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As US and India defence forces close in on the new areas of vital interest in the Indian Ocean on Day 7 of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 the country s acting transport minister and minister of defence Hishammuddin Hussein feigned remarkable ignorance of the pace of events at the daily media update.
This new search imperative is far to the west of the current search area focused on the main Strait of Malacca and the South China Sea, which are on opposite sides of the Gulf of Thailand which is where MH370 vanished very early on the morning of 8 March while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.
The [India Government] statement gives no specific reason for searching in this area, but media reports quote Indian officials as saying that the search area was specifically request by Malaysian authorities.
Instead the minister said we will wait to confirm information with US officials, in relation to reports that the US had information indicating a crash in the Indian Ocean and satellite data showing california wine tours MH370 flew for more than four hours after it disappeared.
In fact it is half a day since the White House spokesman appeared on US and international news networks saying that America had information indicating a crash in a part of the Indian Ocean and was sending naval vessels including the USS Kidd to an area of interest.
The Kuala Lumpur briefing came hours after Reuters published a report indicating that MH370 flew a very controlled and cleverly constructed flight path after it had gone dark over the Gulf of Thailand and crossed the Malaysia peninsula westbound toward its flight toward the Andaman Sea and beyond.
Instead of dealing directly with these reports the Malaysia authorities told the end of Day 7 media conference that US experts have indicated that they studying the possibility of of satellite communications california wine tours with MH370 and would share what they knew with Malaysia.
At the start of this somewhat embarrassing briefing Hishammuddin Hussein said the previously extended search areas in the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca and the Andaman Sea had been further expanded today.
california wine tours The minister repeated the correct statement that the ACARS automated data system on MH370 had not transmitted further data on its engine status and other information after the Malaysia Airlines 777-200 dropped off the air traffic control system radars 42 minutes after take-off.
But that wasn t the point. The US reports of satellite tracking of the jet for hours after it disappeared were based on passive electronic pinging of the ACARS network california wine tours by the jet, not active status reports.
It will be one week tomorrow Saturday that MH370 vanished, only to appear as electronic traces on satellite networks used to receive status updates and locational signals that are tonight widely recognised for their tracking capabilities except in Malaysia.
As this bit from RR (below) shows, everyone seems to have gone into damage limitation mode. Not a good thing when it is a matter of great public california wine tours and international interest. We still don t seem to have a definitive answer as to those transmissions at 4 or 5 hours, do we? And really, doesn t RR owe more to the approx. billion pax who with their very lives rely upon their engines every year, than to Malaysia which seems to be eroding confidence in air travel with every presser they hold?
Rolls-Royce continues to provide california wine tours its full support to the authorities and Malaysia Airlines. Rolls-Royce concurs with the statement made on Thursday 13 March by Malaysia’s transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, regarding engine health monitoring data received from the aircraft.
california wine tours During that press conference Hussein quoted Rolls-Royce saying that a report in the Wall Street Journal claiming the plane had sent signals hours after it lost contact with air traffic control were inaccurate. The WSJ has since published a correction saying the signals came from a separate communication device from the engines.
We are treating this as if it were already a formal investigation and that means we are unable to share the information with you that we have shared with the authorities california wine tours in Malaysia as it must be treated as confidential. It also means that we needed to ensure that the authorities were aware before we made any statement.
I don t think it is inexplicable. Openness is deeply anathema to their society and politics. Hierarchy california wine tours and deference upwards is the norm. Thus this stuff, whether it is technical or whatever is being deferred upwards even when those people are not familiar and are not trained and are not equipped to deal with it. One glimpses the reasons why Singapore split from the Malaysian federation back in 1964 (and as it happens inherited what turned into SIA because Malaysia didn t want the fledgling national airline!).
The search crews seem to be projecting his path in a straight line towards India. I think if I wanted to avoid detection california wine tours I d fly over the Andaman Islands and then bias the flight closer to the coast of Burma, where they have less resources for detection and rescue.
