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Post by PurplePuppy on Apr 5, 2014 21:02:54 GMT -5
Flight 370 ‘Followed by Fighter Jets’ Claims Girlfriend of Victim
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Post by PurplePuppy on Apr 6, 2014 22:11:28 GMT -5
Ships race to reach site where electronic pulses detected in Malaysia jet searchPublished April 06, 2014 FoxNews.com Three distinct but brief signals from the Indian Ocean revived hope for investigators in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Sunday, as authorities rush to determine the origin of the signals before the batteries of the plane's black box run out. Australian authorities confirmed on Sunday that a Chinese patrol vessel, the Haixun 01, had picked up a fleeting "ping" signal twice on Friday and Saturday in waters west of Perth, near where investigators believe Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went down on March 8. As a consequence, more planes and ships were being sent to assist in that area. Meanwhile, on Sunday, an Australian ship carrying sophisticated deep-sea sound equipment picked up a third signal in a different part of the massive search area, some 300 nautical miles away. After weeks of fruitless looking, the multinational search team is racing against time to find the sound-emitting beacons and cockpit voice recorders that could help unravel the mystery of the plane. The beacons in the black boxes emit "pings" so they can be more easily found, but the batteries last for only about a month. "This is an important and encouraging lead, but one which I urge you to treat carefully," retired Australian Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston, who is coordinating the search, told reporters in Perth. Houston stressed that the signals had not been verified as being linked to Flight 370, which was traveling from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing when it disappeared March 8 with 239 people on board. Experts, meanwhile, expressed doubt that the equipment aboard the Chinese ship was capable of picking up signals from the black boxes. "We have an acoustic event. The job now is to determine the significance of that event. It does not confirm or deny the presence of the aircraft locator on the bottom of the ocean," Houston said, referring to each of the three transmissions. "We are dealing with very deep water, we are dealing with an environment where sometimes you can get false indications," he said. "There are lots of noises in the ocean, and sometimes the acoustic equipment can rebound, echo if you like." China's official Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday that the patrol vessel detected a "pulse signal" Friday in the southern Indian Ocean at 37.5 kilohertz -- the same frequency emitted by the flight data recorders aboard the missing plane. Australian authorities said such a signal would be consistent with a black box, but both they and Xinhua stressed there was no conclusive evidence linking it to the Boeing 777. Houston confirmed the report, and said the Haixun 01 detected a signal again on Saturday within 1.4 miles of the original signal, for 90 seconds. He said China also reported seeing white objects floating in the sea in the area. The British navy ship HMS Echo, which is fitted with sophisticated sound-locating equipment, is moving to the area where the signals were picked up and will probably get there early Monday, Houston said. The Australian navy's Ocean Shield, which is carrying high-tech sound detectors from the U.S. Navy, will also head there, but will first investigate the sound it picked up in its current region. Australian air force assets are also being deployed into the Haixun 01's area to try to confirm or discount the signals' relevance to the search, Houston said. In Kuala Lumpur, families of passengers aboard the missing plane attended a prayer service on Sunday that also drew thousands of Malaysian sympathizers. "This is not a prayer for the dead because we have not found bodies. This is a prayer for blessings and that the plane will be found," said Liow Tiong Lai, the president of the government coalition party that organized the two-hour session. Two Chinese women were in tears and hugged by their caregivers after the rally. Many others looked somber, and several wore white T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Pray for MH370." Two-thirds of the passengers aboard Flight 370 were Chinese, and a group of relatives has been in Kuala Lumpur for most of the past month to follow the investigation. Liow said some of them were planning to go home on Sunday. Investigators believe Flight 370 veered way off-course and came down somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, though they have not been able to explain why it did so. The crew of the Chinese ship reportedly picked up the signals using a hand-held sonar device called a hydrophone dangled over the side of a small runabout -- something experts said was technically possible but extremely unlikely. The equipment aboard the Ocean Shield and the HMS Echo are dragged slowly behind each ship over long distances and are considered far more sophisticated than those the Chinese crew was using. Footage aired on China's state-run CCTV showed crew members in the small boat with a device shaped like a large soup can attached to a pole. It was hooked up by cords to electronic equipment in a padded suitcase as they poked the device into the water. "If the Chinese have discovered this, they have found a new way of finding a needle in a haystack," said aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas, editor-in-chief of AirlineRatings.com. "Because this is amazing. And if it proves to be correct, it's an extraordinarily lucky break." There are many clicks, buzzes and other sounds in the ocean from animals, but the 37.5 kilohertz pulse was selected for underwater locator beacons because there is nothing else in the sea that would naturally make that sound, said William Waldock, an expert on search and rescue who teaches accident investigation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. "They picked that (frequency) so there wouldn't be false alarms from other things in the ocean," he said. But after weeks of false alarms, officials were careful Sunday not to overplay the development. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he was "hopeful but by no means certain" that the reported pulse signals were related to MH370. "This is the most difficult search in human history. We are searching for an aircraft which is at the bottom of a very deep ocean and it is a very, very wide search area," Abbott told reporters in Tokyo, where he is on a visit. The search area has evolved as experts analyzed Flight 370's limited radar and satellite data, moving from the seas off Vietnam, to the waters west of Malaysia and Indonesia, and then to several areas west of Australia. A senior Malaysian government official said Sunday that investigators have determined that the plane skirted Indonesian airspace as it flew from Peninsular Malaysia to the southern Indian Ocean. The official, who declined to be named because he isn't authorized to speak to the media, said Indonesian authorities have confirmed that the plane did not show up on their military radar. The plane could have deliberately flown around Indonesian airspace to avoid radar detection, or may have coincidentally traveled out of radar range, he said. Houston, the search coordinator, conceded that his organization first heard about the initial signal China had detected when it was reported by a Chinese journalist aboard the Haixun 01. He said that at "almost the same time" he was informed of the development by the Chinese government. The agency was formally told about the second Chinese detection on Saturday "in absolutely the normal way," he said. "China is sharing everything that is relevant to this search. Everything," Houston said. Still, the search agency will be adding a Chinese-speaking liaison officer "to make sure nothing falls through the cracks," he said. Houston also said there had been a correction to satellite data that investigators have been using to calculate Flight 370's likely flight pattern. As a result, starting on Monday, the southern section of the current search zone will be given higher priority than the northern part. The signals detected by the Chinese ship were in the southern high priority zone, Houston said. Up to 12 military and civilian planes and 13 ships took part in the search Sunday of three areas totaling about 83,400 square miles. The areas are about 1,200 miles northwest of the Australian west coast city of Perth. link
