Malaysia airlines 370 with 239 people on board, 8 March 2014 #25

[watcher9]

Weekly report #15 - May 8 2018

With the quick turnaround at Fremantle, Seabed Constructor was expected to arrive at the search area on Monday.

According to Facebook, they are now back at work in Site 3 (green) and making impressive progress.
A comment on Facebook mentions they are about 100 km from where the Chinese ship heard what they thought were the pings from the black box.

Total area searched in Site #1 and Site #2 is 53,000 square kilometers
Total area searched in Site #3 is 23,500 square kilometers.
Some of the additional area was additional processed data from last week.

Weather and conditions forecast to be generally good this next week.

Kevin's dropbox - https://www.dropbox.com/s/sanez2r7o02vpzh/MH370 Search Weekly Report 15_English.pdf?dl=0

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MH370NewsandInfo/

 

[watcher9]

Another link obtained from the Facebook site -

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 resumed Sunday in an area identified by University of WA researchers as the possible final resting place.

The Ocean Infinity team says they are “absolutely determined” to find the Boeing 777, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people aboard.


https://www.airlineratings.com/news/mh370-search-resumes-hopes-high/

 

[gregjrichards]

“The evidence that I will present proves that the unpiloted-*aeroplane theory is not correct. The aeroplane did not dive at high speed into the ocean. Basic investigation techniques substantiate a very different scenario: the disappearance of MH370 was a man-made event. The evidence shows that the aeroplane was under the complete *control of a pilot throughout the flight, and at the end of its flight, MH370 was intentionally ditched (landed in a controlled way) on the ocean surface.

The disappearance of MH370 was a deliberate, pre-planned act, conducted by a pilot who followed the exact sequence of events that he intended to follow. The pilot’s intention was to fly the aeroplane to a predetermined remote *location in the southern Indian Ocean and to ditch the aeroplane in such a way that it would remain intact, and to cause the aeroplane to sink to the depths of the ocean without leaving a trace.

The turning point for the ATSB’s investigation, away from the unpiloted-aeroplane theory and towards the deliberate-act theory, should have come on July 29, 2015, with the discovery of the *flaperon from the right wing of MH370. The physical evidence available from examining the *flaperon should have proved to the ATSB that the aircraft’s flaps were *extended (down) when it entered the water, and that the aeroplane was at a speed consistent with a pilot-controlled ditching.

After the recovery of the flap*eron, there should have remained little doubt that a pilot was controlling MH370 at the end of its flight.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/ne...h/news-story/757084c31aee0b77973b0cc01022b168

 

[Roselvr]

Special on 60 minutes tonight. Don't see it in in the US

http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...0/news-story/e77e332d1acf1cda5e234d8f80b32730

60 minutes
Expert panel reveals true fate of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370
"MH370 – the situation room" airs tonight 8.30 on 60 Minutes. For more on 60 Minutes

 

[Roselvr]

Special on 60 minutes tonight. Don't see it in in the US

http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...0/news-story/e77e332d1acf1cda5e234d8f80b32730

60 minutes
Expert panel reveals true fate of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370
"MH370 – the situation room" airs tonight 8.30 on 60 Minutes. For more on 60 Minutes

IT's already aired. I keep forgetting they're a day ahead even though I just saw the article before when I posted it. Thankfully it's on you tube already

MH370 - The Situation Room | 60 Minutes Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm1j1fpldkc

 

[Roselvr]

IT's already aired. I keep forgetting they're a day ahead even though I just saw the article before when I posted it. Thankfully it's on you tube already

MH370 - The Situation Room | 60 Minutes Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm1j1fpldkc

Did anyone catch it? I wish it was on the in the US; I'm gonna have to watch it again as I was cooking thru the last part of it. They made some really good points but also, looking at google after it aired there are a few articles on what the special didn't say. All of the data from pings to debris drift studies suggests it's in the current search area. If they do not find it, it's either drifted from the current area or one of the pilots ditched the plane like the show said. What I don't understand about that one is that if it came down in a control land such as the one over the Hudson River (NY/NJ USA) the plane should have floated for a while. I remember when this 1st happened reading about it.

