MH370 KUL-PEK

[yanpa]

toats awful

It's totes FFS. #lerntospell.

[Coligny]

toats awful

It's totes FFS. #lerntospell.

Hey grammar nazy, you're toast not the boss of me !

[Coligny]

Actual fark headline:

Underground ocean found on moon of Saturn. Search for MH370 to start there Monday

[Russell]

Found?

One ping detected by Chinese ship.

Could be a ping from a dolphin...

[Coligny]

Found?

One ping detected by Chinese ship.

Could be a ping from a dolphin...

Great, so now hat they found the fucking Red October maybe they can go back to searching for a missing plane instead...

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[Mike Oxlong]

And here I thought the Atlantic Ocean was the Herring Pond...

[dimwit]

toats awful

It's totes FFS. #lerntospell.

Using neither an idiot phone or social communicable network site I had to look up totes and wade through about 20 pages of spam ads for bags to find out that totes means totally. Thanks for that. Your bullets are in the mail.

[Russell]

In the mean time, everybody is advised to fly AirAsia...

[kurogane]

Would anybody even fly a non-Japanese Asian airline before this????????????

I put 3 bucks on an Amelia Earhart.

[Coligny]

Would anybody even fly a non-Japanese Asian airline before this????????????

I put 3 bucks on an Amelia Earhart.

Cathay ? They seem to have understood they are carrying human beings that are not here for fun but by necessity. And not taking money while being as abusive as possible under the pretext of somehow managing to bring you where you wanted to go in one piece (excluding your luggage) and around few days of the promised arrival date.
Which is a flawed concept, because they are applying cargo grade travel rules to human grade ticket fees... Really close to a fraud in my book...

[Mike Oxlong]

Missing Flight MH370 Black Box Search Finds Three Separate Electronic Signals

...“I have been advised that a series of sounds have been detected by a Chinese ship in the search area," said the Australian Chief Coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston.

"The characteristics reported are consistent with the aircraft black box. A number of white objects were also sighted on the surface about 90 kilometres from the detection area.

"We are working in a very big ocean and within a very large search area, and so far since the aircraft went missing we have had very few leads which allow us to narrow the search area.

"I assure you that we will follow up and exhaust every credible lead that we receive."

Malaysia's civil aviation chief, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, confirmed that the frequency emitted by MH370's black box was 37.5 kilohertz and said authorities were trying to verify the report.

The reporter, speaking to Chinese broadcaster CCTV, said the signal was first detected on Friday, intermittently for about 15 minutes. But then it was detected again Saturday morning, every second for 90 seconds.

The area where the supposed pulse was detected is an underwater mountain range similar to the Usambara mountains, up to 8,200 feet in depth.

Australian Defence Minister David Johnston had earlier urged caution. "This is not the first time we have had something that has turned out to be very disappointing," he told ABC television...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04 ... 1396790439

[Russell]

The Missing-Jet Hunt Goes Back to the Drawing Board

After nearly two months of fruitless searching, the multinational team investigating the disappearance of MH 370 says it will re-examine all gathered data and will meet Wednesday to discuss the acquiring of new underwater search equipment

All data gathered in the nearly two-month hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will be re-examined to ensure investigators are looking in the jet’s most likely resting place, officials said on Monday.

A trilateral meeting between Malaysian, Chinese and Australian representatives discussed how best to proceed with finding the Boeing 777, which vanished shortly after departing Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8 with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board.

Pioneering analysis of maintenance data transmissions by British satellite firm Inmarsat indicate the 200-ton, twin-engine aircraft crashed around 1,000 miles northeast of Perth, Western Australia.

But after 334 air missions to scour 1.8 million sq. mi. (4.6 million sq km) of ocean, combined with a combing of 121 sq. mi. (314 sq km) of the seabed by underwater drone, not a single trace of the missing plane has been discovered.

“Unfortunately all of that effort has found nothing,” Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told assembled media in Canberra. “The operation must now enter a new phase.”

Operations will now be expanded to examine 23,000 sq. mi. (60,000 sq km) of ocean floor using more assets — most likely both towed side-scan sonar and unmanned submersibles — the acquiring of which will be discussed on Wednesday, but will likely be from private contractors.

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Likely to become a multi-year operation.

[Tsuru]

For everyone demanding to replace black boxes with realtime GPS tracking and satellite telemetry: maybe it's time for the people left behind to have a nice one-on-one with the nimrod in MAS who thought it was a good idea to do away with their fleetwide SATCOM subscription.

