Posted on 03/24/2014 1:42:21 AM PDT by blueplum
Suspicious items spotted by Chinese planes as Malaysia jet makes emergency landing in Hong Kong
Chinese aircrew have spotted "suspicious objects" in the southern Indian Ocean in the search for vanished Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday.
The "white and square" objects were spotted by searchers aboard a Chinese Ilyushin-76 plane, it said, in an area where satellite images had identified potential debris.
The report came after a Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 271 passengers from Kuala Lumpur to Seoul made an emergency landing in Hong Kong following a generator failure.
Hong Kong airport placed firefighters on standby for the arrival of the Airbus A330-300, but it landed without incident just before 3am local time on Monday. :snip:
Xinhua said that the crew of the spotter plane reported the coordinates of the debris sighting – 95.1113 degrees east and 42.5453 south - to the Australian command centre as well as Chinese icebreaker Xuelong, which is en route to the sea area.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
the Ministry of Transport, Malaysia released the following statement Sunday as part of a status update:
3. Update on ACARS transmission
a. The last ACARS transmission, sent at 1.07am, showed nothing unusual. The 1.07am transmission showed a normal routing all the way to Beijing.
http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/site/dark-site.html
the Telegraph, UK, has released the last 54 minutes of cockpit transmissions:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10714907/Revealed-the-final-54-minutes-of-communication-from-MH370.html
the Mirror, UK, reports that the US Navy P-8 unable to locate objects China says their pilots spotted
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-live-3219331
from cbs: alleged confirmation the plane was carrying ‘wooden pallets’ (about 9 paragraphs up from the end of the article)
wooden pallets?
well, duh.
Don’t these folks have any idea how much stuff is simply dumped overboard or washed off of cargo ships?
I wish the media would STOP getting all excited about “junk” and wait until something of known origin surfaces, if ever. Personally, I don't think that aircraft is IN the ocean. My $ is that it is hidden someplace and that our gubmint knows where it is. Now waiting to see what the next plan is so they can watch that unfold like all the other stuff they have missed. (Incompetents at the highest lever abounds)
I wish the media would STOP getting all excited about “junk” and wait until something of known origin surfaces, if ever. Personally, I don't think that aircraft is IN the ocean. My $ is that it is hidden someplace and that our gubmint knows where it is. Now waiting to see what the next plan is so they can watch that unfold like all the other stuff they have missed. (Incompetents at the highest lever abounds)
All these reports are just designed to keep us thinking it crashed. Nope, no terrorism here. Just stay focused on a new story every day about debris. Sure.
Mixup shows limits of China's power
[scroll midway down page to get to these details:]"It was to be a morale-boosting show of military might in the MH370 search, but the pilot got the wrong Australian airport."
"The IL-76, "emblazoned with a rich-red Chinese flag, as well as a sky-blue hull and a white underbelly, created a rare ripple of enthusiasm across the airbase that is currently home to a large international press corp", the report continued.
Among the benefits of the plane were its many windows, allowing a "very good visual search capability".
No mention, then, of the plane landing at the wrong airport on Saturday, underlining the potentially logistical and language difficulties facing complex multi-national search effort.
"They landed at Perth and then they landed here," RAAF Corporal Janine Fabre told Reuters at Base Pearce, a dusty collection of runways and low-slung buildings about 35 kilometres north of Perth.
"We don't know why.". . . "
Quote:
". . . there is no suitable technology to spot floating objects such as seat cushions, hence the visual searches."link
The plane has been located........on Craigslist!
...here we go again. Getting hopes up for floatsom when it would only be a matter of hours to properly ID the stuff.
Hopefully the searchers will now do the smart thing and assume those objects are from the 777 and notate their satellite location and trace them back to the likely crash site and begin the search for the FDR — as they check out possible bail-out points along that southern route that the pilot might have used.
“Chinese planes spot ‘white objects’ in search area - reports” Round eyes?
The 20 Chinese and Indonesians from Austin on the missing plane were working on a military project to make all planes “stealthy”. Someone may have had their computer on and punched the wrong button.
Now the question: What is our Defense Dept. doing, letting Chinese work on our military projects???
Two areas of inquiry:
Was the pilot a Klingon??
Was he using his Cloaking Device???
You are so correct. Here’s NOAA’s take on the Pacific garbage patch:
http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/patch.html
a Bluefin bot is enroute but they’ll need to define a much smaller search area for it to roam. The bluefin has a max depth of 13K I think, so if they can narrow down the field of haystacks to one, it will likely find the needle even on the bottom - if it’s there.
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