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

[momrids6]

Learning a lot myself. So the airline can opt-out, but it sounds like the data gets transmitted anyway to Boeing, who makes it available to subscribers, like Rolls Royce. I wonder if Boeing will be able to determine what happened?

ACARS is a subscription service with the option to pick and choose. Rolls Royce subscribes directly to ACARS- as they are the engine maker

ETA: Malaysia states all planes are equipped with ACARS_ but does not state which services/transmissions/data sets they subscribe to. It was posted upthread they "opted out" of the "real time data" set

 

[Blue_Dolphin308]

China satellites may show location of crash site. Per CNN

 

[sherbetjello]

CNN now reporting that China MAY have satellite images of the planes crash site.

 

[Boodles]

Just wondering when it's daylight there...
Sunrise and sunset Kuala Lumpur

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Morning astronomical twilight 06:11
Morning nautical twilight 06:35
Morning civil twilight 06:59
Sunrise 07:19
Transit 13:22
Sunset 19:25
Evening civil twilight 19:46
Evening nautical twilight 20:10
Evening astronomical twilight 20:34

Twilight definitions: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=twilight-types
http://www.sunrise-and-sunset.com/en/malaysia/kuala-lumpur/2014/march/13

 

[PrairieWind]

ACARS is a subscription service with the option to pick and choose. Rolls Royce subscribes directly to ACARS- as they are the engine maker

So who operates ACARS? Is it Boeing, or is it a separate entity?

 

[sherbetjello]

It looks like a Tomnod image that CNN is showing, tbh.

(Showing suspected site of crash, it is in water.)

 

[Aviator]

Just noticed that

looks a little bit like

 

[catatonia]

U.S. Spy Satellites Detected No Explosion as Flight 370 Vanished
By Robert Windrem
U.S. spy satellites did not detect a midair explosion at the time that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 lost contact with air traffic controllers or in the hours immediately afterward, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News on Wednesday.

...The U.S. Space Based Infrared (SBIR) satellite system, which is designed to identify heat signatures in real time, can -– and has -– detected exploding aircraft, according to a second official,. Indeed, it has provided evidence in the past of events as small as artillery fire and the launch of anti-aircraft missiles, the official said.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mi...ected-no-explosion-flight-370-vanished-n51061

Now this confuses me with regard to the oil rig employee's letter.
If those satellites can detect explosions, what about a 60m long aircraft on fire?

 

[Isabelle]

Ugh it blew my mind

like maybe TSA put a ********* MEMO or something? UGH

We would like all personel to be aware that a triple 7 has vanished off the planet. We ask for increased scrutiny. ! good lord

In 2005 when returning firm Hawaii, TSA workers operating the X-ray scanners were chatting and laughing it up, paying to attention to the X-ray scanner. I came very close to saying something but didn't want to risk being arrested or something along those lines. Next time I will not be silent!

 

[Softail]

Twitter can be good and bad. It is heartbreaking to see so many tweets of people who still believe MH370 will be coming home.


#MH370

 

[Chilly Willy]

I am not pissed, I just don't think we should be joking about such a serious issue

I haven't seen anyone joke about the tragedy, only about the incompetence of Malaysia in their handling of this matter - which is a joke.

 

[sherbetjello]

Quest on CNN is now saying that the oil rig report would place this wreckage in the exact place that person reported!

CRAZY.

Why did it take this long??

The suspected wreckage is in three pieces.

 

[CARIIS]

Heads in the sand!

In some instances ones head the sand is functionial (!) but when your JOB is to be on the lookout for people who have bad intentions as it relates to speeding objects

 

[Chilly Willy]

Just noticed that

looks a little bit like

That's exactly what my husband just said, it looks like it could be the tail and elevators(?).

Edit: Except he was looking at the last picture.

 

[Sleuthster]

China satellites may show location of crash site. Per CNN

Just saw this. I guess there is some good to all those satellites we use to spy on each other.:truce:

 

[Blue_Dolphin308]

The Chinese had this information on Sunday Why the delay?!?!?!!?

 

[popsicle]

Now this confuses me with regard to the oil rig employee's letter.
If those satellites can detect explosions, what about a 60m long aircraft on fire?

His letter, part of it posted above, said this....“From when I first saw the burning (plane) until the flames went out (still at high altitude) was 10 to 15 seconds,” he wrote. “There was no lateral movement, so it was either coming toward our location, stationary (falling) or going away from our location.”

 

[Isabelle]

China satellites may show location of crash site. Per CNN

SAR needs to be on their way to that location and ready to search at sunrise! That will be about 720 pm Eastern time. We may well be up all night!

 

[ilovepierre]

Those images of what could be the crash site: how far away is that debris in relation to where the plane went off radar? Is it near there or is it near the Malacca Strait or where the oil rig worker was located?

I don't know how to read/map long and lat coordinates.

 

[alreetlike]

This whole thing has my head completely battered. I'm fascinated by plane crashes generally, but this "disappearance".. wow.