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The image, showing an object 22 meters (72 feet) by 13 meters (43 feet), was taken around noon Tuesday. The image location was about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of where an Australian satellite viewed two objects two days earlier. The larger object was about as long as the one the Chinese satellite detected. "The news that I just received is that the Chinese ambassador received a satellite image of a floating object in the southern corridor and they will be sending ships to verify," Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters Saturday. Australian officials said the location was within the 36,000-square-kilometer (14,000-square-mile) area they searched on Saturday, but the object was not found. Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokeswoman Andrea Hayward-Maher said she did not know whether the precise coordinates of the location had been searched, but added that coordinators will use the information to refine the search area.
The authority, which is overseeing the search in the region, said a civil aircraft reported seeing a number of small objects in the search area, including a wooden pallet, but a New Zealand military plane diverted to the location found only clumps of seaweed. The agency said in a statement that searchers would keep trying to determine whether the objects are related to the lost plane. The latest satellite image is another clue in the baffling search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which dropped off air traffic control screens March 8 over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board. After about a week of confusion, Malaysian authorities said pings sent by the Boeing 777-200 for several hours after it disappeared indicated that the plane ended up in one of two huge arcs: a northern corridor stretching from Malaysia to Central Asia, or a southern corridor that stretches toward Antarctica.
The discovery of the two objects by the Australian satellite led several countries to send planes and ships to a stretch of the Indian Ocean about 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) southwest of Australia. But three days of searching have produced no confirmed signs of the plane. One of the objects spotted in the earlier satellite imagery was described as 24 meters (almost 80 feet) in length and the other was 5 meters (15 feet). The Boeing 777-200 is about 64 meters (209 feet) long with a wingspan of 61 meters (199 feet) and a fuselage about 6.2 meters (20 feet) in diameter, according to Boeing's website. In a statement on its website announcing China's find, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense did not explain why it took four days to release the information. But there was a similar delay in the release of the Australian satellite images because experts needed time to examine them.
Two military planes from China arrived Saturday in Perth to join Australian, New Zealand and U.S. aircraft in the search. Japanese planes will arrive Sunday and ships were in the area or on their way. Even if both satellites detected the same object, it may be unrelated to the plane. One possibility is that it could have fallen off a cargo vessel. Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, said the currents in the area typically move at about one meter (yard) per second but can sometimes move faster. Based on the typical speed, a current could theoretically move a floating object about 173 kilometers (107 miles) in two days. Warren Truss, Australia's acting prime minister while Tony Abbott is abroad, said before the new satellite data was announced that a complete search could take a long time. "It is a very remote area, but we intend to continue the search until we're absolutely satisfied that further searching would be futile — and that day is not in sight," he said.
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The world, it seemed, had found them. Well, almost. "There's little chance we'll see anything," said Eric Morbo, the island's administrator. The 18 men and two women on the tiny island, along with the resident rockhopper penguins and elephant seals, are close neighbors to where the search is going on for the missing plane. But distance there is relative, measured in hundreds of miles (kilometers).
The French outpost lies at the edge of a stretch of ocean where the winds and waves circle endlessly eastward around Antarctica, unhindered by land masses. The region is desolate in some ways, beautiful in others, and normally escapes notice by anyone except scientists, sailors and the occasional adventurer. "You feel very alone here," said 25-year-old Vincent Lucaire, a graduate student from France.
It was a satellite image that brought searchers nearby, to a stretch of ocean about 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth. Earlier this week, the satellite spotted two large objects, raising hopes among searchers they might find the plane that disappeared March 8 with 239 people on board. Malaysia and China said Saturday that another satellite also spotted an object in the area, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of the earlier sighting.
The weather has complicated the search, but an Australian crew making their second flight over the area in an AP-3C Orion on Saturday said it had improved. Of course, they said the first time was so bad there wasn't an empty barf bag on the plane. This time, cloud cover forced them to fly at about 450 feet (137 meters), rather than the 1,000-foot (304-meter) altitude they normally would have chosen. Not only did that reduce the amount of sea their eyes and their radar could scan, but the lack of sun made it impossible for sunlight to glint off any objects in the water. Gray sky and gray water seemed to blend in with each other.
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An international air and sea taskforce hunting for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was redirected yesterday to an area 1,100km north of where they have been searching for more than a week, after Australian authorities received new radar information from Malaysia. The dramatic shift in the search area, moving it further than the distance between London and Berlin, followed analysis of radar data that showed the missing plane had traveled faster, and so would have run out of fuel quicker than previously thought.
The new search area is larger, but closer to the Australian west coast city of Perth, allowing aircraft to spend longer on site by shortening travel times. It is also vastly more favorable in terms of the weather as it is out of the deep sea region known as the Roaring 40s for its huge seas and frequent storm-force winds. “I’m not sure that we’ll get perfect weather out there, but it’s likely to be better more often than what we’ve seen in the past,” John Young, general manager of the emergency response division of Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), told reporters, adding the previous search site was being abandoned. “We have moved on from those search areas to the newest credible lead,” he said.
