mommylicious
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This new report adds fuel for conspiracy theorists for sure. I honestly have no idea what to believe but I really hope someday the mystery is solved!
Thanks for more thoroughly checking the evidenceI think the media tends to just copy other media's stories (that is how it seems in other cases I follow), so I wouldn't put a lot of weight in that unless it says it heard a direct quote from someone who actually said/reported about the change before/after takeoff.
If we go to 'the horse's mouth', which is French newspaper 'Le Parisien', it says:
"Un rapport sur les passagers et les bagages emmenés à bord vient d'être remis aux juges d'instruction. Son auteur était présent au tribunal lors de la réunion. « On se rend compte qu'il y a plusieurs listes de passagers contradictoires, par exemple sur le placement des passagers, indique Ghyslain Wattrelos. On a aussi appris qu'un mystérieux chargement de 89 kg avait été rajouté sur la liste du vol après son décollage. Un conteneur était également surchargé, sans qu'on sache pourquoi. L'expert n'en tire aucune conclusion. C'est peut-être de l'incompétence ou une manipulation. Tout est possible. Ça fera partie des questions à poser aux Malaisiens. »"
which, according to google-translate, says this in English:
"A report on the passengers and baggage brought on board has just been given to the investigating judges. Its author was present in court at the meeting. "We realize that there are several contradictory passenger lists, for example on the placement of passengers, says Ghyslain Wattrelos. It was also learned that a mysterious load of 89 kg had been added to the flight list after take-off. A container was also overloaded, without anyone knowing why. The expert draws no conclusion. It may be incompetence or manipulation. Everything is possible. This will be part of the questions for Malaysians. ""
Vol MH370 : révélations sur le crash mystère
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The first link (msn) seems to be saying that the additional 'item' weighing 89kgs was added to the plane before takeoff, but not added to the 'list' until after takeoff.
"French investigators searching for answers over the disappearance of flight MH370 have discovered a 89kg weight was added to the flight before take-off, it has been reported.
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Two Parisian judges are currently conducting a judicial investigation, and have just received a report on the passengers and baggage brought on board, French newspaper Le Parisien reported.
According to the paper, Mr Wattrelos said: “It was also learned that a mysterious load of 89 kg had been added to the flight list after take-off."
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So is this to mean that a last minute 'item' weighing 89Kgs was added to the plane, but not recorded until 'after' takeoff? (And if added 'after' takeoff, where are these people finding this list?? Is it a computerized list they would have access to even though the plane is missing??)
Yes, but we speak and understand English, and there is likely translation being made between Malaysian (?) and then French to English, so words may not be quite how we would say them?Thanks for more thoroughly checking the evidence
I would think it more usual to say something is loaded onto a flight, and is added to the flight list. Unusual to say it is added to a flight.
From my experience of watching Aircrash investigationsthe flight list is handed to the pilots in the cockpit in an re-enactment. The investigators (actors) can then print them out again after the incident
So it could be that in the case of MH370, the French have found the flight list updated with the last item after the flight departure time, verifiable by the system update timestamp. That's why they ask, incompetence or manipulation?
I wonder how long afterwards was the item added?
There is likely also a policy that containers cannot be overloaded, which policy seems to have also been breached. (What was in the overloaded container, and did the documentation state the overloaded weight so that it was known ahead of time and ignored, or ?)My understanding from following this MH370 disappearance from the beginning is that all items loaded onto a plane must be documented on a waybill as there are certain items (like the famous lithium batteries) that have a limit in the amount that can be transported at one time. There was much speculation in the beginning that they had placed more than the allowed amount of lithium batteries on the plane. In no case should items be added to that list after a plane takes off.
Sorry to have confused you... I assume everyone has watched an episode or two of those air crash showsYes, but we speak and understand English, and there is likely translation being made between Malaysian (?) and then French to English, so words may not be quite how we would say them?
Sorry, you have lost me about the flight list being handed to the pilots in the cockpit in a re-enactment, which the investigators can then print out again after an incident? (ie where would it be printed out FROM, if plane has disappeared?)
