Maklumat Rasmi KEHILANGAN MH370 [Hari ke X]

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As leads fail to pan out, search for MH370 stretches from Sumatra to Hong Kong

MARCH 11, 2014

Searchers are scouring more than 500,000 square nautical miles from the shores of Sumatra to Hong Kong to look for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 today as lead after lead failed to pan out over the past three days since the passenger jet vanished.

The flotilla of naval ships and some three dozen aircraft will comb both sea and the jungle-clad Malaysian-Thai border for the lost Boeing 777-200ER jet with 239 people onboard.

One thing the search and rescue team know is that the twin-engine aircraft is not in the air as it had only 7½ hours of fuel left when it vanished 40 minutes into the six-hour flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on Saturday.


The teams trying to find the passenger jet, which has a 61m wingspan, will scour data for radar signatures while seeking to detect pinging from black boxes as the search for visible wreckage proves elusive, Bloomberg reported last night.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) and Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) said yesterday that none of the debris found were linked to the plane while an oil slick close the flight path proved to be bunker fuel, not jet fuel.

American experts said the first 72 hours was crucial for anyone to survive a plane crash but authorities are hopeful as nothing has turned up to suggest MH370 has met a watery end.

Search and rescue mission

"It is still a search and rescue mission," director-general of Civil Aviation Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman told reporters at KLIA in Sepang last night.

"Unfortunately, ladies and gentlemen, we have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft," he had said at an earlier briefing.

He announced the expanded search area after an international search and rescue mission failed to turn up any clues to what he called "an unprecedented aviation mystery".

Authorities were sending ships to investigate a report of debris found south of Hong Kong, but it would likely be today before authorities know if there was anything to those reports, he said.

But aircraft lost in waters kilometres deep have been found by remote-controlled submarines, or experts have gathered enough clues to determine what happened, accident reports since 1970 show.

“The capability is there,” Ronald Schleede, a former investigator with the United States National Transportation Safety Board, said in an interview with Bloomberg.

“I think they’ll find it.”

In the case of the Malaysia Airlines aircraft, the waters beneath the area where it seems most likely to have gone down are about 50m deep, Bloomberg reported, versus 3,900m in the case of Air France flight 447, where wreckage was found and removed almost two years after the A330 jet disappeared.

Technology to the rescue

While a signal from the wide-body Boeing 777 transponder appears not to be working, local agencies would ordinarily have tracked the plane, said Paul Hayes, a safety expert at London-based Ascend, which logs air crashes.

“One assumes that Malaysian air-defence radars would be watching approaches to their airspace and they need to be asked to have a look,” he said.

Emergency beacons from the jetliner’s so-called black boxes would be another potential tool. Investigators have said they aren’t hearing any “pinging” from the flight data and voice recorders, though that may be because the search area was currently so ill-defined, Hayes said.

Honeywell International Inc makes the boxes for most Boeing 777 planes but company officials in Asia declined to comment on whether the Malaysian plane was carrying its equipment.

The recorders would normally begin sending signals if an aircraft broke up or hit the water, with the pinging lasting for 30 days until independent power supplies run out, Bloomberg reported.

Searchers can also use underwater microphones to help find the boxes, with Honeywell’s equipment emitting signals that can be heard from 4.5km deep, according to company reports in 2009 during the investigation of the Air France A330 disappearance over the Atlantic en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

The recorders are also designed to withstand 3,400 times the force of gravity on impact, making it highly likely the boxes will have withstood any breakup of the plane.

But at this point, it was impossible to know if the plane exploded at altitude or could have broken up on hitting water, though the struggle to locate surface wreckage was perplexing, said Hayes.

The long, wide search

The Malaysia Airlines aircraft took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12.41am on Saturday with 227 passengers and 12 crew members to Beijing. It never arrived.

Since then, teams of searchers from Vietnam, China, Singapore, Indonesia, the United States, Thailand, Australia, the Philippines and New Zealand have been working alongside Malaysians to scour the Gulf of Thailand, part of the South China Sea that lies between several Southeast Asian countries.

The focus has now shifted to the Andaman Sea, near Thailand's border, after radar data indicated the plane may have turned around to head back to Kuala Lumpur.

But the pilot apparently gave no signal to authorities that he was turning around, Malaysia Airlines chief executive officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya had said over the weekend.

Hours after it vanished, search planes flew from 7am to 7pm over the vast waters of the Gulf of Thailand while ships searched through the night. Nothing has turned up.

Stolen passports

CNN reported that it was perplexing enough that a jet seemed to have vanished without a trace. Adding to the mystery was the news that at least two people onboard were travelling on passports stolen from an Austrian and an Italian.

The two passengers who used the passports in question appear to have bought their tickets together.

Azharuddin said yesterday the authorities had reviewed security footage from the airport and the men who travelled on the stolen passports "are not Asian-looking men".

The Financial Times reported that an Iranian had arranged for their tickets in the Thai resort town of Pattaya, bringing focus to Thailand as a hub for crime rings selling stolen and fake passports for drug runners and human trafficking syndicates.

Interpol tweeted on Sunday it was examining additional "suspect #passports".

The passport mystery raised concerns about the possibility of terrorism, but officials cautioned that it was still too early to arrive at any conclusions. – March 11, 2014.

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Bedah.Cun posted on 11-3-2014 08:33 AM
I duk dgr gak kat MHI right now, yang
Budak2 keje dgn I neh pun duk pasang telinga

gogo2

No automated messages from missing MH370, say sources

MARCH 11, 2014

The Malaysian passenger jet, flight MH370, that disappeared on Saturday did not make automatic contact with a flight data-monitoring system after vanishing from radar screens, two people familiar with the matter said.

The Boeing 777-200ER is equipped with a maintenance computer capable of talking to the ground automatically through short messages known as ACARS.

These help technicians prepare any necessary repairs and shorten turnaround times at the destination.


Automated ACARS error messages from an Airbus A330 that vanished in the Atlantic in 2009 focused attention initially on inconsistent speed readings as a possible cause of that crash.

