How does a plane just disappear?

[Holac]

MH370: Pentagon has "indications" that the missing plane may be in the Indian Ocean

Astro Awani | Updated: March 14, 2014

 

KUALA LUMPUR: An official from the United States (US) revealed “indications” that Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 which went missing since March 8, may have crashed into an area where the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Sea merge and are sending the USS Kidd to the area to begin searching, reported ABC news.

 

The official, however told ABC News that they needed 24 hours before the ship could be deployed to the area.

 

“We have indications that the airplane has crashed into the Indian Ocean,” said the official.

 

The individual also explained that there were also indications that the plane may have flown four to five hours after its last contact with radar.

 

US military base Diego Garcia is located at the Indian Ocean.

 

United States military base Diego Garcia is located at the Indian Ocean as shown on the map.

 

The revelation made by the official was following the statement made by acting Transport Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein during a press conference on Thursday who denied earlier reports by The Wall Street Journal which reported that the plane may have flown several hours after its last contact.

 

Efforts of tracing the Boeing 777-200 started in the South China Sea before being expanded into the Straits of Malacca and later into the Andaman Ocean.

 

The search was expanded after evidence emerged showing that the plane may have turned back from its original route and was last traced at the north of Peninsula Malaysia near the Straits of Malacca.

 

“We are working closely with the FAA and NTSB in regards to the possibility of a turn back,” said Hishammuddin.

 

During Thursday’s press conference, Hishammuddin also denied reports of images which may have connection to the missing plane caught by the Chinese satellite in the South China Sea.

 

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) which later surveyed the area however found that the reports were untrue. The Chinese embassy later informed that the images were published without approval and did not show traces from MH370.

 

Read more at: http://english.astroawani.com/news/show/mh370-pentagon-has-indications-that-the-missing-plane-may-be-in-the-indian-ocean-31811?cp

[Khayr]

You are a bunch of saps for reitrating and reposting garbage from the media.

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Flight 370 Deliberately Flew Hundreds of Miles Off Course: Report

 

Source told Reuters on Friday that the Malaysian military has radar data indicating that Flight 370 may have deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course, raising the possibility of sabotage or hijacking.

 

"What we can say is we are looking at sabotage, with hijack still on the cards," a senior Malaysian police official told Reuters.

 

The data reportedly shows that Flight 370 abandoned its scheduled Beijing-bound course and instead headed west, towards India's Andaman Islands.

 

From Reuters:

 

Two sources said an unidentified aircraft that investigators believe was Flight MH370 was following a route between navigational waypoints when it was last plotted on military radar off the country's northwest coast.

 

This indicates that it was either being flown by the pilots or someone with knowledge of those waypoints, the sources said.

The Reuters report seems to correspond with a story in Friday's Wall Street Journal, which cited sources saying the plane flew for more than five hours after vanishing from radar.

 

According to the Journal's report, Flight 370 repeatedly "pinged" its location to satellites that transmitted data to Boeing. Malaysia Airlines didn't purchase a package that would have allowed them access to the satellite system's data, according to Boeing.

 

The Journal's sources said that, if the plane stayed in the air for the full five hours, it could have traveled more than 2,200 nautical miles.

[Safferz]

Seems Australia may have found the wreckage... they're checking out debris in the southern Indian ocean right now spotted by satellite, the largest of which is 25 meters. Developing story.