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UN-backed nuke watchdog says no explosion detected for missing Malaysian plane: spokesman
Mar 18,2014
UNITED NATIONS, March 17 (Xinhua) -- A UN-backed nuke watchdog confirmed that it has not detected an explosion or crash linked to the disappearance of the Malaysian plane, a UN spokesman told reporters here on Monday.

"Regarding the missing Malaysian Airlines flight, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), based in Vienna, confirmed over the weekend that neither an explosion nor a plane crash on land or on water had been detected so far," said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, at the daily briefing.
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http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=207198
 
QUOTE]MH370: No unidentified planes crossed Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan air space
Updated: March 18, 2014

KUALA LUMPUR: No unidentified planes had crossed the central Asian neighbours Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan air space on March 8, according to a report by Reuters.

With the new claim, it is unlikely that the missing Malaysia Arlines MH370 could have been diverted along a northern route via Thailand.

The jetliner could hypothetically reached Kazakhstan's air space, but it would have been detected there, the Kazakh Civil Aviation Committee said in a detailed statement.

"Even hypothetically thinking, before reaching Kazakhstan's territory this plane would have had to fly over other countries along its route, where the flight zone is also closely monitored, so we would have received information from these countries," he added.

The statement was signed by the committee's deputy head Serik Mukhtybayev.
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http://english.astroawani.com/news/show/mh370-no-unidentified-planes-crossed-kazakhstan-and-kyrgyzstan-air-space-31997



Sorry if this is a duplicate. Still catching up.
 
The theory that the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was hijacked and diverted -- possibly to Indonesia -- to be used as a "weapon" in a future attack gained traction Monday from the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, told Fox News that the two most plausible scenarios at this stage are that Flight 370 ran out of fuel and crashed into the Indian Ocean, or that the plane has already landed "somewhere in southeast Asia" as part of a terror plot.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...e-landed-in-southeast-asia-for-use-as-weapon/
 
First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, calmly said ‘All right, good night’ shortly before Flight MH370 vanished ten days ago.
The cockpit sign-off to air traffic controllers — not the recognised radio drill — came at 1.19am on March 8 as the jet left Malaysian airspace on a routine journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Around a minute later, the Boeing 777-200’s transponder, which sends out a signal to radar stations, was switched off — making the jet disappear.
Officials are considering if the unusual sign-off was a secret signal that there was something wrong on the flight deck.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...usual-sign-indicated-wrong.html#ixzz2wH3aw8QE
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don't think this has been posted


Australia scours area larger than California for missing plane

SYDNEY, March 18 — Australia is scouring an area in the southern Indian Ocean that’s about 1 1/2 times the size of California for missing Malaysian Air Flight 370, after the search became the longest in modern commercial aviation.



An AP-3C Orion plane was sent to search 600,000 square kilometres of ocean, according to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. Five more aircraft, including one from the US and New Zealand, will tomorrow also begin scanning an area that’s about 1,500 nautical miles southwest of Perth in Western Australia.

“A needle in a haystack remains a good analogy,” John Young, the authority’s general manager for emergency response, said at a briefing today. “It’s a large area with aircraft that are towards the end of their operating limits. So they get a short period of time in the search area, and that dictates this is going to take quite a long time.”

Investigators are combing through data after the Beijing- bound Boeing Co. 777-200 aircraft was deliberately steered off its course and disappeared from radar. With little new information coming through, Malaysia’s government is also exploring the possibility of a pilot suicide.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/m...fornia-for-missing-plane#sthash.xIJohzXb.dpuf
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Missing Malaysia plane: questions over conflict of interest

Amid a series of backtracks from Malaysian government and airline officials, pilots and other aviation officials are asking whether the Malaysian government has a serious conflict of interest in leading the investigation into the disappearance of MH 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing over a week ago.
On the Professional Pilots Rumour Network, several pilots have asked whether the inconsistent reports about when radar equipment was turned off and the plane’s track are the result of the Malaysians trying to ‘‘save face’’ particularly as the evidence begins to point to the possibility of pilot complicity in a terrorist attack or pilot suicide. Several have called for the US authorities to take over the investigation.
There is also the question of the Malaysian government’s stake in the airline itself. At 69 per cent, the government is the biggest shareholder via two government holding companies. And like many airlines, Malaysia Airlines has had a rocky ride in terms of profitability, reporting its biggest loss ever in 2011 of RM2.52 billion($A848million), but a modest net profit of RM51.4mil ($A17.1 million) for the fourth quarter of 2013.
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http://www.smh.com.au/world/missing-malaysia-plane-questions-over-conflict-of-interest-20140318-hvk44.html
 
From BussinesInsider:

This Is The Most Plausible Theory For The Plane's Disappearance We've Heard Yet...

