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FarCenter

(19,429 posts) Tue Mar 11, 2014, 12:52 PM Mar 2014

MH370: Did authorities visit crash site today (Tuesday)?

There is compelling information that puts the crash site of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 as near Pulau Perak or Silver Island, the westernmost point of Malaysia in the Straits of Malacca.

It is possible that the crash site was visited by Malaysia government officials earlier today Tuesday, including the defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein who cancelled his attendance at the scheduled daily media conference on the status of the search for the missing 777-200 and its 239 passengers and crew to participate in a search flight on the western side of the Malaysia Peninsula.

Pulau Perak is far from the previously last known radar return from MH370 on Saturday morning, when it was 162 kilometres NE of Kota Baru, heading across the Gulf of Thailand toward Vietnam on a flight to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2014/03/11/mh370-did-authorities-visit-crash-site-today/

The odd thing is, Pulau Perak shows up on Google Maps, but not in the satellite view. Bing Maps finds a location, but there is neither a map outline nor anything in the satellite view.

Wonder why that is?

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MH370: Did authorities visit crash site today (Tuesday)? (Original Post) FarCenter Mar 2014 OP

Something is not right. JimDandy Mar 2014 #1

Is it possible that image location is just overloaded? JHB Mar 2014 #2

when stuff is not on satelllite view itsrobert Mar 2014 #3

This is what it looks like HappyinLA Mar 2014 #4

Wonder whether it was used in one of the Bond films? FarCenter Mar 2014 #8

I was wondering HappyinLA Mar 2014 #9

Either a Bond villain or the Thunderbirds... JHB Mar 2014 #11

Malaysian military now reveals it tracked MH370 to Malacca straits FarCenter Mar 2014 #5

AFAIK, that report is unconfirmed. longship Mar 2014 #10

I suspect someone (eg. hijacker) turned the radar/transponder off then turned the plane around.. DCBob Mar 2014 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author undeterred Mar 2014 #7

I can't see how a hijacker could have gotten the plane without SomethingFishy Mar 2014 #13

Did any passengers win the lotto recently? hootinholler Mar 2014 #12

Who has a big life insurance policy? Who is terminally ill? FarCenter Mar 2014 #14

It's a Lost reference. n/t hootinholler Mar 2014 #15

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)

1. Something is not right.

Reply to FarCenter (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 12:55 PM

Mar 2014

Wonder if the Malaysian military had something to do with its disappearance and perhaps a coverup? Could there have been someone on board who was important enough to the military that they might have ordered the plane to turn around?

This is getting really strange.

JHB

(37,161 posts)

2. Is it possible that image location is just overloaded?

Reply to FarCenter (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 12:59 PM

Mar 2014

Not sure how they actually work "under the hood", but it seems to me there might be extraordinarily-high access of images for those locations worldwide right now.

itsrobert

(14,157 posts)

3. when stuff is not on satelllite view

Reply to FarCenter (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 12:59 PM

Mar 2014

it means it's a sensitive area, most likely military.

HappyinLA

(129 posts)

4. This is what it looks like

Reply to FarCenter (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:03 PM

Mar 2014

Not much more than a giant rock.

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)

8. Wonder whether it was used in one of the Bond films?

Reply to HappyinLA (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:28 PM

Mar 2014

Looks like it could open up with a big door in the front.

HappyinLA

(129 posts)

9. I was wondering

Reply to FarCenter (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:42 PM

Mar 2014

if anyone knew the current whereabouts of Dr. Evil, when I saw it.

JHB

(37,161 posts)

11. Either a Bond villain or the Thunderbirds...

Reply to FarCenter (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 02:56 PM

Mar 2014

...though I think International Rescue would be need to open an expansion team or fifty, these days.

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)

5. Malaysian military now reveals it tracked MH370 to Malacca straits

Reply to FarCenter (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:08 PM

Mar 2014

In a strange twist, Malaysia's military believes it tracked the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 by radar over the Strait of Malacca, far from where it last made contact with civilian air traffic control over the Gulf of Thailand.

A military source confirmed with Reuters that the Boeing 777-200ER with 239 on board changed course and made it to the other side of the Malay peninsula.

"It changed course after Kota Baru and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Straits," the military official, who has been briefed on investigations, told Reuters.

...

The Berita Harian newspaper was the first to report this development, quoting the Royal Air Force Malaysia (RMAF) chief General Tan Sri Rodzali Daud as saying they tracked the signal to Pulau Perak on the country's west coast.

"The last time the plane could be traced by an air control tower was near Pulau Perak, which is on the Straits of Malacca at 2.40am.

"After that, the signal from the plane was lost," he said.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/malaysian-military-now-reveals-it-tracked-mh370-to-malacca-straits

longship

(40,416 posts)

10. AFAIK, that report is unconfirmed.

Reply to FarCenter (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 02:36 PM

Mar 2014

Only one source. But they are checking it out, which is good.

DCBob

(24,689 posts)

6. I suspect someone (eg. hijacker) turned the radar/transponder off then turned the plane around..

Reply to FarCenter (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:09 PM

Mar 2014

and was flying west near this island when it may have crashed.. possibly due to the crew or passengers storming the cabin and during the battle the plane crashed into the ocean.

Response to DCBob (Reply #6)

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SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)

13. I can't see how a hijacker could have gotten the plane without

Reply to DCBob (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 03:29 PM

Mar 2014

the pilot getting off some kind of message or emergency beacon. I'm sure that after 9/11 some new kind of emergency beacon was installed in most planes..

Whatever happened this is some really weird shit.