Last Updated: 12:49pm PST / 3:49pm EST
Hey everyone, I have decided to start a thread to keep people who are interested up to date on the missing plane (Malaysia Airlines Flight 370).
For those who are just joining in on the situation, below are some links to articles about the missing plane and information.
MH370
Flight Tracking
Recent Updates
5:14 PM UTC / 1:14 AM MYT
White House spokesman Jay Carney said at his daily briefing, calling the search “a difficult and unusual situation”. When asked about the notion that the plane could have landed at Diego Garcia, the US military base in the central Indian Ocean, Carney was dismissive: "I’ll rule that one out." The Guardian
3:28 PM UTC / 11:28 PM MYT
New profiles of Zaharie Ahmad Shah and Fariq Abdul Hamid, the pilot and co-pilot of MH370 have been published by Reuters & New York Times. The story is the same: nothing about these men or the lives they led seems to point to likely complicity in a plot to divert the plane. Reuters article, NYT article
3:13 PM UTC / 11:13 PM MYT
Thailand’s military announced Tuesday that it had radar data that seems to corroborate Malaysian military radar data tracking a plane likely to be MH370 flying west over the Malacca Strait.
Why didn’t Thailand release the data before Tuesday? Because it wasn’t specifically asked for it, military officials says. AP via ABC
10:21 AM UTC / 6:21 PM MYT
Search area of 2.24 million sq nautical miles, putting that into perspective would be:
Relatives of some of the missing Chinese passengers are threatening to go on hunger strike in an effort to get more information from the Malaysian authorities. AFP via The Guardian
8:30 AM UTC / 4:30 PM MYT
China says it has started searching its territory and deployed 21 satellites to help with the search. BBC
7:15 AM UTC / 3:15 PM MYT
China finds no terrorism link among its passengers on MaH370. CNN, The Guardian
6:27 AM UTC / 2:30 PM MYT
Australian authority admits MH370 search in Indian Ocean may take weeks. Four Australian planes, with one each from the US and New Zealand, will search an area of 600,000 square kilometres. Video of the press conference
Map shows where the Australian Maritime Safety Authority plans to search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 18, 2014. The Guardian
4:34 AM UTC / 12:33 PM MYT
Aircraft from the US and New Zealand will start hunting for MH 370 in a new search area 3,000 kilometers southwest of Perth, Australia. ABC News
3:33 AM UTC / 11:33 AM MYT
Citing "senior American officials," New York Times claims that the divergent turn on MH 370 was preprogrammed into the aircraft's computer. Their sources are unnamed. They do not provide an explanation as to how they know that the route was programmed rather than flown manually. Thus, we advice you to take this report with a pinch of salt until we receive official confirmation.
Comment from MrGandW: Aircraft fly routes which are programmed into their FMS (flight management system) via autopilot. Thus, NYT may be trying to report that the aircraft was on autopilot when its route was changed.
9:31 PM UTC / 5:31 AM MYT
US Navy confirms it has completed its search of the Andaman Sea in hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines jet; "no debris or wreckage" found.
The U.S. Navy prepared to pull back military search operations for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet on Monday, defense officials said. The USS Kidd will cease search efforts in the Strait of Malacca and return to carrying out its normal Navy operations, officials told NBC News. Note that this has not yet been officially announced.
3:44 PM GMT / 11:43 PM MYT
Aviation officials in Pakistan, India and Central Asia as well as Taliban militants said they knew nothing about the whereabouts of a missing Malaysian jetliner. The Guardian
12:43 PM GMT / 8:43 PM MYT
Kazakhstan has played down Malaysia’s suggestion that the missing plane could have reached its airspace. A statement for its civil aviation committee said MH370 would have been detected by Kazakhstan’s radar, if had got that far.
Reuters quoted the statement as saying that nine Malaysia Airlines flights travelled over Kazakhstan on 8 March. None of them was MH370. The Guardian
10:20 AM GMT / 6:20 PM MYT
Two image released by Malaysia Authorities, illustrating both northern & southern corridor. Source
Hey everyone, I have decided to start a thread to keep people who are interested up to date on the missing plane (Malaysia Airlines Flight 370).
For those who are just joining in on the situation, below are some links to articles about the missing plane and information.
MH370
- MH370 Wikipedia page
- Iranians travelling on flight MH370 on forged passports 'not linked to terror'
- Why passengers phone is ringing by CNN
- Profile of the two pilot
- NYT piece on the flight path of MH370 after ATC lost contact with the aircraft
- NYT piece on the two potential airway corridor than MH370 might have taken
- Where Is Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370? by a Malaysian journalist in KL & a US-based Malaysian artist-activist
- Infographic on the aircraft flight path, search area, flight tracking & black box
Flight Tracking
- How FlightRadar24 works
- Brief explanation of transponder, primary radar, secondary radar explained by The Guardian
- ACARS Wikipedia page
- Inmarsat/SITA
- Understanding satellite pings
- What SATCOM, ACARS and Pings tell us about the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370
- Boeing 777 Wikipedia page
- Excellent safety record of B777
- Transponder in Boeing 777
- Explanation of ADB-S transponder used in MH370
- Scale of the search and rescue operation by Washington Post
- How does Flight data recorder aka Black box work via HowStuffWorks.com, or if you prefer a podcast, click here.
