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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:19 pm (GMT 0)
MH370: Internet contributors assemble evidence of Hijacking to Diego Garcia, despite official obfuscation
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INTRODUCTION
(1) Archive of newsletters on MH370 - by Peter Myers, July 27, 2014
(2) MH370: Internet contributors assemble evidence of Hijacking to Diego Garcia - by Peter Myers, July 27, 2014
MALDIVES SIGHTINGS Dismissed without Investigation
(3) Maldives sightings discounted by Maldives National Defence Force
(4) US draft agreement for military presence in Maldives (2013)
(5) US "lily pad" proposed for Maldives (2013)
(6) Maldives Rejects "lily pad" Military Pact with US, because it would upset neighbors (India, Sri Lanka)
HIT OCEAN -> DEBRIS (eg seats float on water). Not found, therefore MH370 landed
(7) When a plane hits the ocean it’s like hitting concrete - Malaysia Airlines boss Hugh Dunleavy
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If MH 370 crashed in the ocean, it would have left a huge debris field; it must have landed somewhere
DIEGO GARCIA connection dismissed by US Gov't; media does not press further questions
(9) Diego Garcia the likely destination; it has a huge runway, sophisticated radar - Daily Paul
(10) Pilot Forum: Diego Garcia has formidable radar, several airstrips, large hangars that can hide aircraft
(11) The case for Diego Garcia; Jay Carney responds, "I'll rule that one out"
(12) MH370: Diego Garcia Suspended All Flights On March 8th 2014 for 72 hrs
(13) Philip Wood’s fiance Sarah Bajc gets death threat after iPhone message from Diego Garcia
DATA PACKETS sent to Rolls-Royce from MH370 engines, but it later suppresses this
(14) MH370 sent automated reports to Rolls-Royce - New Scientist & Wall St Journal
(15) Boeing & Rolls-Royce received data from MH370, but US Govt gagged them to stop intel leak to China
(16) MH370: data withheld out of reluctance to reveal military technology
(17) CNN: WSJ says data from MH370 engines transmitted for at least 4 hours
(1 The Independent: Rolls Royce dragged into the MH370 mystery
(19) New Scientist: MH370 sent at least two bursts of technical data to Rolls Royce
(20) Rolls-Royce backs Malaysian government's dismissal of reports over missing plane
REMOTE-CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
(21) Bush Jnr announced technology "to take over distressed aircraft and land it by remote control"
(22) Boeing Parent for remote control of a plane (2006)
(23) Air Force demonstrates Raytheon GPS-Based precision Auto-Landing System
(24) Boeing 777 features digital fly-by-wire controls & software-configurable avionics
(25) Remote-control software disconnects onboard controls, provides Power "from an alternative power control element"
(26) Emirates President sceptical about MH370 investigation, worries that 777s can be remotely hijacked
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WAS DODGING RADAR - guided by a skilled aviator - or remotely by computer
(27) MH370 was navigating between way-points as it headed west towards Andaman Islands
(2 MH370 was 'thrown around like a fighter jet in attempt to dodge radar'
POWER INTERRUPTION 2.25pm - indicated onboard Hacker, or REMOTE HACKER
(29) MH370 handshake/log-on at 2.25am indicates power interruption - by onboard or remote hijacker - and attempt to dodge radar
(30) Natural News reports the handshake/log-on as "cockpit tampering" to hide plane from radar
IMMARSAT FALSE TRAILS
(31) MH370: Australian navy admits it followed a false trail of pings
(32) Satellite experts: Immarsat's analysis doesn't make sense - The Atlantic
GEOPHYSICS Report of wreckage in Bay of Bengal Dismissed without Investigation
(33) Debunked: Exploration company "Georesonance" believes it may have found MH370
(34) Claim of MH370 wreckage in Bay of Bengal obligates search; Bangladesh sends frigates
(35) GeoResonance slams Australian authorities for not investigating aircraft wreckage in Bay of Bengal
(36) GeoResonance Press Release of June 30, 2014
(37) GeoResonance uses Nuclear Magnetic Resonance technology from the Soviet Union
(3 Oil rig worker loses job after MH370 'fire in the sky' report
BEST SUMMARIES
(39) Disappearance orchestrated by Military Industrial Complex - Tony Gosling
(40) Aviator gives the best overall analysis
(1) Archive of newsletters on MH370 - by Peter Myers, July 27, 2014
Readers, I hope you will forgive me for sending out fewer bulletins lately. I live like a peasant - "Plain Living and High Thinking", as Thoreau put it - which means that I am the carpenter, plumber, gardener, orchardist, mechanic etc at my small farm and one other block. In addition, I am editor of a Garden club newsletter.
However, be assured that I have been collecting information as usual. I have a huge backlog to send to you.
The Wikipedia article on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 says that the search "became the largest and most expensive in history": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
We conspiracy analysts see it as a new 9/11. And an Inside Job, just like 9/11. But whereas 9/11 is likely to have been a Mossad job (with backing from traitorous elements in the US Government), most of us see MH370 as a CIA operation. The exceptions are Christopher Bollyn and Yoichi Shimatsu, who see it as Mossad.
Because MH370 is so important, I am archiving all my newsletters about it. You can see that archive at http://mailstar.net/bulletins/bulletins.html
My two earlier newsletters on MH370 are archived there:
1: Maldives sightings: http://mailstar.net/bulletins/140319-b2362-MH370.rtf
2: Mahathir alleges remote hijacking by CIA; Yoichi Shimatsu presents a detailed case: http://mailstar.net/bulletins/140521-b2388-MH370.rtf
This newsletter (the third in the series) is archived there at
http://mailstar.net/bulletins/140727-b2420-MH370.rtf
I hope that you will download all three of them from there, and keep them for reference.
The rtf files should download for opening in Word, with formatting (eg bold) preserved. Please report any problems.
Some readers forward selected bulletins (of mine) to their mailing lists. Because this one is so big, it is likely to be truncated by some email providers or browsers. I had to keep it big, to preserve the unity of the material, but immediately after I send it to you as a single newsletter, I will also send it out as two halves, which should escape that truncation if you forward them.
