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MISSING MH370: Pilot: I established contact with plane
New Straits Times ^ | 3/9/2014 | Unattributed

Posted on 03/09/2014 11:11:54 AM PDT by mojito

SEPANG: A BOEING 777 pilot, who was flying 30 minutes ahead of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft, said he established contact with MH370 minutes after he was asked to do so by Vietnamese air traffic control.

The captain, who asked to not be named, said his plane, which was bound for Narita, Japan, was far into Vietnamese airspace when he was asked to relay, using his plane's emergency frequency, to MH370 for the latter to establish its position, as the authorities could not contact the aircraft.

"We managed to establish contact with MH370 just after 1.30am and asked them if they have transferred into Vietnamese airspace.

"The voice on the other side could have been either Captain Zaharie (Ahmad Shah, 53,) or Fariq (Abdul Hamid, 27), but I was sure it was the co-pilot.

"There were a lot of interference... static... but I heard mumbling from the other end.

"That was the last time we heard from them, as we lost the connection," he told the New Sunday Times.

(Excerpt) Read more at nst.com.my ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: abdul; ahmad; boeing777; fariq; hamid; hoax; malaysia; maylaysia; mh370
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To: skeeter
[Map is]The one at this link.

Thank you.
One map shown often on TV news shows a track entirely over land, about 400 miles west!
So here we are...

41 posted on 03/09/2014 12:08:38 PM PDT by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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To: pollywog
Has Obama made any sort of statement???

Yes.

"Would someone hand me my 5 iron?"

42 posted on 03/09/2014 12:08:51 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I live in NJ....' Nuff said!)
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To: bert

I was there (Kuala Lumpur) in 1974 when I worked for Texas Instruments for about a month. I was apolitical back then. It was a very nice place and had a lot of Chinese who spoke English. I don’t remember it being Moslem but do remember there was a lot of Buddhist and Hindu influence.


43 posted on 03/09/2014 12:12:24 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Spartan302
carrier

It would be shot down. IF your scenario happened, the plane doesn't become 'invisible'. It will show up on radar. But there could be another hijacking, the first hijacked plane then steals that clearance from the second hijacked plane so ATC wouldn't know and wouldn't respond then....then...

You heard it here first.

44 posted on 03/09/2014 12:13:10 PM PDT by xone
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To: mojito

What if Al qaida wanted to steal a commercial aircraft?

How would you go about it?
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I’d call one of my sheik friends in the Saud kingdom and just take one of their personal 767’s or 747’s ... they can report it stolen when they notice next month...


45 posted on 03/09/2014 12:15:19 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Are there any abandoned WWII landing strips on a remote island in that part of the world?


46 posted on 03/09/2014 12:16:19 PM PDT by nanetteclaret (Unreconstructed "Elderly Kooky Type" Catholic Texan)
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To: publius911

Beijing and Kuala Lumpur are the same time, which coincides with local time. Hanoi an hour earlier, +8 and +7 Zulu respectively.


47 posted on 03/09/2014 12:19:39 PM PDT by xone
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To: mojito

This is a lead that should be pursued; however, if the plane in front was truly 30 minutes ahead, that would separate the aircraft by approx 250 miles. Establishing VHF comm would be difficult but maybe they were on HF. I’d also like to know how the crew was sure they had the right aircraft and not another...


48 posted on 03/09/2014 12:19:44 PM PDT by IFly4Him
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To: Dalberg-Acton
I was there (Kuala Lumpur) in 1974 when I worked for Texas Instruments for about a month.

You worked for Texas Instruments for about a month??

49 posted on 03/09/2014 12:21:23 PM PDT by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Twenty Employees of Texas Semiconductor Company On Flight 370

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/twenty-employees-texas-semiconductor-company-flight-370-n48121


50 posted on 03/09/2014 12:23:43 PM PDT by tsowellfan (www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: Red_Devil 232
You would cut all communications, dive to below radar detection and dump some fuel....

Hmmm...sounds kinda familiar.

51 posted on 03/09/2014 12:25:46 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: silverleaf

Sounds like that’s exactly what happened. Its happened before. Slow oxygen depletion brings on confusion and bizarre behaviors.


52 posted on 03/09/2014 12:29:48 PM PDT by mulder1 ("The past is prologue")
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To: ArtDodger
They only have one plane, and they're in the Pacific:

That would make the final destination either Tokyo or Los Angeles.

53 posted on 03/09/2014 12:31:26 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: publius911

I worked for them for about 15 months, one of them in Kuala Lumpur. About 3 weeks in Brazil and about 6 weeks in Italy. I normally worked in the Dallas location. I was hired by a “head hunter” who visited the college I was attending. Got laid off when the bottom fell out of calculator sales, though I had nothing to do with that department. TI tended to go by seniority even though they are non-union.


54 posted on 03/09/2014 12:36:01 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: IFly4Him

This story has been reported as false.


55 posted on 03/09/2014 12:53:48 PM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: mojito
This is still a very strange story...

Had the plane disintegrated over the water there would be little pieces of it floating over a wide area and it sure seems like those pieces would have been discovered by now. Seat cushions, insulation, bodies, etc.

And even if the transponder stopped, the plane can still be seen and tracked by radar. You would think they'd have a good idea of where it started descending and dropped out of radar view.

It is as if the plane went into the water in its entirety or it hit land instead. Perhaps they tried a water landing, but you would think there'd still be some evidence of it.

That part of the world does have huge thick jungles. If they dumped their fuel prior to crashing that would help hide the crash.

56 posted on 03/09/2014 12:55:34 PM PDT by DB
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To: DB

The waters are full of crap that has been discarded, just stopping to check each piece could take awhile. Once flotsam gets waterlogged, it goes beneath the surface a ways, hard to spot from a ship. If it did crash into the ocean, it will be an aircraft search that finds it. Especially in the case of a cataclysmic event at altitude.


57 posted on 03/09/2014 1:10:33 PM PDT by xone
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To: chemicalman

Egypt Air 990. Halloween night, 1999.


58 posted on 03/09/2014 1:10:43 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (If you don't stand up, you don't stand a chance.)
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To: JudyinCanada

No. I think he said, “Hand me a three wood.”


59 posted on 03/09/2014 1:33:29 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: xone

Thank you. Didn’t consider that the waters could be massively polluted with trash already... But considering where it is we’re talking about it would make sense that it is.


60 posted on 03/09/2014 1:42:56 PM PDT by DB
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