The popular theory is it made a beeline for Diego Garcia, and that small island's omission from my news pages and maps is quite telling:
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Malaysia Airlines plane sent signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing, an indication that it was still flying for hundreds of miles or more, a US official briefed on the search said Thursday.
Six days after the plane with 239 people aboard disappeared, Malaysian authorities expanded their search westward toward India, saying the aircraft may have flown for several hours after its last contact with the ground shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.
A string of previous clues about Flight MH370 have led nowhere.
Meaning none of the cover stories took hold.
‘‘This situation is unprecedented. MH370 went completely silent over the open ocean,’’ said Malaysia’s acting transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein. ‘‘This is a crisis situation. It is a very complex operation, and it is not obviously easy. We are devoting all our energies to the task at hand.’’
The US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the situation by name, said the Boeing 777-200 wasn’t transmitting data to the satellite, but was instead sending out a signal to establish contact.
Boeing offers a satellite service that can receive a stream of data during flight on how the aircraft is functioning and relay the information to the plane’s home base. The idea is to provide information before the plane lands on whether maintenance work or repairs are needed.
Malaysia Airlines didn’t subscribe to that service, but the plane still had the capability to connect with the satellite and was automatically sending pings, the official said.
‘‘It’s like when your cellphone is off but it still sends out a little ‘I’m here’ message to the cellphone network,’’ the official said. ‘‘That’s how sometimes they can triangulate your position even though you’re not calling because the phone every so often sends out a little bleep. That’s sort of what this thing was doing.’’
It's what the NSA uses to track you, and it is why cellphones are promoted as a necessity.
The plane had enough fuel to fly about four more hours, the US official said.
Boeing did not comment.
Messages involving a different, more rudimentary data service also were received from the airliner for a short time after the plane’s transponder — a device used to identify the plane to radar — went silent, the official said.
If the plane had disintegrated during flight or had suffered some other catastrophic failure, all signals — the pings to the satellite, the data messages, and the transponder — would be expected to stop at the same time.
One part of the hunt is in the South China Sea, where the aircraft was seen on civilian radar flying northeast before vanishing without any indication of technical problems. A similar-sized search is also being conducted in the Strait of Malacca because of military radar sightings that might indicate the plane turned in that direction after its last contact, passing over the Malay Peninsula.
The total search area being covered is about 35,800 square miles — about the size of Portugal.
Asked if it were possible that the plane kept flying for several hours, Hishammuddin said: ‘‘Of course. We can’t rule anything out. This is why we have extended the search. We are expanding our search into the Andaman Sea.’’ The sea is northwest of the Malay Peninsula.
He said Malaysia was asking for radar data from India and other neighboring countries to see if they can trace it flying northwest. India says its navy, air force, and coast guard will search for the plane in the south Andaman Sea.
That might not help.
Related: Another fatal mishap on Indian ship
The US Navy Seventh Fleet said it is moving one of its ships, the USS Kidd, into the Strait of Malacca, west of Malaysia.
This whole thing a rouse for war maneuvers?
In the latest disappointment, search planes failed to find any debris from the plane after they were sent Thursday to an area of the South China Sea off the southern tip of Vietnam, where satellite images published on a Chinese government website reportedly showed three floating objects.
Hey, the 9/11 planes vanished into thin air, so....
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Up until now I haven't been able to discern much about this mystery and welcomed any ideas.
"Radar Suggests Jet Shifted Path More Than Once" by MICHAEL FORSYTHE and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MARCH 14, 2014
SEPANG, Malaysia — Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 experienced significant changes in altitude after it lost contact with ground control, and altered its course more than once as if still under the command of a pilot, American officials and others familiar with the investigation said Friday....
The data, while incomplete and difficult to interpret, could still provide critical new clues as investigators try to determine what happened on Flight 370, which disappeared early last Saturday carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing....
The combination of altitude changes and at least two significant course corrections could have a variety of explanations, including that a pilot or a hijacker diverted the plane, or that it flew unevenly without a pilot after the crew became disabled.
The erratic movements of the aircraft after it diverted course and flew over Malaysia also raise questions about why the military did not respond to the flight emergency. Malaysian officials have acknowledged that military radar may have detected the plane, but have said they took no action because it did not appear hostile.
Because the plane stopped transmitting its position about 40 minutes after takeoff, military radar recorded only an unidentified blip moving through Malaysian airspace.
A UFO?
Certain weather conditions, and even flocks of birds, can occasionally cause radar blips that may be mistaken for aircraft. The Malaysian authorities said they were still studying the signals to determine whether they came from Flight 370.
