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What Happened To Flight 370? An Analysis Of What Is Known
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
UPDATE: As expected (see my analysis of ocean currents and drift-time below), the purported debris was a false lead. The revelation that the automated ACARS was still sending data on the Rolls Royce engines is not surprising given what else is known, nor is the Malaysian claim that the data is false. Engine data indicates Malaysian plane flew four hours after disappearing
The story gets curiouser and curiouser--but so far every piece of new data conforms to my basic analysis of the known facts.
Like many other people, I am following the story of what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with keen interest. Much of what we've been told doesn't add up, deepening the mystery.
It seems to me that we can already draw a number of conclusions from the known data by pursuing a logic-based analysis of what is possible and what can be excluded as illogical.
Let's start with what is known:
1. The Malaysian authorities have been evasive to the point of misdirection, in other words, they've hidden the facts to serve an undisclosed agenda.
What is the agenda driving their evasion? What is known is that Malaysian security is obviously lax. This fact has caused Malaysian authorities to lose face, i.e. be humiliated on the global stage. Malaysia is an Asian nation, and maintaining face in Asia is of critical importance. We can conclude that one reason the Malaysian authorities are dissembling is to hide their gross incompetence.
It is also suspected that Malaysia is a safe haven for potentially dangerous Islamic groups. (Follow the threads from Pakistan's secret nuclear proliferation program to Malaysia for documentation of this possibility.) The Malaysian government may have an informal quid pro quo along these lines: you are welcome to set up shop as long as you don't cause any trouble here or do anything to cause Malaysia to lose face.
This provides another logical source of Malaysian evasion: if there is indeed a terrorist connection to the loss of the aircraft, this would focus the global spotlight on Malaysian tolerance of potentially dangerous groups.
That the Malaysian military was unable to effectively monitor the aircraft or coordinate with civilian air traffic control (ATC) also suggests incompetence at the most sensitive levels. Revealing this would also cause a loss of face.
Summary: Malaysian authorities have not been truthful or timely in their reporting. The logical conclusion is that they're hiding data to protect national pride and the true state of their abysmal security.
2. Additional information is available but is not being shared with the public. To take one example, the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) on Flight 370 was functioning and automatically sent data on four critical systems, including the engines. This data has not been released by Malaysian Airlines.
It also appears that the pilot of another 777 airliner heading to Japan contacted the pilot in Flight 370 and reported the transmission was garbled.
Even with the transponder off, the aircraft would appear on primary (military) radar. The Malaysian military tracked Flight 370 but is dissembling. Clearly the authorities are not revealing the full extent of what is known.
3. Satellite imagery did not detect a high-altitude explosion. This excludes all scenarios in which the aircraft crashes into another plane, explodes in mid-air, etc.
4. Flight 370 changed course and altitude, and then maintained the new bearing for hundreds of miles and an additional hour of flight after losing contact with ATC (air traffic control). This limits scenarios in which decompression causes everyone on board to lose consciousness or a catastrophic electrical fire incapacitating the flight deck to an emergency that enabled the pilots to set a new course before losing consciousness or control of the aircraft.
5. The Malaysian military reported Flight 370's altitude as 29,500 feet. This conflicts with eyewitness accounts from fishermen reporting a large aircraft at a much lower altitude around 1,000 meters (3,000 feet). If the radar altitude is correct, this suggests the aircraft was not experiencing decompression, as the pilots would descend as an emergency response to decompression. If the fishermen's report is accurate, then decompression would not be an issue.
6. Mobile phone data suggests the passengers' phones were still functioning after the aircraft lost contact with air traffic control (ATC) and the transponder was turned off/failed.
7. Releasing data from the U.S. intelligence space-based network would reveal U.S. capabilities. The Strait of Malacca is a key shipping lanes chokepoint, and is thus of strategic interest to the U.S. and other nations with space-based assets. U.S. authorities have already revealed that U.S. coverage of the area is "thorough."
This confirms that U.S. communications monitoring and space-based assets cover the seas around the Strait of Malacca. Given what is known about these monitoring and space-based assets, it is likely that the U.S. intelligence agencies have additional data but are not revealing them, as this would provide direct evidence of U.S. capabilities.
We can surmise that the U.S. maintains thermal imaging capabilities that can detect more than large explosions. We can also surmise that the communications monitoring networks picked up any signals from the aircraft or related to the aircraft.
That the head of the C.I.A. publicly professed ignorance is interesting. What course of action would one pursue if one wanted to keep U.S. capabilities secret? Publicly proclaim ignorance.
