[breaking] Malaysian Airlines loses contact with Beijing-bound flight, 239 on board

well no I think its less of where the plane is NOW and more of the plane in transit.

 

Not sure about this one. Seems fishy

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That specific image was taken on 3/12/14 at 4:49 A.M. It doesn't state which timezone, but you can see the timestamp from their satellite output on the bottom right of all Tomnod.com photos...

 

Only slightly less plausible - it escaped detection because it flew upside down above the other plane, with the pilot shooting the finger at the other crew and the other snapping photos with his iPhone, a la Top Gun

 

Spoiler

 

Looks like it's closing in on the Maldives...

Cops find five Indian Ocean practice runways in MH370 pilot’s simulator, BH reports - See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/m...70-pilots-simulator-bh-r#sthash.RnBQavae.dpuf

KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 ― Investigators have discovered the runways of five airports near the Indian Ocean loaded into Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s home-made flight simulator, a Malay daily reported today.

An unnamed source told Berita Harian that while it was too early to make any conclusions on the new finding, it was still considered an important element in the probe on the whereabouts of the plane and its 239 people.

“The simulation programmes are based on runways at the Male International Airport in Maldives, an airport owned by the United States (Diego Garcia), and three other runways in India and Sri Lanka, all have runway lengths of 1,000 metres.

“We are not discounting the possibility that the plane landed on a runway that might not be heavily monitored, in addition to the theories that the plane landed on sea, in the hills, or in an open space,” the source was quoted as saying.

Although Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein denied yesterday that the plane had landed at US military base Diego Garcia, the source told the daily that this possibility will still be investigated based on the data found in Zaharie’s flight simulator software.

The police had seized the flight simulator from the 53-year-old pilot’s house in Shah Alam on Saturday and reassembled it at the police headquarters where experts are conducting checks.

The Transport Ministry has said that the police also searched the home of Zaharie’s co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid, on the same day.

Also on Saturday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said MH370 was diverted deliberately after someone on board switched off the Boeing 777’s communications systems.

He said investigations were now being refocused at the crew and passengers aboard the plane.

After MH370 disappeared from civilian radar in the early hours of March 8, the plane was flown westward from its intended path to Beijing, turning around at Checkpoint Igari in the South China Sea.

A relative of a passenger onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 reads a statement from Malaysia Airlines at a hotel in Beijing March 18, 2014. — Reuters pic

A relative of a passenger onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 shows a paper with a message from family members at a hotel in Beijing March 18, 2014. — Reuters pic

From there, it flew on to Checkpoint Vampi, northeast of Indonesia’s Aceh province and a navigational point used for planes following route N571 to the Middle East.

Subsequent plots indicate the plane flew towards Checkpoint Gival, south of the Thai island of Phuket, and was last plotted heading northwest towards another checkpoint, Igrex, used for route P628 that would take it over the Andaman Islands and which carriers use to fly towards Europe.

The complexity involved led aviation experts to set their sights on the pilots and crew.

 

How the hell did they not ask them, when this is in the corridor...and how does it only come out NOW that a large plane was spotted there?

This thing gets more ridiculous every day.

 

My first thought,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/t...Muslims-threaten-tourism-in-the-Maldives.html

 

In theory, we (the US) has the technology and resources to essentially track anyone real time, right? Would we have hi def images of the entire hemisphere? If so, could we possibly find the plane from it's known position (take off) and literally track it's every movement via the images?

 

It's becoming very interesting to say the least.

They wouldn't need a plane to terrorize the Maldives. MH370's final story will end up more complicated then that imo.

 

It took them a while to find osama and they spend billions and billions on him.

 

Sure they do. They aren't going to do that with every plane in the world at once.

 

I'm behind on this, what exactly is the most plausible scenario?

 

Pilot flew plane to some remote location and landed it. That's the most plausible at this point.

 

People saying they saw the plane means jack****. Ask them if they've seen Bigfoot too would tell you they did. It's been all over the news what the plane looks like.

 

Well, even more simple is the fact we have a military installation Diego Sanchez that would most definitely see it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia

We have Space Operations, Air Force, Navy - all very valuable assets and its air space would be monitored.

It's interesting to say the least but still early.

 

1) Technology has improved and our government's surveillance certainly has increased since we began/ended that hunt.

2) Searching for a person would be much different than a plane.

Reeko,

I am not suggesting GPS monitoring on all planes. I am asking if we have the capabilities of pulling hi def images that follow the plane. We know it started at the airport, we know where it roughly deviated from this path, so continue to follow it with SAT images until there are non left.

 

I understand the radar detection, but I am specifically wondering if there are hi def sat images of the Indian/Southern Indian Ocean, actually if there are images from Thailand all the way down the possible end location. As far as we (the public) know, radar never detected the plane near Diego Garcia, or any of the other Indian Ocean military installations, including the Maldives.

I am wondering if we have hi def sat images of the entire world. If so, could zoom in to find the plane at the last check in, then continue to follow, via the images, where the plane went.

It seems this would be much easier (if the info is readily available), than searching sat images for the crash site.

 

Planes don't fly over that island very often, especially large 777s especially that low. I do think this means a lot for people to say this.

 

They're dead, but they don't know it. Locke and Jack are in an epic struggle.