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Indonesian Air Force officials at Medan city military base plot the Indonesian military search operation for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 on March 12, 2014

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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Days pass, no word of loved ones
By Sophie Brown, Dayu Zhang and Serena Dong, CNN
March 13, 2014 -- Updated 0621 GMT (1421 HKT)

(CNN) -- New Zealanders Danica and Paul Weeks are no strangers to disaster. The couple's eldest son, Lincoln, was born in the midst of an earthquake in Christchurch in 2010. Just over three years later, in December 2013, they were in a car accident after moving to Australia.
So when Paul left for a mining job in Mongolia earlier this month, the couple took precautions, Danica says. Paul couldn't wear his wedding ring on the mine site so he left it, and his watch, at home with instructions to pass them on to his two sons, "should anything happen" to him.
On his way to Mongolia, Paul traveled on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Photos: The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Photos: The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Remembering victims amid flight confusion
As she speaks to CNN's Piers Morgan on Thursday, Danica grips her husband's wedding ring while fighting back tears. It's been five days since MH370 vanished, but with little information about the plane's whereabouts the wait feels like an eternity.
"That's the toughest part every day -- waking up and looking on the news and seeing that there's nothing; and there are no calls from Malaysia to say 'we've found something,'" Weeks says.
"He was the most amazing husband and the most amazing father. He spent so much time with his kids," she says.
Approximately 5,000 miles away, at a hotel near the Beijing Capital International Airport, Hu Xianquan waits anxiously for news of her husband, Mao Tugui. The couple last spoke on March 2 when Mao, a painter, was about to board a flight to Malaysia to attend an exhibition of his work.
For Hu, like many families of those on board Flight 370, grief is quickly turning to frustration. There has been no word of her husband for days and confusing reports about the search and rescue mission are only making the wait more agonizing.
"No one really updates us," she says.
Questions and answers
While many Chinese relatives of passengers on board Flight 370 began traveling to Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, Hu and her daughter decided to stay in Beijing, concerned that the language barrier would only make it more difficult to understand what was happening.
Malaysia Airlines offered to transfer Chinese and Indian relatives of missing passengers to Kuala Lumpur for "better care and comfort," but some have declined.
Missing 370 passenger Huang Yi and her 5-year-old daughter
Missing 370 passenger Huang Yi and her 5-year-old daughter
"I don't see the point in going to Kuala Lumpur and seeing the same information," K. S. Narendran tells CNN from India. His wife Chandrika Sharma was on the flight. "It's better to stay in Chennai where I'm surrounded by family and friends."
Sharma, the executive secretary of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, had been on her way to Mongolia for a conference of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. Her husband says he's received little direct assistance or information from authorities about the search operation and relies on press conferences and news reports, but "that has thus far amounted to nothing."
See more of our coverage on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak has appealed to relatives to be patient. "The families involved have to understand that this is something unexpected. The families must understand more efforts have been made with all our capabilities," he said Wednesday.
More than half the passengers on board Flight 370 were Chinese. Martial arts expert and stunt man Ju Kun was among them. The 35-year-old, whose film credits include "The Grandmaster" and "The Forbidden Kingdom," was set to begin filming a new Netflix series "Marco Polo" in the coming weeks.
Netflix and its production partner The Weinstein Company said in a statement that they were deeply saddened by the news.
"Ju Kun, who was on board, was an integral part of our production team and a tremendous talent. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this difficult time," the statement said.
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi posted a tribute to Ju on her Weibo account: "He is a sincere, kind and hardworking man."
Like many of those on board Flight 370, Ju's social media account has been flooded with comments from strangers, many praying for his safe return.
Around the world, communities have gathered to pray for the missing and offer comfort to their loved ones. On Monday, Malaysians sang songs and lit paper lanterns at a candlelight vigil in Kuala Lumpur.
Crowdsourcing the search
In nearby Petaling Jaya, members of the St. Francis Xavier Church have been holding special prayer sessions for Patrick Francis Gomes, an in-flight supervisor who was on board the flight.
Families' agonizing wait for news Malaysia Airlines' new 'family zone' Flight 370 victim family holds out hope
"It's still difficult for us to come to terms with what has happen. I can only say that my father is a quiet person but also can be a joker," his daughter Nikki Gomes told CNN.
"He is very dedicated to his job and took his responsibilities very seriously as all crew members would."
Malaysia Airlines will retire flight codes MH370 and MH371 as a mark of respect to the passengers and crew, the company said in a statement Thursday.
Many have turned to digital platforms to offer comforting words, and tribute sites have been created for the flight's captain and crew.
A Facebook profile thought to be that of Pouria Nour Mohammadi, an 18-year-old Iranian who used a stolen passport to board the plane, has scores of messages of support from strangers.
"I don't know you but I pray that you are safe somewhere in this world," writes one user. "May you and the other passengers and crew on Malaysian flight 370, be found safe and may your journey continue to find yourself safe in your mothers [sic] arms again."
Back in China, Huang Lu, a teacher at an elementary school in Guizhou province, waits for word of her friend, Huang Yi. The 30-year-old works for the technology firm Freescale in the company's Tianjin office. She was on the plane with 19 other colleagues when it disappeared.
The women have been friends since they were teenagers. "She's kind, lively and a good person to talk with," Huang Lu said.
The pair kept in touch online. Yi, who has a five-year old daughter named Yuanyuan, would often talk to Huang Lu about family and raising children.
"I've been waiting, worried since I heard the news. I hope to see a miracle. Yi, please come back, Yuanyuan needs you," she said.