(2) MH370: Internet contributors assemble evidence of Hijacking to Diego Garcia - by Peter Myers, July 27, 2014
The Daily Mail has a useful graphic on what happened to MH370:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/18/article-2583076-1C60477200000578-722_634x634_popup.jpg
The main Wikipedia article on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 makes no mention of Georesonance, Philip Wood, or Diego Garcia, and the Maldives is only mentioned in a footnote, but these are covered in an additional webpage on Unofficial Disappearance Theories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370_unofficial_disappearance_theories
(items 3-6) The Maldives sightings of an airliner flying low the morning after MH370 disappeared were discounted by the head of the Maldives National Defence Force. He said that there was no radar trace of the plane. However, it had been reported as flying unusually low over the Maldives. MH370 was also reported as flying low over over Malaysia and Indonesia to dodge radar, so the Maldives Commander's dismissal should not be taken as positive proof.
He gave no further details of why he dismissed the sightings, and whether he even talked to those who reported them. The media did not ask further questions. We do not normally accept military information as beyond question, because militaries have their own agenda and like to shape the news, embed reporters etc.
In 2013, the US put to the Maldives Government a draft agreement for a military base there. These days, they're not called a "base" but a "lily pad". The proposal is covered at items 3 to 6 below. The Maldives Government was willing, but in the end turned it down because its neighbours India and Sri Lanka were upset at such an intrusion into their backyard.
The proposal does show, however, that there was liason between the top levels of the Maldives and US militaries - most likely the Command at Diego Garcia. Therefore, if that Command had phoned the head of the Maldives Military after the Maldives sightings were reported, he may have obliged without much investigation. One should not take his statements as conclusive at all.
It would cost only $10,000 dollars or so for the official inquiry, or for the Western media, to send personnel to the Maldives to interview all those who reported sightings, and document them. Yet, that path has been spurned, even while the cost of the official inquiry approaches $90 million.
(items 7- Aviation experts say that when a big airliner like the 777 hits the ocean, it's like hitting concrete. There's lots of Debris, and much of it floats on water (eg seats). That happened with Air France Flight 447: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447. Such debris was not found; therefore MH370 landed somewhere. Also see item 40, by Aviator, on this.
(items 9-13) Diego Garcia is the obvious place. Also see Yoichi Shimatsu's detailed case in my 2nd newsletter about MH370. When Jay Carney responded, "I'll rule that one out", journalists took that rebuttal as definitive. It did not occur to them that Government spokesmen might lie, or even be ignorant about what really happened. They did not ask, for example, why Diego Garcia Suspended All Flights On March 8th 2014 for 72 hrs (item 10).
(items 14-20) New Scientist & the Wall St Journal reported that MH370 send a number of data packets to Rolls Royce, maker of its engines. Rolls-Royce later went quiet on this; Boeing likewise. Tony Gosling saw it as "the clear signature of an Information Operations campaign to stop publication" (item 39). The motive is likely connected to the US military's China focus (Air-Sea Battle), and technology and expertise being sent to China aboard MH370. Aviator wondered "what caused Rolls Royce to clam up about what they knew? US threats? No more engine sales into the US market maybe?" (item 40).
(items 21-26) Bush Jnr announced technology "to take over distressed aircraft and land it by remote control". Boeing Parented remote control of a plane in 2006, and the US Airforce later demonstrated it. Remote-control software disconnects onboard controls, and provides Power "from an alternative power control element" (item 25).
(items 27- The Mainstream Media reported that MH370 was 'thrown around like a fighter jet in attempt to dodge radar', and navigating between way-points as it headed west towards the Andaman Islands. They interpret this is mean that the plane had been hijacked by a skilled aviator, perhaps the pilot or co-pilot. Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was an inlaw of Anwar Ibrahim, and a poltical supporter of his who wore a T-shirt saying "Democracy Dead" (see the Daily Mail graphic). Yet a hijacking would not benefit Anwar's political position, but rather imperil it, which is why Anwar went to great trouble to distance himself from speculation about it. The Mainstream Media have not wondered who the hijacker might be, if not the pilot or co-pilot; the only exception is Sally Leivesley, a former British Home Office scientific adviser who warned that MH370 may have been 'cyber-hijacked' using a mobile phone or USB stick (see my first newsletter on MH370). Even she, however, did not publicly wonder if the hijacking might have been done, not by amateurs but by Government intelligence agents using a computer.
(items 29-30) The MH370 handshake (attempt to log-on to the IMMARSAT satellite) at 2.25am was unusual. Experts say it indicates power interruption by a hijacker attempting to dodge radar. They assume that the hijacker would be onboard, and do not consider a remote hijacker - except that the President of Emirates, biggest user of 777s, worries that they can be remotely hijacked (item 26). The real worry, which they dare not express, is that they cannot trust the US and British Governments.
(items 31-32) The Australian navy admits it followed a false trail of pings, wasting millions of Dollars and precious weeks when the Black Box would be emitting. Satellite experts writing in The Atlantic (Monthly) concluded that Immarsat's mathematics, which produced the two famous arcs defining the search area, was faulty.
(items 33-3 Georesonance, a Geophysical survey company using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance technology from the Soviet Union, claimed that it had located wreckage in the Bay of Bengal. This is not consistent with the idea that MH370 landed on Diego Garcia, but it should have been investigated. At least, the search team should have approached to the company's experts to see its data. Georesonance announced in a Press Release of June 30, 2014 that the official search had not done so, despite having wasted Millions on its own false trails.
(items 39-40) The best overall summaries by Tony Gosling, who says the disappearance was orchestrated by the West's Military Industrial Complex (item 39), and by Aviator, who notes that a 777's engines, being lower than the fuselage, would make contact with the water first, causing a rapid nose down and cartwheeling. "Wreckage beacon clearly visible and heard. With there being so many items on board that float and transmit" (item 40).
