Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

(28-03-2014 14:16 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  New object spotted by New Zealand search plane today :

I have to say that's the clearest "debris" image I've seen yet!! Why the hell haven't other satellites produced clearer images as this before? I'd like to know if any subs have picked up any pings recently that could be coming from the black box but I'm wondering the only way of retrieving it would be through a small arm or something or un manned sub.

(28-03-2014 15:40 )Wayne Rasputin Wrote:  

(27-03-2014 05:29 )event horizon Wrote:  I read some interesting news about the Freescale company. The day after flight MH370 went missing they were granted a patent on a method of manufacturing microchips for use in defence projects. The 4 people named in the patent as the inventors of the patented process all happened to on board the missing plane.

The technology those 4 people were working on was a way of making a standard aircraft stealthy. In other words they could take a plane that does not have a stealth capability and make it able to fly stealth.

So would it be possible that the plane would was likely to have been a test flight and no - one on board knew about it?

I'm only waiting for someone to suggest a recreation of the Philadelphia Experiment then the collection of crackpot theories will be complete.

(28-03-2014 19:19 )babelover48 Wrote:  I have to say that's the clearest "debris" image I've seen yet!! Why the hell haven't other satellites produced clearer images as this before?

Because it wasn't produced by a satellite. It's a photo taken by a journalist who was onboard one of the search planes.

(28-03-2014 13:03 )space watson Wrote:  There's increasing emphasis on blaming the pilots, but what about the rest of the flight crew? They would have been able to access the cockpit but don't seem to be attracting much suspicion.

The rest of the flight crew might not be attracting much attention in the media, but they are all being checked out by the Malaysian police, just as much as the pilots are, and their every phonecall is being investigated and their every credit card transaction examined etc etc.

(28-03-2014 20:32 )bigglesworth Wrote:  

(28-03-2014 19:19 )babelover48 Wrote:  I have to say that's the clearest "debris" image I've seen yet!! Why the hell haven't other satellites produced clearer images as this before?

Because it wasn't produced by a satellite. It's a photo taken by a journalist who was onboard one of the search planes.

And because "retasking" a Satellite capable of higher resolution images is only easy in a Tom Clancy novel. They have a finite amount of fuel on board and it needs a fairly serious situation to even consider moving one from its orbit.

The Satellites moved by the Chinese for the search will have a shorter usable life for this reason.

The story of what happened to MH370 has more or less come together and looks like this. It will soon be widely known and on everyone's lips.

When the US were withdrawing from Afghanistan, one of their command and control systems (used for controlling the pilotless drones) was hijacked by the Taliban when the American transport convoy was moving down from one of their hill top bases. The Taliban ambushed the convoy and killed 2 American Seal personnel, seizing all equipment/weapons, including the command and control system which weighed about 20 tons packed into 6 crates. This happened about a month ago in February.

What the Taliban want is money. They want to sell the system to the Russians or the Chinese. Russia is busy in Ukraine, but Chinea is hungry for the system’s technology and ready to do business now. Just imagine if the Chinese master the technology behind the command and control system, all the American drones will become useless. So the Chinese sent 8 top defence scientists to check the system and agreed to pay millions for it.

Sometime in early March the 8 scientists and the 6 crates made their way to Malaysia, as it's impossible to fly direct from Afghanistan to China. But in the meantime the US engaged the assistance of Israeli intelligence, Mossad, who are keen to avoid the technology ever finding its way into the wrong hands, and together they are determined to intercept and recapture the cargo.

The Chinese calculated that it would be perfectly safe to transport the cargo via a civilian aircraft. After all the US will not hijack or do anything to harm civilians, so a civilian airliner is actually the safest possible option. In reality there were US and Israeli agents onboard the plane who are fully familiar with Boeing operation. The 2 Iranians with stolen passports were a red herring and were not connected to the Chinese operation or the US-Israeli counter-operation.

When Flight MH370 had left Malaysian air space and was in 'no man's land' before reporting to Vietnamese air control, one American AWAC jammed their signal, disabled the pilot control system and switched over to remote control mode. That was when the plane suddenly lost altitude momentarily. The 5 US/Israeli agents soon took over the plane, switched off the transponder and other communication system, changed course and flew westwards.

How can the AWAC do this? Remember 9/11? After the 9/11 catastrophe, all Boeing aircraft were installed with Uninterrupible Autopilot System and fly by wire remote control system to counter terrorist hijacking. Since then all Boeing aircraft can be remotely controlled by ground control. It's similar to the remote control system used to control the pilotless spy aircraft and drones.

As it flew westwards, MH370 was actually detected by Malaysian military radar as an unidentified aircraft but they did not react professionally. The plane flew over North Sumatra, making a deliberate feint to the north west, and once out of radar range turned south. Some villagers in the Maldives saw the plane flying north to south east and reported as much, as it made its way to Deigo Garcia.

Once at Diego Garcia, the US Air Base in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the cargo and the black box were removed. The passengers had already been dealt with via obvious means, lack of oxygen. There was no choice over this, because realistically nobody could be allowed to talk. The MH370 took off again via remote control and eventually crashed into South Indian Ocean, having ran out of fuel.

The extreme amount of effort put in by China, in terms of the number of search aircraft, ships and satellites, searching first the South China Sea, then the Malacca Straits and the Indian Ocean is unprecedented. This shows that the Chinese are highly concerned, not so much because of the many Chinese civilian passengers, but mainly because of the strategic value of the cargo and its 8 top defense scientists.

If it wasn't for the evidence of the satellite pings I think the above story would have believers, although if the Taliban ambushed a convoy surely there would have been a formidable US response to thwart them.

(28-03-2014 11:50 )kevin symons Wrote:  The new search area is about 700 miles north which is not that little. What does that do to the existing satellite images of supposed debris - are they still valid?

The Australian search team have discounted ALL of the satellite sightings of supposed debris and have said that the search will now be concentrated solely on the new area.

John Young, general manager of emergency response for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority: "In regards to the old areas, we have not seen any debris, and I would not wish to classify any of the satellite imagery as debris, nor would I want to classify any of the few visual sightings that we made as debris. That's just not justifiable from what we have seen. As already reported, we have now moved on to the new search area and consequently all our resources will be deployed there."

British Airways in 'Escape to the Indian Ocean' gaffe!

British Airways have left commuters bemused with an ill-timed ad campaign encouraging them to "Escape to the Indian Ocean". The slogan comes as the missing Malaysian Airlines flight is being hunted in the Indian ocean, after investigators suggested it ran out of fuel and crashed there. Snapped at Euston Station, the ad includes a watery background with the message: "Escape the commute and discover the Indian Ocean".



British Airways later took to Twitter to apologise for the gaffe. "Our Indian Ocean advert contained pre-scheduled content that we recognise is inappropriate at this time," they said. "We're sorry for any offence caused."