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Helderberg. They had a whole episode on that in one of the earlier seasons.
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Helderberg. They had a whole episode on that in one of the earlier seasons.
Dave
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So I presume a total thumb suck padded out into an hour of nothingness?
genetic
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Gives all the facts up until now, No thumb sucking.
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I hope we don't have to wait thirty years for the truth to be known.
One would have thought some flotsam would have turned up by now. And yet, it's a vast and remote sea...
One would have thought some flotsam would have turned up by now. And yet, it's a vast and remote sea...
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CONJECTURE, SUSPICION MARK ONE YEAR SINCE MH370'S DISAPPEARANCE by John Grafilo
A year after a Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing the incident remains a mystery.
Despite scouring the desolate and ill-tempered waters of the Southern Indian Ocean, searchers have yet to find the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared without a trace a year ago.
The inability to locate the Beijing-bound flight MH370, which went missing on March 8 an hour after it left Kuala Lumpur International Airport, has fuelled wild allegations of conspiracies and coverups.
Kelly Wen, 30, was among a group of 21 relatives of Chinese nationals that went to Kuala Lumpur last month to seek answers about the missing plane. She said the suspicions proliferate because authorities have been less than candid in sharing what they know.
"There are many questions that have not been answered. That is why we are here [in Kuala Lumpur]," she told dpa.
Wen, whose husband was among the 239 people aboard the disappeared aircraft, said she wonders why the government was in a hurry to declare all the people aboard MH370 officially dead when the plane has not yet been found.
Jiang Hui, 41, whose 70-year-old mother was aboard, could not hide his suspicion that the search is being conducted in the wrong place.
"They have searched the area for months and nothing happened," he said, adding that Malaysia cannot evade the responsibility for finding out what happened to the plane.
"Declaring our loved ones dead will not give us closure," he said. "The plane has to be found. We want to know what happened to the plane."
Conspiracy theorists have been quick to take advantage of the situation.
US writer Jeff Wise argued in New York magazine in February that the aircraft was hijacked on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and was being held on a Russian military base in Kazakhstan. But - in common with many such theories - there is little explanation for why anyone would commit such a crime.
More conventional lines of investigation focussed on the people on the plane, including the pilot.
A documentary by the National Geographic suggested the plane was diverted deliberately from its original route and pointed to pilot Captain Zaharie Shah Ahmad as the likely culprit.
But a Malaysian police source who did not want to be identified said investigators did not find evidence that could link the pilot to the plane's disappearance.
"We have not found evidence that could pinpoint any of those people aboard the plane, including Captain Zaharie, as probable suspect or suspects," he said.
A colleague of Zaharie, who wanted only to be identified as Mohammad, expressed disappointment over the National Geographic documentary.
"Captain Zaharie is an upright man who would not do anything that would taint his profession and honour," he said. "I feel sad whenever I read stories that he is behind the disappearance of MH370."
An aviation source said perhaps the biggest blunder the authorities made related to MH370 was the military's failure to intercept the aircraft when it deviated from its course.
"The military tracked MH370 with their primary radar crossing over from the South China Sea to the Andaman Sea, but they kept mum about it," he said.
"For days they knew that the search crews were looking in the wrong ocean, still they did not say anything," he said.
But the source said he believes there was no ulterior motive on the part of the military in hiding their knowledge about the MH370 detour except that they were so embarrassed about their negligence and failure to intercept the wayward aircraft.
"It is common practice to intercept an unidentified airplane entering the airspace of a country," he added. "If it had been intercepted, we would know much more about the whereabouts and the causes of the air crash."
Australian and Malaysian officials who are coordinating the ongoing search believe they are looking in the right place.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said that all data available point to the present search area as the final destination of the plane.
"The information was precise. Each plane has its own signal... that is why the search teams are confident that the plane headed to the southern Indian Ocean," he said in a press briefing.
Jorg Schluter, a German professor at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, also believes that flight MH370 is within the search area.
"The little hard data that we have are the satellite contacts. They show that the airplane was moving in a rather constant fashion away from the satellite," he said. "Together with the estimated maximum and minimum flight speed, a corridor can be determined."
Schluter cautioned against speculating or casting aspersions on any individual or individuals.