[Russell]

MH370: Black box 'pings' may actually have come from satellite tracking devices tagged to marine animals

The 'pings' thought to have emanated from missing Flight MH370's black box recorders might actually have come from satellite tracking devices tagged to marine animals such as sharks and turtles, it has been claimed.

The suggestion, put forward by archaeologist and writer William Meacham, raises the prospect that search authorities are looking in the wrong place for the plabe, which disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board.

Writing in the Malaysian Insider, Mr Meacham, who is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong, said: "For several decades, pingers with frequencies of 30 to 50kHz have been commonly used to track large, deep ocean animals.

"Location and other data is transmitted to receivers in the ocean or to satellites whenever the animal surfaces.

"Acoustic pingers are also widely used as fishing net protectors, to drive away predators that would steal fish."

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Great, someone should get a salary raise for using the same range of frequencies as black boxes.

But it all makes sense now. I was really wondering where those pings came from. I even considered the possibility that the country responsible for the plane's disappearance was sending submarines in to act as a kind of decoy, but this is extremely unlikely.

So, the search is now back to 0.

[Coligny]

D00d, the old timers would explain you better than I can... But there is not that much frequencies working under the sea, for subcom it's the vlf band (very low frequency) and the transmission rate might not even reach the double digit character per minutes...
Message still called 'vlf flash' for unknown reasons...

[matsuki]

China has plenty of wan pings...

https://twitter.com/wanpingthegreat

[yanpa]

So... is it normal to route flights over known conflict zones?

[yanpa]

I see.

Eurocontrol said the aircraft had been flying at Flight Level 330 (approximately 10,000 metres/33,000 feet) when it disappeared from the radar.

This route had been closed by the Ukrainian authorities from ground to flight level 320 but had been open at the height level at which the aircraft was flying.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28356745

[Russell]

I assume you talk about the downing of Malaysian Airways flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

Some Dutch people living in Japan take that flight. I hope among the dead is nobody I know...

[wagyl]

I hope among the dead is nobody I know...

Russell, I am going to be a bastard and say that any death is a tragedy for that person and their family, whether you know the person or not.

(Having said that, I must admit that I gave a bit of a guts pose when I saw the shortened headline on the Australian Fairfax Press sites online:

'Terrible tragedy': PM on jet crash

Sadly, the ambiguous meaning wasn't the one I thought it was.)

[Russell]

I hope among the dead is nobody I know...

Russell, I am going to be a bastard and say that any death is a tragedy for that person and their family, whether you know the person or not.

I kind of expected this reaction, which is the reason why I formulated my post differently than I initially did.

Nowhere in my statement is it implied that I don't feel sorry for the people who tragically died. I just expressed my hope that none I know was in that plane.

Seems to be a human thing. First thing everybody wants to know is whether friends or family members were on board...

[Coligny]

So... is it normal to route flights over known conflict zones?

Even to conflict zone...

Don't know the precise rules, but Belgrade airport has remained open. And Sarajevo was forced reopen by Mitterrand in the 90'... Landed the presidential concorde before and took a Puma helo to the final destination. But reopened it anyway...

And don't forget the clusterfuck in Kuwait with civilian flights landing hours after Saddam's invasion... (Sort of unofficially to insert British special tr00ps)

Add to the other morning good news:

TGV train crash in France and
helo crash in (downtown ?) South Korea ... (<- seen on J-Telly, can t confirm via website) http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/ ... rash-video
Or as we call it... Friday...

[Wibble]

So... is it normal to route flights over known conflict zones?

Flights detour around Syria at the moment, but fly over Afghanistan. And I think the US had an exclusion zone over that part of Ukraine previously. So I guess it depends on licensing authority and insurers and probably boils down to if it is thought that they might have ground-air missiles that can reach are are a bit crazy. Most man portable stuff is no worry to flights at cruising altitude, but presumably the Russians have donated something a bit meatier in case of an air assault.

[Coligny]

there also was the notorious Iraqi "no fly zone"

[Takechanpoo]

"its ok coz no japanese natianls were on board "

[Coligny]

"its ok coz no japanese natianls were on board "

You forgot "LuLz!!!" Or at least "trololololololol!!!"

Is there a reason that I missed making sense of the fact that Mc Tojo was restricted to beyond fucked and not this clown ?

[Coligny]

Nose dive crash... Them Korean pilots don't do no autorotation either it seems...

[matsuki]

"its ok coz no japanese natianls were on board "

Yeah, they don't need planes and missiles to find death overseas...

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[matsuki]

Nose dive crash... Them Korean pilots don't do no autorotation either it seems...

That was pretty a awesome set of explosions...Hollywood, take notes!

[Coligny]

I don't think Michael Bay needs more encouragements...