Missing Plane | Malaysian Airlines Flight Disappears

[DrLeftover]

News conference called in Malay capital in about an hour, families in Bejing to be briefed just before the official announcement.

 

[DrLeftover]

The airline has released a statement saying they have received evidence that the plane went down in the southern Indian Ocean and left no survivors.

Families in China are being prepared to be flown to Perth.

Breaking News

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says "with great sadness" data now confirms that the aircraft's last position was in the Indian Ocean west of Perth.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26711298


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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26716572

 

[Jazzy]

Happy they were finally able to locate where the plane is located. Very sad for the families that had loved ones onboard. The next question to be answered is 'why' did it go down.

 

[skycar]

Sadly, they haven't entirely found the plane, according to BBC sources,

An Australian vessel searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane had detected signals consistent with those from "black box" flight recorders.

They haven't confirmed that this is the plane, so we are still left waiting...

 

[Jazzy]

I hope they find this plane so the families and loved ones can have some closure.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Hope they find something!

 

[DrLeftover]

7 April 2014

Malaysia missing plane MH370 search has 'best lead so far'

An Australian vessel searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has detected signals consistent with those from "black box" flight recorders.

The Ocean Shield ship picked up the signal twice, once for more than two hours, said Angus Houston, a retired air chief marshal leading the search.

He called it the "most promising lead" so far.

But he said more information was needed: "We haven't found the aircraft yet and we need further confirmation."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26917934

 

[DrLeftover]

9 April 2014

Missing Malaysia plane: Search 'regains recorder signal'

Teams searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane have reacquired signals that could be consistent with "black box" flight recorders.

An Australian vessel heard the signals again on Tuesday afternoon and evening, the search chief said.

Signals heard earlier had also been further analysed by experts who concluded they were from "specific electronic equipment", he said.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26950387

 

[Jazzy]

I'm surprised the battery in the black box is still sending out a signal. Hope this is not another dead end.

 

[DrLeftover]

Another signal, they may be able to triangulate them soon.

10 April
A plane searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has detected a possible new signal in the southern Indian Ocean, Australian officials say.

An Australian P-3 Orion aircraft picked up the signal in the same area where an Australian vessel detected audio pings earlier this week, officials said.

The signal would require further analysis, but could have been from a "man-made source", officials said.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26972045

 

[Jazzy]

Do you really think the battery in that Black Box is still sending out signals?

 

[DrLeftover]

It depends on how they die.

If they die like the battery in my van, once it starts to get low, it turns into a rock instantly and with little warning.

If they die like the ones in an old flashlight, it'll just get dimmer and dimmer until you can't tell if it is on or off.

 

[DrLeftover]

Abbott says signal 'rapidly fading'
12 April 2014

Signals in remote seas thought to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are "rapidly fading" and finding the jet will be a "massive, massive task", Australia's PM says.

Tony Abbott said he was confident "pings" detected by search teams were from the aircraft's black boxes.

But no new signals have been confirmed in the search area since Tuesday.

"No one should underestimate the difficulties of the task still ahead of us," Mr Abbott warned.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27000576

 

[DrLeftover]

1 May
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Air traffic controllers did not realize that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was missing until 17 minutes after it disappeared from civilian radar, according to the preliminary report on the plane's disappearance released Thursday by Malaysia's government.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-vanishing-went-unnoticed-for-17-minutes/

 

[Jazzy]

I heard about the 17 minutes on the radio. Not sure what huge significance it really makes.

I don't think they're ever going to find this plane. Do you?

 

[DrLeftover]

If it had been, as has been suggested by various conspiracy advocates, intentionally flown off course to land somewhere and the passengers held for ransom, or to be sold off as slaves, or whatever, the plane itself would have been spotted by now, or more likely, some native on one of the Andaman Islands would have tweeted a picture of the new tourist attraction out in the jungle. It is damned hard to hide something that big that everybody with a satellite is looking for.

As that hasn't happened....

It's on the bottom of the ocean. As to exactly which ocean and where, that remains to be seen.

 

[Jazzy]

Just wondering why no calls were made from that plane. As we well know, almost everyone has a cell phone now-a-days. Also wondering why there is no debris anywhere from that plane.

 

[Evil Eye]

Just wondering why no calls were made from that plane. As we well know, almost everyone has a cell phone now-a-days.

Did they have reception on that plane though?

 

[DrLeftover]

Look at where it was.

 

[DrLeftover]

Update:

29 May

The area where acoustic signals thought linked to the missing Malaysian plane were detected can now be ruled out as the final resting place of flight MH370, Australian officials say.

The Bluefin-21 submersible robot had finished its search of the area and found nothing, they said.

Efforts would now focus on reviewing search data, surveying the sea floor and bringing in specialist equipment.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27615173