Malaysia Airlines plane missing with 239 on board

[GT93]

Bloody oath there's always got to be one drongo stirrer and today it's me. This might get some of you dags confused with the two threads going. I'm looking after my old cobber maaka who loses this thread once it doesn't stand out like dog's balls. Any more gob-smacking theories maaka? After all there are two as the Russians say "downed" planes now.

[Jing Jing]

Is this part of an attempt to destabilize Malaysia? The state is on the hook for the settlement cost of these two lost planes. If Malaysia is forced to scrap a state airline how does that ripple through the Malaysian economy? Somebody needs to check Malaysian pilots for their political leanings.

[maaka]

Geez GT, I am touched that you should do all this for moi...well done...gotta stick together and all that Matey..

my gut tells me they are both related, but for what purpose is anyones guess..policital, the Ban telling Malay muslims to toe the line and join with them, or something darker...

it was really something for the first one to disappear without trace, and whats the odds that another would go down within months on an ariel highway full of planes..the odds are staggering, same plane 777, same airline..if a third goes down then we are dealing with a new terrorist threat with a new kind of explosive...

I am tending to want to hang back on this one to see if it was a missile, or an onboard explosion..easy to time it to blow where it did...need to do abit of research into what is a BUK missile attracted too..is it heat seeking, or other..and would it blow a plane to bits, or would the wings fall off complete like they did...

I know there is all the palava about rebels and missiles and things, but one has to check all possibilities..an onboard explosion would blow the wings off too intact.,,however, the odds are zillions that it should happen to the same airline within months of each other...30,000 planes over europe and Nth America on any given morning..and it had to be Malaysian Airlines...

[GT93]

I got this from the NZH maaka:

"Angus Houston heads Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Center, which oversees the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean in March 8 after veering far off course.

The former Australian defense chief was on Wednesday in the Ukraine town of Kharkiv as the prime minister's special envoy to receive the bodies of Australian victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which was shot down last week by a suspected surface-to-air missile.

Transport Minister Warren Truss said in a statement on Wednesday the search for Flight 370 "continues uninterrupted."

It's now so interrupted the boss has moved on to other things. It's a bit like the UK without Betty Windsor. Quite a hole.

[maaka]

yes, one has almost overtaken the other..the first is somewhat lost due to its disapperance and hence it can be easy to forget it, whereas the lastest tradgey is there smashed on the earth for all to see, and its circumstances may override the first..I hope both get the same attention

[Jing Jing]

Hamas terrorists trained in Malaysia for parachute attack [from Gaza into Israel], Shin Bet [Israel Security Force] says.The suspect traveled to Malaysia in 2012, where he and nine other Hamas members learned how to fly a powered parachute.

I think the two pilots need to be investigated a little bit more. Were these pilots testing the limits of air traffic control systems?

[Earnest]

Mystery as £20,000 cash is withdrawn from accounts of four passengers who went down with doomed Flight MH370

Source: Daily Mail

More than £20,000 has been stolen from four passengers aboard the doomed MH370 flight.
Five months after the Malaysia Airlines flight went missing, mysterious withdrawals totaling 111,000 RM (£20,916) have been recorded, reports claim.
A bank in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, reported the apparent discrepancies in their accounts on July 18, before lodging a police complaint, Assistant Commissioner to the crime investigation department Izany Abdul Ghany revealed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... MH370.html

[GT93]

Yes, I saw that too Earnest. I thought cripes I hope our maaka hasn't found the blimin plane and been picking out some goodies. I'd miss reading his posts if he ends up in the big house.

[Earnest]

We'd have to go and visit him, for sure.

[macca46]

Have just read that it was a bank employee inside job so easy just transfer the money into a falsely created account then she withdrew it maybe just her luck that she discovered that there four clients of the bank on the plane that went missing.

[GT93]

Well it's a relief maaka still has liberty.

