Friends,
As all of us know about the incident of plane MH-370 !
Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport en route to Beijing at 00:41 on Saturday 8 March (16:41 GMT Friday).
About 50 minutes later, the aircraft lost contact with air traffic control.
No distress call was made.
On board, there were 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 14 countries. That included 153 Chinese and 38 Malaysians.
Two Iranian male passengers, Pouria Nour Mohammad Mahread and Delavar Syed Mohammad Reza, were travelling on fake passports. Neither had any apparent links to terrorist groups.
No debris from the plane has been found in the international search.
At least 10 countries, including China, the US and Singapore, were using a total of 42 ships and 39 aircraft to search for the missing plane in the South China Sea, the Malacca Strait and the Andaman Sea.
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Possible reasons of Plane lost :
Scenario: Mechanical failure?
Scenario: Hijacking?
Scenario: Pilot error
Scenario: Terrorist attack?
scenario:comet vapourised plane ?
scenario :Mid-air disintegration ?
scenario :In the jungles and waters of Vietnam ?
scenario :Pilot suicide ?
scenario :cosmic Rays ?
scenario : alien Abduction ?
scenario :-- A catastrophic structural failure ?
scenario : -- Bad weather ?
scenario :Accidental shoot-down by misscile ?
scenario :Bomb ?
scenario :Jet May Have Strayed Toward Andaman Sea?
And many more questions in mind of people ? you and me & the whole of globe ..??
All we can do is pray for the Survivors!
Thankyou!
Updates :13 mar 2014
Malaysia Airlines MH370 has now remained missing for nearly 6 days.
Malaysia has sent aircraft to look for debris of missing flight MH370
Xinhua report said the images from around 11 am on Sunday appear to show "three suspected floating objects" of varying sizes in a 20-kilometer radius, the largest about 24-by-22 meters (79-by-72 feet).
Last words from pilot: "All right, good night"
Vietnam scales down search for Malaysia Airlines flight .....
The families of those who were on board the Malaysia Airlines flight have refused compensation money of £3,040 from the airlines.
Officials initially said four or five passengers had checked in for the flight but did not board, and their luggage had to be taken off the plane before it departed for Beijing. This fueled speculation that terrorism might have caused the crash. On Wednesday, officials said some people with reservations never checked in and were simply replaced by standby passengers, and no baggage was removed.
Malaysia Airlines initially said the Boeing 777 lost contact with air traffic control at 2:40am after about two hours in the air. It later said contact was lost at 1:30am, as data on flight tracking websites had been showing. The incorrect time report led to speculation the flight had crashed somewhere between Vietnam and China.
Authorities have not ruled out any possible cause, including mechanical failure, pilot error, sabotage and terrorism, and they are waiting to find any wreckage or debris to determine what went wrong.
We are aware and we sent planes to cover that area over the past three days," Vietnamese Deputy Transport Minister Pham Quy Tieu told Reuters. "Today a CASA plane will search the area again," he said, referring to a twin-turboprop military aircraft.
------Malaysia’s civil aviation chief says no signs of the missing Malaysian jetliner have been found at a location where Chinese satellite images have shown what might be plane debris.
----Plane may have continued flying for four hours after it went missing: says US investigators.
----Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia Airlines said Thursday it would no longer use the flight codes MH370 and MH371 "as a mark of respect" to the 239 people on board its missing Beijing-bound passenger jet.
The Kuala Lumpur-Beijing service -- formerly MH370 -- will now take on the code MH318, while the return route will switch from MH371 to MH319.
over 2 million web users trying to search for lost plane MH -370 India to deploy ships, choppers and aircraft to search for missing jet Malaysian military ignored 'unidentified blips' after jet went missing....... |
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Malaysia is sharing the radar data with officials from American agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board, NYT added.
Now in its sixth day, the search for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 and its 239 passengers and crew has exposed tensions between Beijing and Kuala Lumpur, with Chinese officials from Premier Li Keqiang on down criticising Malaysia's handling of the crisis. China has sent a team of envoys and investigators to Malaysia to deepen its involvement.
The Chinese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur now says that the publication of satellite image was an 'accident' and was not endorsed by government, reports the Strait Times.
