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Air force chief: Malaysia jet may have turned back
The Telegraph ^ | March 9m 2014 | By CHRIS BRUMMITT and EILEEN NG

Posted on 03/09/2014 6:08:50 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications.

The revelations add to the uncertainties surrounding the final minutes of flight MH370, which was carrying 239 people when it lost contact with ground controllers somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam after leaving Kuala Lumpur early Saturday morning for Beijing.

Air force chief Rodzali Daud didn't say which direction the plane veered when it apparently went off course, or how long it flew in that direction.

"We are trying to make sense of this," he told a media conference. "The military radar indicated that the aircraft may have made a turn back and in some parts, this was corroborated by civilian radar."

(Excerpt) Read more at macon.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airplane; iran; malaysia; mh370; waronterror
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To: Celtic Conservative

Anything is possible but the transporter (IFF) normally would stop working at the instance of detonation. This aircraft previously sustained damage to a wing in a ground mishap. I wonder if a portion of the wing buckled. It’s possible to cause a extremely rapid roll that also could have altered the flight path.


21 posted on 03/09/2014 8:58:48 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: jjotto

I’m thinking it may have been accidentally shot down by the Chinese........


22 posted on 03/09/2014 10:31:55 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Could very well be that all along, if it was I would expect forums would be saturated with Chinese based posters trying to offer alternative theories, anything other than what would make them look bad.


23 posted on 03/09/2014 10:36:37 AM PDT by Spartan302
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

“There is no debris. Think 9/11 when the plane was driven straight into the field. No debris there either.”

There was PLENTY of debris on the ground around the WTC towers before the buildings collapsed. Plenty of pics of engine parts lying on the ground.


24 posted on 03/09/2014 11:02:23 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: cuban leaf
And the odds of the latter happening are rather unlikely.

Forgive the pun, lost comm is COMMon. In IFR conditions you squawk 7600 so the air traffic guys know, fly your last assigned clearance altitude and show up on time for your filed approach.

25 posted on 03/09/2014 11:34:31 AM PDT by xone
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
No debris there either.

Sure there was, just a smaller field of debris.

26 posted on 03/09/2014 11:35:58 AM PDT by xone
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To: LRoggy

Please reread my post. Notice the word ‘field’.


27 posted on 03/09/2014 11:44:46 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
"Flight 93 fragmented violently upon impact. Most of the aircraft wreckage was found near the impact crater.

Investigators found some very light debris including paper and nylon scattered up to eight miles (13 km) from the impact point in New Baltimore, Pennsylvania.

Other tiny aircraft fragments were found 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away at Indian Lake, Pennsylvania.[81] All human remains were found within a 70-acre (28 ha) area surrounding the impact point.

Somerset County Coroner Wally Miller was involved in the investigation and identification of the remains. In examining the wreckage, the only human body part he could see was part of a backbone.

Miller later found and identified 1,500 pieces of human remains totaling about 600 pounds (272 kg), or eight percent of the total."

Source: Wikipedia

28 posted on 03/09/2014 11:47:55 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: jjotto
I’m guessing it took some very specific knowledge to stop the automated features an hour before the plane actually disappeared.

Circuit breakers.

29 posted on 03/09/2014 2:51:22 PM PDT by xone
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To: Rodamala

Faulty wiring in the fuel tanks?


Yeah. That’s the ticket. ;-)


30 posted on 03/10/2014 3:32:08 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: JohnG45
For which the whole Boeing 747 fleet should have been grounded to affect repairs. But this was never done. What does that tell you?

Other than the 787 grounding of a few years ago I can't remember a single time the FAA ordered a airplane grounded following a crash due to unknown cause.

31 posted on 03/10/2014 3:42:44 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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I can't remember a single time the FAA ordered a airplane grounded following a crash due to unknown cause.

But they said they had a KNOWN cause - faulty wiring in the center fuel tank.

32 posted on 03/10/2014 5:04:13 AM PDT by JohnG45
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To: JohnG45
But they said they had a KNOWN cause - faulty wiring in the center fuel tank.

Then they send out inspection and modification orders. They have never ordered a mass grounding, other than the 787, so there is no reason why they should have for the 747 post TWA 800.

33 posted on 03/10/2014 6:00:24 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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