[UPDATE]-Malaysia Airlines plane crashes in South China Sea after the Flight Vanishesd with 239 passengers .

[J.D]

so who ever is taking credit for the image ....... faked it.........

Possibly just more BS after finding the image on google - IIRC, its not even that part of the world but some 'eagle eye pilot' had seen the Image some while ago and took a copy

[mazigh]

I wonder why they haven't released arcs for the other pings

I think now they know what happened but we will never know - the rumour is the Captain hijacked the plane and crashed - closure for the Families, closure for the Malayasian Govt - everybody goes home :huh:

I don't believe the captain committed suicide, I looked on his youtube page, he really seemed to be into atheism and/or secularism and into Richard Dawkins, if you read Dawkins you'll know he often argues about the true morality of atheism and secularism, if that strikes a chord with you (and I think it did with the captain looking at his likes and subscriptions) I don't think you will kill 238 other people just to commit suicide. Or look at his own movies, eg the one he made on how to conserve energy with the airconditioning, seriously someone who goes to all that trouble to help other just won't kill 238 innocent people

You may like to read http://wfinlay.myweb.uga.edu/ASR1989.pdf

[nanana1]

After I have read, I did not think the pilot committed suicide. B)

[nanana1]

This is best possible chance of finding the missing MH370 aircraft : http://my.news.yahoo.com/two-objects-spotted-possibly-related-mh370-australia-pm-032211587.html

[J.D]

Yeah, wreckage spotted 1,550 miles SW of Perth, Australia - Oz military on their way

[dMog]

why does it take a tragedy like this for the regular joe on the street to be told that unless you are pretty much flying a passenger jet over land...ie large countries with all the modern avionics that you are pretty much invisible to the rest of the world until you are again over a large mass of the so called first world...developing countries and third world countries pretty much have only the basics and even the first world cannot keep tabs on every single flight every single second...again if the transponders quit for what ever reason the largest commercial flights pretty much disappear off the radar screens... this is even true over america and europe... with 6 thousand or mare aircraft in the air at one time and one transponder is shut off that flight will be extremely difficult to find .... 911 is an example of that

hopefully now this story can find it's eventual truthful and real conclusion and the families can get some much needed closure

Edited March 20, 2014 by dMog

[nanana1]

After this incident, the mechanism and design for the tracking of aircraft would be re-looked and improved upon. ;)

[dMog]

After this incident, the mechanism and design for the tracking of aircraft would be re-looked and improved upon. ;)

there will still be a absolute need for active transponders...with the extremely high numbers of planes in the air at any one point time in the world, passive radar without transponders is not an option that will work..also cell phone coverage is not a given as almost all people seem to think it is in all parts of the world especially over vast expanses of open ocean

[shamu726]

MH370 Press Briefing by Hishammuddin Hussein, Minister of Defence and Acting Minister of Transport

1. Australian satellite images

At 10:00 this morning, the Prime Minister received a call from the Prime Minister of Australia, informing him that ‘two possible objects related to the search’ for MH370 had been identified in the Southern Indian Ocean. The Australian authorities in Kuala Lumpur have also briefed me on the situation, and the Australian Foreign Minister has spoken to the Foreign Minister of Malaysia.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) continues co-ordinating the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft within Australia’s search and rescue area, with assistance from the Australian Defence Force, the New Zealand Air Force, and the US Navy.

AMSA’s Rescue Co-ordination Centre (RCC) Australia has received satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search for MH370.

RCC Australia received an expert assessment of commercial satellite imagery today. The images were captured by satellite. They may not be related to the aircraft.

The assessment of these images was provided by the Australian Geospatial Intelligence Organisation as a possible indication of debris southwest of Perth.

As a result of this information, four aircraft have been re-orientated to an area 2,500 kilometres southwest of Perth.

A Royal Australian Air Force P-3 Orion aircraft arrived in the area at about 10:50AM.

