Plane missing with 236 people on board

[freakiness]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-08/malaysia-airlines-lost-contact-with-plane/5307888

Malaysia Airlines says one of its planes has gone missing on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

A statement from the airline says flight MH370 lost contact with air traffic controllers at 2:40am local time, just over two hours into the flight.

The plane, a Boeing 777-200, left Kuala Lumpur at 12:41am on Saturday, and had been due to arrive in Beijing at 6:30am local time.

The company says the plane was carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members.

The airline says it is contacting the next-of-kin of all passengers and crew, which includes people of 13 different nationalities.

In a statement on the airline's website, group chief executive officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the airline was working with authorities to locate the aircraft.

"Focus of the airline is to work with the emergency responders and authorities and mobilise its full support," the statement said.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with all affected passengers and crew and their family members."

The airline says it will provide regular updates on its website.

The ABC understand Malaysia Airlines will hold a press conference on the incident shortly.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@love*today wrote:
So I heard that spy satellites can pick this up but no-one wants to share what their equipment can do with the world.

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It's my understanding they don't want to share it with THE PUBLIC - which is why the satellite pictures we are seein gon the internet are so blurry. This would be quite understandable. The public does not autoomatically have a right to know everything concerning national security capabilities.

I suspect those who actually  need to know have far more detailed information than we do - possibly including OTH radar data from Pine Gap. That might be why they are so optimistic that the debris spotted really is from the plane.

[icyfroth]

Update:

Investigators are rushing to find out who captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah spoke to just prior to take-off, London's Mail on Sunday

The newspaper claimed that police had traced the phone number to a shop in Kuala Lumpur and established that the number was obtained under a false identity "very recently".

The phone had been bought "very recently" by someone who gave a woman's name, but was using a false identity, the report said.

Police declined to comment on the two-minute call made from the cockpit of the missing Boeing 777 but are reportedly treating the phone call as a significant moment in the MH370 mystery.

Authorities are warning that the report should be treated with caution.

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and

MALAYSIA’S continuing refusal to share the cargo manifest for Flight MH370 with an Australian-led search and rescue operation will hamper the effort to find the missing aircraft, an aviation expert says.

It is part of mounting concerns about the way in which Malaysian authorities have handled the search for the missing aircraft as it enters its third week.

Strategic Aviation Solutions chairman Neil Hansford said it also suggests Malaysian authorities are not being fully transparent about what the Boeing 777-200ER, which disappeared on March 8 an hour into a journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, was carrying.

“To me, there is no reason why they wouldn’t declare the cargo manifest unless you’ve got something to hide,” he said.

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[monman12]

"...as for finding a ULB where the signal/s have been electronically jammed?.....??
http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/95/44/99/PDF/ISSA_Yamen2.pdf
your cue monman."

"Jam a ULB electronically", thanks for the chuckle P007, you would have a better chance jamming a mobile phone with an old sock!

You really should not attempt to explain any science/technical matters P007, or if as is usual, you post others work you should read it first. Your reference above is for a UWB (not ULB) which  stands for Utra Wide Band wireless communications system, and absolutely nothing to do with a Underwater Locator Beacon which works using high frequency sound. How would you jam a ULB electronically P007?.

A UWB transmitter certainly would be very unhappy underwater,   just like trying to use your mobile phone underwater. if you were in a 'jam'.

You have commented in the past P007:
"In Today's Technological age a signal from a planes black box is easy to locate.........."
So again I ask: " why do you think it would be so easy to locate an immersed  pulsed 37.5Khz ultrasonic beacon?"

Try responding yourself, and not just grab from the Internet anything that sounds correct. (UWB is NOT ULB).

nɥºɾ

[Anonymous]

Looks like it just crashed into the sea ...

http://www.smh.com.au/world/malaysia-airlines-mh370-abbott-says-new-objects-found-20140324-35e3d.htm...


Poor families .

[fourandsixpants]

ref

..."http://www.smh.com.au/world/malaysia-airlines-mh370-abbott-says-new-objects-found-20140324-35e3d.htm...

1:34am: The Malaysian Prime Minister's announcement that MH370  is lost in the Indian Ocean is unrelated to the objects spotted by an Australian  aircraft on Monday.
The HMAS Success sent to retrieve those objects did not find them on Monday night, and it is still not known whether or not they are  connected to the missing flight."

ref.... "Confirmation the Boeing 777 crashed into the sea came from Britain’s Air  Accidents Investigation Branch which had been provided information from the  London-based satellite company Inmarsat."

 IMO very, suss/questionable-why didn't these 'heroes' step forward earlier??

N.B. who owns Diego Garcia again?

....who leases Diego Garcia?

....for what purpose?

....funny that the Maersk Alabama was seen leaving port Jebel Ali on March 11th-then went missing for 9 days....then docked at Dar Es Salam. Funny that.

All so scientific.....not

All so believable....not

All so convenient.

.....'national security' bouldery.

[fourandsixpants]

replying to monman.

Regardless if it is UWB or ULB, there is no way in Awides/Hades that any type of signal emitting device/contraption, encased in a 'box'-regardless of its colour,would be capable of sending a signal if it was blown up.

http://theaviationist.com/2014/03/19/mh370-shot-down/

[azureline**]

It is unlikely to be retrieved in such deep water

[lionrose.7]

I think this is what happened, some as this crash

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522

[monman12]

"Regardless if it is UWB or ULB, there is no way in Awides/Hades that any type of signal emitting device/contraption, encased in a 'box'-regardless of its colour,would be capable of sending a signal if it was blown up."

Again  a lack of engineering and  science on display.  A black box would have to be directly targeted to be destroyed by an explosion considering it has a short tem  "G"  survival rating of  over 3000.  If you bothered to research you would find that in "bombed" aircraft incidents,  the FDR and CVR have  provided stored flight information, try Lockerbie or  Air India flight 182,  both brought down by bombs.

"Regardless if it is UWB or ULB" .  Regardless? They are completely different items, you might as well be talking about a mobile phone and a torch.

"Regardless" of the above I still would like an explanation P007 of this statement of yours:

"In Today's Technological age a signal from a planes black box is easy to locate.........."

nɥºɾ

[cq_tech]

We can speculate all we like but until this aircraft's wreckage is found and the CVR & FDR have been examined, nobody can say for certain what caused the aircraft to come down.