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on Apr 7, 2014 14:18:50 GMT -5
This is getting more and more bizarre...I can't help but wonder if the plane ever even existed! Satellites can read the license plate number on the car in your driveway, but they can't find this huge plane? Seriously? Malaysia Airlines: plane ‘purposely’ flown around Indonesian airspaceSearch teams investigating reports of three possible 'pings', as Malaysian official claims MH370 tried to avoid radar detection Malaysia Airlines MH370: planes and ships deployed to investigate 'encouraging' signals An Australian Maritime Safety Authority map shows three search areas in the Indian Ocean, West of Australia, where planes and ships are searching for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 Photo: EPA By Tom Phillips, Shanghai and Jonathan Pearlman in Sydney 6:28PM BST 06 Apr 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have been “purposely” flown around Indonesian airspace on its way to the southern Indian Ocean to avoid radar detection, a government source has claimed. The Boeing 777, which was carrying 239 people when it disappeared on March 8, flew north of Indonesia and around that country’s airspace while making its way to the southern Indian Ocean, a senior official, who was not named, was quoted as saying. The latest revelation about the missing plane came as Australian officials coordinating the international search for MH370 said they were investigating three reports that signals potentially related to the missing aircraft’s black box had been detected. On Sunday, an Australian vessel called the Ocean Shield said its underwater “pinger locator” had detected an “acoustic event” that could be linked to the incident. That followed claims from China that its Haixun 01 patrol vessel had detected 37.5k per second signals on Friday and Saturday that were identical to those used by the locator beacon of a flight recorder. Angus Houston, a retired Chief Marshal from the Royal Australian Air Force who is leading the international search effort, described Ocean Shield’s find as “an important and encouraging lead, but one which I urge you to treat carefully.” “I’m not prepared to speculate on what it might be and what it might not be,” he said. Tony Abbott, Australia’s prime minister, described the hunt for MH370 as “the most difficult search in human history” and urged caution over the reported signals. “We need to be very careful about coming to hard and fast conclusions too soon,” he told reporters in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Thomas Altshuler, the vice president of the company which makes the hand-held “pinger locator” apparently being used by the Chinese crew of Haixun 01 cast doubt on whether such a device would have been able to detect a signal coming from so far beneath the ocean. “It is possible to detect something at that depth with a hand-held device, but I don’t know how probable,” Mr Altshuler, from Teledyne Marine Systems, said. “You would need to be close. You are not going to be 3,000 meters above it and two miles away.” The Chinese search team on board the patrol vessel Haixun 01 uses an instrument to detect electronic pulses (AP) The British ship HMS Echo, which is also using a pinger locator, began making its way to the area where China’s Haixun 01 patrol ship made its discovery on Sunday. It is now one of 13 ships and 12 planes searching three search areas located around 1,240 miles northwest of Perth, officials from Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre said on Sunday. Mr Houston, the Australian official, admitted search teams were “running out of time.” “This is day 30 of the search and the advertised time for the life of the batteries is 30 days.” link
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Post by PurplePuppy on Apr 7, 2014 23:56:54 GMT -5
Do The Chinese Know More Than They’re Letting On About Flight MH370?Chris Carrington The Daily Sheeple April 7, 2014 The Australians have reported that a Chinese ship has reported hearing a ping, a pulse signal for a second time, just hours after they reported hearing a pulse that could have come from the black box recorders. Jon Donnison from the BBC says: Given that not a single piece of debris from the missing plane has been found, it would be remarkable if the Chinese ship had managed to stumble across signals from the black box flight recorder without any real idea of where the plane crashed. Some will ask whether the Chinese know more than they are letting on. After thousands of man-hours spent searching the ocean he has a point, could a Chinese vessel just have gotten lucky and happened upon the site? The Haixun 01 picked up the first ‘ping’ at 25° south latitude and 101° east longitude, about 1,000 miles northwest of Perth, Australia, on the same frequency used by the black box recorders, 37.5Hz. They were using a hand-held device called a hydrophone. Mounted on the end of a pole it was held over the side of a very small Chinese boat. Experts have said that discovering the wreckage with this method is not entirely impossible but is extremely unlikely. Geoffry Thomas, editor in chief of AirlineRatings.com said: “If the Chinese have discovered this, they have found a new way of finding a needle in a haystack,” said aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas, editor-in-chief of AirlineRatings.com. “Because this is amazing. And if it proves to be correct, it’s an extraordinarily lucky break.” There are many clicks, buzzes and other sounds in the ocean from animals, but the 37.5 kilohertz pulse was selected for underwater locator beacons because there is nothing else in the sea that would naturally make that sound, said William Waldock, an expert on search and rescue who teaches accident investigation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. “They picked that (frequency) so there wouldn’t be false alarms from other things in the ocean,” he said. (source) The Australians have also reported getting a signal, but it was over 300 miles from the area in the Chinese report and the feeling is that there is no connection between the two…yet we have an expert saying there is nothing else in the sea that would be picked up at 37.5Hz. We live in a time when we can track a $500 cell phone to within inches of its location, yet half the nations on Earth can’t find a jumbo jet, even though they supposedly know where it was at roughly the time it ran out of fuel. There have been some comparisons to the Air France flight that crashed in June 2009. AF 447 fell out of the sky on a routine flight from Rio de Janiero to Paris. Even though it took more than a month to find the first pieces of wreckage there were no accusations of foul play. No Insinuations that the plane had been stashed somewhere, no questions regarding the complicity of any government. What makes MH370 different? Once it was established early on that the two ‘stolen passport’ passengers were not terrorists the fate of MH370 could have reverted to being nothing more than a terrible air crash, but it didn’t. Why didn’t it? What secrets about a passenger, or passengers, or cargo, or flight crew are not being released? Why are so many people, in so many different countries implying that the disappearance of MH370 was not ‘just’ another plane crash? We have to accept that we may never have the answers to these questions. Having said that, how remarkable it would if the Chinese, using outdated and unsophisticated equipment have found something just before the batteries powering the locator on the black boxes fail. Too remarkable maybe? link
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Post by schwartzie on Apr 9, 2014 23:51:34 GMT -5
“Flight 370 Was Remote-Hijacked”
Kevin Barrett A high-level Malaysian source has confirmed that missing Flight MH370 must have been hijacked by remote control. Matthias Chang, a barrister who served as Political Secretary to the Fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, explained why only a remote-hijacking “fly by wire” scenario can explain the plane’s disappearance. Read Matthias Chang’s MH 370 – A Sinister Tragedy In the Fog of Coincidence? “Flight 370 Was Remote-Hijacked” In an exclusive interview with Truth Jihad Radio, Chang – who remains well-connected with the highest political levels in Malaysia – patiently explained why all of the evidence points to a remote hijacking by one of the handful of countries capable of such a technological feat. He expressed annoyance with Western media criticism of the Malaysian government, arguing that it is Western governments, not Malaysia’s, that are covering up what they know while the media fails to ask the hard question. Full story, lots of pictures, video here.
