Malaysian military claims it tracked missing jet heading WEST, as far as Pulau Perak in Malacca Strait Link
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The Malaysian military believes an airliner missing for almost four days with 239 people on board flew for more than an hour after vanishing from air traffic control screens, changing course and travelling west over the Strait of Malacca, a senior military source said.
Malaysian authorities have previously said flight MH370 disappeared about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for the Chinese capital Beijing.
At the time it was roughly midway between Malaysia's east coast town of Kota Bharu and the southern tip of Vietnam, flying at 35,000 ft (10,670 metres).
"It changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Strait," the military official, who has been briefed on investigations, told Reuters.
The Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping channels, runs along Malaysia's west coast.
Earlier on Tuesday, Malaysia's Berita Harian newspaper quoted air force chief Rodzali Daud as saying the Malaysia Airlines plane was last detected by military radar at 2:40 a.m. on Saturday, near the island of Pulau Perak at the northern end of the Strait of Malacca. It was flying at a height of about 9,000 metres (29,500 ft), he was quoted as saying.
"The last time the flight was detected close to Pulau Perak, in the Melaka Straits, at 2.40 a.m. by the control tower before the signal was lost," the paper quoted Rodzali as saying.
A non-military source familiar with the investigations said the report was being checked.
"This report is being investigated by the DCA (Department of Civil Aviation) and the search and rescue team," the source said. "There are a lot of such reports."
The time given by Rodzali was an hour and 10 minutes after the plane vanished from air traffic control screens over Igari waypoint, midway between Malaysia and Vietnam.
There was no word on what happened to the plane thereafter.
If the reports from the military are verified, it would mean the plane was able to maintain a cruising altitude and flew for about 500 km (350 miles) with its transponder and other tracking systems apparently switched off.
Malaysia has extended the massive search operation for the plane to the Malacca Strait after initially focusing on the South China Sea.
Malaysian authorities have previously said flight MH370 disappeared about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for the Chinese capital Beijing.
At the time it was roughly midway between Malaysia's east coast town of Kota Bharu and the southern tip of Vietnam, flying at 35,000 ft (10,670 metres).
"It changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Strait," the military official, who has been briefed on investigations, told Reuters.
The Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping channels, runs along Malaysia's west coast.
Earlier on Tuesday, Malaysia's Berita Harian newspaper quoted air force chief Rodzali Daud as saying the Malaysia Airlines plane was last detected by military radar at 2:40 a.m. on Saturday, near the island of Pulau Perak at the northern end of the Strait of Malacca. It was flying at a height of about 9,000 metres (29,500 ft), he was quoted as saying.
"The last time the flight was detected close to Pulau Perak, in the Melaka Straits, at 2.40 a.m. by the control tower before the signal was lost," the paper quoted Rodzali as saying.
A non-military source familiar with the investigations said the report was being checked.
"This report is being investigated by the DCA (Department of Civil Aviation) and the search and rescue team," the source said. "There are a lot of such reports."
The time given by Rodzali was an hour and 10 minutes after the plane vanished from air traffic control screens over Igari waypoint, midway between Malaysia and Vietnam.
There was no word on what happened to the plane thereafter.
If the reports from the military are verified, it would mean the plane was able to maintain a cruising altitude and flew for about 500 km (350 miles) with its transponder and other tracking systems apparently switched off.
Malaysia has extended the massive search operation for the plane to the Malacca Strait after initially focusing on the South China Sea.
Michael Leong · Top commenter · Works at Self-Employed
PULAU PERAK.! what the hell is an airplane bound for Bejing doing at pulau perak.! Bejing is north while pulau perak is on the west.! EXCUSES EXCUSES EXCUSES.!
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Pete S.tan · Chung Ling High School
On the 4th day since disappearance,now only d air force chief blurted out that the plsnce was last detected flying over kedah and pulau perak? Is he a retard? Why an important info like this only surface this late when the SAR are searching at the wrong place!lives could hv been saved but now if it' s really on the other side according to d radar,then the whole msian govt wil go down as history most retard goons
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Harvey Fong · Top commenter · Works at Jade Hills Resort Club
Our nation is lost in the eyes of the world....all responsive agencies sunbathing their half past six stupidity for all to see
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Seow Theang Choo · Top commenter
Just wonder whether Mas defaults any payment for d lease of their planes? Maybe this could b a case of tarik balik kapal terbang by d leasing company. Sigh... then all d people in d plane will b safe.
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dnordin118 (signed in using yahoo)
You mean all this time, for the past 72 hours or so, we've been searching at the wrong place?
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Ishak Majid · Top commenter · UiTM Shah Alam
If the RMAF knows the fact of the whereabouts of the flight MH370 why the fuck is this Air Force Cheif Rodzali lets the SAR teams chasing wild gooose in the South Chine sea. Why he sooooo stupid not to disclose this utmost important infor to the DCA....................... ..........If what published in BH today is true ........Really fuck you RODzali
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Trisha Loh · Top commenter
Oh dear, if that was the case, why the wild goose chase involving so many nations over south china sea? Really a country of endless possibilities.
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Neo Ah Eng · Follow · Top commenter · University of REALLY Hard Knocks
Dca better start computing n see where the fuel will finish from 0240 hrs and may find the plane in the Bay of Bengal!