Another 3 aircraft have been tasked by RCC Australia to the area, including a second RAAF Orion, a Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion, and a US Navy P-8 Poseidon.

The Poseidon was expected to arrive early this afternoon. The second RAAF Orion was expected to depart RAAF Base Pearce, Perth, mid-afternoon. The New Zealand Orion was due to depart this afternoon.

An RAAF C-130 Hercules aircraft has been tasked by RCC Australia to drop datum marker buoys to assist in drift modelling. They will provide an on-going reference point if the task of relocating the objects becomes protracted.

A merchant ship that responded to a shipping broadcast issued by RCC Australia on Monday was also expected to arrive in the area this afternoon.

The Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Success is en route to the area but is some days away. The ship is well equipped to recover any objects located and proven to be from MH370.

Every effort is being made to locate the objects seen in the satellite imagery. It must be stressed that these sightings, while credible, are still to be confirmed.

2. Assets deployed

The search for MH370 is a multinational effort. I will now give you an update on the assets which have been deployed.

During the course of this operation, the Chief of the Defence Force has spoken to his counterparts from countries including:

• Australia

• China

• India

• Indonesia

• Japan

• Maldives

• Nepal

• New Zealand

• Singapore

• Thailand

• Vietnam

• The UK

• And the USA.

All were very supportive, and all offered their assistance. As the focus of the search has moved from the South China Sea and Straits of Malacca to the northern and southern corridors, our international partners have continued to provide whatever support they can.

A number of assets have been deployed at different phases of the search and rescue operation.

Currently, there are 18 ships, 29 aircraft and 6 ship-borne helicopters deployed along the northern and southern corridors, as follows:

Aircraft

In the northern corridor, there are 4 aircraft:

• 2 from Malaysia

• 1 from Japan

• And 1 from the US.

In the southern corridor, there are 25 aircraft:

• 2 from Malaysia

• 5 from Australia

• 3 from China

• 4 from Indonesia

• 2 from India

• 4 from Japan

• 1 from New Zealand

• 2 from South Korea

• 1 from the UAE

• And 1 from the USA.

Ships

All 18 ships are in the southern corridor:

• 6 from Malaysia

• 1 from Australia

• 5 from China

• And 6 from Indonesia.

This deployment includes 6 helicopters:

• 3 from Malaysia, and 3 from China.

Until we are certain that we have located MH370, search and rescue operations will continue in both corridors. I can confirm that Malaysia is sending 2 aircraft to Kazakhstan, and the UK is planning to send 1 ship to the southern corridor.

In addition to the assets I just listed above, a number of countries in the northern corridor are carrying out search and rescue operations within their own territory:

• China is using every means possible, including 21 satellites, to search the area within its borders, and is ready to send more ships and aircraft wherever they are needed.

• In Cambodia, 4 helicopters are conducting search operations within Cambodian territory.

• The Laos Air Force is carrying out search operations within Laos.

• Singapore are using their International Information Fusion Centre, where a Malaysian representative is stationed, to notify mariners and help with the search.

• The Thai military are conducting search operations in the northern part of Thailand with all available aircraft.

• And Vietnam are conducting search operations within their territory using an unspecified number of aircraft.

Together this represents a significant international force deployment. I am thankful for the co-operation of our partners as we continue to focus on finding MH370.

http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/site/dark-site.html

[ffi]

After this incident, the mechanism and design for the tracking of aircraft would be re-looked and improved upon. ;)

There is not much you can do about the tracking when someone willfully switches it off and making it non-switchoffable is a safety hazard because in case of a electrical fire there would be no way to stop it

[shamu726]

Australia says suspected plane debris may have sunk

The international team hunting Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the remote southern Indian Ocean failed to turn up anything on Friday, and Australia's deputy prime minister said the suspected debris may have sunk.

The Boeing 777 went missing almost two weeks ago off the Malaysian coast with 239 people aboard. There has been no confirmed sign of wreckage but two objects seen floating deep south in the Indian Ocean were considered a credible lead and set off a huge hunt on Thursday.