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Post by schwartzie on Apr 13, 2014 17:00:19 GMT -5
Investigators reveal MH370 co-pilot tried to make a call from his mobile phone after the aircraft 'vanished' but 'was abruptly cut off' as U.S. deny reports the plane landed at their remote military base Investigators say call was made from Fariq Abdul Hamid's mobile phone It was flying low enough for a sub-station in Penang to pick up signal Details of who Fariq was trying to call have not been disclosed It possible for a mobile phone to be connected at an altitude of 7,000 feet U.S. denies reports plane landed at base on remote island of Diego Garcia By Richard Shears and Tara Brady Published: 04:31 EST, 12 April 2014 | Updated: 09:52 EST, 12 April 2014 Fariq Abdul Hamid made a call from his mobile phone as the aircraft flew low over the west coast of Malaysia The co-pilot of missing flight MH370 made a call from his mobile phone while the aircraft flew low over the west coast of Malaysia, it was revealed today as the U.S. denied reports the plane landed at a military base on the remote island of Diego Garcia. Investigators have learned that the call was made from Fariq Abdul Hamid's mobile phone as the Boeing 777 flew low near the island of Penang, on the north of Malaysia's west coast. The New Straits Times reported the aircraft, with 239 people on board, was flying low enough for the nearest telecommunications tower to pick up Fariq's signal. The call ended abrupty, however it has been learned that contact was definitely established with a telecommunications sub-station in Penang state. The paper said it had been unable to ascertain who Fariq was trying to call 'as sources chose not to divulge details of the investigation.' It added: 'The telco's (telecommunications company's) tower established the call that he was trying to make. 'On why the call was cut off, it was likely because the aircraft was fast moving away from the tower and had not come under the coverage of the next one,' the paper said, quoting 'sources'. The paper added that it had also been established that Fariq's last communication was through the WhatsApp Messenger app and that it had been made at about 11.30pm on March 7, shortly before he boarded the aircraft for the six-hour flight to Beijing. Full story, video, maps, lots of pictures here. More... The race to find MH370: Eight countries using 17 vessels and 19 aircraft in the hunt for missing plane’s black box lying 15,000ft at the bottom of the Indian Ocean Revealed: Kate's Aussie convict relatives who can trace their roots to a lamb stealing labourer The New Straits Times said it had been told checks on Fariq's phone history showed that the last person he spoke to was 'one of his regular contacts - 'a number that frequently appears on his outgoing phone logs'. That last call, said the paper, was made no more than two hours before the flight took off 12.41am on March 8 from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603075/Co-pilot-missing-flight-MH370-desperate-call-mobile-phone-AFTER-aircraft-lost-normal-communication-ground.html#ixzz2yo2CecM3Follow us: @mailonline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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Post by schwartzie on Apr 22, 2014 17:23:42 GMT -5
Will the agony ever end for MH370 families? Now search teams think they may be looking in the wrong place for debris amid fresh rumour it may have LANDED Sources with the search team say the aircraft may have landed somewhere, rather than crashed into the Indian Ocean as previously believed If no debris is found in the next few days the team may shift search focus Fits with alleged sightings of MH370 at the time of disappearance By Richard Shears Published: 00:43 EST, 22 April 2014 | Updated: 12:10 EST, 22 April 2014 The fruitless search for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet might have to start all over again from scratch if no clues to its fate are found in coming days, it was claimed today. The international team searching the Indian Ocean for the Boeing 777 are now considering the seemingly impossible scenario of the aircraft having 'landed' somewhere, instead of crashing in the southern Indian Ocean. 'We may have to regroup soon to look into this possibility if no positive results come back in the next few days,' sources within the International Investigation Team were quoted as telling the New Straits Times today. Looking in the wrong place? Sources from the investigation team have told the New Straits Times that if they do not find debris in the ocean soon they may have to search elsewhere While the sources have not suggested which country the aircraft might have landed - or crashed - in, the possibility that an entirely new search in a different area is in line with suggestions by the Mail weeks ago that alleged sightings of a low-flying aircraft could have located it in a different place than the ocean. 'The thought of it landing somewhere else is not impossible, as we have not found a single debris that could be linked to MH370,' sources were quoted as telling the paper. 'However, the possibility of a specific country hiding the plane when more than 20 nations are searching for it, seems absurd,' said the sources. But they admitted that it was difficult to determine if the plane had really ended in the Indian Ocean, despite calculations seeming to point to that direction. The Mail reported early in the search that fishermen and villagers living in north east Malaysia had filed official statements with police claiming to have seen - or heard - a low-flying aircraft at the time when MH370 lost all contact with ground control. Malaysians frustrated with the delay to search for MH370 The plane has been missing for more than six weeks and sources are now considering the previously unthinkable prospect that it has landed somewhere The search for the plane has been concentrated on an area of the southern Indian Ocean, off the coast of Western Australia THE 45 DAY RULE Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has now been missing for 46 days - an important milestone as it allowed U.S. lawyers to pursue Boeing in U.S. courts. A 45-day rule, enforced by the National Transportation Safety Board, means that families can now file suits in U.S. courts against Boeing, an American manufacturer. 'We don't feel we have a whole lot of other choices because we're certainly not getting any answers without (legal action),' Sarah Bajc told CNN. Ms Bajc, whose partner Philip Wood was on the flight, said she hoped that pressure in the courts might lead to the Malaysian government releasing important data. One key problem however could be the lack of any plane. 'If we don't have the "black box" with all the critical information on it, or we don't have any part of the wreckage, it would be very hard to maintain a claim against Boeing in any court in the United States,' Daniel Rose, an aviation attorney from Kreindler & Kreindler, told CNN. Their descriptions of a 'very loud engine' and headlights like those switched on by an aircraft about to land at night suggested that the aircraft was flying to the west, across jungle, very fast, at a low altitude. The sources told the government-controlled paper that it was difficult to determine if the plane had really ended in the Indian Ocean, although calculations pointed to that direction. The Malaysian-led investigation team, along with experts from Inmarsat and the UK's Air Accidents Investigation Branch, had to rely on an Inmarsat communications satellite, which did not provide any definite details, including the aircraft's direction, altitude and speed. One of the sources told the New Straits Times: 'A communications satellite is meant for communication...the name is self explanatory. 'The reason investigators were forced to adopt a new algorithm to calculate the last known location of MH370 was because there was no global positioning system following the aircraft as the transponder went off 45 minutes into the flight.' The source added that the international team was looking at adding more ships and aircraft to the existing search area in the Indian Ocean - as well as widening the area because there were fears that searchers had been 'looking for the plane in the wrong place'. 'We can't focus on one place too long as the ocean is very big, although the search team has been following the leads received and analysed. 'It is by luck if we find the wreckage using the Bluefin-21 (the US-owned underwater search vehicle). 'There is no physical evidence and we are totally depending on scientific calculations since day one, including the pings.' With the search now into its 45th day, Malaysian authorities are hoping more countries will come forward to share their crucial satellite and radar data. A map of the search area, which is 5,700 feet off the coast of Perth. The area that had been searched, as of Sunday 20th April is shown in grey A source told the New Straits Times that if they were to find debris from the jet it would be down to 'luck' and they might need to expand the search Sources said that while the plane could be on land, the possibility of a specific country hiding the plane was 'absurd' The paper said it understood that the team had not been receiving as much information from countries as it had hoped. Suggesting that national security of various countries was involved, the source added: 'We have mainly been provided with selective data.' The source said that because the information potentially involved the national security of the country from which it was requested, only partial raw data had been provided, making it difficult for Malaysian authorities to get the full picture. 'The data involved would be official information, so the (foreign) country cannot simply give it to us on paper or in soft copy - they will select only the ones that can be revealed.' The Malaysians had asked the US government to view data collected by its secret base, Pine Gap, in the Australian outback. But the request had been denied, sources said, after the US had said that no contact had been made with MH370. 'We can't be forcing them to show us the data, as they had already said there was nothing,' one source said. Videos at link.