For more than a week, ships and surveillance planes have been scouring seas 2,500km southwest of Perth, where satellite images had suggested there could be debris from Flight MH370, which went missing on March 8 with 239 people aboard. Ten aircraft searching yesterday were immediately redirected to the new area of 319,000km2, roughly the size of Poland, about 1,850km west of Perth. The Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation was also redirecting satellites there, AMSA said. However, a flotilla of Australian and Chinese ships would take longer to shift north, with the Australian naval ship the HMAS Success not due to arrive until this morning. The shift was based on analysis of radar data between the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said. At that time, the Boeing 777 was making a radical diversion west from its course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Bureau Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan said radar and satellite polling data had been combined with information about the likely performance of the aircraft, speed and fuel consumption in particular, to arrive at the best assessment of the area in which the aircraft was likely to have entered the water. An international investigative team continued to analyze the data, Dolan said, which “could result in further refinement of the potential flight path of MH370.” The latest twist underscores the perplexing and frustrating hunt for evidence in the near three-week search. It comes less than a day after the latest reports of sightings of possible wreckage, captured by Thai and Japanese satellites in roughly the same frigid expanse of sea as earlier images reported by France, Australia and China. Satellite images had shown suspected debris, including pieces as large as 24m, within the original search area in the southern Indian Ocean. Potential debris has also been seen from search aircraft, but none has been picked up or confirmed as the wreckage of Flight MH370, which disappeared from civilian radar screens less than an hour after taking off.
More Search for lost jet shifts after new lead - Taipei Times
Authorities in Kuala Lumpur have been on the defensive since the Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight went missing on March 8 with 239 people aboard, most of them Chinese citizens. In addition to near-daily displays of fury from Chinese relatives, China’s tightly controlled state media have heaped opprobrium on the Malaysian government and airline, while the secretive Chinese Communist Party has urged more transparency in the investigation. A letter from the relatives, blasting Malaysia’s behavior as “irresponsible” and “inhumane,” demanded that China now mount its own investigation. And a US law firm says it is consulting with Chinese families on possible legal action against Malaysia Airlines and aircraft maker Boeing.
Malaysia has largely held fire — China, the world’s second-largest economy, is its primary trading partner. Yet the strain is starting to show. Malaysian Defense and Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, who had trodden lightly on China in often-testy press briefings on the crisis, was asked by a Chinese reporter on Tuesday about delays and misdirections in Malaysia’s initial response. Hishammuddin shot back that time was wasted early in the search by Chinese satellite images showing purported plane debris in the South China Sea. Beijing later acknowledged the images were false, and the search for wreckage is now focused far away in the Indian Ocean.
A day later, the minister insisted that “history will judge us well.” “Anybody who has gone through this, what we have gone through... has indicated to me that we have done quite an admirable job,” he said, adding that no country has a monopoly on grief — the plane carried 50 Malaysian citizens. “For the Chinese families there, they must also understand that we in Malaysia have also lost loved ones,” Hishammuddin said. State-controlled press have joined in, with the Malay Mail newspaper running a front-page editorial yesterday headlined: “MH370 — Malaysia under siege.” “Countries whom we call friends must now do more to prove their friendship,” it said. “These governments seem happy to allow their citizens to complain and even accuse us of withholding information,” it said.
The editorial urged Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to rally Malaysians to defend the country’s “reputation and honor.” The plane inexplicably diverted from its Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight path. Malaysia now believes it plunged into the Indian Ocean far to the south, and that all aboard were lost. In their daily press briefings, Malaysian officials have made a series of contradictory statements that added to the confusion, including conflicting information on the number and ethnicities of passengers who boarded the flight with stolen passports.
There have also been about-turns regarding the crucial sequence of events in the plane’s cockpit before it veered off course, and Malaysia’s armed forces have been criticized for failing to intercept the diverted plane when it appeared on military radar. Such missteps have fueled families’ anger. Scores of Chinese relatives were allowed by authorities in Beijing — who normally keep a tight lid on public dissent — to protest at Malaysia’s embassy on Tuesday, shouting that Kuala Lumpur authorities were “murderers.”
More Malaysians hit back at criticism over search - Taipei Times
Radar Suggests Jet Shifted Path More Than Once
By MICHAEL FORSYTHE and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTMARCH 14, 2014
Radar signals recorded by the Malaysian military appeared to show that the missing airliner climbed to 45,000 feet, above the approved altitude limit for a Boeing 777-200, soon after it disappeared from civilian radar and turned sharply to the west, according to a preliminary assessment by a person familiar with the data.
The radar track, which the Malaysian government has not released but says it has provided to the United States and China, showed that the plane then descended unevenly to 23,000 feet, below normal cruising levels, as it approached the densely populated island of Penang.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/world/asia/malaysia-military-radar.html?_r=0
352. Pre-psychological propaganda (10/22/05)
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Then Feds planned a big action day in September.(9/24) They also planned an elimination of my family members and arranged a trip accident for them. To make the accident not so unusual, Feds, too, prepared a series of airplane accidents to cover up it. In three weeks from 8/14 to 9/5, there were four big air accidents.
