Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

(15-03-2014 13:31 )Glenn Miller Wrote:  Is the search for the plane now concentrated exclusively on the Indian Ocean? And is it definite that the plane must have run out of fuel?

Yes they have ceased searching east of Malaysia and are now only searching to the west, and yes the favoured version of events at the moment is that the plane ran out of fuel over the Indian Ocean.

The present suggestions regarding a hijack must include one of the pilots being included in the plot

(15-03-2014 10:26 )bigglesworth Wrote:  The plane was then diverted from it's scheduled flight path and flown on a different heading by someone with considerable aviation experience.

The new heading was to a place called Esfahan in Iran.

(15-03-2014 13:44 )Charlemagne Wrote:  The present suggestions regarding a hijack must include one of the pilots being included in the plot

Yes for sure I think one of the pilots is fully complicit in whatever happened.

(15-03-2014 13:01 )way out west Wrote:  Does that mean they suspect that the plane could be converted into some spectacular flying bomb? If so, this could be something bigger than 9/11. This could be the most destructive act of terrorism the world has ever seen.

The aim of terrorists is to engage in terror and be sure of taking the credit for it. A shadowy cartel wants to get whatever it wants and to leave no evidence behind.

It's a hijack now if not it's in the ocean because the fuel tanks are good but not good enough it can fly for a week

(15-03-2014 14:28 )Broncobilly Wrote:  It's a hijack now if not it's in the ocean

The plane is on land but is unlikely to fly again.

From the South China Morning Post

Quote:A team of seismologists at one of China's top universities said they had detected a slight seismic event on the sea floor between Vietnam and Malaysia on March 8, which might be consistent with an airplane crashing into the sea, and possibly related to the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

The discovery, posted on the website of the University of Science and Technology of China on Friday, is the latest of many possible leads in the massive international search operation for the Malaysian Airlines flight after it lost contact with air traffic control and dropped off radar screens in the early hours of March 8, with 239 people on board.

The Chinese scientists, with the university's Laboratory of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior, said in their online statement that the signal they had picked up from two seismic monitor stations in Malaysia seemed to indicate that a slight tremor occurred on the sea floor at about 2.55am on March 8, some 150 kilometres off the southern tip of Vietnam.

"It was a non-seismic zone, therefore judging from the time and location of the event, it might be related to the missing MH370 flight," said the statement.

The seismic event happened about 85 minutes after MH370 lost contact with air control, and about 116 km northeast of the spot where it was reportedly last heard from.

“If it was indeed an airplane crashing into the sea, the seismic wave strength indicated that the crash process was catastrophic," the statement said.

I've found out what and who the White Widow is now but I can't see any connection to the missing plane.

(15-03-2014 14:59 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  From the South China Morning Post

Quote:A team of seismologists at one of China's top universities said they had detected a slight seismic event on the sea floor between Vietnam and Malaysia on March 8, which might be consistent with an airplane crashing into the sea, and possibly related to the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

An intruiging story but this is surely one of the many false leads in this case. It looks certain now that the plane flew west.