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Post by schwartzie on Apr 24, 2014 18:31:24 GMT -5
Missing plane mystery solved?Dr. Kevin Barrett Two former high-level insiders may have solved two of the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370: What caused the plane to suddenly fly off-course? And why are all of the governments involved covering up the truth? Missing plane mystery solved Had MH 370 crashed in the ocean, it would have left a huge, easily-visible debris field. Countries with satellite surveillance systems, and their partners, know exactly where the plane went. Boeing and its engine-manufacturer Rolls Royce also know, since planes and engines have GPS systems. (You can buy a GPS system for a little over $50 in the US; it would be naive to think a $320 million aircraft doesn’t have one.) Even the INMARSAT satellite “pings” that we have been told can only sweep a broad arc of possible locations could in reality be used to locate the aircraft with some precision, due to the fact that radio transmissions vary in signatures according to time of day, sunspots, and so on. The “hunt for the airliner” peddled to the mainstream media is clearly a charade. So what are all of the major players – both in governments and the aircraft industry – working so hard to hide? Matthias Chang, a barrister who served as Political Secretary to Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, explained during an exclusive Truth Jihad Radio interview that only a remote-hijacking fly-by-wire scenario can explain the plane’s disappearance. Chang’s views were confirmed by Gene “Chip” Tatum, a former Special Forces Air Combat Controller and US Army special operations pilot who has carried out ultra-sensitive missions at the direct orders of US Presidents. Chang says the Malaysian government has been given sealed evidence by one or more foreign governments concerning the fate of MH-370. As a condition of receiving that evidence, Malaysia is not allowed to divulge it. Matthias Chang is familiar with the highest levels of power in Malaysia. He presumably has some idea of what is in the sealed evidence. But if he did know, he could not say it directly. Maybe that is why Matthias Chang recently sent an email to MH-370 investigators in the alternative media with a “hint”: “WHAT IF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MH 370 IS SUCH THAT IF THE TRUTH BE KNOWN AS TO HOW IT HAPPENED IT WOULD NOT ONLY BE A SECURITY ISSUE, IT WOULD ALSO HAVE A GLOBAL IMPACT ON THE WORLD’S ECONOMY. ‘THINGS’ (USED IN A BROAD SENSE, AND SO YOU HAVE TO THINK WHAT ‘THINGS’ THAT) WOULD COME TO A COMPLETE HALT, ALMOST A COMPLETE SHUT DOWN.” What “things” would “come to a complete halt” and badly damage the world economy if the truth about MH-370 were told? Chip Tatum thinks those “things” are commercial airplanes. In our interview Friday night, Tatum suggested that the current generation of airliners’ fly-by-wire systems are extremely vulnerable to catastrophic sabotage, including electronic hijacking. Tatum called the alleged search for the aircraft “a smokescreen… They’re keeping the media busy in the South Indian Ocean while things are being done in other areas. I think the government doesn’t want us to know what they know because they don’t think we can handle the truth.” But what could that truth possibly be? Tatum explains: “If it were known that something is that easily hijacked by remote control, people would stop flying. And then you’re talking about a huge impact on business and everything else.” So when Matthias Chang says that the truth about MH-370 would cause “things” to come to a complete halt, he is presumably referring to commercial air traffic. I asked Chang point blank if this was true. He did not deny it. But rather than confirm this hypothesis – which may be off-limits to direct discussion due to its inclusion in the sealed evidence Malaysia has been given – Chang directed me to his most recent article at FutureFastForward.com citing evidence that new technology allows planes to be flown from the ground. Chip Tatum speculates that a bright teenager with a laptop and a cell phone could hack into commercial aircraft fly-by-wire systems. He explains that in newer aircraft, cables driven by pilot controls have been replaced by computers sending electronic signals. While technologies have been patented for protecting these fly-by-wire systems – notably US Patent #8,391,493, which the US government immediately “disappeared” from Patent Office records by invoking the Invention Secrecy Act – they apparently have not yet been implemented. If Tatum is right, commercial aircraft currently flying are wide-open for remote hijacking. The scenario outlined by Chang and Tatum explains how MH370 was hijacked, and why all the major players are covering up the truth. But it does not explain who remote-hijacked MH370 and why. One clue: Tatum provides evidence for the possible involvement of the CIA-based Bush crime family in the cover-up. The fake satellite trail to the remote and dangerous Southern Indian Ocean, a gigantic red herring, was fabricated by INMARSAT – whose largest owner, Harbinger Capital, is the new name for George H.W. Bush’s notorious Zapata Corporation. Tatum has first-hand knowledge of the depravity and corruption of the Bush mob. While working in Special Operations for the CIA and US military in 1992, Tatum was personally ordered by then-President George H.W. Bush to “neutralize” Bush’s political opponent Ross Perot. Based on his past missions for Bush, Tatum understood those orders meant that Bush wanted him to force Perot out of the presidential race by any means necessary, including murder. (Tatum refused Bush’s orders – the beginning of the end of his career in Special Ops.) Tatum has also revealed his knowledge of Bush-related CIA drug smuggling and mind control operations. He survived as a whistleblower due to the extremely sensitive documents and recordings he set up to be released in the event of his death or incapacitation-by-torture. Tatum has released many other documents corroborating his stories of Bush’s corruption, CIA assassinations and mind-control. But despite his credibility, the mainstream media refuses to report such information. If the Bush crime family is deceiving the world about an operation involving remote-hijacked airliners, it wouldn’t be the first time. On September 11th, 2001, fly-by-wire systems appear to have been used in the false flag attacks on New York and Washington. Bush loyalists and Israeli Mossad assets are the two main groups of suspects in those attacks. Could the same forces be involved in the theft of MH370 – perhaps as part of a plan to stage another plane-into-building false flag, as Christopher Bollyn has suggested? link
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Post by schwartzie on Apr 24, 2014 18:32:51 GMT -5
Missing plane mystery solved?Dr. Kevin Barrett Two former high-level insiders may have solved two of the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370: What caused the plane to suddenly fly off-course? And why are all of the governments involved covering up the truth? Missing plane mystery solved Had MH 370 crashed in the ocean, it would have left a huge, easily-visible debris field. Countries with satellite surveillance systems, and their partners, know exactly where the plane went. Boeing and its engine-manufacturer Rolls Royce also know, since planes and engines have GPS systems. (You can buy a GPS system for a little over $50 in the US; it would be naive to think a $320 million aircraft doesn’t have one.) Even the INMARSAT satellite “pings” that we have been told can only sweep a broad arc of possible locations could in reality be used to locate the aircraft with some precision, due to the fact that radio transmissions vary in signatures according to time of day, sunspots, and so on. The “hunt for the airliner” peddled to the mainstream media is clearly a charade. So what are all of the major players – both in governments and the aircraft industry – working so hard to hide? Matthias Chang, a barrister who served as Political Secretary to Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, explained during an exclusive Truth Jihad Radio interview that only a remote-hijacking fly-by-wire scenario can explain the plane’s disappearance. Chang’s views were confirmed by Gene “Chip” Tatum, a former Special Forces Air Combat Controller and US Army special operations pilot who has carried out ultra-sensitive missions at the direct orders of US Presidents. Chang says the Malaysian government has been given sealed evidence by one or more foreign governments concerning the fate of MH-370. As a condition of receiving that evidence, Malaysia is not allowed to divulge it. Matthias Chang is familiar with the highest levels of