The Aussies are about to change the search area:

http://www.watoday.com.au/world/satelli ... 09sxk.html

We haven't heard from jackspratt for a while? He was planning on flying Malaysian Airlines. I hope a third plane didn't fail to reach its destination. The airline is so unpopular that jack might have been its only passenger and the disappearance might have been able to be covered up.

I don't think jack would want to just go gentle into that good night. If he doesn't surface soon Detective Maaka better look into this with his poetry books, kayak and other not in the rice field gadgets.

[maaka]

yup still here GT, bobbying around in a dingy off the Ningaloo Reef looking for artefacts...
I spotted Jacko a week back on the beach wearing his tight light blue Yakka studdies, you know the ones with the single pocket on the back, and he was flopping around in some qaudy orange thongs, while quaffing down what looked like a can of Castlemaine..Udon looked far from his mind, as he was busy barking down some guys throat about something...neverthemind...Jasus what was that!! a Great Whi...........

[noosard]

The search area to be scoured for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is set to be changed following new analysis of an attempt to call the plane by satellite phone.

With only weeks to go before contractors head back underwater in the most extensive aviation recovery operation of all time, officials said they have new data suggesting the Boeing 777 may have taken a different path.

Investigators have developed new methods for analysing data from attempted satellite calls in the months since the plane vanished while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March.

And in a press conference yesterday, the Australian deputy prime minister Warren Truss said that research suggested the jet "might have turned south [towards the southern Indian Ocean] a little earlier than we had previously expected".

The overall search area remains unchanged, Mr Truss said. However, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief commissioner, Martin Dolan, said he would meet with international experts next week to decide whether the 60,000-square-km zone should be extended or shifted south based on the new analysis.


"We think we may extend that area farther south; that's the thing we're currently considering," Mr Dolan said.

The new analysis data comes from two calls Malaysia Airlines staff tried to make to the flight's crew after MH370 was reported missing from radar screens.

Mr Dolan said the new analysis suggested the jet was already flying south when the first phone call was attempted, less than 20 minutes after the plane dropped off military radar.

"Previously, there was the possibility that it could have been quite a bit later, so we had to do our modelling based on a range of possibilities as to where the aircraft turned," Mr Dolan said.

In three weeks, the Dutch contractor Fugro Survey Pty Ltd will begin the operation with three vessels towing underwater vehicles equipped with side-scan sonar, multi-beam echo sounders and video equipment, Mr Truss said.

Malaysia, as the country where the Boeing 777 was flagged, has overall responsibility for the crash investigation. But Australia has search and rescue responsibility, and China - the country of origin for most of the passengers - said today that it too agreed the search will "not be interrupted or given up"

[GT93]

We have to be careful what we write about this tragedy as Malaysian Airlines is getting sensitive about this:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1051713 ... -hits-back

There have been some very cheap flights available on Malaysian Airlines for those not afraid of ghosts or systematic problems at the airline. Jackspratt still seems to be missing and he was supposed to have been flying Malaysian Airlines. I hope he isn't now a member of the ghostly world.

[GT93]

A new phase in the search for the plane is about to begin:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-02/n ... ay/5784214

Australia's Transport Minister is cautiously optimistic that they'll find the plane within the priority search area.

[Aardvark]

Still too many unanswered questions .... http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/emirate ... 7086741053

[ronan01]

Still too many unanswered questions .... http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/emirate ... 7086741053

hard to disagree with the man

[mortiboy]

So far not a great deal been disclosed about the cargo
.................http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... ry-3492778

[Bandung_Dero]

So far not a great deal been disclosed about the cargo
.................http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... ry-3492778

There is detailed information here including actual photo copies of the 9 pages of cargo manifest posted about 20th April.

If you need the best information available concerning ANY aircraft incident go to this site. Don't waste your time with ill informed rags.

http://avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b/035&opt=0

[Aardvark]

For $17.500 why wouldn't you give the bloke a try ..... http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/could-t ... 7093827402