Malaysia Airlines loses contact with passenger jet

[Locutus]

Seeing how the larger percentage of passengers on that flight were Chinese citizens, and given that the frequency is by and large reserved for emergency signal becons, I'm guessing they're likely hearing something.

Moreover, given the "breakthrough math" used in determining the flight path and projecting the potential crash site location, the area where they've discovered this signal isn't too far from the realm of statistical error margins. . . In my opinion anyway.

I just wish they'd find it and get the data analysis underway. The global airline industry needs to know what the hell happened and enact countermeasures in order to help prevent it from reoccurring. . .

Agreed. 

[Locutus]

Kooks did it, you know she does everything else so lets blame this one on her!
Seriously, the families need answers and closure!

Agreed! 

[Purplelady1040]

I know that what wasn't funny about the Kooks but I just couldn't resist!

[Locutus]

[Locutus]

They've now found objects floating in the water about 56 miles away from the location where the ping was detected. 

[Locutus]

Moreover, given the "breakthrough math" used in determining the flight path and projecting the potential crash site location, the area where they've discovered this signal isn't too far from the realm of statistical error margins. . . In my opinion anyway.

Right you are PH.  According to this map of the last possible positions of where the plane could have been based on the satellite data, the location of the Chinese when they detected the pings is almost spot on the path of the lower arc in the map.

[Palehorse]

We haven't revisited this topic for quite some time now, and as of this date not only is there nothing to report surrounding the location of the flight in question, but now a second flight has also gone MIA in flight, with no trace being found as of this posting. . .

[Palehorse]

Don't discount the west coast of the US as a potential "high value" target. La or Sandy especially. BOTH have nuclear reactors right along the shoreline, and a dirty bomb aboard a triple 7, when combined with a nuclear reactor as a target in LA, will provide a huge death toll initially, and send fallout across the nation via the jet stream. . .

Here's where I first put my theory out there. . . Now with the second aircraft gone one has to wonder  whether or not this or some other scenario isn't exactly what some whack nut group of terrorists are plotting to do with those aircraft??? 

[Henry Hawk]

They've now found objects floating in the water about 56 miles away from the location where the ping was detected. 

It is confirmed

[Locutus]

One year ago.  Still nothing. 

[Palehorse]

One year ago.  Still nothing.

And I'm still suspicious that a terrorist group hijacked that aircraft, killed the passengers, and the next time we see it, it will be laden with explosives and headed toward a high-value target on the western coast of the U.S. . . . 

[Purplelady1040]

Did I not hear where another Asian aircraft went down?

[Palehorse]

(CNN) -- A passenger flight carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing is missing and would likely have run out of fuel, Malaysia Airlines said Saturday.

"At the moment we have no idea where this aircraft is right now," Malaysia Airlines Vice President of Operations Control Fuad Sharuji said on CNN's "AC360."

Subang Air Traffic Control lost contact with Flight MH370 at about 2:40 a.m. local time (1:40 p.m. ET Friday), Sharuji said.

"We tried to call this aircraft through various means," he said.

The Boeing 777-200 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 a.m. and was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m., a 2,300-mile (3,700 kilometer) trip. It was carrying 227 passengers, two of them infants, and 12 crew members, the airline said.

At the time of its disappearance, the plane was carrying about 7.5 hours of fuel, Sharuji said.

"Malaysia Airlines is currently working with the authorities who have activated their Search and Rescue team to locate the aircraft," the statement said. The public can call +603 7884 1234 for further information.

Efforts to contact the plane were fruitless.

The airline said in a statement that its representatives were contacting the relatives of those aboard. "Focus of the airline is to work with the emergency responders and authorities and mobilize its full support," it said.

"We're closely monitoring reports on Malaysia flight MH370," Boeing said in a tweet. "Our thoughts are with everyone on board."

"It doesn't sound very good," retired American Airlines Capt. Jim Tilmon told CNN's "AC360." He noted that the route is mostly overland, which means that there would be plenty of antennae, radar and radios to contact the plane.

"I've been trying to come up with every scenario that I could just to explain this away, but I haven't been very successful."

He said the plane is "about as sophisticated as any commercial airplane could possibly be," with an excellent safety record.

There is one recent blemish: An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 291 passengers struck a seawall at San Francisco International Airport in July 2013, killing three people and wounding dozens more.

Malaysia Airlines operates in Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and on the route between Europe and Australasia.

The airline's roots date back to 1937, when it operated passenger and cargo flights in Malaysia.

In April 1942, it was incorporated as Malaysia Airways Limited; it later became Malaysia Airlines.

The airline has its headquarters and registered office at Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, and its main airline hub is at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, according to its website.

Large pieces of wreckage washed ashore at a remote island in the Indian Ocean, said to be from a Boeing 777. It appears to be debris from the missing flight 370! 

[Palehorse]

. . .Apparent airplane debris found off the scoast of Reunion island, a French department in the western Indian Ocean, is being examined to see if it is connected to the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a member of the French air force in Reunion said Wednesday.

The debris was found off the coast of St. Andre, a community on the island, according to Adjutant Christian Retournat. . .

. . .Boeing's initial assessment of photographs suggests that apparent airplane debris is consistent in appearance with a Boeing 777's flaperon, which is a piece of the plane's wing, a source close to the investigation tells CNN. The source said there is a unique element to the Boeing 777's flaperon that observers believe they are seeing in photos as well, though the source would not disclose what that detail is. The source stressed this is preliminary. The missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a Boeing 777. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/29/africa/mh370-debris-investigation/index.html

[Locutus]

If that's from the plane, it'll certainly put to rest the theories of the plane being flown to some remote location and still being intact.