Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is Missing
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Looks like an 071 LPD and a Jiangwei FFG are on its way
Chinese warships on way to rescue mission
English.news.cn 2014-03-09 06:07:25 [More]
ZHANJIANG, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Two warships of the Chinese navy, "Jinggangshan" and "Mianyang", are on their way to sea area where missing Malaysia Airline flight MH 370 may have crashed, navy sources said.
The vessel "Jinggangshan", loaded with life-saving equipments, underwater detection facilities and supplies of water and food, set out from Zhanjiang city of south China's Guangdong Province at about 3:00 a.m. on Sunday for search and rescue mission.
Two helicopters, 30 medical personnel, ten divers and 52 marines are also on board.
Another Chinese navy vessel "Mianyang" left for the possible crash site on Saturday night.
A Boeing 777-200 aircraft operated by Malaysia Airlines left the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 00:41 a.m. Beijing time on Saturday and was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m., after a 3,700-km trip.
Contact with the flight was lost along with its radar signal at 1:20 a.m. Beijing time on Saturday when it was flying over the Ho Chi Minh air traffic control area in Vietnam.
The flight has 227 passengers, including 154 Chinese, and 12 Malaysian flight crew.
Editor: yan
Looks like an 071 LPD and a Jiangwei FFG are on its way
Chinese warships on way to rescue mission
English.news.cn 2014-03-09 06:07:25 [More]
ZHANJIANG, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Two warships of the Chinese navy, "Jinggangshan" and "Mianyang", are on their way to sea area where missing Malaysia Airline flight MH 370 may have crashed, navy sources said.
The vessel "Jinggangshan", loaded with life-saving equipments, underwater detection facilities and supplies of water and food, set out from Zhanjiang city of south China's Guangdong Province at about 3:00 a.m. on Sunday for search and rescue mission.
Two helicopters, 30 medical personnel, ten divers and 52 marines are also on board.
Another Chinese navy vessel "Mianyang" left for the possible crash site on Saturday night.
A Boeing 777-200 aircraft operated by Malaysia Airlines left the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 00:41 a.m. Beijing time on Saturday and was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m., after a 3,700-km trip.
Contact with the flight was lost along with its radar signal at 1:20 a.m. Beijing time on Saturday when it was flying over the Ho Chi Minh air traffic control area in Vietnam.
The flight has 227 passengers, including 154 Chinese, and 12 Malaysian flight crew.
Editor: yan
bluewater2012
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Re: Malaysia Airlines Plane is Missing
'INTERFERENCE': Pilot in another plane was flying 30 minutes ahead of MH370
SEPANG: A BOEING 777 pilot, who was flying 30 minutes ahead of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft, said he established contact with MH370 minutes after he was asked to do so by Vietnamese air traffic control.
The captain, who asked to not be named, said his plane, which was bound for Narita, Japan, was far into Vietnamese airspace when he was asked to relay, using his plane's emergency frequency, to MH370 for the latter to establish its position, as the authorities could not contact the aircraft.
"We managed to establish contact with MH370 just after 1.30am and asked them if they have transferred into Vietnamese airspace.
"The voice on the other side could have been either Captain Zaharie (Ahmad Shah, 53,) or Fariq (Abdul Hamid, 27), but I was sure it was the co-pilot.
"There were a lot of interference... static... but I heard mumbling from the other end.
"That was the last time we heard from them, as we lost the connection," he told the New Sunday Times.
He said those on the same frequency at the time would have heard the exchange.
This, he said, would include vessels on the waters below.
He said he thought nothing of it, as the occurrence (of losing contact) was normal, until it was established that MH370 never landed.
"If the plane was in trouble, we would have heard the pilot making the Mayday distress call. But I am sure that, like me, no one else up there heard it.
"Following the silence, a repeat request was made by the Vietnamese authorities to try establishing contact with them."
Meanwhile, Ritzeraynn Rashid, 55, remembers Captain Zaharie as a pleasant and humble man.
They used to fly together in the 1980s, when Zaharie was a co-pilot and he, the leading purser on the B737 services.
He was also close with Patrick Gomes, who was leading the cabin crew aboard MH370.