MALDIVES SIGHTINGS Dismissed without Investigation
(3) Maldives sightings discounted by Maldives National Defence Force
http://www.smh.com.au/world/missing-malaysia-airlines-plane-maldives-discounted-as-possible-location-for-mh370-20140319-hvkjq.html
Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: Maldives discounted as possible location for MH370
Sydney Morning Herald, March 19, 2014
Eyewitness reports of a possible sighting of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 flying near the Maldives have been officially discounted in a statement issued by the Maldives National Defence Force.
These reports were also confirmed by Malaysia's Transport Minister, Hishamuddin Hussein.
"Based on the monitoring up to date, no indication of Flight MH370 has been observed on any military radars in the country,” the statement said.
"Furthermore, the data of radars at Maldives airports have also been analysed and shows no indication of the said flight. The Maldives National Defence Force will continue to render any assistance required by the Maldives Police Service and international authorities on the search for the missing flight and related issues.”
Earlier reports had quoted several residents of Kudahuvadhoo in Dhaal atoll who saw a low-flying aircraft heading in a south-easterly direction on the morning of March 8, prompting speculation that it could have been Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
The residents said the aircraft had markings similar to the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.
The Maldives news website Minivan News quoted five eyewitnesses who said they saw the aircraft. “It was about 6:30 in the morning, I heard a loud noise and went out to see what it was,” Adam Saeed, a teacher at Kudahuvadhoo school, told the Maldives news website Minivan News.
“I saw a flight flying very low and it had a red straight line in the middle of it. The flight was travelling north-west to south-east,” he said.
Another islander, who identified himself as Hamzath, told Minivan News that he had also seen a low-flying plane heading from north-west to south-east.
“People started talking about it when they realised that the flight that we saw had the same characteristics as of the missing plane,” Hamzath said.
‘‘We are still not saying it is the same plane, we just wanted to report it just in case.”
Another suggested that the reports had been exaggerated.
“A plane did fly near the island,” said the witness who was not named. “It wasn’t that big, as big as people say.”
“These days, people will be out fishing every morning. Around 30 people would always be there in the morning – but no one talked about it then. If it was that noticeable, loud and big, people would talk."
When asked about the possibility of a plane of this size landing on an isolated airstrip in the atolls, Maldives National Defence Force spokesman Major Hussain Ali said this was not possible.
“If you are asking are there any landing strips outside of the main commercial airports, the answer is no,” Major Hussain said.
(4) US draft agreement for military presence in Maldives (2013)
http://in.rbth.com/blogs/2013/04/26/us_seeks_military_presence_in_maldives_24183.html
US seeks military presence in Maldives
April 26, 2013 M K Bhadrakumar
In a dramatic turn to the Great Game in the Indian Ocean, the United States’ strategies towards the island archipelago of Maldives have come under the scanner.
The intriguing ‘leak’ of a draft Status of Forces Agreement [SOFA] between the United States and the Maldivian government has led to reluctant confirmation by both countries that they are indeed involved in discussion with each other to conclude such an agreement.
The draft agreement “incorporates the principal provisions and necessary authorisations for the temporary presence and activities of United States forces in the Republic of Maldives and, in the specific situations indicated herein, the presence and activities of United States contractors in the Republic of Maldives.”
However, the US embassy in Colombo has maintained that “There are no plans for a permanent military base in Maldives. SOFAs are normal practice wherever the Unites States cooperates closely with a country’s national security forces. SOFAs generally establish the framework under which US personnel operate in a country when supporting security-related activities and the United States is currently party to more than 100 agreements that may be considered a SOFA.”
On the other hand, the draft SOFA is a sweeping document which says, “The Republic of the Maldives authorises United States forces to exercise all rights and authorities with Agreed Facilities and Areas that are necessary for their use, operation, defence or control, including the right to undertake new construction works and make alterations and improvements.”
Interestingly, the US recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Maldives, which will lead to the American side providing the border control, system for the island and manage it. Effectively, it puts the US in control of entry points into the island from the outside world.
The Maldives government insists that it is yet to decide on the SOFA. Evidently, the US is pressing hard. Last month, a US aircraft carrier USS John C Stennis visited Maldives.
The draft SOFA envisages that the Maldives would “furnish, without charge” to the US unspecified “Agreed Facilities and Areas”, and “such other facilities and areas in the territory and territorial seas of the Republic of Maldives as may be provided by the Republic of Maldives in the future.”
It specifies: “The Republic of the Maldives authorizes United States forces to exercise all rights and authorities with Agreed Facilities and Areas that are necessary for their use, operation, defense or control, including the right to undertake new construction works and make alterations and improvements.”
It further says, the US would be authorised to “control entry” to areas provided for its “exclusive use,” and would be permitted to operate its own telecommunications system and use the radio spectrum “free of cost to the United States”.
Besides, the US would also be granted access to and use of “aerial ports, sea ports and agreed facilities for transit, support and related activities; bunkering of ships, refuelling of aircraft, maintenance of vessels, aircraft, vehicles and equipment, accommodation of personnel, communications, ship visits, training, exercises, humanitarian activities.”
Interestingly, the SOFA confers on the US personnel (and civilian staff) “the privileges, exemptions and immunities equivalent to those accorded to the administrative and technical staff of a diplomatic mission under the Vienna Convention”, and guarantees that the Maldives laws won’t be applicable to the US personnel, who will be subject exclusively to the criminal jurisdiction of the United States.
The US personnel and contractors would also be permitted to import and export personal property, equipment, supplies and technology without license, restriction or inspection, or the payment of any taxes, charges or customs duties.
Most important, the vessels and vehicles operated by, and for, US forces would be permitted to enter and move freely within the territorial seas of the Maldives, free from boarding, inspection or the payment of landing, parking, port or harbour fees.
It is unclear whether New Delhi is aware of this hugely important development, which holds far-reaching implications for India’s strategic environment.
The Maldives Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim concluded a 4-day visit to India only 10 days ago. The Indian statement on Nazim’s talks with his counterpart A. K. Antony said, “As close neighbours sharing common security concerns, there is scope to further develop the relationship in mutually agreed areas. Shri Antony conveyed that India stands committed to enhance the ongoing defence and security partnership with Maldives.”
