Just when I had gotten out of it....
Related: Pinging This Theory About Malaysian Flight 370
The official story as it stands today (in a reedited rewrite):
"Objects seen in Flight 370 search area" by Scott MacDonald and Rob Griffith | Associated Press March 27, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — More satellite images have given searchers the latest clues in the hunt for the downed Malaysian jetliner....
My printed copy said "the most tantalizing clues yet, but bad weather, the passage of time and the sheer remoteness of their location kept answers out of the searchers’ grasp."
Nineteen days into the mystery of Flight 370 that vanished early March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the discovery of the objects that ranged in size from 3 feet to 75 feet offered ‘‘the most credible lead that we have,’’ a top Malaysian official said Wednesday.
"With clouds briefly thinning in a stretch of ocean known for dangerous weather, aircraft and ships from six countries combed the waters far southwest of the Australian coast. Crews saw only three objects, one of them blue and two others that appeared to be rope.
Is that what they are making planes out of these days?
But search planes could not relocate them or find the 122 pieces seen by a French satellite. Limited by fuel and distance, they turned back for the night.
That echoed the frustration of earlier sweeps that failed to zero in on three objects seen by satellites in recent days. Forecasters warned that the weather was likely to deteriorate again Thursday, possibly jeopardizing the search for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that vanished early March 8"
Back to your update that is verbatim print:
With the search in motion, Malaysian officials again sought to assuage the angry relatives of the flight’s 153 Chinese passengers. But Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein also expressed exasperation, pointedly saying Chinese families ‘‘must also understand that we in Malaysia also lost our loved ones,’’ as did ‘‘so many other nations.’’
So stop asking questions and just shaddup!
The latest satellite images are the first to suggest a debris field from the plane, rather than just isolated objects.
"Clouds obscured the latest satellite images, but dozens of objects could be seen in the gaps. At a news conference in Kuala Lumpur, Hishammuddin said some of them "appeared to be bright, possibly indicating solid materials....
None of the three objects spotted by searchers Wednesday "were considered to be distinctive to MH370 or relevant to the satellite imagery," Australian Maritime Safety Authority officials said.
If the objects are confirmed to be from the flight, "then we can move on to deep sea surveillance search and rescue, hopefully, hoping against hope," Hishammuddin said."
I'm rapidly losing hope in any veracity at all from my paper.
But experts cautioned that the area’s frequent high seas and bad weather and its distance from land complicated an already-trying search.
‘‘This is a really rough piece of ocean, which is going to be a terrific issue,’’ said Kerry Sieh, director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore. ‘‘I worry that people carrying out the rescue mission are going to get into trouble.’’
"The search resumed Wednesday after fierce winds and high waves forced crews to take a break Tuesday. Twelve planes and five ships from the U.S., China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand were participating, hoping to find even a single piece of the jet that could offer tangible evidence of a crash and provide clues to the rest of the wreckage."
The rest is updated add-on. It will be fresh to each of us as I move forward, reader:
Malaysia has been criticized over its handling of one of the most perplexing mysteries in aviation history. Much of the most strident criticism has come from relatives of the Chinese passengers, some of whom expressed outrage that Malaysia essentially declared their loved ones dead without recovering a single piece of wreckage.
At a hotel banquet room in Beijing on Wednesday, a delegation of Malaysian government and airline officials explained what they knew to the relatives. They were met with skepticism and even ridicule by some of the 100 people in the audience, who questioned how investigators could have concluded the direction and speed of the plane. One man later said he wanted to pummel everyone in the Malaysian delegation.
So it will be the Chinese that start the next war?
Btw, the skepticism and ridicule are deserved.
China’s support for families is likely why authorities — normally wary of any spontaneous demonstrations that could undermine social stability — permitted a rare protest Tuesday outside the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing. Relatives chanted slogans, threw water bottles and briefly tussled with police who kept them from a swarm of journalists.
First of all, I'm tired of pot-hollering kettle media when there are plenty of protests in China, and yeah, their government is attuned to and watchful for social harmony and the opinion of the people, etc.
I wish my stink government was. Instead it spies on me.
Meanwhile, a U.S.-based law firm filed court documents that often precede a lawsuit on behalf of a relative of an Indonesian-born passenger. The filing in Chicago asked a judge to order Malaysia Airlines and Chicago-based Boeing Co. to turn over documents related to the possibility that ‘‘negligence’’ caused the Boeing 777 to crash, including any documentation about the chances of ‘‘fatal depressurization’’ in the cockpit.
Don't tell me they are going to trot out the Payne Stewart scenario and that all the people were unconscious or dead.
Though officials believe they know roughly where the plane is, they don’t know why it disappeared shortly after takeoff.
It's "Lost."
Investigators have ruled out nothing — including mechanical or electrical failure, hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or someone else on board.
And finding the wreckage and the plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders is a major challenge. It took two years to find the black box from Air France Flight 447, which went down in the Atlantic Ocean on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in 2009, and searchers knew within days where that crash site was.
