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Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: Family of Chinese passenger says mobile phone working
The Sunday Times ^ | March 9, 2014

Posted on 03/09/2014 9:17:16 AM PDT by Raebie

A Chinese family successfully rang the mobile phone of a passenger on board Malaysia Airlines plane MH370 which is still missing after it lost contact with the ground on Saturday.

A video clip of a man dialing the number of his elder brother was shown on Beijing Television's news bulletin. The call got connected, but no one picked up.

The man, who did not give his name, spoke to reporters at a Malaysia Airlines briefing in Beijing. He claimed that he made a total of three calls, but no one answered.

Desperate family members have asked Malaysia Airlines to use satellite technology to pick up the mobile phone signals of passengers before their phones run out of batteries.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; malaysia; mh370; waronterror
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To: FAA

Understand that, but the guy says it rang but no one picked up.


21 posted on 03/09/2014 9:33:36 AM PDT by Raebie
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To: Spartan302
But some superior mined posters thought my idea was idiotic.

Ya got FRMail

22 posted on 03/09/2014 9:33:41 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: FAA

Ah! No, I have an explanation. AIR POCKETS! Unless the plane totally disintegrated, there could be air pockets, in an overhead, etc. Either that or I’d agree with others that it got lost or stolen in Malaysia.


23 posted on 03/09/2014 9:35:08 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Raebie

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370/history/20140307/1635Z/WMKK/ZBAA

Plane doesn’t even track out of Malaysian airspace.


24 posted on 03/09/2014 9:35:19 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE!)
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To: FAA

A 747 super cargo jet landed on a small airport recently.
A skilled and fearless pilot could land one on a beach, on a hacked out section of jungle, as far as ransom, who knows, maybe its just being kept hushed up.

Muslims are involved, anything can happen, if nothing else there is the in flight bomb or the suicide plunge.


25 posted on 03/09/2014 9:35:33 AM PDT by Spartan302
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To: Spartan302

Hey, its possible.


26 posted on 03/09/2014 9:35:52 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Raebie

If it is in fact ringing then it is on somewhere. Seeing as how it’s been 48+ hours since this all began I’m surprised the battery’s got any charge left unless it’s plugged into something.


27 posted on 03/09/2014 9:36:17 AM PDT by FAA
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To: Bratch
"LOST"

You beat me to it.

28 posted on 03/09/2014 9:38:36 AM PDT by Washi (Stop Obama's War On Jobs)
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To: Proud2BeRight
The phone is not ringing. The caller just thinks it is from the sound generated by the service provider’s equipment. Besides, there is no service way out where it crashed.

If the cell system can't locate the dialed phone, the call will go straight to voicemail.

It sounds like that's not happening.

29 posted on 03/09/2014 9:40:20 AM PDT by Washi (Stop Obama's War On Jobs)
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To: FAA

Many people have battery saving smart apps and oversized batteries, I can get more than 3 days out of mine if I needed to. Maybe, just maybe its in luggage that is floating.


30 posted on 03/09/2014 9:40:37 AM PDT by Spartan302
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To: Spartan302

True, but the article doesn’t say when he made the calls, it only says it was after the the plane lost contact with ground control.


31 posted on 03/09/2014 9:42:28 AM PDT by Raebie
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To: Raebie
Family of Chinese passenger says mobile phone working
Wrong number?
32 posted on 03/09/2014 9:42:41 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Spartan302

Wouldn’t they have found floating luggage by now?


33 posted on 03/09/2014 9:42:57 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Spartan302

Maybe he dialed the wrong number.


34 posted on 03/09/2014 9:43:29 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/ http://thepurginglutheran.tumblr.com/)
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To: Spartan302

Who packs their cellphone in their luggage?


35 posted on 03/09/2014 9:43:31 AM PDT by Raebie
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To: Raebie

Why not? They did in Air Force One with Harrison Ford.


36 posted on 03/09/2014 9:45:06 AM PDT by Spartan302
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To: Raebie

Of course it will ring and if no answer forward to voicemail.


37 posted on 03/09/2014 9:51:25 AM PDT by fso301
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To: Raebie

The person forgot their phone, and left it at home.


38 posted on 03/09/2014 9:53:15 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: oh8eleven
No, since he's chinese that would be wong number.

CC

39 posted on 03/09/2014 9:55:40 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: oh8eleven
No, since he's chinese that would be wong number.

CC

40 posted on 03/09/2014 9:55:52 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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