Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

(10-10-2014 13:18 )marlowe Wrote:  Let's sum up the case against the captain.

There are 3 things I would add to your very worthy post.

Regarding Captain Shah being a keen supporter of Malaysian opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim, it is noteworthy that the captain had posted hundreds (literally) of political rants on his Facebook page in the year before the disappearance of ML370.

Regarding the Malaysian police identifying the captain as the prime suspect if human actions caused the plane's disappearance, it is notewothy that all other crew members and passengers have come out looking spotlessly clean with zero grounds for suspicion.

Regarding the captain receiving a call in the cockpit just prior to the flight's departure from a mobile phone obtained with a fake ID, despite police appeals nobody has come forward admitting to making that call (although that would involve admitting the use of a fake ID).

I'm hearing that there were 2 Chinese dissidents on board the plane that were definitely not wanted in China, so therefore China hacked the controls and remotely flew the plane to a remote location to dispose of them without evidence. (allegedly).

I'm hearing that the Australian police are investigating reports of a man seen in a Sydney hotel said to resemble the missing captain.

(17-05-2014 22:13 )7 stars of the orient Wrote:  There's a film on the way based on the missing Malaysian airliner. Called The Vanishing Act it's due to be released in September.

The film has been put back substantially and is now due for cinema release in August next year.

The Vanishing Act is said to be the first movie ever to be shot in-flight in a commercial airliner.

I see a new story about the missing plane is being reported by all the media today. It's been claimed that the U.S. shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 because the military feared it had been taken over by hackers and was about to be used in a 9/11-style attack. Marc Dugain, former chief executive of Proteus Airlines, said the jumbo jet was shot down near the U.S. military base on the remote island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

The Australian searchers have reported good progress in that 5,500 square miles of the seabed in the priority search area has now been thoroughly surveyed and searched, but this still leaves another 17,500 square miles of seabed to go. Unless they find the plane in the meantime it's estimated that the current search will not be completed until sometime in May.

It's quite a task. The search area is about the size of Norway or the Republic of Ireland.

It's worth noting that they're looking for wreckage that could be anywhere between 12,000 & 19,000 feet down, whereas the wreckage from QZ8501 in the Java Sea is at around 40 metres and it still took over 2 weeks to find the data/voice recorders and the wreckage...

Yes that is a great point. It's easy to forget just how deep that ocean really is and therefore how challenging the search must be. It's going to be a considerable achievement if the plane is actually found.

Chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Martin Dolan, says that it is "very likely we will find the aircraft" :

http://www.ibtimes.com/mh370-missing-pla...ef-1785744