MH 370: Missing Malaysian Airliner

[Albert Doyle]

It could be the captain decided to do his ultimate service to Islam and took the 777 on a death ride.



Or he was hypno-programmed to do it.

[Zakariyya Ishaq]

This is a tough one

Anybody have any ideas on this?

Diego Garcia?

Israeli copycat plane?


or just an accident?

[Albert Doyle]

Transponder shut-off and methodical turns to avoid radar zones would not have occurred with an accident.


This looks like a German Wings-type event.

[Drew Phipps]

France says wing part found on Reunion Island definitely from MH370

MICHAEL ROSESep 3rd 2015 12:13PM

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/03/fr...1554848541

The piece of wing found on the shore of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean has been formally identified as part of the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday. The part, known as a flaperon, was found on the shore of the French-governed island on July 29 and Malaysian authorities have said paint color and maintenance-record matches proved it came from the missing Boeing (BA.N) 777 aircraft.

The French prosecutor, who had until Thursday's statement been more cautious on its provenance, said a technician from Airbus Defense and Space (ADS-SAU) in Spain, which had made the part for Boeing, had formally identified one of three numbers found on the flaperon as being the serial number of the MH370 Boeing 777. "It is therefore possible to confirm with certainty that the flaperon found on Reunion island on July 29, 2015 corresponds to the one from flight MH370," the prosecutor said in a statement.

The plane disappeared in March last year en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board, most of them Chinese.

[Drew Phipps]

Report: MH370 wreckage may have been found in the Philippines

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/10/13/re...1717926366

Malaysia authorities have received reports that airplane wreckage bearing the nation's flag, along with human remains, has been discovered on Sugbay Island in the Philippines. The presence of the Malaysian flag has prompted speculation that the wreckage may be that of Malaysia Airlines' missing Flight MH370. Locals on the island claim to have discovered a wrecked airplane fuselage along with the skeletal remains of the passengers and crew, the Daily Mail reported. According to reports, a teenager stumbled upon the wreckage while hunting for birds in the jungle. Her uncle, an audio-visual technician, contacted authorities to report the finding.

However, the likelihood that MH370 has been found in a Filipino jungle is very low. This latest discovery doesn't fit the flight's projected flight path. Evidence show that MH 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur and flew northeast towards China before turning west over the Malay Peninsula. Investigators believe the aircraft then turned south flying over the southern Indian ocean before crashing after running out of fuel. The search for the Malaysian jet had been focused on a 7.3-million-square-mile area in the southern Indian Ocean off the western coast of Australia.


Flickr/Auckland Photo NewsIn July, a piece from the left wing of the Boeing 777-200ER that operated as MH370 was discovered on the French Territory of Reunion Island, in the Western Indian Ocean nearly 4,800 miles away from the Sugbay Island. Furthermore, Australia's News.com reported that Filipino police are baffled, as they have not had any recent reports of a plane crash on the island. MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China. The 600,000-pound Boeing 777-200ER registration number 9M-MRO vanished with 239 passengers and crew onboard.

Should the wreckage located in the Philippines be from MH370, then many theories about the fate of the missing airliner will be proved incorrect.

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I would find the last bit hilariously understated, if it weren't for the grave loss of life and the hugely expensive, agonizingly ineffective (yet media friendly) search efforts which these "theorists" have caused.

[Magda Hassan]

Oh, wow, that's different. It's a whole lot less off course than the Indian Ocean one.Funny it has come up on the same day as the Dutch report on the MH 17 crash.

[Lauren Johnson]

Note the change in title of this thread.

[Peter Lemkin]

IF true, that is a pretty strange report from the Philippines! How come it is not getting reported more widely? The timing is also very strange. I think it just lends to the feeling most of us have of the plane disappearing in some covert operation [and cover-up], rather than just an aviation 'accident'. An old 'Firesign Theatre' line comes to mind: "how can you be two places at once, when you're not anywhere at all?"....... Hard to think that Malaysian Airlines only now realized it had lost yet another plane some months or years ago. If this is not a hoax, the mystery doesn't just deepen, it goes into a wormhole.