Australian authorities said the first aircraft to sweep treacherous seas on Friday about 2,500 km (1,500 miles) southwest of Perth was on its way back to base without spotting the objects picked out by satellite images five days ago.

"Something that was floating on the sea that long ago may no longer be floating," Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told reporters in Perth. "It may have slipped to the bottom."

But the search was continuing and Australian, New Zealand and U.S. aircraft would be joined by Chinese and Japanese planes over the weekend.

"It's about the most inaccessible spot that you can imagine on the face of the Earth, but if there is anything down there, we will find it," Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters in Papua New Guinea, where he is on a visit.

"Now it could just be a container that's fallen off a ship. We just don't know, but we owe it to the families and the friends and the loved ones to do everything we can to try to resolve what is as yet an extraordinary riddle."

India said it was sending two aircraft, a Poseidon P-8I maritime surveillance aircraft and a C-130 Hercules transporter, to join the hunt in the southern Indian Ocean. It is also sending another P-8I and four warships to search in the Andaman Sea, where the plane was last seen on military radar on March 8.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/21/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140321

[nanana1]

KUALA LUMPUR: China has new satellite images of one or more floating objects that could be related to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Malaysian Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said on Saturday.

"The news that I just received is that the Chinese ambassador received satellite image of floating objects in the southern corridor and they will be sending ships to verify," Hishammuddin told a news briefing in Kuala Lumpur.

It was not immediately clear how many possible objects had been spotted, but the minister said one of the objects was estimated at 22 metres by 13 metres.

"The Beijing government will announce this in a couple of hours," he added.

The news came as Hishammuddin was in the middle of his daily press briefing on the search for MH370.

"This is coming to me as quick as you are seeing on TV right now," the minister said, adding that he was wrapping up the briefing early in order "to follow this lead".

- AFP/fa

[AlexCross]

Thanks for the info.

So many fals alarms in these 2 weeks, and I'm afraid that this one will be another false alarm too.

[nanana1]

BEIJING (Reuters) - A suspicious object spotted by a Chinese satellite was floating 120 km (72 miles) from possible debris announced by Australia in the search for a missing Malaysian jet, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

"The location of the suspicious object is along the southern corridor missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 might have taken," it said, adding the object was spotted on March 18, two days after the satellite image announced by Australia.

[Reefa]

Malaysia Airlines Admits The Plane Was Carrying Flammable Lithium-Ion Batteries As Cargo:

Malaysia Airlines has now confirmed that Flight 370 was carrying lithium-ion batteries in its cargo hold, the Daily Mail reports. This new fact could bolster the theory that the plane was brought down by a fire rather than a hijacking or other malfeasance.

It has now been more than two weeks since Malaysia Flight 370 disappeared. No confirmed trace of the plane has been found, and investigators still appear to be mystified about what happened.

The two prevailing theories are that the plane was commandeered by the pilots or hijackers or suffered a fire or other mechanical problem.

Both theories fit some but not all of the supposed facts that have been released thus far. The fire theory, for example, is undermined by the lack of any apparent distress call. And no motive has been unearthed that might explain the hijacking/commandeering theory, especially given the likelihood that the plane then later crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

On Friday, Malaysia Airlines CEO released some new information that could bolster the fire theory. Four days after denying that the plane had carried any hazardous materials, the CEO admitted that it was carrying a shipment of lithium-ion batteries in its cargo hold.

These batteries, which commonly power cell phones and other gadgets, have occasionally caused fires, including on airplanes. The Mail reports data from the FAA citing 140 incidents in the last 25 years involving lithium-ion batteries. At least two major crashes in the past two decades, meanwhile, have been caused by on-board fires, including a Swissair flight in 1998 and a UPS cargo plane in 2010.