"Zaharie was always smiling and very cheerful. We shared a lot of good memories. We were like brothers.
"From 1980 to 1991, when I was working with MAS, there was never a day that we did not chat and catch up."
Ritzeraynn, who is now a public relations and communications manager, said Patrick was always looking out for his friends.
"I remember those days when I did not have a car. Patrick would offer his new Ford Laser for me to use.
"In reciprocation, when he has late-night flights and did not want to disturb his mother, I would invite him to my house to stay for the night."
Ritzeraynn, who, like Zaharie, was from Penang Free School, said the school's class of 1978/79 would pray for all those aboard the missing aircraft.
"All the crew members and passengers are in our thoughts and prayers. I miss Zaharie and Patrick very much."
For Fariq's brother, Afiq, the bond they had was beyond sharing a last name.
When updated news reached him that his brother, who is a first officer, was co-piloting MH370, his world shattered.
However, Afiq, 20, finds strength in his hope that Fariq, a Langkawi Aerospace Flying Academy graduate, is somewhere out there alive.
"This is just heartbreaking," was all Afiq could muster, telling the NST that he was grappling between thinking of the worst and keeping himself optimistic.
"I do not know what to tell you. I am not doing okay.
"Sorry, I cannot really think right now. My parents are very sad right now," he said in a text message.
Afiq described his brother, the eldest of five siblings, as a responsible and kind person who exuded warmth, which made him endearing to many.
The chemical engineering student, from Universiti Teknologi Petronas, had earlier tweeted: "Pray for my brother #MH370."
About 7pm, as news on MH370 remained vague, Afiq tweeted: "I'm coming to find you, even if it takes all night."
Their father, Abdul Hamid Md Daud, when met at his house in Shah Alam, asked that the family be given personal space.
'INTERFERENCE': Pilot in another plane was flying 30 minutes ahead of MH370
SEPANG: A BOEING 777 pilot, who was flying 30 minutes ahead of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft, said he established contact with MH370 minutes after he was asked to do so by Vietnamese air traffic control.
The captain, who asked to not be named, said his plane, which was bound for Narita, Japan, was far into Vietnamese airspace when he was asked to relay, using his plane's emergency frequency, to MH370 for the latter to establish its position, as the authorities could not contact the aircraft.
"We managed to establish contact with MH370 just after 1.30am and asked them if they have transferred into Vietnamese airspace.
"The voice on the other side could have been either Captain Zaharie (Ahmad Shah, 53,) or Fariq (Abdul Hamid, 27), but I was sure it was the co-pilot.
"There were a lot of interference... static... but I heard mumbling from the other end.
"That was the last time we heard from them, as we lost the connection," he told the New Sunday Times.
He said those on the same frequency at the time would have heard the exchange.
This, he said, would include vessels on the waters below.
He said he thought nothing of it, as the occurrence (of losing contact) was normal, until it was established that MH370 never landed.
"If the plane was in trouble, we would have heard the pilot making the Mayday distress call. But I am sure that, like me, no one else up there heard it.
"Following the silence, a repeat request was made by the Vietnamese authorities to try establishing contact with them."
Meanwhile, Ritzeraynn Rashid, 55, remembers Captain Zaharie as a pleasant and humble man.
They used to fly together in the 1980s, when Zaharie was a co-pilot and he, the leading purser on the B737 services.
He was also close with Patrick Gomes, who was leading the cabin crew aboard MH370.
"Zaharie was always smiling and very cheerful. We shared a lot of good memories. We were like brothers.
"From 1980 to 1991, when I was working with MAS, there was never a day that we did not chat and catch up."
Ritzeraynn, who is now a public relations and communications manager, said Patrick was always looking out for his friends.
"I remember those days when I did not have a car. Patrick would offer his new Ford Laser for me to use.
"In reciprocation, when he has late-night flights and did not want to disturb his mother, I would invite him to my house to stay for the night."
Ritzeraynn, who, like Zaharie, was from Penang Free School, said the school's class of 1978/79 would pray for all those aboard the missing aircraft.
"All the crew members and passengers are in our thoughts and prayers. I miss Zaharie and Patrick very much."
