the Ministry of Transport, Malaysia released the following statement Sunday as part of a status update:
3. Update on ACARS transmission
a. The last ACARS transmission, sent at 1.07am, showed nothing unusual. The 1.07am transmission showed a normal routing all the way to Beijing.
http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/site/dark-site.html
the Telegraph, UK, has released the last 54 minutes of cockpit transmissions:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10714907/Revealed-the-final-54-minutes-of-communication-from-MH370.html
the Mirror, UK, reports that the US Navy P-8 unable to locate objects China says their pilots spotted
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-live-3219331
from cbs: alleged confirmation the plane was carrying ‘wooden pallets’ (about 9 paragraphs up from the end of the article)
Mixup shows limits of China's power
[scroll midway down page to get to these details:]"It was to be a morale-boosting show of military might in the MH370 search, but the pilot got the wrong Australian airport."
"The IL-76, "emblazoned with a rich-red Chinese flag, as well as a sky-blue hull and a white underbelly, created a rare ripple of enthusiasm across the airbase that is currently home to a large international press corp", the report continued.
Among the benefits of the plane were its many windows, allowing a "very good visual search capability".
No mention, then, of the plane landing at the wrong airport on Saturday, underlining the potentially logistical and language difficulties facing complex multi-national search effort.
"They landed at Perth and then they landed here," RAAF Corporal Janine Fabre told Reuters at Base Pearce, a dusty collection of runways and low-slung buildings about 35 kilometres north of Perth.
"We don't know why.". . . "
The plane has been located........on Craigslist!
...here we go again. Getting hopes up for floatsom when it would only be a matter of hours to properly ID the stuff.
Hopefully the searchers will now do the smart thing and assume those objects are from the 777 and notate their satellite location and trace them back to the likely crash site and begin the search for the FDR — as they check out possible bail-out points along that southern route that the pilot might have used.
“Chinese planes spot ‘white objects’ in search area - reports” Round eyes?