Although black-box evidence later showed that pilot error was mainly to blame for the loss of the Air France jet, the burst of error messages was a sign that basic electrical systems continued to work during the aircraft's four-minute descent.

In the case of the Malaysia Airlines jet, however, investigators have no such evidence to help them discover what happened to the passenger plane, the people said.

"There were no signals from ACARS from the time the aircraft disappeared," a source involved in the investigations said.

Flight MH370 disappeared early on Saturday about an hour into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing after climbing to a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet (10,670 metres).

Malaysia on Monday called the disappearance an unprecedented mystery as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or the 239 people on board.

In addition to standard ACARS messages, airlines can install a system sold by Boeing called Airplane Health Management, which provides real-time troubleshooting and allows Boeing to monitor the flight as well as the airline, according to its brochure.

This optional system was not installed on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, people familiar with the matter said. – Reuters, March 11, 2014.

biggirlduncry

Plane mishap adds pressure on MAS
S. JAYASANKARAN IN KUALA LUMPUR THE BUSINESS TIMES

THE loss of MH370, with its 12-man crew and 227 passengers, was the last thing that the beleaguered Malaysia Airlines (MAS) needed.

MAS shares hit a record low yesterday, falling almost 18 per cent at the open, but regaining slightly to close at RM0.24 (S$0.09). This was down 4 per cent from Friday's RM0.25.

Most analysts agree it's a storm MAS is ill-equipped to ride out.

For an airline battling costs, the financial nuts and bolts of the investigation and recovery process could prove hideously expensive.

Things will add up quickly. Apart from providing accommodation for relatives of passengers in both Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, MAS has promised to fly at least four relatives of each victim to the exact crash site, once located.

The airline has also hired a United States disaster recovery firm whose fees are undoubtedly costly - at a time when the loss-making airline is trying to pare costs down to the bone.

It isn't clear, however, how much of all this will be borne by the insurance companies, but that will inflict a price down the road too.

More worrying is the reputational loss inflicted on the airline. The incident has grabbed global headlines and although many international commentators generally lauded the airline's safety record, there would be some degree of brand damage.

MAS' handling of the incident will also be subject to scrutiny.

For the financial year ended Dec 31, 2013, the airline's loss more than doubled to RM1.15 billion, from RM424.8 million in the same period of 2012. While revenue rose more than 9 per cent to RM15.12 billion, the airline's costs kept pace.

MAS' continued losses are a recurrent nightmare for state sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional, which owns 63 per cent of the airline. The state agency has ruled out selling the carrier, but could be mulling over different options.

The airline's management hopes that a turnaround will happen this year, but analysts remain sceptical. In a recent report, pessimistically headlined "Escape while you can", Hong Leong Investment Bank said as much.

Hong Leong also predicted that MAS would continue to post losses this year (an estimated RM891 million) and next year (an estimated RM490 million).

And that was before MH370.

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MISSING MH370: Investigators chasing 'every angle'



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KUALA LUMPUR : Rescue helicopters and ships searching for a Malaysia Airlines jet rushed Monday to investigate a yellow object that looked like a life raft.
It turned out to be moss-covered trash floating in the ocean, once again dashing hopes after more than two days of fruitless search for the plane that disappeared en route to Beijing with 239 people on board.   
   
With no confirmation that the Boeing 777 had crashed, hundreds of distraught relatives waited anxiously for any news. Thai police and Interpol questioned the proprietors of a travel agency in the resort town of Pattaya that sold one-way tickets to two men now known to have been traveling on flight MH370 using stolen passports.  
   
There has been no indication that the two men had anything to do with the tragedy, but the thefts of the passports fueled speculation of foul play, terrorism or a hijacking gone wrong. Malaysia has shared their details with Chinese and American intelligence agencies.  
   
Malaysia’s police chief was quoted by local media as saying that one of the men had been identified. Civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman didn’t confirm this, but said they were of “non-Asian” appearance. He said authorities were looking at the possibility they were connected to a stolen passport syndicate, but declined to give any more details.   
   
The search operation has involved 34 aircraft and 40 ships from several countries covering a 50-nautical mile radius from the point the plane vanished from radar screens between Malaysia and Vietnam, he said.  

Experts say possible causes of the apparent crash include an explosion, catastrophic engine failure, terrorist attack, extreme turbulence, pilot error or even suicide.  
   
Selamat Omar, a Malaysian whose 29-year-old son Mohamad Khairul Amri Selamat was a passenger on the flight, expected a call from him at the 6.30 a.m. arrival time. Instead he got a call from the airline saying the plane was missing.  
   
“We accept God’s will. Whether he is found alive or dead, we surrender to Allah,” Selamat said.  
   
There have been a few glimmers of hope, but so far no trace of the plane has been found.  
   
On Sunday afternoon, a Vietnamese plane spotted a rectangular object that was thought to be one of the missing plane’s doors, but ships working through the night could not locate it. Then on Monday, a Singaporean search plane spotted a yellow object some 140 kilometers (87 miles) southwest of Tho Chu island, but it turned out to be some sea trash.  
   
Malaysian maritime officials found some oil slicks in the South China Sea and sent a sample to a lab to see if it came from the plane. Tests showed that the oil was not from an aircraft, Azharuddin said.  
   
As relatives of the 239 people on the flight grappled with fading hope, attention focused on how two passengers managed to board the aircraft using stolen passports. Interpol confirmed it knew about the stolen passports but said no authorities checked its vast databases on stolen documents before the jet departed.  
   
Warning that “only a handful of countries” routinely make such checks, Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble chided authorities for “waiting for a tragedy to put prudent security measures in place at borders and boarding gates.”  
   
The two stolen passports, one belonging to Austrian Christian Kozel and the other to Luigi Maraldi of Italy, were entered into Interpol’s database after they were stolen in Thailand in 2012 and last year, the police body said.  
   
Electronic booking records show that one-way tickets with those names were issued Thursday from a travel agency in the beach resort of Pattaya in eastern Thailand.  
   
