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FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
Tue Mar 11, 2014, 12:52 PM Mar 2014

MH370: Did authorities visit crash site today (Tuesday)? [View all]

There is compelling information that puts the crash site of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 as near Pulau Perak or Silver Island, the westernmost point of Malaysia in the Straits of Malacca.

It is possible that the crash site was visited by Malaysia government officials earlier today Tuesday, including the defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein who cancelled his attendance at the scheduled daily media conference on the status of the search for the missing 777-200 and its 239 passengers and crew to participate in a search flight on the western side of the Malaysia Peninsula.

Pulau Perak is far from the previously last known radar return from MH370 on Saturday morning, when it was 162 kilometres NE of Kota Baru, heading across the Gulf of Thailand toward Vietnam on a flight to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.


http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2014/03/11/mh370-did-authorities-visit-crash-site-today/

The odd thing is, Pulau Perak shows up on Google Maps, but not in the satellite view. Bing Maps finds a location, but there is neither a map outline nor anything in the satellite view.

Wonder why that is?
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