Here are a few articles, one has a decent pic of debris. I guess we'll just have to wait until the search is over to see if they'll get lucky or not.

What the 60 Minutes report into MH370 didn’t tell us

FROM passengers with fake passports to a group that claimed responsibility - here’s what 60 Minutes didn’t tell us about MH370.

While most aviation specialists agree that evidence points to the plane having been intentionally steered into the ocean, nobody has been able to come up with a motive.

Senior Boeing 777 pilot and instructor Simon Hardy believes Captain Zaharie Shah downed the aircraft in an act of murder-suicide, having plotted a flight plan to nowhere on his home simulator.

Repeating what he told the BBC way back in 2015, Mr Hardy told the Channel 9 program that Zaharie made a detour over Penang for a nostalgic last look at his home town before ditching in the southern Indian Ocean in a spot where he knew the aircraft “could never be found”.

...What was missing from the commentary was a motive — what possible reason could Capt Zaharie have had to justify the murder of 238 other people?...

Blaine Gibson, a US lawyer turned MH370 hunter who has collected dozens of pieces of suspected debris from the missing plane which have washed up in Madagascar and the coast of South Africa, pointed out in 2016 that both pilots were heavily scrutinised.

“They have gone under the microscope for more than two years and nothing in their personal lives indicates they could have done this,” Mr Gibson said.

Both pilots were cleared by Malaysian authorities, who examined psychological reports and footage of their behaviour before they boarded the doomed flight and found no red flags

Aviation expert declares 'it’s not necessary' to continue search for MH370 By Liz Little • 60 Minutes Digital Producer 9:09pm May 13, 2018

Mr Dolan’s belief that MH370 was deliberately and methodically abandoned was shared by veteran air crash investigator Larry Vance, Global air-safety specialist John Cox, world renowned oceanographer Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi and senior Boeing 777 pilot and instructor, Simon Hardy.

he experts also made an eerie revelation about Captain Zahari’s route and how it reinforces their theory of a deliberate ditching.

Boeing 777 pilot Simon Hardy reconstructed Captain Zahari’s flight plan from the military radar and revealed the MH370 pilot successfully avoided detection by either Malaysian or Thai military radar by flying along the border, crossing in and out of each country’s airspace.

"If you were commissioning me to do this operation and try and make a 777 disappear, I would do exactly the same thing," Mr Hardy said.

"As far as I'm concerned it's very accurate flying and it did the job because we know as a fact that the military did not come and intercept the aircraft."

Mr Hardy then revealed Captain Zahari’s strange U-Turn at Penang was indeed a sentimental farewell to his home.

"Somebody was looking out the window," said Hardy.

"It might be a long emotional good bye or a short emotional good bye to his hometown."

Adding weight to the rogue pilot scenario was an eerie flight simulation found on Captain Zahari’s home computer, charting a course that ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

Mr Hardy revealed a stunning truth in Captain Zaharie’s flight simulation – he didn’t plot an end point – leaving himself nowhere to land but the surface of the ocean.

"It's either a series of massive coincidences, which are getting more and more and on top of each other," Mr Hardy said.

"Or it's an intentional act of someone who is doing something very clever."

In a major twist, the experts – who were originally divided over the aircraft's final hours – came to a consensus that MH370 did not 'death dive' out of control into a crash landing.

Mr Hardy argued that if MH370 had indeed spiralled out of control in a death dive, more debris would have been discovered.

This was backed up by veteran air crash investigator Larry Vance, who told 60 Minutes the discovery of the flaperon from the right wing of the plane proved it was a controlled landing.

"If this was a high speed dive, this piece would not exist," Mr Vance said.

"If you assume that it went into the ocean under control at landing speed, then the idea of it fracturing into tens of thousands of pieces goes down dramatically,"John Cox agreed.

"If we don't end up finding the aircraft in the search area, then the conclusion is that we focused on the wrong set of priorities," Mr Dolan said.

MH370: Evidence points to Malaysia Airlines wreck being at 35 degrees south in Indian Ocean By Anne Barker Updated 12 Jan 2018, 10:47pm

There's a particularly tantalising reason why the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may indeed be found inside the proposed new search area at 35 degrees south in the southern Indian Ocean.

It's the lack of any debris from the plane found on Australia's west coast.

Other than a small towelette in Malaysia Airlines packaging found on a WA beach in 2015 — which may or may not have come from MH370 — every piece of debris known to have come from the missing plane washed up on the east coast of Africa, or nearby islands.

This is significant, given Australian investigators believe there were five possible autopilot control modes the plane could have been on at the time it ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean.

Calculations based on four of those settings point to a crash site further south (36-39 degrees south) or further north (33-34 degrees south), where the ocean currents in the days after the plane disappeared ran in an easterly direction, and would be expected to wash at least some debris towards Australia.

French satellite images first seen in March 2014, a week or so after the plane disappeared, showed white objects in this same area, at 35S.

At the time the objects were dismissed as unimportant.

Other photos had showed similar "blobs" elsewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, many of which were later ruled out as shipping containers, general ocean rubbish or even pods of dolphins.

The French photos were also of poor quality, making it almost impossible to see what the objects were.

But as other evidence began to point further north — the results of the CSIRO drift study and the discovery of more debris linked to the missing plane — investigators suddenly remembered the satellite images.

They asked the French for better copies. And only then did they realise the photos were more significant than first thought.

"When anyone looks at them you think, if they're not bits of plane, what are they? Because for lots of those other objects you can find an explanation, but for these you can't," Dr Griffin said.

The drift analysis included retrospective calculations to gauge where the objects might have been in the hours after MH370 disappeared. And sure enough, it was around 35S, the new zone where Ocean Infinity is preparing to search.

When Ocean Infinity reaches its destination next week, it won't be the first time that seabed vessels have searched along the seventh arc at 35S.

In the weeks after MH370 first disappeared, searchers scoured the ocean floor along the same trajectory from about 32 to 39 degrees south, and found nothing.

Evidence in a report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau in late 2016 assessing satellite communications from the plane, known as the Doppler Shift Burst Frequency Offset, is also consistent with a rapid descent and the wreck site being closer to the seventh arc.

And even if the plane is found, there may never be a satisfactory explanation for why MH370 disappeared.

"If they find it, will it be financially viable to bring it up? And even if they did, what information could it give us?" aviation specialist Trevor Jensen said.

"The flight recorders, the voice recorders, would all be so damaged now."

French satellite photos apparently showing the objects around 35 degrees south - Posted 11 Jan 2018, 4:41am

French satellite photos showed the objects around 35 degrees south in the days after the disappearance of MH370 in 2014.
Supplied: French Military Intelligence Service

 

[dotr]

[h=1]MH370: Malaysia Airlines' captain deliberately crashed plane in murder-suicide, investigators conclude[/h]

https://www.independent.co.uk/trave...urder-suicide-zaharie-amad-shah-a8350621.html

Leading air safety experts have concluded that the captain of flight MH370 deliberately crashed the plane. They include the man who spent two years heading the search, who now says Captain Zaharie Amad Shah carefully planned a murder-suicide mission

A Canadian air-crash investigator, Larry Vance, said he believed that Captain Zaharie put on an oxygen mask before depressurising the plane to render the passengers and crew unconscious: “There is no reason not to believe that the pilot did not depressurise the cabin to incapacitate the passengers.”

A surprisingly popular theory is that the aircraft was downed by a missile from North Korea – even though the rogue state is 2,000 miles away from the area in which the aircraft was lost.