BelovedTaeyeon

MH370 YANG HILANG ... CNN GREDKAN PIHAK BERKUASA MALAYSIA SEBAGAI YANG PALING TERUK DAN BURUK PERNAH DITEMURAMAH DALAM SEJARAH

http://edition.cnn.com/video/dat ... rlines-370.cnn.html


Malaysian officials the worts I've seen .. itulah gambaran yang diberikan oleh CNN media antarabangsa mengenai cara Kerajaan Malaysia mengurus krisis pesawat MH370.

Jika apa yang di khabarkan ini benar maka imej negara kini ditahap yang paling hina dan memalukan .. benar apa yang diucapkan oleh DSAI dalamn parlimen dan luar parlimen betapa teruk dan lembab cacamerba kelam kabut flip flopnya cara Kerajaan UMNO/BN apabila berdepan dengan media bebas antarabangsa.. selalu ini rasa selesa hanya berdepan dengan Utusan, Berita Harian, BERNAMA, TV3 dan RTM.

Bayar upah puluhan juta ringgit kepada APCO untuk naikkan imej pemimpin tertentu kini hancur lebur berderai dan berkecai .. Tiada apa yang boleh memulihkannya balik.

Jelas sekali dan tidak boleh disangkal dan dinafi bahawa para pemimpin kerajaan pusat yang sedia ada langsung tidak ada kemampuan dan kepimpinan untuk mengurus tadbir negara ketika berlaku krisis dan bencana serta tragedi berat.

BelovedTaeyeon

hamtaro posted on 14-3-2014 11:45 AM
boleh bg direct link for this article? TQ

http://edition.cnn.com/video/dat ... rlines-370.cnn.html

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MH370: "Tiada bukti pesawat ditembak jatuh dari Diego Garcia"

KUALA LUMPUR: Tiada bukti sahih dan kukuh yang mengatakan bahawa pesawat MH370 milik Penerbangan Malaysia (MAS) yang hilang sejak Sabtu lalu berkemungkinan ditembak jatuh oleh sebuah pengkalan tentera Amerika Syarikat di Lautan Hindi.

Mantan juruterbang berpengalaman, Datuk (Kapt) Nik Ahmad Huzlan Nik Hussain berkata walaupun Lautan Hindi adalah satu kawasan laut yang paling bergelora dan sunyi, terdapat sebuah pulau terumbu karang yang bernama Diego Garcia.

“Saya pernah menguruskan satu penerbangan sewa ke Diego Garcia dan di pulau tersebut terdapat terdapat satu pengkalan tentera Amerika Syarikat yang berada di pulau tersebut. Maknanya di sini adalah, terdapat juga kelengkapan radar yang mampu mengesan kehadiran sebarang pesawat yang melalui kawasan tersebut,” kata Nik Ahmad Huzlan ketika dihubungi Astro Awani.

