Malaysia Airlines plane missing with 239 on board

Post by **maaka** » June 10, 2014, 9:22 am

Of course Old Sport. plaitudes went out to, Steady ' the GT ' Eddy, Captian Hobart, and Red Arrow..ohh and to Matron for keeping us on the right track..

Post by **GT93** » June 14, 2014, 7:12 am

Another couple of blokes trying to make 10 million baht out of a book on this sorry affair:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/10156 ... NZ-authors

The Kiwi sleuths are into the speculation big time.

Post by **Earnest** » June 14, 2014, 2:52 pm

Ha, ha! Brilliant! I still think the four of us should pen something for the market.

Post by **maaka** » June 14, 2014, 5:20 pm

interesting GT..
' which airline people will choose in the future '... ' calulated and deliberate '
one of those blokes was the old Kiwi Air owner yea ? ?

well Ernie, we wouldnt do to bad, but these guys have gone a step further than most by speaking with the families and visiting the place and stuff..be good to see what they come up with...sounds like the lid could blow off this thing

Post by **maaka** » June 16, 2014, 5:33 am

heres another piece of the puzzle lads.

" Freescale Semiconductor makes powerful microchips and had released a new electronic warfare gadget for military radar systems a week before MH370's disappearance.

The company had 20 'very important people' on the flight triggering industrial espionage and 'cloaking technology' theories. "

Post by **arjay** » June 17, 2014, 1:34 pm

Getting back to reality, this may be of interest to those interested in the location of MH370:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27870467

Extract from the full article:

Inmarsat's scientists could tell from the timings and frequencies of the connection signals that the plane had to have come down in the southern Indian Ocean.

An Australian naval vessel was sent to investigate the region west of Perth, and followed up leads as they emerged.

But as Horizon reports, the Ocean Shield ship never got to the Inmarsat hotspot because it picked up sonar detections some distance away that it thought were coming from the jet's submerged flight recorders.

The priority was to investigate these "pings", and two months were spent searching 850 sq km of sea bed. Ultimately, it turned out to be a dead end.

"It was by no means an unrealistic location but it was further to the north east than our area of highest probability," Chris Ashton at Inmarsat tells Horizon.

The company's experts used their data to plot a series of arcs across the Indian Ocean where its systems made contact with the jet.

By modelling a flight with a constant speed and a constant heading consistent with the plane being flown by autopilot - the team found one flight path that lined up with all its data.

"We can identify a path that matches exactly with all those frequency measurements and with the timing measurements and lands on the final arc at a particular location, which then gives us a sort of a hotspot area on the final arc where we believe the most likely area is," said Mr Ashton.

Post by **Earnest** » June 18, 2014, 1:50 am

Horizon is on BBC2 in Blighty tonight. They're investigating the MH370 mystery, khrap. It should be a good documentary.

Post by **GT93** » June 18, 2014, 2:38 pm

Did you produce the documentary in your spare time Earnest? I hope maaka gets credits for anything he's been spouting. That would be a good launch pad for his No. 1 best seller.

No doubt this won't be the last documentary. The Chinese and Malaysians might have a go as well.

Post by **maaka** » June 18, 2014, 4:50 pm

So Ernie, how did this Horizon doco go..
cough up man..

Post by **Aardvark** » June 20, 2014, 8:28 am

They moved those Goal Posts again .... https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/ ... fts-south/

Post by **maaka** » June 20, 2014, 10:40 am

pity no flotsam to help confirm that location, or any other in the West Australian region...
might find afew old sailing ships with cannon down there, as it was the main route to India and Indonesia back in the da..Terrible bit of water and many came adrift down that side of OZ..Anyway, good luck to them..

Post by **GT93** » June 21, 2014, 10:15 am

No report from Earnie. He might be out in the Indian Ocean maaka trying to become world famous by finding this damned plane. He's probably dreaming that if he can become an A list celebrity he can get free grog in any farang bar in Udon or even better any bar in China.

