Malaysia Airlines hunt for missing plane

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http://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/...NTE2MDg1OA

First book on MH370 mystery blames US war games
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May 18, 2014
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One theory: Flight MH370 posits that there was a cover-up.
Seventy-one days after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, the first book about the disaster will go on sale on Monday with a theory about what might have happened.

And as the international search continues for the aircraft Irene Burrows, the Queensland mother who lost her son and daughter-in-law on the flight, said it was too soon for a book.

Flight MH370 The Mystery, which is made available by NewSouth Books in Sydney, doesn't claim to have any answers but to some extent supports the theory that the aircraft may have been accidentally shot down during a joint Thai-US military exercise in the South China Sea. Searchers were then possibly led in the wrong direction to cover up the mistake, it suggests.

''In an age where a stolen smart phone can be pinpointed to any location on earth, the vanishing of this aircraft and 227 passengers is the greatest mystery since the Mary Celeste,'' the publicity for the book reads.

The Sun-Herald is the first media outlet in Australia to see the work, written by author and journalist Nigel Cawthorne. It records the events, emotions and theories unfolding on a backdrop of fruitless searches.

Cawthorne says in the introduction that ''almost certainly'' relatives will never be sure what happened to their loved ones.

''Did they die painlessly, unaware of their fate? Or did they die in terror in a flaming wreck, crashing from the sky in the hands of a madman?''

He says this raises the significance that around the time the plane's transponder went off at 01.21, New Zealander Mike McKay, working on an oil rig in the Gulf of Thailand, saw a burning plane. He links that to the joint Thai-US military exercise going on in the South China Sea with personnel from China, Japan, Indonesia and other countries.

''The drill was to involve mock warfare on land, in water and in the air, and would include live-fire exercises,'' he writes.

''Say a participant accidentally shot down Flight MH370. Such things do happen. No one wants another Lockerbie [Pan Am flight 103 by terrorists in 1988 allegedly in retaliation for a US Navy strike on an Iranian commercial jet six months earlier], so those involved would have every reason to keep quiet about it.''

He suggests through anonymous and contradictory sources, they might release misinformation, leading people to search in the wrong place in an environment so hostile that it would be unlikely anything would ever be found.

''After all, no wreckage has been found in the south Indian Ocean, which in itself is suspicious,'' Cawthorne writes.

''Now I'm not saying that's what happened but if a black box is found, who is to say that it is from Flight MH370? Another black box could have been dropped in the sea 1000 miles from Perth while the search was going on in the South China Sea. In these circumstances, with the amount of disinformation abroad, it is best to be sceptical.''

Ms Burrows, the mother of Brisbane man Rod Burrows who was travelling with his wife, Mary, said on Friday the book was premature.

''Nobody knows what happened so why would anyone want to put out a book at this stage?'' she said.

''There's absolutely no answers. It's devastating for the families. It's 10 weeks tomorrow and there's nothing,'' she said.

''There are so many theories that I only want to believe one, that they were all unconscious and didn't know what was going on.

''That's my only theory. That keeps me sane. All I want is for somebody to find a bit of plane. My husband wants a black box and I want a bit of plane to let me know just where they are.''

Penguin will soon release a book on the mystery to be written by aviation author Christine Negroni. She wrote Deadly Departure on TWA Flight 800, about a plane that crashed in the Atlantic near New York in 1996, killing 230.

Writing on her blog she says she has discussed the flight with French air accident investigator Olivier Ferrante.

He told her: ''So far it is a crash with no airplane, no bodies, no crash site, no physical evidence. It is a virtual crash until a piece of wreckage is found.''
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Malaysia Minister: Using Interpol database may have slowed immigration checks (27 Mar)

so...

AirAsia first-ever airline to incorporate Interpol's check-in systems (13 May)

just do it!
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#84
A cheaper option following sept 11 what most countries in the west are now doing is to have armed air marshalls on board the plane pretending to be passengers.
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RIP...

MH370 mystery persists as ping search draws a blank

THE AUSTRALIAN MAY 29, 2014 5:15PM

Jared Owens
Reporter
Canberra

The ATSB has confirmed missing flight MH370 is not in the search zone where acoustic 'pings' were detected.
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Truss: MH370 search has moved onMH370 not in Indian Ocean search zoneAble Seaman Matthew Tranter-Edwards knee...
AN area of the Indian Ocean searched after a series of acoustic signals has now been discounted as the final resting place of Malaysia Airlines flight 370.