There seems to be a crowdsourced map hunt for the flight going on at Tomnod. Please note that in light of recent developments, this search area is no longer current.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recent Updates
White House spokesman Jay Carney said at his daily briefing, calling the search “a difficult and unusual situation”. When asked about the notion that the plane could have landed at Diego Garcia, the US military base in the central Indian Ocean, Carney was dismissive: "I’ll rule that one out." The Guardian
3:28 PM UTC / 11:28 PM MYT
New profiles of Zaharie Ahmad Shah and Fariq Abdul Hamid, the pilot and co-pilot of MH370 have been published by Reuters & New York Times. The story is the same: nothing about these men or the lives they led seems to point to likely complicity in a plot to divert the plane. Reuters article, NYT article
3:13 PM UTC / 11:13 PM MYT
Thailand’s military announced Tuesday that it had radar data that seems to corroborate Malaysian military radar data tracking a plane likely to be MH370 flying west over the Malacca Strait.
Why didn’t Thailand release the data before Tuesday? Because it wasn’t specifically asked for it, military officials says. AP via ABC
10:21 AM UTC / 6:21 PM MYT
Search area of 2.24 million sq nautical miles, putting that into perspective would be:
- Looking for 1 faulty pixel in a photo of 2067 megapixels.
- Searching in an area larger than Australia. Source
Relatives of some of the missing Chinese passengers are threatening to go on hunger strike in an effort to get more information from the Malaysian authorities. AFP via The Guardian
8:30 AM UTC / 4:30 PM MYT
China says it has started searching its territory and deployed 21 satellites to help with the search. BBC
7:15 AM UTC / 3:15 PM MYT
China finds no terrorism link among its passengers on MaH370. CNN, The Guardian
6:27 AM UTC / 2:30 PM MYT
Australian authority admits MH370 search in Indian Ocean may take weeks. Four Australian planes, with one each from the US and New Zealand, will search an area of 600,000 square kilometres. Video of the press conference
Map shows where the Australian Maritime Safety Authority plans to search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 18, 2014. The Guardian
4:34 AM UTC / 12:33 PM MYT
Aircraft from the US and New Zealand will start hunting for MH 370 in a new search area 3,000 kilometers southwest of Perth, Australia. ABC News
3:33 AM UTC / 11:33 AM MYT
Citing "senior American officials," New York Times claims that the divergent turn on MH 370 was preprogrammed into the aircraft's computer. Their sources are unnamed. They do not provide an explanation as to how they know that the route was programmed rather than flown manually. Thus, we advice you to take this report with a pinch of salt until we receive official confirmation.
Comment from MrGandW: Aircraft fly routes which are programmed into their FMS (flight management system) via autopilot. Thus, NYT may be trying to report that the aircraft was on autopilot when its route was changed.
9:31 PM UTC / 5:31 AM MYT
US Navy confirms it has completed its search of the Andaman Sea in hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines jet; "no debris or wreckage" found.
7:27 PM UTC / 3:27 AM MYTThe U.S. Navy prepared to pull back military search operations for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet on Monday, defense officials said. The USS Kidd will cease search efforts in the Strait of Malacca and return to carrying out its normal Navy operations, officials told NBC News. Note that this has not yet been officially announced.
3:44 PM GMT / 11:43 PM MYT
Aviation officials in Pakistan, India and Central Asia as well as Taliban militants said they knew nothing about the whereabouts of a missing Malaysian jetliner. The Guardian
12:43 PM GMT / 8:43 PM MYT
Kazakhstan has played down Malaysia’s suggestion that the missing plane could have reached its airspace. A statement for its civil aviation committee said MH370 would have been detected by Kazakhstan’s radar, if had got that far.
Reuters quoted the statement as saying that nine Malaysia Airlines flights travelled over Kazakhstan on 8 March. None of them was MH370. The Guardian
10:20 AM GMT / 6:20 PM MYT
Two image released by Malaysia Authorities, illustrating both northern & southern corridor. Source
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Please let this be a serious discussion, joking can be funny at times but there are certain times when joking just makes you look like a dick. If you post a non-related or stupid post I will ask for it to be deleted and for you to be no longer able to post in this thread.
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I will try and keep this updated as much as I can while at work. If anyone has any information to add, please fill free to comment and I will update this post.
NOTE:
Please let this be a serious discussion, joking can be funny at times but there are certain times when joking just makes you look like a dick. If you post a non-related or stupid post I will ask for it to be deleted and for you to be no longer able to post in this thread.
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I will try and keep this updated as much as I can while at work. If anyone has any information to add, please fill free to comment and I will update this post.
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Very intriguing story for sure.