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Malaysia military tracked missing plane to west coast: source
Reuters ^ | March 11, 2014 | BY NILUKSI KOSWANAGE AND EVELINE DANUBRATA

Posted on 03/11/2014 6:25:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Malaysia's military believes a jetliner missing for almost four days turned and flew hundreds of kilometers to the west after it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country's east coast, a senior officer told Reuters on Tuesday. --SNIP--

Malaysian authorities have previously said flight MH370 disappeared about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for the Chinese capital Beijing.

"It changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Strait," the senior military officer, who has been briefed on investigations, told Reuters.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2014airlinercrash; autopilot; iran; malacca; malaysia; maldives; mh370; planecrash; radar; waronterror
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1 posted on 03/11/2014 6:25:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In a line with Sri Lanka and Somalia.


2 posted on 03/11/2014 6:29:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And yet, the Malaysian authorities let/directed 10+ countries with hundreds of ships and aircraft to search a completely different area of the sea on the opposite side of the country.

So... what else don’t we know?


3 posted on 03/11/2014 6:30:04 AM PDT by fiftymegaton (God Bless and Protect America)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
FoxNews

Interpol released photos of the 2 Iranians.

Had valid passports when they entered Malaysia. Traded, apparently, passports for 2 European passports.

[Obligatory?] No sign of terrorism or terrorist ties.


4 posted on 03/11/2014 6:30:13 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why are we just finding this out now? The Malaysians know more than they are telling. I wonder what really happened? It sounds like the course and altitude change are deliberate, meaning part of a plan. If we were still in search and rescue mode, why wasn’t this info given out initially? Time to come with with a ransom? A cover story?


5 posted on 03/11/2014 6:30:48 AM PDT by cardinal4
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To: cardinal4

——Why are we just finding this out now? ——

Your presumption of a right to know has no basis. You have no right to know


6 posted on 03/11/2014 6:34:54 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: nuconvert; SkyDancer

Ping.


7 posted on 03/11/2014 6:36:06 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: cardinal4

This might explain China’s comments yesterday telling Malaysia to do a better job searching.


8 posted on 03/11/2014 6:36:07 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: Oldeconomybuyer

Do we know the pilots names?


9 posted on 03/11/2014 6:36:39 AM PDT by 11th_VA (I want a president who won't enforce tax laws ...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lax security at the boarding gate.
Two Muslims travelling on stolen passports.
A rule breaking copilot known for lax cockpit security.

What could possily go wrong?


10 posted on 03/11/2014 6:36:44 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Albert Einstein: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dumb question:

Why can a pilot turn off the transponder on a large passenger jet?

In what circumstance would it be necessary to do that?

Why not make them stay on all the time, with no way to turn them off?


11 posted on 03/11/2014 6:37:27 AM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: BenLurkin

Also Western Indonesia, the Maldives, north to Burma and Bangladesh, and obviously India. Not sure the plane would’ve had enough fuel to get to Somalia.


12 posted on 03/11/2014 6:38:55 AM PDT by fiftymegaton (God Bless and Protect America)
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To: lacrew

A transponder has several frequencies. Pilots are asked to squawk a specific channel to distinguish them one from another


13 posted on 03/11/2014 6:39:40 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Have they tried calling this guy to help?
14 posted on 03/11/2014 6:42:09 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: fiftymegaton

Of course, a lot depends on passenger load, but a 777-200 has a maximum range of 5,240 nautical miles.


15 posted on 03/11/2014 6:43:06 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: 11th_VA
Do we know the pilots names?

"First officer Fariq Abdul Hamid (left) and Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah were flying the missing aircraft."


16 posted on 03/11/2014 6:43:29 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Albert Einstein: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: fiftymegaton

And yet, the Malaysian authorities let/directed 10+ countries with hundreds of ships and aircraft to search a completely different area of the sea on the opposite side of the country.

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Saw an ‘expert’ on this sort of thing on TV last night. He said the authorities made a mistake when they started searching from the oil slick that was spotted - the one that turned out NOT to be from a plane. He said they should always start at the ‘beginning’, where the plane was last seen on radar/contacted, etc. and search from there. A lot of time was wasted, searching from that oil slick - tried to ‘short cut’ the process which unlucky for everybody, didn’t pan out. Send somebody to investigate the oil slick by all means, but keep with the ‘regular’ plan as well. Whoever is running their SAR needs to be replaced.


17 posted on 03/11/2014 6:43:56 AM PDT by Qiviut (It's hard to be a donk if you're sane & it's hard to be a pubbie if you have any integrity.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

um.... so why did they let the search continue in the wrong place?


18 posted on 03/11/2014 6:44:03 AM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: fiftymegaton

New form of Somalia style piracy? Ransom for the plane and souls on board.


19 posted on 03/11/2014 6:44:40 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Mr. K

It’s called “hide the pea” commonly played on the streets… :-)


20 posted on 03/11/2014 6:49:56 AM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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