Needless to say, it will be a tectonic shift in the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean region if the US secures a military presence in the Maldives. General
The India-Maldives ties came under serious strain in the recent period following Delhi’s ill-conceived move to push a democracy project in Maldives. The US diplomacy has apparently cashed in on the resultant situation by filling in the crucial role that India traditionally occupied in Maldives’ national security calculus.
Significantly, the western powers – US, Britain, Australia, etc. – have all but piped down lately on the democracy deficit in Maldives. In retrospect, the democracy project served the key purpose of pressuring the Maldives government to open up to western patronage.
In sum, India’s loss has been the US’s gain. The draft SOFA is here. <http://www.dhivehisitee.com/images/US-Maldives-SOFA-draft.pdf>
(5) US "lily pad" proposed for Maldives (2013)
http://in.rbth.com/blogs/2013/05/08/americas_coconut_grove_lily_pad_in_maldives_24665.html
America’s coconut grove, lily pad in Maldives
May 8, 2013 M K Bhadrakumar
The US is acquiring some very valuable real estate in the Indian Ocean by exploiting the perceived insecurity of the political elites who usurped power and currently matter in Malé.
The American diplomats on the South Asia beat maintain that there are “no plans for US base in Maldives.” The US stance is that their Status of Forces Agreement [SOFA] under negotiation with the government of Maldives is a “normal practice.”
They argue, the US has signed SOFAs with over 100 countries, so what’s the big deal. The Maldives Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim says that as per his understanding, the SOFA would facilitate “joint military training exercises” that the US has proposed. Meanwhile, Chinese newspaper Global Times has carried on Monday a Xinhua agency report appropriately entitled “Maldives could allow increased US military presence.”
Do these reports contradict each other? To my mind, the reports are variations of a single theme. Consider the following: The current US policy disfavours the setting up of old-fashioned military bases abroad, which would be wasteful and unwarranted in the post-Cold War era. Clearly, Okinawa in Japan or Yongsan in Seoul are a thing of the past.
The United States is currently negotiating a SOFA with Afghanistan. But Washington maintains that it has no intentions of setting up military bases in Afghanistan – although the intention is quite obviously to establish open-ended American military presence in the region.
No one can take exception to such diplomatic sophistry. The former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld who had a way with words conjured up a brilliant expression to describe the post-modern American military bases abroad. He called them “lily-pads” and embedded the label in a new military doctrine signifying a fundamental shift in how the US forces are deployed worldwide in the 21st century.
A reasonable compromise under the circumstances will be to refer to the upcoming US military bases in the Maldives as “lily pads.” Plainly put, the US-Maldives SOFA happens to contain terms and provisions, which go way beyond what the Pentagon would operationally need for a bunch of beefy American trainers to visit the island archipelago to train the armed forces of Maldives. Pentagon has coined a nice expression to call its military training programme for the Maldives – “coconut grove.”
Funnily, too, according to the latest CIA Fact Sheet, the Maldives as a country would have 4167 men and 3595 women “reaching militarily significant annually”, which is to say, Pentagon will have a real hard time finding people to come to the coconut grove to get trained.
To be sure, all this is a joke. Who is it that the American diplomats are kidding? Plainly put, the US is acquiring some very valuable real estate in the Indian Ocean by exploiting the perceived insecurity of the political elites who usurped power and currently matter in Malé.
Britain found Gan military base in the Maldives to be of great worth during World War II operations. It gave up Gan in 1976 as it pulled out from “east of Suez.” The Pentagon now wants it back. Period.
But the real stunner today has been the claim by a senior US state department official in Washington that the Obama administration consulted New Delhi about the upcoming SOFA with the Maldives.
Of course, there is no way to cross-check an American diplomat’s claim. But then, any Indian pundit would know the US is a benign military power and its military presence is a great thing to have – be it in the lily pads in Singapore, Thailand, Diego Garcia or Bahrain or the dozens of lily pads spread across the Persian Gulf region or the new lily pads coming up in Afghanistan and the Maldives. Conceivably, the more lily pads the merrier; they keep the Chinese away.
(6) Maldives Rejects "lily pad" Military Pact with US, because it would upset neighbors (India, Sri Lanka)
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140122/DEFREG03/301220025/Maldives-Rejects-Military-Pact-US
Maldives Rejects Military Pact With US
Jan. 22, 2014 - 02:53PM | By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA — The Maldives has decided not to take part in a proposed military cooperation pact with the United States over fears that it could upset the regional power India, senior officials said Wednesday.
Speaking on a visit to Sri Lanka, the atoll nation’s new President Abdulla Yameen said he did not want to proceed with the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that would have given the US a foothold in his archipelago located across the main east-west sea route.
“There have been discussions before ... we are not going to pursue it,” he told reporters in Colombo during his second overseas visit since winning elections two months ago.
The US had confirmed early last year discussions on the accord, but had said it had no intention of setting up any bases in the Maldives.
Although the president gave no reason for the decision, Mohamed Shareef, a minister in Yameen’s office, said it had been made over fears that the pact would upset its neighbors, including India.
“We have told them that we can’t do it because both India and Sri Lanka are also not happy with it,” said Shareef, without giving further details.
Shareef said the proposed SOFA would have given the US military access to two atolls in the nation of 1,192 tiny coral islands scattered some 800 kilometers (500 miles) across the equator.
He noted that the US military already had a considerable presence in Diego Garcia, a British territory, about 700 kilometers (437 miles) south of the Maldivian archipelago.
India is the regional super power and is highly sensitive to outside presence in the Indian Ocean area. It has also been recently involved in a diplomatic bust-up with the US over the treatment of one of its diplomats in New York. [...]