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/malaysia-plane-fire-2014-3#ixzz2wK88XnFn

This theory fits the facts.

And it's one of the most plausible yet:

Shortly after takeoff, as Malaysia 370 was flying out over the ocean, just after the co-pilot gave his final "Good night" sign-off to Malaysia air traffic control, smoke began filling the cockpit, perhaps from a tire on the front landing gear that had ignited on takeoff
The captain immediately did exactly what he had been trained to do: Turn the plane toward the closest airport so he could land.
The closest appropriate airport was called Pulau Langkawi. It had a massive 13,000-foot runway. The captain programmed the destination into the flight computer. The auto-pilot turned the plane west and put it on a course right for the runway (the same heading the plane turned to)
The captain and co-pilot tried to find the source of the smoke and fire. They switched off electrical "busses" to try to isolate it, in the process turning off systems like the transponder and ACARs automated update system (but not, presumably, the auto-pilot, which was flying the plane). They did not issue a distress call, because in a mid-air emergency your priorities are "aviate, navigate, communicate" — in that order. But smoke soon filled the cockpit and overwhelmed them (a tire fire could do this). The pilots passed out or died.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/malaysia-plane-fire-2014-3#ixzz2wK8e0bOl
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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/malaysia-plane-fire-2014-3#ixzz2wK8Nvimn
 
Mama_Owl said:
SEPANG: A Greek petrochemical tank was asked to keep an eye out for ‘floating suitcases’ at the Straits of Malacca here yesterday.
Elka Athina, a barge heading to Suez was alerted by Indonesian authorities over radio, warning them that they were ‘approaching a field of debris’.

Several Greek news portals, Tovima and Times of Change were abuzz as sources from the barge alerted them over the apparent sighting.

The portals reported several other barges passing the the busy straits were ‘rushed’ to a coordinate off Sumatran waters.

Another Greek portal published an audio interview with a first officer of the ship, claiming that it was steaming towards a ‘debrs zone’ in the northern waters of the Malacca Strait.

However, checks with online ship tracking websites revealed that the tanker had sailed passed the debris field at about 9.30pm (Malaysia Time).

It is believed that authorities had red flagged a possible area in the straits after users of the map crowdsourcing site Tomnod have indicated a possible debris field in the Straits of Malacca.

A twitter user, Richard Barrow, posted a satellite image of ‘a potential crash site’ and ‘possible floating seats’ on the surface of the ocean at coordinate 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E.


Read more: MISSING MH370: Debris found at Straits of Malacca - Latest - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-c...-at-straits-of-malacca-1.517746#ixzz2wGCCmsMF
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Looks like this is turning out to be a hoax. Walking out the door..
Article below is dated the 16th; expected to be at site within hours. There are no updates/ photos yet

A Greek tanker has detected possible traces of the missing flight ΜΗ370 16 March 2014 / 15:03:45
The Greek tanker ELKA Athina, owned by the company European Product Carriers and Greek tycoon Karnezis, has detected remains which may belong to the missing Malaysian Boeing. The ship, along with other vessels, is moving in the Strait of Malacca and has detected a signal at a latitude of 0551 knots north and longitude 09657.5 knots east.

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UN-backed nuke watchdog says no explosion detected for missing Malaysian plane: spokesman
Mar 18,2014
UNITED NATIONS, March 17 (Xinhua) -- A UN-backed nuke watchdog confirmed that it has not detected an explosion or crash linked to the disappearance of the Malaysian plane, a UN spokesman told reporters here on Monday.

"Regarding the missing Malaysian Airlines flight, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), based in Vienna, confirmed over the weekend that neither an explosion nor a plane crash on land or on water had been detected so far," said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, at the daily briefing.http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=207198
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Just pointing out that the United Nations evaluation corroborates U.S. intelligence:

U.S. Spy Satellites Detected No Explosion as Flight 370 Vanished
By Robert Windrem
U.S. spy satellites did not detect a midair explosion at the time that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 lost contact with air traffic controllers or in the hours immediately afterward, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News on Wednesday.

...The U.S. Space Based Infrared (SBIR) satellite system, which is designed to identify heat signatures in real time, can -– and has -– detected exploding aircraft, according to a second official,. Indeed, it has provided evidence in the past of events as small as artillery fire and the launch of anti-aircraft missiles, the official said.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mis...anished-n51061​
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Satellites spot possible objects from missing Malaysian jet, Australia says

Military planes from Australia and the U.S. searched unsuccessfully Thursday for two objects spotted by satellite in the southern Indian Ocean that could be related to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.

