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These wouldn't happen to be the same source that said the plane landed in Pakistan and the passengers are being held hostage, would it?
And because of all of the stacks of printouts that dozens of volunteers had to search through, this information is only becoming available now.
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200 miles out with cell coverage? Yeah, right.
If the progressive loss of communication was the result of fire/malfunction/sabotage/meteorite/whatever (something other than deliberate crew intent to go radio-silent), it would make sense that the crew would try whatever portable radios they had, including cell phones.
If the wreck is found where the pings are now being slowly triangulated, the DFDR & CVR might be recovered, but may not shed much light on what initially happened, depending on whether those recorders lost power during the initial events or on impact.
Oh baloney.....
He was caught and probably paid with his life.
pretty soon the media will come out that pilot was barack obama’s step brother. he diverted the plan so far from lnd to prevent any lose of major significance.
Co-pilot went to the bathroom and was locked out by the pilot. Tried to make a cell call for help. Of course, he was not the only one on board with a cell phone. So why just him?
Maybe he didn’t want the rest of the passengers to know their real predicament?
What a load of BS. No cell phone is gonna reach 200 miles.
Daily Mail says Flight MH370 may have landed on a U.S. base on an atoll of Diego GarCIA wonder if true?.
The plane’s passengers are in Shangri-La. The Lamasery needed some tech wizards to help update their computer grid. I heard they were putting their vast wealth of knowledge as well as their huge library on hard drives.
There was no next one from there -- just a lot of water as it headed out into the Andaman Sea.
But if the call was made at or about 2:15 then they would have been right over the Island of Penang at that time -- but not for long.
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U.S. Official sets the record straight:
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Co-pilot’s cell phone was on, U.S. official says
(CNN) — The phone of the co-pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was on and made contact with a cell tower in Malaysia about the time the plane disappeared from radar, a U.S. official told CNN on Monday.
However, the U.S. official — who cited information shared by Malaysian investigators — said there was no evidence the co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid, had tried to make a call.
The official told CNN’s Pamela Brown on Monday that a cell-phone tower in Penang, Malaysia — about 250 miles from where the flight’s transponder last sent a signal — detected the co-pilot’s phone searching for service roughly 30 minutes after authorities believe the plane made a sharp turn westward.
The details do appear to reaffirm suggestions based on radar and satellite data that the plane was off course and was probably flying low enough to obtain a signal from a cell tower, the U.S. official said.
U.S. officials familiar with the investigation told CNN they have been told that no other cell phones were picked up by the Penang tower.
Pilots are supposed to turn off their cell phones before pushing back from the gate.
“It would be very rare in my opinion to have someone with a cell phone on in the cockpit,” safety analyst David Soucie said. “It’s never supposed to be on at all. It’s part of every check list of every airline I am familiar with.”
When the plane first went missing, authorities said millions of cell phone records were searched, looking for evidence that calls had been made from the plane after it took off, but the search turned up nothing.