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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All cell phones calls through at the NSA headquarters, then forward to the cell phone once the recorders activate.
I think the idea is that there was no crash. the plane is somewhere above water. No?
I understand the pone bit. But things don’t just disappear. I do think it may have been hijacked...’cept it would take a long landing strip. Who knows. And who trusts the government over there.
No they don’t ring but if it’s ringing she probably forgot to take it with her.
No they don’t ring but if it’s ringing she probably forgot to take it with her.
There should be an ELT in the rafts onboard. They are tracked by satellites - but not sure if they need to be manually located or are automatically engaged when hitting water. This is just weird to me.
If the entire plane was hijacked and landed somewhere else, or if it landed in the water or hit a mountain in the middle of the ocean, it should have been located by now. Unless, Airport ‘77 style, it is intact at the bottom of the ocean.
On what do you base your knowledge.
Because there are reports that the cell phone WILL NOT ring unless a cell phone tower can pick up a connection.
Btw, taking the battery out is not enough of a test.
WOuldn’t you also have to take out the Sim card
ELT- Emergency Locator Transmittor
There’s nothing to track if the phone is inoperable. And any other info about the phone requires a subpoena. Assuming no conspiracy, all it is going to do is confirm where the phone was when it went into airplane mode, was turned off, or got dunked in salt water.
Nicely done, but you may have to be banned at FR for spoiling the conspiracy fun....
Actually I do design work on these systems.
So the reports that it must have a connection before it will ring the typical ring are untrue?
Yes of course the target cell phone won't ring but what you hear as ringing is not the target cell phone.
which cell towers is it accessing ...duh............
Geez do I have to think of everything ?
Also, if I take the SIM card out of my phone and put it under water ..will my phone ring in the same style ringing it did before that SIM card was taken out.
The actual target cell phone will not ring and the controller provides ring tones. You can test this yourself.
When I worked on commercial aircraft long ago, the ELT’s had a salt water (or urine or any conductive liquid) activated battery and transmit at 121.5 MHz and 243 MHz. But if they went to the bottom of the ocean, the salt water would attenuate the signal to zero.
Submarines have special long wire, towed communications arrays that operate in the VLF band to allow communications underwater.
LOL. Yeah. If there’s one thing lacking on FR it’s the opportunity to frolic in conspiracy fun.
It is up to the controller design or configuration whether to provide feedback of the ring tone to the source before the target is actually pinged.
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