Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappearance
The search for debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 continues.
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AP PHOTO: Relatives of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 passengers protest outside the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing: apne.ws/1h4S8q4by The Associated Press via twitter 3/25/2014 11:38:56 AM
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Graphic: Inside a plane's black boxes - CBC.ca
Flight recorders collect information about a flight - including instrument data sensors, engine status and cockpit voice recordings - that provide crucial clues in the event of a tragedy. -
We're deeply saddened by the loss of #MH370 . Our prayers & condolences are with the families in this moment of sorrow http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjoNKTiCAAAc4Cf.jpg
by Malaysia Airlines via twitter 3/26/2014 10:10:32 AM -
BREAKING: Malaysia says satellite has spotted 122 potential objects in ocean possibly from missing plane.by The Associated Press via twitter 3/26/2014 10:10:46 AM
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"We know much more about the surface of the moon than we do about the ocean floor in that part of the Indian Ocean."
Read the latest:Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Satellite spots possible debris field - World - CBC News
A French satellite scanning the Indian Ocean for remnants of a missing jetliner found a possible plane debris field containing 122 objects, a top Malaysian official said Wednesday, calling it "the most credible lead that we have." -
The Associated Press reports that relatives of Chinese passengers still don't believe Malaysian officials about the fate of MH370:The PowerPoint presentation wasn't enough. The analysis by British investigators that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was lost at sea wasn't enough. The relatives of Chinese passengers gathered in a hotel banquet hall on Wednesday were still skeptical -- and hostile."It's all lies. Not a shred of truth!" said a man who identified himself as Mr. Zhang from the Chinese city of Harbin. He said afterward that he had wanted to pummel everyone giving the presentation -- a delegation of Malaysian government and airline officials.The officials came to Beijing a day after China demanded more details on how the missing plane was pronounced lost, and after Chinese authorities allowed the relatives to vent frustrations in a rare public march Tuesday to Malaysia's embassy in Beijing to denounce that country's handling of the disappearance.Before an audience of several hundred relatives and their supporters, the Malaysian delegation read a report by investigators from Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch concluding the plane went down in the southern Indian Ocean based on faint signals -- or pings -- from the plane to a British satellite.During a nearly two-hour question-and-answer session, audience members asked how investigators could have reached conclusions about the direction and speed of the plane, and delegation members said they didn't have the technical expertise to answer.One woman retorted, "I thought this was a high-level team!" to applause from the crowd.
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From The Associated Press:Lloyd's of London, the world's oldest insurance market, says it has already begun to pay out claims for the loss of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, even as searchers continue to scour the Indian Ocean for wreckage.
It's still far too early to speculate about the cost of the disaster, which will depend in part on what happened to the plane, said Lloyd's Chairman John Nelson. By way of example, he said it took two to three years to sort out what led to the crash of an Air France plane in 2009. -
Here's the complete story about Lloyd's of London saying it's ready to pay out claims for the loss of the Malaysian jet:
Malaysia Airlines 370: Lloyd's already paying insurance claims - Business - CBC News
Lloyd's of London, the world's oldest insurance market, says it stands ready to pay out claims for the loss of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370. -
Good morning. Here are the two big pieces of news that happened overnight:BREAKING: Australia says air search operations for missing Malaysian jetliner suspended due to bad weather; planes, ships recalledMar. 27, 2014
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BREAKING: Thai satellite detects at least 200 objects near search area for missing Malaysian jetlinerMar. 27, 2014- Reply
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Kerry Sieh, director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore:"I worry that people carrying out the rescue mission are going to get into trouble."
Read the latest here:Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Thai satellite spots 300 objects - World - CBC News
Planes and ships searching for debris suspected of being from the missing Malaysian jetliner failed to find any Thursday before bad weather cut their hunt short, as Thailand said one of its satellites had spotted hundreds of objects in the area. -
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The Associated Press on the debris searchers and the fatigue they face:They stare out at a punishingly unbroken expanse of gray water that seems, at times, to blend into the clouds. Occasionally, they press their foreheads against the plane's windows so hard they leave grease marks, their eyes darting up and down, left and right, looking for something -- anything -- that could explain the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.The hunt for Flight 370, which vanished on March 8 during a trip from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, is complicated in just about every way imaginable, from the vastness of the search area to its distance from land to the brutal weather that plagues it. But for all the fancy technology on board the planes and vessels scouring the swirling waters, the best tool searchers have are their own eyes.Those eyes can spot things man-made equipment cannot. But they are also subject to the peculiarities of the human brain. They can play tricks. They can blink at the wrong moment. They can, and often do, grow weary."It is incredibly fatiguing work," says Flight Lt. Stephen Graham, tactical coordinator for the crew on board a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion that has made six sorties into the southern Indian Ocean search zone. "If it's bright and glaring obviously sunglasses help, but there's only so much you can do."
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The Associated Press gives a brief video overview of Thailand's discovery of potential debris.