power in Malaysia. He presumably has some idea of what is in the sealed evidence. But if he did know, he could not say it directly. Maybe that is why Matthias Chang recently sent an email to MH-370 investigators in the alternative media with a “hint”: “WHAT IF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MH 370 IS SUCH THAT IF THE TRUTH BE KNOWN AS TO HOW IT HAPPENED IT WOULD NOT ONLY BE A SECURITY ISSUE, IT WOULD ALSO HAVE A GLOBAL IMPACT ON THE WORLD’S ECONOMY. ‘THINGS’ (USED IN A BROAD SENSE, AND SO YOU HAVE TO THINK WHAT ‘THINGS’ THAT) WOULD COME TO A COMPLETE HALT, ALMOST A COMPLETE SHUT DOWN.” What “things” would “come to a complete halt” and badly damage the world economy if the truth about MH-370 were told? Chip Tatum thinks those “things” are commercial airplanes. In our interview Friday night, Tatum suggested that the current generation of airliners’ fly-by-wire systems are extremely vulnerable to catastrophic sabotage, including electronic hijacking. Tatum called the alleged search for the aircraft “a smokescreen… They’re keeping the media busy in the South Indian Ocean while things are being done in other areas. I think the government doesn’t want us to know what they know because they don’t think we can handle the truth.” But what could that truth possibly be? Tatum explains: “If it were known that something is that easily hijacked by remote control, people would stop flying. And then you’re talking about a huge impact on business and everything else.” So when Matthias Chang says that the truth about MH-370 would cause “things” to come to a complete halt, he is presumably referring to commercial air traffic. I asked Chang point blank if this was true. He did not deny it. But rather than confirm this hypothesis – which may be off-limits to direct discussion due to its inclusion in the sealed evidence Malaysia has been given – Chang directed me to his most recent article at FutureFastForward.com citing evidence that new technology allows planes to be flown from the ground. Chip Tatum speculates that a bright teenager with a laptop and a cell phone could hack into commercial aircraft fly-by-wire systems. He explains that in newer aircraft, cables driven by pilot controls have been replaced by computers sending electronic signals. While technologies have been patented for protecting these fly-by-wire systems – notably US Patent #8,391,493, which the US government immediately “disappeared” from Patent Office records by invoking the Invention Secrecy Act – they apparently have not yet been implemented. If Tatum is right, commercial aircraft currently flying are wide-open for remote hijacking. The scenario outlined by Chang and Tatum explains how MH370 was hijacked, and why all the major players are covering up the truth. But it does not explain who remote-hijacked MH370 and why. One clue: Tatum provides evidence for the possible involvement of the CIA-based Bush crime family in the cover-up. The fake satellite trail to the remote and dangerous Southern Indian Ocean, a gigantic red herring, was fabricated by INMARSAT – whose largest owner, Harbinger Capital, is the new name for George H.W. Bush’s notorious Zapata Corporation. Tatum has first-hand knowledge of the depravity and corruption of the Bush mob. While working in Special Operations for the CIA and US military in 1992, Tatum was personally ordered by then-President George H.W. Bush to “neutralize” Bush’s political opponent Ross Perot. Based on his past missions for Bush, Tatum understood those orders meant that Bush wanted him to force Perot out of the presidential race by any means necessary, including murder. (Tatum refused Bush’s orders – the beginning of the end of his career in Special Ops.) Tatum has also revealed his knowledge of Bush-related CIA drug smuggling and mind control operations. He survived as a whistleblower due to the extremely sensitive documents and recordings he set up to be released in the event of his death or incapacitation-by-torture. Tatum has released many other documents corroborating his stories of Bush’s corruption, CIA assassinations and mind-control. But despite his credibility, the mainstream media refuses to report such information. If the Bush crime family is deceiving the world about an operation involving remote-hijacked airliners, it wouldn’t be the first time. On September 11th, 2001, fly-by-wire systems appear to have been used in the false flag attacks on New York and Washington. Bush loyalists and Israeli Mossad assets are the two main groups of suspects in those attacks. Could the same forces be involved in the theft of MH370 – perhaps as part of a plan to stage another plane-into-building false flag, as Christopher Bollyn has suggested? link
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Post by PurplePuppy on Apr 26, 2014 0:03:36 GMT -5
Search for missing Malaysia jet may take years: US official
Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:47AM GMT A top US defense official says the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may continue for “years” as an underwater search for the passenger plane debris has failed to produce any results so far. The unnamed official said on Friday that two weeks of combing the Indian Ocean floor with a US Navy submersible drone have not returned any wreckage, Reuters reported. According to the American official, the search operation for the plane, which went missing on March 8 with 239 people aboard, would now enter a more difficult phase of scouring broader areas of the ocean near where the plane is believed to have crashed. “We went all in on this small area and didn't find anything. Now you've got to go back to the big area,” the official said, adding, “And now you're talking years.” The undersea drone Bluefin-21 is supposed to end on Friday its probably last trip to depths of over 4.5 kilometer (2.8 miles) searching a 10-square-kilometer (6.2- square-mile) stretch of seabed about 2,000 miles northwest of the Australian city of Perth. The area was identified after authorities detected what they suspected was a signal from the jet’s black box recorder on April 4. The US official further noted that Malaysia should decide how to proceed with the search operation. The development comes as Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, whose government has faced criticism over its transparency on MH370, has pledged that a preliminary report submitted to the UN’s aviation body would be released publicly. “In the name of transparency, we will release the report next week,” he said on Thursday. link
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on Apr 30, 2014 17:54:51 GMT -5
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Australian Firm Claims Wreckage Spotted in Bay of BengalIB TimesBy Divya Avasthy | IB Times – Tue, Apr 29, 2014 An Australian-based company, GeoResonance, has claimed that it has sighted wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Bay of Bengal, using satellite images scanned over 772,000 sq miles and 20 different technologies to analyse the data. The company began its search on 10 March and focused its efforts on the north of the MH370's last known location. The possible wreckage site narrowed down by GeoResonance is about 3,000 miles away from the current location where most of the search operation is concentrated. The team at GeoResonance analysed the data using nuclear reactor technology designed to find submarines and warheads, according to the company spokesman, David Pope. Elements of commercial aircraft were detected by the researchers at GeoResonance, which might add credence to their claim. "We identified chemical elements and materials that make up a Boeing 777... these are aluminium, titanium, copper, steel alloys and other materials," another company spokesman, Pavel Kursa, said in a statement. To back the findings, GeoResonance scientists analysed images taken on 5 March, three days before the plane went missing, and compared them with later images. "The wreckage wasn't there prior to the disappearance of MH370," Pope said. "We're not trying to say it definitely is MH370. However, it is a lead we feel should be followed up." However, Malaysia's Civil Aviation Director-General Azharuddin Abdul Rahman told the Star Newspaper that the department was yet to receive the information from GeoResonance. "We will have to check and verify this report." TomNod Image found in Gulf of Thailand Meanwhile, a recreational pilot in the US has closed in on a TomNod file of an underwater plane in one piece, after scanning thousands of satellite images. Michael Hoebel, 60, found a picture showing a one-piece plane floating under the water in the Gulf of Thailand, the place over which the vanished aircraft made its final communication with air traffic control. "I was taken aback because I couldn't believe I would find this," he told WIVB. "The lighter skin where the wing attaches to the fuselage - you see that lighter skin [here in the image]." He was then asked by a reporter if it could be an image of a shark, to which he replied: "That's a 210ft shark." He reportedly contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Transportation Safety Board about his findings but has not heard from them yet. link