HIT OCEAN -> DEBRIS (eg seats float on water). Not found, therefore MH370 landed
(7) When a plane hits the ocean it’s like hitting concrete - Malaysia Airlines boss Hugh Dunleavy
{the implication is that you expect to see wreckage on the surface, - things that float, eg the seats. That happened with Air France Flight 447: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 - Peter M.}
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/the-plane-truth-malaysia-airlines-boss-hugh-dunleavy-on-what-really-happened-the-night-flight-mh370-went-missing-9556444.html
The plane truth: Malaysia Airlines boss on what really happened the night flight MH370 went missing
Londoner Hugh Dunleavy has spent the past 107 days working tirelessly to find flight MH370. Here the Malaysia Airlines boss tells Lucy Tobin what really happened during the night that sparked a thousand theories
LUCY TOBIN
The Evening Standard, London
Published: 23 June 2014
Updated: 15:52, 23 June 2014
It was four in the morning and Hugh Dunleavy was heading to Kuala Lumpur airport to fly to a conference in Borneo when his phone flashed with an emergency text. Malaysia Airlines’ commercial boss never made it to that conference. Instead he spent the next 72 hours working non-stop to find out why flight MH370 had gone missing and trying to explain his lack of an answer to hundreds of distraught relatives in a grief limbo.
The now-infamous flight lost contact with air traffic control at 1.34am on March 8, an hour after take-off. But in this, his first major interview since MH370 disappeared, Dunleavy reports it was three hours later by the time air traffic controllers — having tried and failed to get a response from the plane and from radar controllers in Vietnam, Hong Kong and China — sent that emergency text.
Dunleavy is one of London’s brightest expats: he grew up in Ealing, took a PhD in physics at Sheffield University then started his career working in a role “I can’t talk about” for the Ministry of Defence. He was the first to arrive at the airline’s emergency control room that morning; then he became Malaysia Airlines’ public face as the tragedy unfolded.
“My first thought was that the pilot had fallen asleep, or something had gone wrong with the communication system,” he says. “We had five other aircraft in the sky nearby, so our senior pilots started contacting them, asking if they’d seen MH370, getting them to ping it. But we got no response.”
Three months since that plane and its 239 passengers and crew went missing, there’s still no trace. “Something untoward happened to that plane. I think it made a turn to come back, then a sequence of events overtook it, and it was unable to return to base. I believe it’s somewhere in the south Indian Ocean. But when [a plane] hits the ocean it’s like hitting concrete. The wreckage could be spread over a big area. And there are mountains and canyons in that ocean. I think it could take a really long time to find. We’re talking decades.” [...]
( If MH 370 crashed in the ocean, it would have left a huge debris field; it must have landed somewhere
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/04/24/mh370solved/
Thursday, April 24th, 2014 | Posted by Kevin Barrett
Missing Plane Mystery Solved?
By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor, for Press TV
Two former high-level insiders may have solved two of the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370:
What caused the plane to suddenly fly off-course? And why are all of the governments involved covering up the truth?
Had MH 370 crashed in the ocean, it would have left a huge, easily-visible debris field. Countries with satellite surveillance systems, and their partners, know exactly where the plane went. Boeing and its engine-manufacturer Rolls Royce also know, since planes and engines have GPS systems. (You can buy a GPS system for a little over $50 in the US; it would be naive to think a $320 million aircraft doesn't have one.) Even the INMARSAT satellite "pings" that we have been told can only sweep a broad arc of possible locations could in reality be used to locate the aircraft with some precision, due to the fact that radio transmissions vary in signatures according to time of day, sunspots, and so on. The "hunt for the airliner" peddled to the mainstream media is clearly a charade.
So what are all of the major players - both in governments and the aircraft industry - working so hard to hide?
Matthias Chang, a barrister who served as Political Secretary to Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, explained during an exclusive Truth Jihad Radio interview that only a remote-hijacking fly-by-wire scenario can explain the plane's disappearance. Chang's views were confirmed by Gene "Chip" Tatum, a former Special Forces Air Combat Controller and US Army special operations pilot who has carried out ultra-sensitive missions at the direct orders of US Presidents.
Chang says the Malaysian government has been given sealed evidence by one or more foreign governments concerning the fate of MH-370. As a condition of receiving that evidence, Malaysia is not allowed to divulge it.
Matthias Chang is familiar with the highest levels of power in Malaysia. He presumably has some idea of what is in the sealed evidence. But if he did know, he could not say it directly.
Maybe that is why Matthias Chang recently sent an email to MH-370 investigators in the alternative media with a "hint":
"WHAT IF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MH 370 IS SUCH THAT IF THE TRUTH BE KNOWN AS TO HOW IT HAPPENED IT WOULD NOT ONLY BE A SECURITY ISSUE, IT WOULD ALSO HAVE A GLOBAL IMPACT ON THE WORLD'S ECONOMY. 'THINGS' (USED IN A BROAD SENSE, AND SO YOU HAVE TO THINK WHAT 'THINGS' THAT) WOULD COME TO A COMPLETE HALT, ALMOST A COMPLETE SHUT DOWN."
What "things" would "come to a complete halt" and badly damage the world economy if the truth about MH-370 were told?
Chip Tatum thinks those "things" are commercial airplanes. In our interview Friday night, Tatum suggested that the current generation of airliners' fly-by-wire systems are extremely vulnerable to catastrophic sabotage, including electronic hijacking.
Tatum called the alleged search for the aircraft "a smokescreen... They're keeping the media busy in the South Indian Ocean while things are being done in other areas. I think the government doesn't want us to know what they know because they don't think we can handle the truth."
But what could that truth possibly be? Tatum explains: "If it were known that something is that easily hijacked by remote control, people would stop flying. And then you're talking about a huge impact on business and everything else."
So when Matthias Chang says that the truth about MH-370 would cause "things" to come to a complete halt, he is presumably referring to commercial air traffic. I asked Chang point blank if this was true. He did not deny it. But rather than confirm this hypothesis - which may be off-limits to direct discussion due to its inclusion in the sealed evidence Malaysia has been given - Chang directed me to his most recent article at FutureFastForward.com citing evidence that new technology allows planes to be flown from the ground.
Chip Tatum speculates that a bright teenager with a laptop and a cell phone could hack into commercial aircraft fly-by-wire systems. He explains that in newer aircraft, cables driven by pilot controls have been replaced by computers sending electronic signals. While technologies have been patented for protecting these fly-by-wire systems - notably US Patent #8,391,493, which the US government immediately "disappeared" from Patent Office records by invoking the Invention Secrecy Act - they apparently have not yet been implemented. If Tatum is right, commercial aircraft currently flying are wide-open for remote hijacking.
