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Missing plane sent signals to satellite for hours
AP.org ^ | Mar 13, 7:57 PM EDT | By CHRIS BRUMMITT and JOAN LOWY

Posted on 03/13/2014 7:38:46 PM PDT by gooblah

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- A Malaysia Airlines plane sent signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing, an indication that it was still flying for hundreds of miles or more, a U.S. official briefed on the search said Thursday.

Six days after the plane with 239 people aboard disappeared, Malaysian authorities expanded their search westward toward India, saying the aircraft may have flown for several hours after its last contact with the ground shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; malaysia; mh370; waronterror
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To: Rembrandt
" “Next they’ll summon Cthulhu.” "

"Naah, it’s in the running for the U.S. Presidency in 2017."


141 posted on 03/13/2014 10:11:47 PM PDT by PLMerite
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To: Texas Songwriter

It can’t stay in the airspace forever. It must at some point must have landed there.


142 posted on 03/13/2014 10:21:04 PM PDT by Finalmente
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To: 353FMG

“Unless the passengers aboard were dead”

Seems like if the passengers were alive and there was a hijacking for 4 hours some of them would try to call on their cell phones. Would cell phones work over the ocean like that?


143 posted on 03/13/2014 10:23:27 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: making the world safe for Sharia.)
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To: Rembrandt

“my guess is Pakistan.”

If the plane landed seems like the world would know, unless it was one of the crazy countries.


144 posted on 03/13/2014 10:25:46 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: making the world safe for Sharia.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Best comment I’ve seen on this craziness yet!


145 posted on 03/13/2014 10:26:18 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

“Malaysia recruits witch doctors “

Witch doctors will be about all you’ll get once we have full-scale Obamacare! /s;)


146 posted on 03/13/2014 10:28:03 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: barmag25

They could glide for a while without fuel if they’re high enough. All it takes is the proper attitude and trim.


147 posted on 03/13/2014 10:29:09 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
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To: Delta Dawn

“Our military should be on a high alert status until this jet is found.

Yeah, what if the plane secretly landed, then equipped with a nuke and flown to US disguised as a normal flight?


148 posted on 03/13/2014 10:29:58 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: making the world safe for Sharia.)
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To: varyouga

As low as $35 million with some mileage/cycles on her!

http://www.findaircraft.com/findaircraft/nonmemberaircraft.php?AircraftID=15654&AircraftType=Boeing%20Commercial


149 posted on 03/13/2014 10:44:25 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Mad Dawgg

It would be ironic if the only thing found through the search and rescue efforts was her plane.


150 posted on 03/13/2014 10:56:11 PM PDT by tahoeblue
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To: garjog

You don’t need a 777 to deliver a nuke, and it would be far easier and much less noticeable to just steal a private jet.


151 posted on 03/13/2014 11:00:06 PM PDT by tahoeblue
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To: Jedidah

EMP attack.

Only the Russians have the balls to do that.


152 posted on 03/13/2014 11:01:27 PM PDT by japaneseghost
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To: tahoeblue; Mad Dawgg

Part of the Earhart investigation focused on how she was to switch between radio beacon and a some other signal (like morse-code??) on the half-hour as a navigation aid. But at that time, everyone used a different time zone. A ship from Hawaii was anchored off the island (Howland?), and was 2.5 hours off from the island! (The ship was still on Hawaii time.)

Anyway - the result was using Mean Greenwich Time for all travel after that.

I imagine some changes will be coming as a result of this flight getting lost.


153 posted on 03/13/2014 11:06:31 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: barmag25

I think there is just enough fuel to make it to Pakistan.. Flying conservatively not in the political sense.


154 posted on 03/13/2014 11:07:10 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Rembrandt

“Destination PAKISTAN?”

Doubtful. To get to Pakistan on the fuel load you’d have to fly over India and the Indians would see you. Not enough fuel to go around. For the same reason, the plane didn’t fly four hours north. While the Vietnamese might not have very good radar coverage, China certainly does and would have seen the plane. Same for Taiwan and Japan on the original heading.


155 posted on 03/13/2014 11:08:34 PM PDT by tahoeblue
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To: Fee
This will also corroborate with the Chinese families ability to call their love ones, hearing ringing on the cellphones, but no one answers.

If the cell phones were actually ringing, that would mean they were near a cell tower.

How does the cell phone system know how to route the call to the correct tower and then to the cell phone?

It's because the cell phone sends signals to the tower to announce its presence and connect with the tower.

There are easily searchable logs of these announcement signals.

If any of these cell phones were working and were near a cell tower, we would know where they were.

156 posted on 03/13/2014 11:15:27 PM PDT by Washi (Stop Obama's War On Jobs)
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To: tahoeblue

I thought of North Korea as a possibility but discarded that for the same reasons you mentioned plus warships of multiple nations and we damn well know for certain that country is under continous satellite observation.

Plus the Chinese would be really pissed at fat Kim :)


157 posted on 03/13/2014 11:26:10 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: barmag25
Not enough fuel onboard to make it there.

Were you watching the meter?

Fully fueled, this airplane has a range of 8892 miles. They had enough to reach Beijing with the customary reserve. But who's to say somebody didn't arrange to have some extra pumped aboard at KUL?

158 posted on 03/13/2014 11:26:43 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Delta Dawn
A nuclear strike would bring on martial law and ensure Obama’s presidency for many years to come.

Or start WWIII

159 posted on 03/13/2014 11:29:32 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: cynwoody

8892 miles is about 17 hours worth of flying.

Malaysia Airlines has said the plane was fueled for at least eight hours of flight. The Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route lasts six hours. Aircraft typically carry two hours’ worth of fuel on top of what is needed.

see post 124. Only had enough fuel left for 2200 nautical miles of flight when the transponders were turned off.


160 posted on 03/13/2014 11:36:20 PM PDT by barmag25 (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!!!)
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