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.

[fourandsixpants]

right. so now I know nothing about security protocols, human nature and am thoughtless and insensitive? Because you say so! LOL

You monman are unqualified to state these things and your comment is unjustified and untruthful.

Many authorities 'watched' this plane and know what happened.

This issue is not a mystery to several authorities.

The truth about the final hours, location and whereabouts of Flight MH370 and all on board is wrapped in secrecy.

[fourandsixpants]

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/america-shot-down-missing-malaysia-plane-mh370-and-kept-it-secret-conspirac...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysia-airlines-plane-mystery-3492778

What was on-board Flight MH370 when it disappeared? Mystery deepens over  contents of missing plane's cargo

It has now emerged the Malaysia Airlines plane was loaded with items which have not been made clear on the publicly-released manifest

It is known the aircraft was carrying 4.566 tonnes of mangosteens, an exotic  fruit.

It also had a separate consignment which contained 200kg of lithium  batteries.

However, the separate consignment totalled 2.453 tonnes.

And it has not been revealed what made up the rest of that weight.

[cherry*135]

Today

MH370 not in Indian Ocean search zone: ATSB


The missing Malaysia Airlines plane is not in the Indian Ocean search zone where acoustic "pings" were detected, search co-ordinators have confirmed.

MH370 went missing on March 8 about one hour into a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

"The Australian Transport Safety Bureau [ATSB] has advised that the search in the vicinity of the acoustic detections can now be considered complete and, in its professional judgment, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place of MH370," the Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre said on Thursday.

The co-ordination centre announced on April 7 that a pinger locator towed from the Australian navy vessel Ocean Shield had picked up two acoustic signals, with one held for more than two hours.

At the time, it described the signals as consistent with flight data or cockpit voice recorders, the most promising lead yet and likely from a man-made source.

Two days later, two more signals were detected, holding for about five and seven minutes.

The JACC's statement on Thursday came hours after reports that the search had gone back to square one, citing US Navy deputy director of ocean engineering Michael Dean as saying the pings came from some other man-made source unrelated to MH370.

''Our best theory at this point is that [the pings were] likely some sound produced by the ship ... or within the electronics of the Towed Pinger Locator,'' he said.

JACC has also confirmed the end of the Bluefin-21 mission, with the underwater drone detecting no signs of aircraft debris since it began scanning the sea floor off the West Australian coast on April 14.

The Bluefin-21 has scoured more than 850 square kilometres of the ocean floor looking for signs of the missing aircraft, but has been constrained by depth operating limits and technical hitches.

Having earlier narrowed down the search area based on the pings, JACC is now casting its net much wider, saying it continues to review all existing radar, satellite and aircraft performance data to define a search zone of up to 60,000 square kilometres in the southern Indian Ocean.

That zone still follows an arc defined by British company Inmarsat based on the final "handshakes" between the Boeing 777 and satellites.

Relatives of the 239 passengers and crew were recently successful in calling for Inmarsat's data to be released publicly, not convinced that searchers were looking in the right place.

JACC said the findings of the data review would be made public "in due course".

And it is not only pushing ahead with sea floor mapping in the "defined" search area, it is also adding more vessels to the survey, which is expected to take about three months.

A fresh, potentially deeper underwater search will follow, beginning in August and taking up to 12 months.

A formal request for tender to undertake the search would be released soon, JACC said.

"A single prime contractor will be chosen to bring together and manage the expertise, equipment and vessels to carry out the search," it said.

AAP

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/mh370-not-in-indian-ocean-search-zone-atsb-20140529-396ml.html#ixzz33...

[lionrose.7]

I hope I also live to see the mystery solved, I hope this does not ever fade from peoples minds, we need to know 🙂

[donnashuggy]

Paul Keating Ex-PM @PmPaulKeating · 7m

Great news re MH370. No wreckage found. Abbott to announce new hope that it could still be still in the air. Mobilising fire engines #auspol

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[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

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[fourandsixpants]

monnie will be here soon to tell you how insensitive you all are and ask "Where did you get your qualifications from to say this?"........................................

*double snort

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@monman12 wrote:

It comes as no surprise to myself  that the media hyped alleged ULB signals were from other than a FDR .

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It wasn't only the media. The PM seemed rather excited about taking credit for finding the ULB signal too.

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@cq_tech wrote:
What I find most puzzling is that to date, not a single piece of flotsam from MH370 has been found anywhere, neither in the water nor washed up onto a beach somewhere, especially given that much of the material that goes into the construction of an aircraft is buoyant, not to mention the contents of the aircraft's cabin and hold, including passengers' bodies.

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That is what I find most puzzling too. 

[fourandsixpants]

only puzzling if you believe the 'mystery' theory being 'propaganded'....