Malaysia airlines plane may have crashed 239 people on board #5

[popsicle]

Sri Jegarajah ‏@cnbcSri 1m https://twitter.com/cnbcSri

Malaysian civil aviation chief - #MH370 investigation has "strictly" followed @icao protocol

 

[momrids6]

Why would someone who has bad intententions, fly via waypoints?

They are in the navigation computers and easy to program a flight path rather than having to actually navigate while flying at night.

Old school navigation techniques are not likely to be a proficiency of someone with bad intentions.

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6023358/

 

[Little Jedi]

That wiki article on the Coco Islands states that it's a territory of Australia. Whereas it has previously been reported that it is owned by Myanmar. Did you post the wrong Coco Island or is that the same one?

Hmmm ??
It does say it's in the Indian Ocean (How many is there ??)

Quote from Wiki link

"The airfield was built during World War II to support Allied aircraft in the war against Japan."

 

[ptandj]

There is a "Great Coco Island" and "Little Coco Island" pair off the northern tip of the largest island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

 

[popsicle]

Sri Jegarajah ‏@cnbcSri 1m
7th Fleet: P-3C Orion completed search today of NW section of Malacca Strait, flew approx 1,000 miles west, nothing significant to report

Sri Jegarajah ‏@cnbcSri 2m
BREAKING: US 7th Fleet - "We do not have detailed information on her (USS Kidd's) assignment in the Strait of Malacca at this time" #MH370

Sri Jegarajah ‏@cnbcSri 3m
BREAKING: US 7th Fleet - USS Kidd arrived in the northwestern section of the Strait of Malacca late this afternoon #MH370

Sri Jegarajah ‏@cnbcSri 4m
BREAKING: US 7th Fleet - "We shift our focus from the Gulf of Thailand to the northwestern section of the Strait of Malacca" #MH370

Sri Jegarajah ‏@cnbcSri 4m
BREAKING: US 7th Fleet's Cmdr. William J. Marks - "No significant activity" to report in #MH370 search effort

https://twitter.com/cnbcSri

 

[ptandj]

Coco Islands:

 

[popsicle]

Sri Jegarajah ‏@cnbcSri 1m
7th Fleet: P-8A Poseidon still scheduled to arrive in the area March 15 to aid search efforts, will rotate search duties with Orion #MH370


https://twitter.com/cnbcSri

 

[SCHMAE]

CNN : " No chance that the plane landed there " re: andaman islands?
CNN: "China detects seismic activity on ocean floor'' ( dont know which search area this is under )

 

[popsicle]

CNN : " No chance that the plane landed there " re: andaman islands?
CNN: "China detects seismic activity on ocean floor'' ( dont know which search area this is under )

Gloria Riviera ‏@griviera 5h
Anyone? Xinhua: Chinese researchers detect a "seafloor event" near the waters btwn Malaysia and Vietnam around 2:55a Sat. #MH370

 

[popsicle]

Sri Jegarajah ‏@cnbcSri 1m https://twitter.com/cnbcSri

Rolls Royce "concurs" with statement made by Malaysian transport minister on engine health monitoring data #MH370 http://bit.ly/1fXfejl

Rolls-Royce Statement
Friday, 14 March 2014
Rolls-Royce continues to provide its full support to the authorities and Malaysia Airlines. Rolls-Royce concurs with the statement made on Thursday 13 March by Malaysia's Transport Minister, Hishammuddin Hussein regarding engine health monitoring data received from the aircraft.

http://www.rolls-royce.com/news/press_releases/2014/140314_rolls-royce_statement.jsp

 

[SCHMAE]

Gloria Riviera ‏@griviera 5h
Anyone? Xinhua: Chinese researchers detect a "seafloor event" near the waters btwn Malaysia and Vietnam around 2:55a Sat. #MH370

Thank You . I was just wondering was this event recent or the day the plane was last heard from. So this event happened just after losing contact with plane. At the depth of the sea right there, could the plane have hit the bottom forcefully enough to cause a seismic event? Seems the water would slow it down and it would drift to the bottom. I am far, far from knowledgeable about that kind of thing though.