The scenario outlined by Chang and Tatum explains how MH370 was hijacked, and why all the major players are covering up the truth. But it does not explain who remote-hijacked MH370 and why. [...]
DIEGO GARCIA connection dismissed by US Gov't; media does not press further questions
(9) Diego Garcia the likely destination; it has a huge runway, sophisticated radar - Daily Paul
http://www.dailypaul.com/314371/rolls-royce-furthers-malaysian-plane-mystery-engine-data-showed-plane-had-flown-for-four-hours-more-than-thought
Day 43 Malaysian plane mystery: US military base on Diego Garcia atoll IS involved
Submitted by SteveMT on Thu, 03/13/2014 - 14:26
Does anyone else smell a rat close by? This incident is beginning to stink of American involvement. Nothing like it has ever occurred in aviation history. Cell phone calls not able to be traced; no radar tracings; transponders turned off; no wreckage spotted; and a large plane with 239 people aboard vanishes without a trace. Enter the secret military base at the Diego Garcia atoll, which has a huge runway and is four hours flying time from Malaysia. Only government personal with a high security clearance work there; clearly visible are over a dozen B-52 aircraft on the 2014 satellite Google Map. With the tens of billions of dollars needed to build and maintain this facility, Diego Garcia must have its own dedicated satellite surveillance system that would show any aircraft, ships, or submarines getting even remotely close to this facility. However, the level of sophistication of its radar is classified and unverifiable. With the plane now missing for 43 days (1,000+ hours), the 'thinkables' have become unlikely and so the 'unthinkables' have become possibilities.
This is pure speculation NO LONGER, or so it would seem! Maldives island residents reported sighting of 'low flying jet' on the morning of the plane's disappearance that was finally reported on twelve days after the fact. The pilot of the missing plane had a home flight simulator, which was been reported twelve days later to contain the landing simulation program of the Diego Garcia runway along with four other runway approaches in the region. Whether any, all, or none of this information is true is still a matter of conjecture. What remains a fact is that not a trace of the Malaysian 777-200ER has been found. At his daily news briefing on 3-18-14, WH spokesperson Jay Carney has denied any involvement of the Diego Garcia facility with the disappearance of flight MH370.
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Did Missing Flight MH370 Land In The Maldives Or Diego Garcia
3-18-14
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-18/did-missing-flight-...
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Maldives island residents report sighting of 'low flying jet'
Mar 18, 2014 - 02:55
Residents of the remote Maldives island of Kuda Huvadhoo in Dhaal Atoll have reported seeing a "low flying jumbo jet" on the morning of the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/54062
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Cops find five Indian Ocean practice runways in MH370 pilot’s simulator
March 18, 2014
“The simulation programmes are based on runways at the Male International Airport in Maldives, an airport owned by the United States (Diego Garcia), and three other runways in India and Sri Lanka, all have runway lengths of 1,000 metres.
“We are not discounting the possibility that the plane landed on a runway that might not be heavily monitored, in addition to the theories that the plane landed on sea, in the hills, or in an open space,” the source was quoted as saying.
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/cops-find...
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US military base Diego Garcia [has an huge runway] is located at the
Indian Ocean.
See Google map/story at link:
http://english.astroawani.com/news/show/mh370-pentagon-has-i...
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Was Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Redirected to Diego Garcia?
03/14/2014
http://abundantlifeliving.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/was-malay...
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(10) Pilot Forum: Diego Garcia has formidable radar, several airstrips, large hangars that can hide aircraft
No longer at http://www.cabaltimes.com/2014/03/12/ma370-redirected-to-diego-garcia/
But is at (save this webpage while you can): https://web.archive.org/web/20140505112414/http://abundantlifeliving.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/was-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-redirected-to-diego-garcia/
Was Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Redirected to Diego Garcia?
It has now become fairly evident that the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing is not accidental. In fact, there is a strong possibility that the flight was commandeered to the US military base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. A bizarre “extraordinary rendition“?
DIEGO GARCIA. The Secret U.S. Naval Base UPDATED 4/8 – Video about Diego Garcia Why did Flight 370 try to hide its whereabouts?
MH370 was a 777-200 service carrying 239 passenger and crew on a regular Kuala Lumpur to Beijing service. To recap, it left KL at 12.40 am, it disappeared as a commercial radar trace at 1.22 am close to the area where such radar visibility to the Malaysia air traffic control system drops off, and was never observed as entering Vietnam controlled air space on a path intended to cross that country to the South China Sea and continue past Hong Kong toward its destination.
The transponders on Flight 370 was switched off immediately after it was outside the visibility of Malaysia’s air traffic control! To quote a poster GarageYears on a forum for professional pilots,
Turning off the transponder isn’t just a toggle or push-button, the switch is a rotary and you’d have to move it two positions to get it into the standby condition.
This could only have been done by a compromised crew, or by hijackers. To quote another forum member Tfor2,
1. It was a hi-jack (transponder turned off, no Mayday), and the plane was not under the control of the pilots. It flew to wherever was demanded, and something happened thereafter causing it to crash, probably from an effort to regain control (as with United 93 during events of 9/11). So it could be anywhere. An eye-witness will eventually come forward.
2. The most fearsome worry to come out of this is how come an aircraft can invade national territory without military or civil or satellite detection? This leaves a hole in the defense systems of all countries.
To quote a professional A330 pilot,
I think the flight deck was compromised.
But that’s not the only sign that Flight 370 was trying to hide its whereabouts. Immediately after shutting off its transponders, Flight 370 made a U-turn and headed in the direction of Diego Garcia, crossing Malaysia in the process. If there indeed had been a massive technical failure, the crew would have tried to safely ditch the plane at sea, not return to Malaysia. And if there had been a cabin decompression, the plane would have slowly lost altitude, crashing into the Gulf of Thailand. Malaysia’s Air Force Chief General Rodzali Daud first raised the possibility that the plane had reversed course the very next day (9th March), and he was quoted by a Malay-language paper as saying the jet had been tracked hundreds of miles from its intended flight path, over the Strait of Malacca off western Malaysia, and up to 320 kilometres northwest of the Malaysian state of Penang, after which it either disappeared or Malaysian radar lost capability to track it. It was clearly flying low, as if to avoid detection by radar.
