Plane missing with 236 people on board

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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.

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@electric*mayhem*band wrote:

Thanks for that link, Freaky. Both BBC & ITV seem to have forgotten all about that tragedy and have moved on to football, and now Bernie Ecclestone's forthcoming court appearance for bribery. All very interesting and important to the world at large, I must say.

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Yes, is it lazy journalism or tight owners forcing lazy practices? I suspect the latter as it offers the added bonus of keeping the audience dumbed down.

[twyngwyn]

interesting article

http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/comment-conspiracies-more-mysterious-than-mh370/story-fnh81fz8-122...

[fourandsixpants]

yes it is 'interesting' in parts, in a 'round about way'......shame that freedom of speech is a thing of the past for most journalists in the mainstream media, isn't it?

[fourandsixpants]

Latest news, on channels in WA last night declared:..."A software glitch has delayed the underwater search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the Indian Ocean......blah blah blah .....An autonomous underwater vehicle was deployed on Anzac Day, about 1584km northwest of Perth........"

But a software fault that required a resetting cut short the Bluefin-21 device's 13th underwater mission on Friday.

Technicians fixed the problem overnight, and the vehicle's 14th underwater search resumed on Saturday

The map shown on this broadcast clearly indicated 4 search areas due east of Learmonth WA.......

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

What a coincidence.....(embarrassingly convenient) that these 4 'new' search areas are so close to the RAAF base.

Good training exercise opportunity.....save on fuel etc, someone must have thought/ordered.

.....wonder who this bright spark is?

[monman12]

"..shame that freedom of speech is a thing of the past for most journalists in the mainstream media, isn't it?"

Shame that does not apply  to those nuts who, with no appropriate knowledge whatsoever,  would choose to use a tragic incident such as this  to air nonsensical conspiracy theories.

nɥºɾ

[icyfroth]

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@monman12 wrote:

"..shame that freedom of speech is a thing of the past for most journalists in the mainstream media, isn't it?"

Shame that does not apply  to those nuts who, with no appropriate knowledge whatsoever,  would choose to use a tragic incident such as this  to air nonsensical conspiracy theories.

nɥºɾ

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A shame also that some don't seem to be able to get over it.

[fourandsixpants]

Why is it no surprise that this search operation appears to be preparing to 'wind down/up'?......mainly because 'they' know what happened to this flight MH370 and all passengers and crew on board......deliberately looked in wrong places.

Of course nothing has been found.

Someone will break their silence on this issue, oneday in the future, some how, some when.

[icyfroth]

Update:

An Adelaide-based exploration company believes it may have located the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, 5000km away from where authorities have been looking.

The company, GeoResonance, says its research has identified elements on the ocean floor consistent with material from a plane.

Six weeks have now passed since the plane disappeared and extensive searches in the Indian Ocean have failed to locate any wreckage.

Today, Prime Minister Tony Abbott admitted the chance of finding debris on the surface is slim to none.

He said efforts will not focus on the ocean floor, but GeoResonance believes authorities have been looking in the wrong place.

It started its own search for the missing aircraft on March 10.

“The technology that we use was originally designed to find nuclear warheads, submarines… our team in the Ukraine decided we should try and help,” David Pope from GeoResonance said.

The company surveyed over 2,000,000 square kilometres of the possible crash zone, using images obtained from satellites and aircraft.

Scientists focused their efforts north of the flight’s last known location, using over 20 technologies to analyse the data including a nuclear reactor.

They could not believe what they found in the Bay of Bengal.

“Our team was very excited when we found what we believe to be the wreckage of a commercial airliner,” Mr Pope said.

Pavel Kursa from GeoResonance told 7News: “We identified chemical elements and materials that make up a Boeing 777… these are aluminium, titanium, copper, steel alloys and other materials.”

Read More Here

[icyfroth]

Update:

A PILOT in New York claims he has found an image of the wreckage of MH370 online.

Michael Hoebel, 60, said he had found an image of what appeared to be the plane in one piece in the Gulf of Thailand — the exact place where the missing Malaysia Airlines plane made its last communication with air traffic control before falling silent in the early hours of March 8.

The Boeing 777 vanished from radar an hour into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Why that happened is still a mystery.

Using the online satellite imagery website TomNod, Hoebel said he was shocked to find the plane resting in what appeared to be an unbroken state.

“I was taken aback because I couldn’t believe I would find this,” he told a local TV news channel.

Read More Here

[icyfroth]

Update:

A private Australian company that believes it may have found the wreckage of MH370 has slammed official investigators for not taking its claims seriously.

"The company is not declaring this is MH370, however it should be investigated," GeoResonance said in a statement.

But the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, which is coordinating the multinational search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, has dismissed GeoResonance's claims.

"The Australian-led search is relying on information from satellite and other data to determine the missing aircraft's location," the JACC said in a statement.

"The location specified by the GeoResonance report is not within the search arc derived from this data. The joint international team is satisfied that the final resting place of the missing aircraft is in the southerly portion of the search arc."

But the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, which is coordinating the multinational search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, has dismissed GeoResonance's claims.

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