Michael you have described them as I have experienced and shouldn t have expected them to behave. It is almost that you need to know the answer to your question before you ask because one will never get a direct answer. Love the people love the country but we should expect their behaviour to match what we may consider our normal operandi! california wine tours The most efficient looking I have ever seen them is at the checkpoint after the causeway at Jahor Bahru. Border control went through our car and driver with a fine tooth comb it took ages to get through (some years ago now) but that is because they were looking for drugs. Every car with a foreigner was checked. It was also the first place in the world I saw luggage being searched in front of me until I went to the Maldives not long after this. Once again it was not about security california wine tours it was to take away my fashion mags and check if we had alcohol there. AS I have said MH370 should be one hell of a wake up call about what is really important to achieve safe airline travel in this age.
Add in the sorting out and looking at passengers and non stand out as Hi-jack, terrorist or an experienced pilot of any kind let alone a 777 pilot and that person would have to get into the cockpit, subdue california wine tours the crew and conduct all those actions california wine tours without odd aircraft behavior showing up on radar until they got the transponder turned off.
What we really need is the outside experts tell us about the Malaysian military radars track and if its the 777 and can you do a rough locate from the pings from the off but still on line Switch that said yes I am able to talk if someone feeds me some data to send
With the latest info on its possible flight track, wondering whether california wine tours some weird glitch(s) has locked the plane into flying a previous track to Mumbai? ie, at the last contact waypoint, it decided to hunt the waypoint west of Malaysia to resume its flight to Mumbai ? eg involving electronic california wine tours flight bags? or some conflict between the flight computers etc.. (I know this doesn t explain how the multiple radio systems have failed..) Is it possible to have had some form of cockpit fire and the plane still flying though not under pilot control?
Tango apparently the pilot (Shah) had built his own sim cockpit using Microsoft Flight Simulator with *six* monitors! Now plenty of aviation nerds build such things (with fewer monitors) but it would be just the thing if you wanted to practice hijacking your own aircraft without raising suspicions. Quite apart from aircraft included with FS9 or FSX, there are add-ons available which are 100% simulations of specific aircraft (eg requiring full cockpit start-up sequences) and a company called PMDG does a phenomenally detailed one for the 777 which includes california wine tours .pdfs of the real airliner s manuals!
comet if you re referring to the last ACARS transmission as one of the events, I think that s proven california wine tours to be a furphy. The ACARS system only transmits four times in the flight at specific stages and the next one (which IIRC was the at the start of descent from cruise) wouldn t have been due for several hours.
california wine tours Malcom Street, I agree; but these systems could have been manually switched off a different times according to information we are unaware of (something in the ping traces california wine tours maybe). The publicly available info though does not allow us to conclude the switch offs were separate.
It is good to see this blog emphasizing the difference between ACARS data and the alleged SATCOM pings , it seems that the Malaysians are still clinging to denying that any additional ACARS data was sent, and this is one of the truly puzzling issues to me.
We have some potentially absolutely critical tracking data, these pings or handshake initiation information that has been retrieved from the Immarsat logs. If correct they completely change the whole understanding of the situation, even more so if they do indeed contain location, california wine tours speed, and altitude markers. The US seems completely convinced by this data White House spokesman california wine tours confirms it, so at the highest political level). So why hasn t this been the absolute focus: Is theis data reliable and is it correct ! To have the Malaysians parrot no more ACARS messages california wine tours is mind-numbingly stupid; albeit the original WSJ journal alleged that, but that was corrected 2-3 days ago. Add to this the now thoroughly analysed ,military radar data, and work out if the combined california wine tours information is reliable and a good indication of where the aircraft flew.
I have to emphasize, IF this data is correct then the South China Sea/Gulf of Thailand is not worth searching ! Yet it seems that the Malaysians are simply so overwhelmingly incompetent they are unabale california wine tours to evaluate the new data, at least on the surface. Is this some cultural problem such as losing face that they cannot admit significant changes that they didn t discover themselves ? They seem to have asked Vietnam to send SAR asset