Malaysia airlines plane may have crashed 239 people on board #15

[CoverMeCagney]

News conference to be held by Malaysian Prime Minister at 2pm Uk time (45 minutes from now). This seems unusual. And typically, I have to go out and will miss it....

 

[JerseyGirl]

The Australian aircraft saw;
two objects, “one circular and one rectangular,” Mr. Hussein said. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-for-missing-malaysian-plane/article17632708/
a gray or green circular object and an orange rectangular item http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...jet-search-buoyed-by-french-satellite-imagery

The Chinese aircraft saw:
“two relatively big floating objects with many white smaller ones scattered within a radius of several kilometres,” China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-for-missing-malaysian-plane/article17632708/
Chinese aircraft photographed a square floating object, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a briefing in Beijing today. http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...jet-search-buoyed-by-french-satellite-imagery
Mr. Hussein said “two orange objects approximately one metre in length and one white-coloured drum” were also spotted.

Malaysian authorities also noted that the missing plane was carrying wooden pallets, potentially a hopeful sign after wreckage that looked like a wooden pallet was found spotted by a search aircraft Sunday.

He noted that “at the moment there are new leads but nothing conclusive.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-for-missing-malaysian-plane/article17632708/

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The Chinese asked for Australian aircraft to further scan the area around the coordinates of 95.1113 degrees east longitude and 42.5453 south latitude, Xinhua said. Many white smaller objects were scattered within a radius of several kilometers of the two objects, the agency said.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...jet-search-buoyed-by-french-satellite-imagery

 

[SilkySifaka]

omg. Press conference by Malaysian PM at 10 am est. Meeting with families now apparently. Jusxt on cnn

 

[Waddles]

Looks like this is it!

 

[trigger]

lease: Praying for all the families. lease:

 

[SilkySifaka]

Looks like this is it!

I am so excited because i never believed anyone was alive and have been waiting for them to find the plane in the ocean.

SURELY they wouldn't be doing this at 10 pm to have no new news

 

[SouthAussie]

Can anyone who lives in the general region of the search area answer a question for me? Is there ever a time when the ocean is calmer than it is now -- a "quiet season," if you will? I was wondering -- if weather prevents a thorough underwater search right now -- if there will come a time in a few months for a comprehensive search.

To clarify, I'm not suggesting the search should wait. What I'm asking is, if it turns out they find enough pieces to definitively say it's the plane -- but weather prohibits them from finding more than a few pieces -- might there be a "quiet season" when searchers can return to continue the recovery process.

I'm no expert, but I'm not sure that it is EVER calm in that area, Jaime.

The area is avoided by ships. Experienced yachters who have ventured near the area have had to be rescued. It is windy, desolate, away from land masses.

They say it is somewhat calmer in December (our summer) .. but here are some comments by someone who was there in December.


A lonely, lonely place

The search for flight MH370 is taking place over one of the most harsh and isolated points on the planet, in a patch of southern Indian Ocean from where Antarctica beckons.

It is also windy, lashed by huge waves.

"Very harsh conditions, once you get there the influence of Antarctica... starts to come clearly on the ocean," said Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at Sydney's University of New South Wales.

Van Sebille, who was on a research ship in the area in December, said even in calm conditions the place was challenging and with the southern hemisphere's autumn approaching, it was set to deteriorate.

"The place couldn't have been worse, but also the timing couldn't have been worse. Had it been a few months earlier, the seas are much calmer, much easier to work in."

Nathan Bindoff, professor of physical oceanography at the University of Tasmania, said: "The Indian Ocean sector is a region that has strong winds and big waves.

"It is the windiest sector of the southern ocean."

The strength of the currents could also hamper efforts to find any wreckage, the oceanographers said, with satellite imagery of the potential debris showing the objects awash, bobbing in the sea where waves can be towering.

"So you have very, very strong winds there, quite high waves. You've got among the strongest currents in the world," said van Sebille.

He said any wreckage from the plane could already be 1,000 kilometres from where the jet hit the water, making the job of backtracking to the crash site from the debris sighting even more difficult.

http://www.emirates247.com/news/aus...f-world-s-harshest-places-2014-03-20-1.541573

 

[SilkySifaka]

lease: Praying for all the families. lease:

me too. the families need to be able to grieve properly, not be on this roller coaster each day

 

[popsicle]

Jon Williams ‏@WilliamsJon 1m https://twitter.com/WilliamsJon

Families of missing passengers of #MH370 starting to gather at hotel in Beijing. Malaysian Airlines to brief shortly.