Malaysian authorities now say that contact with the aircraft was lost after Malaysia air traffic control transferred control to their Vietnamese counterparts. Authorities also said that no distress signal was recorded at all from MH370.
ABC news reported that US officials have “indications” that the flight MH370 crashed in the Indian Ocean. The officials told the news channel that USS Kidd is moving to the area to begin searching for the missing plane.
A senior Pentagon official said that it will take another 24 hours to move the ship into position.
Andrew Aude, 20, a student of computer science, in his Tumblr post mentioned a 2013 US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) Airworthiness Directive for the Boeing 777, the aircraft that was operating the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which spotted a weakness in the plane, The Strait Times reported Wednesday, according IANS report.
Yuvaraj Sowma, a Chennai-based astrologer and Vasthu Shastra expert, told the Malaysian Star Wednesday that he was making the prediction based on the current alignment of the planets, the sun and stars.
According to Sowma, a seventh generation astrologer, the aircraft went missing on an inauspicious day - Saturday - which was an Ashtami, the eighth day of the Hindu lunar calendar.
14th march updates :
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Missing plane sent signals to satellite for hours......after the aircraft went missing, an indication that it was still flying for hundreds of miles or more, a U.S. official briefed on the search said Thursday.
Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal said communication satellites received intermittent data “pings” from a missing Malaysia Airlines jet, giving the plane’s location, speed and altitude for at least five hours after it disappeared from civilian radar screens.
The final satellite ping was sent from over water, at what one of these people called a “normal” cruising altitude.
Noting that it is unclear why the transmissions stopped, the daily reported that one possibility could be that the system sending them had been disabled by someone on board.
Thailand has placed an Iranian man who allegedly booked the tickets for two men using forged passports on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight on its wanted list, news reports said on Friday.
Malaysia Airlines MH 370 Flight missing: Search may extend to Indian Ocean.......Expanding the search area to the Indian Ocean would be consistent with the theory that the Boeing 777 may have detoured to the west about an hour after take-off from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing.
updates :15march
Not ruling out a hijack, Malaysia today said the movement of the missing Flight MH370 with 239 people on board was “consistent with deliberate action by someone on plane“.
Prime Minister Najib Razak said authorities are now trying to trace the plane across two possible corridors — in the north to the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and a southern corridor from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.
“Based on new satellite communication we can say with a high degree of certainty that the aircraft communication addressing system was disabled just before the aircraft reached the east coast of Malaysia,” Najib told reporters here at a press conference.
He said the aircraft’s transponder was switched off shortly afterwards when the plane was between the border of Malaysian and Vietnamese air traffic control.
The possibility that the missing MalaysianAirlines Flight MH370 could have made it to the Andaman Sea, off the coast of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, could raise questions about the effectiveness of India's air defence systems.
India has further intensified its search efforts for the missing Malaysian Airlines MH 370 with additional naval and air assets being deployed for searching an expanded area in the Central and East Bay of Bengal.
march 16th : updates
Both the timing and informal nature of the phrase, spoken to air traffic controllers as the plane with 239 people aboard was leaving Malaysian-run airspace on a March 8 flight to Beijing, could further heighten suspicions of hijacking or sabotage.
China sharply criticised Malaysia on Monday for its handling of an investigation into the disappearance of a commercial aircraft with 239 people aboard nine days ago.
China’s official state news agency Xinhua said valuable time was lost due to the “lack of authoritative information” about what happened to the aircraft, which had radically changed course and had its communication system deliberately turned off.
Families face worst nightmare of mid-air ordeal on MH370
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18th Mar Updates :
Malaysia's acting transport minister has sought to allay concerns over the known sequence of events surrounding the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, insisting that the focus remains on deliberate action.
Hishamuddin Hussein admitted in a press conference on 18 March that, contrary to prior indications, investigators were unable to identify when the ACARS system might have been deactivated on flight MH370.
Residents on a remote island in Maldives claim they saw a ‘low-flying jumbo jet’ matching the description of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the hours after it disappeared.
19th Mar Updates :
Eleven days have passed since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing, and 26 nations are struggling to search for the airliner over an area more than two-thirds the size of the continental United States.
Malaysian investigators — with the help of the FBI — are trying to restore files deleted last month from the home flight simulator of the pilot aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane to see if they shed any light on the disappearance, officials said Wednesday.
