BREAKING NEWS: Malaysia Airlines Says It Has Lost Contact With A Flight

[Bleeed.exe]

Interesting repert here. Not sure if it can be viewed outside Au though.

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/fou...016S00#playing

[winvens]

Originally Posted by Bleeed.exe

Interesting repert here. Not sure if it can be viewed outside Au though.

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/fou...016S00#playing

Is there a programme transcript? Google Play won't let me install the app to play the video all because I live in the Great White North.

[Kelseecat65]

Originally Posted by Bleeed.exe

Interesting repert here. Not sure if it can be viewed outside Au though.

Nope, it said it is only viewable in Au.

[Kelseecat65]

Thank goodness Club is with the program!!

Although, it contains "coarse" language....
Bookmarked....thanks Clubby!!

[Clubhouse]

Malaysia missing MH370 plane: 'Ping area' ruled out.


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.

'Discounted'


"Yesterday afternoon**, Bluefin-21 completed its last mission searching the remaining areas in the vicinity of the acoustic signals detected in early April by the towed pinger locator," a statement from the Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre (JACC) said.

"The data collected on yesterday's mission has been analysed. As a result, the JACC can advise that no signs of aircraft debris have been found by the autonomous underwater vehicle since it joined the search effort.

"The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has advised that the search in the vicinity of the acoustic detections can now be considered complete and in its professional judgement, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place of MH370."

Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said the search had been based on "the best information available at the time".

The statement came hours after a US Navy official told CNN that the acoustic signals probably came from some other man-made source.

Four pings that officials believed could be from the missing plane's "black box" flight recorders were heard by search teams using a towed pinger locator device.

These pings were used to define the area for the sea-floor search, conducted by the Bluefin-21. It had scoured over 850 sq km of the ocean floor, JACC said.

**29th May



BBC NEWS\ASIA


So in short, there have been NO black box pings detected since the aircraft disappeared.

[Clubhouse]

Umm, while I'm here....Yesterday 29th was the 5th month to the day since Michael Schumacher went into coma, news is very scarce now, I think the last family update was towards the end of January....I think he's probably in a vegetative state for the rest of his life

[Kelseecat65]

Originally Posted by Clubhouse

Umm, while I'm here....Yesterday 29th was the 5th month to the day since Michael Schumacher went into coma, news is very scarce now, I think the last family update was towards the end of January....I think he's probably in a vegetative state for the rest of his life

They should get him and Jahi a room together.

[kellyhound]

Residents of the remote Maldives island of Kuda Huvadhoo in Dhaal Atoll have reported seeing a "low flying jumbo jet" on the morning of the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Whilst the disappearance of the Boeing 777 jet, carrying 239 passengers has left the whole world in bewilderment, several residents of Kuda Huvadhoo told Haveeru on Tuesday that they saw a "low flying jumbo jet" at around 6:15am on March 8.

They said that it was a white aircraft, with red stripes across it – which is what the Malaysia Airlines flights typically look like.

Eyewitnesses from the Kuda Huvadhoo concurred that the aeroplane was travelling North to South-East, towards the Southern tip of the Maldives – Addu. They also noted the incredibly loud noise that the flight made when it flew over the island.

"I've never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We've seen seaplanes, but I'm sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly," said an eyewitness.

"It's not just me either, several other residents have reported seeing the exact same thing. Some people got out of their houses to see what was causing the tremendous noise too."

Mohamed Zaheem, the Island Councilor of Kuda Huvadhoo, said that the residents of the island had spoken about the incident.

A local aviation expert told Haveeru that it is "likely" for MH370 to have flown over the Maldives. The possibility of any aircraft flying over the island at the reported time is extremely low, the expert added.

The Malaysia airlines jet disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing. Investigators say it was deliberately diverted off course.

Twenty-six countries are now helping to hunt for the plane after satellite and military radar data projected two huge corridors through which it might have flown.

Satellite data suggests that the last "ping" was recieved from the flight somwhere close to the Maldives and the US naval base on Diego Garcia.

But the Maldives is not amongst the countries that Malaysian authorities had sought help from in its search for the missing jet. Malaysia has listed the countries that it had appealed for assistance: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and France.

[Clubhouse]

i think it will go something like the Titanic...20-30 years from now with improved detection equipment the airplane remains will be found...The problem is by then few if any clues as to why it happened will be long gone....I still think there are questions unanswered though...The contents of the cargo hold and those software experts, just who were they and what did they really excel in?