Thai police Col. Supachai Phuykaeokam said those reservations were placed with the agency by a second travel agency in Pattaya, which told police it had received the bookings from a China Southern Airlines office in Bangkok.  
   
The owners of the second Pattaya travel agency refused to talk to reporters. Thai police and Interpol officers went in to question the owners.  
   
A telephone operator on a China-based KLM hotline confirmed Sunday that passengers named Maraldi and Kozel had been booked on one-way tickets on the same KLM flight, flying from Beijing to Amsterdam on Saturday. Maraldi was to fly on to Copenhagen, Denmark, and Kozel to Frankfurt, Germany.   
   
As holders of EU passports with onward flights to Europe, the passengers would not have needed visas for China.  
   
Interpol said it and national investigators were working to determine the identities of those who used the stolen passports to board the flight.  
   
Interpol has long sounded the alarm that growing international travel has underpinned a new market for identity theft: Bogus passports are mostly used by illegal immigrants, but also pretty much anyone looking to travel unnoticed such as drug runners or terrorists. More than 1 billion times last year, travelers boarded planes without their passports being checked against Interpol’s database of 40 million stolen or lost travel documents, the police agency said.  
   
Azharuddin also said the baggage of five passengers who had checked in to the flight but did not board the plane were removed before it departed, he said. Airport security was strict according to international standards, surveillance has been done and the airport has been audited, he said.--AP  


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Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: What we know
Updated 2 hours 7 minutes ago

Mystery surrounds the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Here's a rundown of what is known about the flight, its disappearance and the passengers who used stolen passports.

Where and when did the plane go missing?

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was scheduled to fly from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing in China on Saturday March 8.

It disappeared two hours into the scheduled six-hour flight.

The plane last had contact with air traffic controllers when it was over the Gulf of Thailand at 2:40am local time on Saturday (5:40am AEDT).

At that time, the plane was 120 nautical miles off the town of Kota Bharu, on Malaysia's east coast.

Flight tracking website flightaware.com showed it took off, flew north-east, climbed to 35,000 feet (10,670 metres) and was still climbing when it vanished from tracking records and radar screens.


Was there any sign of trouble?
No distress signals were received before the plane disappeared, and there were no reports of bad weather.

Royal Malaysian Air Force chief Rodzali Daud says radar data shows the aircraft may have turned back from its scheduled route to Beijing.

"We looked back at the recording and there is an indication, a possible indication, that the aircraft made a turn-back and we are trying to make sense of this," he said.

What do we know about the plane and crew?
The missing plane is an 11-year-old Boeing 777-200ER, powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent engines.

The Boeing 777 is the plane maker's most popular wide-body aircraft, and has one of the best safety records of any commercial aircraft in service.

Its only previous fatal crash came on July 6 last year, when Asiana Airlines flight 214 struck a seawall on landing in San Francisco, killing three people.

Malaysia Airlines says the pilot was captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a Malaysian aged 53. He has a total of 18,365 flying hours and joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981.

First officer Fariq Ab Hamid, a Malaysian, is aged 27. He has a total of 2,763 flying hours and joined Malaysia Airlines in 2007.

Have any traces of the plane been found?
Malaysian investigators say they have not found anything that could be parts of the missing plane, despite earlier reports that debris had been found in the sea off Vietnam.

They say Vietnamese authorities have not confirmed sighting any debris from the plane.

Two large oil slicks, which authorities suspected may have been caused by jet fuel, were detected off the coast of Vietnam but tests have shown the oil was a type used by ships.

Dozens of military and civilian vessels have been criss-crossing waters beneath the aircraft's flight path, and Australia has committed two RAAF P-3C maritime surveillance aircraft to help with the search.

Who was on board?
Passengers on flight MH370

Nationality        Total
China/Taiwan        153 (1 infant)
Malaysia        38
Indonesia        7
Australia        6
India        5
France        4
USA        3 (1 infant)
New Zealand        2
Ukraine        2
Canada        2
Russia        1
Netherlands        1
Italy        1 (stolen passport)
Austria        1 (stolen passport)
There were 227 passengers and 12 crew on board flight MH370, according to the complete passenger list that Malaysia Airlines released.

Six Australians were on the plane:

Robert and Catherine Lawton from Springfield Lakes in Queensland;
Rodney and Mary Burrows from Middle Park in Queensland; and
Gu Naijun and Li Yuan from Sydney.
New Zealand man Paul Weeks, who moved to Perth with his family two years ago, was also on board the flight.

His wife Danica says he sent her an email saying "missing you already" shortly before he boarded the flight in Kuala Lumpur.

"I've got two young kids ... I've got a three-year-old who's asking, 'when's daddy going to Skype?'," she said.

A majority of the plane's passengers were from China and Taiwan.

The BBC reports 19 artists and calligraphers who were "very famous in China" were among the passengers.


Are there any suspicious circumstances?
Two passengers on the plane were travelling on stolen passports, adding to the mystery surrounding the plane's disappearance.

Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble said in a statement that it was "too soon to speculate about any connection between these stolen passports and the missing plane".

However, "it is clearly of great concern that any passenger was able to board an international flight using a stolen passport listed in Interpol's databases", he said.

Malaysian authorities have also confirmed five passengers who had purchased tickets and checked baggage did not get on the flight.

They say Malaysia Airlines removed those passengers' bags once it learned they did not board the plane, in accordance with standard procedure.

What's known about the stolen passports?
The stolen passports had belonged to Austrian Christian Kozel and Italian Luigi Maraldi, neither of whom was on the plane.

Both men have said their passports were stolen in Thailand - Mr Kozel's in 2012 and Mr Maraldi's in 2013.

Malaysian authorities say they have CCTV showing the two men who travelled on the stolen passports arriving at Kuala Lumpur airport and boarding Malaysia Airlines flight 370 to Beijing.

Defence minister and acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said: "I can confirm that we have visuals on them through the CCTV, and I also can confirm that the two individuals concerned and their details have been forwarded to the intelligence agencies - not only local, but international."