But the person who examined the data said it left little doubt that the airliner flew near or through the southern tip of Thailand, then back across Peninsular Malaysia, near the city of Penang, and out over the sea again....
Investigators considered but dismissed the possibility that hijackers landed the plane somewhere for later use in a terrorist attack, according to a senior American official briefed on the investigation.
The data, the official said, “leads them to believe that it either ran out of fuel or crashed right before it ran out of fuel.”
It would take a long runway to land a plane of that size, the official said.
We know where one is, so why is the military base unmentioned?
Although the radius that the plane could have flown extends into South Asia, the official added, “the idea it could cross into Indian airspace and not get picked up made no sense.”
Yeah, “a lot of this doesn’t make sense.”
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I don't think it was a hijack for later use. Why would they do that when they could repaint or camouflage something they already own?
Also see: Investigators believe flight hijacked, official says
It's a web (version) of intrigue, isn't it?
"Crime inquiry opens over lost plane; Malaysia to seek help from Asian nations in search" by Keith Bradsher and Chris Buckley | New York Times March 16, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The search for Flight 370 turned into a criminal investigation Saturday, after Malaysia declared that the plane had been deliberately diverted and then flown for as long as seven hours toward an unknown point far from its scheduled route of Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
I'm wondering if blog chatter sabotaged this whole event and its future plans.
Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia said Saturday afternoon that he would seek the help of governments across a large expanse of Asia in the search for the Boeing 777, which has been missing for a week and had 239 people on board.
Let the cover-up begin!
The Malaysian authorities released a map showing that the last satellite signal received from the plane had been sent from a point somewhere along one of two arcs spanning large distances across Asia.
A satellite orbiting 22,250 miles over the middle of the Indian Ocean received the transmission that, based on the angle from which the plane sent it, came from somewhere along one of the two arcs.
One arc runs from the southern border of Kazakhstan in Central Asia to northern Thailand, passing over some hot spots of global insurgency and highly militarized areas.
Then it would have definitely been seen, what with all that U.S. military hardware in the region.
The other arc runs from near Jakarta to the Indian Ocean, roughly 1,000 miles off the west coast of Australia.
Where does the straight line go?
The plane changed course after it took off. “These movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane,” Najib said. He said authorities could not say whether it was a hijacking, and said no motive had been established....
After Najib’s statement Saturday, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanded to know more, and said that China was sending technical experts to Malaysia. Two-thirds of the people on the jet were Chinese citizens.
A ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, said China would shift its search planes and ships to areas west of Malaysia. That region includes countries that have tense relations with China, including India.
Then why did they sign a defense deal with them?
Qin said China would seek the cooperation of any countries affected by the redeployment.
How belligerent!
China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, convened ministries and agencies Saturday to discuss the developments. Even with a vastly larger area to search, the officials insisted that the effort must continue with increased vigor.
“The search remains the most pressing and No. 1. task for now,” said an account of the meeting on the ministry website. The officials said the broader search would cover land as well as sea.
In Washington, the Malaysian announcement did little to change American investigators’ perspectives on what happened to the plane....
They still think it crashed?
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Also see: Diversion declaration renews scrutiny of pilot, first officer
UPDATE: What happened to Malaysian Flight 370
"With the increasing likelihood that Flight 370 was purposefully diverted and flown possibly thousands of miles from its planned route, a senior Malaysian official said Sunday a signaling system was disabled on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet before a pilot spoke to air traffic control without mentioning trouble, reinforcing theories that one of the pilots may have been involved in diverting the plane."
Related: Searchers relying on satellite data to find plane
UPDATE:
"Media Focuses In On Flight 370 Conspiracy Theories While World Edges Closer To War
Lee Rogers, Daily Slave/BLN
March 16, 2014
The corporate media has literally spent over a week obsessing endlessly over conspiracy theories involving the alleged disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. If you’ve tuned into any of the American cable news networks be it Fox News, CNN or MSNBC over the past several days you would think that this is the only news story of importance. These propaganda pushers have logged countless hours engaging in speculation and conjecture over what may or may not have happened with this airplane. Meanwhile, historically significant events are unfolding in Ukraine that could impact the world for years to come. The whores in the corporate media have intentionally chosen to provide little coverage of these developments in favor of discussing hours upon hours of Flight 370 conspiracy theories. It'd be one thing if they were providing real analysis but all of their coverage is designed for the purpose of distraction.
It is true that the legitimate disappearance of any Boeing 777 airplane would in fact be real news. But despite all of the coverage on Flight 370’s so-called disappearance nobody is asking the most basic question. Is Flight 370 even real to begin with?