"In the past, there have been quite a few accidents where people started pointing at the pilot, but ultimately, the pilots were exonerated," he said.
"So far, every theory [about the disappearance of MH370] has its merits and weak points, but frankly, we don't know enough to make any judgement," he added.
Source : Sapa-dpa /mm
Date : 04 Mar 2015 05:17
A year after a Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing the incident remains a mystery.
Despite scouring the desolate and ill-tempered waters of the Southern Indian Ocean, searchers have yet to find the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared without a trace a year ago.
The inability to locate the Beijing-bound flight MH370, which went missing on March 8 an hour after it left Kuala Lumpur International Airport, has fuelled wild allegations of conspiracies and coverups.
Kelly Wen, 30, was among a group of 21 relatives of Chinese nationals that went to Kuala Lumpur last month to seek answers about the missing plane. She said the suspicions proliferate because authorities have been less than candid in sharing what they know.
"There are many questions that have not been answered. That is why we are here [in Kuala Lumpur]," she told dpa.
Wen, whose husband was among the 239 people aboard the disappeared aircraft, said she wonders why the government was in a hurry to declare all the people aboard MH370 officially dead when the plane has not yet been found.
Jiang Hui, 41, whose 70-year-old mother was aboard, could not hide his suspicion that the search is being conducted in the wrong place.
"They have searched the area for months and nothing happened," he said, adding that Malaysia cannot evade the responsibility for finding out what happened to the plane.
"Declaring our loved ones dead will not give us closure," he said. "The plane has to be found. We want to know what happened to the plane."
Conspiracy theorists have been quick to take advantage of the situation.
US writer Jeff Wise argued in New York magazine in February that the aircraft was hijacked on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and was being held on a Russian military base in Kazakhstan. But - in common with many such theories - there is little explanation for why anyone would commit such a crime.
More conventional lines of investigation focussed on the people on the plane, including the pilot.
A documentary by the National Geographic suggested the plane was diverted deliberately from its original route and pointed to pilot Captain Zaharie Shah Ahmad as the likely culprit.
But a Malaysian police source who did not want to be identified said investigators did not find evidence that could link the pilot to the plane's disappearance.
"We have not found evidence that could pinpoint any of those people aboard the plane, including Captain Zaharie, as probable suspect or suspects," he said.
A colleague of Zaharie, who wanted only to be identified as Mohammad, expressed disappointment over the National Geographic documentary.
"Captain Zaharie is an upright man who would not do anything that would taint his profession and honour," he said. "I feel sad whenever I read stories that he is behind the disappearance of MH370."
An aviation source said perhaps the biggest blunder the authorities made related to MH370 was the military's failure to intercept the aircraft when it deviated from its course.
"The military tracked MH370 with their primary radar crossing over from the South China Sea to the Andaman Sea, but they kept mum about it," he said.
"For days they knew that the search crews were looking in the wrong ocean, still they did not say anything," he said.
But the source said he believes there was no ulterior motive on the part of the military in hiding their knowledge about the MH370 detour except that they were so embarrassed about their negligence and failure to intercept the wayward aircraft.
"It is common practice to intercept an unidentified airplane entering the airspace of a country," he added. "If it had been intercepted, we would know much more about the whereabouts and the causes of the air crash."
Australian and Malaysian officials who are coordinating the ongoing search believe they are looking in the right place.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said that all data available point to the present search area as the final destination of the plane.
"The information was precise. Each plane has its own signal... that is why the search teams are confident that the plane headed to the southern Indian Ocean," he said in a press briefing.
Jorg Schluter, a German professor at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, also believes that flight MH370 is within the search area.
"The little hard data that we have are the satellite contacts. They show that the airplane was moving in a rather constant fashion away from the satellite," he said. "Together with the estimated maximum and minimum flight speed, a corridor can be determined."
Schluter cautioned against speculating or casting aspersions on any individual or individuals.
"In the past, there have been quite a few accidents where people started pointing at the pilot, but ultimately, the pilots were exonerated," he said.
"So far, every theory [about the disappearance of MH370] has its merits and weak points, but frankly, we don't know enough to make any judgement," he added.