Earlier this week, a former pilot named Chris Goodfellow articulated the fire theory, explaining how the plane's turn to the west could have been a standard attempt to head toward the nearest airport for an emergency landing. The plane's new heading put it on a course straight for Pulau Langkawi, a major airport in northern Malaysia.

Billie Vincent, a former Federal Aviation Administration security official, has also argued that the facts fit a fire. “The data released thus far most likely points to a problem with hazardous materials," Vincent told Air Traffic Management.net. "This scenario begins with the eruption of hazardous materials within the cargo hold – either improperly packaged or illegally shipped – or both.”

Malaysia Airlines says the batteries in the cargo hold were properly packed.

Vincent also suggests that the strange altitude readings that Malaysian investigators say they captured on radar—an ascent to 45,000 feet and then a descent to 25,000—could be explained by a fire. The pilots might not have been able to see the controls in the cockpit, Vincent said, and thus ascended higher than they intended. And, later, they might have been trying to get the plane to an altitude at which they could vent the plane and slow the progress of the fire, as well as prepare for an emergency landing.

Malaysian investigators say they believe that the plane was commandeered, and one fact in particular they have released does not fit the fire theory. They say that the plane changed its course prior to a final radio communication in which the co-pilot said "good night" to air-traffic control — a routine call that made it seem like everything was fine.

Source

Edited March 23, 2014 by F3dupsk1Nup

[shamu726]

Search area for Malaysian airliner widened after French satellite images

The search area for a missing Malaysian jetliner in remote seas off Australia was widened on Monday after French satellite images revealed potential "floating debris" several hundred kilometers north of pictures previously captured by U.S. and Chinese satellites.

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said the new lead in the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was promising, but cautioned that the search in the icy southern Indian Ocean remained difficult.

"It's a lot of water to look for just perhaps a tiny object," Truss told ABC Radio. "Today we expect the weather to deteriorate and the forecast ahead is not that good so it's going to be a challenge, but we will stick at it."

Truss said the object spotted by a French satellite, which was reported to Malaysia on Sunday, was 850 km (528 miles) north of the current search areas for the Boeing 777 that vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board.

"That's not in the area that had been identified as the most likely place where the aircraft had entered the sea," Truss said.

Australia had used a U.S. satellite image of two floating objects to frame a search area some 2,500 km (1,430 miles) southwest of Perth.

NASA INVOLVED

NASA said it would use high-resolution cameras aboard satellites and the International Space Station to look for possible crash sites in the Indian Ocean. The U.S. space agency is also mining archived images collected by instruments on its Terra and Aqua environmental satellites, said NASA spokesman Allard Beutel.

"Our satellites and space-based cameras are designed for long-term scientific data gathering and Earth observation. They're really not meant to look for a missing aircraft, and obviously NASA isn't a lead agency in this effort. But we're trying to support the search, if possible," Beutel said.

Truss said the aircraft flying on Monday would be focused on searching by sight, rather than radar, which can be tricky to use because of the high seas and wind in the area. Civil aircraft, which can carry more people, have joined the search.

Truss warned that the search could be hampered further by a cyclone in the northern Indian Ocean.

"Clearly it won't be cyclonic when it gets down into the southern waters where we are dealing with this search, but certainly it could stir up less favorable weather ... and looking visibly for debris or anything of interest is the best chance of success," he said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/23/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140323

U.S. Navy black box locator joins search for missing Malaysian plane

The United States Navy is moving one of its high-tech Black Box detectors closer to the search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in remote seas off the Australian coast, bolstering hopes wreckage of the plane may be found soon.

The so-called Towed Pinger Locator will be crucial in finding the black box of the missing jetliner if a debris field is established by an Australian-led international search team scouring an area in the southern Indian Ocean some 2,500 km (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth.

"If debris is found we will be able to respond as quickly as possible since the battery life of the black box's pinger is limited," Commander Chris Budde, U.S. Seventh Fleet Operations Officer, said in an emailed statement.