Authorities have identified one of the men and officials say they will release photos of the pair "in time". They say the men were not of Asian appearance.

The BBC has reported that the men using the false passports purchased tickets together and were due to fly on to Europe from Beijing, meaning they did not have to apply for a Chinese visa and undergo further checks.

The New York Times has reported that, according to electronic booking records, both men bought their one-way tickets for the flight from the same travel agency in a shopping mall in Thailand.

An employee at a travel agency in Pattaya, Thailand, told Reuters the two had purchased the tickets there.

Interpol maintains a database of more than 40 million lost and stolen travel documents, and has long urged countries to make greater use of it to stop people from using false papers to cross borders.

It confirmed that Mr Kozel's and Mr Maraldi's passports had both been added to the database but said no country had consulted the database to check either of them since the time they were stolen.

Malaysian officials have launched a review of the country's airport security screening processes.


What could have happened to the plane?
Malaysian civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman says officials are not ruling out any possibility, including hijacking.

John Goglia, a former board member of the US agency that investigates plane crashes, says the lack of a distress call suggests the plane either experienced an explosive decompression or was destroyed by an explosive device.

"It had to be quick because there was no communication," Mr Goglia said.

Geoffrey Thomas, the editor of airlineratings.com, told 7.30: "There are not very many options here as to what could've happened. It's either a bomb or it's a structural failure."

A source involved in the investigations in Malaysia told Reuters the fact no debris had been found "appears to indicate that the aircraft is likely to have disintegrated at around 35,000 feet".

The source said that if the plane had plunged intact from close to its cruising altitude, breaking up only on impact with the water, search teams would have expected to find a fairly concentrated pattern of debris.

Asked about the possibility of an explosion, such as a bomb, the source said there was no evidence yet of foul play and that the aircraft could have broken up due to mechanical causes.

How can a modern plane just disappear?
Aviation lawyer and former Inspector General of the US Department of Transportation Mary Schiavo says it is very unusual that a Boeing 777 would just disappear without a hint of what went wrong.

"This is a great plane," she said. "The 777 is very much like the Airbus 340 in that the plane itself gives off information and they're called system status checks and the plane sends this information back to the airline's base all the time.

"It's kind of like the plane taking its own temperature. But here, at least according to reports so far, there was no information. And that's very odd because this is a very sophisticated plane and it has triple redundancies. It doesn't have just one radio or two, it doesn't have one set of wiring, it has lots of redundancies.

"So whatever made it impossible to transmit was a pretty significant event, because otherwise there would be transmissions and of course there was no - or at least according to what we've heard so far - no mayday call. And it doesn't have to be a radio call. There are transponder codes - they call it squawking transponder codes - and you can also put it through a computer system called an ACARS."

Has anything like this happened before?
The disappearance of the plane is a chilling echo of an Air France flight that crashed into the South Atlantic on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people on board.

Searchers spotted debris from Air France Flight 447 within a day - but it took nearly two years to find the black box flight recorders and the remains of the fuselage.

A 2009 story on ABC TV's Foreign Correspondent raised questions about why airlines still relied on black boxes on board planes to record flight data.

"It's highly desirable that data is streamed live from the aircraft to the maintenance base," aviation lawyer James Healy-Pratt told Foreign Correspondent in 2009, when AF447's flight recorders had not yet been recovered.

"It is absurd that air safety depends on black boxes, which sometimes cannot be recovered - or if they are recovered, then the data cannot be properly transcribed because the boxes are damaged beyond analysis. And that's happened in many aircraft crashes that we've been involved in."

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crossfire

crossfire posted on 11-3-2014 09:07 AM

grapik dari hmetro.

pittjie

secretfashion posted on 10-3-2014 11:26 PM
Ni tak membaca ni.. Semua persoalan diatas telah terjawab..oh baideway, fallen passport tu beli ti ...

bukan passangers yg guna pasport curi tu beli tiket kat Thai ke? tak dengar pulak amended report kata they purchased kat china.

BelovedTaeyeon

Jangan tuding jari salahkan sesiapa, kata Tun M




http://www.astroawani.com/news/s ... pa-kata-tun-m-31636

                                                
PUTRAJAYA: Bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad meminta semua pihak supaya tidak menuding jari menyalahkan sesiapa berhubung kehilangan pesawat MH370 kerana ia tidak membantu merungkaikan misteri insiden itu.

Katanya, setiap perkara yang berlaku ada hikmahnya dan beliau percaya pihak berkuasa telah melakukan yang terbaik untuk mengesan pesawat yang hilang sejak awal pagi Sabtu lepas.

"Perkara itu (tuding-menuding) tidak akan menyelesaikan masalah," katanya semasa ditemui selepas bertemu dengan keluarga penumpang pesawat MH370 yang ditempatkan di Hotel Everly di sini pada petang Isnin.

Beliau diiringi oleh isteri, Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah Ismail dan anak, Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir yang juga Menteri Besar Kedah bersama menantunya, Datin Seri Norzieta Zakaria.

Menurut Dr. Mahathir, terserahlah kepada pihak berkuasa untuk menentukan soal tahap keselamatan di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) susulan penggunaan pasport curi untuk menaiki pesawat malang itu.

Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi pada Ahad mempersoalkan bagaimana pegawai imigresen di KLIA tidak membuat pemeriksaan yang teliti sehingga boleh melepaskan dua penumpang yang menggunakan pasport curi.

"Saya masih hairan tak kan (pegawai imigresen) tak boleh fikir, orang Itali dan Austria tapi muka macam orang Asia," katanya seperti dipetik oleh Bernama.

Menurut Ahmad Zahid, satu siasatan dalam terhadap Jabatan Imigresen telah dimulakan oleh sebuah pasukan khas yang diketuai oleh Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Imigresen Datuk Aloyah Mamat.

Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Penerbangan Awam, Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman dalam sidang media pada Isnin malam menegaskan siasatan ke atas rakaman visual pergerakan dua penumpang misteri itu menunjukkan semua protokol keselamatan di KLIA telah dipatuhi.