I'm not getting how it was even determined that after takeoff, the flight list had been added to, since the plane hasn't been found? Unless that last-minute item was added into a computer list, which would immediately be able to be accessed by the people watching the plane from land (sorry, my plane/airport/flight language is lacking ;/ , but the people who make sure planes don't collide or whatever (air traffic control or whatever?) - would they be able to access a computerized list which was changed after take-off, immediately after it was changed? - if so, then that must mean there is/was a way of 'communicating' via computer, aside from voice, and if something was known to be an issue at that time (or any other time?), the pilots could've just typed in a message even if they couldn't access their voice-communication device?)
I kind of remember something about two with stolen passports. Did anyone get on the plane instead? Or did nobody get on the plane using their passports?In full: Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 passenger list
Published, 8 Mar, 2014
"It emerged on Saturday night that Luigi Maraldi and Christan Kozel did not board the flight despite being listed on the manifest. The Italian and Austrian foreign ministries confirmed the two had reported their passports stolen.
I kind of remember something about two with stolen passports. Did anyone get on the plane instead? Or did nobody get on the plane using their passports?
It is amazing, the incompetence that comes to light *after* a tragedy. If only there was a way to test competence on a regular, ongoing basis, instead of finding out when it's too late.Possibly a re-post, excellent, very lengthy article with lots of detail.
The Atlantic
June 17 2019 Story by William Langewiesche
What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane
"In the cabin were 10 flight attendants, all of them Malaysian. They had 227 passengers to care for, including five children. Most of the passengers were Chinese; of the rest, 38 were Malaysian, and in descending order the others came from Indonesia, Australia, India, France, the United States, Iran, Ukraine, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Russia, and Taiwan. Up in the cockpit that night, while First Officer Fariq flew the airplane, Captain Zaharie handled the radios. The arrangement was standard. Zaharie’s transmissions were a bit unusual. At 1:01 a.m. he radioed that they had leveled off at 35,000 feet—a superfluous report in radar-surveilled airspace where the norm is to report leaving an altitude, not arriving at one. At 1:08 the flight crossed the Malaysian coastline and set out across the South China Sea in the direction of Vietnam. Zaharie again reported the plane’s level at 35,000 feet.
Eleven minutes later, as the airplane closed in on a waypoint near the start of Vietnamese air-traffic jurisdiction, the controller at Kuala Lumpur Center radioed, “Malaysian three-seven-zero, contact Ho Chi Minh one-two-zero-decimal-nine. Good night.” Zaharie answered, “Good night. Malaysian three-seven-zero.” He did not read back the frequency, as he should have, but otherwise the transmission sounded normal. It was the last the world heard from MH370. The pilots never checked in with Ho Chi Minh or answered any of the subsequent attempts to raise them.
Primary radar relies on simple, raw pings off objects in the sky. Air-traffic-control systems use what is known as secondary radar. It depends on a transponder signal that is transmitted by each airplane and contains richer information—for instance, the airplane’s identity and altitude—than primary radar does. Five seconds after MH370 crossed into Vietnamese airspace, the symbol representing its transponder dropped from the screens of Malaysian air traffic control, and 37 seconds later the entire airplane disappeared from secondary radar. The time was 1:21 a.m., 39 minutes after takeoff. The controller in Kuala Lumpur was dealing with other traffic elsewhere on his screen and simply didn’t notice. When he finally did, he assumed that the airplane was in the hands of Ho Chi Minh, somewhere out beyond his range.
The Vietnamese controllers, meanwhile, saw MH370 cross into their airspace and then disappear from radar. They apparently misunderstood a formal agreement by which Ho Chi Minh was supposed to inform Kuala Lumpur immediately if an airplane that had been handed off was more than five minutes late checking in. They tried repeatedly to contact the aircraft, to no avail. By the time they picked up the phone to inform Kuala Lumpur, 18 minutes had passed since MH370’s disappearance from their radar screens. What ensued was an exercise in confusion and incompetence. Kuala Lumpur’s Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre should have been notified within an hour of the disappearance. By 2:30 a.m., it still had not been. Four more hours elapsed before an emergency response was finally begun, at 6:32 a.m."
Seems that i had forgotten about that as well, guess with all the information and disinformation regarding the missing plane, it has been overlooked, even by the media.I remember the photos of the two now, thanks @dotr. Amazing how much I have forgotten in the last 5 years or so!!