MH 777 missing - MH370 media statement

[Strategic Aviation]

The Search For MH370 Called Off Again - One Mile at a Time

 

[Happy Trails]

While the fat lady has sung, it seems she'll perform a brief encore:

The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is not quite over, the company leading the mission has said, despite the Malaysian government stating on Monday that it had ended.

Ocean Infinity said it was heading to one last spot of interest before it turns back for good.


MH370: search for missing plane heads for one last spot of interest

 

[Strategic Aviation]

MH370: Malaysia to hand down report on missing plane on July 30 - ABC News

 

[PLANT]

"Still unable to locate".

 

[Scarlett]

"Still unable to locate".

I suspect it will remain that way, like many missing flights over the past 100 years. At least for the next 25 years until it is found by an autonomous underwater ‘bot’ that solves part of the mystery.

I wonder which will happen first: large remains of MH370 discovered or Russia admitting its role in the downing of MH17? I see an approximate 25 year timeline for both...

 

[Melburnian1]

I suspect it will remain that way, like many missing flights over the past 100 years....

As a matter of interest, as I've never read up on the topic, just how many 'missing flights' worldwide have there been in (say) the last 50 years from 1968 onwards?

 

[Strategic Aviation]

One interesting case - The 727 that Vanished - Air & Space Magazine:-

According to press reports, the aircraft began taxiing with no communication between the crew and the tower; maneuvering erratically, it entered a runway without clearance. With its lights off and its transponder not transmitting, 844AA took off to the southwest, and headed out over the Atlantic Ocean. The 727 and the two men have not been seen since.

Who was flying 844AA? Had something happened to make Padilla take that desperate chance? Or was someone waiting inside the airplane? Leased to deliver diesel fuel to diamond mines, the 727 carried 10 500-gallon fuel tanks and a few passenger seats in its cabin. Less than two years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 727’s freakish departure triggered a frantic search by U.S. security organizations for what intelligence sources said could have been a flying bomb.

“It was never [clear] whether it was stolen for insurance purposes…by the owners, or whether it was stolen with the intent to make it available to unsavory characters, or whether it was a deliberate concerted terrorist attempt. There was speculation of all three.”

Speculation that the theft of 844AA posed a terrorist threat ended, though it’s unclear why. Perhaps National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency technicians saw signs of a crash in satellite imagery—debris or an oil slick in the Atlantic, for example—or evidence that a large aircraft had landed on one of a half-dozen unpaved, 8,000-foot runways in the Congo, north of Angola. Agency spokesperson Susan Meisner would not comment, saying that the NGIA was not the lead agency in the case. (A CIA spokesperson also declined comment, as did a spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security. FBI agents also refused comment, citing national security concerns.)

 

[marki]

There was a wonderful presentation made by the ATSB hi the senate estimates yesterday. Articulated very well a lot of the assumptions made and the reasons why.

Do you have a link?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Do you have a link?

It’s in several parts. If you google ‘senate inquiry youtube MH370’ it brings up all the videos, you just gotta select them in order.

 

[marki]

It’s in several parts. If you google ‘senate inquiry youtube MH370’ it brings up all the videos, you just gotta select them in order.

Thank you managed it was very interesting

 

[OZDUCK]

MH370: Malaysia to hand down report on missing plane on July 30 - ABC News

Well the report was handed down today and unsurprisingly it didn't have much new to say Investigators unable to determine the cause of MH370's disappearance

The pertinent phrase was "The team is unable to determine the real cause for disappearance of MH370" Without discovering the wreckage it is unlikely that the true reason will ever be truly known - it can only be guessed. Even the wreckage itself may not be able to supply the full picture of what happened. Also it did not answer other questions about the tardy reaction of Malaysian authorities.

 

[marki]

Looks like the French Military continuing to investigate GTA Gendarmerie Air Transport. This agency examined the flaperon and has experienced the AF 447. Air France Flight 447 - Wikipedia

 

[Quickstatus]

Not good optics MH!!

 

[Deleted member 29185]

What kind of idiot approved that advertising?

I wonder if it was the idiot fitting the signage ... maybe that was meant to go on the other side?

 

[mannej]

Considering the livery in use, and the fact it is a 777, I wonder how dated the photo in question is?

 

[Happy Trails]

This is also doing the rounds.

 

[Berlin]

This is also doing the rounds.
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Ouuuhw, so at least one of them (or, more likely, both) are simply photoshopped. I really love funny internet memes- but the ones that are just fake, they suck

 

[Quickstatus]

Ouuuhw, so at least one of them (or, more likely, both) are simply photoshopped. I really love funny internet memes- but the ones that are just fake, they suck

Probably both. I got mine from a friend and he confirms that he got it from someone else.

 

[AIRwin]

This is also doing the rounds.

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5 tragic airline ads

 

[Ric]

I have been told that the MH one is a fake one.