Missing Malaysia Airlines MH370... Thread 4

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SkyNews is reporting that a Norwegian vessel is now in the area. They are reporting it in a way that makes it sound like "OK, someone's there now, they'll be telling us what the debris is a minute".

It would be lovely if they could, but I highly doubt it.

Bless Sky's little cottons.

Is the Norwegian ship showing up on the vesseltracker thingy?

I'd never heard or seen that , I googled as the link didn't take me straight to the reddit page & there were very few relevant search results but the ones I clicked on, the pages couldn't be found.

If the source was the Chinese Times, would it have been printed in hard copy?

This Norwegian ship was also involved in evacuating people out of Lebanon in 2006. It is 25 crew strong, and have plenty of space on board.

Not sure what they are going to do though, other than look at debris.

I know jjuice Sorry. not :o

Look at unknown vessels itinerary

Indian Ocean a-go-go!

Presumably if they found it, they can keep track of it until a vessel equipped to deal with it pootles along.

I suppose they might also see surface debris, possibly. Or even survivors although I know it's unlikely.

member no the link didn't take me there either so I googled cabin collapse distress call. There is only one return which an exact match, the reddit one.

That isn't where I read it originally though. I tried to go back and read the posts I had read again but they were removed within minutes. Wonder if that report is still available in the Chinese Times? However it looks like it was reported in Chinese so would be unable to search it.

Just looked at your link, JKS

It seems the China Times was reporting a distress call from the plane received by US military bases in Thailand about cabin collapse and forced landing???

Why is this not in the news? Is it now discredited?

My brain hurts!

I reckon it's some sort of bug - according to its vessel itinerary it's had the same speed, course and position for the last three days.

odd that the posts you read were removed within minutes though, Downton?

For anyone else to save googling, this is what I was referring to

??????????????2?43?????????????????????????????MH370???????SOS???????????????????????.
"Furthermore, according to the US Embassy, at 2:43 in the morning, American military personnel stationed at U-Tapao Airforce Base received an emergency SOS transmission from Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370; the captain of the aircraft shouted that the cabin was disintegrating and the plane needed to make an emergency landing."

Regarding terrorist plot/motivation: Someone on PPRuNE suggested that the pings, if read as the northern arc, point to the plane heading into China so the suggestion is that the terrorists wanted the world to think it went that way and buried the plane in the Indian Ocean where they thought it would never be found. Presumably this points to the terrorists not being the FC crew, and not knowing that ACARS had already sent the change of route to ATC? Perhaps the co-pilot did that to alert ATC that something was up? [dons tin foil hat]

It appears lots of pages containing any reference to UTapao have been disabled or removed.

Conspiracy theory or conspiracy?

Awaiting deletion.

yes....it's just sitting there?

doing what???....obviously not sky watching!

first ? should be a !

stupid OAP keyboard.

This is utterly horrific, what if the distress call thing is true and wasn't released, meaning they had a pretty good idea what happened from day one. All this stuff about terrorisma nd hijacking, deliberate disconnection of stuff.

If the distress call thing is true, all of that was bullshit and those families grief and pain :(

Weird Catsmama the itinerary says it's travelling at 64 over 2 days but has kept the same position?
Is that because the winds are so bad that it has to travel to stay in the same place?

I can't view it on the map. when I click the map link I just get sea.

Downton what's the source for the UTapao message? Seems odd if that was true that it hasn't been made public, especially by the US who appear keen to get involved in this.

oh...wonder if you need to register to see stuff outwith the green maps...

i dunno.

because of course a part time optician NEEDS to be registered on a maritime website

I don't understand the speed on Catsmama's link but I would have thought these are fishing vessels hence stationary.

soooooo if we are back to the cockpit disintegrating, are we back to the fire on board theory?

although that doesn't explain the huge diversion does it?

There has always been information that they had and could not release. The Malaysian Minister said so in a PC. This info has never been released and so has never been denied either.

How credible is The Chinese Times?

It's just interesting that all mention of it on differing threads has been wiped. Don't know why it's still there on Reddit. I don't know how that site works.

Just catching up....got BBC news on now. They had some person being interviewed previously on the plane but it was a bit over my head.

BBC is saying it took 4 days to process the amount of data they had which is why they only spotted it now. You have to have an expert eye to spot something like that, I would never have guessed that was debris.

I wonder if there is a language barrier if the people in Malaysia doing the press conferences don't have English as a first language? The sound quality is awful! Did they say they still haven't ruled out foul play until they can find the black box? Hope the news channels add some subtitles to the speech.

Am at the distress call thing. I'm with psammead the whole thing is just too bizarre.

The sea captain is right in that there's so much sea debris. Feel so sad for him :( I didn't think that was a hugely busy shipping lane but then again it goes from Perth with all the mines and stuff so who knows. It is one of the most treacherous stretches of ocean in the world though, that is for certain.

And yes, they knew. The governments that is. The whole thing is a nightmare.