Namun begitu, adalah tipis dan jauh sama sekali untuk mengatakan bahawa pesawat MH370 itu ditembak jatuh kerana Diego Garcia adalah sebuah pulau yang bukannya sensitif dan pangakalan tentera yang ada di situ juga bukanlah ancaman kepada sesiapa pun.”.

Tambahnya lagi, “petunjuk” yang mendakwa pesawat tersebut mungkin terbang menuju ke Lautan Hindi adalah apabila laporan dari radar Tentera Malaysia yang menyatakan bahawa pesawat tersebut terbang di ketinggian 29,500 kaki di sekitar kawasan Pulau Perak pada jam 2.15 pagi Sabtu lalu.

“Itu merupakan titik terakhir pesawat tersebut yang dikesan sebelum hilang,”.

Melalui data yang diperoleh itu, maka pihak Lembaga Keselamatan Pengangkutan Kebangsaan (NTSB) dan Pentadbiran Penerbangan Persekutuan (FAA) telah menyalurkan maklumat dan sokongan tersebut tersebut kepada Tentera Amerika Syarikat yang kemudiannya menggerakan asset-aset ketenteraannya dalam usaha mencari dan menyelamat pesawat tersebut.

“Jika pihak Amerika Syarikat juga telah mendapati terdapat ‘indikasi’ bahawa pesawat tersebut mungkin jatuh sekitar Lautan Hindi dan radar dari Diego Garcia juga ada mengesannya, maka mereka akan memulakan fasa ‘kuning’ pencarian pesawat tersebut,” katanya lagi

Beliau turut menegaskan seandainya terdapat ‘alert’ atau tanda dimana pesawat yang tidak dikenali itu memasuki ruang udara di sekitar Diego Garcia, berkemungkinan mereka tidak akan menceritakan tentang perkara itu kepada sesiapa.

“Namun, sehingga setakat ini tiada tanda tersebut,”.

Awal pagi ini, Pentagon mendedahkan bahawa ada “petunjuk” pesawat MH370 itu mungkin terhempas di Lautan Hindi dan Amerika Syarikat sedang menggerakkan asset ketenteraan mereka seperti kapal USS Kid ke kawasan tersebut untuk mencarinya.

Read more at: http://www.astroawani.com/news/show/mh370-tiada-bukti-pesawat-ditembak-jatuh-dari-diego-garcia-31820?cp

Chesire_Epilog

Nombor telefon bimbit sah bukan dari China

Nombor telefon bimbit yang didakwa milik seorang anggota keluarga penumpang pesawat MH370 disahkan bukan dari China. Sebaliknya nombor berkenaan adalah dari Amerika Syarikat.

Read more at: http://www.astroawani.com/videos ... dari-china-27519?cp

BelovedTaeyeon

Harian Metro * myMetro
White House menyatakan 'maklumat baru' pesawat #dimanaMH370 kemungkinan terbang beberapa jam sebelum hilang dari radar.
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BelovedTaeyeon

Sultan Brunei titah seluruh rakyat adakan Solat Hajat untuk #MH370

TERIMA KASIH BRUNEI

Di saat Negara Kita menghadapi dugaan yang begitu besar, banyak negara luar menghulurkan bantuan dari segi keupayaan teknikal dalam operasi mencari dan menyelamat pesawat MH370.

Bagi umat Islam, usaha yang dilakukan turut diiringi doa dan sembahyang hajat memohon dipermudahkan segala urusan. Jiran seagama kita yang paling terdekat turut tidak lupa memberikan bantuan kerohanian seperti itu.

Menerusi surat pekeliling yang dikeluarkan oleh Kementerian Hal Ehwal Ugama negara semalam, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah menitahkan seluruh umat Islam di Negara Brunei untuk melakukan solat hajat beramai-ramai di masjid-masjid di negara itu terutamanya di Masjid Jame’ Asr Hassanal Bolkiah.