This is not to suggest that the U.S. "knows where flight 370 is;" it is simply to note that this is not "open ocean" comparable to the mid-Atlantic where Air France Flight 447 went down five years ago. This is a strategic chokepoint of great interest to the U.S., and therefore it is likely that U.S. networks and space-based assets collected data that would either exclude certain possibilities or make other possibilities more likely.
What can we logically conclude from the most reliable and trustworthy data available?
1. The pilots were conscious when they turned off the transponder (or the transponder failed) around 1:30 a.m. and when they changed course soon after.The aircraft was under the control of the pilots long enough for them to set a new course.
2. The aircraft flew an additional hour or more on the new westward course at cruising altitude.
3. No distress signal was sent during this 1+ hour flight after whatever event caused the the pilots to change course.
If we put these together, we can establish a number of logical parameters around each plausible scenario, where plausible scenario means a situation based on previous losses of commercial aircraft.
1. Pilot suicide. If the pilot had decided to commit suicide by crashing the plane, why not ditch the aircraft in the South China Sea? Why change course and fly for another hour?
Alternatively, the Malaysian military's reports are completely false and they were tracking an unknown aircraft near Pulau Perak at 2:15 a.m. (previously reported as 2:40 a.m.)
How many unidentified large aircraft are flying around Pulau Perak at 2:15 a.m. on a typical night? The possibility that the radar signal was not Flight 370 seems remote.
2. Mechanical failure that caused decompression or an electrical fire that incapacitated the flight deck. If such an emergency occurred, it enabled the pilots to change course and altitude.
Assuming a decompression event, we could expect the pilots to descend rapidly. If Flight 370 was indeed at 29,500 feet at 2:15 a.m., that suggests the aircraft was still capable of flight at cruising altitude. So either the pilots were still flying the aircraft or the decompression event enabled them to change course and set the autopilot before losing consciousness.
If the aircraft was being flown by autopilot, it could have flown for many more hours, given its fuel load, which raises the question: if the pilots were unconscious at 2:15 a.m., why did the aircraft suddenly crash 10 minutes later? Or did the aircraft simply leave the airspace covered by the Malaysian military?
If an emergency had crippled the aircraft's electrical system, it's unlikely the plane could have continued flying at cruising altitude for an additional hour. If a catastrophic electrical fire crippled the flight deck, how could the plane continue flying at cruising altitude for another hour, given that the battery backup would last at best 30 minutes?
In other words, the additional hour of flight time on a new course does not logically align with an emergency decompression or fire that led to the flight deck and pilots being incapacitated. A decompression event would have led to either A. a rapid controlled descent or B. the pilots unconscious/unable to take control and the autopilot flying the aircraft on the new course for many hours.
Alternatively, a catastrophic electrical fire would have either brought the aircraft down within minutes of the event or at best provided 30 minutes on emergency battery power. Neither jibes with an additional hour of flight at cruising altitude.
This leads to the conclusion that the aircraft was still being flown by the pilots, i.e. conscious decisions were being made by either the pilots or someone who had seized control of the flight deck.
If a mechanical emergency had crippled the aircraft, it seems unlikely that the pilots could change course and altitude but not be able to send a distress signal. If the pilots had lost consciousness but the rest of the plane's systems were nominal, the autopilot would have continued flying the aircraft until the fuel ran out, many hours beyond 2:15 a.m.
That suggests there was conscious control of the aircraft and that those in charge made a decision sometime after 2:15 a.m. that led to the loss of the aircraft. This scenario strongly suggests human action or error as the operative emergency rather than mechanical failure.
Either that, or some key data that has been released as fact is actually false.
Late breaking news: if the satellite images released by China (taken one day after Flight 370 went missing) are in fact photos of wreckage, then the Malaysian military was obviously not tracking Flight 370 to the west an hour later.
The blurry photo does not reveal much, but several features are noteworthy:
1. The three pieces are very large, which means they must be intact sections of the wings or fuselage. It is unlikely these would still be floating hours after a crash. We might also wonder, what sort of impact would create three large pieces rather than a debris field?
2. The three pieces are close together. Unless the aircraft landed intact in the water and sank in one piece, there would likely be a field of much smaller floating debris.
3. What else could this be? The large size of the pieces is certainly consistent with the scale of a 777.
4. Why did China withhold the imagery for three days? Did their own search ships reach the coordinates identified by the satellite?
