Malaysian Airlines Plane Missing Over Vietnam

[jitagawn]

Bizarre series of events and most improbable IMHO.

I mean in this day and age the NSA or whoever could

follow minute details of an individuals life yet a F--- AIRLINER OF THIS SIZE VANISHES??

 

I DON'T BUY IT.

[Coss]

It'd make a great James Bond movie, Kim Jong Un steals plane and doesn't tell anyone, the world looks for plane, whilst 007 trawls the seedy streets of Asia's nightlife to track down the clues...

[TheCorinthian]

Wasn't that Tomorrow Never Dies?

[huumlaar]

Thunderball, Vulcan jet gets stolen,

[Coss]

It'd have to be a new one, how about "Orient"

 

Plot development - Kim Jong Haircut's motive is to keep all the passengers captive for future bargaining chips, whilst repurposing the plane as a nuclear bomb delivery vehicle with 5 devices on board.

 

 

[Flashermac]

Australia probes possible MH370 witness account

 

 

SYDNEY - Australia was Wednesday investigating an account from a sailor who said she may have seen Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on fire, as officials said the hunt for the plane could dive much deeper.

 

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), which is leading the search at the request of the Malaysian government, is looking at the claim from a British yachtswoman made this week.

 

"The ATSB received... a message from a member of the public, reporting that they had seen what they believed to be a burning aircraft in the sky above the Indian Ocean on the night of the disappearance of MH370," a spokesman told AFP in an email.

 

"That information has been forwarded to the ATSB’s MH370 Search Strategy Working Group for review."

 

Flight MH370, which was en route from Kuala Lumpur to the Chinese capital Beijing when it inexplicably diverted, is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.

 

An extensive search for the plane, which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board, has so far found nothing, including an intensive underwater hunt with a mini-sub that could dive to 4,500 metres.

 

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Australia-probes-possible-MH370-witness-account-30235433.html

[Flashermac]

MH370 May Have Crashed Close to India

 

 

Sydney: Australian researchers have detected a low-frequency underwater noise off India's southern tip at about the time MH370 mysteriously disappeared, as a British woman sailing from Kochi to Phuket in March claimed that she may have seen the plane on fire.

 

The researchers detected the mysterious noise, possibly that of an ocean impact, recorded by two undersea receivers in the Indian Ocean about the time the Malaysia Airlines plane ceased satellite transmissions and vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board.

 

The researchers released an audio recording on Wednesday of the underwater sound that they say could possibly be related to the final moments of the missing Boeing 777.

 

"It’s not even really a thump sort of a sound ? it’s more of a dull oomph," Alec Duncan, a senior marine science research fellow at Curtin University near Perth, who has led the research, told The New York Times.

 

The general vicinity from which the noise emanated is a large area of the central Indian Ocean off the southern tip of India and about 3,000 miles northwest of Australia.

 

But that is not consistent with calculations of an arc of possible locations in the southeastern Indian Ocean where the plane might have run out of fuel.

 

Those calculations were from Inmarsat, the global satellite communications company. Scientists have struggled to figure out the origin of the noise.

 

"If you ask me what’s the probability this is related to the flight, without the satellite data it’s 25 or 30 per cent, but that’s certainly worth taking a very close look at," Duncan said.

 

Adding to the uncertainty surrounding the plane’s possible final location, a British woman sailing with her husband across the Indian Ocean from Kerala’s port city of Kochi to Phuket in Thailand has claimed she may have seen the plane on fire.

 

Katherine Tee, 41, reported on Sunday to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) that is leading the MH370 search that she was on night-watch on the couple’s 40-feet boat when flight MH370 vanished.

 

The couple have since re-checked their sailing logs and believe they were near one of the projected flight paths for the aircraft, now missing for nearly three months.

 

Tee, who was at sea for 13 months, said she did not report the sighting at the time because of marital issues and because she feared being mistaken.

 

"I saw something that looked like a plane on fire. Then I thought I must be mad. It caught my attention because I had never seen a plane with orange lights before so I wondered what they were...," she told the Phuket Gazette.

 

Media reports said Australian authorities were looking at Tee’s claim.

 

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/MH370-May-Have-Crashed-Close-to-India-30235548.html

[Flashermac]

MH370 families raise funds to find 'whistleblower'

 

 

Several families of those aboard Flight MH370 on Sunday launched a drive to raise $5 million to reward any insider who comes forward and resolves the mystery of the plane's disappearance exactly three months ago.

 

The "Reward MH370" campaign launches on fundraising website Indiegogo and aims to raise at least $5 million "to encourage a whistleblower to come forward with information", the families said in a press release.

 

The Malaysia Airlines jet lost contact on March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard -- about two-thirds of them Chinese.

 

The Boeing 777 is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, but an extensive search has turned up no sign of wreckage so far, leaving frustrated and anguished families of those aboard suspecting a cover-up.

 

"We are convinced that somewhere, someone knows something, and we hope this reward will entice him or her to come forward," said Ethan Hunt, a technology company chief who is heading the "Reward MH370" project.

 

Sarah Bajc, partner of American passenger Philip Wood, said a handful of families were behind the campaign to look at the unprecedented aviation mystery with "a fresh set of eyes".

 

"Governments and agencies have given it their best shot but have failed to turn up a single shred of evidence, either because of a faulty approach or due to intentional misdirection by one or more individuals," she said in the release.

 

Malaysia and Australia, which is leading the search far off its western coast, have promised that the hunt for the plane will continue.

 

An international team is now determining an expanded search zone of up to 60,000 square kilometres (24,000 square miles) based on where the aircraft last communicated with an Inmarsat satellite.

 

Australia has also released a request for tenders for a company to be engaged as a prime contractor and provide the expertise, equipment and vessels needed to carry out the deep-sea search from August.

 

Malaysia -- ruled by the same coalition since 1957 with a history of sweeping scandals aside -- has taken the brunt of criticism from upset relatives.

 

The Southeast Asian country has insisted it is doing all it can and working closely with Australia, China and other countries to find the jet.

 

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/MH370-families-raise-funds-to-find-whistleblower-30235744.html