Justeru, kami sebagai rakyat Malaysia amat terharu dan berterima kasih dengan doa yang dihulurkan oleh Sultan dan rakyat negara Brunei. Berkat doa kita semua, semoga pesawat MH370 dapat ditemukan dengan segara. Aminnnn Ya Rabbal Alaminnn.

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EXCLUSIVE: A Former Naval Officer Savagely Debunks The Conspiracies Surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Posted by: AATTP  in Most Popular on AATTP, Op-Ed March 13, 2014 By AATTP Guest Contributor Jim Wright, Those of you who are familiar with my military background know that I have experience in looking for downed aircraft, and other things, lost at sea. Which is likely why some of you keep asking me for an opinion on the missing jetliner. Here you go: For those of you not familiar with this, five days ago Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 with 239 passengers and crew onboard disappeared somewhere between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing. So far no wreckage, no debris, no trace of the aircraft or the people have been found. Weird, man, weird. I mean, it’s totally GOT to be alien space pirates or Langoliers or Dirty Dick Vadar, right? I mean, right? Yeah, look, Folks, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that based on my experience with this sort of thing, we can safely rule out alien abductions and inter-dimensional rifts in the space time continuum. And I have it on good authority that Cheney was home all night, nursing an acid stomach over Obama’s reluctance to invade Russia. Now, I suppose it’s just, just, vaguely possible that the missing aircraft is parked on a secret jungle runway in Sumatra or Cambodia (or Bangor, Maine), hidden under camouflage netting, with the passengers and crew secured in an underground prison and its mysterious cargo now in the hands of a heretofore unknown shadowy cabal of international criminals with a really cool and evil acronym for a name. But until the Queen gets a coded message demanding 36 Billion British Pounds in gold bullion to be hand delivered by Sean Connery himself, let’s just go ahead and label that Alternate Theory #1. Most likely, and by “most likely” I mean the probability is approximately 99.999999999999%, the plane and its unfortunate passengers are scattered across a large portion of the seafloor under the Gulf of Thailand. Yeah, okay, but why can’t they find the wreckage? Because the ocean is a damned big place, vaster than you can imagine unless you’ve sailed across it (and, because I know you people, yes, I HAVE indeed sailed this part of the world, it’s vast, and complicated and dangerous). And even when you know exactly, and I mean EXACTLY, where to look, it’s still extremely difficult to find scattered bits of airplane or, to be blunt, scattered bits of people in the water. As a navy sailor, I’ve spent days searching for lost aircraft and airmen, and even if you think you know where the bird went down, the winds and the currents can spread the debris across hundreds or even thousands of miles of ocean in fairly short order. No machine, no computer, can search this volume, you have to put human eyeballs on every inch of the search area. You have to inspect every item you come across – and the oceans of the world are FULL of flotsam, jetsam, debris, junk, trash, crap, bits, and pieces. Often neither the sea nor the weather cooperates, it is INCREDIBLY difficult to spot a item the size of a human being in the water, among the swells and the spray, even if you know exactly where to look – and the sea conditions in this part of the world are some of the worst, especially this time of year. Yeah, but what about a fuel slick, we should be able to see that, right? Again, you just don’t understand how big the ocean is. A fuel slick from an airplane this size (assuming the fuel hit the sea in one mass and wasn’t vaporized into an aerosol by break-up of the aircraft at 30,000 feet) might cover, what? a square mile? Probably much less. A standard search area, a rectangle 50 miles wide by 200 miles say, along the airplane’s flight path might encompass TEN THOUSAND square miles – every inch of which has to be searched by the Mark 1 MOD 0 human eyeball. Starting to get the picture? We’re not talking thick heavy bunker oil.  High grade light fuel, like the kind burned in commercial jet turbines, evaporates quickly. Slicks are broken up by wave action and wind. And in heavy seas the sheen of oil on water is nearly impossible to spot. There’s a very finite amount of time for finding a fuel slick on the surface of the ocean, assuming that one even exists, that time is past for Flight 370. Yeah, but how come they don’t know exactly where it is? Don’t we track all airplanes via radar? No. And certainly not over the oceans between countries. Commercial Air Traffic Control radar systems don’t work the way you think they do, at least not exactly, and not all of the time. Why? Money mostly. Practicality as well. International cooperation. The limits and wide mix of technology. And etc. Note also that this isn’t North America, things are a bit different in Asian airspace. The plane was (probably) over water, between national air control regions. Yeah, but what about military radars? Most military radar isn’t concerned with commercial air traffic on standard routes flying at 30,000+ feet. The skies are full of jetliners. Most just appear as a contact on a tracking scope, watched briefly as they trundle along in a straight line across