5. The ocean currents and the location of the presumed debris do not compute. Ocean currents in the area are 2 kilometers/hour. Presumed debris is 141 miles from last known position This doesn't compute: the satellite image was taken 11 am Sunday 33 hours after MH370 presumably crashed; debris would only drift 33 hr X 2 KM=66 KM or about 40 miles from the last known position of HM370. Debris was 140 miles to the east--100 miles beyond what's possible in terms of debris drifting with currents from the presumed crash site.
In summary, these images open additional questions. There is no substitute for actually finding the aircraft or debris.
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I'm Malaysian. If this was a local incident, the press and other what nots will be told to shut up. Because this is now on an international scale, the incompetence of the idiotic and lazy government is now for the whole world to see.
The USA has long 'black-listed' Malay banks for not playing by IRS rules, which says the IRS RULES THE FUCK WORLD.
This is a 3-fer
1.) Kill chinese, cia
2.) Blame muslims, malay
3.) force the Malay' to allow IRS audits on their soill
Forget NO-KOREA, IRAN, and other 'evil countrys' the USA is more concerned with a country like Malay so close SINGAPORE that can say FUCK-YOU to the IRS.
I've heard that the Koch brothers are behind the hijacking. They want to use the people for medical experiments of the kind that will be conducted in the new Koch building at Columbia-Presbyterian hospital.
Sounds like there were survivors that needed to be silenced first along with cleaning up of any incriminating evidence along with comedy writers working overtime to work it all into the script to somehow blame the Iranians for this and make it believable at the same time. I would bet the US assets were shadowing that plane and on that wreckage like flies on shit the second it went off course.
Never let a good accident go to waste you know...
The Americans aren't saying anything because they probally shot the thing down...again USS Vincennes anyone?
No, the Americans probably aren't saying anything because they know what happened but don't want to divulge how they know.
I agree with this premise all players know, but if you divulge then you must ask, and then that country's victims will demand retribution.
China is not ready to NUKE the USA until it gets its money back, and the USA will do ANYTHING it can to ignite war and NULL&VOID all debt,
The Zio-Neo-Cons, need a war like ZH needs google Nickels.
With the types of satellites we have, early warning radar systems, space based systems, etc. you know that someone in one of the letter agencies or overseas knows exactly where this plane is.
I can just hear the analysts in Maryland yelling at the TV, "You're getting warmer, warmer...nope, colder...."
Why wouldnt they say something? Well, there are a couple of reasons. If it crashed, they know that eventually the searchers will find it. If it taken somewhere, they know where it is and the is a Seal Team on the way right now. If it was taken someone and they cannot get there, they will sit on their heels until they can figure out a way to drone the thing.
The photos the Chinese put out were horrible. You can get better resolution from online resources. That photo was laughable.
"We" know where it is. There are lots of dead people around it. And they are probably filming the new season of Lost as we write.
The Chinese are also hiding their capabilities. Their satelites have better resolution than that.
One should ask the only question, which was not covered by anyone nor has been asked:
What CARGO was onboard of MH370?
Germany's GOLD!!!
Not to be uncaring but who gives a shit? The people and the plane are in the ocean with Amelia Airheart. I'd like to know what we're missing while everyone obsesses about this and Beiber.
The captain of flt 370 is having tea with Amelia Earheart.
I'm somewhat befuddled. ACARS sends out TONS more info than just engine data. Simple items like air data (altitude - airspeed), flight control position, electrical system, pneumatic system, it's ALL there. But..... lets go over the biggy, it sends out inertial reference POSITIONING
If the ATC transponders failed (or where turned off)..... ACARS is STILL blasting out information.
Something is very wrong. Either this whole thing is a hoax or they know EXACTLY what happened to this aircraft.
I'm an avionics man.... I haven't worked on the 777, but the ACARS systems are all basically the same. Digital data. It all is input though a unit call a DFDAU (digital flight data acquisition unit). The data is forwarded to the flight recorder and ACARS. Airline maintenance centers receive this data and are sometimes warned of impending failures or actual ones. Maintenance turds like me get a call letting us know what problem is coming to us BEFORE the aircraft even lands. There is no frickin way they don't know what happened to this aircraft.
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MIssile hit. End of ATC transponders, end of ACARS. And whoever did it ain't talking: either intentional or a fuck-up (and they're trying to work the diplomacy line in an effort to keep more things from getting blown up).
I am still leaning towards an internal EMP or internal electrical surge since plane hulls are designed to be faraday cages if everything got fried including ACARS with no warning transmissions after the fact. Would explain why the cellphones were still working though too far out of range to to transmit since they would have been the only electrical items off when the EMP was discharged depending upon either way it would have been a catastrophic and pretty much instantaneous.
