Malaysian Airlines Plane Missing Over Vietnam

[Flashermac]

Getting a bit sick, those folks are.

[huumlaar]

I think a very good article, I wish an Aussie paper carries it

[Flashermac]

MH370 co-pilot made mid-flight phone call: report

 

 

KUALA LUMPUR - The co-pilot of missing Malaysian airliner MH370 attempted to make a mid-flight call from his mobile phone just before the plane vanished from radar screens, a report said Saturday citing unnamed investigators.

 

The call ended abruptly possibly "because the aircraft was fast moving away from the (telecommunications) tower", The New Straits Times quoted a source as saying.

 

But the Malaysian daily also quoted another source saying that while Fariq Abdul Hamid’s "line was reattached", there was no certainty that a call was made from the Boeing 777 that vanished on March 8.

 

The report -- titled a "desperate call for help" -- did not say who he was trying to contact.

 

Fariq and Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah have come under intense scrutiny after the plane mysteriously vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

 

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/MH370-co-pilot-made-mid-flight-phone-call-report-30231418.html

[TheCorinthian]

Must have used a in plane phone and most (if not all) phones will not work over 10,000ft.

[Specialist]

OK, now I have two question.

 

Where was the cellphone base station that received the call?

 

Were there any previous calls from that cellphone that day? Where did they apparently originate?

 

The previous calls would give an indication as to whether the pilot had the cellphone on his person at the time. The location of the base station gives you an idea of where the cellphone could have been at the time of the call.

 

And why the BLEEP didn't this come out right after the airplane went missing???

 

I understand the old rule, "Never ascribe to malice that which is explained by incompetence", but there's only so much incompetence I'm willing to postulate for the purposes of ascribing things to it. At some point, a variation of Goldfinger's Rule ("Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.") has to come into play.

[Flashermac]

The Chinese insist that Malaysia is still holding back information. Maybe they are. So why?

[Coss]

Incompetence

[waerth]

China looking for an excuse to invade Malaysia, Like Russia is looking for an excuse to annex the eastern part of the Ukraine ....

[Specialist]

You'll notice that they started getting pinger reports as soon as they started dropping sonobuoys and dragging sonar fish through the correct part of the Indian Ocean.

 

If the data that put the airplane in that area had come out sooner, the searchers would have started getting data sooner.

 

As it is, they're now racing against the pinger batteries going dead.

[Flashermac]

China’s Actions in Hunt for Jet Are Seen as Hurting as Much as Helping

 

 

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — When a Chinese government vessel took the world by surprise this month with its announcement that it had detected underwater signals that might have come from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, China suddenly looked like the hero of the multinational search effort.

 

Within days, however, the Chinese claims were discounted, and attention shifted to another set of signals recorded by American personnel aboard an Australian ship hundreds of miles away.

 

Still, the Chinese claims have exasperated some officials from the United States and other participating countries. The announcement was only one in a series of moves by China that might have been intended to project competence, according to officials and analysts, but only served to distract and delay the search effort.

 

“Everybody wants to find the plane,†said a senior Defense Department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he did not want to appear overly critical of the Chinese. But, he continued, “false leads slow down the investigation.â€

 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/world/asia/chinas-efforts-in-hunt-for-plane-are-seen-as-hurting-more-than-helping.html?hp&_r=1