BREAKING NEWS: Malaysia Airlines MH370: Australia Detects Distress Signal in Southern Indian Ocean

International Business Times ^ | 3/30/2014 | Vasudevan Sridharan

[libh8er]

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has detected a distress signal in the southern Indian Ocean near Antarctica as the search for debris from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 continues.

The emergency beacon came from a fishing vessel and the nature of the distress call is unknown.

AMSA said: "The beacon is located about 3,241km south-west of Perth and 648km north of the Antarctic mainland."

Two aircraft have been deployed to the area where the signal originated, and it will take at least five hours for planes to reach the location.

[Focault's Pendulum]

The Antarticans have the best stealth fighter technology in this galaxy. Have you ever seen an Antartican fighter jet? I rest my case..

They can afford them. They save a ton of money not having to dye patterns on their camouflage BDU's and gear

[the OlLine Rebel]

Perhaps it really is just a boat in distress, but is it possible it’s a boat spotting something suspicious? Trying to get out some comms that someone should come and inspect?

[jriemer]

I disagree with your assesment. It was obviously a land based Antarticans missle that downed MH370. This is just one of their short ranged missiles.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: The emergency beacon came from a fishing vessel and the nature of the distress call is unknown.

So, they know that the signal comes from a fishing vessel?

Well, that’s not MH370. By all means, rescue the fishing vessel but please don’t give us any false hopes.

Also, what’s a fishing vessel doing in the middle of the Indian Ocean?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Squirrel!

[editor-surveyor]

LOL!
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[editor-surveyor]

>> “I’ve reached the point of total cynicism. I figure if they find anything it will now be something planted by the US Government in order to provide closure to this incident and help people move on and forget about terrorist invovlement” <<

What about the rumor about the chicom freighter headed south with aircraft parts on deck?
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[editor-surveyor]

>> “Clearly the ChiComs shot the plane down.” <<

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Full of their own apparatchiks?

Try again.

[brooklin]

“You completely discount the possibility that the Antarticans shot it down. “

The Fourth Reich

[RetiredArmy]

Breaker, breaker One-Nine, this is the Skipper calling, is there anyone out there? Breaker, breaker, do you hear me? Come in. Come in, anybody, can anybody hear me????

[dfwgator]

I thought it was the Air Force of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick,

[C210N]

Apparently, due to glowbull warming, the ocean is full of whirlpools due to opposing currents. This would suck up all of the debris and then some...

[berdie]

Well, I hadn’t heard that rumor. But truth be told, there are so many rumors..I miss out on a few.

So what would that mean..if true?

[cva66snipe]

Perhaps it really is just a boat in distress, but is it possible it’s a boat spotting something suspicious? Trying to get out some comms that someone should come and inspect?

From what I'm reading this is a distress beacon meaning automated once activated. Several reasons to use it. Primary radio comm should be tried first as much more info can be relayed. If main communications is disabled say due to power loss then the beacon is activated and would simply give Lat, Long, and possibly an identifier. It likely would not give nature of problem and could be located on the boat or on the life rafts.

[M Kehoe]

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that the news media (and certain countries), are psychologically torturing the families of flight MH370.

5.56mm

[Rapscallion]

Perhaps it really is just a boat in distress, but is it possible it’s a boat spotting something suspicious? Trying to get out some comms that someone should come and inspect?

Thank you for not being cynical. Someone out there made a distress call. The missing aircraft is certainly lost by this time but, stranger things have happened in the history of people lost at sea and then recovered.

I pray.

[Wright Wing]

Ash, that transmission... Mother’s deciphered part of it. It doesn’t look like an S.O.S.

[Cen-Tejas]

Amen! Did MH370 ever take off?

[dragnet2]

Also, what’s a fishing vessel doing in the middle of the Indian Ocean?

That's where all the big one's are.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “ The missing aircraft is certainly lost by this time” <<

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Lost to whom is the question.
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