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Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 12:50 a.m. EDT Thursday, March 13, 2014 | Andy Pasztor

Posted on 03/12/2014 10:17:35 PM PDT by kristinn

Engine Data Suggest Malaysia Flight Was Airborne Long After Radar Disappearance, U.S. Investigators Say

Updated March 13, 2014 12:50 a.m. ET

U.S. investigators suspect that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stayed in the air for about four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location, according to two people familiar with the details, raising the possibility that the plane could have flown on for hundreds of additional miles under conditions that remain murky.

Aviation investigators and national security officials believe the plane flew for a total of five hours...

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flight370; iran; malaysia; malaysiaairlines; mh370; waronterror
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1 posted on 03/12/2014 10:17:35 PM PDT by kristinn
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Well shoot, I'm not gonna sign up to the WSJ.

Does the article say how they KNOW this information?

In 4hrs they could have flown nearly 2500 miles.

2 posted on 03/12/2014 10:21:12 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: kristinn

How do they know this? How can they know this? Unless they’re going off the Malaysian military radar. the transponder was switched off, so we have no idea if it blew up a minute later, or flew for hours.

If the plane did fly on for hours (and again, I don’t know how they could know this, since WSJ requires subscription), then the debris on the satellite image is a wild goose chase.


3 posted on 03/12/2014 10:23:51 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: kristinn

Sooooo where does that end them up??? Iran?


4 posted on 03/12/2014 10:24:37 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: Mariner

I read in another article on Fox News that they got this information from Boeing. Apparently the engines on the plane send data to Boeing electronically.


5 posted on 03/12/2014 10:25:09 PM PDT by virgil
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To: kristinn

+4 hr @ 600 mi/hr -—> 1,000’s of miles.


6 posted on 03/12/2014 10:25:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: virgil
"Apparently the engines on the plane send data to Boeing electronically"

At least someone has a modern tracking system.

7 posted on 03/12/2014 10:27:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Mariner

The engine data is automatically being sent to Rolls Royce and Boeing.


8 posted on 03/12/2014 10:28:24 PM PDT by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: Viennacon

I googled “Engine Data, Malaysia Flight” and saw lots of breaking news about the airline receiving data from the engines. There were a few stories that mentioned the 4 to 5 hours flying after vanishing in some of the sumaries but the ones I saw quoted the WSJ.


9 posted on 03/12/2014 10:28:26 PM PDT by tsowellfan (www.cafenetamerica.com)
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Wall Street Journal reporter Aerospace and Boeing beat reporter Jon Ostrower adds more via Twitter:

Investigators pursuing notion the 777 was diverted "with the intention of using it later for another purpose." http://on.wsj.com/1lYx08l #MH370

A flight time of four additional hours after the 777 disappeared means #MH370 could have flown on for about 2,200nm http://on.wsj.com/1lYx08l

How far is 2,200nm is from #MH370's last known location? That would get the 777 as far as the India-Pakistan border. http://on.wsj.com/1lYx08l

If it wasn't true, it would read like bad fiction.

10 posted on 03/12/2014 10:28:30 PM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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My post on another thread three days ago:

My non-conspiracy theory is that of a similar fate to golfer Payne Stewart’s private jet crash in 1999. They lost cabin pressure and all passed out, but the plane flew for 1500 more miles before crashing in North Dakota.

It was not known why they lost pressure, but it was surmised it was so fast they did not have time to put on 02 masks.

So maybe a small meteor or some space object hit the plane and it was suddenly depressurized but kept flying itself, out of radar range, somewhere in the Pacific, until crashing.


11 posted on 03/12/2014 10:29:01 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: tsowellfan

Well, then the debris is a red herring. The plane cannot have flown on for several hours, and the debris from a crash end up back in that place, unless they doubled back to the exact location. None of it makes sense.


12 posted on 03/12/2014 10:29:33 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: easternsky

I keep having the suspicion that the plane was stolen. But then there is the photo taken by a passenger in another plane that was nearby that looks like a plane on fire and also several people reported a huge noise - but not sure where that was in relation to where the plane ought to be.


13 posted on 03/12/2014 10:29:48 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: kristinn
More here: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/missing-malaysia-jet-may-have-flown-on-for-hours-2014-03-13?link=MW_latest_news
14 posted on 03/12/2014 10:30:29 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Mariner

I think it was taken...for the talented tech on board.

Who would want the smallest chip in the world manufacturing staff?

who can cloak?

who can refuel in air...cloaked.

who steals tech. without regret at the national level?

Sure is interesting.

Anyone have a line on exactly what they had?


15 posted on 03/12/2014 10:30:31 PM PDT by Therapsid
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To: Paladin2

Yeah. It would have helped if the Chinese had told Malaysia about the suspected debris sooner. When I saw those photos, I thought they’d found it. If the engines had run for another 4 hours, then, they went pretty far. Farther than what the map is showing. This is all so strange.


16 posted on 03/12/2014 10:30:50 PM PDT by virgil
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To: Viennacon

the debris is a red herring


Yup

http://www.thanhniennews.com/world/search-planes-checking-china-satellite-report-on-missing-airliner-24577.html


17 posted on 03/12/2014 10:31:49 PM PDT by tsowellfan (www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: kristinn

Bump


18 posted on 03/12/2014 10:32:11 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Paladin2

“+4 hr @ 600 mi/hr -—> 1,000’s of miles.”

To stay below 18,000’ with the transponder off the airspeed would probably be under 300 mph.

If they were over 18,000 with no transponder would have set off ATC everywhere they flew and would have had intercepter jets after it.


19 posted on 03/12/2014 10:33:04 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: ElkGroveDan

Then why were the transponders off? Why did it disappear from radar?


20 posted on 03/12/2014 10:33:06 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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