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Old 11th March 2014, 11:28 PM
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"the radar return was last seen at 02:40L near Pulau Perak in the Straits of Malacca"

This is actually interesting. Do you remember that initially MH told people that the aircraft disappeared after two hours of flying? And only after some time they changed their statement and said they actually lost contact at 1:30L which almost matched the disappearence from the FlightRadar website.

2:40L is exactly 2hrs after the plane departed. So if this new information is true, MH might really have received the last information from the flight at 2:40L. Maybe that have been the last ACARS transmissions which might be the reason why they haven't released the ACARS data to the public yet.

If the plane was flying at 3000ft there might have been an incident when it actually turned around. Maybe a loss of cabin pressure that forced the pilot to go to a lower altitude. But then there should have been a distress call unless parts of the electronics got damaged. The pilot might have tried to fly the plane back to the mainland. But I've got no clue why it then crossed the mainland and continued its way out over the Straits of Malacca.

I also find it quite strange that a plane appears on military radar and flies over a country and that doesn't trigger any action? There's still some information missing... This still doesn't make sense.

Let's see what we get tomorrow.
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Old 12th March 2014, 03:19 AM
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Question How can these be reconciled?

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FlightAware log ..

I think the Malaysian Air Force has made a mistake in asserting that they subsequently tracked this a/c west to the Straits of Malacca. If the transponder was [switched] off it would be hard to be confident of the a/c you were tracking I'd have thought. And if the transponder was still on as the Air Force implicitly claims, why doesn't FR or Planefinder or anyone else have data showing that position?

http://www.smh.com.au/world/malaysia...311-hvhjg.html
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Old 12th March 2014, 09:10 AM
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You too can help look for the missing aircraft....

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...ia-flight-370/

An American company has set up a web site to enable users to scour the area where MH370 is believed to have gone down using imagery from 5 satellites. Web site below:
http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/...014?source=abc

Someone thinks they found it from the satellites
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1103537

On another note, seems ACARS sent two burts of engine data when it vanished
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...vanishing.html

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Old 12th March 2014, 09:44 AM
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Someone thinks they found it from the satellites
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1103537
Looks like a ship or a boat travelling at speed with wave trails behind it to me. Unless the water is very shallow in that area! Looks like if it was the plane, it didn't break up too much and didn't sink much either!

The article doesn't say exactly where they pinned this sighting?
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Old 12th March 2014, 11:32 AM
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Now the military chief is denying he said that it was last tracked over the Malaca strait, it seems they say something and then retract it hours later. Yet he said the stuff during a press conference. Bizzare
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Old 12th March 2014, 11:51 AM
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Sounds like all the Malaysian government is sure of is the plane is not at the airport....
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Old 12th March 2014, 12:06 PM
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Malaysian minister says "its not the right time to release military data" This has caused angry outrage by the familys.

They have now expanded the search to land areas.
They are hiding something !!!
https://mobile.twitter.com/STForeignDesk
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Old 12th March 2014, 12:21 PM
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Seems the search operation is scaling down

http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-co...n-sar-1.508890
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Old 12th March 2014, 04:40 PM
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Gotta love the speculation, about turns and everything else that is taking place with the search and reporting on MH370. I feel the Malaysian government knows more than it is letting on but for "sensitive" reasons is keeping quiet where possible.
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