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Hi Greg
9M-MRO will be the fourth hull B777 hull loss after BA, Asiana and Egyptair SU-GBP B777-266ER c/n 28423 l/n 0071 FF 05/05/97 DD 23/05/97 written off on 29 Jul 2011 at Cairo airport after a cockpit fire on the ground. Cheers Bob |
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ABCNews24 is currently running live reports.
ABC site has a live blog with updates: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-0...issing/5308006 |
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Thanks, Bob
Still seems to be the 1st B777 in-flight loss |
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9M-MRO B7772H6ER (C/n 28420 L/n 404) Hex 75008F Rolls Royce Trent 800 Delivered 31/05/2002
9/08/2012 Aviation Safety Network : A taxiing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 passenger plane (9M-MRO), flight MH389, contaced the tail of a China Eastern Airlines A340 plane, B-6050, waiting on the taxiway at Pudong International Airport.No one was injured. By Justin Dear and (AFP) Quote:
9M-MRO departing Amsterdam Schiphol Airport 12/01/2014 Photographer Freek Blokzijl
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Still nothing found.
According to : http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-co...plane-1.502767 "MAS' Executive, Media Relations and Strategic Communications Malini Saudranrajan said the last known position of the aircraft was 065515 North (longitude) and 1033443 East (latitude)". Which is much closer to the Malaysian Coast than to Vietnam. You have to wonder though, it was supposed to be about 2 hours out of KLIA and that location would be less than 1 hour out. Seems to be lots of confusion as to just where and when it was last reported at.
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More regarding search efforts:
http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-co...coast-1.502464 Go to the bottom of the story and click on page 2. Note: The different locations, Sth China Sea or Gulf of Thailand. |
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quite concerning to know that two of the passengers on the plane were traveling on stolen passports..The Austrian & Italian were actually never on the flight.
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From Google News ...
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Malaysia are best equipped to support the sea search, with 12 EC725s helicopters, having a 723nm range and just over 6 hours endurance. They also have C-130 aircraft employed in the search, however it will take some time to deploy these assets to the search area. Vietnam only has one Antonov An-28 and four Beriev Be-12 seaplanes.
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Some odd aspects
The two travelling on false passports, combined with the FR plot showing that although altitude reduced to zero, speed remained almost constant, does make this disappearance a little more troubling at this early stage.
But analogies with AF447 are also there. Will be interesting to see what telemetry was sent in the moments before the a/c disappeared.
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you would think that if someone's passport was stolen last year then this would alert passport controls in all countries to be extra vigilant when a passenger shows up with that passport , also the passport number should show up as stolen once scanned . And once the genuine owner of the passport has their passport re-issued they would need to provide additional proof of id each time checking in and going through security if needed ,
An italian and an Austrian both had their passports stolen while in Thailand last year ? ( according to BBC ) sounds a bit odd , I travelled through Thailand / Singapore and Malaysia last year , and in my opinion the only weak link was thailand .... Singapore and Malaysia are very strict with passport controls and its hard to believe in this day and age that people still get away with travelling on false passports . if that is indeed what has happened |
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