the sky, and are then ignored. Military people are concerned with threats. Threats typically move in a ballistic trajectory, or a flat fast powered arc, or much closer to the surface. Military radar records might be helpful in figuring out what happened, but unless Flight 370 was behaving like a threat while passing through somebody’s radar envelope, it’s unlikely that anybody would notice or bother to identify it. Also military people charged with defending their airspace don’t like showing people from other countries their radar systems, and for damned GOOD reasons, so it’s going to take some time to get those records. It’s going to be a while before a complete search those recordings can be done. Yeah, but what about the ringing phones? You ever call a cell phone that was turned off? Sometimes it goes straight to voicemail, sometimes it rings. You ever call somebody, their phone rings and rings and rings and RINGS and then they FINALLY answer and you’re like, WTF Dude? And they’re like, What’s your problem, Bro, it only rang one time! You hear rings because the cellular network is looking for the phone and if the phone doesn’t respond immediately the network doesn’t know if the device is active, in an area of weak signal or limited connectivity or heavy congestion, roaming out of network, or turned off. Some networks send you a ringtone while they look for the phone you’re calling so you don’t hang up. Other times you just get dead air. There’s no standard, even in heavily regulated North America, and sure as hell not across the various countries of Asia. Again, this isn’t some big conspiracy, this is how the various evolving patchwork cell phone systems work. The information is widely available and you can test it yourself. Claiming that “ringing” cell phones mean the plane is or was still intact just means that you’re ignorant of how the technology works. Note: I read a couple of comments speculating that GPS and Cell Phone signals might penetrate water, at least a little bit, indicating the plane might be intact on the bottom of the sea. No. Hell no. Wrong wrong wrong. Take some science classes, wave physics for starters. GPS and cell phones operate above the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) portion of the Radio Frequency spectrum, those wavelengths do NOT, repeat do NOT, penetrate water. Period. Yes, Very Low (VLF) and Extremely Low (ELF) radio waves CAN penetrate water to a significant degree, but you’d need a cell phone the size of large refrigerator/freezer and an antenna MILES in length to use those freqs. Yeah, but what about reports that the plane turned before losing contact? That’s what experts are for. That’s what’s taking so long. Maybe the plane turned around, maybe it didn’t. Every single person on the planet in this information saturated age should damned well know by now that initial reports are going to be conflicting, contradictory, confused, and just plain wrong. This ISN’T some big conspiracy, it is unfortunately the nature of the situation, it’s perfectly normal and it happens all of the time and it always has and you know it. EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING who lives in the Information Age should understand in their bones that every Joe Shit The Ragman who comes along just might not know what the fxxk he’s talking about, but that doesn’t stop him from getting on the TV or the Internet and speculating away. Conspiracy theories aren’t about the truth, they’re about the conspiracy theorist. Wait for the official word and for the sake of Dread Cthulhu, stop listening to TV pundits and World News Daily. News media HAS to fill up bandwidth, and they will with whatever drooling idiocy that comes along, that doesn’t mean any of it is true. Adjust your skepticism level accordingly. Yeah, but a plane can’t just vanish, man, isn’t it WEIRD? Don’t start in with the conspiracy theory nonsense again. It’s unusual nowadays, yes, especially for a large modern aircraft. But that doesn’t mean it has to be the plot of a Stephen King novel, or Ian Fleming for that matter. Planes have vanished before. It happens. It used to happen a lot. They fall into the sea or into the remote jungle and are lost. The world grows ever smaller, but it is still a vast, vast place, there’s plenty of dark holes beyond the reach of technology for things to drop into and get lost. Yeah, so, but what about the horndog co-pilot and the passports and Obama’s role in all of this? Was it the CIA? NSA? Vladimir Putin? C’mon, what do you think happened, Man, what do you think HAPPENED? I have no idea. Could be any number of things. Again, that’s what experts are for, let them do their jobs. Sooner or later, the plane or its wreckage will be found, eventually we’ll know the reason why. Mechanical failure, accident, weather, human error, terrorists, or even time-travelling kidnappers from a dystopian future. Sooner or later, you’ll know. Yes, it’s hell on the families who wait for news of the their loved ones, but hysteria, wild speculation by the media, and conspiracy theories from the internet sure as hell aren’t helping. This isn’t CSI or an episode of 24, sometimes you don’t get answers in 60 minutes with time out for piss breaks and a snack. Deal with it. Jim Wright is a retired US Navy officer with an extensive background in military intelligence. Nowadays he is a military consultant and writer. You can read more of his material on his blog Stonekettle Station and be sure to follow Jim on Facebook