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on May 2, 2014 21:37:17 GMT -5
Families of Flight 370 Passengers Told to Go Home, Malaysia Airlines Will Soon Make PaymentsCarrie Dedrick | Editor, ChristianHeadlines.com | Thursday, May 01, 2014 Malaysia Airlines officials have announced that “family assistance centers,” the hotels where families of Flight 370 passengers have been staying, will be closed effective May 7. Families were told to go home to await further new links of the search for the plane. Officials also stated that the families would soon be receiving advanced payments of their compensation packages. “Instead of staying in hotels, the families of MH370 are advised to receive information updates on the progress of the search and investigation and other support by Malaysia Airlines within the comfort of their own homes, with the support and care of their families and friends,” read the Malaysia Airlines statement. According to Christian Today, the announcement comes in the wake of the incident last week in which 10 Malaysia Airlines employees were held against their will at Beijing’s Lido Hotel. Family members were upset when a member of the government did not attend a scheduled meeting. The compensation package amount that relatives will receive is unknown. Publication date: May 1, 2014
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on May 3, 2014 16:33:00 GMT -5
What was on-board Flight MH370 when it disappeared? Mystery deepens over contents of missing plane's cargo May 03, 2014 18:23 By Anthony Bond It has now emerged the Malaysia Airlines plane was loaded with items which have not been made clear on the publicly-released manifest The mystery has deepened over the exact contents of the cargo on-board Flight MH370 when it disappeared eight weeks ago. 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. As reported by Mail Online, a spokesman for the company which shipped the batteries said he could not reveal what made up the remaining cargo. Speaking to The Star newspaper in Malaysia, he said: 'I cannot reveal more because of the ongoing investigations. We have been told by our legal advisers not to talk about it.' The company that manufactured the batteries has not even been named. Malaysia Airlines said that 'radio accessories and chargers' made up the rest of the manifest. This is despite no reference to this being made when the manifest was released publicly recently. There has been previous speculation that the plane crashed following a fire involving the batteries. It was eight weeks ago last night that Flight MH370 completely disappeared. It was carrying 239 passengers and crew members. Despite a multi-national search involving some of the most sophisticated technology in the world, no trace of the plane has been found. link
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Post by bloodbought on May 3, 2014 23:28:37 GMT -5
This story just isn't going away, is it? Eleven terrorists with links to Al Qaeda have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the disappearance of MH370 Suspects were arrested in the capital Kuala Lumpur and the state of Kedah Said to members of violent new terror group said to be planning attacks Interrogations came after demands from agencies including FBI and MI6 Manifest revealed presence of consignment but did not reveal its contents Airline has admitted 200kg of lithium batteries was among the items It refused to say what else, citing 'legal reason' related to 'ongoing' probe By Richard Shears and Mail On Sunday Reporter and Wills Robinson Published: 05:20 EST, 3 May 2014 | Updated: 17:50 EST, 3 May 2014 A group of 11 terrorists with links to Al Qaeda were yesterday being interrogated on whether they are behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The suspects were arrested in the capital Kuala Lumpur and in the state of Kedah last week and are members of a violent new terror group said to be planning bomb attacks in Muslim countries. The interrogations come after international investigators, including the FBI and MI6, asked for the militants, whose ages range from 22 to 55 and include students, odd-job workers, a young widow and business professionals, to be questioned intensively about Flight MH370. Questions have been raised after the airline refused to reveal details of 2.3 tonnes of cargo aboard missing jet MH370 that was not listed on its manifest A Malaysian Airlines aircraft takes off from Kuala Lumpur Airport: Questions have been raised after the airline refused to reveal details of 2.3 tonnes of cargo aboard missing jet MH370 that was not listed on its manifest Nearly two months after the Beijing-bound plane vanished soon after take-off from Kuala Lumpur, no trace has been found despite a huge sea search costing hundreds of millions of pounds. It is thought to have crashed into the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board. An officer with the Counter Terrorism Division of Malaysian Special Branch said yesterday the arrests had heightened suspicion that the flight’s disappearance may have been an act of terrorism. ‘The possibility that the plane was diverted by militants is still high on the list and international investigators have asked for a comprehensive report on this new terror group,’ the officer said. In interviews conducted so far, some suspects have admitted planning ‘sustained terror campaigns’ in Malaysia but denied being involved in the disappearance of the airliner, he added. Saajid Badat, a British-born Muslim from Gloucester, told a court in New York that he had been instructed at a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan to give a shoe bomb to the Malaysians During the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law, Saajid Badat (right) said he had been instructed to give a shoe bomb to the Malaysians. He claimed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed masterminded the plot During the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law, Saajid Badat, a British-born Muslim from Gloucester, said he had been instructed at a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan to give a shoe bomb to the Malaysians. He said: 'I gave one of my shoes to the Malaysians. I think it was to access the cockpit.' Badat, who spoke via video link and is in hiding in the UK, told the New York court the Malaysian plot was being masterminded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the principal architect of 9/11. A mystery surrounding the cargo being carried by the missing Malaysian Airlines plane emerged on Friday when it was discovered that it had been loaded with items not specified on the manifest. The aircraft was carrying 4.566 tonnes of mangosteens - an exotic fruit - and a shipment of lithium batteries, which were part of a separate consignment. The batteries weighed 200kg, but that separate consignment totalled 2.453 tonnes. So what was being carried to make up the 2.253 tonnes in that separate shipment? Questions have been raised as Malaysia Airlines said it will close assistance centres in Beijing and Kuala Lumpur for the families of the 239 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 777-200ER jet. New technology to be used in the hunt for MH370 Relatives of passengers aboard flight MH370 prepare to leave a hotel where they have been staying in Beijing after Malaysia Airlines said it would close all its assistance centres for relatives the missing The closures come after rescuers abandoned their fruitless air search for the missing jet, which had focused on a remote area of the Indian Ocean off Australia's west coast. The mystery was sparked by a spokesman for the company that shipped the batteries telling a Malaysian newspaper that he would not reveal what the remaining 2.253 tonnes of cargo were. 'I cannot reveal more because of the ongoing investigations,' the spokesman told The Star newspaper. 