1. On 8/14, a Greece plane crashed near Athens, 121 killed.
2. On 8/16, a West Caribbean Airways plane crashed in Venezuela; 152 killed.
3. On 8/24, a TANS Peru plane crashed in the Amazon jungle, killing 37.
4. On 9/5, an Indonesian jetliner crashed in North Sumatra, killing at least 60 of passengers. (The above information were from news of the day.)
YAHOO NEWS:
Cypriot plane crashes near Athens, 121 killed
By Yannis Behrakis
A Cypriot airliner crashed into a mountainous area north of Athens on Sunday killing all 121 people on board after apparently suffering a loss of cabin pressure or oxygen.
"The pilot has turned blue," a passenger said in a mobile text message to his cousin, according to Greek television. "Cousin farewell, we're freezing." "
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How jet stowaways can survive cold, lack of oxygen
By JUSTIN PRITCHARD 4/21/2014
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Despite the subzero temperatures and lack of oxygen, people can survive even a long journey in the wheel well of a jetliner. The latest example is a teenager who, according to authorities, stowed away on a 51/2-hour flight from San Jose, Calif., to Hawaii. While the number of known stowaway attempts is few, people have survived with surprising frequency.
How jet stowaways can survive cold, lack of oxygen
JIm En espanol- Jaime2 hours ago
I am not familiar with this model of Boeing A/C, but on other models the air in the cabin is changed completely every two minutes, with the old heated air being discharged throught high volume outflow valves, in this case into the wheel wells. Since there was no evidence of frostbite it must be assumed that the temperature remained above a certain level, and also that there was enough oxygen to prevent death. The key here is the large volume of air being discharged.
How jet stowaways can survive cold, lack of oxygen
New autopilot will make another 9/11 impossible
03 March 2007
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Once triggered, no one on board will be able to deactivate the system. Currently, all autopilots are manually switched on and off at the discretion of pilots.
The so-called 'uninterruptible autopilot system' - patented secretly by Boeing in the US last week - will connect ground controllers and security services with the aircraft using radio waves and global satellite positioning systems.
After it has been activated, the aircraft will be capable of remote digital control from the ground, enabling operators to fly it like a sophisticated model plane, manoeuvring it vertically and laterally.
New autopilot will make another 9/11 impossible - News - London Evening Standard
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#MH370 route seems carefully chosen to skirt edges of FIRs (Flight Information Regions).
Disparition du Vol MH370 : la zone de recherche étendue à l?Océan Indien | Air Info pic.twitter.com/vhhUy5dSU1
You're mental pal.832. The ability to black hole a Boeing craft (5/12/2014)
As a matter of fact, it was impossible that a Boeing being hijacked by terrorists because it was equipped with uninterruptible auto pilot system. When such things happened, the pilot would covertly activate the system to alert the ground security service. The odd thing is not much people knew there was such a system existed. Most absurd was that when MH370Â’s missing became a hot topic, nobody talked about uninterruptible auto pilot system. It became a forbidden area for mainstream media.
If you doubt me why I concluded that MH 370 case was created by the US intelligence, my reason is pretty simple. Who control uninterruptible auto pilot system? Who have the information of ground radar so MH370 could skirt them?
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#MH370 route seems carefully chosen to skirt edges of FIRs (Flight Information Regions).
Disparition du Vol MH370 : la zone de recherche étendue à l?Océan Indien | Air Info pic.twitter.com/vhhUy5dSU1
Malaysia releases satellite data on missing jet
By EILEEN NG and CHRIS BRUMMITT 5/27/2014
Malaysia releases satellite data on missing jet
BOEING TECHNOLOGY – WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN
May18th 2014
Written by chedet
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3. MH370 is a Boeing 777 aircraft. It was built and equipped by Boeing. All the communications and GPS equipment must have been installed by Boeing. If they failed or have been disabled Boeing must know how it can be done. Surely Boeing would ensure that they cannot be easily disabled as they are vital to the safety and operation of the plane.
4. A search on the Internet reveals that Boeing in 2006 received a US patent for a system that, once activated, removes all control from pilots to automatically return a commercial airliner to a pre-determined landing location.
5. The Flightglobal.com article by John Croft, datelined Washington DC (1st December, 2006) further mentioned “The ‘uninterruptible’ autopilot would be activated – either by pilot, by on board sensors, or even remotely by radio or satellite links by government agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency, if terrorists attempt to gain control of the flight deck”.
6. Clearly Boeing and certain agencies have the capacity to take over “uninterruptible control” of commercial airliners of which MH370 B777 is one.
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11. For some reason the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA. I hope my readers will read this.
Chedet ? BOEING TECHNOLOGY ? WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN
It's not every day we get some one blaming the "Feds" for causing Katrina folks.
This dude may be on to some thing.
Like my neighbour who is convinced the 'contrails' left behind by planes are actually "chemtrails' the 'Feds' are using to destroy the agriculture base of the country.
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