Stolen passports on Malaysian flight

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Here's another wild track of thought and a means of aeroplane tracking I previously have never heard of. I wonder how many were listening to this flight via

Multilateration & ADS-B. WHAT you say, details here... http://www.multilateration.com/surveillance/multilateration.html I was reading, as you do the comments to this one

CIA rendition jet was waiting in Europe to SNATCH SNOWDEN

Unmarked Gulfstream tracked as it passed above UK

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/13/cia_rendition_jet_was_waiting_in_europe_to_snatch_snowden/

where Multilateration & ADS-B was used to track the flight

http://regmedia.co.uk/2014/06/12/snowjetrack.png

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and so it continues

MH370: Deputy PM Warren Truss announces new search to begin in August

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/mh370-deputy-pm-warren-truss-announces-new-search-to-begin-in-august/story-e6frfq80-1226967783002

by: Jennifer Rajca, wires

From: News Corp Australia Network

June 26, 2014 4:21PM

THE hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is moving to a new area south of where an intensive effort failed to find a trace.

Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss says this new area was checked for wreckage earlier but the search would now go underwater.

An expert group has reviewed all existing information and the new area, covering up to 60,000 square kilometres in the southern Indian Ocean, is now regarded as the aircraft’s most likely final resting place.

It is expected the underwater search will start in August and take up to 12 months.

Still no answers ... no flight debri or crash site has been located despite an international search effort for MH370.

Mr Truss said mapping of the 60,000 sq kilometre area has begun using two survey ships and will run up until August when a “comprehensive search” will begin.

That will take a year, Mr Truss said.

The area’s surface was searched previously, but it is “largely unmapped” and crews did not go underwater, he added.

“The new search area is the likely place where the aircraft is resting,” he said.

Mr Truss said the latest search area refinement had involved the efforts and expertise of specialists from around the world.

“Specialists have analysed satellite communications information — information which was never initially intended to have the capability to track an aircraft — and performed extremely complex calculations,” he said.

“The new priority area is still focused on the seventh arc, where the aircraft last communicated with satellite. We are now shifting our attention to an area further south along the arc based on these calculations.

“The Australian Transport Safety Bureau will today release a report outlining the basis on which this search area has been defined.”

Mr Truss said the search for MH370 continues with a bathymetric survey — or mapping of the ocean floor — in the search area, to be followed by a comprehensive search of the sea floor.

“The bathymetric survey has already commenced, with the Chinese survey ship Zhu Kezhen and the Australian-contracted vessel Fugro Equator conducting operations in the areas provided by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau,” Mr Truss said.

“It will take around three months to complete the bathymetric survey.

“The underwater search will aim to locate the aircraft and any evidence to assist with the Malaysian investigation of the disappearance of MH370.”

It is expected that the underwater search will begin in August and take up to 12 months to complete.

In the greatest aviation mystery of our time, MH370 vanished without a trace with 239 people on board while en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8 this year.

Despite an international search effort, no flight debris or crash site has been found.

An official police investigation into the tragedy has identified the captain as the prime suspect — if it is proven human intervention was involved.

Captain Zaharie Shah became the focus of the special investigation in Malaysia after all other passengers were cleared of any suspicious motives.

Although the new conclusion gives insight into the police focus, it does not solve the riddle of the disappearance as the investigation has not ruled out the possibility of terrorism or mechanical failure.

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MH370: New evidence of cockpit tampering as investigation into missing

plane continues

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10933917/MH370-New-evidence-of-cockpit-tampering-as-investigation-into-missing-plane-continues.html

Investigations into the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have

revealed apparent tampering of systems in the cockpit

By Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney

2:26PM BST 29 Jun 2014

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02955/map-mh370_2955060b.jpg

Air crash investigators probing the disappearance of*Malaysia *Airlines MH-370 have discovered possible new evidence of tampering with the plane's cockpit equipment.

A report released by Australian air crash investigators has revealed that the missing Boeing 777 suffered a mysterious power outage during the early stages of its flight, which experts believe could be part of an attempt to avoid radar detection.

According to the report, the plane's satellite data unit made an unexpected "log-on" request to a satellite less than 90 minutes into its flight from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, to the Chinese city of Beijing. The reports says the log-on request - known as a "handshake" - appears likely to have been caused by an interruption of electrical power on board the plane.