A Navy spokesman told Fox News that a P-8 Poseidon aircraft returned to base in the western Australian city of Perth with "nothing to report" after flying a 10-hour search mission in the Indian Ocean. Earlier Thursday, a statement on the Australian Maritime Safety Agency's (AMSA) official Twitter account said that the crew of a Royal Australian Air Force P-3 aircraft had been unable to locate the debris due to limited visibility as a result of clouds and rain. The tweet added that other aircraft would continue the search.


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...search-for-malaysian-jet-may-have-been-found/
 
Possible wreckage spotted in search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, RAAF plane on its way to identify objects

March 20, 2014

•US Navy aircraft already scouring the search zone
•Experts believe the objects are credible sightings


CANBERRA Authorities should know something definite on the possible discovery of debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 within “two or three days’’, Defence Minister David Johnston says.

Australia’s defence forces were doing everything they could in one of the most remote locations in the world, Senator Johnston told AAP in Jakarta tonight where he was attending an international defence dialogue.

A Norwegian ship, the St Petersburg, has reached area of the Indian Ocean where possible debris were spotted, shipping company Hoeeg Autoliners said

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...identify-objects/story-fnihsmjt-1226859680610
 
Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: US satellite the unspoken source that sparked search for MH370

When the Australian official took to the podium to explain to reporters the discovery of satellite images that might show pieces of MH370, he carefully omitted to tell them the source.
The images were from a US satellite. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority's John Young did not mention this to the media.
When asked, he avoided the question.
And when reporters phoned Australian defence officials to ask the same question, they were given a firm "no comment" or "we can't discuss". This may seem odd, because the satellite's owners, the US company DigitalGlobe, were only too happy to tell the media. ...
The use of US satellite imagery was just one part of the international co-operation involved in the 26-country search and rescue effort.
The satellite imagery of many nations has been carefully "scrubbed" by analysts in the search for the Malaysia Airlines jet, a painstaking task: "This is human eyeballs working through a vast number of images," said an official involved in the effort.

The satellite that may have found missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
Date March 21, 2014 - 3:45PM
DigitalGlobe confirmed on Friday that it was the one that provided the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) with the satellite images that were captured on March 16, showing the two objects in the Indian Ocean.
"We have been informed by an Australian government official that it was our imagery Prime Minister [Tony] Abbott referred to in his recent comments," the company said in a statement.


Reports are telling us that the plane flew steadily away after its final turn. I think we can assume where the pings hit since the southern flight path leads straight to the debris sighting. See hourly pings plotted in graphic below.

Searches on land near China in case the plane went north, which is merely a mirror of the southern route. Bloomberg.com

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BUOYS WITH GPS: The New Zealand Orion plane dropped two buoys Thursday that will help searchers figure out where any debris might drift. Searchers were also planning to drop more buoys from a C-130 Hercules military transport plane.

The buoys resemble a poster tube, each about 1 meter long, with an antenna that transmits a GPS signal that can be tracked by searchers. The idea is that the buoys drift in a manner similar to any debris, giving searchers clues as to where debris might move over time. The system isn't perfect - the wind can move the buoys at a different rate than larger objects - but is designed to factor in some of those variables.

*Grieving Families Booted From Hotel for Formula One Grand Prix*

Anxious relatives of passengers on board missing Malaysia Airlines Fight 370 were forced to move out of their hotel Friday to make way for Formula One bookings tied to the upcoming Grand Prix.

Tens of thousands of drivers, promoters and fans are expected in the capital Kuala Lumpur over the coming days as it gears up for the race on March 30...
 
Missing flight MH370 black box countdown

Flight MH370 disappeared at 1.30am Malaysia time on March 8. It has been missing for:
14 DAYS - 0 HOURS - 24 MINUTES
The underwater locator beacon in its 'black boxes' has a battery life of 30 days, leaving about: 15 DAYS OF BATTERY LIFE

While the black boxes are designed to withstand depths of 20,000 feet (3.8 miles) and may work in even deeper water, the range of the pings is a mile, according to manuals from Honeywell International (HON) Inc., the maker of the equipment. That may make the signals difficult to pick up even if an underwater microphone is over the correct location
 
I see this info has not been posted about the US company that had 20 workers on the plane

PoirotryInMotion said:
jggordo, this is a valid question. But one we've kept coming back to so much in the previous threads, it probably feels like beating a dead horse in here, now. So, just take a peek at my personal FAQ sheet links:

Freescale confirms workers on missing Malaysia Airlines flight
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/n...ale-confirms-workers-on-missing-malaysia.html

US-based firm's workers on plane headed to meeting
http://www.news12.com/news/us-based-firm-s-workers-on-plane-headed-to-meeting-1.7334089

Some tinfoil theories discussed briefly in this MSM article:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/malaysia-a...freescale-semiconductor-top-employees-1440097
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