Source : Sapa-dpa /mm
Date : 04 Mar 2015 05:17
LazyLion
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AS WORLD MOVES ON, MH370 FAMILIES FIND SOLACE IN EACH OTHER
By DIDI TANG
For the past year, Wang Zheng has been avoiding one place: the modest apartment where his parents had been living for more than 20 years in downtown Nanjing until they vanished along with the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Scrolls of paintings by his father, Wang Linshi, are in piles in the living room, the guest bedroom, and the studio. Paintbrushes - their heads long dry - hang from a workstation in a row. In the kitchen, the floor and stove have collected a thin layer of dust.
Wang Zheng, the only son of Wang Linshi and Xiong Deming, said he only comes into the apartment in this eastern Chinese city when absolutely necessary.
"I spend as little time as possible," the 30-year-old said. "It's uncomfortable here. I always dream about my parents after coming here."
Like other relatives of the 239 people that disappeared aboard MH370 in the early hours of March 8, 2014, Wang has gone through an emotional roller coaster that has hurled him through grief and hope, guilt and anger over the past year.
Apart from the rest of the world, the families have banded together in a desperate, continuing quest to find the plane and their loved ones. Many other people have long accepted the Malaysian government's pronouncements that the passengers surely have been lost in the ocean.
The relatives continue to petition governments, pore over details of technical analyses, raise doubts and demand answers. They feel helpless most of the time, praying during day and sobbing at night.
"The public does not understand us, but we need to know the truth," Wang said.
Losing loved ones who are unaccounted for is especially excruciating, said Pauline Boss, professor emeritus of family social science at University of Minnesota. She coined the phrase "ambiguous loss" and has spent her career studying how people cope with it.
"They are suffering the most difficult kind of loss that you could imagine," Boss said, adding that the sufferings transcend wealth, education, culture and religion. "Your loved ones have vanished and you have no proof of death. But human beings need to have a body, they need to have proof or evidence, or they will forever hold onto the sliver of hope that their loved ones are still alive."
Worried that authorities might end the search efforts, family members of MH370 passengers and crew members have urged them to continue scouring every possible place.
"It's almost a year. There is no proof, no debris, not a single piece of evidence to tell us that they are really in the Indian Ocean," said Jacquita Gomes, wife of inflight supervisor Patrick Gomes, said at her home in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital. "If this is really the end, show us something. Even if it's just one finger, then we can say goodbye properly and send him to our Lord."
"We cannot move on, we cannot let go because we don't know what happened," said Grace Subathirai Nathan, whose mother, Anne Daisy, was on the flight. "It's impossible for us to write off someone we love so much."
On Facebook and Twitter, the family members have banded together in a support group under the name "Cry for Truth." Social media have made it easier for them to support each other, share information and make collective decisions when responding to authorities or the media.
In a statement issued Thursday, the group criticized the Malaysian government for saying there was no hope of survivors weeks after the disappearance, and for officially saying in January that everyone aboard was presumed dead.
"We do not accept this proclamation and will not give up hope until we have definitive proof of a crash and a determination of location - even if it is just one piece of the wreckage," the statement said.
In China, the family members have joined a mobile phone group chat in which they take roll-call votes on how to respond to officials, so that they can present a united front. Authorities keep a wary eye on them to discourage activism.
In Beijing, a small group of wives and mothers and sisters have turned to Buddhism, making ritual treks to local temples to pray for safe return of their loved one.
Relatives also have personal ways to cope. Nathan has been wearing a pair of diamond heirloom earrings, sleeping with her mother's photos and reading her Bible. Gomes often goes to the laundromat in the wee hours, finding solace in the spinning of the machines.
In Nanjing, Wang's grandmother is surviving on a glimmer of hope, his aunt Xiong Yunming said. "My mother is waiting for her daughter and son-in-law to return, though tears roll down her cheeks every time she raises a rice bowl," the aunt said. "In a way, no news has been good news."
The vacuum of concrete information has fed speculation. Though search officials say satellite data indicates the plane went down in a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean, Xiong believes the plane was hijacked and taken to a U.S. military base.
"We are in an age of high technology, and I think the truth has been covered up," the retired businesswoman said.