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Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman menegaskan yg dia dan pasukannya dari US akan cuba mendapatkan apa saja maklumat yg boleh utk menemui pesawat #MH370 di sidang media skrg #DoakanMH370

BelovedTaeyeon

Tonton siaran langsung sidang media #MH370 untuk dapatkan info terkini di TV9 sekarang. #DoakanMH379

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"Transportation minister can't confirm no hijacking, looking at all possibilities. ‪#‎prayformh370‬ | www.tonton.com.my/livetv/#mh370coverage (GLOBAL)" via @tontonmy

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Penang told to be on standby to help in MH370 search and rescue efforts

The Malaysian Insider–2 hours 22 minutes agoPenang has been told to be on alert and to set up bases to assist in the search and rescue operations of the missing Malaysia Airline MH370 airplane that vanished seven days ago en route to Beijing, China, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said today.He said these were instructions from the National Security Council at a meeting, and that the state government was not notified of anything else."We know that the US navy has sent one of its ships to the Strait of Malacca to search for MH370."We have heard of no new developments. For now, we have only been told to get ready and standby should our assistance is needed. Penang is ready to help if it comes to that," he told reporters.State local government committee chairman Chow Kon Yeow said the authorities were told to attend the meeting with the National Security Council on Tuesday at the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) base in Teluk Air Tawar, Butterworth."Several locations in Penang may be enlisted to support and assist in the search and rescue operations," he said.Sites that may be used are the RMAF base, Penang Port, Swettenham Pier, selected hospitals, and the Bertam stadium and the Dewan Millenium, both in Kepala Batas."The Dewan Millenium will serve as the international crash centre," he added.MH370 took off from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12.40am last Saturday with 227 passengers of 14 nationalities and an all-Malaysian crew of 12. The plane was headed for Beijing.The Boeing 777-200ER jetliner never reached its destination after it went off the radar at about 1.30am when flying above the South China Sea between the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia and the southern coast of Vietnam.Vietnamese authorities have combed the area looking for signs of the missing plane since the incident but have so far not any found any evidence of the aircraft.The search has been expanded to the Strait of Malacca on the west coast of the peninsula and up north to the Andaman Sea and the Indian Ocean.This followed new information from the US which indicated that the missing airplane could have flown for several hours beyond the last transponder reading.The new information has led to a decision to move the US Navy destroyer, the USS Kidd into the Indian Ocean to begin searching that area.
http://my.news.yahoo.com/penang-told-standby-help-mh370-search-rescue-efforts-084929618.html      – March 14, 2014.

biggirlduncry

Missing plane: Piracy theory gains more credence

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Piracy and pilot suicide are among the scenarios under study as investigators grow increasingly certain the missing Malaysia Airlines jet changed course and headed west after its last radio contact with air traffic controllers.
The latest evidence suggests the plane didn't experience a catastrophic incident over the South China Sea as was initially suspected. Some experts theorize that one of the pilots, or someone else with flying experience, hijacked the plane or committed suicide by plunging the jet into the sea.