'We have been told by our legal advisers not to talk about it.' The spokesman said he could not even name the company which manufactured the batteries, insisting that the matter was confidential. Questioned about the fact that a mystery cargo was not stated in the manifest, Malaysian Airlines told the paper that the rest of the consignment was 'radio accessories and chargers.' A statement from the airline said that the freight not specified had been 'declared as radio accessories', despite there being no reference to this in the manifest released publicly last Thursday. What the manifest does say is that NNR Global shipped 133 pieces of one item weighing 1.99 tonnes and 67 pieces of another item weighing 463kg for a total 'consolidated weight' of 2.453 tonnes. Just how many lithium batteries had been loaded, or their weight, are not specified in the manifest, although Malaysian Airlines boss Ahmad Yahya told a media conference in Kuala Lumpur on March 24 that the batteries weighed a total of 200kg. What the manifest does say, in respect of the lithium batteries, is that 'the package must be handled with care and that a flammability hazard exists if the package is damaged. 'Special procedures must be followed in the event the package is damaged, to include inspection and repacking if necessary.' Tony Abbott discusses the scaling back of the MH370 search Still praying for answers: A relative of a missing passenger inside a prayer room at Lido Hotel in Beijing There has been earlier speculation that a fire involving the batteries might have been the cause of the aircraft's fate. According to The Star, shippers NNR Global are located at an air freight forwarding warehouse located less than 100 yards from the Penang International Airport. 'The complex is guarded by the police and only those with passes are allowed entry,' the newspaper said, following its investigation into the unspecified cargo. A consolidated shipment combines several individual consignments to make up a full container load. At the port of destination, the consolidated shipment is separated back into individual consignments for delivery to their respective consignees. The lithium batteries and the other mystery items that are said to be radio parts were addressed to NNR Global Logistics in Beijing, but a company named JHJ International Transportation Co.Ltd of Beijing was to collect the cargo on its behalf. Friend of MH370 captain discusses his potential last words Among the conspiracy theories that have already emerged following the Boeing 777's disappearance on March 8, is that its fate was linked to 20 of the 239 people on board - they were employees of a semi-conductor manufacturing firm which develops components for hi-tech weapons systems and aircraft navigation. They were employees of Freescale Semiconductor, a Texas technology firm, working in several manufacturing sites in Kuala Lumpur and Tianjin, China, a fact confirmed by a spokeswoman for the company. The citizens news site Beforeitsnews, said earlier that it was conceivable that MH370 was 'hiding' with its high-tech electronic warfare weaponry. 'In fact, this type of technology is precisely the expertise of Freescale, that has 20 employees on board the missing flight,' said the website. However, until a detailed description of the 'radio parts' that have not been itemised in the MH370 manifest has been made available, the conspiracy theories are likely to be given an added thrust. Videos are at the link.
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Post by schwartzie on May 4, 2014 16:44:31 GMT -5
Most Damning MH370 Criminal Evidence: Audio Recording Crisis Actors Not In Plane
Deborah Dupre The Malaysian government finally released a recording, supposedly of the conversation between Malaysian Flight 370 and Air Traffic Control, but a forensic expert shows in detail that it is a bogus audio recording in a video (below). Most Damning MH370 Criminal Evidence Audio Recording Crisis Actors Not In Plane “Why did the Malaysian government do this?” is the question needing an answer, for the sake of 239 missing persons, through an independent international investigation that is United Nations’sanctioned. “I had the opportunity to listen to the recording and have several concerns from an audio forensic perspective,” says PrimeauForensics. The scientist and Brasscheck concur with what Before It’s News reader Wiseman has said: The audio is neither from the cockpit nor the pilots cabin. “There is no question that the recording of the air control communications of Flight 370 released today was tampered with,” reports Brasscheck TV. “What they released was clearly altered. Some material came from a different source. Other material is flat out missing. Bizarre. “Did they think we would not notice? What on earth made them think they could get away with this?” link
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Post by PurplePuppy on May 20, 2014 16:30:13 GMT -5
'Planes don't just disappear': Former Malaysian Prime Minister accuses CIA of covering up what really happened to flight MH370
CIA and Boeing may be hiding information about missing MH370 Former Malaysian PM Dr Mahathir says airplanes like MH370 'don't just disappear' If the plane failed or have been disabled then 'Boeing must know' Mahathir said the plane may have had its MAS airline markings removed The air-sea search out of Perth for debris is a 'waste of time and money' By CANDACE SUTTON PUBLISHED: 01:02 EST, 19 May 2014 | UPDATED: 07:24 EST, 19 May 2014 Missing Flight MH370 did not crash and its current whereabouts may be know to the Central Intelligence Agency and the Boeing aircraft company, Malaysia's influential former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has claimed. Dr Mahathir said the plane could have been switched onto autopilot remotely by the CIA if it had been hijacked. 'Remotely by radio or satellite links by government agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency, if terrorists attempt to gain control of the flight deck,' he wrote in an entry entitled 'What goes up must come down' on his blog, chedet. Scroll down for video Someone's hiding something: Ex Malaysian PM Dr Mahathir (above, left) said the missing plane may have had its MAS airline markings removed and the Australian co-ordinated search out of Perth for debris was 'a waste of time and money' Did not crash: Dr Mahathir says missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 (file photo) could not have crashed because modern communications systems meant that it could not simply disappear off the radar 'Airplanes don’t just disappear,' he said. 'Certainly not these days with all the powerful communication systems, radio and satellite tracking and filmless cameras which operate almost indefinitely and possess huge storage capacities.' 'The plane is somewhere, maybe without MAS [Malaysia Airlines] markings,' he said, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. 'It is a waste of time and money to look for debris or oil slick or to listen for pings from the black box. “For some reason, the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA,' he said. Dr Mahathir, 88, who was Malaysia's prime minister between 1981 and 2003, said the missing flight's communication system 'must have been disabled'. Waste of time and money: the former Malaysian PM Dr Mahathir says the air-sea sorties over the Indian Ocean by aircraft such as the Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion (above) to try and locate the remains of Flight MH370 are futile Malaysia reviews all data in effort to pinpoint missing MH370 'Or else the flight of MH370 would have been tracked by satellites which normally provide data on all commercial flights, inclusive of data on location, kind of aircraft, flight number, departure airport and destination. 'But the data seems unavailable. The plane just disappeared seemingly from all screens. 'MH370 is a Boeing 777 aircraft. It was built and equipped by Boeing. 'All the communications and GPS equipment must have been installed by Boeing. If they failed or have been disabled Boeing must know how it can be done. 'Surely Boeing would ensure that they cannot be easily disabled as they are vital to the safety and operation of the plane.' Dr Mahathir's blog posts come after the current Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak described the location by satellite of purported MH370 debris in the Indian Ocean as 'bizarre' and 'hard to believe'. Mr Najib told CNN he did not believe it when he first heard about the critical satellite data on which the current search in the Indian Ocean is based on. 'To be honest, I found it hard to believe,' said the Prime Minister. 'It's a bizarre scenario which none of us could have contemplated so that's why when I met the team...of foremost experts in aviation industry I asked them again and again "are you sure?"' 'And their answer to me was we are as sure as we can possibly be.' Malaysian, Australian and Chinese authorities met last weekend to discuss the latest stages of the MH370 by ships staged in the Southern Ocean. Chinese navy survey ship Zhu Kezhen will start mapping the seabed off the west Australian coast this week as part of the latest phase in the search, Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Center said. Video at link.
