Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - Missing Plane

[Laura]

_http://www.examiner.com/article/missing-malaysia-plane-terror-sky

While nobody knows what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, it is now suspected that terrorism is involved.

Well, "terrorism" is a good cover story for terrifying cosmic intruders I guess. Thing is, I don't see much political capital with a silently disappearing/crashing jetliner. I mean, where's the hoopla? The declarations, etc? Oh, yeah, they can manufacture that after the fact...

 

[Kisito]

Cs not they have an idea? Mistrust, meteorology, electromagnetism, comets seemed to indicate my pendulum.

 

[Gaby]

Unrelated, but still...

West Virginians report 'intelligent fireball' UFO over small town

http://www.sott.net/article/275301-West-Virginians-report-intelligent-fireball-UFO-over-small-town

"Stopped to see what it was and thought it was a meteor. It came down towards a plane, commercial type, and thought it was going to hit it. Fireball stopped as if to let plane pass, and then continued."

The witness described the object.

"It made a zigzag pass, glowed brighter, and then dimmer. Had tentacles (shafts of light come out from top and bottom), shoot from top and bottom. It dimmed to almost nothing. We thought it was gone and then it came back on and finally disappeared behind the mountain."

Weird things out there.

 

[Niall]

Officially, this is not yet considered a 'crash'. And somewhat bizarrely, there appear to be two cases of stolen identity onboard. From CNN:

The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane and the 239 people on board is continuing into the night, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of Civil Aviation, told reporters Saturday in Kuala Lumpur.

Air traffic controllers lost track of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 not long after it left Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, on its way to Beijing. More than half the passengers are Chinese nationals.

Austria denies that one of the citizens included on the passenger list issued by Malaysia Airlines was on board, Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Weiss told CNN Saturday. The Austrian citizen is safe and sound and his passport was stolen two years ago, Weiss said.

There also was no Italian citizen on board the flight, despite the presence of an Italian name on the passenger list released by the airline, Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aldo Amati said Saturday.

Vietnamese and Chinese state media, both citing Vietnam's military, reported the plane crashed off the southern coast of Vietnam.

But the reports are incorrect, said Malaysia's acting transport minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein. "The CA (Civil Aviation Authority) says that is not true, and our foreign office says it is not true," he said.

Later, China's state-run CCTV reported that Vietnam's National Search and Rescue Center said the missing plane might have crashed at the overlapping waters between Malaysia and Vietnam.

A Vietnamese aircraft flying over those waters spotted "rubbish" and a liquid floating on the ocean's surface, a search and rescue official told CNN. It is too early to know whether the finding is related to the missing airliner.

 

[loreta]

Maybe they will find a floating passport on the ocean , in perfect condition bellowing to a suspected terrorist! Why not? we have seen this type of situation before.

From the BBC news they also talk about the "mysterious passeports".

_http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26492453

 

[adam7117]

Well, it's hard to tell this early, but I'm willing to bet that what Joe wrote here in 2009 will be very close to what happened to this one too:

What are they hiding? Flight 447 and Tunguska Type Events

I keep thinkning the same thing... The plane just disappeared without any trace even though the weather was OK. Granted, there might have been a mechanical fault or a myriad of other things but Boeing 777's are amongst the safest planes you can fly.

The Australians onboard were from the Brisbane and Perth areas. Now because of the stolen passports, the media is trying to whip up a frenzy about a possible terrorist attack. Somehow, this is not very surprising - god forbid anyone mentions a threat from the sky over which we have no control.

I am mainly suspecting an overhead explosion because of the recent spate of close asteroid flybys. These have been widely publicised in the media and it would be reasonable to suspect that trouble travels in packs. For example, the Chelyabinsk event happened shortly after an asteroid flyby. Even though this was dismissed as a mere coincidence, it is more likely that 2012 DA14 had companions.

Here's a current list from SpaceWearher:

Asteroid	Date(UT)    	Distance		Size
2014 EL		Mar-02		3.2 LD		18 m
2014 DX110	Mar-05		0.9 LD		31 m
2014 EF		Mar-06		0.4 LD		7 m
2014 EC		Mar-06		0.2 LD		10 m
2000 EE14	Mar-06		64.6 LD		1.8 km

 

[seek10]

Missing passports ?. . simple search of missing passports tells this.
_http://www.usembassy.org.uk/americanservices/?p=4012

During the period October 1, 2010 and September 30, 2011, the State Department reported 253,037 passports as lost and 60,984 as stolen.

_http://www.talktalk.co.uk/money/features/insurance-travel-passport-security.html

More than 250,000 UK passports lost or stolen each year.