The odd part is communications went dark without warning but no mention on the ACARS if that went dark also. If it didn't they knew where that fucking plane was satellites or not.
I'm sure they have ARINC's finest over at the CIA trying to figure out what went right!
Apparently Malaysian Airlines did not subscribe to Boeing's maintenance service that gathers the engine/flight info. The only information apparently gathered by the satellite was that the plane was in fact "pinged" and was still flying.
Give it a break. Every airline company needs insurance. Where would that come from?
I expect the planes used by Malaysia are leased.
Then they shot themselves in the foot. The linked article which quoted from the WSJ was that engine data was being received four hours later. If Rolls is getting that info, so is the airline.
I don't know about the "ping" thing. Most ACARS information is air to ground. Crews can ask for weather, so two-way communication "is" available. A system called SELCAL or selective calling is used to contact the crew to let them know to "phone home" to dispatch. SELCAL can use VHF or HF. ACARS (depending on how it's wired) usually uses VHF while over land. Once over the water I'm guessing satellite communication is used. (I've never dug into the prints to check it out on the aircraft I work on.)
I can't see how the airline "wouldn't" use ACARS data. We left analog 20 years ago. The benefits of digital are fully utilized by all operators. Cost of monitoring shouldn't be an issue. The tools are available to be used. I would think that most do.
They know exactly what happened to this aircraft. In today's world, imagine someone turning off an airliner's transponder and expecting nothing to happen.
You would see scrambled military jets up along side very quickly. I expect the plane was hijacked; it changed direction; then a bomb was detonated at some point.
It's parked at Bin Ladens house
Not possible to park a 777 in northern VA.
Folks at Langley are pretty "crafty!"
A S4 Hanger
Nerve gas was introduced into the ventilation system, killed everyone except the perps who were type certified in a large jet (777, 737, etc). Of course my brain power is awesome, couldn't expect just anyone to hatch such a devious plan.
Would have to be pretty fast-acting such that none of the pilots or crew could set off a distress signal. Otherwise, points for thinking creatively!
Breaking: Is CHS suffering from cognitive dissonance?
" This conflicts with eyewitness accounts from fishermen reporting a large aircraft at a much lower altitude around 1,000 meters (3,000 feet). If the radar altitude is correct, this suggests the aircraft was not experiencing decompression, as the pilots would descend as an emergency response to decompression. If the fishermen's report is accurate, then decompression would not be an issue."
If there was decompression then the pilots would try to bring the plane down. If the fishermen saw the plane at low altitude, wouldn't that mean the pilots brought it down, thus decompression being an issue is possible?
ZH's conclusion? Underground reptilians. Yup, all their fault.
for this to happen at this time is just to weird. Im sure its coincidence, but when you look at all the other shit going on, even if so, well then its just humans trying to awake us from our dream. meaning strange events are more then what they seem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xG7Qwv23sg
the information being 'released' is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth,
this is like fukushima propoganda, but worse. because there's obviously a secret going on here, someone knows the secret and we don't know who knows.
so really--------why even bother paying attention so long as it's not likely to start a war that affects your taxation or other life in some other way?
unless you are malaysian, and even then---do you really think , you , as an american, are anything other than an information receptionist?
in other words. whoever wrote this article is like a tabloid news reader reporting to you what they saw on the tabloids. this whole news reporting of this event is a giant mindfuck. so just ignore it.
You can be sure our boys at the NSA know where that plane is but no one is saying anything because they were just chastised for eavesdropping on Merkels phone sex conversations. All kidding aside, if this plane isn't located at the bottom of the ocean soon, which I doubt it will be, you can bet it's presently being loaded with explosives at some remote air strip in IRAN. Think about it. Malaysian shoddy security with embedded terrorist cells, manual transponder shut down, change of heading directly west towards the Indian Ocean, low altitude flight under radar detection. This jet has the capability to fly outside of Indian or Pakistani air space to avoid detection and land in IRAN via an ocean route. I hate to give them credit, but it's a likely scenario.
Here is my theory for what it is worth. The flight was hijacked by the Chinese Muzzys, the so called Wiigers or however they spell it. They where going to do there own 9/11 type attack on the Chinese .gov and they got blasted/shot down by the Chinese AF. The Chinese .gov will hide the evidence and the fate of the flight will be a mystery to rival Arhearts disappearance.