 

[revampz]

Gloria Riviera ‏@griviera 5h
Anyone? Xinhua: Chinese researchers detect a "seafloor event" near the waters btwn Malaysia and Vietnam around 2:55a Sat. #MH370

ok so not near Japan where the earthquake was....

you know after all of this, it probably is where it went of the radar in the sea...

 

[popsicle]

I am probably less knowledgeable than you. I would think if the "sea floor level" event was this plane...it crashed there.

 

[Marg from Oz]

Based on these coordinates:

Link to larger size: http://oi61.tinypic.com/xfvpjo.jpg

This doesn't look like it was going in a straight line.

Shows where it was last in contact with air traffic control and then doesn't make sense after that. Nor does this whole story. Unbelievable!! I have no idea after reading this for the past 6 days what happened to the plane.

If it was hi-jacked I would suspect there would be a lot more people involved.
Especially in the air line business. Maybe it had more fuel than it should have.

Wonderiing about that map they put up while flying that supposedly shows how far you have travelled and how far yet to go. {I keep looking for the half way mark} Is this real time or a video being replayed?

The pilot could have told the passengers that he had received notification to divert to another destination for some reason, so as not to alarm them.

So, over the lst 6 days of all these posts I have learnt nothing of the fate of these passengers, but I have had an excellent education in world politics and geography.

 

[SCHMAE]

If the plane was flown toward the Andaman islands and went a few hundred miles after losing contact with radar , then any event off the sea floor between Malaysia and Vietnam could NOT be the plane, correct?
Could some part of the plane have fallen off? Let's say a motor or something? If a motor fell off the plane and fell down to the ocean, would that have made a seismic event on impact with the sea floor? And then could the plane have flown another few hundred miles without an engine? If so, it would have to be a highly skilled pilot and why not call for help?
Bizarre doesn't even come close.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Coco Islands:

interesting!! Definitely looks like it was veering north to Coco Islands!

 

[Softail]

Malaysian Plane -- Cell Tower Could Be the Key In Mysterious Disappearance

Malaysian officials have rejected the theory -- but if it's true (as some still believe) the plane would have passed over the city of Kota Bharu, which contains a powerful Celcom cellular phone tower.

Credible mobile analysts tell TMZ, if the plane flew over the tower there's a high likelihood the tower would contain data transmitted by cell phones inside the aircraft ... if the phones were on.

Roughly 30% of passengers leave their phones ON during flights -- this according to published reports.


Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2014/03/13/malay...nce-mystery-cell-phones-mobile/#ixzz2vw4Ut03e

 

[JerseyGirl]

Malaysian Plane -- Cell Tower Could Be the Key In Mysterious Disappearance

Malaysian officials have rejected the theory -- but if it's true (as some still believe) the plane would have passed over the city of Kota Bharu, which contains a powerful Celcom cellular phone tower.

Credible mobile analysts tell TMZ, if the plane flew over the tower there's a high likelihood the tower would contain data transmitted by cell phones inside the aircraft ... if the phones were on.

Roughly 30% of passengers leave their phones ON during flights -- this according to published reports.


Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2014/03/13/malay...nce-mystery-cell-phones-mobile/#ixzz2vw4Ut03e

There were pings to the cell phone tower on Kota Bharu. I remember reading about it early on in the investigation.

 

[21merc7]

If this was a hijacking, wouldn't we be looking toward areas known for such activity and/or reasons to want a 777? Not necessarily islands. I mean known terrorist territory, with large enough areas to hide a 777.

 

[sherlockh]

This is why:

The Coco Islands belong to Myanmar. However, over the last several years, there have been reports of the Chinese creating military infrastructure there. There have also been reports that the islands, which are too close to the Andamans for India's comfort, have been leased out to China by Myanmar.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...w/30063312.cms

So it could simply have been a Chinese military plane flying west at around the time MH370 crashed in the South China Sea. It wouldn't surprise me if they are chasing the wrong plane. Seismic activity now indicates the plane did crash close to where it was last contacted. The oil rig worker did see something after all.