Featured Flight MH370 mystery gets deeper and weirder

....whew

....and you call me anti-Semitic for stating known historical fact. What's the descriptive term for this sort of neurosis? Disseminating unsubstantiated fear mongering Iran/Islamaphobic propaganda?

 

Sounds like a great Mitch Rapp novel. Unfortunately, it's not implausible, but it is improbable.

Don't you think the pilots know about the engines sending out data bursts indicating an "on" status? Of course, they may have known but not cared.

 

This is big news in my neck of the woods....it sure is a mystery. Malaysian Airlines does have a pretty good record overall. My first thoughts were had North Korea anything to do with the disappearance....but I would expect North Korea can no break wind without the West being all over it, then again if it was "terrorists" surely they would be trumpeting the fact all over the world.....

 

This is getting a little hinky, so here....

....is something to add to the ongoing suspense and rumors - 'You're traveling to another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but also of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose bounderies are that of the imagination. At the sign post up ahead, your next stop, the twilight zone.'

Actually, I am praying, along with thousands of others, that the plane turn up for the sake of the loved ones. Maybe it will even turn up to be ok, and simply hijacked and sitting in some dark jungle, with the passengers and crew being held as prisoners. That might be the best case, but for the sake of the families held in pain, I pray someone, somewhere, find that plane!

 

Latest:

Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: US pushes search towards vast expanse of the Indian Ocean

"...The “pings” sent by the plane provided information about the speed at which it was travelling and its altitude but not its precise location. The last ping was apparently sent when the plane was above water. ABC News reported that Pentagon officials believed there was an indication that the plane had crashed into the ocean.

Mr Carney, the White House spokesman, did not specify the information that the US had received and that was pushing the search westwards...."

 

???

six hrs ago - Friday 14 March 2014

 

Conspiracy theories abound:

Iranian lawmaker: U.S. ‘kidnapped’ missing Malaysia Airlines plane

Parliamentarian Hossein Naghavi Hosseini suspected the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane was part of a dastardly plot to undermine Iran’s relations between China and Southeast Asia.

"..."The fact that two Iranians were traveling on the plane using stolen passports was part of “the plot,” Hosseini reportedly said.

“Documents published by the Western media about two Iranians getting on the plane without passports is psychological warfare,” he said Tuesday, according to The Times.

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

The same day Hosseini made the farfetched statement that Interpol and Malaysian officials revealed the identities of the two Iranians traveling with false documents and all but ruled out they were terrorists...."

 

This is a good article that updates every 90 seconds to give the latest on this, it sounds like they are seriously considering air piracy now:

Malaysia Airlines MH370: investigators' top theory is someone with aviation training deliberately flew jet west

Unnamed sources say tracking evidence suggests 'foul play' now suspected as US-led search spreads to India's Andaman Islands

Latest post:

"17.12 BREAKING: Investigators are increasingly certain that someone with aviation skills was responsible for the change in course, a Malaysian government official has said

A US official said investigators are examining the possibility of "human intervention" in the plane's disappearance, adding it may have been "an act of piracy." The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it also was possible the plane may have landed somewhere."

 

How much room would the missing Malaysia Airlines flight need to land?

"If MH370 made it to the Andamans, is there anywhere it could have landed?

The short answer is yes—there are several airports long enough to land a Boeing 777. But doing so covertly would probably require the complicity of the Indian armed forces (or perhaps those of Myanmar), which makes it extremely unlikely.

According to Boeing’s specifications for 777 aircraft (pdf, pg. 16), the plane would need between approximately 1,160 to 1,600 meters (3,800 and 5,200 feet) to land at sea level, depending on its weight at the time..."

Missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 ‘Deliberately Diverted’ Towards Andaman and Nicobar Islands: List of Unused Airports Where the Plane Possibly Landed [Photos]

 

Looks like TND was ahead of the game on this one - fair play to you.

 

On the civil aviation forum 'pilot suicide', or acting under duress, is a growing consensus with the plane turning about (two left turns, 180 degree change in direction) and crashing into the deep waters of the South Indian Ocean. This coincides with the possible southern route established from SATCOM data and the plane running out of fuel after 7.5 hrs of flight.

 

I've always thought postal workers going 'postal' and senselessly killing their comrades was weird. What is it about these pilots that would drive them to such senseless acts? What's the term for pilots who have gone 'postal'?

Egyptair 990:

"The co-pilot of EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed off New England in 1999, killing 217 people, deliberately crashed the plane as an act of revenge, according to a source close to the investigation.
Gamil el-Batouty had earlier been reprimanded for sexual misconduct and the executive who told him he would not be allowed to fly US routes again was on board the plane."


Silkair 185:

"SilkAir Flight 185 was a scheduled SilkAir passenger flight from Jakarta, Indonesia to Singapore, which crashed into the Musi River near Palembang in southern Sumatra, Indonesia on 19 December 1997, killing all 97 passengers and 7 crew members on board.....The American National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) utilized computer modeling to conclude that the crash was the result of deliberate flight control inputs, most likely by the captain."


LAM 470:

"The captain of the LAM Flight 470 that crashed in Namibia on November 29 intentionally caused the accident, according to preliminary data from the investigation.

LAM Flight TM-470 operated on a scheduled passenger flight from Maputo, Mozambique to Luanda, Angola. It was flying at FL380 when the airplane entered a sudden descent. All 33 on board were killed as the Embraer 190 jet impacted the ground in the Bwabwata National Park in Namibia."


MH 370:

"Najib was briefed on the new data by investigators from two U.S. agencies, the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board. It showed with a “great degree of certainty” that its system known as Acars, which sends data and text messages to and from the ground, was turned off just before the plane passed Malaysia’s east coast, he said.

A short time later, when the jet reached the area where air traffic control passes from Malaysia to Vietnam, its transponder was also disabled, he said. Without a transponder, radar can’t identify a plane and has difficulty locating it precisely.

The pilot also commanded the plane’s flight-management system to make a turn to the west. That turn was reported to the airline by some of the final data sent by the Acars system, the person familiar with the investigation said.

Disabling Acars transmissions is a multi-step process that can require even an experienced aviator to consult flight manuals, said Kenneth Musser, a retired Delta Air Lines Inc. 777 pilot who later flew and helped train crews at Asiana Airlines Inc.

That move, combined with the disabling of Flight 370’s transponder, indicates intervention by “someone who knows the system on the airplane,” said Bill Waldock, professor of safety science who teaches accident investigations at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona....

“That has to be the crew or someone who’s intimately familiar with how a 777 operates,” Waldock said."

 

I'll wait for what Jesse Ventura might say.

 

It may take some time, but I'll wait to see what the search in this area reveals. IMO, Australia may not be publically revealing radar data that they have: