They dropped it -they don't even mention it anymore.

not words ON the flight. It's kind of like the difference between conveying information vs. talking out of your ass.

Antarctica.

The last time I lost something, I checked a few more places after I found it, just to disprove that old saw.

they are fiction but one of those things that makes people get ideas.

also, where would it land ?

I'm thinking this could become like an Amelia Earhart mystery. The story also seems to be fading from the mainstream press, apparently, we are all supposed to forget about it, or we have forgotten about it. Curious...

Remember the #Bringbackourgirls? That story has vanished also.

nine day wonders all,

US to send troops into Nigeria, then it got ignored again. Yet another example why foreign policy shouldn't be guided by the ADHD crowd (good to keep in mind during the current ISIS freakout).

No one seems to care any longer if they are even still alive. It goes to the hypocrisy, shallowness and lack of critical thought. Just jump on whatever bandwagon you are told to by twitter.

Something really strange happened here

They had suspended the search for awhile. 3 months now. I wonder if it even ended up where they thought it was. It did come out the pings they heard were not from MH370.

Aren't pings on the black box frequency pretty extraordinary, coming from the middle of the ocean? Seems even stranger than the disappearance itself.

I thought they stopped covering it

Last I saw they were.

I tell ya ....everytime i get on a flight, I wonder if...

The aliens don't worry me so much

out for wild animals when we go hiking in a wilderness area. I always tell him all animals make friends with me. It's the humans that I worry about more. Four legs good, two legs possibly bad, be cautious, for me.

before starting up again in a few weeks.

I know people hate the Daily Mail but they do tend to keep up with developments on old stories rather than just drop them. You have to weed through which stories to believe (hint: you can usually disregard anything that says EXCLUSIVE! in the headline).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?sel=site&searchPhrase=mh370

All that we've been offered are supposedly educated guesses on what happened to this aircraft, and sometimes, when you start with garbage, then build on that, it's still garbage.

Accidents leave debris, deliberate actions are less likely to do that.

in the South China seas who said he saw an aircraft explode and fall apart.
He sent email to his employer.

so much.

that in India, they turn the radar off at night. Not sure if that's true, but if so...

Anyway, we either have a) Deliberate action by someone who has not left a trace, and b) Accidental complete failure of a plane that kept flying for many hours after it officially disappeared, one of the most reliable aircraft in the history of aviation, again not leaving a trace.

Like I said, accidents are more likely to leave signs than deliberate actions. In any case, I'm sure Boeing wants to find this thing before the lawsuits against it start to ripen. But there are places it cannot go.

to see what happened and why boeing would be responsible.

either way though, i'm sure they want to find it just to either fix or avoid it happening in the future if it was a malfunction with the plane or if it was something like terrorism it would prove it wasn't a problem with their planes.

But no plane means there's a chance of a mechanical failure, whereas a recorded cockpit conversation of an evil plot means that Boeing is absolutely in the clear. I think they'd like very, very much to prove the latter situation, both for the lawsuit thing, and to help future sales of the aircraft.

As far as I'm concerned, Boeing's only mistake was selling this thing to a Third World airline that didn't properly screen pilots and/or passengers. I will gladly retract that if I see even a shred of evidence that their aircraft could possibly behave the way that it did, without the pilot and co-pilot being able to do a damned thing about it (including communicate) for hours after the supposed failure.

....the sat pings only gave a arc north and south the plane could have been on....since zip has been found on the south arc i think they need to give the norther route which would have ended in far western China or Kyrgyzstan a closer look....plane might have flown super low and avoided population centers. Plus is just makes more sense then a route that ends in the middle of the ocean. Why fly so far to crash in the middle of nowhere 7 hours later?

And the Vietnamese are pissed because they spent a lot of time and resources looking for the plane and then found out that the Malaysians had lied: The plane had turned back.

There was a huge shipment of batteries on the plane (Malaysian Air still has not released the actual contents of all the cargo on the manifest, at least the last time I checked).

The most likely scenario is that the battery shipment started a fire, thus accounting for the time lapse in electrical systems turning off. The captain, not knowing exactly what was going on, turned the plane back to a Malaysian airport (not Kuala Lumpur as it is in the heart of a big city and if a crash landing might need to be performed there was another airport that was a much likelier one--I read this as an explanation when I was staying and traveling in Southeast Asia which included Malaysia, but I forget the name of the other airport but it would have been on the redirected flight path). This other airport was one that the captain was familiar with and was closer also.

What probably happened was that the battery-caused fire and the fumes knocked out the crew and passengers and the plane flew until it ran out of fuel.

A similar thing happened years ago when I was living in Virginia Beach, VA. A small plane carrying a then famous college coach, I believe it was a college coach, somehow lost cabin pressure and those in the pane blacked out. Jets were scrambled from NAS Oceana and the fighter pilots could see inside the plane and reported that the inhabitants were not conscious, but there was nothing they could do. The Navy jets followed the small plane out into the Atlantic where it crashed when it ran out of fuel.

Recently, a woman sailing with her husband in the Indian Ocean reported that she saw what looked like a large plane that was on fire and trailing smoke. She didn't report it at the time (the day the plane disappeared because there were two other planes in the sky and she thought they would report the other plane--if it was a plane--she wasn't sure). Also, she was sailing in the Indian Ocean and did not have access to current news.

Here is one news account:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mh370-search-british-sailor-may-be-last-to-see-lost-jet-after-reporting-burning-plane-with-trail-of-black-smoke-over-indian-ocean-9477827.html

One of the problems about the whole episode that was discussed in the English language news while I was in Southeast Asia in March was that the various countries that could have provided assistance and information in the hours after the plane was reported missing did not supply information for fear of showing other countries what their capabilities were and what they were watching and with what (at least that is what the articles surmised was the justification). That may still be true and may still be hampering recovery.

Malaysia Airlines was certainly not very forthcoming about the identity of the cargo:

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/malaysias-unwillingness-to-release-the-full-cargo-manifest-from-missing-flight-mh370-will-hamper-the-search-effort/story-fnizu68q-1226863022091

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-05/latest-flight-mh-370-shocker-two-ton-cargo-mystery

If there were over 2 tons of lithium batteries on that plane, the mystery of the cause may be solved, but as of the last time I checked (just now) Malaysia Airlines is still silent as is the shipper about this cargo.

My heart goes out to the friends and families of those lost on MH370. However, like the friends and family, I believe there is a cover up (and it is not aliens) and it is a multi-national cover up. For what specific reason, I don't know.

We heard stories about the batteries

of where they were last... But on your first glance over, they're not there. So you search the entire house, only to find out they were in the area where you first looked...

They need to check the point of last contact, which was the initial search area. The ping data that suggested the plane flew 8 hours is utter bullshit.

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