In 2005 more than 286,000 British passports were reported lost or stolen, of which over 90,000 were reported missing during the summer months (June - August). While many people safeguard their wallet and personal valuables abroad, their passport is not always such a priority.

 

[Starlight]

There's still no sign of wreckage of flight MH370 despite the sightings of oil slicks. And now because of the "lost passport" issue, it has morphed into a "security issue". And the Feds are coming: http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-fbi-disappearance-malaysian-airlines-jet-20140308,0,5571373.story#axzz2vPxheNEo

WASHINGTON — The FBI is deploying agents and technical experts to assist in investigating the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet, based on the American citizenship of three of the passengers aboard the lost flight, a top federal law enforcement official in Washington said Saturday.
He said that a fourth passenger, whom he described as an infant flying with the three Americans, also may be a U.S citizen.
"This gives us entree" to the case, the official said, speaking confidentially because the FBI investigation is just beginning. "But so far what happened is a mystery."

Not surprised! :(

 

[Vulcan59]

Possible debris from flight MH370 may have been sighted. - Source - South Morning China Post.

Also on AirlinersNet, there is a suggestion that a meteor could have possible hit the plane but another poster put that scenario as "very remote."

_http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6014316/#203

 

[Voyageur]

Also on AirlinersNet, there is a suggestion that a meteor could have possible hit the plane but another poster put that scenario as "very remote."

_http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6014316/#203

One of the posts above was linked to the LATimes and the FBI (more on the "stolen" passports): _http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-fbi-disappearance-malaysian-airlines-jet-20140308,0,5571373.story#axzz2vQ4QTtx2

U.S. officials said they are looking at whether this could be terrorism, as they would with any plane crash until proved otherwise. Though two passengers apparently used stolen passports, “there is no indication this is a terrorist attack; stolen passports are certainly not indicative of a terrorist attack,” a senior counter terrorism official said.

The official said there was "no evidence" of terrorism thus far. Law enforcement officials were not authorized to speak publicly.

The federal law enforcement official said FBI personnel will assist in reviewing video of the airport in Kuala Lumpur for images of passengers at the ticket counter, the security sections and the boarding area. He said images they find can be used with the bureau's vast counter-terrorism technology to look for matches with known members of Al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations.

But he emphsized that no known terrorist link has surfaced, and no organization has claimed responsibility for downing the plane, which was en route to Beijing with 239 people aboard when it disappeared from air traffic control monitoring.

The terrorist card perhaps will be played - will see.

 

[MusicMan]

A Malaysian Airlines aircraft carrying 239 passengers has gone missing off the coast of Vietnam on route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. Reportedly two of the passengers were travelling on stolen passports. This incident begs the questions: Has this aircraft traversed the barrier between dimensions, as in the case of the Bermuda Triangle aircraft? Has this aircraft been shot down, by a terrestrial agency? Has this aircraft suffered a natural phenomena, such as wind shear or downdraft, or perhaps a lightning strike or even a meteorite collision? A terrorist act, perhaps?

 

[MrEightFive]

MusicMan, topic about it already exists:
Malaysia Airlines hunts for missing plane carrying 239

 

[Anthony]

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/2014/03/09/air-force-chief-malaysia-jet-may-have-turned-back/TLZ5W65xU3mLsTVxD3lA5N/story.html

They're reporting that it might have turned back.

‘‘We are trying to make sense of this,’’ he told a media conference. ‘‘The military radar indicated that the aircraft may have made a turn back and in some parts, this was corroborated by civilian radar.’’

 

[Cosmos]

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/2014/03/09/air-force-chief-malaysia-jet-may-have-turned-back/TLZ5W65xU3mLsTVxD3lA5N/story.html

They're reporting that it might have turned back.

‘‘We are trying to make sense of this,’’ he told a media conference. ‘‘The military radar indicated that the aircraft may have made a turn back and in some parts, this was corroborated by civilian radar.’’

Interesting clue, if true...

 

[Joe]

Possible debris from flight MH370 may have been sighted. - Source - South Morning China Post.

Also on AirlinersNet, there is a suggestion that a meteor could have possible hit the plane but another poster put that scenario as "very remote."

_http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6014316/#203

Very interesting, because the very same thing happened with AF447. "investigators" first muted the possibility of lightning, bomb or meteorite, but then dismissed it. Discover Magazine even published an article about the meteorite theory, saying that there was a 1 in 10 chance that a plane would be hit by a meteorite, but then schizophrenically dismissed it as "not likely"