Australian-led searchers have for weeks scoured the ocean floor in the hunt for debris from the missing jet, after authorities declared a series of “pings’’ a likely clue to the location of the airliner’s black boxes, or flight recorders.

However the Joint Agency Coordination Centre said today searches of the ocean floor by a Bluefin-21 submarine had discovered no aircraft debris in the vicinity of the pings, which were first detected in early April.

“The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has advised that the search in the vicinity of the acoustic detections can now be considered complete and in its professional judgment, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place of MH370,’’ the JACC statement read.

The statement further deepens the mystery of flight 370, which disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board, and will further extend the agony of relatives who are desperate for closure.

REVIEW: Angus Houston orders ‘robust review’ of MH370 data

The JACC statement follows comments by the US Navy’s deputy director of ocean engineering, Michael Dean, who said earlier today searchers no longer believed the pings came from the aircraft’s black boxes but were possibly from a ship or even from the searchers’ own pinger locator.

He said if ping-emitting beacons detected in early April in the southern Indian Ocean were from the on-board data or voice recorders they would have been found by now.

The US Navy labelled Mr Dean’s comments “speculative and premature’’.

The Bluefin-21 has scoured over 850 square kilometres of the ocean floor looking for signs of the missing aircraft.

The massive search for the Malaysian jet will now enter a new phase, with the JACC ordering a technical survey of the ocean floor, which is expected to take three months, before an underwater search that could take another year.

“We are still very confident that the resting place of the aircraft is in the Southern Ocean,’’ said Transport Minister Warren Truss.

The search zone could cover up to 60,000 square kilometres of the Indian Ocean.

“Knowing the sea floor terrain is crucial to enabling the subsequent underwater search,’’ the JACC said.

“The underwater search will aim to locate the aircraft and any evidence — such as aircraft debris and flight recorders — to assist with the Malaysian investigation of the disappearance of MH370.’’

The ATSB will shortly issue a formal tender to undertake the underwater search.

“A single prime contractor will be chosen to bring together and manage the expertise, equipment and vessels to carry out the search,’’ the JACC said.

A Chinese survey ship, Zhu Kezhen, is currently mapping areas of the sea floor in preparation for the commercially-contracted deep ocean search.

JACC head Angus Houston last week ordered a “robust’’ review of all the data about the missing jet, amid claims MH370 might not be in the southern Indian Ocean after all.

Relying in part on data from communications giant Inmarsat, officials believe the jet inexplicably veered off its flight path before crashing into the sea, possibly after running out of fuel.

It has been suggested in the flood of international commentary that Inmarsat’s interpretation of its data could be wrong, and that flight MH370 may not have headed south after it took off from Kuala Lumpur, heading for Beijing. Instead, it could have headed north, it’s been speculated.

The Malaysian government on Tuesday released 47 pages of raw satellite data that purportedly showed MH370 crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, after complaints from passengers’ relatives that the data was unavailable.

Analysts said it would take time to draw any conclusions from the raw, highly technical data.

Air Chief Marshal Houston last week said all of the data was being thoroughly examined and re-examined.

“The data and technique used by Inmarsat has been independently peer reviewed by a number of organisations outside of Inmarsat, in both the UK and USA,’’ Air Chief Marshal Houston said.

A further review was also being carried out by Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation.

A US Navy pinger locator, dragged by the Australian ship Ocean Shield, was first used by searchers to listen for underwater signals in the remote southern Indian Ocean in an area where satellite data indicated the plane went down.

JACC announced on April 7 that the pinger locator had picked up two acoustic signals, with one held for more than two hours.

At the time, it described the signals as consistent with flight data or cockpit voice recorders, the most promising lead yet and likely from a man-made source.

Two days later, two more signals were detected, holding for about five and seven minutes.

The signals prompted Tony Abbott to say he was “very confident’’ they were from the plane’s black boxes.

That led to the deployment of the Bluefin 21 minisub to scour the sea bed.

With Agencies
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Really found or simply say.

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