"I think everything is possible," Wang said after listening to his aunt's analysis. "Nothing can be ruled out when nothing can be proved."
Wang traveled to Beijing the day after the plane went missing and returned home nearly two months later, agonizingly, with no answer. "Life was wretched," Wang recalled.
Realizing the fragility of life, Wang decided to have a child to keep the bloodline and to bring in some joy to disperse the gloom, although the new life that came in January brought both happiness and poignancy.
He has sought escape by spending time with his in-laws rather than his own family, and by immersing himself in his work as an information technology engineer.
"I started to work overtime often and long, hoping the work would dumb me," Wang said.
But he is not broken.
"I have been trying to adjust myself. I cannot fall, because I don't want my parents - upon their return - to see I am collapsing and languishing," he said. "I must take care of myself, take care of my family, and I must stand tall and pursue the truth as we are waiting for them to return."
For that same reason, he insists that his parents' apartment remain untouched.
"Let's decide what to do with it once they are back," said.
Source : Sapa-AP /mr
Date : 06 Mar 2015 11:35
By DIDI TANG
For the past year, Wang Zheng has been avoiding one place: the modest apartment where his parents had been living for more than 20 years in downtown Nanjing until they vanished along with the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Scrolls of paintings by his father, Wang Linshi, are in piles in the living room, the guest bedroom, and the studio. Paintbrushes - their heads long dry - hang from a workstation in a row. In the kitchen, the floor and stove have collected a thin layer of dust.
Wang Zheng, the only son of Wang Linshi and Xiong Deming, said he only comes into the apartment in this eastern Chinese city when absolutely necessary.
"I spend as little time as possible," the 30-year-old said. "It's uncomfortable here. I always dream about my parents after coming here."
Like other relatives of the 239 people that disappeared aboard MH370 in the early hours of March 8, 2014, Wang has gone through an emotional roller coaster that has hurled him through grief and hope, guilt and anger over the past year.
Apart from the rest of the world, the families have banded together in a desperate, continuing quest to find the plane and their loved ones. Many other people have long accepted the Malaysian government's pronouncements that the passengers surely have been lost in the ocean.
The relatives continue to petition governments, pore over details of technical analyses, raise doubts and demand answers. They feel helpless most of the time, praying during day and sobbing at night.
"The public does not understand us, but we need to know the truth," Wang said.
Losing loved ones who are unaccounted for is especially excruciating, said Pauline Boss, professor emeritus of family social science at University of Minnesota. She coined the phrase "ambiguous loss" and has spent her career studying how people cope with it.
"They are suffering the most difficult kind of loss that you could imagine," Boss said, adding that the sufferings transcend wealth, education, culture and religion. "Your loved ones have vanished and you have no proof of death. But human beings need to have a body, they need to have proof or evidence, or they will forever hold onto the sliver of hope that their loved ones are still alive."
Worried that authorities might end the search efforts, family members of MH370 passengers and crew members have urged them to continue scouring every possible place.
"It's almost a year. There is no proof, no debris, not a single piece of evidence to tell us that they are really in the Indian Ocean," said Jacquita Gomes, wife of inflight supervisor Patrick Gomes, said at her home in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital. "If this is really the end, show us something. Even if it's just one finger, then we can say goodbye properly and send him to our Lord."
"We cannot move on, we cannot let go because we don't know what happened," said Grace Subathirai Nathan, whose mother, Anne Daisy, was on the flight. "It's impossible for us to write off someone we love so much."
On Facebook and Twitter, the family members have banded together in a support group under the name "Cry for Truth." Social media have made it easier for them to support each other, share information and make collective decisions when responding to authorities or the media.
In a statement issued Thursday, the group criticized the Malaysian government for saying there was no hope of survivors weeks after the disappearance, and for officially saying in January that everyone aboard was presumed dead.
"We do not accept this proclamation and will not give up hope until we have definitive proof of a crash and a determination of location - even if it is just one piece of the wreckage," the statement said.
In China, the family members have joined a mobile phone group chat in which they take roll-call votes on how to respond to officials, so that they can present a united front. Authorities keep a wary eye on them to discourage activism.