 

[easynic150]

Didn’t the FBI look at the captains computer or flight simulator? Didn’t they declare there was nothing of interest on it?

60 Minutes was just pointing fingers. I didn’t learn anything new.


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[gregjrichards]

“A series of emails from a shadowy Chinese terror group and Iranians travelling on fake passports have cast doubt on the theory a Malaysia Airlines captain committed an act of murder-suicide four years ago.

Flight MH370, bound from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, vanished in March 2014 with 227 passengers, including six Australians, on board the doomed Boeing 777.

Captain Zaharie Shah, who was going through a marriage breakup, is believed to have downed the aircraft in an act of murder-suicide, by diverting from the flight path and plunging into the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Western Australia.

However, that widely-believed theory is continuing to face several challenges, following the discovery last week of two huge structures on the sea floor that gave momentary hope of the Malaysia Airlines wreckage being found.”

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ssports-reveal-MH370-truth.html#ixzz5FXNxxEnb

It is chilling to think of suicidal pilots deliberately crashing planes. I will never forget the Germanwings tragedy and MH370.

I wonder how the pilots family feel about the conclusions reached?

 

[Tulessa]

Heart breaking, but not surprised.

 

[watcher9]

The weekly report hasn't been posted yet, but according to Facebook, they are making steady progress.

https://www.facebook.com/MH370NewsandInfo/

 

[gregjrichards]

“Australian authorities would be 'complicit in mass murder' if they ignored evidence that the MH370 pilot deliberately crashed the plane, an expert claims.
Mike Keane, a former easyJet chief pilot and Royal Air Force intelligence officer, said the ATSB should change its 'ghost flight' theory of what happened to the missing jet.

Captain Keane believes MH370 was hijacked by pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah and intentionally flown outside the search area.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...omplicit-mass-murder-MH370.html#ixzz5FamXz7Pn

 

[PrairieWind]

Didn’t the FBI look at the captains computer or flight simulator? Didn’t they declare there was nothing of interest on it?

60 Minutes was just pointing fingers. I didn’t learn anything new.


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I'm not sure we ever really heard what was found on the simulator.

 

[Jax49]

From 2016:

[h=1]MH370: Captain's home simulator had Indian Ocean course plotted[/h]

https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/asia/mh370-pilot-flight-simulator/index.html

The home flight simulator belonging to the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had a route plotted into it which ended in the Indian Ocean, officials have confirmed.

"The MH370 captain's flight simulator showed someone had plotted a course to the southern Indian Ocean," Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) spokesman Scott Mashford confirmed to CNN in an email. He did not elaborate on who may have plotted the route.

The confirmation corroborates earlier reports that the device had programmed in it a route similar to the one which investigators believe the doomed flight took on its final voyage.

bbm

 

[dotr]

I'm not sure we ever really heard what was found on the simulator.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...oute-on-pilots-flight-simulator-idUSKCN1C8090
Oct 2 2017

Six weeks before the aircraft’s disappearance, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah used his home simulator to fly a route that was initially similar to part of the route flown by MH370 up the Strait of Malacca, with a left-hand turn and track into the southern Indian Ocean, the ATSB said in its report.

“By the last data point the aircraft had flown approximately 4,200 nautical miles,” the report said. “This was further than was possible with the fuel loaded on board the aircraft for flight MH370.”

The simulated aircraft track was also inconsistent with those modeled using satellite signal data from MH370, the report said.

However, the ATSB said there were enough similarities to the flight path of MH370 for the agency to carefully consider the possible implications for the underwater search area, including whether it glided after fuel exhaustion or was ditched in a controlled manner.

March 19 2014
http://time.com/29991/malaysia-files-deleted-from-missing-pilots-flight-simulator/

Malaysia’s Defense Minister said on Wednesday that files had been recently deleted from a flight simulator belonging to the captain of the jetliner that has been missing for almost two weeks.

Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters in a news conference that investigators examining the flight simulator belonging to Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the captain of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, discovered files had been recently deleted from the home flight-simulator system, the New York Times reports. He said investigators are trying to retrieve the deleted files and reminded reporters that Zaharie is innocent until proven guilty of any wrongdoing.

Other authorities cited by the Times said records were deleted more than a month before the flight vanished, and the FBI is now moving to assist in the search for records from the flight simulator.

 

[watcher9]

Dropbox link for new weekly report still hasn't been posted yet, but according to Facebook this afternoon, awesome progress is being made.

https://www.facebook.com/MH370NewsandInfo/

 

[watcher9]

Weekly Update #16 - May 15 2018

On the last section of Site #3 (red) right next to Site #4 (blue).

Total area searched in Site #1 and Site #2 is 53,000 square kilometers
Total area searched in Site #3 is 33,000 square kilometers.

Weather and conditions forecast to be generally moderate this next week and not expected to affect the search.

Kevin's dropbox - https://www.dropbox.com/s/fs3dnbgy4esu3gd/MH370 Search Weekly Report 16.pdf?dl=0

 

[gregjrichards]

Weekly Update #16 - May 15 2018

On the last section of Site #3 (red) right next to Site #4 (blue).

Total area searched in Site #1 and Site #2 is 53,000 square kilometers
Total area searched in Site #3 is 33,000 square kilometers.

Weather and conditions forecast to be generally moderate this next week and not expected to affect the search.

Kevin's dropbox - https://www.dropbox.com/s/fs3dnbgy4esu3gd/MH370 Search Weekly Report 16.pdf?dl=0

Thank you watcher9 for all your updates please know they are much appreciated.

 

[dotr]

May 17 2018
http://www.cbc.ca/news/mh370-flight-malaysian-airlines-crash-1.4665938

[h=1]'100% certainty' MH370 crash was murder-suicide, former investigator says[/h]

A Canadian aviation expert and former airplane crash investigator says he can state with "100 per cent certainty" that Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 was intentionally ditched in the ocean by one of the pilots in an act of murder-suicide.

"This is a criminal event. It's not an accident," Larry Vance, a former investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, told CBC News in a phone interview.

"This was planned and conducted, carried out by one individual who had control of the airplane via his job to have control of the airplane," Vance said.

Either the pilot or co-pilot made the decision, "for whatever reason, to take it to a remote part of the ocean and make it disappear forever."

Vance and his team examined detailed photographs of some of the wreckage and concluded the plane was deliberately crashed. Their belief was based on two pieces of wreckage from the flap system on the right wing of the airplane — the flaperon, and the section of flap that's next to it.

By examining the marks on the wreckage, they theorized that the flaps had been down when the airplane hit the water. This would mean that the plane had entered the water at a relatively low speed.

"We would call that a controlled ditching into the water. And the only way that could happen is if somebody was flying the airplane. In particular, if somebody selected the flaps to be in the extended position."

Vance said he can't say for certain if the pilot or co-pilot was the perpetrator, although it's his belief that it's more likely Shah was responsible because he had ordered two extra hours of fuel.

Vance believes that after flying another six hours, the pilot made a controlled ditch to ensure there would not be massive amounts of wreckage, and instead, the plane would sink to the bottom of the ocean.

"My contention is that he had a destination in mind, he took it to that destination," he said. "He took an airplane and made it disappear so that nobody could ever find where it went and nobody would find it ever."

 

[watcher9]

From Kevin's facebook page, found this twitter link which has a good animation of how the area is being covered by AUVs. Very informative and easy to understand how they continue covering ground and don't bump into each other. In the comments, there is a revised animation which shows where the 7th arc is in relation to the search.
I'm guessing the strip they are covering is about 60 miles across but hoping someone with knowledge of nautical distance can weigh in.

https://twitter.com/richard_e_cole/status/997933519824355328

https://www.facebook.com/MH370NewsandInfo/