It's almost five days ago the Malaysia Flight MH370 has been disappeared , while en route from Kaula Lampur to Beijing.The mistery still continues and has not produced the results.Search and rescue teams continued to look for the aircraft.
The Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew,lost contact with air traffic control between Malaysia and Vietnam over the outh China Sea early Saturday local time, and has not been seen or heard from since.The passengers were from 14 countries, including 152 from China, 38 from Malaysia, six Australians, two New Zealanders and four americans.The aircraft departed at 12.41am and was scheduled to land at 6.30am but it never arrived.
The Boeing B777-200 was at the “safest” part of the flight when it disappeared from the radar, cruising at 35,000 feet over the South China sea, and this would have given the pilots ample time to report a technical problem.The airline said the captain was a very experienced pilot, a 33-year veteran of the company with almost 20,000 hours of flight time.Aviation magazine Flight Global’s operations and safety editor David Learmount said: “It’s extraordinary the pilots failed to call because they had plenty of time to. Unless there was a bomb on board but there has been no evidence of that.”
It has been more than 72 hours since the plane went missing and nothing substantial has been recovered, creating further mystery about the events that led to the plane’s disappearance. 11 countries are now helping with the search sending in aircraft and vessels to help search the water near where an oil slick has been discovered.
The discovery that two people whose names appeared on the passenger list were in fact not on board, and had reported their passports stolen, lends some early credence to the theory that a bomb might have exploded.The FBI is expected to analyze thumbprints of two men who used false passports to board the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared.According to the report, Airport security took the prints from two men who boarded Flight 370 to Beijing at the Kuala Lumpur airport on March 8 using passports stolen from an Italian and an Austrian tourist.
The Questions that would raise
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Q. How could a Boeing 777 simply vanish? Aren’t they always tracked by radar or satellites?
Radar coverage is not universal, especially over water. In areas without radar, pilots are generally required to radio in their positions at fixed intervals, mostly to assure that air traffic controllers can keep aircraft out of one another’s way. Between intervals, something could go wrong.
Planes like the 777 also have automatic systems that send out data on engine performance and other technical functions. Those signals go to a maintenance base, not to air traffic control. Air France used those signals to help determine what happened when its Flight 447 disappeared over the equatorial Atlantic. Investigators may be doing something similar in Kuala Lumpur.
Q. Are there any signs that terrorism might have been involved?
No group is known to have claimed to have destroyed the plane. Beyond that, not enough is known to speculate.
Q. If the plane had a major malfunction, wouldn’t the pilots have called for help and sent distress signals?
Pilots have a mantra for setting priorities in an emergency: aviate, navigate, communicate. The first priority is to fly the airplane. Telling air traffic controllers on the ground what is going on comes third, since doing so is unlikely to instantly yield any help with the crisis in the cockpit, whatever it may be. If the pilots are fighting to keep the plane aloft, they may not have time to use the radio.
UPDATED 03/12/2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 crew’s last words from cockpit-‘All right, good night’
The last radio transmission from the cockpit of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 gave no hint of its mysterious disappearance that five days later has stymied 12 countries, 42 ships and 39 aircraft scouring land and sea to find the aircraft.
“All right, good night,” were the last words spoken from the cockpit, Malaysia’s ambassador to Beijing, Iskandar Sarudin, said at a news conference in Beijing for relatives of the 154 Chinese who are among the missing 239 people on board.
As the plane reached the boundary between Malaysian and Vietnamese airspace, the Malaysian air control announced it was handing over to Ho Chi Minh City Control.
Flight MH370 replied “”All right, good night” — the last known radio transmission heard from the aircraft.
About three minutes later, Vietnam’s control centre noticed that the aircraft had disappeared from radar and all contact with Flight MH370 was lost an hour after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur early on Saturday. Night skies were clear and there was no suspicion of any mechanical problems.
The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner expanded on Wednesday to cover a swathe of Southeast Asia, from the South China Sea to India’s territorial waters, with authorities no closer to explaining what happened to the plane.
Also, the satellite view detects malaysia flight "suspect crash area".The details are here(http://heightsofawesomeness.blogspot.com/2014/03/latest-update-on-missing-malaysia.html)
As the hours go on and the lack of information creates mass confusion and speculation.However, Malaysia Airlines has not confirmed that the airplane has crashed.Let's all pray for the good news, that all the passengers return alive.
The Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew,lost contact with air traffic control between Malaysia and Vietnam over the outh China Sea early Saturday local time, and has not been seen or heard from since.The passengers were from 14 countries, including 152 from China, 38 from Malaysia, six Australians, two New Zealanders and four americans.The aircraft departed at 12.41am and was scheduled to land at 6.30am but it never arrived.
The Boeing B777-200 was at the “safest” part of the flight when it disappeared from the radar, cruising at 35,000 feet over the South China sea, and this would have given the pilots ample time to report a technical problem.The airline said the captain was a very experienced pilot, a 33-year veteran of the company with almost 20,000 hours of flight time.Aviation magazine Flight Global’s operations and safety editor David Learmount said: “It’s extraordinary the pilots failed to call because they had plenty of time to. Unless there was a bomb on board but there has been no evidence of that.”
It has been more than 72 hours since the plane went missing and nothing substantial has been recovered, creating further mystery about the events that led to the plane’s disappearance. 11 countries are now helping with the search sending in aircraft and vessels to help search the water near where an oil slick has been discovered.
The discovery that two people whose names appeared on the passenger list were in fact not on board, and had reported their passports stolen, lends some early credence to the theory that a bomb might have exploded.The FBI is expected to analyze thumbprints of two men who used false passports to board the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared.According to the report, Airport security took the prints from two men who boarded Flight 370 to Beijing at the Kuala Lumpur airport on March 8 using passports stolen from an Italian and an Austrian tourist.
The Questions that would raise
??
Q. How could a Boeing 777 simply vanish? Aren’t they always tracked by radar or satellites?
Radar coverage is not universal, especially over water. In areas without radar, pilots are generally required to radio in their positions at fixed intervals, mostly to assure that air traffic controllers can keep aircraft out of one another’s way. Between intervals, something could go wrong.
Planes like the 777 also have automatic systems that send out data on engine performance and other technical functions. Those signals go to a maintenance base, not to air traffic control. Air France used those signals to help determine what happened when its Flight 447 disappeared over the equatorial Atlantic. Investigators may be doing something similar in Kuala Lumpur.
Q. Are there any signs that terrorism might have been involved?
No group is known to have claimed to have destroyed the plane. Beyond that, not enough is known to speculate.
Q. If the plane had a major malfunction, wouldn’t the pilots have called for help and sent distress signals?
Pilots have a mantra for setting priorities in an emergency: aviate, navigate, communicate. The first priority is to fly the airplane. Telling air traffic controllers on the ground what is going on comes third, since doing so is unlikely to instantly yield any help with the crisis in the cockpit, whatever it may be. If the pilots are fighting to keep the plane aloft, they may not have time to use the radio.
UPDATED 03/12/2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 crew’s last words from cockpit-‘All right, good night’
The last radio transmission from the cockpit of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 gave no hint of its mysterious disappearance that five days later has stymied 12 countries, 42 ships and 39 aircraft scouring land and sea to find the aircraft.
“All right, good night,” were the last words spoken from the cockpit, Malaysia’s ambassador to Beijing, Iskandar Sarudin, said at a news conference in Beijing for relatives of the 154 Chinese who are among the missing 239 people on board.
As the plane reached the boundary between Malaysian and Vietnamese airspace, the Malaysian air control announced it was handing over to Ho Chi Minh City Control.
Flight MH370 replied “”All right, good night” — the last known radio transmission heard from the aircraft.
About three minutes later, Vietnam’s control centre noticed that the aircraft had disappeared from radar and all contact with Flight MH370 was lost an hour after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur early on Saturday. Night skies were clear and there was no suspicion of any mechanical problems.
The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner expanded on Wednesday to cover a swathe of Southeast Asia, from the South China Sea to India’s territorial waters, with authorities no closer to explaining what happened to the plane.
Also, the satellite view detects malaysia flight "suspect crash area".The details are here(http://heightsofawesomeness.blogspot.com/2014/03/latest-update-on-missing-malaysia.html)
As the hours go on and the lack of information creates mass confusion and speculation.However, Malaysia Airlines has not confirmed that the airplane has crashed.Let's all pray for the good news, that all the passengers return alive.
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