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Search for lost jet expands amid signs it flew on
ap.org ^ | Mar 14, 9:57 AM EDT | By IAN MADER and JOAN LOWY

Posted on 03/14/2014 7:59:01 AM PDT by gooblah

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- The search for the missing Malaysian jetliner expanded east and west on Friday after American officials said it was emitting signals to satellites for hours after its last contact with air traffic control nearly a week ago over the South China Sea.

Malaysian officials insisted that investigators had yet to reach a definitive conclusion on what radar and satellite data showed, and said the search was being expanded because efforts in current areas have not found any wreckage from the Boeing 777.

The possibility that the plane, carrying 239 people, flew many hundreds of miles (kilometers) beyond its last known location without any contact with the ground has strengthened speculation that its transponders and other communication devices were turned off deliberately.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; malaysia; mh370; waronterror
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To: maggief; WildHighlander57

If not that plane......what havoc could those batteries create?

(Wouldn’t make sense for extra fuel to be put in in China
If any additional was pumped my guess is the pilot knew or ordered it )


61 posted on 03/14/2014 11:48:46 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: hoosiermama

I’ve heard it carried extra fuel form 45 minutes to 2 hours.

Reliable source?

http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=242092:did-entire-crew-passengers-lose-consciousness-leaving-mh370-to-fly-on-auto-pilot?&Itemid=2#.UyNQRtwvtFI

But without pilot intervention it would probably have flown past Beijing as it still had about 2 hours of extra fuel.


62 posted on 03/14/2014 11:55:23 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

I would think that the abrupt turns would rule out auto pilot

But if navigation or other locating devices were out. Someone might be searching for land. It was dark,wasn’t it?


63 posted on 03/14/2014 12:00:23 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: hoosiermama; maggief

Fire.

http://www.geekosystem.com/usps-lithium-battery-ban/


64 posted on 03/14/2014 12:03:36 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: WildHighlander57

Fire would be consistant with that picture that was floating around the net.
New possible scenerio :
So plane catches fire but somehow one of the pilots survived but without having all the technical equipment needed to find where they were going and kept flipping switches trying to get help. .... Don’t believe it!


65 posted on 03/14/2014 1:05:47 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: WildHighlander57; ilovesarah2012; Species8472

Carlyle since 2006. Got a decent stock buyout. Since then, we went public. FSL on the stock exchange. Just over @22 right now.

And, we are *not* “a major defense contractor that specializes in electronic warfare systems.” The rumors have been flying fast and furious this week, like rifles out of gunshops bound for Mexico. There are people running around who think we’ve developed some sort of Klingon cloaking device or something.


66 posted on 03/14/2014 1:07:45 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: gooblah

Any bets this jet is on its way to the West Coast of America?

To detonate a recently loaded EMP weapon that can be detonated at the highest level possible the aircraft could achieve.

Seattle?

San Fransisco?

Or another modern day Pearl Harbor?


67 posted on 03/14/2014 1:10:18 PM PDT by Spartan302
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To: DownInFlames

777’s don’t disappear. At least not for long. We will find out if the plane landed somewhere although very few or no runways capable of handling a 777 could be kept secret. We will disable the plane if taken for nefarious purposes.


68 posted on 03/14/2014 1:38:40 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: Spartan302
And they'll get away with it, too, by using the Freescale Cloaking Device®.
69 posted on 03/14/2014 2:05:02 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: ncfool

And why so many financial guys have been dying, too?


70 posted on 03/14/2014 2:53:28 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: ncfool

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse


71 posted on 03/14/2014 2:54:27 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: maggief

Saw this on another thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3133194/posts?page=98#98

Just relaying some information here. I heard a discussion on the radio a few minutes ago and they were talking to someone from NTSB. The NTSB guy said that one of the transponders that was turned off is not that easy to disable (like flipping a switch). Pilots are not trained to do it and it would take someone with a maintenance background to do it...somebody with specialized knowledge. So, it had to be deliberate.


72 posted on 03/14/2014 2:59:59 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: maggief

Would lithium batteries make the pilot change course and continue flying for a long time?

/sarc


73 posted on 03/14/2014 3:03:46 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: maggief

Thanks Maggie


74 posted on 03/14/2014 3:49:43 PM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: maggief

Very interesting, I just received a battery for my UPS backup, big battery from amazon, said made in Vietnam . HUMMM


75 posted on 03/14/2014 3:53:08 PM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: hoosiermama

OK not this particular plane; the zigzag flight pattern of this plane says somebody was dodging...

plus the turn-off of the transponders and other system needing someone knowledgeable .....


76 posted on 03/14/2014 4:30:59 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
I think it’ll have either an Iranian or NorK nuke on board

Why not Pakistan?

77 posted on 03/14/2014 5:04:22 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Jim Noble

That is a good possibility, too!


78 posted on 03/14/2014 5:31:53 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: DownInFlames
Put a nuke in it and fly it over our mid west. A 20 m-ton emp would wipe out our electrical grid and communications

I didn't know a 777 could reach an altitude of 160 miles.

79 posted on 03/14/2014 5:44:47 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

And if you had, would you tell us?


80 posted on 03/14/2014 8:52:36 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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