I figure that a missle came into play as well and that there's diplomatic negotiations going on as to how to sping the story to the world w/o it causing any more explosions.
Wiigers = Uighurs (also spelled Uygyur)
This doesn't tie-in Freescale Semiconductors, so no points for you.
That is a really good analysis.
I'll post my best guess along with the others:
1). There was a wiring harness exposed to a relatively sharp sheet metal edge.
2). This caused an electric fire knocking out the transponder.
3). The crew tried to make a run for the nearest place they could put the plane down, but all of their navigation gear was not working.
4) The plane eventually crashed.....the ocean is big and a plane is hard to find, especially after it sinks.
This is not an accident for sure.
The timing with WW3 is just too perfect.
Maybe this plane does'nt exist at all..
Does someone Know somebody who
'Was in the plane'?
This may just be a big distraction
About worldwide économic collapse
And ww3 starting right now in Ukraine.
The plane carried the families of the Sandy Hook victims...
And no one thought to alert anyone of a problem?
I wonder which building in New York they'll fly this thing into after a paint job and transponder mod.
Not before Rudy's bunker has been rebuilt. Rudy II: the sequel
1stepcloser Good work, that would explain it.
All I can say fo sure is Rainman will never fly Malaysian Air
It's just a pub for the next show of
David coperfield
Ok. So lets put all of this together.
The plane vanishes directly after hand off from Malasian Air Traffic Control. Perfect timing to remote that sucker out of there to somewhere no on will be able to find it. Rumors that it went to the Cocos island which has a runway big enough to land it and hangers to hide it. At this point I would be looking into intel. connections to Cocos, ie: is it an intel outpost etc.
The 20 people who work for Freescale- which is a big DOD tech contractor owned by non other than the Carlyle group and Blackstone (that alone should point to an intel. op). They also make imbeddable chips (yep).
So let's put this together. They were likely flown out there because:
a) The 20 were about to let some classified info. go to the Chinese and they were being tracked by western intel. Once it was clear the 20 had and were about to give up classified info. the plane was 'taken' for National Security reasons.
b) Something else is about to go down, soon, perhaps within the next week or two. And they did not want those 20 in China while this 'Event' happens for fear of them being stuck there with China holding them. So they remoted the plane to a safe place to hold it for the time being. Meaning: either said event is planned or..... The US Gov. can time travel into the future to 'see' events that will happen (not so crazy really, rumors to this effect have been out for some time). Maybe both.
I think something is about to go down soon. And probably the wider markets along with it.
Anyone else have any ideas to add to the above?
Also- The Cocos island is about a 4 hr flight from last know position (ACARS tracked it 4hrs from last known posit). Coincidence?
Now hold on a second here!
Are you suggesting just because Blackstone Group was one of the three business entities (Blackstone Group, AIG and Veritas Capital) involved in 9/11, because they brokered the real estate deal, then become the owner of record of the mortgage of Build 7 of the WTC, and then were given management of the $1 billion captive insurance fund to "compensate" the families of the victims of 9/11, that they are somehow also involved just because they own Freescale (P.S. AIG is also invested in Freescale - - what a coincidecy?!?!?)?
I guess you are.....
(Too bad we can't ask Robert McKeon at Veritas Capital about this new event --- he unfortunately strangled himself to death, according to the medical examiner. Ever hea about anyone in history ever strangling themselves to death?)
I agree with you. Something big Will happen pretty soon, this week-end when market are close (sunday?) would be a nice day.
Very Thoughtful. I wonder where the Chinese satellite imagery comes in? A diversion, maybe? I don't think all 20 would have been about to 'let some classified info' go, though. One or two perhaps. Option 'b)' seems more plausible - and more scary from a geopolitical perspective.
The US shot it down with a Direct Energy Weapon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjSxwSK0Rc8
Until the question has been asked and answered, don't down arrow me you SOB.
At QANTAS, after every flight, pilots fill out a form called a gripe sheet, which conveys to the mechanics any problem they had with the airplane during the flight. The mechanics read and correct the problem, and then explain in writing on the lower half of the form what remedial action was taken. The pilot reviews the gripe sheets before the next flight. Never let it be said that ground crews and engineers lack a sense of humor.
(P = The problem logged by the pilot)
(S = The solution and action taken by the engineer)
P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit.
P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.
P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.
P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.
P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet-per-minute descent.
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.
P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.
P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.
P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That's what they're there for.
P: IFF inoperative.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.
P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you're right.
P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.
P: Aircraft handles funny.
