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

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c3dd7614-57d6-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html#axzz3lT7VSwGc SEPT 10,2015

Inmarsat jet tracking system aims to avoid repeat of MH370


Following MH370’s disappearance, Inmarsat offered to provide a basic satellite-tracking service to airlines at no extra cost.

More than 90 per cent of the world’s long-haul airliners are fitted with equipment that can automatically send data over the Inmarsat network, but many airlines have not paid to have it activated, including Malaysia Airlines at the time of MH370’s disappearance.

The International Civil Aviation Organisation, the UN agency that sets global aviation standards, proposed in February that from 2016 all commercial airliners flying over oceans must transmit data about their speed, height and direction every 15 minutes when they are out of range of ground-based radar

 

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http://www.ibtimes.com/missing-flig...stem-could-prevent-jet-disappearances-2092869
SEPT 11, 2015

Missing Flight MH370: Satellite Plane Tracking System Could Prevent Jet Disappearances With Existing Technology

The satellite tracking, which would send data to air traffic controllers every 15 minutes, was expected to cost Inmarsat $3 million annually. The company said it would offer the service for free, with the hopes that some airlines would enroll in its premium service, which sends data by the minute, to cover the losses.

The system was tested with flights flown by Qantas Airways Ltd. and Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd., it said Thursday, Inmarsat said, Bloomberg reported. Those results showed that tracking a plane every 15 minutes did not significantly increase costs.

 

[watcher9]

http://www.ibtimes.com/missing-flig...stem-could-prevent-jet-disappearances-2092869
SEPT 11, 2015

Missing Flight MH370: Satellite Plane Tracking System Could Prevent Jet Disappearances With Existing Technology

The satellite tracking, which would send data to air traffic controllers every 15 minutes, was expected to cost Inmarsat $3 million annually. The company said it would offer the service for free, with the hopes that some airlines would enroll in its premium service, which sends data by the minute, to cover the losses.

The system was tested with flights flown by Qantas Airways Ltd. and Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd., it said Thursday, Inmarsat said, Bloomberg reported. Those results showed that tracking a plane every 15 minutes did not significantly increase costs.

Bravo!!
This generous gesture to cover all the planes free sounds like a winner.
It may end up coming back to them tenfold.

 

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http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2015/09/12/china-a-no-show-at-mh370-search-planning-meeting/ SEPT 12, 2015

China a ‘no show’ at Canberra MH370 search planning meeting

This is all that was said in this week’s search update from the JACC and ATSB.

An MH370 officials’ tripartite meeting was held in Canberra on 3–4 September 2015. Discussions at the meeting focused on planning to ensure the search for the aircraft continues to be conducted as efficiently as possible, taking advantage of expected better weather with the onset of summer. Chinese officials were, on this occasion, unable to attend but arrangements are in place to meet with them in coming weeks.

 

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http://jacc.gov.au/search/index.aspx

CURRENT STATUS

Current search efforts continue to be focused along the seventh arc in the southern Indian Ocean associated with the final ‘handshake’ between the aircraft and the satellite ground station.

Two vessels - Fugro Discovery and Fugro Equator—are currently deployed for the underwater search. As at September 2015, more than 60,000 square kilometres has been searched.

 

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WEEKLY OPERATIONAL SEARCH UPDATE SEPT 9, 2015

http://jacc.gov.au/families/operational_reports/opsearch-update-20150909.aspx

PDF VERSION
http://jacc.gov.au/families/operati...370_Operational_Search_Update_20150909_EN.pdf

 

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DRIFT ANALYSIS

http://www.marine.csiro.au/~griffin/MH370/ SEPT 8, 2015

Trajectories of Global Drifter Program drifters

Summary


Analysis of the trajectories of satellite-tracked drifting buoys deployed in the Indian Ocean over the last 30 years confirms our earlier conclusion based on computer modelling that the MH370 flaperon found on La Reunion in July 2015 is consistent with MH370 having crashed near the 39°S-32°S segment of the 7th arc on 8 March 2014.

With just one piece of MH370 found, however, the buoy data, like the computer modelling, can not significantly refine the ATSB's sea-floor search area - it just increases our confidence that the flight path analysis underpinning the choice of sea-floor search area is not wrong.

 

[CD82]

www.cnn.com/2015/09/15/africa/mh370-investigation/index.html



Nearly two months after debris from the vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 washed up on Reunion Island, a large object reportedly floating off the island has piqued the interest of French officials there. -CNN

More at link.

 

[watcher9]

www.cnn.com/2015/09/15/africa/mh370-investigation/index.html



Nearly two months after debris from the vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 washed up on Reunion Island, a large object reportedly floating off the island has piqued the interest of French officials there. -CNN

More at link.

According to your link, it was reported by a Air France pilot flying overhead. A ship was diverted to search for the object but could not locate it.

Because of the altitude, "it must be a voluminous object for the pilot to see it," Vadivelou said.

