MALDIVES RESIDENTS REPORT SIGHTING -news.com.au

EYEWITNESSES claim to have seen a low-flying jumbo jet “with red stripes” similar to that of a missing Malaysia Airlines jet flying over their houses in the Maldives, local media reports.

The Maldivian daily newspaper Haveeru reports residents described a white aircraft with red markings similar to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 passing overhead about 6.15am on March 8.

The claims, which have not been confirmed, follow reports of radar and satellite signals indicating the missing airliner could have followed a track in that general direction.

The holiday islands are about halfway between Malaysia and the east coast of Africa.
It’s about 3200 kilometres from Malaysia — placing it at the extreme edge of how far flight MH370 could travel.

TOMNOD USER SPOTS PLANE — BUT IS IT MH370?

A Taiwan university student who has assisted the search effort by scouring satellite images on the website Tomnod claims to have found an image of Flight MH370.

The Taiwan China Times reported that the image had not yet been verified and the surrounding jungle landscape had yet to be identified.

Three million people have joined the effort to locate the missing plane on Tomnod, in what may be the largest crowdsourcing project of its kind.

The satellite firm DigitalGlobe, which owns the Tomnod platform, said that its search area now has some 24,000 square kilometres (9,000 square miles) and that more images are being added daily, including a new area in the Indian Ocean.

The company said more than three million people had participated in the program, with some 257 million “map views’’ and 2.9 million areas “tagged’’ by participants.

The response was so great it overloaded the system’s computers for a time last week.

It is unclear whether the above Tomnod image even shows a Malaysia Airlines plane. Commentators have suggested the coloured ring towards the tail seems more like the paint scheme of Qantas than Malaysian Airlines.

Source: http://www.news.com.au/world/malaysia-airlines-missing-plane-families-dragged-away-by-security-satellite-data-in-australia-could-hold-planes-location/story-fndir2ev-1226858579129

Note:

It's obvious this plane is missing, most likely, b/c of:

a) Pilot suicide (due to ideology or a radical political statement being made)
b) Depression/suicide
c) A hijacking/Terrorism
d) A radical religious statement/beleif
e) Theft/Criminal Act
f) Political Hostages being taken
g) Mental Problems by one of the pilots
h) Gay love affair between pilots
i) Love triangle between pilots
j) Act for religion or ideology
k) Insurance money/Sabotage
l) Family/Love/Money/Health problems
m) Misc reasons(s).

Least likely or impossible/improbable:

a) Mechanical/engine problems or even failure
b) An accident
c) Pilot disorientation/confusion
d) Weather
e) Electric Problem/Failure
f) Lack of oxygen/Hypoxia
g) UFO
h) Missile/Bomb/Explosion (Maybe after 8/11 am?)
i) Government/Military action
j) Odd Weather
k) Misc.

The plane kept flying until 8:11 am or after. I wonder why no passengers
attempted to use their cell phones, PDA's, etc? Does 8:11 or after have to
do with 9/11 by any chance?

I also wonder if this was a random act or deliberate. It seems it was planned.
Premeditated. A criminal act.

One or both pilots are responsible for this imo. However the two Irans on board could also have had a key in this as well.

Just my thoughts on the matter.

-Rob

Malaysia Airlines missing plane families dragged away by security; satellite data in Australia could hold plane’s location

news.com.au reports:

"CHAOS has broken out at the media centre for missing flight MH370 after distraught Chinese family members of those on board the plane arrived to protest to Malaysian authorities.

It came just before Malaysian authorities held a press conference where they revealed files were recently deleted from the flight simulator of the pilot aboard the missing plane.
Frustration boiled over for the anguished families who have travelled from Beijing in a bid to get more information.

The relatives came to the media centre at the Sama Sama hotel at Kuala Lumpur airport carrying a protest banner.

They were then dragged away by Malaysian security staff to a room with officials, with the area then erupting into chaos.

The protest banner being brandished by the relatives accused the Malaysian government of hiding the truth, wasting time and failing to find the missing jetliner.

A relative of one of the Chinese passengers appears to have been knocked to the ground in a stampede as police tried to stop relatives of family members from speaking to international media.

Minister of Defence and Acting Minister of Transport Hishammuddin Hussein tonight said local and international experts have been recruited to examine the pilot’s flight simulator.

“Some data has been deleted from the simulator and forensic work to retrieve this data is ongoing,” he said.

More here: Malaysia Airlines Missing Plane Mystery

CNN - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: How do passenger jets change flight paths?

(CNN) -- The timing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's change of direction is a focal point of the investigation into its disappearance, and it appears the passenger jet was programmed to steer off course before the pilots signed off with air traffic control -- and that the change of course was transmitted to air traffic controllers.

The flight's Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System communicates various data to the ground, including engine reports, maintenance requirements and weather conditions.

The last transmission from Flight 370's ACARS system came at 1:07 a.m.

The next update was due at 1:37 a.m. It never came.

While all information so far indicates that someone inside the cockpit, believed to be the co-pilot, made the last verbal communication with air traffic controllers -- "All right, good night" -- at 1:19 a.m., a law enforcement official told CNN that the plane's programmed change in direction was entered at least 12 minutes before the plane's verbal sign-off...

See more here: CNN - Malaysia Airlines Flight Path Change

CNN Gives Up, Wonders About Supernatural Conspiracy Theories for Flight 370 Disappearan

Taken from friend Lon's Blog "Phantoms and Monsters":

There's only so much "breaking news." After more than a week of wall-to-wall coverage on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, much of it baseless speculation from vaguely defined experts, CNN today resorted to the most baseless of speculation from a certifiable non-expert about what "supernatural" or conspiratorial explanations there could be for the disappearance.

"It's where every conspiracy falls apart: How do you keep everyone quiet?" offered Brad Meltzer, an author of political thrillers and host of the History Channel's Decoded. "I'm glad you brought that up," said host Don Lemon, who proceeded to make things much stupider.

"Especially today, on a day when we deal with the supernatural, we go to church, the supernatural power of God. You deal with all of that," said Lemon, making little to no sense. "People are saying to me, why aren't you talking about the possibility — and I'm just putting it out there — that something odd happened to this plane, something beyond our understanding?" Just putting it out there!

Meltzer was more than game to offer nothing of substance. "We all kind of roll our eyes at conspiracy theories, but what conspiracy theories do is they ask the hardest, most outrageous questions sometimes," he said. "But every once in a while, they're right. And that's what we have to remember here. I think why it's captured our attention is because there's no logical explanation right now."

"You can say, oh, it crashed into the ocean, but where are the parts? Where are the pieces? Why did it keep going for seven hours? Why do you have a guy onboard who gives his watch and his ring to his wife and says keep this for my boys in case something happens to me?" he continued.

"Something smells wrong," he concluded, having added negative knowledge. "It just smells terrible. How does a jet liner, with almost 200 people on it, disappear? [Ed. note: There were 239.] How are they just gone?"

"Absolutely, absolutely," said Lemon. "Absolutely."

You can get this kind of trenchant analysis 24 hours a day, if you hate yourself. - NY Mag