Malaysia airlines plane may have crashed 239 people on board #3

[popsicle]

Sri Jegarajah ‏@cnbcSri 5m
Malaysian transport minister (left) & civil aviation chief prepare to update media on the search for #MH370 pic.twitter.com/iiSaiHJDkp

Sri Jegarajah ‏@cnbcSri 12m
Next #MH370 media briefing scheduled tomorrow at 5pm Kuala Lumpur time

https://twitter.com/cnbcSri

 

[JerseyGirl]

A prominent Iranian lawmaker has blamed the US for the disappearance of Malaysian flight MH370, claiming Washington wants to cause "psychological warfare" between Iran and China.

Hossein Naghavi Hosseini, the spokesman for Iran's Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said the missing plane has been "kidnapped" by the US in order to "sabotage the relationship between Iran and China and South East Asia".

Hosseini described this as a "plot" against Iran initiated by the US.

"Documents published by the Western media about two Iranians getting on the plane without passports is psychological warfare," he told the Tasnim news agency.

"Americans recruit some people for such kinds of operations so they can throw the blame on other countries, especially Muslim countries."

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/malaysia-a...er-blames-us-kidnapping-missing-plane-1439919

 

[CARIIS]

The New York Times cited Tengku Sariffuddin Tengku Ahmad, spokesman for the Prime Minister's office, as saying that he had checked with senior military officials, who told him there was no evidence that the plane had flown back over the Malay Peninsula to the Straits of Malacca, only that it may have attempted to turn back.

But the air force chief Gen. Rodzali Daud didn't go as far as denying that the plane had traveled hundreds of miles off course. The air force is still "examining and analyzing all possibilities as regards to the airliner's flight paths subsequent to its disappearance," he said in a statement Wednesday. Rodzali said it "would not be appropriate" for the air force to "issue any official conclusions as to the aircraft's flight path until a high amount of certainty and verification is achieved."

At the news briefing Wednesday, Rodzali and other officials said it wasn't yet clear if an object that showed up in military radar records flying over the sea northwest of the Malaysian coast early Saturday was the missing plane.

The officials said they are asking experts from the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority and National Transportation Safety Board to help them analyze the radar data.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/12/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/

bbm

RE wasn't yet clear if an object that showed up in military radar records flying over the sea northwest of the Malaysian coast early Saturday was the missing plane.

if this is true then we all sould be scared. Very scared! If these dudes are "confused" about one figuring out what is what when there is an airplane or four in the area, it does not bode well should there be a conflict in the part world with a whole lotta moving parts!!!!!!!

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Struggling to keep up today in between decorating. Damn you, husband, for taking a day off work to decorate and expecting me to help at a time like this!

Got to the end of thread 1 to find another 14 pages. Have I missed much, do we know any more (or less) than we did yesterday?!

 

[popsicle]

Struggling to keep up today in between decorating. Damn you, husband, for taking a day off work to decorate and expecting me to help at a time like this!

Got to the end of thread 1 to find another 14 pages. Have I missed much, do we know any more (or less) than we did yesterday?!

Don't know where the plane is but this thread has been interesting imo. What are you decorating?

 

[CARIIS]

The tweets from a passenger who claims to have missed boarding Malaysia Airlines flight MH370



http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...nes-flight-mh370/story-fnizu68q-1226852311845

One of the four who didn't show for the flight. Seriously, I think I saw her on an episode of house hunters.

Who the **** knows anymore:


he mysterious five passengers who checked in but did not board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 do not exist after all, according to Malaysia's police chief Khalid Abu Bakar.

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking...s-5-passengers

 

[JerseyGirl]

The tweets from a passenger who claims to have missed boarding Malaysia Airlines flight MH370



http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...nes-flight-mh370/story-fnizu68q-1226852311845

One of the four who didn't show for the flight. Seriously, I think I saw her on an episode of house hunters.

