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Missing MH370: Kelantan duo report seeing lights 'falling' at high speed
The Star Online ^ | 11MAR2014 | Staff writer

Posted on 03/10/2014 10:19:25 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine

KOTA BARU: The authorities here have their hands full after receiving at least two reports from the public that they saw an aircraft flying low on the same day Malaysian Airlines MH370 vanished.

In his report, the owner of a fishing boat claimed that he saw an airplane flying low while he was at sea with a friend about 14.4km from Kuala Besar in Pantai Cahaya Bulan here at 1.30am on Saturday.

Azid Ibrahim, 66, said the aircraft was heading towards international waters.

According to him, the plane was flying so low that he could see the lights “as big as coconuts”.

He said he saw the aircraft with his friend Pak De while five other anglers were asleep in the boat.

In a report which appeared on a local English news portal, a man in Ketereh, 30km south of Kota Baru, claimed that he saw “bright white lights” which he believed to be that of an aircraft descending at high speed at 1.45am the same day the jetliner went missing.

Businessman Alif Fathi Abdul Hadi, 29, said he was in the compound of his home when he saw the aircraft flying low, heading for Bachok and descending fast.

He said he only found out about the missing jetplane the next day and decided to lodge a report at the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency office in Tok Bali late Sunday evening.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2014airlinercrash; altitude; autopilot; flying; iran; low; malaysia; maldives; mh370; radar; waronterror
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To: cuban leaf

Indeed. Google AT&T “LIS Hybrid” for location information services hybrid. The other carriers have similar offerings.

Just using cell phone tower triangulation, ANY of the carriers’ software can regionally locate you.

From there it drops down to well under 50’ ... once you get into the good stuff.

Small point: the towers ping the connected phones as much as the phones ping the towers/network. Every phone that’s on periodically has a digital ACK/NACK of sorts with the towers.


21 posted on 03/11/2014 12:27:53 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Blueflag

When we drove from Seattle to our new home in KY the first time I told my friends that if need be the phone company could plot my entire course as well as when I was where I was.

And via triangulation, they were able to plot the location of my phone within a few feet. As they zoomed in, the map showed the building I was in and pinpointed me at about 20 feet from the outside wall, which was pretty much dead on.

And no gps.


22 posted on 03/11/2014 12:35:05 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: gunsequalfreedom; All

Another FR article just posted speaks of two fishermen who saw a plane very low streaking toward international waters.


23 posted on 03/11/2014 12:44:50 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: punchamullah
Lot of old unused airports in Vietnam and Cambodia left over from the Vietnam war that can handle that aircraft.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

24 posted on 03/11/2014 12:44:52 AM PDT by expatguy (Donate to "An American Expat in SE Asia")
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Malaysia Sending Ships to Check Debris Near Hong Kong

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-10/plane-debris-hunters-seek-suspected-aircraft-window-part.html


25 posted on 03/11/2014 1:38:13 AM PDT by stlnative
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To: Jack Hydrazine

And the Presidents son, his cousin, and a retired CIA operative, all working for this shadow agency with unlimited funds, will drop onto the wings of the airplane. They will crawl to the exit doors and using they spy lock picks, they will enter the craft unseen. Two of them will diffuse the bomb, while the other meets and falls in love with the flight attendant/terrorist. Eventually, while joining the mile high club, the Presidents son has to kill the flight attendant—meaning he will never find true love again.

They all parachute out of the plane. But not until they set the auto pilot to take the plane to LAX where it lands unattended, with no one knowing the mystery.

Is it like that?


26 posted on 03/11/2014 2:49:57 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Ref post #3.

You definitely have a tin hat on. On the other hand, your theory and opinion is as good as anyone else’s right now.


27 posted on 03/11/2014 3:45:56 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: expatguy

Not to pick at nits, but none of those “lots of airports” are on one of the “numerous islands” in the vicinity.

I am curious, however, as to which airports you may be speaking of. Tan Son Nhut, Da Nang, maybe Cam Ranh had long strips. Were there others in Vietnam? I was not aware that any fixed wing air operations were launched out of Cambodia; did I miss something?


28 posted on 03/11/2014 3:48:53 AM PDT by punchamullah
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To: Prospero

The reported sighting was off the coast of Kelantan, more than 1500 miles from Sulawesi.

Your plot would have put the aircraft just a few miles north of Swallow Reef, however, and well within radar range of the Royal Malaysian Air Force base there.


29 posted on 03/11/2014 3:59:24 AM PDT by punchamullah
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To: Jack Hydrazine
"It probably would not be detected until it was too late."

Stop reading my mind - you're freaking me out.....

30 posted on 03/11/2014 4:03:54 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

That is some speculation there ;)


31 posted on 03/11/2014 5:28:09 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Prospero

MH370 detected above Malacca Straits at 2.40am
http://my.news.yahoo.com/mh370-detected-above-malacca-straits-2-40am-062617741.html


32 posted on 03/11/2014 5:53:38 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Prospero

Malaysia military tracked missing plane to west coast: source
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/11/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140311


33 posted on 03/11/2014 5:56:28 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Prospero

Vanished Malaysia Airlines flight leaves relatives with anger and phantom phone calls
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/vanished-malaysia-airlines-flight-leaves-relatives-with-anger-and-phantom-phone-calls/2014/03/10/fdb78642-a862-11e3-b61e-8051b8b52d06_story.html

A migrant worker in the room said that several other workers from his company were on the plane, including his brother-in-law. Among them, the QQ accounts of three still showed that they were online, he said Sunday afternoon.

Adding to the mystery, other relatives in the room said that when they dialed some passengers’ numbers, they seemed to get ringing tones on the other side even though the calls were not picked up.


34 posted on 03/11/2014 5:58:42 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Well either that or somebody is going to want a big ransom for the jet and each passenger. The only thing is that it takes a 12,000 ft runway to land a Boeing 777 and the concrete has to be about 3ft thick. I would think hard to land without being detected.

The cell phones still ringing is really weird.


35 posted on 03/11/2014 8:13:37 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Vermont Lt

That’s the movie version...


36 posted on 03/11/2014 8:26:43 AM PDT by null and void ( Obama is Law-Less because Republican "leaders" are BALL-LESS!!)
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To: null and void

I am available for re-writes.


37 posted on 03/11/2014 11:35:39 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: gleeaikin

I saw that article also. Interesting.

With the capabilities of government to keep track of everything it is hard to believe they don’t know exactly what happened but perhaps can’t say because it would reveal their spy capabilities.

Or maybe it is exactly as it is being presented.

I find it hard to believe a jetliner could take the kind of flight path these two people say without detection.

Who knows what to believe at this point. This long without any sign of wreckage is sure odd.


38 posted on 03/11/2014 11:42:19 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Wow, that is quite a theory. They would have to have some significant capability to be able to pull that one off.

Without trying to sound rude, have your considered a career in fiction writing. Sounds like a really good book plot.


39 posted on 03/11/2014 11:44:37 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Or they could sell the plane on the black market. How much they could get for it, I don’t know.

I read that a smart phone owned by one of the passengers on board stayed on until Monday.


40 posted on 03/11/2014 8:08:35 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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