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That rules out clipping a sea wall I guess

Investigation is centering on the identity of two passengers who were using the identity of an Austrian and Italian who had their passports stolen in Thailand but confirmed they were not on the plane. They are considering whether the plane was targeted as terrorist attack.

Care to speculate rudely?

Big media attention, no doubt you've all seen it. Care to speculate rudely?

Some news outlets are saying that search ops are taking place in the Straits of Malacca. If the airplane actually made it there then it remained under control for some time.

Some news outlets are saying that search ops are taking place in the Straits of Malacca. If the airplane actually made it there then it remained under control for some time.

and how would they get there without being observed by land-based radar??

Now that we're a few days into it, I'm surprised there hasn't been more information on the "oil slick" that was supposedly somewhat close to where they were supposed to be.

requiring US operators of approximately 46 Boeing 777-200 and -300 series widebodies to perform repetitive inspections for cracks in the fuselage skin lap splices at several locations on the aircraft.

Ahem,

requiring US operators of approximately 46 Boeing 777-200 and -300 series widebodies to perform repetitive inspections for cracks in the fuselage skin lap splices at several locations on the aircraft.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... aa-374597/
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A young woman claims she was entertained in the cockpit for an entire flight back in 2011 by the co-pilot who was on board the Malaysian Airlines plane that went missing on Saturday.


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Jonti Roos, who lives in Melbourne, came forward with photos of her posing with a man she claims is 27-year-old Fariq Abdul Hamid - the first officer on missing flight MH370.

She told A Current Affair she and a friend were ready to board a flight from Phuket to Kuala Lumpur in 2011 when the two pilots asked if they would spend the duration of the international flight in the cockpit.

Ms Roos says they were seated in the cockpit during takeoff and landing and that the pilots even asked the girls to stay a few nights in Kuala Lumpur with them.

"Throughout the entire flight they were talking to us and they were actually smoking throughout the flight, which I don't think they're allowed to do," Ms Roos said.

"I know for the whole time they weren't facing the front of the plane and actually flying.
"[They were] possibly a little bit sleazy. They invited us, well asked us, if we could arrange our trip to stay a few extra nights."

While passengers are not permitted under any circumstances in the cockpit, according to a Malaysian Airlines spokesperson, Ms Roos said she never felt unsafe.

"I don't think there was one instance where I felt threatened or I felt that they didn't know what they were doing," she said.

"I felt like they were very friendly, but I felt they were very competent in what they were doing."

Ms Roos said she was shocked when she saw photos of Abdul Hamid who was one of 239 people on the flight that disappeared en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.

"When I realised it was the exact same co-pilot and not only that but I had met him and I have photos in the cockpit with him, that was quite shocking," she said.
"When I saw all his friends and family posting on his wall my heart really broke for them and my heart broke for the family of the passengers. It's just a really sad story."

Source: A Current Affair

There are photo's but I can't post them.

TDU



TDU

L. (Except me stopped smoking last September )
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After several days of speculation, Malaysian police determined the identities of the two passengers and dismissed terrorism by those two as a possible motive, suggesting instead that the false identities were related to illegal immigration.

Was flight MH370 lost in an aeronautical black hole ?

In a more radical theory, the possibility of electronic warfare has also been raised following confirmation that there were at least 20 passengers onboard from Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor. Each of these passengers had specialist knowledge of electronic technology for defence applications.
This could include ‘cloaking’ technology that uses a hexagonal array of glasslike panels to bend light around an object, such as plane, according to a report in Beforeitsnews.com.
Other techniques may have been used to jam signals, allowing the plane to vanish from radar detection without its security systems being activated.
‘It is conceivable that the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 plane is “cloaked,” hiding with hi-tech electronic warfare weaponry that exists and is used,’ Beforeitsnews.com wrote.
‘In fact, this type of technology is precisely the expertise of Freescale that has 20 employees on board the missing flight.’