Malaysia Airliner Communications Shut Down Separately: US Officials Say

[uppityperson]

59. Yup, yet I keep looking and hoping for someting. "Other developments"

There was a made for TV movie back in the 80's that was about media coverage of events and how they exist to make money by selling air time.


1 week after the plane disappeared. It crashed. It didn't. It may be somewhere off the flight path. It might not be. Experts and authorities say things, nothing confirmed or denied. Stay tuned!

To argue over the validity of anonymous hints is pretty useless. We all want to know what happened, for the people involved and their families, friends, in case it was something that might happen to another plane (mechanical) or someone did something on purpose to cause it.

It is odd in these closely connected via internet and spied on times to have a commercial airliner disappear. We are spied on. Jet disappears.

I miss the old days of newspapers, not instant news. I won't watch tv coverage, but do look online, hoping, like so many.



http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/14/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/

• Another lead: Chinese researchers say they recorded a "seafloor event" in waters around Malaysia and Vietnam about an hour and a half after the missing plane's last known contact. The event was recorded in a nonseismic region about 116 kilometers (72 miles) northeast of the plane's last confirmed location, the University of Science and Technology of China said.
"Judging from the time and location of the two events, the seafloor event may have been caused by MH370 crashing into the sea," said a statement posted on the university's website.

• Tracking the pings: Malaysian authorities believe they have several "pings" from the airliner's service data system, known as ACARS, transmitted to satellites in the four to five hours after the last transponder signal, suggesting the plane flew to the Indian Ocean, a senior U.S. official told CNN.
That information, combined with known radar data and knowledge of fuel range, leads officials to believe the plane may have made it as far as the Indian Ocean, which is in the opposite direction of the plane's original route, from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

• Why the Indian Ocean? Analysts from U.S. intelligence, the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board have been scouring satellite feeds and, after ascertaining no other flights' transponder data corresponded to the pings, came to the conclusion that they were likely to have come from the missing Malaysian plane, the senior U.S. official said. Indian search teams are combing large areas of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, a remote archipelago in the northeast Indian Ocean.

• Malaysian response: In a statement Friday, Malaysia's Ministry of Transport neither confirmed nor denied the latest reports on the plane's possible path, saying that "the investigation team will not publicly release information until it has been properly verified and corroborated." The ministry said it was continuing to "work closely with the U.S. team, whose officials have been on the ground in Kuala Lumpur to help with the investigation since Sunday.