For Fariq's brother, Afiq, the bond they had was beyond sharing a last name.
When updated news reached him that his brother, who is a first officer, was co-piloting MH370, his world shattered.
However, Afiq, 20, finds strength in his hope that Fariq, a Langkawi Aerospace Flying Academy graduate, is somewhere out there alive.
"This is just heartbreaking," was all Afiq could muster, telling the NST that he was grappling between thinking of the worst and keeping himself optimistic.
"I do not know what to tell you. I am not doing okay.
"Sorry, I cannot really think right now. My parents are very sad right now," he said in a text message.
Afiq described his brother, the eldest of five siblings, as a responsible and kind person who exuded warmth, which made him endearing to many.
The chemical engineering student, from Universiti Teknologi Petronas, had earlier tweeted: "Pray for my brother #MH370."
About 7pm, as news on MH370 remained vague, Afiq tweeted: "I'm coming to find you, even if it takes all night."
Their father, Abdul Hamid Md Daud, when met at his house in Shah Alam, asked that the family be given personal space.
bluewater2012
Junior Member
Re: Malaysia Airlines Plane is Missing
If the timing from the above post is correct then the plane had about 10 minutes to signal for help but didn't. Why?
A Boeing 777 from Malaysia Airlines has been missing between Malaysia and Vietnam for about 12 hours. Flight #MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur at 16:41 UTC time and disappeared from at 17:20 UTC time.
At 23:24 UTC time Malaysia Airlines published a press release that aircraft has lost contact with ATC at 18:40 UTC (after 2 hours). This incorrect time report made media speculate all night about a crash in the jungle somewhere between Vietnam and China.
It took 11 hours until about 03:00 UTC until a search and rescue operation was started in the area of Gulf of Thailand where Flightradar24 reported lost radar contact.
It feels very frustrating that the incorrect reports of lost contact after 2 hours has made that Flightradar24 data of lost contact after 40 minutes, has been ignored for so many hours.
Playback of flight MH370:
If the timing from the above post is correct then the plane had about 10 minutes to signal for help but didn't. Why?
A Boeing 777 from Malaysia Airlines has been missing between Malaysia and Vietnam for about 12 hours. Flight #MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur at 16:41 UTC time and disappeared from at 17:20 UTC time.
At 23:24 UTC time Malaysia Airlines published a press release that aircraft has lost contact with ATC at 18:40 UTC (after 2 hours). This incorrect time report made media speculate all night about a crash in the jungle somewhere between Vietnam and China.
It took 11 hours until about 03:00 UTC until a search and rescue operation was started in the area of Gulf of Thailand where Flightradar24 reported lost radar contact.
It feels very frustrating that the incorrect reports of lost contact after 2 hours has made that Flightradar24 data of lost contact after 40 minutes, has been ignored for so many hours.
Playback of flight MH370:
Blackstone
Brigadier
Re: Malaysia Airlines Plane is Missing
With all the spy satellites in orbit, you'd think someone's intelligence service knows approximately where MH370 is.
With all the spy satellites in orbit, you'd think someone's intelligence service knows approximately where MH370 is.
Re: Malaysia Airlines Plane is Missing
Intelligence services probably won't be inclined to share their information with civil aviation and emergency response authorities unless there is political benefit for the intelligence services to do so.
Intelligence services probably won't be inclined to share their information with civil aviation and emergency response authorities unless there is political benefit for the intelligence services to do so.
Blackstone
Brigadier
Re: Malaysia Airlines Plane is Missing
I can't remember which article I read this information from but it stated that this particular airplane had a collision on the ground with another airplane not too many years ago where the tip of one of its wings was ripped off. This makes me think that some residual damage from that collision may have gone undetected and contributed to some sort of sudden catastrophic failure on this flight. If someone had also come across this information please link, sorry I can't remember where I read it to save my life right now.
I can't remember which article I read this information from but it stated that this particular airplane had a collision on the ground with another airplane not too many years ago where the tip of one of its wings was ripped off. This makes me think that some residual damage from that collision may have gone undetected and contributed to some sort of sudden catastrophic failure on this flight. If someone had also come across this information please link, sorry I can't remember where I read it to save my life right now.
Brumby
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