Adding to the speculation that someone was flying the jet, The New York Times on Friday quoted sources familiar with the investigation as saying that the plane experienced significant changes in altitude after it lost contact with ground control, and altered its course more than once.
A U.S. official told The Associated Press earlier that investigators are examining the possibility of "human intervention" in the plane's disappearance, adding it may have been "an act of piracy." The official, who wasn't authorized to talk to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity, said it was possible the plane may have landed somewhere. The official later said there was no solid information on who might have been involved.
While other theories are still being examined, the official said key evidence suggesting human intervention is that contact with the Boeing 777's transponder stopped about a dozen minutes before a messaging system on the jet quit. Such a gap would be unlikely in the case of an in-flight catastrophe.

A Malaysian official, who declined to be identified because he is not authorized to brief the media, said only a skilled aviator could navigate the plane the way it was flown after its last confirmed location over the South China Sea. The official said it had been established with a "more than 50 percent" degree of certainty that military radar had picked up the missing plane after it dropped off civilian radar.
Malaysia's acting transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, said the country had yet to determine what happened to the plane after it ceased communicating with ground control about 40 minutes into the flight to Beijing on March 8 with 239 people aboard.
He said investigators were still trying to establish that military radar records of a blip moving west across the Malay Peninsula into the Strait of Malacca showed Flight MH370.
"I will be the most happiest person if we can actually confirm that it is the MH370, then we can move all (search) assets from the South China Sea to the Strait of Malacca," he told reporters. Until then, he said, the international search effort would continue expanding east and west from the plane's last confirmed location.
Though some investigators are now convinced that "human intervention" caused the disappearance, U.S. officials told the White House at a briefing Friday that they have "run all the traps" and come up with no good information on who might been involved, according to an official familiar with the meeting. The meeting was attended by State and Defense Department officials, the CIA, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board, among others.

"I don't think there is any consensus on a theory," the official said. "They're not hearing anything in their surveillance that would indicate that this is part of a plot."
Another U.S. official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said investigators looking for the plane have run out of clues except for a type of satellite data that has never been used before to find a missing plane, and is very inexact.
The data consists of attempts by an Inmarsat satellite to identify a broad area where the plane might be in case a messaging system aboard the plane should need to connect with the satellite, said the official. The official compared the location attempts, called a "handshake," to someone driving around with their cellphone not in use. As the phone from passes from the range of one cellphone tower to another, the towers note that the phone is in range in case messages need to be sent.
In the case of the Malaysian plane, there were successful attempts by the satellite to roughly locate the Boeing 777 about once an hour over four to five hours, the official said. "This is all brand new to us," the official said. "We've never had to use satellite handshaking as the best possible source of information."
The handshake does not transmit any data on the plane's altitude, airspeed or other information that might help in locating it, the official said. Instead, searchers are trying to use the handshakes to triangulate the general area of where the plane last was known to have been at the last satellite check, the official said.
"It is telling us the airplane was continuing to operate," the official said, plus enough information on location so that the satellite will know how many degrees to turn to adjust its antenna to pick up any messages from the plane.
The official confirmed prior reports that following the loss of contact with the plane's transponder, the plane turned west. A transponder emits signals that are picked up by radar providing a unique identifier for each plane along with altitude. Malaysian military radar continued to pick up the plane as a whole "paintskin" — a radar blip that has no unique identifier — until it traveled beyond the reach of radar, which is about 320 kilometers (200 miles) offshore, the official said.
The New York Times, quoting American officials and others familiar with the investigation, said radar signals recorded by the Malaysian military appear to show the airliner climbing to 45,000 feet (about 13,700 meters), higher than a Boeing 777's approved limit, soon after it disappeared from civilian radar, and making a sharp turn to the west. The radar track then shows the plane descending unevenly to an altitude of 23,000 feet (7,000 meters), below normal cruising levels, before rising again and flying northwest over the Strait of Malacca toward the Indian Ocean, the Times reported.
Scores of aircraft and ships from 12 countries are involved in the search, which reaches into the eastern stretches of the South China Sea and on the western side of the Malay Peninsula, northwest into the Andaman Sea and the Indian Ocean.
India said it was using heat sensors on flights over hundreds of Andaman Sea islands Friday and would expand the search for the missing jet farther west into the Bay of Bengal, more than 1,600 kilometers (about 1,000 miles) to the west of the plane's last known position.
A team of five U.S. officials with air traffic control and radar expertise — three from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and two from the Federal Aviation Administration — has been in Kuala Lumpur since Monday to assist with the investigation.
White House spokesman Jay Carney sidestepped questions Friday about the possibility of human intervention in the plane disappearance, saying only that U.S. officials were assisting in the investigation.
Malaysia has faced accusations it isn't sharing all its information or suspicions about the plane's final movements. It insists it is being open, and says it would be irresponsible to narrow the focus of the search until there is undeniable evidence of the plane's flight path.
At this point, there is no evidence of any wrongdoing on the part of the two pilots, though Malaysian police have said they are looking at their psychological background, their family life and connections.
Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, and Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, have both been described as respectable, community-minded men.
Mike Glynn, a committee member of the Australian and International Pilots Association, said he considers pilot suicide to be the most likely explanation for the disappearance, as was suspected in a SilkAir crash during a flight from Singapore to Jakarta in 1997 and an EgyptAir flight in 1999.
"A pilot rather than a hijacker is more likely to be able to switch off the communications equipment," Glynn said. "The last thing that I, as a pilot, want is suspicion to fall on the crew, but it's happened twice before."

