Malaysia Airlines loses contact with plane carrying 239 people

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Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with a plane with 239 aboard enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

The airline said in a statement early Saturday it was attempting to locate the Boeing 777 after it lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2:40 a.m. It was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m.

China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported the plane was lost in airspace controlled by Vietnam, and did not make contact with Chinese air traffic controllers.

The plane is carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members. The airline said it is working with authorities to locate the plane.

Boeing said on its Twitter account it is monitoring the situation, and "our thoughts are with everyone on board."



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‘This is partly for cultural reasons. It is not considered appropriate in Malaysia to subject people in situations of terrible bereavement to the stress of intensive questioning.’

The softly-softly approach has been challenged by the team of FBI agents working with Malaysian police. They have pointed out that she may hold ‘vital clues and information’ to Zaharie’s mental state.

‘The whole world is looking for this missing plane and the person who arguably knows most about the state of mind of the man who captained the plane is being left alone,’ said a source close to the FBI team.

The source added: ‘If we want to eliminate the chief pilot from the inquiry, we must interview her in detail to find out what his state of mind was.’

The mystery caller emerged when Malaysian investigators examined the phone records of both Zaharie and his co-pilot, 27-year-old Fariq Abdul Hamid. Investigators were keen to trace the caller and interview them, although they have stressed that the fact the SIM card was registered to a non-existent ID card does not necessarily indicate a criminal or terrorist connection.

Political activists in Malaysia sometimes use SIM cards bought with bogus identity cards if they fear that their phones may be bugged by the country’s authoritarian ruling party.

The Mail on Sunday revealed last week that Zaharie is an avid supporter of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, a distant relative, and may have attended a controversial court hearing where Anwar was jailed for five years. It took place only a few hours before the flight. The timing of the call has intensified scrutiny on Zaharie as investigators struggle to establish whether the cockpit crew, a catastrophic accident or hijackers are to blame for Flight MH370’s disappearance.

Meanwhile FBI experts in the US are continuing to examine the hard drive of a flight simulator seized from Zaharie’s home after it emerged that programs he used on it had been deleted.

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Zaharie used the home flight simulator to practise extreme landings, including on remote Indian Ocean islands such as the US air base in Diego Garcia, investigators have revealed.

The hard drive was flown to the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, at the end of last week after Malaysian investigators failed to retrieve the deleted files, which they suspect may have been ‘buried’ in an elaborate process to cover the user’s tracks.

The delay in handing the computer hard drive to the FBI has proved to be a source of friction between the Malaysian and US investigators, the source close to the FBI said, adding: ‘We have the technology to do this work quickly and effectively and they simply don’t.’

Malaysia’s acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein yesterday said investigators are coming under increasing pressure as they are aware that time is running out – the black box voice and data recorder only transmits an electronic signal for about 30 days before its battery runs out.

But he claimed a thorough investigation of the plane’s cargo manifest had not shown ‘any link to anything that may have contribution to the plane’s disappearance’

[Easy 6]

Giorgio Tsoukalos was right... it was aliens.

[Why Not?]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

I can see where your morning blowjob started.

Haha. I wish. I didn't think the post went through. Basically I agree with Dave Lane. I think the plane is on the ocean floor somewhere.

[Pushead2]

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MORE: Malaysia says France has satellite images of objects potentially from missing jetliner: http://apne.ws/1eAIV81 #MH370

[Jimmya]

I want to see actual debris..... Not purported debris.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Why Not?

Haha. I wish. I didn't think the post went through. Basically I agree with Dave Lane. I think the plane is on the ocean floor somewhere.

**** that, I think they affixed a refueling probe to the 777 prior to takeoff and it's still flying circles around the antarctic...

[TLO]

I feel bad for the families, but I'm losing interest in this story rapidly

[Why Not?]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

**** that, I think they affixed a refueling probe to the 777 prior to takeoff and it's still flying circles around the antarctic...

How many inflight movies to this point? What if the hijackers are making them watch 10,000 B.C. over and over as a form of torture? The horror!

[DTLB58]

Originally Posted by Pushead2

The Associated Press ‏@AP 4m
MORE: Malaysia says France has satellite images of objects potentially from missing jetliner: http://apne.ws/1eAIV81 #MH370

Potential is the key.

We could probably pick any ocean spot in the world and if you put this much resources on it you will find shit floating around.

[MIAdragon]

Originally Posted by DTLB58

Potential is the key.

We could probably pick any ocean spot in the world and if you put this much resources on it you will find shit floating around.

not 70 ft by 43 ft.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Why Not?

How many inflight movies to this point? What if the hijackers are making them watch 10,000 B.C. over and over as a form of torture? The horror!

It's all porn.. Helps keep all the people sleeping...

[DTLB58]

Originally Posted by MIAdragon

not 70 ft by 43 ft.

That would imply you know for sure 100% that this is wreckage from that or another plane and we just don't know that.

[sd4chiefs]

Originally Posted by Big Smoke

I feel bad for the families, but I'm losing interest in this story rapidly

They should just blame it on Oboma and then move on already.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by DTLB58

That would imply you know for sure 100% that this is wreckage from that or another plane and we just don't know that.

I think all he's implying is that you don't find stuff that large floating around in "any spot" in the ocean that you decide to focus on. It doesn't mean it came from the airplane.