Missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 - Thread 5

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I hope they have checked. A lot!
Really moxie how little there is to say as the pace of this thread has slowed - even with Goldie home.

There really is very little to say though isn't there?
Every morning I wake up (too early thanks DC) and think it's found I must check the news. And it isn't

We are being told that they've checked the passengers on the jet and that there's nothing there to suggest any of them are terrorists or are likely to have hijacked the plane.

But what about the four travelling on stolen passports? I heard something about them being asylum seekers. But how do 'they' really know?

Four? There was only two.

And they've checked their backgrounds out as much as they could check any of the passengers.

At one point there were definitely 4, 2 were Iranians. Never heard a thing more about the other 2. Hmm.

Plus no info on the Russian & Ukrainian passengers (3?) but then the authorities are a bit busy.

I saw a bit on Sky earlier when some woman was pushing around planes on a table a la War Rooms. She said the plane definitely changed course to the west, then twice more. Has this been verified? As much as anything has? I had thought west then south. Can't remember exactly what she said now.

No there weren't. They had passports belonging to an Italian and an Austrian but were found to both be Iranian.

They seem to getting more confident about finding something tomorrow.

The Russian passenger has come back clear.

Of the two choices, the one that has already occurred multiple times and doesn't rely on, frankly, motiveless, ficticious hacking technology would be the one I'd go for, so Occam's Razor would dictate that the suicide theory is the simplest, cheapest, least technically complex and most likely to succeed option

Yes, couldn't agree more.

Praying something is found tomorrow.

This is a good picture from Reuters (via pprune)

There is a motive for a State 'hacking down' (as opposed to shooting down) a passenger jet and it's the same rationale that would be used to shoot one down. And we know Governments WOULD shoot down a hijacked plane as a last resort.

It's not communicating.
It's flying erratically.
It looks like its been hijacked or is otherwise (fire/hull breach/hypoxia/suicidal pilot etc a threat to cities or other important targets.

What if you took the dreadful decision to hack down an incommunicado AWOL jet you thought had been hijacked - but it hasn't actually been hijacked? There was some other explanation for pulling the comms and flying weirdly?

In any case you daren't let the world know you have the technology to cyber jack and redirect a hijacked plane.

Fuck knows what's been going on but tbh I doubt we will ever know.

Ukrainian passengers came back clear the BBC reported a couple of days ago.

Reading today's updates I think that they sound pretty confident they have located parts of the plane. Not sure if the small floating debris is included in that or not but they are tracking it.

Malaysia has asked for the US to provide assistance in specialist equipment to survey under sea. I wouldn't think they would do that unless they thought the black box was around there somewhere.

Let's hope they find it.

Thanks.

Am hoping something is found today. But I'm not sure I'll ever believe whatever 'they' tell us happened.

What about these reports of visually seeing something yesterday? A wooden pallet and some strapping, so not necessarily from mh370.

Telegraph live feed under post at 5.40

Still no news eh?!
Thankyou Doctrine for answering my question upthread :)

Glad to see I'm not the only one checking here before checking the news :)

Me too - checking here & hoping for news today.

Could the mangosteens have been on pallets?

Mail on Sunday says the captain received a phone call from a woman using a false identity just before take-off.

trucks I think you could be onto something..

Plane was hijacked , flying erratically.. whichever Government was monitoring it.. probably USA... saw it as a potential terorist threat and instead of shooting it down, cyberjacked it and flew it into the back of beyond.. No one is ever gonna come clean about having those capabilities.

Lou, yes a NZ plane has tagged the debris so it can be tracked.

I can't read the Mail reports any more they seem determined to taint everything based on bog all.

They anticipate debris moving closer to Perth which must be a good thing as it means less flying time?

Tony Abbott says there is 'increasing hope' as search plane identifies wooden pallet and strapping belts in Indian Ocean

Just now from the Guardian. That has to be it surely? Strapping belts?

Strapping belts could equally be the ratchet straps you use to strap down pallets in containers

From the BBC:

08:57
The Mail on Sunday meanwhile says the captain of flight MH370, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, received a two-minute telephone call shortly before take-off from "a mystery woman using a mobile phone number obtained under a false identity". "Investigators are treating it as potentially significant because anyone buying a pay-as-you-go SIM card in Malaysia has to fill out a form giving their identity card or passport number," the report adds.

08:51
The Daily Telegraph reports that authorities investigating the disappearance of flight MH370 have "narrowed their probe to the aircraft's two pilots". Sources told the newspaper that they remained certain the disappearance of the Boeing 777 was as a result of a "deliberate act" by a "person or persons on board". They were doubtful whether a passenger could have seized control of the aircraft, after a study of transcripts between air traffic control and the co-pilot suggested a would-be hijacker would have had only a two-minute window of opportunity, the report says.