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

[Xara]

After a cursory look, this is what I found:
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se...-of-two-pilots-found-in-cockpit-one-retrieved

 

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After a cursory look, this is what I found:
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se...-of-two-pilots-found-in-cockpit-one-retrieved

The crash of Air Asia 8501, which crashed in the Java Sea off the coast of South Sulawesi, Indonesia came to my mind quickly once I located Tawi Tawi on the map

.according to the article you posted the search and rescue team retrieved the body of only 1 of the 2 pilots who were found strapped into their seats.

 

[watcher9]

Wow!
Could this be the plane that the man on the oil rigger spotted on fire? I can't remember exactly where he was positioned, but I was thinking it was off the coast of Vietnam.
Looking on the map for Taki-Taki, the horizon may be right.

 

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http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/10/12/MH370-Manila-not-true/ OCT 12,2015

Not true, says Manila on claims of MH370 wreckage

KOTA KINABALU: Manila has dismissed claims that the wreckage of the missing MH370 was on one of its islands in the southern Philippines.

“We deployed a gunboat there because of the news. We interviewed the people at the Sugbay Island, the fishermen, but they have no knowledge about it,” said Bacardo.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/stor...-alleged-mh370-wreckage-spotted-off-tawi-tawi

PHL military checking alleged MH370 wreckage spotted off Tawi-Tawi

Bacordo said based on their interviews, it is unlikely there was truth to the reports.

"Even the populace living in the island for the longest time said they have no knowledge of this," he said.

 

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Wow!
Could this be the plane that the man on the oil rigger spotted on fire? I can't remember exactly where he was positioned, but I was thinking it was off the coast of Vietnam.
Looking on the map for Taki-Taki, the horizon may be right.

The oil rig was off the southern coast of Vietnam, slightly south east of Ho Chi Ming City

I don't remember which direction he was looking but I believe it was west or south west
He said he saw an object on fire in the South China Sea but could not say where the object was moving toward of away from his location but he did say the flames went out

Then we have the sighting from the yacthwoman's who say a burning object off the coast of Banda Aceh Indonesia at the north end of the Malacca Strait and north end of the Indian Ocean

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Wow! I'm sceptical this is MH370 but I would LOVE it to be.

It always irked me that once those apparent satellite pings were worked out, no other sightings or suggestions seemed to be considered, no proper searches done in those areas.

Anyway, here's the DM link. Disappointingly no pictures, which is pretty much what DM is good for.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ippine-island-fuelling-speculation-MH370.html

 

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Was this a sick joke or false reporting by an individual to Police? How can you state "a family member" found wreckage and skeletal remains still in a seat and then have the Military go out and search and find nothing, as well as talk to the locals..WTH?

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/129486/afp-no-mh370-wreckage-in-tawi-tawi

AFP: No MH370 wreckage in Tawi-Tawi

The Armed Forces of the Philippines said it has not sighted any plane wreckage of a Malaysian plane in Tawi-Tawi as reported in the news.
“Since yesterday, we deployed a gunboat there because of the news. We interviewed the people there, the fishermen, but they have no knowledge about it,” Captain Giovanni Carlo Bacordo, commander of Naval Task Force 61 said on Monday.

 

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Wow! I'm sceptical this is MH370 but I would LOVE it to be.

It always irked me that once those apparent satellite pings were worked out, no other sightings or suggestions seemed to be considered, no proper searches done in those areas.

Anyway, here's the DM link. Disappointingly no pictures, which is pretty much what DM is good for.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ippine-island-fuelling-speculation-MH370.html

Gee this story changed a bit from earlier reports.

instead of off the coast of Sugbay Island the wreckage is now in thick forested jungle
it is now the Aunt instead of the nephew, and she climbed into the fuselage and saw
MANY skeletons instead of 1

 

[watcher9]

What a let down. Even when you knew it couldn't be, there was always a little hope.

It sounds like they threw the ball back to the witnesses to show them where the crash site was rather than do an actual search. I guess if it were truth, the aunt and the sons would have contacted their local police when they found it.

This is an article written before the Manila navy investigated.

“There have been no reports to our provincial police in Tawi Tawi of any aircraft wreckage being found as well,” said Jocson, the former provincial police chief.


http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/10/11/Philippines-Malaysian-flag/

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Clearly the aunt needs to lead the military/police to the exact spot where she apparently saw this plane.

Hmmmm. I want this to be something, anything, even a small private plane. I can't believe somebody would just make it up.

 

[watcher9]

What about any missing planes from WWII?

 

[CoverMeCagney]

List of all missing aircraft worldwide, there are a handful from the right general region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missing_aircraft

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Possibly Flying Tiger 739 in 1932? It was 80+ years ago but was heading to the Philippines. [EDIT it's listed as 1962 on Wiki)

http://www.theweek.co.uk/mh370/57683/the-mystery-of-flight-mh370-7-other-planes-that-vanished

And while we're here, what's all that about the Angola Boeing 727 being stolen from the runway??!

 

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List of all missing aircraft worldwide, there are a handful from the right general region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missing_aircraft

The reports state that the "witnesses" saw an aircraft with Malaysian Air colours, that they found a Malaysian flag and the skeletons were in the fuselage..which is a pretty large part of a Boeing 777

 

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What a let down. Even when you knew it couldn't be, there was always a little hope.

It sounds like they threw the ball back to the witnesses to show them where the crash site was rather than do an actual search. I guess if it were truth, the aunt and the sons would have contacted their local police when they found it.

This is an article written before the Manila navy investigated.

“There have been no reports to our provincial police in Tawi Tawi of any aircraft wreckage being found as well,” said Jocson, the former provincial police chief.


http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/10/11/Philippines-Malaysian-flag/

BBM
Same here...what a let down..I doubted it but I still had some hope..

 

[CoverMeCagney]

BREAKING NEWS: I think I have just found MH370 in my garden. No skeletons but LOADS of mangosteens. Must be it, right? I'll do the sensible thing and call the local newspaper first.

 

[Xara]

Could this be a case of lost in translation? It just seems odd that someone would purposely false report this.

 

[Xara]

And this article says that police officers came and confiscated the flag. It also says that they don't watch TV and have no knowledge of the outside world.
http://english.astroawani.com/malay...reckage-sugbay-island-fuels-speculation-76095

 

[watcher9]

The fact that they confiscated the flag means that at least part of their story may be true.
I wonder why a flag would be on a plane unless it was a souvenir or something?

 

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http://news.yahoo.com/philippines-d...0-wreckage-found-remote-island-062335040.html OCT 12, 2015

Philippines dismisses reports MH370 wreckage found on remote island


"I sent people to the site where it (the plane wreck) was supposedly seen and the results were negative," the deputy police director of Tawi-Tawi, Superintendent Glenn Roy Gabor, told AFP by phone.

"There was someone who was spreading that story but it has no truth to it and the person spreading it has disappeared."

Gabor said that if a big plane had crashed on Sagbay island, as the man reportedly claimed to Malaysian police, local residents would definitely have noticed.

"We interviewed the local people and they didn't see anything. That is a small area. It is impossible they wouldn't see something like that," he said.

Tawi-Tawi governor Nurbert Sahali also released a statement saying no wreckage had been found.