After turning off its transponder, Flight 370 turned around and headed to the direction of Diego Garcia. [...]
— Florian Witulski (@vaitor) March 12, 2014
To quote another poster Frenchwalker on the same aforementioned forum,
Just to point out on some of the information provided by the Malaysian military last night around its last know position, more so around the fact the the aircraft descended to around 3000ft would this simply be to maintain Visual Flight Rules , cloud base in Kuala Lumpur usually sits between 3000ft and 10,000ft this would indicate the the person in command certainly had control of the Aircraft
A possible flight path of Flight 370, from where it was last observed on radar in Penang, to Diego Garcia.
If the plane was headed towards Diego Garcia (which is under eight hours of flying time from Kuala Lumpur), it would have been captured on Indonesian radars as well, and it was likely to have crossed over Indonesia. But unlike Malaysia, Indonesia is a defacto Globalist client state, and would immediately cover up such information. Australia also has a sophisticated radar network, but we haven’t heard from them either.
Apart from radar, there is also other “live” data associated with commercial aircraft, which is not being discussed. To quote another user of the forum Davionics,
Why has nobody confirmed/announced if there were any transmissions sent via SATCOM? Seems to be the elephant in the room – the media currently appears to have an unhealthy tunneled obsession with; radar, ads-b, voice comms, gps, black boxes, etc.
Surely ACARS and engine telemetry data could shine a good dose of light on this incredibly sad fiasco.
Many aircraft today also have Panasonic Avionics high-bandwidth eXconnect GCS (Global Communications Suite) to augment SATCOM.
Investigators have now confirmed that such live data indicated that the plane continued to fly even after its last radar contact. The just won’t tell us when the data transmissions ended (which would indicate when the flight landed). To quote,
“Throughout the roughly four hours after the jet dropped from civilian radar screens, these people said, the link operated in a kind of standby mode and sought to establish contact with a satellite or satellites. These transmissions did not include data, they said, but the periodic contacts indicate to investigators that the plane was still intact and believed to be flying.
Investigators are still working to fully understand the information, according to one person briefed on the matter. The transmissions, this person said, were comparable to the plane “saying I’m here, I’m ready to send data.”
And there is still no word about the signals from monitoring systems embedded in the plane’s Rolls-Royce PLC engines, which would have stopped when the plane landed.
Diego Garcia is the strongest US military-air force base in the Indian Ocean. It served as a forwarding base in almost all American conflicts in the Gulf and in Afghanistan. It was also a transit venue for the infamous “extraordinary renditions.” It possesses formidable radar capabilities, as well as several airstrips. And large hangars that can hide aircraft. To quote a commenter on a pilot’s website who believed the plane was in Diego Garcia,
My speculation is of this being a super-duper, super-extraordinary form of rendition.
And most important of all, Diego Garcia has a staff who follow a code of not asking too many questions and keeping their eyes wide shut. Unlike Malaysia, there are no General Dauds in Diego Garcia, who would blurt out what they saw on military radar.
Air Force One at Diego Garcia
An American aircraft carrier at Diego Garcia.
American military aircraft at Diego Garcia.
Good Times? Why Malaysia?
The presence of a large number of Chinese passengers on board the doomed flight is being used to strain relations between Communist China and Malaysia, and it may contribute to a future deterioration of their relationship, resulting in increased justification of Chinese presence in the region, and maybe even future Chinese aggression. This may also help explain why a Malaysian plane was targeted, as opposed to an Indonesian plane (Indonesia is already in the hands of the Globalists, and therefore never gets any brinkmanship from Communist China, which is a creation of the Globalists).
Malaysia is probably the only country in the world whose recent leadership has openly criticized the IMF, Israel, the War on Terror and made claims that 9/11 was an Inside Job. Malaysia has a bustling economy, but the Globalists prefer plantation style economies, such as neighbouring Indonesia, which is completely under Globalist control. Since Malaysia cannot be subject to the so-called War on Terror unless they start openly supporting Al-Qaida, the only other alternative the Globalists have is to feed it to China, and the Panda will invite itself for lunch, Al-Qaida or not.
Mainstream media has repeatedly stressed at Chinese impatience with Malaysian “incompetence.” While it is true that the present mess would not have been possible unless many Malaysian officials were compromised, so were many officials of other governments involved in the search and rescue efforts. And despite such high level corruption, the deliberately concealed fact that the plane had reversed course and moved Westwards did come out, albeit in a muffled way. It is unlikely that such disclosure would have ever happened in any of the neighbouring Globalist-dominated countries.
Compared to Globalist dominated Indonesia, Malaysia has gotten away with prosperity. But for how long?
Other Odd Ends
* Initially there were reports of some passengers who did not board the plane, but then Malaysian authorities were forced to “retract” their statements. Passengers connected to the Global Elite usually receive advance warnings.
* Flight 370 had 20 employees of Texas based Freescale Semiconductors. It would be interesting to know what their latest projects were. It is unclear whether or not the company counted the NSA among its clients. To quote Wikipedia on the company,
In the 1960s, one of the U. S. space program’s goals was to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth [Not Quite!]. In 1968, NASA began manned Apollo flights that led to the first lunar landing in July 1969. Apollo 11 was particularly significant for hundreds of employees involved in designing, testing and producing its electronics. A division of Motorola, which became Freescale Semiconductor, supplied thousands of semiconductor devices, ground-based tracking and checkout equipment, and 12 on-board tracking and communications units. An “up-data link” in the Apollo’s command module received signals from Earth to relay to other on-board systems. A transponder received and transmitted voice and television signals and scientific data.
[.......] and Motorola’s MPC5200 microprocessor deployed telematic systems for General Motors’ OnStar systems.
[.......] In addition, a recent ABI Research market study report states that Freescale owns 60% share of the Radio Frequency (RF) semiconductor device market.