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious.
P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.
P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.
P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget
"Auto-land not installed on this aircraft". LOL.
at long range, radar altitude estimates are very goofy. small changes in atmosphere show the target bouncing around.
a Embraer jet on a ferry flight clipped a brazilian 737 cutting it's wing off. early radar reports showed rapid
changes in alttude leading to charges the RJ pilots were hotdogging and flying all over.
The FDR and the passenger witness reported zero changes in altitude.
MA advertises Satellite Phones in business class on their 777-200 fleet. This indicates there are some SATCOMM capabilities on the plane, but apparently their ACARS wasn't configured through this particular service (whether it be iridium, inmarsat, etc.).
http://malaysiaairlines.com/hq/en/mh-experience/our-fleet/boeing-777-200...
It's gone. Gone for good. This will be one for the ages. It even happens on land in the USA. It will never be found.
RIP.
They are just planting psychological seeds before the real event like they did with Payne Stewart before 9-11.
Malacca Straits flash-point: http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/terrorism/Raymond.htm
Probably landed somewhere (Indonesia) to be turned into a flying missile
Does Jemaah Islamiyah have the types of resources to pull something like this off? That article is about maritime terrorism--this would be a completely different animal.
I know it's older article, but the point is, the countries in that region were able to shut down the terrorists threats more so the pirates (maritime). Maybe this possible hijack is payback. All they have to do is get pilots to on their side. Rumor was that the cabin crew/pilots houses and family were raided in Malaysia, denied by officials.
Also a major attack on the Straits would cripple trade from Asia.
As of no. 6, I would like to point out that despite persistent rumours in this direction the aircraft in question (registration 9M-MRO) was definitely not equipped with any inflight connectivity equipment and so did neither offer cellular service (GSM) nor Wifi onboard. Any inflight connectiviy service requires a satellite link through a relatively large satellite antenna mounted under a radome atop the fuselage which you can see from far.
The following photos show the missing aircraft without such antenna radome and for comparison a Singporean B777-200 with an antenna radome installed:
http://www.planespotters.net/Aviation_Photos/photo.show?id=387507
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Singapore_Airlines_B... (see the bump atop located on the upper right from the emergency door after the wing)
Also the fact that calls to some passengers' numbers returned ring tones does not necessarily mean the called mobile phones were registered on any network. There are countless reasons why there could have been a ring tone while in fact the called mobile phone has not been registered on any cellular network for hours.
6. Mobile phone data suggests the passengers' phones were still functioning after the aircraft lost contact with air traffic control (ATC) and the transponder was turned off/failed.
Uh, huh. So they expect us to believe the following.
#1: Something really bad happened to the airplane, but all the passenger cell phones continued to report their GPS positions... yet not one of the passengers thought to CALL ANYONE in such a situation. Uh, huh. Right.
#2: Or the passengers DID make calls, but nobody bothered to contact the people who received those calls and ask about the passenger conversations. Uh huh. Right.
#3: Nobody checked the GPS data those phones reported. Uh huh. Right.
I don't know for sure, but from 30,000 feet, I wouldn't be surprised if direct cell phone reception exists everywhere between Malaysia and Vietnam.
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And elsewhere, the engines continued to report operating data for 4 hours? From where? The bottom of the ocean? Uh, huh. Right.
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Finally a question. Was the flight path EXACTLY towards the west? If so, that is a bit suspicious, as if the pilot was trying to send or imply some kind of message lacking any other way to communicate. Either that or a clueless terrorist told the pilot to "fly west", and the pilot did exactly that.
How would you "track the phones using GPS?" GPS satellites only output information and phones don't automatically report GPS data, they're just a receiver. Sure, the phone can log the positions if it is told to do so (mapping apps, etc.), but unless there's a mechanism to send the log of positions out (via cellular signal), the data just stays on the phone.
Are you serious?
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You are not aware that the predators-that-be have been continuously logging the whereabouts of EVERY modern mobile phone on the planet for several years? They REQUIRE the mobile phone manufacturers to make the phones report this information periodically, or in the less egregious cases (less egregious products) the predators-that-be can make them report their positions remotely. Many models only report when they move more than 10 meters (to keep aggregate bandwidth under control).
This is very well known. Go dig through some of the Snowden materials if you have any doubts.
It is just a test. Of Chinese alertness.
Space aliens...
Cabin decompression ala Paine Stewart.
If tou want to get a clue as to ah370 HERE IT IS!
https://www.youtube.com/user/jagbodhi