... the third person to miss the flight was university student Jessica Yee Wai Ching. Thinking the Saturday morning flight was leaving later that evening Jessica said she was in shock over her close call. She sympathised with those on board saying she was extremely blessed and had been given a second chance at life.
“I mistook the day. If not I would’ve boarded the plane as I still had time to catch it,” Jessica said.


http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...nes-flight-mh370/story-fnizu68q-1226852311845

 

[ScarlettScarpetta]

I can not believe nothing more. I keep thinking they are gathering more info by now they have to have an idea..

I have to wonder.. If this plane is not being hidden somewhere? I know that seems odd and not possible but where is it??????

The other option is it is no where near where they thought it was. If they tracked it for an hour after the transponder stopped working, How far could it have gone? It was fully fueled yes?

 

[CARIIS]

Struggling to keep up today in between decorating. Damn you, husband, for taking a day off work to decorate and expecting me to help at a time like this!

Got to the end of thread 1 to find another 14 pages. Have I missed much, do we know any more (or less) than we did yesterday?!

..and folks who do not websleuth with us think were all bonkers instead of curious people, who want truths, want to learn and share, and are frankly not satiated with 2 minutes and 36 seconds of soundbites that are 87% of the time error filled

you tell that husband of yours to just go decorate we are solving the the worlds biggest murder mystery without a body - and tell him not to disturb you HA!

My dear you have missed much irrelvant everything you missed has been undone, redone, retracted, put out again. All of us who did pages 1-14 know nothing more than you at this point...just like the "authorities" HA

 

[CARIIS]

Per article...

the raft sunk into the sea as they were hauling it aboard?

What?!? :what:

Oye vie

No we have sinking life rafts!

If that is not a oxymoron I do not know what is!

Thats it cant take anymore, see ya se la vie heading for a high window HA!

 

[JerseyGirl]

The Beijing News has reported that a source claiming to be local volunteer assisting in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has found a dead body wearing a lifejacket in an area of the Malacca Strait. In a single-paragraph report, the website of the Chinese-language newspaper said that it was seeking to establish the reliability of the claim.

The unconfirmed report is said to have come via a new operations center established in Malacca after the search for the flight was expanded to both sides of the Malaysian peninsula in response to reports that the plane may have diverted from its planned course. The report was first passed to the center of operations for search and rescue efforts on Vietnam's Phu Quoc island.

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1103&MainCatID=11&id=20140312000154

bbm

 

[nursebeeme]

Vietnam has partially suspended its search and rescue mission to find the missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370, frustrated over an alleged lack of response from Malaysian authorities.

Scaling back its operations, Vietnam has said it will recall ships involved in the search.

"We've decided to temporarily suspend some search and rescue activities, pending information from Malaysia," Vietnam's deputy transport minister Pham Quy Tieu, who is leading the search operations, told reporters.

"We still have plans to search with a few flights today, while other activities are suspended."

He said Malaysian authorities are yet to respond to repeated requests from Vietnamese officials regarding key information about the search measures.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/missing-ma...spends-search-measures-malaysia-turns-1439889

 

[CARIIS]

Sums it up pretty well !

A couple more days like this could be great. We are doing time travel BACKWARDS -- once we hit Firday -just like plane- poof- it never vanished---works for me u?!

 

[CARIIS]

Malaysia asked India to join the expanding search for the missing Boeing 777 near the Andaman Sea —

Read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/03/11/2871022/malaysia-not-sure-which-way-lost.html#storylink=cpy

Oh great another collection of civil servants to start releasing and recanting in another language - hey lets spice this up a bit!

 

[popsicle]

The Beijing News has reported that a source claiming to be local volunteer assisting in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has found a dead body wearing a lifejacket in an area of the Malacca Strait. In a single-paragraph report, the website of the Chinese-language newspaper said that it was seeking to establish the reliability of the claim.

The unconfirmed report is said to have come via a new operations center established in Malacca after the search for the flight was expanded to both sides of the Malaysian peninsula in response to reports that the plane may have diverted from its planned course. The report was first passed to the center of operations for search and rescue efforts on Vietnam's Phu Quoc island.

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1103&MainCatID=11&id=20140312000154

bbm

WOW if it is true and belongs to the plane.

 

[CARIIS]

Did I just hear this right ?

