was watching the low flying plane and signalled to the hijacker with his satellite phone to "JUMP". The hijacker could have also had smoke flares that we commonly see during football game skydiving jumps. Would make it easy to pluck him from water if he had life vest.

 

Ok so this is funny. And it's accurate. At first I thought it would be in bad taste regarding the actual missing plan itself but it did a great job poking fun at CNN. But I must admit I found myself engulfed in the wall to wall coverage of no real news.


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This is a description of what the marker boyees do and is very similar to the marker bouyees that I beleive were thrown out near the spotted debris. There even was video footage of one being thrown out but not sure if it was just example footage or real footage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-locating_datum_marker_buoy

 

I used to think it would be impossible for a plane to be lost in this day and age. I guess technology still has it's limits.

And I still hold out hope that at least some of them found safety somehow - praying for a miracle! lease:

 

black box finder just reached Australia - but don't they have just a few days to find it? And they don't even know where the debris field is yet.

 

Yeah, they have a limited number of days until the battery on the black box runs out and stops transmitting its "blip". I heard on one of the news sites that even though they are desinged to last lets say 30 days, they will sometimes keep "blipping" for a period of time after that even. Which is good news.

There is no guarantee after the 30 day design (or whatever design is) but it sounded like they commonly will keep working for like up to 20 more days or even more beyond their design depending on conditions until it finally runs out.

The officials will probably try to use that locator as soon as they spot most of the debris field with the hopes of picking up the black box signal. They probably would have liked to have waited till for sure where plane is but I bet they go out early as soon as main debris is spotted.

 

Thanks for the levity. It made me LOL. "Don't answer Mary, it's a trap!"