Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane.

[muppet]

Some of you have way to much time on your hands.

Fancy helping search for MH370?

http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/mh370_indian_ocean

[stephenite]

Found it!

[orangeman]

Malaysia Airlines has asked relatives of passengers on board flight MH370 to leave the hotel accommodation it is providing and return to their homes.

It is closing the family assistance centres set up after the plane vanished on 8 March with 239 people on board.

The airline promised to keep relatives up to date on the search operation.

Meanwhile, a report by Malaysia's transport ministry has recommended the introduction of real-time tracking of commercial air transport.

The ministry's air accident investigation bureau said there had now been two occasions over the past five years when large passenger planes had gone missing and their last position was not accurately known - MH370 and Air France Flight 447 in 2009.

[orangeman]

The Indo

The mystery surrounding the fate of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 deepened after officials arrested a group of 11 terrorists with links to al-Qa'ida on suspicion of involvement in the jet's disappearance.


The suspects, aged between 22 and 55, were arrested in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur and the state of Kedah last week, the Daily Mail reported.

Investigators, including the FBI and MI6, are said to have called for the militants to be questioned. They are alleged to be members of a new terror group and include students, odd-job workers, a young widow and business professionals.

An officer with the Counter Terrorism Division of Malaysian Special Branch told the newspaper that the arrests had heightened suspicion that the flight's disappearance may have been an act of terrorism.

"The possibility that the plane was diverted by militants is still high on the list and international investigators have asked for a comprehensive report on this new terror group," the officer said.

He added that some of the suspects had admitted planning "sustained terror campaigns" in Malaysia but had denied any involvement in the disappearance of the Boeing 777.

Flight MH370 went missing on a scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing almost two months ago, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. There has been no sign of any flight debris and no crash site has been found.

On Thursday Malaysia released a preliminary report on the final moments of MH370, detailing the route the plane probably took as it veered off course and the confusion that followed.

According to the five-page report by the Ministry of Transport, Malaysia did not launch an official search and rescue operation until four hours after the jet disappeared on 8 March, instead wasting precious time attempting to track it in the wrong country.

Angus Houston, the Australian official leading the search, said the authorities remain "totally committed to finding MH370", but that it could take another eight to 12 months to recover any wreckage.

Senior officials from Malaysia, Australia and China are due to meet in Canberra next week to decide on the next steps in the search for the missing plane.

[orangeman]

Still nothing.

[orangeman]

Another setback.

The area where acoustic signals thought linked to the missing Malaysian plane were detected can now be ruled out as the final resting place of flight MH370, Australian officials say.

The Bluefin-21 submersible robot had finished its search of the area and found nothing, they said.

Efforts would now focus on reviewing search data, surveying the sea floor and bringing in specialist equipment.

Flight MH370 went missing on 8 March as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Using satellite data, officials have concluded that the airliner, which had 239 people on board, ended its journey in the Indian Ocean, north-west of the Australian city of Perth.

No trace of the plane has been found and there is no explanation for its disappearance.

[CD]

At this stage it has to be aliens.

As Sherlock Holmes said "Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."

Which brings us back to conspiracy theory Number #13


It's the only factor that hasn't been satisfactorily eliminated so far. I've seen experts in every other field imaginable giving their two bits worth on TV in the past days. Nobody is discussing the possibility of large aquatic seamonsters. Why are they so quiet about this? Everyone knows Godzilla lives in the South China Sea!

Ahem!

[orangeman]

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/asia-pacific/mh370-i-saw-burning-flight-mh370-trail-smoke-across-the-sky-before-it-crashed-claims-british-sailor-30325952.html

[Apparently so]

America hijacked it and landed it at Diego Garcia. Dodgy bastards that they are

Or Superman crashed into it

[Mike Sheehy]

America hijacked it and landed it at Diego Garcia. Dodgy b**tards that they are

Or Superman crashed into it

That would be funny except there are posters on this board that actually believe that (Give her Dixie)

[All of a Sludden]

Horizon BBC2 Tuesday 9pm

http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/cxkr7g/horizon--horizon-where-is-flight-mh370

[orangeman]

The UK satellite company Inmarsat has told the BBC that the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet has yet to go to the area its scientists think is the plane's most likely crash site.

Inmarsat's communications with the aircraft are seen as the best clues to the whereabouts of Flight MH370.

The hunt for the lost jet is currently taking a short break while ships map the Indian Ocean floor.

When the search resumes, the Inmarsat "hotspot" will be a key focus.

But so too will a number of areas being fed into the investigation by other groups.

Australian authorities are expected to announce where these are shortly.

The BBC's Horizon TV programme has been given significant access to the telecommunications experts at Inmarsat.

[orangeman]

Still searching in vain.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28900565

[orangeman]

The scale of this is incredible.


http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0927/648377-volcanoes-discovered-in-hunt-for-mh370/

[Tony Baloney]

The scale of this is incredible.


http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0927/648377-volcanoes-discovered-in-hunt-for-mh370/

Oceanographers and geologists are getting a serious amount of "free" research.