Here's a bit about the programme:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... 70-3712912

Warning - there was an ad or item for C string underwear on the page when I opened it. That has nothing to do with the missing plane.

Post by **maaka** » June 21, 2014, 2:02 pm

kia ora for that GT..Not much we didnt already know..
yes Red Arrow was last seen clambering into a Tiger Moth, with a metal detector in one hand, and a thermos in the other..not sure what the thermos was for...

Post by **jackspratt** » June 21, 2014, 2:49 pm

Another Bangkok - Perth (return) flight just booked with MH.

TBH14,595 for a full service airline - can't beat it. And the best news is that the KL - Per - KL flights will be half empty, and I will be able to get my head down on adjoining unoccupied seats. =D>

Post by **noosard** » June 21, 2014, 3:36 pm

good price
fly with them to NZ in Dec
$940 Bangkok to Auckland
high season but still better than anyone elses price for then

Post by **GT93** » June 21, 2014, 4:30 pm

jackspratt wrote:Another Bangkok - Perth (return) flight just booked with MH.

TBH14,595 for a full service airline - can't beat it. And the best news is that the KL - Per - KL flights will be half empty, and I will be able to get my head down on adjoining unoccupied seats. =D>

The flight will be full of Chinese ghosts jack and they won't be paying a single baht. Be careful.

I take it you don't hold to the theory that some Colorado or Chinese teenagers or one of Bin Laden's boys can hack Malaysian Airline's computer systems, take control of the plane, disable all communications and send the plane crashing in the middle of nowhere. You better look into this one maaka.

Post by **jackspratt** » June 21, 2014, 4:51 pm

GT93 wrote:
jackspratt wrote:Another Bangkok - Perth (return) flight just booked with MH.

TBH14,595 for a full service airline - can't beat it. And the best news is that the KL - Per - KL flights will be half empty, and I will be able to get my head down on adjoining unoccupied seats. =D>
The flight will be full of Chinese ghosts jack and they won't be paying a single baht. Be careful.

I take it you don't hold to the theory that some Colorado or Chinese teenagers or one of Bin Laden's boys can hack Malaysian Airline's computer systems, take control of the plane, disable all communications and send the plane crashing in the middle of nowhere. You better look into this one maaka.

If they are Cantonese ghosts, they will be looking at me as one of them - a Gweilo.

I will check back in with maaka a few days before I head to Bangkok in September, to see if he has any last minute updates and advice. But I am reasonably comfortable, as the flight will be in a crash-proof A330, instead of one of those always-falling-out-of-the-sky 777s. (I have blocked AF447 from my mind).

Post by **JimboPSM** » June 21, 2014, 5:20 pm

jackspratt wrote:..... and I will be able to get my head down on adjoining unoccupied seats. =D>

.... another strategy, if you don’t have a problem with triskaidekaphobia, is to book flights departing on the 13th of the month – it’s worked well for me in the past

Post by **Aardvark** » June 21, 2014, 5:29 pm

jackspratt wrote:Another Bangkok - Perth (return) flight just booked with MH.

TBH14,595 for a full service airline - can't beat it. And the best news is that the KL - Per - KL flights will be half empty, and I will be able to get my head down on adjoining unoccupied seats. =D>

You must be kidding, the last plane from KL-Per was 1800 klm off course. Do you have an inflatable Boat ....

Post by **jackspratt** » June 21, 2014, 6:44 pm

Aardvark wrote:
jackspratt wrote:Another Bangkok - Perth (return) flight just booked with MH.

TBH14,595 for a full service airline - can't beat it. And the best news is that the KL - Per - KL flights will be half empty, and I will be able to get my head down on adjoining unoccupied seats. =D>
You must be kidding, the last plane from KL-Per was 1800 klm off course. Do you have an inflatable Boat ....

Not a problem Aardy - I checked, and can bring a parachute as cabin baggage, so long as it weighs less than 7kg.