[Drew Phipps]

Marine Biologists Could Hold Key to MH370 Mystery

Jeff Wise Posted: 01/07/2016 3:25 pm EST Updated: 01/07/2016 3:59 pm EST

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-wise/...ir=Science

With every passing day, it becomes more likely that the ships scouring the southern Indian Ocean for signs of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will come up empty handed. (Indeed, many independent researchers suspect that the odds of success are already zero.) If nothing comes up before the search's scheduled wrap date this June, then the entire case will hang on a single piece of physical evidence: the flaperon that washed up in Reunion Island last July and is now being held by French judicial authorities at a facility near Toulouse, France.

The good news is that the flaperon could provide a wealth of information. I've seen photographs of the serial numbers located inside the plane, and I'm convinced that, despite my previously expressed reservations, they do indeed prove that the piece came from MH370. And experts have told me that the sea life found growing on it offers a number of different clues about the airplane's fate.

The bad news is that the French authorities have apparently made little effort to follow up.
As I've described earlier, the predominant form of life growing on the flaperon is an accumulation of goose barnacles of the genus Lepas. In all the world, the number of marine biologists who study these animals is tiny; those who have carried out peer-reviewed research specifically on animals of the genus Lepas could fit in an elevator. Each has contributed something unique to the field; each has a unique body of experience with which to inform the investigation of this important Lepas population. Yet the French authorities have reached out to none of them. (I have been informed that they have contacted two French marine biologists, one of whom is unknown to me and the other of which is an expert in crustaceans of the southern ocean; Lepas belong within this much broader category of animal.)

That's a shame, because only by tapping the world's leading experts in this little-understood species can we hope to wrest the most information from this solitary piece of evicence. Here's what we could learn:

• Hans-Georg Herbig and Philipp Schiffer in Germany of the University of Cologne have carried out genetic analysis of the world's Lepas species to understand their geographic distribution. By examining the animals on the flaperon up close they could determine the mix of species growing on it, they could derive a sense of were the flaperon has drifted.
  
  
• Knowing the species of the barnacles, and measuring their exact size, would allow scientists to gauge their age, and hence the amount of time that the flaperon has been floating in water warm enough for Lepas to grow in. Such an analysis has been performed forensically before: Cynthia Venn, a professor of environmental science at Bloomsburg University, helped Italian researchers identify the how long a corpse had been floating in the Tyrrhenian Sea, as described in their paper "Evaluation of the floating time of a corpse found in a marine environment using the barnacle Lepas anatifera."
  
• By measuring the ratio of oxygen isotopes in the animals' shells, scientists could determine the temperature of the water through which they traveled as they grew. "All one needs in an appropriate shell, a fine dental bit in a handheld Dermel drill, a calculator and access to a mass spectrometer," says legendary marine biologist Bill Newman, who helped pioneer the technique at the Scripps Instition of Oceanography in La Jolla. In the past, this technique has been used to track the passage of barnacle-encrusted sea turtles and whales. But again, it would require access to the flaperon barnacles.
  

Why haven't the authorities been more proactive in seeking help from the world's small band of Lepas experts? One possible answer is that they're befuddled. As I've described earlier, photographic analysis of the barnacles' size seems to suggest that they are only about four to six months old. This is hard to reconcile with a presumed crash date 16 months before the flaperon's discovery. Something weird might be going on--which would not be that surprising, given that the case of MH370 has been tinged with weirdness from day one. After nearly two years of frustration, the key to the entire mystery may well lie in this single two-meter long wing fragment. But if the authorities don't examine it--and publish their findings--we'll never know.

(emphasis added)

here is a previous article by the same author:

http://jeffwise.net/2015/10/09/the-flape...on-riddle/

and another:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/201...-part.html

Interesting that this is getting a little MSM coverage.

[R.K. Locke]

New podcast from Russ Baker's website:

http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/03/04/two-yea...-of-mh370/