Posted on 03/10/2014 7:53:39 AM PDT by jimbo123
The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has thickened somewhat as family members of passengers have reported mobile phones ringing, but nobody answering.
International Business Times reports that 19 families have signed a joint statement saying that passengers' cell phones connected after the flight had been reported missing. In each case, the phone would ring, but the call would be hung up.
The sister of one of the Chinese passengers among the 239 people on board the missing flight rang his phone live on TV twice at 11:40 on Sunday morning and heard it ringing. She called again later that afternoon and heard it ring once more.
The Mirror reports that she expressed her hope that if the call went through, police could locate the position.
A man from Beijing also called his missing brother, and reported to the airline that the phone connected three times and rang before appearing to hang up.
Relatives who signed the joint statement have asked Malaysia Airlines to reveal any information they may have been hiding.
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Not sure this is proof of a conspiracy.
Now, about the stolen passports....
Malaysia’s civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman has suggested that the two passengers who were travelling on stolen passports on the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 looked like black Italian footballer Mario Balotelli.
the man could pass for a SOMALI
...or ‘Millenium’?......................
That makes sense. However, the families of those who were on board the plane are in a highly emotional state, desperate for any small ray of hope that they can cling to. Hearing the phone ring provides them with that faint glimmer of hope, even if it is totally unrealistic. We need to cut those families some slack on this.
This is a common claim after airplane crashes.
It’s a misunderstanding of how the cell phones work, and a desire not to accept what has happened.
Beat me to it!...................................
Yeah, it shouldn't do that but you get all sorts of inconsistent behavior when calling a phone that is out of range or turned off.
One other thing...it’s next to impossible that a cell phone site could be reached from that location or that a cell phone on the airplane would register on a site that is within reach of that location.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-passengers-mobile-phones-ring-not-answered-1439560
To this, Dunleavy replied that MAS was calling the mobile phones of the crew members as well, which were ringing, and that he had given the numbers to Chinese investigators.
Relatives of the passengers are urging the authorities to search for the location of phones that rang using the Global Positioning System.
However, at a press conference in Beijing, MAS spokesman Ignatius Ong said one of the numbers that had been passed on to the airline’s command office in Kuala Lumpur failed to get through.
Teh FDR and CVR have an electronic sonic locator beacon that is activated when it contacts salt water. You would have to be quite close to hear the chirp. I would guess no more that a hundred yards or so.
No one is getting a message...only a ring.
Days after the incident..no word on tracking of those phones.
As a family member, I would want to know why.
When you dial a phone (land line OR cell), the ringing you hear in your ear as the caller has NOTHING to do with the actual ringing of the destination phone.
Prove it yourself by calling another phone in the same room and compare the sound in the earpiece to the actual ringing.
You can unplug a landline phone, and if you call it from another number, you still hear “ringing” in the earpiece.
I don’t know if it’s universal or not, but if a cell phone is turned off, or otherwise out of reach of a cell tower, the caller will hear one ring and it goes directly to voice mail. If someone doesn’t have the voice mail option, I don’t know what happens.
Again the tone is not from the cell phone but from the controller.
It breaks my heart that these family members are clinging desperately to this false hope. I cannot fathom...
“Just for the heck of it, I took the battery out of my cell phone and then used my home phone to call my cell phone. I still got a ringing sound.”
And every time I get on an airliner and turn my phone off, the people that call me hear the same ringing. I hate to tell the poor tortured relatives, but this is a major “duh” moment.
The ring you hear when you call another phone is not generated by that phone, but by the telephone central office. It is a placeholder to let you know the system is working on finding the handset somewhere within its system. If it cannot locate the handset, or the handset is not answered, then you are sent to voicemail.
These questions could all be answer by calling one number. NSA.
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