Attention and resources in the search for the Boeing 777 have shifted in recent days from an initial focus north of the equator to an increasingly narrowed stretch of icy sea in the southern Indian Ocean.

FLOATING OBJECTS

Australia was analyzing French radar images showing potential floating debris that were taken some 850 kms (530 miles) north of the current search area.

"We only recently got this information and we are still examining it," an AMSA spokeswoman told Reuters by telephone. Malaysia said it received the images on Sunday and passed them on to Australia.

"We are taking it into account but at this stage we are still focused on the same search area," the spokeswoman said, contradicting earlier comments from Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss that the search area had been expanded north to take into account the French sighting.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/24/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140324

[nanana1]

The Prime Minister, Najib Razak has confirmed that MAS flight MH370 ended in the Southern Indian Ocean, according to new data from INMARSAT and AAIB.

- Based on new analysis, INMARSAT and AAIB also concluded that MH370 flew along the Southern Corridor. The last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth.

- No further details were furnished during the press conference, and another press conference will be called tomorrow with further details.

Edited March 24, 2014 by nanana1

[shamu726]

Chinese families clash with police, slam Malaysia over lost plane, China government wants evidence

Dozens of angry relatives of passengers on a lost Malaysian jetliner clashed with police in Beijing on Tuesday, accusing the Southeast Asian country of "delays and deception" a day after it confirmed the plane crashed in remote seas off Australia.

About 20 to 30 protesters threw water bottles at the Malaysian embassy and tried to storm the building, demanding to meet the ambassador, witnesses said. Earlier, the relatives, many with tear-stained faces, had linked arms and chanted "Malaysian government has cheated us" and "Malaysia, return our relatives" as they marched peacefully and held banners.

The relatives' grief and anger was unleashed on Monday night after Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished more than two weeks ago while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.

Citing satellite-data analysis by British firm Inmarsat, he said there was now no doubt that the Boeing jet came down in the ocean in one of the most remote places on Earth - an implicit admission that all 239 people on board had died.

Bad weather in the region far off Australia's western coast on Tuesday forced the suspension of the search for any wreckage, just as a series of satellite images and other sightings of floating objects had raised hopes that debris from the plane would be found.

Malaysia's confused initial response to the Boeing 777's disappearance and a perception of poor communications has enraged many relatives of the more than 150 Chinese passengers and strained ties between Beijing and Kuala Lumpur.

After Najib's announcement, Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Hangsheng demanded Malaysia hand over all relevant satellite analysis showing how Malaysia had reached its conclusion about the fate of the jet.

COSTLY, DIFFICULT INVESTIGATION

Najib's announcement opens the way for what will be one of the most costly and difficult air crash investigations ever. Normally, an official investigation can only begin once a crash site has been identified. That would give Malaysia power to coordinate and sift evidence.

A government source told Reuters that Malaysia would lead the investigation, but hoped other countries, especially Australia, would play a major role.

The United States said it was sending an undersea Navy drone to Australia, in addition to a high-tech black box detector, to help in the search.

The so-called black boxes - the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder - record what happens during flight. Black boxes carry locator beacons but they fade out after 30 days.

Najib said Inmarsat had performed further calculations on data gleaned from faint pings picked up by satellite that initially only narrowed the search area to two massive arcs.

That was not enough for some of the relatives. "There was no evidence," a protester at the Malaysian Embassy surnamed Wang told Reuters. "It was just based on analysis from the satellite data and nothing found. Why would we believe it?"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/25/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140325

[shamu726]

Malaysia says evidence of final 'ping' from MH370 at 0019 GMT

Satellite data that confirmed a Malaysian jetliner missing for more than two weeks crashed in the Indian Ocean included a final electronic signal that is still being investigated, Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said on Tuesday.

"There is evidence of a partial handshake between the aircraft and ground station at 0019 UTC (GMT)," Hishammuddin told a news conference. "At this time, this transmission is not understood and is subject to further ongoing work."

Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Sunday that groundbreaking satellite-data analysis by the British company Inmarsat had revealed that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, had crashed thousands of miles away in the southern Indian Ocean.

Preliminary analysis of the satellite "pings" had only been able to place the plane's final position in one of two vast arcs stretching from the Caspian Sea to the southern Indian Ocean.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/25/us-malaysia-airlines-satellite-idUSBREA2O0LR20140325

[Reefa]

This underwater microphone could find the missing malaysia airlines jet.

The TPL-25 System locates emergency pingers on downed Navy and commercial aircraft to a maximum depth of 20,000 feet. Photo: U.S. Navy

Authorities are all but certain Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down in the south Indian Ocean in water that may be as deep as 23,000 feet. That makes finding the all-important “black box” flight data recorder infinitely more difficult, and a job perfectly suited to the U.S. Navy’s tow fish.

The 70-pound tow fish, which is formally known in true Pentagon style as Towed Pinger Locator 25, is a hydrodynamic microphone designed specifically to listen for the acoustic signal of the data and cockpit voice recorders carried aboard all commercial and military aircraft. It can track the devices to depths of 20,000 feet.

“Basically, this super-sensitive hydrophone gets towed behind a commercial vessel very slowly and listens for black box pings,” says Commander Chris Budde, U.S. 7th Fleet operations officer.

The U.S. Navy deployed a pair of tow fish aboard the Seahorse Standard, a Royal Australian Navy Rescue Support vessel that will drag it through the search area west of Perth, Australia. The Standard joins a flotilla of a dozen ships scouring a vast swath of sea for any sign of the Boeing 777-200ER, which vanished March 8 enroute to Beijing from Kuala Lampur.

Although satellite images have revealed debris floating in the area, authorities have so far found no sign of the airplane or the 239 people aboard.

The Seahorse Standard will drag a TPL 25 through the search area at around 3 knots, while a second is on-hand as a backup. The device, tethered to the ship by 20,000 feet of cable, remains about 1,000 feet above the sea floor, listening for the telltale ping of the underwater locator beacon installed on black boxes (they’re actually orange) and cockpit voice recorders. It can detect a transponder signal between 3.5 and 50 kHz (most commercial airliner data systems transmit at 37.5 kHz) within a 2-mile radius, and cover about 150 square miles of ocean each day.

“We have worked off of that ship before,” says Mike Dean, the U.S. Navy’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving. “It’s a good platform and a good crew.”

TPL 25 is the third iteration of the technology that’s been around for 20 years.

“We’ve used it for just about any aircraft that’s gone down,” Dean says.

It was instrumental in finding TWA flight 800 off the coast of New York after it crashed in 1996, although at a relatively shallow depth of 130 feet. It also was deployed during the search for Air France Flight 447 which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. It was less successful there, however, because the underwater locator beacon, which is activated the moment it’s submerged, has enough power to transmit for 30 days or so. The search for the missing Airbus A330 took two years.

Beyond the limitations of the beacon, there’s also the fact no one knows just where Flight 370 went down, or where the strong currents of the south Indian Ocean might have carried the debris. The search area covers some 35,400 square miles–roughly the size of Massachusetts and West Virginia combined.

“There’s an awful lot of ocean to cover,” Dean tells WIRED.

The Royal Australian Navy’s Rescue Support vessel, the Seahorse Standard, will use the TPL Photo: Royal Australian Navy

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[shamu726]

Planes, ships chase new leads in search for Malaysian jet

New satellite images have revealed more than 100 objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from a Malaysian jetliner missing for 18 days, while planes scouring the frigid seas on Wednesday also reported seeing potential wreckage.

The latest sightings came as searchers stepped up efforts to find some trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, thought to have crashed on March 8 with the loss of all 239 people aboard after flying thousands of miles off course.

"We have now had four separate satellite leads, from Australia, China and France, showing possible debris," Malaysian Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a news conference. "It is now imperative that we link the debris to MH370."

