Posted on 04/29/2014 7:07:35 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
A private company said it had found what it believes is wreckage of a plane in the Bay of Bengal that should be investigated as potential debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, but the possibility was dismissed by search coordinators.
The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) managing the multinational search for the missing plane said it continued to believe that the plane came down in the southern Indian Ocean off Australia.
The Bay of Bengal is located between India and Myanmar, thousands of miles from the current search area. The wreckage was reported by Australian geophysical survey company GeoResonance....
The company said it had passed on the information to Malaysian Airlines and the Malaysian and Chinese embassies in Australia on March 31, and to the JACC on April 4.
"The company and its directors are surprised by the lack of response from the various authorities," GeoResonance said.
"This may be due to a lack of understanding of the company's technological capabilities, or the JACC is extremely busy, or the belief that the current search in the Southern Indian Ocean is the only plausible location of the wreckage."
The Australian-led search team said it was relying on information from satellite and other data to determine the missing aircraft's location and the location in the GeoResonance report was not within that search arc.
"The joint international team is satisfied that the final resting place of the missing aircraft is in the southerly portion of the search arc," it said.
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Just yesterday the former PM was mocking the Inmarsat analyses and the south Indian Ocean search.
Well here is their opportunity — have at it
Don “Black Hole” Lemon reporting.
Look again - it should be pretty close to the first arc they put out before they got on message.
CNN desperately looking for another ship to report a whale fart in the Southern Indian Ocean.
Here an article about the lady who spotted it from a plane.
A ‘Joint Commission’ has spoken!
Brother, does you believe?
Meaning what??? that it flew in circles for 5 hours from 3:11 until 8:11 in the morning
The key arc is the 811 one and that is nowhere near the Bay of Bengal.
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Gee, at this point they’ve looked in pretty much every place on Earth within a two thousand mile radius except Pakistan...
Uh...
Oh, never mind.
Angus Houston, head of the search effort off Australia’s west coast, said on Wednesday that he was confident crews were already searching in the right place, but that Malaysia should investigate the GeoResonance report. He said he only discovered this week that the Bay of Bengal information had earlier been passed directly to Malaysia.
Now Malaysia is really on the spot — Angus Houston saying that Malaysia should go ahead and investigate
So I guess you missed this March 18 article:
Pakistan, India and Taliban deny knowledge of MH370
Aviation officials in Pakistan, India and Central Asia as well as Taliban militants said they knew nothing about the whereabouts of a missing Malaysian jetliner after the search for Flight MH370 extended into their territory.
Malaysia said it had sent diplomatic notes to all countries along an arc of northern and southern search corridors including India and Pakistan, requesting radar and satellite information as well as land, sea and air search operations.
Indian defence officials rejected the possibility of a plane flying for hours above the country undetected.
“The idea that the plane flew through Indian airspace for several hours without anyone noticing is bizarre,” a defence ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“These are wild reports, without any basis,” he said, adding a pilot would have to know the precise location of all Indian radars and surveillance systems to be able to get around them.
Pakistani officials said they had detected nothing suspicious in the skies after the plane vanished.
“We have checked the radar recording for the period but found no clue about the ill-fated flight,” the Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement.
Central Asian countries Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, at the northern end of the search arc, said no unidentified planes had entered their air space on March 8.
“Even if all on-board equipment is switched off, it is impossible to fly through in a silent mode,” the Kazakh Civil Aviation Committee said in a statement sent to Reuters.
“There are also military bodies monitoring the country’s air space.”
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan, who are seeking to oust foreign troops and set up an Islamic state, said the missing plane had nothing to do with them.
“It happened outside Afghanistan and you can see that even countries with very advanced equipment and facilities cannot figure out where it went,” he said. “So we also do not have any information as it is an external issue.”
Having lived, studied, and worked there, I’d have to answer you by expressing my impression that the word of Pakistani and/or Indian officials is worth about as much as a bucket of warm spit.
So then how do you feel about the word of Australian/US/British officials whose analyses concur with that warm spit???
When they find the airplane, I’ll let you know.
8:30 am I believe. So the real question is why is everyone in authority so adamant about not looking anywhere, but thousands of miles away from a possible siting? This would also fit with the fishermen comment about seeing a large plane pass low over them the night of the disappearance and the last known radar hit.
Who doesn’t want the plane found and why not?
It was 2:30 PM not 8:30 per the DM:
Re your other question, the ball is now in the Malaysians’ court:
Angus Houston, head of the search effort off Australia’s west coast, said on Wednesday that he was confident crews were already searching in the right place, but that Malaysia should investigate the GeoResonance report.
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