The batteries on the recorders’ ‘‘pingers’’ are designed to last 30 days. After that, the pings begin to fade in the same way that a flashlight with failing batteries begins to dim, said Chuck Schofield of Dukane Seacom Inc., a company that has provided Malaysia Airlines with pingers in the past. Schofield said the fading pings might last five days before the battery dies.
And the searchers have already lost over two week, almost three.
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I thought I might ping you this theory this morning:
".... The ongoing saga with the missing Malaysian Boeing 777-ER (extended range) Jet airliner. I am surprised that few have noticed how the liars in the Jew run media constantly are having everyone look all over the Indian Ocean now for the "missing" plane with absolutely NO mention of the very large US base at Diego Garcia that was in the DIRECT flight path of this plane as it flew over Sumatra and into the Indian Ocean almost two weeks ago. Many reports falsely claim that the plane would never have made it to Diego Garcia, but this was an EXTENED RANGE Boeing 777 with plenty of fuel to reach that base and even beyond. People also overlook as Jim Stone (www.jimstonefreelance.com) has noted about the fact that this plane was able to fly into the Indian Ocean without any radar detection. This can only be done by using military aircraft such as AWACS planes to blind radar imagery of the aircraft. This act alone should have already told everyone that we are dealing with a clandestine operation. But to what means?
People have been asking my opinion about this MH370 disappearance, and again I will play devil's advocate here..... In my honest opinion, and until someone proves me wrong, this plane definitely flew to Diego Garcia as part of a criminal operation. The 239 passengers on board were either already killed in the air enroute or unceremoniously taken off the aircraft at Diego and shot dead. Brutal yes, but I have long known these criminals have no respect for human life. Now the plane was either fueled up and re-flown from Diego to another base for a future false flag operation or is still sitting at that base itself. Why a Boeing 777-ER.... The "extended range" feature of this aircraft has always been the key. Fully fueled, an extended range 777 can hit targets over 5000 miles away from Diego Garcia, which makes much of the Middle East within its target range. Therefore the scenario where this plane becomes a flying bomb is definitely a possibility. We could see very soon a new "false flag" attack where this plane, now marked up to look like an "Iranian airliner" is flown towards a target in Israel for example, and after that target is hit by this aircraft, along with the resulting devastation, have the attack of course blamed on Iran to have Israel's nice little war against Iran off and running... Again, everyone must understand that we are dealing with psychotic criminals that have no love of human life, but only care about their glorious nation of Israel and their continuing push for world domination. They need another false flag to have the world yet again inflamed with war, and this plane may be their means to get that war going.
There is one scenario about flight MH370 that someone asked me this last week to look into, and I have found it intriguing, but one that I have to dismiss... It is the possibility that we are dealing with a "Sandy Hook" style hoax and that there never was a flight MH370 at all.... My answer....There are too many parameters and too many witnesses and governments involved in this to make such a scenario possible in my opinion. Therefore to those who are making such a claim, it has no validity and considering the size and magnitude of such an operation, would be impossible to be pulled off successfully....
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The theory makes a lot of sense when one considers what hangars and where the plane could have gone.
UPDATE:
"That plane issue, well, this looks like as good an answer as any. It's a little long but it is detailed and well reasoned.... I've read a few things about the missing plane and this rings most likely.... (h/t)."
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
"Pilots’ own gear yields few clues; Officials reveal new search zone" by Michael S. Schmidt and Thomas Fuller | New York Times March 28, 2014
WASHINGTON — The flight simulator and hard drives that Flight 370’s pilots had at their homes appear to be a dead end, yielding few clues about whether they deliberately diverted the missing jet, said two people briefed on the investigation.
Malaysian authorities seized the devices early in their investigation and, after initially keeping US officials at a distance, turned to the FBI last week for help in analyzing them. The Malaysians were particularly interested in learning what the captain of the flight apparently deleted from the simulator days before the plane disappeared.
We all delete cookies and clear histories, folks, but the overall narrative here is not only troubling, it has the feel of cover-up.
The FBI said it would not discuss what it had found on the hard drives because the investigation was continuing.
Though investigators are continuing to focus on the pilot’s role in the plane’s March 8 disappearance, no concrete evidence indicates they sabotaged the flight.
James B. Comey, FBI director, testified before a House committee Wednesday that the bureau was close to completing its analysis of the simulator and hard drives....
I can't help but wonder and ask why the FBI director is testifying about the Malaysian airliner at a U.S. House hearing. The jurisdiction just seems off to me.
No physical trace of the plane has been recovered from the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia, where officials have concluded that the flight must have ended in a crash.
(That is why blog editor frowns because he doesn't believe official lies, 'er, conclusions anymore when it comes to plane crashes or anything else)
Growing numbers of floating objects have been spotted in satellite photos, but search planes were unable to hunt for them Thursday because of bad weather, the second time this week storms have interrupted the search....
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people aboard. It stopped communicating with ground controllers about 40 minutes later and veered radically off course. Radar traces and satellite signals indicated it flew west over the Indian Ocean and then south....
Then the article became a rewritten reedit, and I have no theory to give you. I don't know what happened to that jet -- if it ever existed.
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No pings from black boxes, no Diego Garcia, no mourning and angry families in the coverage today. Wow.