Oleh itu, siasatan pihak berkuasa berhubung dua pasport curi yang digunakan untuk menaiki pesawat MH370 itu kini bertumpu kepada aspek penglibatan sindiket pemalsuan pasport.

Beliau juga mengesahkan, selepas meneliti rakaman dan foto, dua penumpang berkenaan bukan lelaki Asia.

Sementara itu, Mukhriz memberitahu beliau bertemu dengan empat keluarga mangsa yang berasal dari Kedahdan menyampaikan rasa simpati serta sokongan moral kepada mereka.

"Saya dapat bayangkan betapa sukarnya... mereka meluahkan perasaan bahawa amat sukar menunggu begitu lama tetapi maklumat yang diperoleh cuma sedikit.

"Mereka juga menyatakan tidak mahu menerima maklumat palsu yang membuahkan harapan namun akhirnya kecewa setelah harapan itu tidak menjadi kenyataan.

"Harap-harap mereka yang menggunakan media sosial lebih sensitif dalam perkara ini," katanya.

Pesawat MH370 dari Kuala Lumpur ke Beijing, yang membawa 227 penumpang dan 12 anak kapal, hilang daripada radar, kira-kira sejam selepas berlepas dari KLIA pada pukul 12.41 tengah malam Jumaat. Ia sepatutnya dijadual tiba di Beijing pukul 6.30 pagi Sabtu.            

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lr7

Tq tt wujudkn tread ni..
Serius menyampah baca spekulasi yang tah ape2..orang cuna nak tau update je..

mixed

Agensi Perisikan Antarabangsa Bantu Kenal Pasti Individu Menyamar Naik MH370

[size=0.688em]Diterbitkan: Selasa, 11 Mac 2014 8:33 AM

[size=0.75em]Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.

SEPANG: Gambar dua individu yang menyamar dan menaiki pesawat MH370 yang hilang pada Sabtu lalu dikeluarkan kepada agensi perisikan antarabangsa.

[size=0.938em]Pemangku Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Seri Hishammudin Tun Hussein berkata, ini bagi membantu untuk mengenal pasti individu terbabit.

[size=0.938em]"Kita berharap dapat memberikan gambar mereka kepada media tidak lama lagi.

[size=0.938em]"Semua maklumat berkaitan akan diteliti oleh agensi perisikan berkaitan. Terlalu awal untuk mengeluarkan sebarang maklumat pada masa ini," katanya pada sidang media di sini, Isnin.

[size=0.938em]Menteri Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi dilaporkan berkata pada Isnin bahawa kedua-dua penyamar itu kelihatan seperti orang Asia.

[size=0.938em]Ditanya sama ada mereka mempunyai wajah seperti orang Asia, Hishammuddin berkata: "Tidak, tidak seperti yang saya tahu."

[size=0.938em]Mengenai kemungkinan kesilapan dari aspek keselamatan yang membolehkan dua penyamar itu melepasi pemeriksaan Imigresen, Hishammuddin berkata, lebih 40 juta pasport dicuri kini di dalam pangkalan data Polis Antarabangsa (Interpol).

[size=0.938em]Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar berkata, salah seorang penyamar telah dikenal pasti berdasarkan rakaman kamera litar tertutup (CCTV) di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA).

[size=0.938em]"Saya boleh mengesahkan bahawa dia bukan warganegara Malaysia, tetapi tidak boleh mendedahkan beliau berasal dari negara mana buat masa ini," katanya.

[size=0.938em]Bagaimanapun, beliau menambah: "Lelaki yang telah dikenal pasti itu bukan dari wilayah autonomi Xinjiang Uyghur di China."

[size=0.938em]"Kami sedang berusaha untuk mengenal pasti seorang suspek lagi," Khalid kepada pemberita di Ibu Pejabat Polis Kajang pada Isnin.

[size=0.938em]Beliau berkata, polis tidak mempunyai pengesahan mengenai satu kumpulan militan Cina yang didakwa bertanggungjawab untuk pesawat yang hilang.

[size=0.938em]Khalid berkata demikian bagi mengulas laporan beberapa portal berita China berhubung satu kumpulan dinamakan sebagai 'Chinese Martyrs’ Brigade' yang didakwa bertanggungjawab menyebabkan kehilangan pesawat MH370 .

[size=0.938em]Para pegawai yang meneliti rakaman CCTV itu berkata bahawa dua lelaki yang menggunakan pasport curi itu kelihatan seperti 'Caucasian'.

[size=0.938em]Rakyat Itali, Luigi Maraldi, yang namanya di dalam senarai penumpang, tidak menaiki pesawat yang hilang dan menurut beberapa laporan dari Itali, pasportnya dicuri pada Ogos tahun lepas ketika berada di Thailand.

[size=0.938em]Rakyat Austrian, Christan Kozel yang pasportnya digunakan oleh penumpang lain turut mengesahkan dirinya selamat dan berada dalam keadaan baik.

[size=0.938em]Kozel memberitahu sebuah akhbar Austrian bahawa pasportnya dicuri ketika berkunjung ke Thailand dua tahun lepas.

[size=0.938em]Para pegawai berkata, kedua-dua penyamar itu pastinya menukarkan gambar pada pasport yang dicuri menggunakan gambar mereka sendiri.

[size=0.938em]"Kedua-dua penyamar itu dilihat melalui pemeriksaan visual dengan mudah kerana gambar di dalam pasport sepadan dengan wajah mereka," kata salah seorang pegawai."

[size=0.938em]Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Penerbangan Awam (DCA), Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman menolak andaian bahawa terdapat kecuian dalam aspek keselamatan.

[size=0.938em]"Aspek keselamatan lapangan terbangan kami memenuhi standard oleh Lembaga Keselamatan Pengangkutan Kebangsaan Amerika Syarikat dan Pentadbiran Penerbangan Persekutuan selama beberapa tahun," katanya.