There has been an incredible amount of misinformation over what may or may not have happened which means this is really the most legitimate question to ask. It is impossible to believe that a Boeing 777 airplane could just vanish into the ether with no plausible explanation. Pilots with decades of flight experience don’t even know what to make of it because they’ve never seen anything like it. Since most of the information we are being told about Flight 370 is based off of questionable information and outright lies, this would certainly explain why experienced pilots with thousands of hours of flight time can’t fathom how anything like this could have happened. So either the existence of this flight is in question or the information being provided for public consumption is entirely skewed. Either way, there’s no reason to believe anything we are being told.
It is also worth noting that the U.S. military and other foreign militaries have the technological capabilities to track any man made object in the air. This flight did not just vanish. If we assume Flight 370 is real, someone knows where it went and those who know have decided not to tell the public.
With all of the misinformation floating around it has led the corporate media to speculate on all sorts of unfounded conspiracy theories.
Specifically, the corporate media has zeroed in on two Iranians who allegedly boarded the flight with stolen passports. This has conveniently allowed them to speculate that evil Iranian terrorists were responsible for the flight’s disappearance while offering little to no proof. Even the photos showing the two Iranians appear to have been doctored. The two photos clearly show that both individuals share the same set of legs. Despite this major anomaly, it has still allowed the media to run additional stories on how the global passport system is flawed and needs to be more secure. So basically they’re using this as an excuse to demonize Iran and simultaneously push for an upgraded passport system.
They’ve also spent hours of airtime analyzing the men who were said to be piloting Flight 370. When nothing unusual of note was found they were forced to focus in on insignificant details. For example the Captain is reported to have a flight simulator in his house. Some news analysts have said that this was unusual and that he might have been using the simulator to practice for a pilot hijacking of Flight 370. This is like saying that it is unusual for a software engineer to have a powerful computer in their home. It is an incredibly stupid argument.
The alleged Captain is also seen in a photo wearing a “Democracy is Dead” t-shirt leading people to speculate that he is some sort of political fanatic. Again, we see more pointless conjecture from the pundits.
Additionally, the alleged Flight 370 co-pilot apparently allowed a couple of young women to come into the cockpit for a photo during a previous flight. The pundits proceeded to spend hours analyzing how this was irresponsible and violated protocols. This completely separate event proves nothing about what happened to Flight 370 and has also resulted in nothing but endless speculation.
Some clown on CNN even said that pilots can't be trusted after this. Another ridiculous argument considering nobody knows what really happened.
Some media outlets have even brought up some of the more outlandish Flight 370 theories that are being put out on the Internet. Among them include involvement from extra-terrestrials, the Bermuda Triangle and other impossible to prove garbage. Usually these theories wouldn’t even be talked about in the mainstream but giving attention to the crazier theories gives them more material to air. The fact is that they are so desperate to keep the Flight 370 mystery as the number one news story in America that they are practically inventing things to talk about.
The truth is that we'll probably never know the truth about what happened with Flight 370. Admittedly, there is some interesting analysis on this topic including the possible involvement of a U.S. Airforce AWACS plane, manipulated radar information and more. However, all of this is based off of the assumption that we are dealing with a real event and real information pertaining to the event. With all of the previous lies that have originated from the corporate media it is hard to accept even the most basic information at face value. This is especially true when we see a media driven event like this.
Simply put, all of these Flight 370 theories are being thrown around to distract everyone from more meaningful stories. What’s happening in Ukraine is far more significant and will have long term consequences for years to come. It may even lead to war considering the insanity we see from the Zionist war mongers in Washington. This is what should be the number one news story in America, not this missing airplane distraction that has led everyone on a wild goose chase.
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Related:
"Number of theories under investigation — but so far unsubstantiated:
- The plane landed somewhere, for reasons unknown, and isn't able to communicate with the outside world. Experts say that's technically possible but almost unimaginable.
- A "sudden catastrophic event," like mechanical failure or decompression, as when a plane carrying golfer Payne Stewart crashed in 1999.
- Hijacking or terrorism: No credible group is known to have claimed responsibility for the plane's disappearance.
- Crew sabotage — including pilot suicide, for example.
- Pilot error. This is considered unlikely, as both pilots were very experienced.
- "Outside human intervention," such as bad weather or a meteor strike.
Only problem with the Stewart scenario is he had military jets on him as soon as he trailed off course -- something that didn't happen on 9/11.
This idea that they don't know where the plane is or don't know what happened is ludicrous. They have satellites spying on the entire planet and they are collecting all electronic communications. This "we don't know" bull is insulting.