The latest images were captured by France-based Airbus Defence & Space on Monday and showed 122 potential objects in a 400-sq-km (155-sq-mile) area of ocean, Hishammuddin said. The objects varied in size from one metre to 23 metres (75 ft) in length, he said.

Malaysia's air force has released few details of its radar tracking beyond saying the plane was last detected off the northwest coast heading towards India.

But the country's deputy defence minister, Abdul Rahim Bakri, told parliament that no action was taken when the unidentified plane was spotted because it was assumed it had been ordered to turn back, local media said.

"It was detected by our radar, but the turn back was by a non-hostile plane and we thought maybe it was at the directive of the control tower," he was quoted as saying.

Asked at the news conference whether air force radar operators thought the plane had been told to turn back by air traffic controllers, Hishammuddin, who is also defence minister, said he could not confirm it.

Member of staff at satellite communications company Inmarsat point to a section of the screen showing

the southern Indian Ocean to the west of Australia, at their headquarters in London March 25, 2014.

A satellite photo, showing the locations and coordinates of unknown objects reported by the

Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency (MRSA) in the Indian Ocean, is seen in this handout

photo taken by the MRSA on March 23, 2014 and released to Reuters on March 26, 2014.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/26/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140326

Edited March 26, 2014 by shamu726

[shamu726]

Malaysian jet search resumes, U.S. sends second Poseidon plane

An air search of the remote southern Indian Ocean resumed on Friday, seeking to confirm if hundreds of objects spotted by satellites are debris from a Malaysian jetliner presumed to have crashed almost three weeks ago with the loss of all on board.

A Chinese Ilyushin IL-76 took off from Perth before dawn, heading 2,500 km (1,550 miles) southwest into the search area where high winds and icy weather had halted flights on Thursday.

The search zone centers on the latest sightings of possible wreckage that were captured by Thai and Japanese satellites in roughly the same frigid expanse of sea as earlier images reported by France, Australia and China.

"We detected floating objects, perhaps more than 300," Anond Snidvongs, the head of Thailand's space technology development agency, told Reuters. "We have never said that the pieces are part of MH370 but have so far identified them only as floating objects."

The U.S. Navy said it was sending a second P8 Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft to help in the search for the missing Boeing 777.

"It's critical to continue searching for debris so we can reverse-forecast the wind, current and sea state since March 8th to recreate the position where MH370 possibly went into the water," said Commander Tom Moneymaker, a U.S. 7th Fleet oceanographer.

The United States has also sent a device that can be towed behind a ship to pick up faint pings from the plane's black box voice and data recorders, but time is running out.

"We've got to get this initial position right prior to deploying the Towed Pinger Locator since the MH370's black box has a limited battery life and we can't afford to lose time searching in the wrong area," Moneymaker said.

NEW IMAGES

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating the effort, said it would give details later on the search after flights were halted on Thursday.

"It's the nature of search and rescue. It's a fickle beast," Flying Officer Peter Moore, the captain of an Australian AP-3C Orion, told Reuters aboard the plane after it turned around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the search zone.

"This is incredibly important to us. The reality is we have 239 people whose families want some information and closure."

The objects spotted by the Thai satellite on Monday were between 2 meters (6.5 ft) and 16 meters (52 ft) in size and were in an area around 2,700 km (1,680 miles) southwest of Perth, Snidvongs said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/28/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140328

[AlexCross]

It's not so hard to understand why this happened.

It's an industry that generates an incredible amount of money, I see this more like a live example of those who build technologies for the flying companies, more like, if you embrace our new technology this won't happen again. So they needed to prove it somehow.

The same can be said for the health industry, where they treat the symptoms not the disease, so you need to buy again, and again, and again the same medicine to suppress the symptoms for a while. Because, if a cure exists for a disease, the industry will fall.

Edited April 2, 2014 by AlexCross