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Source: Malaysia Airlines

Tuesday, March 11, 11:15 AM MYT +0800 Malaysia Airlines MH370 Flight Incident - 11th Media Statement
As we enter into Day 4, the aircraft is yet to be found.

The search and rescue teams have expanded the scope beyond the flight path. The focus now is on the West Peninsular of Malaysia at the Straits of Malacca. The authorities are looking at a possibility of an attempt made by MH370 to turn back to Subang. All angles are being looked at. We are not ruling out any possibilities.

The last known position of MH370 before it disappeared off the radar was 065515 North (longitude) and 1033443 East (latitude).

The mission is aided by various countries namely Australia, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines and the United States of America. The assets deployed to cover the search and rescue is expensive. In total there are nine aircraft and 24 vessels deployed on this mission.

Apart from the search in the sea, search on land in between these areas is also conducted.

The search and rescue teams have analysed debris and oil slick found in the waters. It is confirmed that it does not belong to MH370.

The B777-200 aircraft that operated MH370 underwent maintenance 10 days before this particular flight on 6 March 2014. The next check is due on 19 June 2014. The maintenance was conducted at the KLIA hangar and there were no issues on the health of the aircraft.

The aircraft was delivered to Malaysia Airlines in 2002 and have since recorded 53,465.21 hours with a total of 7525 cycles. All Malaysia Airlines aircraft are equipped with continuous data monitoring system called the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) which transmits data automatically. Nevertheless, there were no distress calls and no information was relayed.

Malaysia Airlines has a special task force to take care of families. Mercy Malaysia and Tzu Chi and others are also helping Malaysia Airlines by providing special psychological counseling to families and also the MH crew.

The Chinese government officials in Malaysia are also working closely with Malaysia Airlines. A representative from the embassy is stationed at the Emergency Operations Centre to assist with the emergency management and matters related to families in Kuala Lumpur.

In Beijing, the Prime Minister’s special envoy to China, Tan Sri Ong Ka Ting is there to assist and coordinate all operational matters with Malaysia Airlines.

We regret and empathise with the families and we will do whatever we can to ensure that all basic needs, comfort, psychological support are delivered. We are as anxious as the families to know the status of their loved ones.

To the families of the crew on-board MH370, we share your pain and anxiety. They are of the MAS family and we are deeply affected by this unfortunate incident.

Malaysia Airlines reiterates that it will continue to be transparent in communicating with the general public via the media on all matters affecting MH370.

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Vietnam kawtim bagi laluan kat SAR team masuk perairan dorang.

Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam): Kerajaan Vietnam sudah mengeluarkan permit untuk menjalankan gerakan mencari pesawat #dimanaMH370 di perairannya kepada Malaysia, Amerika Syarikat, Singapura dan China.

Menurut Jabatan Penerbangan Awam Vietnam, setakat ini kawasan pencarian sudah meliputi 136,000 persegi.

Source : mymetro
Link : http://www.hmetro.com.my/myMetro ... /Article/index_html

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Chesire_Epilog posted on 11-3-2014 11:48 AM
Source: Malaysia Airlines

Tuesday, March 11, 11:15 AM MYT +0800 Malaysia Airlines MH370 Flight In ...

Mengapa Kapal Selam TLDM Tidak Di Gunakan Dalam Operasi Mencari?


Misteri kehilangan Penerbangan Malaysia pesawat MH370 dari Kuala Lumpur ke Beijing masih belum terjawab. Hari ni masuk hari ke-4 pesawat ini hilang secara tiba-tiba ketika melalui ruang udara Vietnam.
Selepas kejutan kehilangan pesawat hilang, susur masa media sosial kami mula dipenuhi dengan pelbagai teori dari “pakar” yang pada pendapat kami kurang faham tentang teknologi yang ada di sekeliling kita.
Artikel ini ditulis bagi memberikan sedikit pencerahan tentang teknologi yang digunakan bagi mencari pesawat yang hilang serta jawapan kepada beberapa kenyataan kurang pintar yang muncul secara pukal sejak 36 jam yang lalu.
Kami merasakan kami mempunyai tanggungjawab sosial untuk memberi penerangan tentang apa yang boleh dan tidak boleh dilakukan dalam operasi menyelamat ketika ini.
Soalan : Kenapa Google Earth Tidak Digunakan Untuk Mencari Lokasi Pesawat Yang Hilang?
Ini antara tuitan yang kami lihat mula tersebar sejak petang semalam. Ramai yang ketawa dengan cadangan ini tetapi sebenarnya ianya bukanlah sesuatu yang mustahil. Buat masa sekarang gambar pemetaan Google Earth hanya dikemas kini setiap 1 ataupun 3 tahun bergantung pada lokasi.
Di Amerika Syarikat kemas kini ini dilakukan dengan kerap kerana adanya permintaan dari pengguna yang mahukan data terkini dari pandangan angkasa.
Di Malaysia kami tidak pasti berapakah kekerapan kemas kini dilakukan tetapi kami mengesyaki ianya mungkin setiap 3 tahun kerana beberapa bangunan yang telahpun siap dibina di Cyberjaya 2 tahun yang lalu masih belum muncul di  Google Earth.
Dalam situasi sekarang penggunaan Google Earth untuk membantu proses mencari pesawat yang hilang masih mustahil. Tetapi tahukah anda Google sudah melakukan inisiatif untuk menjadikan ini sebuah realiti. Januari lalu ada Google melakukan pelaburan terhadap 2 syarikat pengimejan satelit Planet Labs dan Skybox.
Melalui Planet Lab mereka mahu membantu proses pengimejan terkini kawasan yang dilanda bencana alam yang dilakukan beberapa kali sehari. Ini bagi membantu pihak berkuasa untuk melihat situasi terkini kawasan yang dilanda bencana sekaligus membolehkan mereka memberikan bantuan kepada kawasan yang paling teruk terjejas.
Melalui Planet Labs beberapa satelit nano akan mengorbit bumi bagi memberikan kemasan imej apabila diperlukan. 24 satelit nano Planet Labs sudah dilancarkan setakat ini dengan lebih banyak lagi akan menyusul di masa hadapan. Satelit mini ini hanya seberat 5.7 kilogram. Ia mempunyai ukuran 100 mm × 100 mm × 340 mm dengan dua panel solar 260 mm × 300 mm. Ia akan mengorbit bumi dari ketinggian 800 kilometer.
Skybox pula akan membolehkan anda melihat mana-mana lokasi di bumi secara langsung untuk tempoh masa 90 saat.
Teknologi Skybox masih lagi baru dan di bawah ialah video awal yang dibekalkan oleh Skybox. Ia hanya mampu mengambil video hitam putih dengan resolusi 1 pixel semeter.  Di masa hadapan apabila teknologi menjadi lebih matang kemampuan menstrim video langsung menerusi Google Earth mungkin akan menjadi realiti.