[.......] Also in 2011, Freescale announced the company’s first magnetometer for location tracking in smart mobile devices.
* Confirmation of Iranian passengers travelling on false European passports. While they have been ruled out as hijackers, the Powers That Be sometimes do use Iranians for dirty work. There was also an attempt to portray them as favourably as possible.
* If a missile destroyed Flight 370, the missile would have left a radar signature (Thanks to Mike Adams). [...]
(11) The case for Diego Garcia; Jay Carney responds, "I'll rule that one out"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370_unofficial_disappearance_theories
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 unofficial disappearance theories
[...] Diego Garcia
Conspiracy theorists have suggested that MH370 was either captured by the United States and then flown to the United States' military base on Diego Garcia[29] or that the plane landed at the base directly. The latter theory was raised at a White House daily briefing on 18 March, whereupon press secretary Jay Carney responded, "I'll rule that one out."[30] Underpinning the Diego Garcia theory were several elements, not only the purported area of the co-pilot cell contact and the plane's westward turn, both of which were consistent with a flight path toward the island, but also a message and image tied to a passenger. Shortly after the disappearance a message was posted to the 4chan site reading, "I have been held hostage by unknown military personal after my flight was hijacked (blindfolded). I work for IBM and I have managed to hide my cellphone in my ass during the hijack. I have been separated from the rest of the passengers and I am in a cell. My name is Philip Wood. I think I have been drugged as well and cannot think clearly."
The accompanying photo's Exif data identified not only the iPhone and a photo time shortly preceding the transmission, but GPS coordinates pinpointing a building directly on Diego Garcia. It was claimed the image was faked as at least one version suggested manipulation by the use of software package Picasa,[31] though the Jim Stone Freelance site claims it had an original copy prior to a particularly severe hacking, dismissed the variants as shillage, provided a screenshot of the original GPS coordinate readouts, rejected the claim the concealment was physically untenable, disproved the counterclaims that Wood was never an IBM engineer or on the plane (citing passenger manifests and Wood's LinkedIn profile), and cited a military source to attest wireless cell service in fact is available on Diego Garcia.[32] In addition, a screenshot was in circulation alleged to be taken from the Diego Garcia base website itself indicating that flight traffic on Diego Garcia was suspended for the 72 hours, effectively bracketing the time at which the plane would have landed.[33] [...]
This page was last modified on 18 July 2014 at 23:01.
(12) MH370: Diego Garcia Suspended All Flights On March 8th 2014 for 72 hrs
http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2014/03/flight-mh370-mystery-diego-garcia-suspended-all-flights-on-march-8th-for-72-hrs-2458394.html
Flight MH370 Mystery. Diego Garcia Suspended All Flights On March 8th for 72 hrs.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:05
Notice the date of the facebook post. March 8th. Now go to the facebook page.
{Facebook US Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia}
https://www.facebook.com/NSFDG
Notice they have completely erased all posts between March 6th, and March 9th. There is some very weird stuff going on down in creepy Diego Garcia, a place where the US operates completely independant of the constitution.
Edit to add, here is a link to the Diego Garcia Passenger facebook page with the March 8th flight schedule. Notice all other flight schedules throughout the month all had several flights schedules. The fact that no flight were scheduled for 3 days during the time MH370 went missing, all maintenance crew most likely were off on leave. Great time to sneak in an aircraft.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Diego-Garcia-Passenger-Terminal/242934902443795
(13) Philip Wood’s fiance Sarah Bajc gets death threat after iPhone message from Diego Garcia
{IBM employee Philip Wood allegedly sent an i-Phone message from Diego Garcia to his fiance Sarah Bajc, a business executive in Beijing, saying that MH370 had been hijacked - Peter M.}
http://www.news.com.au/world/missing-malaysia-airlines-plane-philip-woods-lover-sarah-bajc-gets-death-threat-fbi-investigate/story-fndir2ev-1226912945848
Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: Philip Wood’s lover Sarah Bajc gets death threat, FBI investigate
* by: Shoba Rao
* May 11, 2014 1:26PM
SINCE Flight MH370 vanished, life hasn’t been the same for one of the passengers’ girlfriends who’s been robbed, had a death threat and bizarre telephone calls.
Sarah Bajc has revealed she has also been robbed twice. But neither she nor the FBI can explain how the series of frightening incidents are linked to her partner Philip Wood, who went missing on the Malaysia Airlines plane.
All she knows is that they started after the plane went missing, and who ever is behind the incidents has left her very upset.
Bajc told NBC News she got an instant message warning that “I’m going to come and kill you next” about two weeks after MH370 disappeared on March 8.
The phone calls came from a China-based number, and once an FBI agent assigned to help her and Wood’s family was alerted to the strange calls, they stopped.
A number of pornographic images and phone calls were also received from the samephone number.
“It was just another straw on the camel’s back, very upsetting,” Bajc told NBC News.
Bajc claims the phone calls and messages started after her apartment was robbed for the first time, two weeks after MH370 officially went missing.
“Whoever came wasn’t very careful because I’m a real neat freak, so it was immediately apparent to me that some things had been moved,” she said.
“My housekeeper was out of town so it couldn’t have been her and I got home before my son got back.
The password on my safe had been reset which happens when you try the wrong code three times.”
“The second time was a couple weeks later and my neighbour saw two people leaving my apartment. I have no illusions of privacy here [in Beijing].”
Bajc was preparing to move from Beijing to live with her partner, a 50-year-old IBM Malaysia employee.
DATA PACKETS sent to Rolls-Royce from MH370 engines, but it later suppresses this
(14) MH370 sent automated reports to Rolls-Royce - New Scientist & Wall St Journal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
On 11 March, New Scientist reported that, prior to the aircraft's disappearance, two Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) reports had been automatically issued to engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce's monitoring centre in the United Kingdom;[45] and The Wall Street Journal, citing sources in the US government, asserted that Rolls-Royce had received an aircraft health report every thirty minutes for five hours, implying that the aircraft had remained aloft for four hours after its transponder went offline.[46][47][48]
The following day, Hishammuddin Hussein, the acting Malays