Malaysia Airlines MH370: Tony Abbott says possible debris found in Indian Ocean [live thread]

ABC.net.au ^ | March 19, 2014

[rdl6989]

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced objects possibly related to the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane have been found in the southern Indian Ocean.

[mabarker1]

Had not heard about mystery container.

Supposedly gold was on board.

I'm gonna say they want it for a NBC attack plan.

[mabarker1]

Yep

[RummyChick]

Flying With Fish ‏@flyingwithfish 8h China thinks it went north, DHS things north, DoD north … NTSB puts #MH370 in a small area 2300km west of perth. Something is wrong

[RummyChick]

Flying With Fish ‏@flyingwithfish 1h Russia’s Intelligence Directorate put out an internal report stating the U.S. had taken #MH370. Could this whole situation get any weirder?

[RummyChick]

Flying With Fish ‏@flyingwithfish 44m @Barnhart_Josh oh the intel tracking ? This whole story is so rife with governments hiding information it is unbelievable

[Spartan302]

Yeah thats weird, unless MH370 was intercepted by US planes and escorted to land in Diego Garcia, being held there for other reasons?
Smells too much.

[RummyChick]

I have been waiting for debris to be planted somewhere.

[BelleAl]

"Flying With Fish ‏@flyingwithfish 1h Russia’s Intelligence Directorate put out an internal report stating the U.S. had taken #MH370. Could this whole situation get any weirder?" Here we go again….President Obama: "I'm just now hearing about this. I learned about this when I saw it on the news just like the rest of Americans." And in this case, it may be true since he never goes to security briefings. s/

[Alas Babylon!]

Well I stand corrected! It is David Wright, AMERICAN Broadcast Company, of George Stephanopolous Clinton’s Dirty Tricks lead and Brian Ross of the “Look! The Gunman was a TEA Partier!” fame.

[jersey117]

Even Hannity took a break from his regularly scheduled obama bashing.

[PghBaldy]

The weather is bad, they couldn’t it find it by plane yet.

[crosslink]

I find it revealing that we have reports its in PACK by people in the know and pressure is exerted on political appointees to make decisions yesterday. Now we are told its thousands of miles away. Heat is off these people for a few more days. Now back to watching basketball, we can handle on Monday as the real thinkers in DOD and CIA are speechless. Just my take.

[maggief]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/20/mh370-two-possible-objects-may-have-been-found-in-australian-search-zone#block-532ac7eae4b015397016d57e

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Daniel Hurst, in Canberra, reports that different expectations about the search have been created by the Australian prime minister and defence minister:

The Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, who revealed the satellite image analysis earlier today, has reaffirmed his belief that it could be a major breakthrough in the search for missing flight MH370.

“We don’t know what that satellite saw until we can get a much better, much closer look at it but this is the first tangible breakthrough in what up till now has been an utterly baffling mystery,” Abbott said upon his arrival in Papua New Guinea on a trade mission.

But the Australian defence minister, David Johnston, appeared more circumspect, pointing out that searchers had looked in various different places since the Malaysia Airlines plane went missing on 8 March.

“Expectations will obviously be built. I want to say that let’s just be patient and try and find out what this satellite reference is,” Johnston told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in an interview on Thursday night local time.

“It [the southern Indian Ocean] is an extraordinarily remote part of the world ... This is a very difficult logistical problem. We’re several days away, I think, from really having an idea of the credibility and veracity of this report.”

Asked if he thought it was the best lead in the search so far, Johnston said “there’s been several ‘best leads’ along the way”.

[petercooper]

That’s Common Core math.

[Black Agnes]

You and me both.

[crosslink]

“The pilot of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane made a mystery phone call just minutes before flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, it emerged last night”

Great find, thanks Maggie

[maggief]

Meanwhile...

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (L front) disembarks from the plane upon her arrival in Beijing, capital of China, March 20, 2014, kicking off her seven-day visit to China, at the invitation of Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Xinhua/Wang Ye)

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Will the media stop with the it’s a shipping container talk? The longest ones you can buy to put on a ship are 45 feet long. The most common ones are 20 and 40 feet. 53 feet for rail only.

Can a planes wing float? If it’s full of fuel better than an empty one.

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I can bet the SS is not happy about this trip.

My guess how this went

” Mrs Obama we think you should cancel your trip due to the plane event” BLANK STAIR

President “ Oh no it fine and they will go so make it happen, I have picks to make”

My guess is the security team and AF compliment is double along with the price.

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stair is stare