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on May 30, 2014 3:26:49 GMT -5
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 search now a total circus as officials say pings actually came from ping detector
Thursday, May 29, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Tags: MH370, pings, missing flight (NaturalNews) If you can believe it, the Indian Ocean area that has been intensely searched for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has now been declared a total bust. Why? Because the infamous "pings" detected there -- which we were repeatedly told came from the aircraft's battery-powered emergency broadcast device -- actually came from the ping detector used by the U.S. Navy. You read that right: the pings were actually produced by the ping sensor, not the missing airplane, we're now being told. This is according to Michael Dean, the Navy's deputy director of ocean engineering, as quoted on CNN (1) where he says: 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. Always your fear any time you put electronic equipment in the water is that if any water gets in and grounds or shorts something out, that you could start producing sound. Sounds like some amazing technology: a pinger locator that randomly emits pings! I wonder if the U.S. Navy has also produced sonar detectors that emit random metallic banging noises. This discovery led the joint search agency to abandon the search site, declaring (2): 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. Total nonsense cover-up First off, I'm not buying any of this nonsense. For starters, the Towed Pinger Locator is obviously designed to be towed in the water. Clearly the device has to be waterproof. As you can see from the picture on the right, it is obviously a water-tight device designed to be towed in the water without exposing its internal circuitry to the ocean. Secondly, random water getting into complex electronics does NOT produce specific ping frequencies that could be mistaken for those coming from the airplane. Generally speaking, if you slosh water on electronics, you short out the entire circuit board and the whole thing stops working. This explanation that maybe some water got into the unit and magically made it *emit* pings at the precise frequency of a downed airplane is pure comic book science fiction. It smacks of the same kind of logic that says if you get bit by a radioactive spider, you will become Spiderman. The electronic pings produced by an airplane's emergency equipment are broadcast at a specific, well-known frequency. The idea that a Towed Pinger Locator could randomly just happen to start emitting pings on that frequency -- even when the Towed Pinger Locator has NO circuitry to broadcast anything -- is patently absurd. And honestly I can't even believe a U.S. Navy spokesperson is claiming the Towed Pinger Locator is emitting pings when it has no circuitry to do that in the first place. This is clearly another dose of total B.S. on the MH370 mystery, an event which has been shrouded in loony "official" explanations from the very start. Theater for public consumption Now the entire thing has taken on the atmosphere of part circus and part public theater. It's almost as if the search is being conducted for no reason other than to pretend somebody is still looking for the airplane when the most likely explanation, by far, is that the plane was hijacked by militants and diverted to land at another airport. Yet for some reason, this theory is also met with derision by the conventional press which depicts any talk of the plane being hijacked as a "conspiracy theory." But they forget that the airplanes on 9/11 were of course hijacked by militants -- that's the official U.S. government explanation, come to think of it. So why is a plane being hijacked by militants a "conspiracy theory" in the Indian Ocean while the exact same scenario is "official government fact" in New York City? The media's labeling of something as a "conspiracy theory" is entirely subjective and has no basis in actual fact. At the same time, everybody seems to have forgotten that the plane's transponder was intentionally disconnected mid-flight, indicating that someone on board intentionally wanted to stop broadcasting the plane's position, after which it continued to fly for at least seven hours. This is proof that the plane didn't suddenly crash after the transponder was turned off. Everybody also seems to have forgotten that all the nations in the region run military radar that tracks everything in the sky, and that an aircraft as large as that Boeing jetliner would have left a massive radar signature. Unless you think a giant Boeing aircraft has a secret stealth mode, some government in the region has radar data showing where this plane went... and somebody is covering it up for reasons we can only imagine. What we know conclusively at this point is the this entire "ping" thing was total public theater and that we've all been distracted for weeks by a completely fabricated wild goose chase. It did give CNN something to broadcast, however, since the news network long ago decided not to cover any actual news that matters (the national debt, VA hospital scandal, massive unemployment, etc.). I feel sorry for all the well-meaning men and women who are part of this search and who are having their time and effort wasted by these dishonest governments that won't give anybody a straight answer. The good men and women of the U.S. Navy deserve to have their talents and skills put to better use. Sources for this article include: (1) www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/world/asia/mal... (2) www.cnn.com/2014/05/29/world/asia/mal... link
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on Jun 4, 2014 23:01:29 GMT -5
Seeing as satellites can read the license plate numbers of a car in your driveway, I find it impossible to believe that the don't know where this plane is... Woman Claims She Saw Missing Malaysian Air Flight While Sailing In Indian Ocean
The Daily Caller 10 hours ago British woman Katherine Tee is saying she spotted what she believes is the missing Malaysian Air flight MH370 while she was sailing. She saw in early March, but is only now coming forward because she did not believe her eyes at the time. Tee said that while she and her husband Marc Horn were sailing across the Indian Ocean from India to Thailand, she spotted what looked like a plane on fire during the night of March 7. She thought she was hallucinating, but after the media coverage, she looked up the flight plan of the aircraft and discovered their journeys intersected, Business Insider reports. “It caught my attention because I had never seen a plane with orange lights before so I wondered what they were,” Tee said. “It looked longer than planes usually do. There was what appeared to be black smoke behind it. Since that’s not something you see every day, I questioned my mind. I was looking at what appeared to be an elongated plane glowing bright orange, with a trail of black smoke behind it. It did occur to me that it might be a meteorite. But I thought it was more likely that I was going insane.” The more interesting observation Tee made was that the plane was not alone. “There were two other planes well above it — moving the other way — at the time,” she said. “They had normal navigation lights. I remember thinking that if it was a plane on fire that I was seeing, the other aircraft would report it.” Since authorities still haven’t found the plane, Tee feels bad for not saying something sooner. “Will this help the authorities of the families get closure? I have no idea … but I chose to sweep it under the carpet and now I feel really bad,” she said. ”Maybe I should have had a little more confidence in myself. I am sorry I didn’t take action sooner.” The search for the missing flight still continues. Video at link.
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