Jadi jangan ketawakan insan yang menyuruh MAS dan kerajaan Malaysia menggunakan Google Earth bagi membantu proses mencari kerana teknologinya sudah ada cuma masih belum matang dan dicapai oleh umum.

SOALAN : Kenapa kita masih menggunakan kotak hitam? Kenapa data penerbangan dan audio kabin tidak dimuat turun secara langsung ke menara kawalan?
Sebelum bercerita tentang penggunaan Black Box ataupun nama betulnya Pencatat Data Penerbangan (Flight Data Recorder) ada baiknya jika kami menceritakan sedikit sebanyak tentang sejarah “kotak hitam” ini. Rekod awal penggunaan alatan untuk merekod penerbangan pesawat bermula pada tahun 1939 oleh François Hussenot dan Paul Beaudouin.
Kamera dipasang pada pesawat bagi merekod cara pesawat diterbangkan oleh juruterbang. Jika kecelakaan berlaku gambar dari kamera boleh diproses untuk melihat saat-saat akhir sebelum pesawat terhempas.
Sistem ini mempunyai kelemahan kerana pita filem tidak boleh diguna semula untuk penerbangan seterusnya selepas didedahkan kepada cahaya. Sistem ini adalah mahal dan tidak praktikal. Ia juga tidak merekod audio percakapan juruterbang,
Pada tahun 1956 sistem merekod data penerbangan dicipta oleh David Warren yang berasal dariAustralia. Sistem merekod data penerbangan dan audio kokpit pesawat ini dicipta beliau selepas berlakunya insiden 3 kemalangan pesawat DeHaviland Comet, pesawat jet komersial pertama dunia di antara 1953-1954. Beberapa Comet meletup di udara tanpa sebab dan ketiadaan data untuk dianalisa selepas bangkai ditemui menyukarkan proses penyiasatan.
Warren merasakan ciptaan beliau, Aircraft Memory Unit dapat membantu siasatan sekiranya kecelakaan seperti ini berulang. Ciptaan Warren tidak menerima sambutan syarikat penerbangan kerana ianya mahal. Ciptaan beliau hanya mula digunakan secara menyeluruh pada 1960 selepas menerima saranan dari badan enkuiri sebuah pesawat terhempas di Queensland. Australia melalui Qantas menjadi syarikat penerbangan pertama yang meletakkan Red Egg (nama baru untuk Aircraft Memory Unit ciptaan Warren) di dalam kesemua pesawat milik mereka.

Sistem Pencatat Data Penerbangan  (PDP)  yang digunakan sekarang dicipta pada tahun 1963 dan pada asalnya menggunakan pita magnetik yang merekod 30 minit terakhir pesawat secara berulang. Pesawat moden kini dilengkapi sistem penyimpanan data secara digital di dalam cakera solid state.
Jadi mengapa PDP masih lagi perlu dalam betuk fizikal di dalam pesawat sedangkan sistem storan awanan sudah digunakan secara meluas? Jawapannya mudah dan agak sadis. Jika anda membaca artikel ini dari awal perenggan, anda boleh melihat kesemua ciptaan awal sistem merekod data penerbangan ditolak kerana ianya mahal. Jika rekod penerbangan dan audio kokpit distrim secara terus ke storan awanan ia akan melibatkan kos yang tinggi. Syarikat penerbangan tidak sanggup membelanjakan jumlah wang yang besar untuk teknologi baru ini kerana kos operasi sistem ini adalah lebih mahal dari kos membayar pampasan sekiranya pesawat terhempas. Sama ada anda suka atau tidak ini adalah realitinya.
Saranan sistem “kotak hitam” yang digunakan sekarang harus digantikan sudah disuarakan paska serangan 11 September 2001 lagi.  Kotak rakaman audio dari American Airlines 77 yang menerobos menara World Trade Center rosak teruk dan tidak boleh diselamatkan.
Sekali lagi saranan penaik tarafan sistem PDP  dilakukan pada tahun 2009 selepas berlakunya kecelakaan Air France 447 yang terhempas di tengah laut. PDP pesawat ini hanya berjaya dijumpai selepas hampir dua tahun di dasar laut. Kecelakaan Adam Air 574 Indonesia pada tahun 2007  juga menunjukkan kepincangan sistem PDP yang sedia ada kerana hanya ditemui 8 bulan selepas kemalangan berlaku.

Jelas sekali sekiranya sistem storan awanan secara langsung digunakan pada pesawat MH370, sekurang-kurangnya pihak penyelamat kini boleh mengecilkan saiz kawasan pencarian berdasarkan lokasi GPS terakhir. Data yang disimpan juga kini sudah boleh dianalisa sungguhpun pesawat masih belum ditemui.  Kerana sistem yang sudah terbukti pincang sejak 2001 ini masih degil digunakan kerana faktor kos, kita kini terpaksa menanti PDR pesawat ini ditemui bagi merungkai misteri kehilangannya.

