Malaysia Airlines 'loses contact with plane' (and search effort updates)

[firey]

Has IBM Said anything about a missing engineer?

[ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm]

is that website a crazy persons blog? everything is in a massive font.

[_neutrino Veteran]

is that website a crazy persons blog? everything is in a massive font.

 

Yeah i saw that website and all i could think is that it was someone looking for massive hits on their website.

[bonalste]

Why are people giving this 'kidnapped IBM man' thing air time? People can't seriously be postulating this as accurate, can they? If you think it's real, I implore you to try fitting your iPhone into your backside.

[Hum]

^ Maybe because people may being held hostage, and are suffering.

 

It wouldn't be the first time in history.

[Hum]

Has IBM Said anything about a missing engineer?

Former Keller man on missing flight

 

With few leads into the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared early Saturday, Philip Wood?s family is leaning on their faith to work through the uncertainty.

 

Wood, 50, was one of 239 people on board the flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing.

 

It was supposed to be his last trip to China. Wood was going to Beijing, where he had lived since 2010, to tie up loose ends before settling into the next adventure in his career, in Kuala Lumpur, said his youngest brother, James Wood, who lives in Oklahoma.

 

Born in Oklahoma City, Wood spent more than 20 years in Keller, where his parents live, working for IBM as a technology sales executive. He currently works for IBM Malaysia.

 

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140309-former-keller-man-on-missing-flight-was-generous-faithful-family-says.ece

[mudslag]

^ Maybe because people may being held hostage, and are suffering.

 

It wouldn't be the first time in history.

 

 

Nor would it be the first time a prank like this has been done.

[Hum]

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) -- After three and a half weeks, the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has come down to this: a lot of floating rubbish, hundreds of heartbroken relatives and, now, quibbling over words all acknowledge offer no clues into what happened to the doomed plane.

 

Malaysian authorities on Tuesday released the transcript of radio chatter between air traffic controllers and the plane in the hour or so before it vanished while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing on March 8 with 239 people on board.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/01/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[snaphat (Myles Landwehr) Member]

Nor would it be the first time a prank like this has been done.

Well it's obviously fake considering it was posted to 4chan (and the discrepancies in the actual photo I mentioned previously). When I think of what I would do if I was kidnapped and had an opportunity to call for help, first thing I would do is post to the one place on the Internet that lacks traceability or credibility and post there. You know, just to make sure it looks like a hoax  :yes: Mustn't contact people I trust and send them the photo, instead the good people of 4chan will surely do me right  :laugh:

[Ice_Blue]

That Philip Wood guy looks an awful lot like John Mcafee.  :D

[+Raze Subscriber²]

I'm having a difficult time believing anything the Malaysian authorities say or release.  The level of what appears to be incompetence is incredibly disturbing.  I realize this situation may be a first (is it?) for them, but still their responses have been very worrisome.

[Hum]

Real or not -- you decide:

 

"Pilots Flight MH370 not guilty of stealing a plane was hijacked by unknown persons," said the "MK" authoritative source in the security services

"Missing March 8 on Malaysia Airlines airliner with 227 passengers on board and 12th members of the crew captured and is southeast of Kandahar, in Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan. Aircraft stands on a small" rural "road with a broken wing - t . liner is alleged to have committed a hard landing. All passengers alive, divided into seven groups and live in a "mud hut" from hand to mouth. From the aircraft were captured about 20 Asian Professionals, the capture of which was necessary, presumably, the American side. Ie this hijacking - someone's order. " All this correspondent "MK" on condition of anonymity said a source in the security services. This information in any of the world's media has not previously been published.

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Source article

 

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[philcruicks]

Transcript of the cockpit-tower communications.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_7440/transcript.pdf

[Mugwump00]

Real or not -- you...

 

Not.

[Hum]

Progress, of a sort, has been made, in that investigators have cleared all 227 passengers of any role in hijacking or sabotage and of having personal or psychological issues that might have played a role in the plane's disappearance, he said.

 

And a senior Malaysian government official told CNN last week that authorities have found nothing about either of the pilots to suggest a possible motive.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[Arachno 1D]

That is if those 227 passengers were who they were said to be

[Hum]

^ Also a possibility of 'jump seat' riders, who would be unknown.

[bonalste]

^ Also a possibility of 'jump seat' riders, who would be unknown.

Why wouldn't they be known? Any crew travelling on the jump seat would be detailed in the load sheet, the original and one copy of which would be kept on the ground. Unless you mean passengers who were invited onto the jump seat, in which case they're still in the passenger manifest

[Nashy]

On top of that introducing unneeded complexity into any system is a bad idea. A nice example of that is the Toyota overflow bug that resulted in vehicle acceleration (due to corrupting the stack). Suddenly, the system is automated, malfunctioning at the software level, and you can't flip the switch! What do you do? It could be as trivial as just temporary loss of equipment usage or serious like the plane thinks it is about to crash and force pulls you up forever and ever (assuming some automated system that you couldn't turn off that would force it upon you).

 

This happens a bit.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72

 

Just one example.

 

 

I also think people are underestimating just how technically advanced an aircraft is.  Especially a young one like a Boeing 777.

 

I do think we will see GPS tracking of aircraft, better CVR/FDR tracking, and better data storage, possibly on the ground, of their data just from this accident alone.

[Charisma Veteran]

Since we're posting any tidbits we find on here, credible or otherwise ;), this popped up on imgur last night:

 

https://imgur.com/gallery/cSjjubx

 

A follow-up gallery was posted with multiple image + datestamps and a 'reddit' sign proving the guy actually does have it and is where he says he is (Western Australia). It doesn't mean it came from this particular aircraft, of course, but it is interesting.

[ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm]

^sounds like he fished it out of a bin.

[Charisma Veteran]

Yeah, likely. Interesting that it was for this exact model of plane, though, operated by Malaysian Airlines, and not so old that it's fully disintegrated.

[Richteralan]

Yeah, likely. Interesting that it was for this exact model of plane, though, operated by Malaysian Airlines, and not so old that it's fully disintegrated.

Not the exact model. MH370 is a 777-200ER, not 777-200.

[Charisma Veteran]

Aha, good catch. I don't suppose they'd use the same card... ;) nah, that's silly.

 

Back to the drawing board :S

[+Anarkii Subscriber²]

hey just popping in to ask the all important question

Have they found the plane yet?