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China scientists detect 'seismic event', believe MH370 crashed into seabed between M'sia & Vietnam

The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 appears to be shifting back and forth between east and west of peninsula Malaysia, with latest information from scientists in China suggesting that the plane may have triggered a seismic event when it impacted the sea some 150km off the southern tip of Vietnam.

A team of seismologists at a top China research university said they detected a slight seismic event on the sea floor between Vietnam and Malaysia on March 8 which could be a result of an impact.

"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 a statement posted on the University of Science and Technology of China website.

This was also reported by the South China Morning Post.



This comes as US officials begin to set their eyes in the Indian Ocean after almost a week of futile search in the South China Sea, citing indications that the plane may have turned around after losing communication and flown on westwards for several hours.

The 2.55am seismic event reportedly occurred 116km northeast from where MH370 disappeared from civilian radar over the Gulf of Thailand or 85 minutes after it lost communication.

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

Although yet to be conclusively determined, authorities seem to be leaning towards the possibility that the plane was airborne at least for a while longer after it lost all communications and fell off the radar.

Initial fear was that the aircraft, with 239 on board, had crashed into the South China Sea, however, almost a week of combing at the ocean has yet to yield any results. -Malaysiakini

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Data Tunjukkan Pesawat MH370 Dialihkan Juruterbang ‘Profesional’

KUALA LUMPUR: Pesawat Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 yang hilang sejak Sabtu lalu, mungkin sengaja dialihkan ke arah Lautan Hindi oleh seseorang yang ada kemahiran tentang penerbangan dan kedudukan radar, kata seorang pegawai kanan tentera Malaysia.

Komen tersebut menguatkan lagi dakwaan mengenai misteri kehilangan pesawat yang membawa 239 penumpang itu mungkin dirampas.

“Individu itu boleh jadi juruterbang yang profesional dan cekap,” kata pegawai tersebut yang terlibat dalam operasi mencari dan menyelamat pesawat MH370.

Beliau berkata, teori itu berdasarkan data dari radar militari yang masih lagi tidak diketahui.

Radar tersebut terus mengesan laluan pesawat selama beberapa jam selepas ia hilang dari radar pusat kawalan trafik udara dan radar awam, katanya.

Pesawat itu dipercayai diterbangkan ke Lautan Hindi, beratus-ratus kilometer dari laluan sebenar penerbangan pesawat itu.

“Dia tahu cara untuk mengelak dikesan radar awam. Dia dilihat sudah mengkaji cara untuk mengelak daripada dikesan,” katanya.

Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia (TUDM) sebelum ini berkata, mereka sedang menyiasat satu objek yang tidak dikenali dikesan oleh data radar militari sedang menuju ke Laut Andaman beberapa jam selepas pesawat itu dilaporkan hilang kira-kira pukul 1.30 pagi Sabtu lalu. – AFP