In Beijing, a small group of wives and mothers and sisters have turned to Buddhism, making ritual treks to local temples to pray for safe return of their loved one.
Relatives also have personal ways to cope. Nathan has been wearing a pair of diamond heirloom earrings, sleeping with her mother's photos and reading her Bible. Gomes often goes to the laundromat in the wee hours, finding solace in the spinning of the machines.
In Nanjing, Wang's grandmother is surviving on a glimmer of hope, his aunt Xiong Yunming said. "My mother is waiting for her daughter and son-in-law to return, though tears roll down her cheeks every time she raises a rice bowl," the aunt said. "In a way, no news has been good news."
The vacuum of concrete information has fed speculation. Though search officials say satellite data indicates the plane went down in a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean, Xiong believes the plane was hijacked and taken to a U.S. military base.
"We are in an age of high technology, and I think the truth has been covered up," the retired businesswoman said.
"I think everything is possible," Wang said after listening to his aunt's analysis. "Nothing can be ruled out when nothing can be proved."
Wang traveled to Beijing the day after the plane went missing and returned home nearly two months later, agonizingly, with no answer. "Life was wretched," Wang recalled.
Realizing the fragility of life, Wang decided to have a child to keep the bloodline and to bring in some joy to disperse the gloom, although the new life that came in January brought both happiness and poignancy.
He has sought escape by spending time with his in-laws rather than his own family, and by immersing himself in his work as an information technology engineer.
"I started to work overtime often and long, hoping the work would dumb me," Wang said.
But he is not broken.
"I have been trying to adjust myself. I cannot fall, because I don't want my parents - upon their return - to see I am collapsing and languishing," he said. "I must take care of myself, take care of my family, and I must stand tall and pursue the truth as we are waiting for them to return."
For that same reason, he insists that his parents' apartment remain untouched.
"Let's decide what to do with it once they are back," said.
Source : Sapa-AP /mr
Date : 06 Mar 2015 11:35
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
RELATIVES DISAPPOINTED WITH MH370 INTERIM REPORT
Relatives of those missing with Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Monday expressed disappointment over the interim report released at the weekend in Malaysia.
"There's nothing in there that could shed light on what happened," said Kelly Wen, one of a group of Chinese nationals in Kuala Lumpur to seek answers.
"It is important that the search should continue until the plane is found," she added. "Only then can we understand what really happened."
Malaysia and China said Sunday that the search would continue. Australia, which is leading the operation off its western coast, said it would carry on as long as there were "reasonable leads."
Wang Run Xiang, another Chinese national whose son was among those on board, said she was not disappointed by the report because she had known it would not have the answers she seeks.
"They have to find the plane," she said.
Jacquita Gonzales, wife of the plane's inflight supervisor Patrick Gomes, said she hoped the report would help improve safety in the aviation industry, even if it did not have much to help MH370.
"We hold the government to its word that the search will continue until MH370 is found," she added.
The report was drawn up by a Malaysian-led international team of aviation experts from Australia, Britain, Singapore, France, China, the United States and Indonesia.
It concluded that MH370 most likely went down in the south-eastern Indian Ocean, which searchers have been scouring for months with no success.
Source : Sapa-dpa /dm
Date : 09 Mar 2015 08:31
Relatives of those missing with Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Monday expressed disappointment over the interim report released at the weekend in Malaysia.
"There's nothing in there that could shed light on what happened," said Kelly Wen, one of a group of Chinese nationals in Kuala Lumpur to seek answers.
"It is important that the search should continue until the plane is found," she added. "Only then can we understand what really happened."
Malaysia and China said Sunday that the search would continue. Australia, which is leading the operation off its western coast, said it would carry on as long as there were "reasonable leads."
Wang Run Xiang, another Chinese national whose son was among those on board, said she was not disappointed by the report because she had known it would not have the answers she seeks.
"They have to find the plane," she said.
Jacquita Gonzales, wife of the plane's inflight supervisor Patrick Gomes, said she hoped the report would help improve safety in the aviation industry, even if it did not have much to help MH370.
"We hold the government to its word that the search will continue until MH370 is found," she added.
The report was drawn up by a Malaysian-led international team of aviation experts from Australia, Britain, Singapore, France, China, the United States and Indonesia.
