Satellite looking into missing Malaysia flight detects 'suspected crash area'

CNN ^ | March 12, 2014 | Jethro Mullen and Michael Pearson, CNN

[CivilWarBrewing]

He also said large wreckage would indicate the plane hit the water intact and wasn’t blown up. I call BS on that logic. If there’s a terrorist in the rear seat who detonates a bomb, large chunks of aircraft will drop down to the ocean.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Didnt the oil rig guy say he saw the plane going down in a ball of flames..what we have to find out is, those two passengers with the stolen passports, where on the plane were they sitting..If your gonna detonate a bomb you have to be sitting in the right spot on the plane to make the most impact

[Chaguito]

From the article: “Then, in another shift, Malaysian authorities said at a news conference Wednesday that radar records reviewed in the wake of the plane’s disappearance reveal an unidentified aircraft traveling across the Malay Peninsula and some 200 miles into the Straits of Malacca.”

With the precise information from the oil rig worker plus this tidbit, plus Chinese satellite, it looks like the plane was shot down right on course. Missing of course: what was the track of the phantom craft *before* crossing paths with the passenger craft.

[maggief]

[Fitzy_888]

So, why would Malaysia point to the Strait of...Malarkey? Let’s assume the plane was high jacked. Could it be that Malaysia shot the plane down with the tacit consent of the Chinese, given the majority of the passengers were Chinese and China was the likely the ultimate target for the plane? Consent that China now refuses to acknowledge? Just say’in.

[wtd]

Here is the basic gist of his message . . .without the numerical details (don't know how to type the degree notation)

""I observed (the plane?) burning at high altitude and on a compass bearing of ....from our surface location. It is very difficult to judge the distance but I'd say 50-70 km along the compass bearing ...While I observed the burning (plane) it appeared to be in ONE piece...From when I first saw the burning (plane) untile the flames went out (still at high altitude) was 10-15 seconds. There was no lateral movement, so it was either coming toward our location, stationary (falling) or going away from our location.

The general position of the observation was perpendicular /south-west of the normal flight paths (we see the con-trails every day) and at a lower altitude than the normal flight paths. Or on the compass bearing.....intersecting the normal flight paths and at normal altitude but further away."

[Kackikat]

Could this have been a pirate type kidnapping to get the plane, as well as the passengers and the pilots were paid to deliver? I guess not, but if they do not find the wreckage soon, it might be best not to say all are dead, unless that fireball witness actually saw that particular plane go down. I’m skeptical when there is zero debris.

[Sarah Barracuda]

When a plane comes down in 1 piece and on fire, what does that usually mean..a bomb blew it up?

[wtd]

Quote:

"... Missing of course: what was the track of the phantom craft *before* crossing paths with the passenger craft. -Chaguito

See

• Busted! Flight Radar Caught Changing Flight Path of Malaysia Flight ff to 1:20 to observe the plane's flight path anomaly which illustrates @ 1:24 the plane is cruising at 37,000 ft. and suddenly jumps over 10,000 ft in altitude to 47,800 ft. before disappearing.

[nascarnation]

They don’t have to fake it.

The People’s Army knows what brand of golf ball Baraq is using.

[virgil]

Funny how the story on the oil rig worker came out the same day as the satellite photos.

[maggief]

FWIW:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101485921

NBC News reported Wednesday that US intelligence satellites detected no signs of an explosion around the time the plane went missing, which one official called “vexing.”

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/u-s-spy-satellites-detected-no-explosion-flight-370-vanished-n51061

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that analysis of data from “national technical means” –- a euphemism for spy satellites -– found nothing “to corroborate or indicate a midair explosion” in the period surrounding the jet’s disappearance on Saturday (Friday in the U.S.).

[halo66]

I was thinking the same thing...what a coincidence...

[DocJhn]

He may have witnessed flame out of engines not necessarily Flight engulfed in flames! At this point it would be glide to water landing! PPl are looking for a final destination, at that point it was wherever the ordeal terminates!

[Verbosus]

Here I am snickering like a teen age boy with my baseball hat on backwards. :)

[maggief]

Floating: These images from the Chinese satellite dated March 9 appear to show what could be fuel resting on the surface of the South China Sea and were taken in the zone where the three pieces of large debris were recorded.

[House Atreides]

I went to your “Busted” link and he’s trying to show that the radar showed the flight continued into and over Vietnamese airspace where it was “tailed” by another aircraft. It then “disappeared” in the South China Sea off of DaNang according to the link? That’s at variance with all previous information. What’s the source of his radar readings (if you know)?

[stlnative]

Sure looks like a plane missing the rear section from the wings back.

[wtd]

I cannot speak to the Youtube poster’s credibility or that of his sources. I saved the info on that video back when initially posted - just in case it proved worthwhile down the road. Perhaps it’s not what it purported to be.

[Sarah Barracuda]

They had on a former NTSB guy on CNN who said he does NOT Believe these pieces of debris are from the missing plane, he said they are too big, and if they were from the plane they would have sunk, not been floating around