Posted on 03/13/2014 12:40:02 AM PDT by hamboy
Before the flight disappeared from radar screens, the Malaysia's civil aviation heard the words, "All right, good night", The Straits Times reported.
There is however, conflicting reports on what exactly were the last words. The BBC says that the last heard reply from flight MH370 was "All right, roger that".
The meeting held in a packed room with nearly 400 relatives at the Metropark Lido hotel in Beijing, non-the-less, is important as anguished family members were given the chance to ask direct questions to the investigating authorities for the first time.
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The official seemed to digress from the question when he said that the military was assisting investigations "at a high level".
When the family members repeatedly asked the male official present, he reportedly only said "now is not the time to reveal it."
The incident bolsters a viral theory circulating among the worried members of the family that there are some ongoing secret negotiations with terrorist who possibly hijacked the plane, the Strait Times noted. The official had also said earlier that he hoped that the passengers are alive.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.in ...
At this point either the government is with holding information that would not look make them look good, or aliens took the damned thing.
Odyssey of Flight 33
I agree. 777s just don’t disappear. There had to be some indication of what was happening. If they lost all power the plane would have gone down on its route. The fact that it was diverted means something was happening and the pilots would have reported it...unless someone was holding a gun to their head!
Ate they were involved in it
WSJ, UK Daily Mail, etc. now saying the plane sent engine data to Boeing and Rolls Royce which indicate they may have operated a further four hours after it vanished from radar. So even if the plane’s transponders were turned off still the plane called home?
Correction Are they were involved in it
This is why there's been so much diversion of search teams, stalling, etc... The hard part is admitting to the families that you HAD to shoot down their aircraft and they'd NEVER ACCEPT THAT even though it was the right thing to do. Taking it down before it reaches land is a must, and if there's any wreckage its way off course.
Sometime around that time we had a bunch fly out, supposedly to the Ukraine. Who knows.... those in charge do but not telling, how long can they keep it from coming out?
how could it been shot down if WSJ and UK Daily Mail reporting that the plane sent engine data to Boeing and Rolls Royce it was airborned for four more hours after it vanished from radar?
It still seems possible that the hijacked Malaysian Flight MH370 actually made it to some unknown destination.
Yeah, I read that. They are saying that the engines indicate an estimated 2,200 additional miles flight. The particulars as to just how the info was gotten is vague to me and there was no indication of direction. That’s an awful long ways to go evading radar. Hard to buy. Of course I’m just going off “Breaking News”.
I’m not one for conspiracy theories. Most of them are BS, IMO.
But this story stinks. Other than a sudden catastrophic explosion, which would be hard enough to explain let alone NOT detect, too much else would have to happen coincidentally to make a plane disappear like this without a warning, trace, mayday, etc..
The fish stinks from the head down.
At this point we know NOTHING. Even the so called data from ACARS has not been verified. Those are short bursts not all the time real time (too much bandwidth needed for that so it was not ever done). This ACARS pings come ONLY if there is something mechanically wrong to notify ground crews of what needs repair (gives them a heads up and some time to get parts together). After a;; the unnamed sources from WSJ article the so called news out was that the last ACARS ping was around 1:10am local time which was just after the last flight deck contact.
At this point no one knows anything. All the speculation does not create facts
Those so called stories cite unnamed sources....hard to believe when no names or sources attached.
From the local news sources try this
“”The Wall Street Journal newspaper quoted U.S. investigators on Thursday as saying they suspected the plane remained in the air for about four hours after its last confirmed contact, citing data from the plane’s engines that are automatically transmitted to the ground as part of a routine maintenance program.
Hishammuddin said the government had contacted Boeing and Rolls Royce, the engine manufacturer, and both said the last engine data was received at 1:07 a.m., around 23 minutes before the plane lost contact.”
You can dispute this if you want but neither Boeing nor Rolls Royce is saying anything different. ACARS is NOT a continuous feed. It tracks and sends during important times and gives data in bursts. The only time that alters is if there is mechanically malfunction that needs repair at landing.
and they are not telling the truth. They are engaged in no sense and speculation. When you won’t name your sources or their affiliation I tend not to believe you.
We have NOTHING at this point except an airliner is missing
So, the conspiracy extend to BHO? Wouldn’t the NSA be eavesdropping on comms, a la the USSR taking down KAL 007?
I read a book many years ago titled, “Xeno”. Planes that disappeared started turning back up. They carried a nasty little bug that caused all kinds of trouble.
“This ACARS pings come ONLY if there is something mechanically wrong to notify ground crews of what needs repair”
I think that depends if they are also using it for trend monitoring. In that case there are many exceedences that will also cause it to ping. If for example the aircraft were hijacked and put into a steep dive, several allowed engine parameters could have been exceeded. Likewise flying too fast too low to the ground would as well.
Don’t play by the rules and them engine manufacturers are going to make sure your power by the hour cost increases!
Agreed...speculation is not news...unless you run a news network that pretends speculation is news
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