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2014-03-16 Southeast Asia

Disclosure of mounting series of errors by Malaysia complicating search for MH 370

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-03-16 05:21|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 ...This is a new concept: Inshallah Air Defense.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2014-03-16 08:46|| 2014-03-16 08:46|| Front Page Top

#2 "The watch team never noticed the blip,"

Seems a lot of that went around. And if you bite on the Pak, Central Asia rumor, a lot of people had to as well.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-03-16 09:43|| 2014-03-16 09:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Interesting. If even half of this is true, I wonder if somebody did get interested, had it shot down, and is lying like rug...

Posted by James 2014-03-16 12:10|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2014-03-16 12:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Inshallah Air Defense

Could explain how we got into and out of Abbottabad so easy.

Posted by tu3031 2014-03-16 12:18|| 2014-03-16 12:18|| Front Page Top

#5 sixties legs are best legs. Srsly.

Posted by Shipman 2014-03-16 12:26|| 2014-03-16 12:26|| Front Page Top

#6 To answer the question about trans-Atlantic flight, the technology does not yet exist for tracking the flights beyond (I think) 200 miles. Limitations of radar and not having a satellite system for tracking keeps air control in the dark about flights until the radar can detect them.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2014-03-16 12:48|| 2014-03-16 12:48|| Front Page Top

#7 JFK to Europe; Assuming the aircraft are ETOPS certified (most are) they would never be more that 180 minutes out of range of a landing field, so if an aircraft 'went dark,' somewhere within that time it's absence would be noted. Also suspect the traffic density JFK to EU is more that the MH370 routing so a better chance of others being able to report, or at least observe.

Posted by USN, ret. 2014-03-16 13:01|| 2014-03-16 13:01|| Front Page Top

#8 on drudge now:
Pilot wife and children moved out day before disappearance...

Posted by Mugsy Glink 2014-03-16 14:15|| 2014-03-16 14:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Link to #8.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-16 14:22|| 2014-03-16 14:22|| Front Page Top

#10

Mirror article says pilot appears to have intentionally took aircraft along path that skirted FIRS [Flight Information Regions].

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-16 14:43|| 2014-03-16 14:43|| Front Page Top

#11 I am betting the old "Golden Triangle" of Burma (Myanmar).

If you were a radar operator in Burma it could be a life ending event to point out an unknown plane. Esp. if it was full of heroin or gems or slaves.

A plane could land on any large runway or road there.

Posted by 3dc 2014-03-16 17:40|| 2014-03-16 17:40|| Front Page Top

#12 The Indian Navy maintained continuous liaison with the Operations Centres of the Royal Malaysian Navy and the Royal Malaysian Air Force so as to coordinate the ongoing search effort involving over 14 countries, 45 ships and 60 aircraft, he said.
Erratic inputs

The former Navy Chief, Admiral (retd.) Arun Prakash, criticised the effort as sheer waste of resources. Are the Malaysians covering up something or telling lies? he asked, referring to the vastly varying and contradicting accounts of the missing flight given by the Malaysian government over the seven days of its loss. First they said its last contact point was somewhere over the South China Sea. Then they said it took a south-westerly course, only to change it later to westerly course and now, a north-westerly course towards Central Asia. The inputs have been glaringly erratic. No search is worth anything if it is conducted on the basis of grossly-erring information. We shouldve got the info corroborated before embarking on the search, he told The Hindu.

Posted by John Frum 2014-03-16 19:33|| 2014-03-16 19:33|| Front Page Top

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