Information about the missing MH370 flight gathered from US spy satellites at a military base in Australia is being withheld from the Malaysian government, according to reports.
As search
efforts to find flight MH370 enters its 12th day today, experts who found the wreckage of an Air France plane in the Atlantic Ocean fear that if the Malaysia Airlines plane had crashed, its debris may never be located.
Angry Chinese relatives have tried to gatecrash Malaysia's tightly controlled daily media briefing on the missing plane in chaotic scenes underlining the frustrations surrounding the 12-day search.
New radar data from Thailand gave Malaysian investigators more potential clues today for how to retrace the course of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.This came while a massive multinational search unfolded in an area the size of Australia.
20th March Updates :
Some are plausible, some are downright absurd. There is, unfortunately, no clear answer as the families of the 239 passengers and crew - and the rest of the world - wait in agony. Even the most logical hypotheses about what happened to the 209-foot-long Boeing 777 have holes. No scenario solves this mystery.
Two objects possibly related to the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 people have been spotted in the southern Indian Ocean, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday.
FBI examines simulator data taken from MH370's pilot's home.
Family anger erupts as Malaysia jet MH370 search enters 12th day.
21st march updates :
Malaysia continues to work on the diplomatic, technical and logistical challenges involved in the search for MH370.
We are still awaiting information from the Australian search and rescue operation as to whether the objects shown in the satellite images released by Australia yesterday are indeed related to MH370.
China has deployed five ships and three ship-borne helicopters, which are currently heading toward the southern corridor.Three Chinese aircraft (two Ilyushin IL-76s and one Shaanxi Y-8) arrived in Malaysia at 11 am this morning.They will also be searching in the southern corridor.Japan is deploying its assets to Perth, including two P-3 Orions, to assist with the Australian search efforts.
A second day of searching for sightings of possible debris from a missing Malaysian airliner in the southern Indian Ocean has proved fruitless.
Satellite images have revealed objects possibly related to the plane in waters far south-west of Western Australia.
22nd march Updates :
Australia has vowed the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane will go on indefinitely, despite no sightings yet of wreckage in the Indian Ocean.
Deputy PM Warren Truss said the operation would go on until "further searching would be futile - and that day is not in sight".
Satellites detected debris this week, but so far it has not been found.
Satellites detected possible debris earlier this week 2,500 km (1,550 miles) south-west of Perth in Australia.
No debris found on second search day, as Jon Donnison reports.
Australia says MH370 search to continue 'indefinitely'
While possible clues about the fate of a Malaysia Airlines jet missing for more than two weeks keep coming from satellite images, it has been as frustrating as ever to turn the hints from space into actual sightings.
China on Saturday released a satellite image showing an object floating in a remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean near where planes and ships have been crisscrossing since similar images from an Australian satellite emerged earlier in the week. China's image, showing an object that appeared to be 22 metres by 13 meters, was taken around noon Tuesday.
The discovery of two objects by the Australian satellite led several countries to send planes and ships to a stretch of the Indian Ocean about 2,500 kilometres southwest of Australia. But three days of searching have produced no confirmed signs of the plane.
23rd march Updates :
Malaysia has received new satellite images from France showing floating objects in the main search area for the missing jet, in the Indian Ocean. The day's events as they happened.
The search and rescue operation remains an international effort, co-ordinated by Malaysia. A number of countries are leading in their respective search areas and all countries involved are displaying unprecedented levels of co-operation.
The latest satellite image now means that three different satellites have picked up what appears to be debris in the water in the area of the southern corridor search zone.
France’s foreign ministry said the images came in the form of satellite-generated radar echoes, which contain information about the location and distance of the object which bounces a signal back.
So far there has been nothing concrete found, only the grainy satellite images and a visual sighting of what appeared to be a wooden pallet which has yet to be located.
The search now involves:
-Two Chinese Ilyushin IL-76s that have arrived in Perth, and will depart for the search and rescue operation at 05:00 and 06:00;
— Two Japanese P3 Orions that left Subang airport, Malaysia, for Perth;
— The Australian Defence Vessel ‘Ocean Shield’, which has a sub-sea remotely operated vehicle, and is currently en route to the southern corridor;
— One Indian Navy P8 Poseidon and one Indian Air Force C130 that left Subang airport on Sunday to join the search and rescue operation in the northern part of the southern corridor, which is being led by Indonesia.