It concluded that MH370 most likely went down in the south-eastern Indian Ocean, which searchers have been scouring for months with no success.
Source : Sapa-dpa /dm
Date : 09 Mar 2015 08:31
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
MALAYSIA AIRLINES INCREASES TRACKING OF ITS AIRCRAFT
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has begun tracking part of its fleet every 10 minutes in a bid to prevent a repeat of the mysterious disappearance of one of its jetliners a year ago, a news report said.
"MAS has set 10 minutes of time interval for some of its aircraft to transmit the flight data," Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, MAS chief executive officer, told Bernama news agency in a report published at the weekend.
The Aircraft Communication and Reporting System (ACARS) of the firm's A380 and A330 Airbus jets as well as its Boeing 737-800 planes were now programmed to transmit data every 10 minutes, instead of every 15 minutes, Ahmad Jauhari said.
Fifteen minutes is the standard set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
"The biggest lesson that we have learned is that we need to know our aircraft location and position better. And I think we have done that," he added.
Ahmad Jauhari said that for all the airline's Boeing 777 aircraft, the time interval for data transmission was set at 15 minutes.
Prior to the disappearance of the Beijing-bound flight MH370 on March 8, 2014, the interval for aircraft data transmission set by ICAO was every 30 or 40 minutes.
Source : Sapa-dpa /dm
Date : 09 Mar 2015 08:36
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has begun tracking part of its fleet every 10 minutes in a bid to prevent a repeat of the mysterious disappearance of one of its jetliners a year ago, a news report said.
"MAS has set 10 minutes of time interval for some of its aircraft to transmit the flight data," Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, MAS chief executive officer, told Bernama news agency in a report published at the weekend.
The Aircraft Communication and Reporting System (ACARS) of the firm's A380 and A330 Airbus jets as well as its Boeing 737-800 planes were now programmed to transmit data every 10 minutes, instead of every 15 minutes, Ahmad Jauhari said.
Fifteen minutes is the standard set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
"The biggest lesson that we have learned is that we need to know our aircraft location and position better. And I think we have done that," he added.
Ahmad Jauhari said that for all the airline's Boeing 777 aircraft, the time interval for data transmission was set at 15 minutes.
Prior to the disappearance of the Beijing-bound flight MH370 on March 8, 2014, the interval for aircraft data transmission set by ICAO was every 30 or 40 minutes.
Source : Sapa-dpa /dm
Date : 09 Mar 2015 08:36
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It still is a sobering thought - in this era of interconnectedness, and internet-of-everything - a modern trans-oceanic flight is basically on its own the moment it is out of radar coverage. 8 crew, 300+ passengers, and a machine with over a million parts - and a calculation by a actuary that the odds of something going wrong is low enough to be worth it.
LazyLion
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MALAYSIA AIRLINE SAYS BATTERY LAPSE WAS A MAINTENANCE OVERSIGHT
by John Grafilo
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) on Monday admitted there was a lapse in replacing a battery of an underwater beacon locator on the missing flight MH370, as revealed in a report by an international team investigating the aircraft's disappearance.
MAS described as a "maintenance scheduling oversight" the failure to replace the battery of the underwater beacon locator (ULB) on the missing Beijing-bound plane's flight data recorder.
"As stated in the findings of the report, the Engineering Maintenance System was not updated correctly when the ULB battery was first installed," the airline said in a statement.
"This was a maintenance scheduling oversight."
But MAS said the expired battery would not have affected the search for the missing plane since a similar ULB with valid battery life was installed in the solid state cockpit voice recorder (SSCVR), which was placed side by side with the flight data recorder.
"The SSCVR battery would have been transmitting for 30 days upon activation when immersed in water," MAS said.
The interim report on the MH370 investigation, which was released Sunday, was drawn up by a Malaysian-led international team of aviation experts from Australia, Britain, Singapore, France, China, the United States and Indonesia.
It concluded that MH370 most likely went down in the south-eastern Indian Ocean, which searchers have been scouring for months with no success.
Relatives of those missing with Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 expressed disappointment over the interim report.
