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Search for lost jet expands amid signs it flew on
ap.org ^ | Mar 14, 9:57 AM EDT | By IAN MADER and JOAN LOWY

Posted on 03/14/2014 7:59:01 AM PDT by gooblah

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- The search for the missing Malaysian jetliner expanded east and west on Friday after American officials said it was emitting signals to satellites for hours after its last contact with air traffic control nearly a week ago over the South China Sea.

Malaysian officials insisted that investigators had yet to reach a definitive conclusion on what radar and satellite data showed, and said the search was being expanded because efforts in current areas have not found any wreckage from the Boeing 777.

The possibility that the plane, carrying 239 people, flew many hundreds of miles (kilometers) beyond its last known location without any contact with the ground has strengthened speculation that its transponders and other communication devices were turned off deliberately.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; malaysia; mh370; waronterror
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Hopefully they are looking for any non-transponder big jets flying around. And they couldn’t possibly make it across either ocean going at low alt because of fuel. It would take a serious operation to get it flying again at all. I’d imagine if it was taken the target wouldn’t be all that far away. I still think it was United 93’d most likely.


41 posted on 03/14/2014 9:56:00 AM PDT by Monty22002
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To: Monty22002

The Muzzies have to top themselves in relation to 9/11.


42 posted on 03/14/2014 9:58:43 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Monty22002

If they have computer techs working on the aircraft they could put in a legitimate transponder code, re-paint the aircraft, and do anything else to make it look legit. Then file a fictitious flight plan to the US and get into the system. No one would be the wiser among the many other aircraft flying on the NATRACK.


43 posted on 03/14/2014 10:04:29 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: ilovesarah2012; Cyber Liberty

Ilovesarah2012, very interesting!

Cyber Liberty,
Pinging you to this post and the one to which it replied!


44 posted on 03/14/2014 10:09:53 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: hoosiermama; maggief

Maggief, is there a site where we can look this up?


45 posted on 03/14/2014 10:10:49 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Do we have proof EMP’s work or exist? If so why didn’t we use in our Afganistan or Iraq?


46 posted on 03/14/2014 10:35:44 AM PDT by ncfool (Taking back America 2016.)
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To: WildHighlander57

Started looking at info about Freescale and saw they are owned by Carlyle and of course, Soros is involved with Carlyle, along with a lot of rich and powerful people. Tom Clancy would know what happened to the plane.


47 posted on 03/14/2014 10:36:19 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Jack Hydrazine

So Obama and Holder are behind it. The reason so many Pentegon Generals have disapared.


48 posted on 03/14/2014 10:36:34 AM PDT by ncfool (Taking back America 2016.)
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To: ncfool

Why do you find if troubling that the pilot built a simulator?


49 posted on 03/14/2014 10:46:23 AM PDT by CFIIIMEIATP737
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To: ncfool

EMP has been known since he detonated the first atomic bomb.

Use EMP on a third world nation? It wouldn’t affect them very much. Life would go on as usual for them.


50 posted on 03/14/2014 10:49:55 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: WildHighlander57; hoosiermama

Looks like a turn-around.

http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-color-red-missing-mh370-font-mas-changes-number-for-its-kl-beijing-kl-flights-1.511570#ixzz2vxeZnZPg

MAS in a statement said the previous flight number of MH370 for flights from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing would be revised to MH318.

Its return flight MH371 would be changed to MH319. The frequency of flights remains unchanged.

http://www.flightradar24.com/flight/mh318

http://www.flightradar24.com/flight/mh319


51 posted on 03/14/2014 10:58:38 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Transponder codes are issues by Air Traffic Control before each flight, they are not specific to an aircraft.

In order to get a transponder code, you have to file a flight plan and one will be issued.

Or fly VFR (1200).


52 posted on 03/14/2014 11:00:27 AM PDT by par4
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To: maggief; hoosiermama

Maggie,

I think hoosiermama was wondering where the flight originated before coming in to kuala lumpur, and whether it had fuel left over from that trip.

and if they gassed up at KL they would have had more than ‘ just enough + extra’ for the flight from KL to Beijing.


53 posted on 03/14/2014 11:14:04 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: WildHighlander57; hoosiermama

I noted it looks like a turn-around, Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and Beijing to Kuala Lumpur.


54 posted on 03/14/2014 11:20:01 AM PDT by maggief
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To: WildHighlander57

Legs
Date From To Aircraft STD ATD STA Status
2014-03-17
Beijing (PEK) Kuala Lumpur (KUL) - 08:55 CST - 15:35 MYT Scheduled
2014-03-16
Beijing (PEK) Kuala Lumpur (KUL) - 08:55 CST - 15:35 MYT Scheduled
2014-03-15
Beijing (PEK) Kuala Lumpur (KUL) - 08:55 CST - 15:35 MYT Scheduled
2014-03-14
Beijing (PEK) Kuala Lumpur (KUL) - 08:55 CST - 15:35 MYT Unknown
2014-03-13
Beijing (PEK) Kuala Lumpur (KUL) B772 (9MMRC) 08:55 CST 11:26 15:35 MYT Landed 17:25
2014-03-12
Beijing (PEK) Kuala Lumpur (KUL) B772 (9MMRA) 08:55 CST 09:06 15:35 MYT Landed 15:33
2014-03-10
Beijing (PEK) Kuala Lumpur (KUL) B772 (9MMRE) 08:55 CST 09:27 15:35 MYT Landed 15:22
2014-03-09
Beijing (PEK) Kuala Lumpur (KUL) B772 (9MMRQ) 08:55 CST 09:05 15:35 MYT Landed 15:17
2014-03-08
Beijing (PEK) Kuala Lumpur (KUL) B772 08:55 CST 09:05 15:35 MYT Unknown / Canceled
2014-03-07
Beijing (PEK) Kuala Lumpur (KUL) B772 (9MMRO) - - - Landed 15:28


55 posted on 03/14/2014 11:22:14 AM PDT by maggief
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To: gooblah

2% facts, 98% fantasy on these threads. The ridiculous fantasies only expose the childish naivete of the fantasists. Grow up.


56 posted on 03/14/2014 11:28:19 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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To: maggief; hoosiermama

Many thanks for clearing that up; the links you mentioned earlier were about the renumbering of the flight.

So there could have been some extra fuel from the previous Beijing to KL run.


57 posted on 03/14/2014 11:28:53 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: WildHighlander57

Sorry, I wasn’t very clear. If you click on http://www.flightradar24.com/ and enter the flight numbers you can see the scheduled flights, outbound and return.

MH370 and MH371 have been renumbered.


58 posted on 03/14/2014 11:33:15 AM PDT by maggief
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To: WildHighlander57; hoosiermama

CNN

US Officials: Investigators probe whether lithium batteries in cargo could have brought down plane.

Oh, boy ...


59 posted on 03/14/2014 11:38:30 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

http://www.kspr.com/news/nationworld/URGENT-Malaysia-Airlines-Lithium-Batteries/21051646_24979054

URGENT - Malaysia Airlines Lithium Batteries

CNN) — Investigators are looking into concerns that lithium batteries in the cargo hold, ...


60 posted on 03/14/2014 11:47:57 AM PDT by maggief
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