Posted on 04/12/2014 6:06:11 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
but he 'was abruptly cut off'
The co-pilot of missing flight MH370 made a call from his mobile phone as the aircraft flew low over the west coast of Malaysia.
Investigators have learned that the call was made from Fariq Abdul Hamid's mobile phone as the Boeing 777 flew low near the island of Penang, on the north of Malaysia's west coast.
The New Straits Times reported today that it was understood the aircraft, with 239 people on board, was flying low enough for the nearest telecommunications tower to pick up Fariq's signal.
The call ended abrupty, however it has been learned that contact was definitely established with a telecommunications sub-station in Penang state.
The paper said it had been unable to ascertain who Fariq was trying to call 'as sources chose not to divulge details of the investigation.'
It added: 'The telco's (telecommunications company's) tower established the call that he was trying to make. 'On why the call was cut off, it was likely because the aircraft was fast moving away from the tower and had not come under the coverage of the next one,' the paper said, quoting 'sources'....
The dramatic revelation that Fariq tried to make a phone call after regular communication from the aircraft to ground control was lost opens up a new field of speculation - and more questions about the mysterious disappearance of the jet.
If Fariq was able to make a call, why was there no attempt by the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, to also make a mobile phone call?...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
All the more reason to let the FBI to do the questioning —
Furthermore it’s clear that the Malaysians aren’t going to even though they have a lot of wood and water over there.
There they have the cousin of the main suspect daring them to “go there” and even mocking them and they are still afraid to bring him in for questioning.
Not if the plane was carefully scuttled and the fuselage sunk intact with all the floatable seat cushions and whatevers still trapped inside of it.
You read my mind. I thought they found the black box from 5 pings. How come no further info on that? I’m cynical. :-)
Actually, he tried to use a pay phone in a tiny village in northern Malaysia... they're still trying to determine if that's significant or not.
That’s the first I heard of this —
the pilot or copilot???
just before the flight???
The black boxes are a red herring. They were removed from the plane after it landed somewhere in Sand Landia, and were dumped in the ocean to throw searchers off the track.
Maybe it was from the bottom of the ocean! Or from a U.S. Navy base on a island! Or even better from a space craft! Ya that’s ticket—————
The plane would have imploded at depth. If the plane went into the ocean, there would have been a debris field regardless of how it entered the ocean.
Shooting is not a very effective way of getting information. It’s a really good way to shut somebody up though.
So there are cell towers in the Indian ocean?
General McInerney? Where is he, have not seen him as of late on FOX....May have missed though....
They didn’t do a very good job of it because they dumped them right along the 811 Inmarsat Arc where the engines pinged their last.
They need to go back to Hijacking 101: Covering the Path.
Malaysia is a first world Chinese minority living amongst a third world Malay Muslim majority. That's why they build spectacular modern cities and have largely preserved the British political/judicial systems in place during colonial days, but can't evolve to where Singapore is in staving off both political corruption and "witch doctor"-level public sensibility.
And Malaysian government corruption is 100% responsible for the missing and misleading information the world has been getting about MH370.
Another botched Obama false flag. God is either watching our backs or Obama is just the most incompetent person on the planet. Or both!
Maybe part of this is internal political extortion — give in to our demands to share power or what we did here can and will be done again — we made a whole airplane disappear and made you look like fools and will do it again.
Is that why they are eliminating every other possibility before they finally center in on Captain Shah???
Shah is related to an in-law of Anwar. I don't think "cousin" is the right term.
Certainly the gov't is afraid of him. No government in this area is really ever secure. Everybody's afraid of someone else and there's never ending plotting and intrigue taking place. But the stakes (corruption money and power) are so huge there's always punters at the table. In this case though, I think it was basically an emotional decision by someone who for one reason or another simply went over the edge. Don't forget to Shah was (so we are told) only assigned to MH370 at the last minute.
the cell pinged in to a tower in Penang 200 nautical miles away from the flight’s off-radar location
About all I can add to your post, Uncle Chip, is a little tidbit that the MAS approved cell provider is Firefly, not sure if it’s their telecom tower.
Also, that the co-pilot, Fariq, communicated with head stewardess Goh Sock Lay, age 45, at 11:30pm. Some articles I’m reading says that he called a ‘regular contact’, but then I wonder if Goh was the one called, why a young man about to get engaged would have a regular contact with a 45yo.
The last communication on pilot Shah’s phone was at 7:45pm.
http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/call-traced-to-co-pilot-s-phone-1.562612
http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-color-red-mh370-tragedy-font-hishammuddin-gov-t-can-t-confirm-reports-without-verification-1.563609
<>The last communication on pilot Shah’s phone was at 7:45pm.<>
Would that be this call:
The captain of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 received a two-minute call shortly before take-off from a mystery woman using a mobile phone number obtained under a false identity.
Somehow 5 hours before takeoff doesn’t sound like “shortly before takeoff”.
Are they hiding another call?? I thought I read where he took this call from the cockpit shortly before takeoff.
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