“..that the Malaysians are just incapable of dealing with this.”
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Or, maybe they do not want to deal with it. Until the plane is found, we will never know.
Ahmad and Hussein on the case. I can’t imagine what could go wrong.
I recall there was that 'top secret' drone the U.S. was flying near Iran, then Iran hijacked the drone by commandeering the signals and flying it deep inside Iran.
What are the wireless vulnerabilities of this aircraft?
“Heard an FBI guy on Hannity last night opine that the Malaysians are just incapable of dealing with this. Ya THINK?!”
A country that cannot deal wth this probably shouldn’t have an airline.
Malaysian clown show
That could be the objective of the hijackers ... to destabilize the Malaysisan government by forcing them to deal publicly with an impossible situation.
That could be the objective of the hijackers ... to destabilize the Malaysisan government by forcing them to deal publicly with an impossible situation.
I wouldn’t put it past Malaysian Airlines to steal their own airplane for insurance money.
My only question - what did they do with the passengers?
"If the Malay government says it, it's probably a lie."
Unbelievable. Even more ambiguity added to the story...
I wonder how many tens of billions($) have been spent so far in search of this damn plane.
Apparently there was a ‘possible’ sighting in the Maldives.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10704769/Malaysian-Airlines-MH370-live.html
So the official and unofficial latest updated news is: No one has any clue where the plane is. Or at least if they know, they aren’t saying, for whatever reason.
1. The 777 was "handed off (identified)" to Viet Nam controller by Malay controller. This "hand-off can be automated or by voice landline. Situation normal.
2. Flight told by Malay to contact Viet on frequency ----- and flight says "All right, good night.' Situation still normal.
3. Within two minutes, Viet controller should be concerned that flight has not called. He should try calling him, if no answer then calls Malay to ascertain if he indeed "switched" the aircraft. Getting an affirmative, he would try calling the flight several times, as would the Malay......no answer comes from flight. Situation abnormal, but not very serious. There are many reasons for a flight to lose radio contact for a while, especially during frequency changes.
4. Transponder goes off. Situation now very serious. This ain't Carmen SanDiego. It appears neither controller has primary radar capability, or if they do they are not displaying a target.
5. In most areas of the world, military and civil aviation airspace are segregated, they have different responsibilities. In this instance, both controllers should be contacting their military air defense commands to see if they have any corresponding targets. Within ten minutes, their should be intense activity in radar units in both countries. (It appears that Thailand tracked the "turn", but whether this was done realtime or by tape review is unclear. Regardless, both Malay and Viet units would have been aware of Thai capabilities, so they should have been called immediately.
6. It took at least 60 minutes for the flight to clear Malay airspace. If, within 30 minutes of the alert (probably less), no contact was made, air assets should have been sent up.
Timely, responsible actions by air traffic and military controllers would have led to a resolution of this affair quickly. It still may not have been a pretty resolution, but look at what their failures have left us.
At what point in this proper chain of events was the ball dropped? The Malay Gov't sure isn't saying, and, sadly for future aviation safety, we may never know.
Haven’t commented upon cons-p-air-a-cies till now but how about this ? Computer generated radio signals set on frequencies used by the sundry monitors that would show a “friendly identity” from the transponder and other monitor equipment of an existing flight as it enters over unfriendly territory as it heads to its secret landing field.