 

[atthelake]

omg. Press conference by Malaysian PM at 10 am est. Meeting with families now apparently. Jusxt on cnn

Link to watch live?

 

[hockeymom]

Sounds like this is it!

 

[JerseyGirl]

Link to watch live?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-flight-mh370-possible-debris-3276634

I can hear background noise going on here. microphone checks, etc.

Officials are staying very tight-lipped about the emergency briefing that will be held in half an hour at 2pm (GMT).

But acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein has spoken to politicians on the issue for the first time since the plane went missing.

He said: "There is some development. Whatever it is, the focus is to reduce the search area, so anything that [the Prime Minister] announces is in relation to the reduction."

Relatives of people on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight have been called to an emergency briefing which is due to start shortly.

Soon after that there will be a press briefing by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

The Prime Minister of Malaysia is to hold a press conference at 2pm (GMT) to give an update on developments in the search for the missing plane.

That is 10pm local time, so this could be a significant development as it is not one of the scheduled press briefings that takes place at 9.30am (GMT) each day.

 

[popsicle]

Retweeted by Jon Ostrower https://twitter.com/jonostrower
Bill Neely ‏@BillNeelyNBC 11m

Just got off US Navy Poseidon searching for debris from #MH370. We were diverted to debris field & dropped to 200 feet to search. No sign

 

[SouthAussie]

BBM

Tweets
Sky News Newsdesk ‏@SkyNewsBreak 18m
Sky Sources: relatives of missing plane passengers to be booked on charter flights to take them to Australia #MH370

Sky News Newsdesk ‏@SkyNewsBreak 37m
Malaysia Airlines calls an emergency meeting for families of missing plane's passsengers in Beijing within the next hour #MH370

 

[aa9511]

They have been saying for weeks now that they see objects or debris I just want to know when there is something actually recovered

Yes, exactly.

And I am getting tired of the "suspense," where they leak some information and then schedule a press/news conference for 2 hours later. Building the suspense, that's what it seems like to me.

Just come out and say it.

I'm sure there are tons of media camping out already in whatever place the Malaysias usually make their press conferences.

It's not like there won't be people there to video it.

The Aussies did the same thing.

JMO.

 

[SouthAussie]

BBM

12:12am: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak calls press conference for 10pm Malaysian time (1am Melbourne/Sydney).

This is an extraordinary measure and journalists and officials in Kuala Lumpur are anticipating a major announcement.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/malaysi...jects-found-20140324-35e3d.html#ixzz2wt5360Yl

 

[Waddles]

I am so excited because i never believed anyone was alive and have been waiting for them to find the plane in the ocean.

SURELY they wouldn't be doing this at 10 pm to have no new news

Me too, I've thought they crashed in sea from day 1, except I had originally thought they crashed at 2am ish where the sightings were

 

[aa9511]

MALAYSIA Airlines has revealed the co-pilot of its missing jet was flying the Boeing 777 for the first time without a so-called “check co-pilot” looking over his shoulder.

Co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid has come under intense scrutiny, along with Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, after Malaysian authorities said flight MH370’s disappearance was due to “deliberate” action in the cockpit.

However, nothing has yet emerged publicly to implicate the two men

http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...t-without-minder/story-fnizu68q-1226863755275

Oh so now they're throwing the co-pilot under the bus? :facepalm:

 

[JerseyGirl]

Tweets
Sky News Newsdesk ‏@SkyNewsBreak 18m
Sky Sources: relatives of missing plane passengers to be booked on charter flights to take them to Australia #MH370

Oh boy, here we go. lease:

 

[SilkySifaka]

Yes, exactly.

And I am getting tired of the "suspense," where they leak some information and then schedule a press/news conference for 2 hours later. Building the suspense, that's what it seems like to me.

Just come out and say it.

I'm sure there are tons of media camping out already in whatever place the Malaysias usually make their press conferences.

It's not like there won't be people there to video it.

The Aussies did the same thing.

JMO.

To be fair, in this case they have to be sure of what was found then arrange the briefing for families - giving them enough time to arrive in the briefing room, remember it is late there- and then have the presser after that. Seems only 40 minutes from announcement to time of presser even though i think that they will be a little delayed with the family questions after the briefing