Soalan : Mengapa kapal selam TLDM tidak digunakan dalam operasi mencari?
Ini soalan yang menimbulkan kemarahan ramai pihak kerana ramai masih sakit belakang dengan tuduhan kapal selam KD Tunku Abdul Rahman dan KD Tun Abdul Razak milik TLDM adalah dua gajah laut putih yang membazirkan duit negara.
Di laman sosial dua pemimpin kanan parti pembangkang dengan nada sarkastik bertanya mengapa kapal selam tidak dihantar ke kawasan pencarian. Sistem sonar kapal perang ini tidak boleh digunakan untuk mencari pesawat yang mungkin menjunam ke dasar laut?
Pertama mari kita mulakan dengan sebuah analogi. Katakanlah anda ingin memotong sebuah kertas A4. Anda mempunyai pilihan menggunakan gunting atau sistem pemotong menggunakan laser.
Yang mana satukah yang anda akan pilih untuk gunakan untuk memotong kertas? Sekiranya anda praktikal dan waras anda akan memilih gunting. Sekiranya anda suka melakukan sesuatu dengan cara susah dan tidak praktikal anda akan memilih menggunakan sistem pemotong laser.
Analogi ini kami gunakan dalam persoalan mengapa kapal selam TLDM tidak digunakan dalam pencarian MH370.
Ketika artikel ini ditulis 44 kapal bantuan dari pelbagai negara luar sudah dikerahkan menjalankan operasi mencari MH370. Ada di antara kapal ini dilengkapi sistem sonar yang ditunda (towed array sonar).
Sebagai contoh Singapura menghantar sebuah Corvette kelas Victory dan Frigate kelas Formidable mereka. Kedua-dua kapal perang ini mempunyai fungsi sebagai kapal perang anti kapal selam dan dilengkapi sistem sonar untuk mencari objek di dasar laut.
Beberapa lagi kapal bantuan dari Amerika Syarikat dan Vietnam turut dilaporkan mempunyai kemampuan yang serupa.
Apakah sonar yang ditunda ini? Sonar yang ditunda ditarik di belakang kapal untuk memeta objek di dasar laut. Sistem ini digunakan dalam penemuan bangkai RMS Titanic oleh Dr Robert Ballard pada tahun 1985.
Sistem sonar ditunda ini juga digunakan dalam operasi mencari kapal selam K-141 Kursk yang tenggelam akibat letupan pada tahun 2000.
Jadi apa bezanya dengan sistem yang ada pada kapal selam. Perbezaannya tidak banyak tetapi di sini kita kembali kepada persoalan praktikal. Kapal permukaan (surface ship) boleh bergerak lebih pantas ke dan beroperasi lama pada satu-satu masa berbanding sebuah kapal selam.  
Kapal selam perang tidak pernah dicipta dengan fungsi kedua untuk bantuan kecemasan. Sebaliknya kapal permukaan dibina dengan fungsi ini terbina. Kerap kita dengar pesawat perang menyelamatkan mangsa kapal karam dan membawa bantuan kemanusiaan ke kawasan dilanda bencana alam.
Di akhir hari kapal permukaan seperti Frigate dan Corvette yang memenuhi Teluk Siam dalah gunting manakala kapal selam adalah pemotong laser. Kedua-duanya boleh digunakan untuk mencari MH370 tetapi dalam keadaan sekarang penggunaan kapal permukaan adalah paling praktikal dan sesuai dengan keperluan operasi (operational needs).
Ada bezanya kapal selam yang dihantar Singapura dengan kapal selam Scorpene milik TLDM? Singapura menghantar kapal selam mini DSAR 6 (Deep Search And Rescue 6) di atas kapal MV Swift Rescue . DSAR 6 mempunyai bahagian hadapan berkaca bagi melihat objek di bawah laut. Umum diketahui Scorpene tidak mempunyai tingkap untuk melihat keluar. DSAR 6 bukannya kapal selam untuk berperang dan mempunyai fungsi yang sangat berbeza dari sebuah Scorpene.
DSAR6  tidak digunakan untuk mencari MH370. Ianya hanya akan digunakan jika bangkai pesawat ditemui bawah laut dan pengesahan visual (visual confirmation) diperlukan dari data yang diterima dari bacaan sonar. Setakat ini cebisan pesawat tidak lagi ditemui apakan pula bangkai pesawat di dasar laut. DSAR 6 akan kekal di atas dek kapal MV Swift Rescue sehinggalah ianya diperlukan.
Bagaimana pula dengan penggunaan kapal selam Émeraude oleh kerajaan Perancis dalam pencarian Air France 447 pada tahun 2007? Ini situasi berbeza. Air France 447 dikhuatiri tenggelam di kawasan dengan kedalaman mencecah 4700 meter dan kawasan laut dengan ombak bergelora. Bandingkan situasi ini dengan keadaan di Teluk Siam yang mempunyai kedalaman maksimum 80 meter sahaja!
Penggunaan kapal permukaan di sini adalah kurang selamat. Semasa proses mencari majoriti operasi mencari dilakukan menggunakan pesawat P3 Orion (pesawat yang sama digunakan untuk mencari MH370) dan Embraer R99.  
Émeraude hanya digunakan untuk mengesan bunyi sistem pengesan automatik dari PDP Air France 447 kerana sistem pengesan bunyi yang digunakan kapal selam nuklear ini bersesuaian dengan kehendak operasi.
Jadi ingin kami jelaskan tidak timbul isu kenapa Scorpene tidak digunakan untuk operasi mencari MH370 . Tiada keperluan untuk kapal selam TLDM itu dihantar ke Teluk Siam sedangkan aset yang lebih sesuai dan praktikal sudahpun digunakan. Kenapa perlukan pemotong laser sekiranya gunting sudah cukup sempurna bagi menjalankan tugasan.
Kami berhadap artikel pendek ini dapat menjawab persoalan anda dan memberikan pencerahan yang jelas tentang penggunaan teknologi dalam mencari MH370. Kami di Amanz.My berharap ada berita baik yang akan kita terima berkenaan insiden yang menyayat hati.
Kami doakan pesawat ini dapat dikesan dan penumpangnya masih selamat.  Sekiranya ada kekhilafan di dalam artikel ini kami meminta maaf.


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