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Harvey Fong · Top commenter · Works at Jade Hills Resort Club
Oh fcuk.!!...all this while we are praying at the wrong temple
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Pratik Chourdia · Follow · Top commenter · Margão · 337 subscribers
I think this was correct prediction Check dis article : http:// mh370lost.tumblr.com/
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Roland Starr · Top commenter · University of Malaya
Re the disappearance of MAS 370, has anyone give thought to the possibility it might have anything to do with UFO/Alien Abductions as the various videos on Astro programmes of visitations of aliens with ultra high technologies and silent crafts? Remember the disappearance of the squadron of 7 fighter planes and the many other planes and ships in the Bermuda Triangle! The illegally booted out ex-MB of Perak, Nizar, may be on to something concrete when he tweeted not out of mischief but from public concern that we have just been the target of Close Encounters of the Third Kind i.e. Abduction by aliens! The authorities whether local and foreign should think outside the box and contact experts in this field in the international arena!
Chang Kheeboon · Top commenter
We flop again and again with all these twist and turn statement coming from their mouths, how despairing and anguish this would have cause to the families But then again we reacted poorly and under achieve under such calamity, we thought we are not ready yet for being label as a develope nation just yet
Kenneth Tan · Top commenter
A plane flying at only 1000M lower than its crusing attitude, over the West Coast of Peninsula Malaysia, crossing one of the busiest flight route, yet it was not picked up by the civilian air control? How did RMAF know that little blip on the radar belonged to MH370?
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Karma Wozer Nima · Top commenter · Singapore, Singapore
Pratik Chourdia ur info sound convincing,hope the
prediction is correct and the SAR people take heed of this info!!
prediction is correct and the SAR people take heed of this info!!
Dylan Hong · Works at Nippon Paint
The chances that this was a hijack is getting higher.
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A plausible explanation for why MH370 "disappeared" and why we still can't find it.
MARCH 10, 2014
My recommendation to the NTSB
I sent this email to Peter Knudson at the NTSB, and he will consider if its worthy of forwarding onto investigators. I would like feedback on the plausibility.
Has anyone considered if the below FAA Airworthiness Directive could be a clue the MH370 investigation?
I sent this email to Peter Knudson at the NTSB, and he will consider if its worthy of forwarding onto investigators. I would like feedback on the plausibility.
At the end of this email, I’ve listed sensible and low-cost recommendations to best aid recovery efforts.
===================================Has anyone considered if the below FAA Airworthiness Directive could be a clue the MH370 investigation?
A November 2013 FAA Airworthiness Directive for the 777
SUMMARY: We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) forcertain The Boeing Company Model 777 airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by a report of cracking in the fuselage skin underneath the satellite communication (SATCOM) antenna adapter. This proposed AD would require repetitive inspections of the visible fuselage skin and doubler if installed, for cracking, corrosion, and any indication of contact of a certain fastener to a bonding jumper, and repair if necessary. We are proposing this AD to detect and correct cracking and corrosion in the fuselage skin, which could lead to rapid decompression and loss of structural integrity of the airplane.
Summary: It’s plausible that a fuselage section near the SATCOM antenna adapter failed, disabling satellite based - GPS, ACARS, and ADS-B/C - communications, and leading to a slow decompression that left all occupants unconscious. If such decompression left the aircraft intact, then the autopilot would have flown the planned route or otherwise maintained its heading/altitude until fuel exhaustion.
A slow decompression (e.g. from a golfball-sized hole) would have gradually impaired and confused the pilots before cabin altitude (pressure) warnings sounded.
Chain of events:
- Likely fuselage failure near SATCOM antenna adapter, disabling some or all of GPS, ACARS, ADS-B, and ADS-C antennas and systems.
- Thus, only primary radars would detect the plane. Primary radar range is usually less than 100nm, and is generally ineffective at high altitudes.
- Also explains why another Pilot thirty minutes ahead heard “mumbling” from MH370 pilots.
- (VHF comms would be unaffected by SATCOM equipment failure.)
Other thoughts:
- The plane was equipped with cellular communication hardware, supplied by AeroMobile, to provide GSM services via satellite. However this is an aftermarket product; it’s not connected through SATCOM (as far as I know).
- This explains why 19 families signed a statement alleging they were able to call the MH370 passengers and get their phones to ring, but with no response.
- When Malaysian Airlines tried to call the phone numbers a day later, the phones did not ring. By this time, fuel would have been exhausted.
Conclusion:
This was likely not an “explosive decompression” or “inflight disintegration.” This was likely a slow decompression that gradually deprived all crew/passengers of oxygen, leaving the autopilot to continue along the route autonomously.
The aircraft may be at the floor of the East China Sea, Sea of Japan, or the Pacific Ocean thousands of miles northeast from the current search zone.
I’ve circled a probable search space in Red on this map; it that assumes that MH370’s autopilot continued along the programmed route.
Recommendations:
• Investigators should obtain data logs from primary radars throughout mainland China that would have been along the planned route. They may be the best clue as to the trajectory of the aircraft.
• Investigators should obtain all passengers’ cell phone log and location data. The timing of the last successful cellular connection (ring/SMS/data-packet) can predict how long the plane was in the air. iPhone/iOS location (GPS) data may be available from Apple if subpoenaed. Android location data may be available from Google.
• Add a secondary search space to include a 300nm radius around Beijing, focusing on surrounding bodies of water. Using planned routing trajectory, known autopilot logics, fuel quantities, and weather patterns, it may be possible to define a smaller 50nm * 50nm search space. Consider running the above scenario in MH’s 777-200ER full flight simulator.
• Boeing should provide expertise about the SATCOM antenna schematics and autopilot/navigation logic, so as to help plot this second search space.
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