Sky TV reporter said that the report (re. Military radar) has been refuted by the same person who made it when confronted, Reuters quoted his exact statement he denied saying it ??

* Sorry if I have missed this already

afraid so, I posted it last night both stories (dotn remember)from same outlet hours apart! its unreal If I recall it was the police ch from Malaysia

 

[belimom]

But we do not know what Malaysian air does.
All we have to go on is previous accidents...
And that IS an aircraft raft... so who knows.
Where would you get one of those if not from an airplane?! :banghead:

That is weird... why would it say boarding on it?
I also wonder if the life raft would have needed to be "deployed" or if it would just "float up?" :waitasec:

http://www.raftservice.com/aviation/eam-rafts-t-12.php

apparently airline life rafts do say "boarding" on them- click pic to zoom on link above.

and the colors seem to be correct

ETA: Marine life rafts are very similar...sigh

http://www.rfd.co.nz/products/marine-products/marine-liferafts/dsb-lr07,-lr-97rsr.aspx

I don't see any that say boarding on them.... :waitasec:
Anything is possible of course... it just looks more like a plane raft to me.

- They say boarding (or "Board Here") because it's very confusing in the water to know where to get in. The opening is above your head so you can't see it easily, the cover is is flapping around, it could be dark and you can't see much anyway, the liferaft is turning with the waves - could be upside down and need to be flipped over, and everyone trying to get in is in a panic. We actually attended a class where we got in a wave pool and had to climb into liferafts with the waves activated. I had a difficult time getting in unassisted. Some folks could not get in, even with folks trying to pull them in. It's that hard. It's the nature of trying to climb into a slippery, moving object with walls high enough not to take on too much water/stay afloat for days in the ocean - all while fully clothed in moving waves...

Having owned liferafts like this, this particular one looks like our marine liferaft. We had them on a previous sailboat that we owned. They come in a canister and can be manually activated, but most also activate once they sink to a certain depth. Then they pop back up to the surface.

DH says that he thinks the ones a commercial airline carries on a large plane like that would be the escape chutes and that they are silver/gray, like the ones shown in the picture posted a few posts back. I think smaller (single/twin engine) planes may carry the ones like shown in the picture. Perhaps larger airlines carry them also? I really don't know.

PFD's: Didn't it say the raft was found with a PFD? Commercial airlines don't have PFD's, in the traditional sense, for passengers. They use seat cushions or the inflatable ones (which many boaters/sailors/mariners now use also - we had two of those), but if the one found with the liferaft is a bonafide PFD with foam (not a seat cushion and no inflatable), then... I don't think it was from an airline, unless they carry different ones for pilots/crew than for the many passengers.

I could be wrong, but these are my opinions about the items shown in the picture.

 

[CARIIS]

Don't know where the plane is but this thread has been interesting imo. What are you decorating?

Unlike the plane the location of the thread has only moved TWICE!!!!!!That is funny!

Please stay away from sky, sea or jungle decorating themes!

 

[popsicle]

Jason Ng ‏@ByJasonNg 1m
Breaking: Malaysia tracked unidentified object over Strait of Malacca on Saturday; trying to determine if it was #MH370

https://twitter.com/ByJasonNg

 

[belimom]

The Beijing News has reported that a source claiming to be local volunteer assisting in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has found a dead body wearing a lifejacket in an area of the Malacca Strait. In a single-paragraph report, the website of the Chinese-language newspaper said that it was seeking to establish the reliability of the claim.

The unconfirmed report is said to have come via a new operations center established in Malacca after the search for the flight was expanded to both sides of the Malaysian peninsula in response to reports that the plane may have diverted from its planned course. The report was first passed to the center of operations for search and rescue efforts on Vietnam's Phu Quoc island.

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1103&MainCatID=11&id=20140312000154

bbm

WOW if it is true and belongs to the plane.

But... where did they get the lifejacket, if on a plane? Like I posted above, commercial airlines don't have the room and extra weight capacity to carry foam lifejackets/PFD's for a couple of hundred people. They use inflatable ones (which don't stay inflated for this long...) or the seat cushions. Not so sure it's from this plane.