Malaysia Air accident

One week and counting...the longer this goes undiscovered, the less likely anyone will be found alive...fingers crossed..treat all life with the respect deserved...

I believe the OPEN BET is responsible for this

i found it strange that they dismissed the 2 iranians travelling on stolen passports so quickly ...:S

A Malaysian government official says investigators have concluded the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was hijacked.

The unnamed official told the Associated Press that one or more people with significant flying experience hijacked the jet, switched off communication devices and steered it off-course.

He said only a skilled aviator could navigate the plane the way it was flown after its last confirmed location over the South China Sea.

He added no motive has been established and it is not yet clear where the plane was taken, but he said hijacking was "conclusive".



Earlier, a source close to the investigation said satellite pulses picked up from flight MH370 show it may have been flying off-course for several hours before running out of fuel over the Indian Ocean.

Analysis of military radar tracking and pulses has provided two different theories as to what may have happened to the plane, the unnamed source said.

The electronic signals are believed to have been transmitted for up to five hours after ground control lost contact with the aircraft, according to Sky sources.

The signals are 'pings' sent by the plane to confirm it is still there and to allow the network to determine its position.

Sky correspondent Niall Paterson said: "If this information is accurate, for those five hours at the very least, that flight was not crashed, it was in some sense flying through the air."

The source close to the investigation said the most likely possibility is that after travelling northwest, the Boeing 777 made a sharp turn to the south, over the Indian Ocean where officials think, based on the data, it flew until it ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea.

The other interpretation is that flight MH370 continued to fly to the northwest and headed over Indian territory.

But the source said it was believed unlikely that the plane flew for any length of time over India because that country has strong air defence and radar coverage and that should have allowed authorities there to see the plane.

Malaysia's acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein has confirmed the search had been expanded into the Indian Ocean - on the opposite side of Malaysia from where contact with the jet with 239 people on board was lost seven days ago.

The plane's communication with the air traffic control was severed just under one hour into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Only "conclusive" when plane found or contact received from "hijackers"...everything else is speculation / opinion...

The plane is either at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, on a remote island as I suggested 6 days ago or in the Magellan Strait.

chicken 'n chips Wrote:

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> The plane is either at the bottom of the Indian
> Ocean, on a remote island as I suggested 6 days
> ago or in the Magellan Strait.


Bottom of the Indian a strong favourite now unfortunately

The missing Malaysian Airlines plane reportedly flew as low as 5,000ft and used “terrain masking” to avoid radar detection for almost eight hours after it was apparently hijacked.

As dozens of nations continued to search for the plane, Malaysia’s New Straits Times newspaper reported that the Boeing 777 dropped to low altitude to avoid commercial radars.

Using a manoeuvre typically deployed by combat aircraft, the plane would have burnt far more fuel flying in the denser lower air.

Experts said a sharp drop in altitude – the plane was apparently flying as high as 45,000 feet - would have been noticeable for the passengers, but not deadly.

“The passengers would certainly know,” a former British military attaché told The Telegraph. “An emergency rapid descent would be very noticeable but not fatal. The fuel burn would be much higher at low level and you fly much slower across the ground

What i don't understand is how come they can know all this yet they cannie even pinpoint which direction the plane went.... they so called EXPERTS seem to be speculating as much as we do on ABC...()

But can the plane staff turn off the black box?? I thought that could not be done?

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> But can the plane staff turn off the black box?? I
> thought that could not be done?


another mystery to me Ocar...:S

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What about the passngers' cellphones that still ring but not answered?