by CBC News via YouTube 3/27/2014 3:06:31 PM -
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[#MASalert ] Today, full communications transcript between MH370 & ATC Kuala Lumpur is shared with the family members bit.ly/MH370updatesby Malaysia Airlines via twitter 4/1/2014 10:18:40 AM
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Good morning. The latest news in the search for Flight MH370 includes an airborne air traffic controller and a sign-off from the plane that is different than previously reported. Read the latest here:
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Full transcript from cockpit released
Malaysian Airlines released a full transcript from the cockpit of missing Malaysian flight MH370, admitting the final words spoken from the cockpit were "Good Night Malaysian three-seven-zero." -
This not a Hollywood drama where everything is neatly wrapped up in a one hour show. Search and rescue personnel are risking their own lives in carrying out a very challenging duty. Patience and respect for the process and the contribution of the nations involved in this search is needed; keep the rhetoric born of ignorance and prejudice to yourselves
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What happened to the investigation about the stolen passports, crew and the pilot. Based on where the plane's debris is (If the objects in the indian ocean were suspected), can we not predict a location where the plane would have been headed after it went down (if it was a highjacking gone wrong), and investigate further
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Here's The Associated Press on news of a task force to study better tracking aircraft:The International Air Transport Association says the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane highlights the need for security improvements both in tracking aircraft and screening passengers before they board planes.The global airline group said it is creating a high-level task force that will make recommendations by the end of the year on how commercial aircraft can be continuously tracked.IATA director-general Tony Tyler told an industry conference Tuesday in the Malaysian capital that accidents remain rare, but "we cannot let another aircraft simply vanish."The 3-week hunt for Flight 370 has turned up no confirmed sign of the Boeing 777, which disappeared March 8 with 239 people on board bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.
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I think that Thailand can provide something about 370. Thai radar loses contact with 370 @1:22. An unknown plane appears @ 1:28. Thai radar loses contact with 370 going West in the India Ocean. My question is: when did Thai radar make contact with 370 after losing contact @1:22, and how did Thai radar know it was 370? According to one map it shows 370 flight direction was very close to a Thai radar station, yet there is no mention of sending jet planes to see who the aircraft belongs.
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Indian Ocean search for #MH370 becomes daily routine in #Australia , even if odds seem slim #cbc http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkMBKOWCEAAxk25.jpg
by Saša Petricic via twitter 4/2/2014 4:05:51 PM -
Filmmaker Peter Jackson's private jet is part of the search for Malaysia Airlines MH370. Read about it here:
Malaysia Air MH370: Peter Jackson's jet aiding search
Filmmaker Peter Jackson's private jet is among the civilian and military aircraft searching for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. -
Good morning. Here's today's latest on the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370:
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Ship detects possible black box signals
Underwater sounds detected by a ship searching the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet are consistent with the pings from aircraft black boxes, an Australian official said Monday, dubbing it "a most promising lead" in the month-long hunt for the vanished plane. -
The passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 included a Canadian couple living in Beijing, a group of famous Chinese artists, 20 employees of a Texas semiconductor firm, a Hollywood stuntman and a pair of Malaysian honeymooners.
Here’s a closer a look at the stories of some of the passengers on the missing plane:
Malaysia Airlines MH370 passengers include stuntman, honeymooners
The passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines plane include a Canadian couple living in Beijing, a group of famous Chinese artists, 20 employees of a Texas semiconductor firm, a Hollywood stuntman and a pair of Malaysian honeymooners. CBC News takes a closer look at their stories. -
With the audios they claim they hear... surely there would be some debris floating if the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean. If there is a general area where the pings consistent with a black box I am amazed the search party is not flying above seeking some debris given the oceanography would be able to determine currents and stated previously.
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Ms Mary Schiavo rightly points out - this plane is lost in precisely the manner of AA flight 77 on 9/11 - which cloaked itself that day and was never clearly identified again by ATC. A blip incoming watched by Washington ATC that day seemed to them military, and that, they had a right to expect. MH370 seems likewise a commandeer not by amateur, but by expert, and that the use of this plane as a weapon was cancelled, last minute. Hence this rambling departure, engines still running well after dawn, and into greatest depths. I have applied only Conan-Doyle's standard to what Sasa & others have reported.
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#Australia officials send minisub to look for #MH370 aft pings fr blackboxes stop. Spot still not pinpointed but area ‘manageable’ #cbcby Saša Petricic via twitter 4/14/2014 2:43:44 PM
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The Black Pingers Batteries Have Run Down Yet We Can Prevent Future MH370 Tragedies and Give The Passengers and Their Families A Memorial “The Real-time Utilization of DFDR Data – Remote Flight Recorder”
To prevent these recurring crashes and looking for pingers, and that is what the MH370 tragedy is, we should make the DFDR data public and telemetered to the ground in real-time (suppressing the data by labeling it private put passengers in harm’s way and should be illegal). The data telemetered/streamed to the ground would be safely stored. Using that data streamed to the ground in real-time we would know an aircraft’s position, velocity and heading every second. The remote flight recorder, data streaming black box, can be used in the present autopsy mode, to get to crash sites quickly and possibly to contact the pilot of a potentially life threatening failure. That is exactly how we got the astronauts home from the moon. The ground crew found a problem in the capsule and then notified the astronauts. Using ground simulators the ground crew found the best way to handle the situation
and contacted the astronauts as to what to do and they returned home
safely. This successful methodology can easily be applied to carrier aircraft to reduce fatal accidents. Also, by telemetering the DFDR to the ground from pre-flight to post-flight we can determine if the DFDR is functioning properly and if the aircraft is functioning properly before an accident occurs. When a crash occurs we can immediately notify the passengers’ relatives and eliminate to certain extent the anxiety of not knowing what is happening. Furthermore, we will stop future rogue pilot, hijacking, decompression, etc. fatal crashes by the proactive use of the DFDR’s critical safety data. The data can easily be stored on the ground and the flight recorders checked prior to and post flight (also this eliminates voice recorder writing over anything that occurred during the flight. This is the least we can do for them. This technology was economical, available and practical over ten years ago. -
Pilots don’t just get in the cockpit and fly to their destination. Interviews on CBC said that the control tower communicates with the plane on the ground through ACARS, and that on occasion the pilot is transmitted a 4 digit code to access this system. The purpose of these control tower navigation points into the ACARS is to position the plane through safe space and position it relative to other aircraft. It’s called stacking! Could a cyber-attack have started through these access codes?
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