"There's nothing in there that could shed light on what happened," said Kelly Wen, one of a group of Chinese nationals in Kuala Lumpur to seek answers.
"It is important that the search should continue until the plane is found," she added.
"Only then can we understand what really happened."
Malaysia and China said Sunday that the search would continue. Australia, which is leading the operation off its western coast, said it would carry on as long as there were "reasonable leads."
Wang Run Xiang, another Chinese national whose son was among those on board, said she was not disappointed by the report because she had knownn it would not have the answers she seeks.
"They have to find the plane," she said.
Jacquita Gonzales, wife of the plane's in-flight supervisor Patrick Gomes, said she hoped the report would help improve safety in the aviation industry, even if it did not have much to help MH370.
"We hold the government to its word that the search will continue until MH370 is found," she added.
Source : Sapa-dpa /gq
Date : 09 Mar 2015 14:03
by John Grafilo
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) on Monday admitted there was a lapse in replacing a battery of an underwater beacon locator on the missing flight MH370, as revealed in a report by an international team investigating the aircraft's disappearance.
MAS described as a "maintenance scheduling oversight" the failure to replace the battery of the underwater beacon locator (ULB) on the missing Beijing-bound plane's flight data recorder.
"As stated in the findings of the report, the Engineering Maintenance System was not updated correctly when the ULB battery was first installed," the airline said in a statement.
"This was a maintenance scheduling oversight."
But MAS said the expired battery would not have affected the search for the missing plane since a similar ULB with valid battery life was installed in the solid state cockpit voice recorder (SSCVR), which was placed side by side with the flight data recorder.
"The SSCVR battery would have been transmitting for 30 days upon activation when immersed in water," MAS said.
The interim report on the MH370 investigation, which was released Sunday, was drawn up by a Malaysian-led international team of aviation experts from Australia, Britain, Singapore, France, China, the United States and Indonesia.
It concluded that MH370 most likely went down in the south-eastern Indian Ocean, which searchers have been scouring for months with no success.
Relatives of those missing with Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 expressed disappointment over the interim report.
"There's nothing in there that could shed light on what happened," said Kelly Wen, one of a group of Chinese nationals in Kuala Lumpur to seek answers.
"It is important that the search should continue until the plane is found," she added.
"Only then can we understand what really happened."
Malaysia and China said Sunday that the search would continue. Australia, which is leading the operation off its western coast, said it would carry on as long as there were "reasonable leads."
Wang Run Xiang, another Chinese national whose son was among those on board, said she was not disappointed by the report because she had knownn it would not have the answers she seeks.
"They have to find the plane," she said.
Jacquita Gonzales, wife of the plane's in-flight supervisor Patrick Gomes, said she hoped the report would help improve safety in the aviation industry, even if it did not have much to help MH370.
"We hold the government to its word that the search will continue until MH370 is found," she added.
Source : Sapa-dpa /gq
Date : 09 Mar 2015 14:03
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Search Crew Looking for Missing MH370 Plane Makes Unexpected, ‘Fascinating Find’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...h370-plane-makes-unexpected-fascinating-find/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...h370-plane-makes-unexpected-fascinating-find/
dualmeister
Honorary Master
Don't see what's so fascinating about a ship wreck but OK 
MH370 disappearance: Negligence suit settled out of court
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32971909
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32971909
Plane wreckage found off Reunion island
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/29/africa/mh370-debris-investigation/?sr=cnnifb
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/29/africa/mh370-debris-investigation/?sr=cnnifb
After a year and a half it probably could have reached the US coast
Arthur
Honorary Master
Floating for 16 months.
If it's from MH370 it will at least confirm the southern arc hypothesis.
One reports says: "However, locals are also questioning whether the part could have come from Yemenia Flight 626, a twin-engine jetliner that crashed over the Indian Ocean in 2009".
If it's from MH370 it will at least confirm the southern arc hypothesis.
One reports says: "However, locals are also questioning whether the part could have come from Yemenia Flight 626, a twin-engine jetliner that crashed over the Indian Ocean in 2009".
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Dave
Honorary Master
The Yemenia flight was an Airbus, it should be easy to sort out if the part is Boeing or Airbus construction.
dualmeister
Honorary Master
I bet it's not MH370.