"A log-on request in the middle of a flight is not common," said the report, by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. "An analysis was performed which determined that the characteristics and timing of the logon requests were best matched as resulting from power interruption."

David Gleave, an aviation safety expert from Loughborough University, said the interruption to the power supply appeared to be the result of someone in the cockpit attempting to minimise the use of the aircraft's systems. The action, he said, was consistent with an attempt to turn the plane's communications and other systems off in an attempt to avoid radar detection.

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"A person could be messing around in the cockpit which would lead to a power interruption," he said. "It could be a deliberate act to switch off both engines for some time. By messing about within the cockpit you could switch off the power temporarily and switch it on again when you need the other systems to fly the aeroplane."

Inmarsat, the company has confirmed the assessment but says it does not know why the aircraft experienced a power failure.

"It does appear there was a power failure on those two occasions," Chris McLaughlin, from Inmarsat, told /The Telegraph./ "It is another little mystery. We cannot explain it. We don't know why. We just know it did it."

The Australian report released by Australian authorities has revealed that the Boeing 777 attempted to log on to Inmarsat satellites at 2.25am, three minutes after it was detected by Malaysian military radar.

This was as the plane was flying north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The aircraft had already veered away from the course that would have taken it to its destination of Beijing, but had not yet made its turn south towards the Indian Ocean.

The aircraft experienced another such log-on request almost six hours later, though this was its seventh and final satellite handshake and is believed to have been caused by the plane running out of fuel and electrical power before apparently crashing, somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean. The other five handshakes were initiated by the satellite ground station and were not considered unusual.

Asked whether the power interruption could have been caused by a mechanical fault, Mr Gleave said: "There are credible mechanical failures that could cause it. But you would not then fly along for hundreds of miles and disappear in the Indian Ocean."

Another aviation expert, Peter Marosszeky, from the University of New South Wales, agreed, saying the power interruption must have been intended by someone on board. He said the interruption would not have caused an entire power failure but would have involved a "conscious" attempt to remove power from selected systems on the plane.

"It would have to be a deliberate act of turning power off on certain systems on the aeroplane," he said. "The aircraft has so many backup systems. Any form of power interruption is always backed up by another system.

"The person doing it would have to know what they are doing. It would have to be a deliberate act to hijack or sabotage the aircraft."

An international team in Malaysia investigating the cause of the crash has not yet released its findings formally, but has indicated it believes the plane was deliberately flown off course. The plane disappeared on March 8 with 239 passengers aboard but an international air, sea and underwater search has failed to find any wreckage.

The Australian report added that the plane appeared to have flown on autopilot across the Indian Ocean and that the crew and passengers were likely to have been unresponsive due to lack of oxygen during the southward flight.

It has recommended an underwater search in an area about 1,100 miles west of Australia, around the location where the plane's seventh "handshake" is believed to have occurred.

The report also notes that the plane's in-flight entertainment system delivered a satellite message 90 seconds after the first power failure but not after the second failure hours later. This, it says, "could indicate a complete loss of generated electrical power shortly after the seventh handshake".

The new underwater search will begin in August and cover about 23,000 square miles. It is expected to take up to a year.

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It's been a while since we have heard anything from this, so today an "update"

So who is hiding what or is it "nothing to see here.... move along"

Chinese hackers spied on investigators of Flight MH370 - report

Classified data on flight's disappearance pinched

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/21/mh370_disaster_cyber_snooping/

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A couple of "updates"

MH370 investigators probe 1,000 'possible' flight paths

With the underwater hunt for MH370 set to restart, the mission's Australian chief says he does not want to create 'false hope' but believes the plane can be found

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/11078785/MH370-investigators-probe-1000-possible-flight-paths.html

MH370: Six key questions six months after Malaysian Airlines flight vanished without a trace

What do investigators and the world now know about MH370: the plane, its pilots, the passengers, the search, the relatives and the company?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/11078698/MH370-Six-key-questions-six-months-after-Malaysian-Airlines-flight-vanished-without-a-trace.html

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Underwater "hunt" to resume??  You gotta be kidding me.  They have no idea where to really look.  They are looking for a needle in a five mile square haystack and they dodnt even know where the haystack is.  I said it after a few days, they wont find it.....