 

[CD82]

According to your link, it was reported by a Air France pilot flying overhead. A ship was diverted to search for the object but could not locate it.

Because of the altitude, "it must be a voluminous object for the pilot to see it," Vadivelou said.

Yes. I read the article but didn't quote the majority of it.
Nonetheless, something was spotted from 9,000 feet.

 

[watcher9]

Yes. I read the article but didn't quote the majority of it.
Nonetheless, something was spotted from 9,000 feet.

I realized that.
I was just adding on from your post in case the article in the link changes or disappears.

I hope they can find it and it will be connected to the plane.
Way back when they were first searching, some planes spotted some big white objects, but lately searches never found them. I do wonder if these parts will show a major breakup upon a crash or that the plane is slowly coming apart under the water?

 

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according to a FOX News article another pilot on a following plane did not report seeing the object, though I don't believe it means the first pilot didnt see something at 9800 feet altitude.
The merchant ship that was first sent did not locate anything but France is sending the military out into the waters to search on Tuesday afternoon.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/0...-object-spotted-in-waters-off-reunion-island/ SEPT 15, 2015

HUNT FOR MH370: 'White object' spotted in the waters off Reunion Island

A pilot on a following plane in the area, however, did not report seeing the object. The Air France pilot who spotted the object was flying at an altitude of about 10,000 feet and could not give specific coordinates.

 

[ilovepierre]

More possible debris?!

 

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More possible debris?!

Not sure...there has been no further reports
France was to send a military airplane out to search as well but we have not heard anything since..and that was 5 days ago.

 

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http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...iously-ruled-out/story-fnizu68q-1227540840487 SEPT 24, 2015

MH370 search to revisit more than 30 sites previously ruled out

The latest update on the underwater search reveals the decision to revisit “Classification 2” sites where search vessels have previously made “sonar contacts of interest”.
Despite being rated as “unlikely to be significant to the search” the Australian Transport Safety Bureau now believes they warrant a second look.


http://www.ibtimes.com/mh370-update...pecific-sites-interest-after-flaperon-2109825

MH370 Update: Search Vessel To Resurvey Specific Sites Of Interest After Flaperon Confirmation

Fugro Discovery, which arrived back in the search area after a resupply trip, will survey sites where certain objects termed as "Classification 2," have been found by search vessels till date, JACC said. Classification 2 sonar contacts are described as ocean objects that are “of comparatively more interest” but “still unlikely” to be of significance importance to the search operation.

 

[watcher9]

I was searching for any new info on the search and came across this link to the South China Morning Post which links numerous articles on the missing plane and thought we may find it as a useful source.

Now that it is October, does anyone remember when the searches will begin again in earnest (after the stormy weather season)?

http://www.scmp.com/topics/malaysia-airlines-flight-370

 

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:coffeews: Wreckage with pilot skeleton and Malaysian Airlines colours found :what:

raying:

I hope its MH370 but I am reluctant as well..

There are NO photographs to support this claim

I wonder if it has anything to do with the crash of Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501, that flight crashed into the Java Sea on Dec 28, 2014...I don't remember if they found all parts of the plane or what the drift model was for that crash investigation


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11527687

MH370 claim: Wreckage with pilot skeleton and Malaysian Airlines colours foundOCT 12, 2015

Plane wreckage with the Malaysian Airlines colours painted on the side linking it to MH370 has reportedly been found in the Philippines.

It is also alleged they managed to get near the wreckage and found skeletal remains in the pilot's chair with the seat belt fastened.

 

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The link below has an image of a Police Report filed by a man in Sandakan, Malaysia who's relatives allegedly spotted debris in the southern Philippines on Sugbay Island in Tawi Tawi..

The location of Tawi-Tawi , IMO, does not make sense in regards to drift models

http://www.theborneopost.com/2015/10/12/mh370-wreckage-in-tawi-tawi/ OCT 12, 2015

MH370 wreckage in Tawi-Tawi?

KOTA KINABALU: A man has lodged a police report in Sandakan claiming his relatives on the southern Philippine island of Tawi-Tawi had discovered a plane wreckage with a Malaysian flag and human remains on it, but police had yet to verify the claim.

 

[Xara]

I don't know much about currents. But after looking at a map, I don't see how it could be possible. Unless the plane crashed in the South China Sea maybe?

The claim seems pretty specific though. I mean he saw a skeleton? Wow.

I will look forward to hearing more on this. Thanks for posting Intermezzo!

ETA....as far as the Air Asia crash goes....113 of 162 bodies were recovered. I'm not sure about the pilot though. I will poke around a little and post if I find anything.

 

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I don't know much about currents. But after looking at a map, I don't see how it could be possible. Unless the plane crashed in the South China Sea maybe?

The claim seems pretty specific though. I mean he saw a skeleton? Wow.

I will look forward to hearing more on this. Thanks for posting Intermezzo!

When I looked it up on a map I thought the same as you, how can that be possible, that is why I am reluctant to think its MH370