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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I don’t believe that cell phones work like land lines where in order for the phone to ring, there has to be an actual connection from source to destination made.””
(I have ONLY a land line. I talk regularly to a person who I am calling on his land line. And Vice Versa.
There are many times over the years when the phone has rung at the receiving end, and the calling end heard nothing. I answer after only one ring—and he says: IT didn’t even ring. I tell him it would have had to ring for me to pick it up.
Been happening for years—and I lived in 2 different places with such.
This has actually happened in the past. There was no ringing for the person who was trying to get in contact with me after the SIM card was out and destroyed.
So I am not sure you are correct..or perhaps technology has changed since then
The twilight Zone?
taking a battery out means nothing.
The issue surrounds the SIM card.
Like I say it all depends on the configuration of the system. Someone else noticed that his rang (from the caller's perspective) even when he had the phone shut off but I would have thought that by shutting off the phone would have deregistered and there would be no "ringing". However, deregistration is a one-attempt and no retries thing and so is not full-proof.
full-proof = fool-proof (I guess)
It is not the ring that is odd. You are right that the controller determines whether the phone rings. What is odd is that the call is answered and hung-up. If the phone is disabled (i.e. in the water), the phone should roll-over to voicemail.
So the bottom line is that the ringing MAY OR MAY NOT be important...and you cant just automatically say that the caller will hear ringing if the SIM card has been destroyed at the bottom of the ocean or by explosion.
I dont think the calls were answered by anyone..but maybe I missed a report. There are so many of them right now.
Yep. The controller makes a decision to hang up the call. I get those sorts of things all the time on my cell phone.
or that some Islamist bomb(s) where so huge or so strategically placed that the plane totally disintegrated leaving no wreckage to be found;
or that somehow the plane was hijacked and taken down to near water level and below radar flying on to land somewhere.
One thing we may be sure of is, if this was terrorism, then whoever it was will repeat it soon - before their method is discovered.
There was a plot to blow up lots of planes in that area over the water all at one time.
Lost. Their all on an island that can’t be seen.
Yah. But pgkdan has a good explanation.
Lord knows I've done that enough times.
There was an episode of the old Twilight Zone where a plane went missing and ended up getting lost in time to the dinosaurs and a couldn’t get home to the present day.
The plane ended up lost, forever in the Twilight Zone.
The episode is “The Odyssey of flight 33”” if you want you want to google it.
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I just assumed the “oil slick” stories included wreckage. If there was no wreckage found, it means nobody knows where that plane is.
Already on it. Thanks.
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