Debris : “A number of small objects, fairly close together within the Australian search zone, including a wooden pallet.”
A Chinese satellite image also revealed a large floating object deep in the southern Indian Ocean.
“Obviously the more aircraft we have, the more ships we have — and HMAS success is in the search area now — the more confident we are of recovering whatever material is down there.”
There is a “high likelihood” that the images are the wreckage of MH370, aviation expert Neil Hansford said.
The new find appeared to back up Australia’s efforts to focus the search at the location of the previous sighting, 2300km south west of Perth, he said.
Sunday’s search was split into two areas within the same proximity covering 59,000 square kilometres about 2500 kilometres southwest of Perth. These areas have been determined by drift modelling.
A total of eight aircraft have been tasked by AMSA’s Rescue Coordination Centre to undertake search activities.
24th march updates :
Good morning, and welcome back to our live coverage of the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
It is now 15 days since the jet disappeared with 239 people on board. This morning, search crews have headed out into a remote part of the Indian Ocean, off the western coast of Australia, for a third day, after satellite images appeared to show large pieces of wreckage floating in the water there. The last two days of searches in the area 1,500 miles west of Perth have failed to find any trace of the plane.Tonight, a transcript showing the final communication between Flight MH370 and air traffic controllers was releasedExperts now say satellites are the way forward following the disappearance of the Malaysian plane.Even though Malaysia suspects someone may have hidden its tracks, the inability of 26 nations to find a 250-tonne Boeing 777 has shocked an increasingly connected world.The search for the missing plane could be about to get even more difficult.
Australian marine meteorologist Roger Badham has warned the weather in the area is about to badly deteriorate.
It is now two weeks since the plane disappeared.
Since then, a huge search involving almost 30 countries and some of the most sophisticated technology around has taken place.
But still we have no idea where missing Flight MH370 is.
The final 54 minutes of communication on-board Flight MH370 will soon be revealed. Malaysian transport ministers says its very difficult dealing with the families, because the one question they want to know, "where are their loved ones", is the one they can't answer.
Despite finding nothing during their first sweep of the southern Indian Ocean search area, one of the captains of the Australian planes looking for debris says "with any luck we will find something shortly".
The search for the missing plane has now resumed in the Indian Ocean.
Conditions will be extremely hazardous with huge seas and strong winds.12:am
Evening news : Special
Based on the new analysis, Inmarsat and the AAIB have concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth.
There were heartbreaking scenes in Beijing after families of people on board were told there was no chance that their relatives survived Here is a statement from Malaysia Airlines which it issued as the Prime Minister announced that there was little doubt that nobody survived.While the mystery continues, our immediate thoughts must turn to the families who have just been told that their loved ones are dead.
The Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared over two weeks ago crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday.
New satellite analysis from Britain had shown that Flight MH370, with 239 people on board, was last seen in the middle of the Indian Ocean west of Perth, Australia, he said in a statement.
“This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites,” Najib said.
“It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.”
The objects, described as a “grey or green circular object” and an “orange rectangular object”, were spotted on Monday afternoon, said Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, adding that three planes were also en route to the area..
The so-called black boxes — the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder — record what happens on board planes in flight. At crash sites, finding the black boxes soon is crucial because the locator beacons they carry fade out after 30 days.
Closure: Malaysia Airlines MH 370 plane 'lost' in Indian Ocean, authorities tell passengers' kin.
Relatives sob after announcement on missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
Gudnight Friends ............We all are feeling sad to hear the news of MH370 which ended its journey in Indian ocean .
May the souls of Passengers Rest in Peace Amen !
Comments
save a prayer for them... everyone is wondering what actually happened behind this mistery :s
May Allah bring all the people on board safely back to their families, Ameen.
Let us all Pray for their Safety....and hope our Prayers reach God and they will return safely....
I wish all of them will be safe.Ameen.
I wish all the passengers were still alive somewhere! You never know! So far, the information about the missing flight has been so confusing. Whatever happened to the flight? Anybody's guess now.
Let's pray for all of the victims on the missing flight.
May Allah bring them back to their families!!! Ameen ...