Posted on 03/24/2014 7:19:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Malaysian authorities are assuming beyond a reasonable doubt that the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been lost in the Southern Indian Ocean. NBC News reports that Malaysia Airlines sent a text message to the relatives of the 239 people who were on board the plane saying "we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board have survived. ... We must not accept all evidence suggests the plane went down in the Southern Indian Ocean."
Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak announced the new developments at a press conference on Monday.
"This evening, I was briefed by representatives from the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch … they informed me that [satellite company] Inmarsat … has been performing further calculations on the data using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort," he said. "They have been able to shed more light on MH370."
Razak continued: "[Investigators] have concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean west of Perth, [Australia]. This is a remote location far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that according to this new data, Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean."
The U.S. Navy is now flying a black box detector to the area in hopes of recovering the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. A U.S. Navy plane flying over the possible debris field detected two or three faint radar hits, according to NBC News reporter Bill Neely.
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Ditto that.
Good call.
They put lithium batteries in the belly compartments (as they did on this flight, though I don't think that was the cause of the crash). We don't do that in the states, at least not on passenger aircraft. It shows they have less regard for safety.
RIP May God be with their loved ones who are coping with this horror.
The original Inmarsat analysis described just two possible routes for the doomed aircraft. The Northern route flew into military radar coverage that would have, IMHO, resulted in the detection of the aircraft with a 100% probability. The Southern route flew over a huge area free of any radar coverage.
Knowing nothing else one could safely speculate that the missing aircraft flew the Southern route.
Although I have not seen any details about the new Inmarsat analysis it seems obvious that the new results have eliminated the possibility of the Northern route.
I think this aspect of the fate of MH370 is settled. The events preceding the turn to the South remain a mystery.
“Not really. There’s no reasonable proof of their claim at all. Just trying to sweep it under the rug and move on.”
All that statement means that it has been a long time since the flight went missing, we cant find it, so it must have crashed in the ocean.
Keerect! I draw your collective attention to the Amelia Earhart event.
Yes, and Inmarsat has consistently said that 9M-MRO flew off into the south Indian Ocean. They have said this since the 10th.
Paging Bob Ballard! Paging Bob Ballard!
“The satellite data didn’t come from the Malaysian government. It came from Inmarsat .”
I am aware of that. But I still don’t trust the Malays. No confirmed flight debris yet exists, and I am still not 100% convinced this Inmarsat data is that infallible as to the location of the plane. Maybe it is though. Plus, the Malays have a financial interest in getting this behind them. If true, this eliminates the catastrophic fire theory, as the plane would not likely fly 7 hours with a significant fire.
I thought they said it flew either south OR north on those arcs.
I saw data from them that said there were two possible arcs ...one to the north and one to the south.
That information has been discredited now.
I wonder if Inmarsat checked for a Dopler shift to detect the direction of the plane.
The “Malaysian Authorities” said that? Whew! I was afraid the people were all dead or something.
They actually ruled out the North arc very early.
People didn’t want to hear it...
Look at how long it has taken the Malaysian PM to accept the Inmarsat data while everyone else has been searching for their plane where all the evidence suggests???
He's still not convinced --
’ based on info from the UK’
That from the people with the hockey stick theories?
Unknown historical conditions in the range of hundreds of thousands of years ago, supposedly running up to the present is different from the science of dealing with things that are measurable and verifiable TODAY.
The very same scientist can be totally wrong on theoretical and past data based upon assumptions that cannot be proven — and perfectly right for things that are “testable” and proven for today.
You have to keep those two different kinds of categories separate in your mind and understanding.
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