Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

This has to be a cover up at this stage. As one expert i seen on sky news said one of the things that they will always find is the seats which always float to the surface. How have they not been found

(19-06-2014 10:34 )Ro1982 Wrote:  How have they not been found

Probably because nobody's been looking in the right place.

It appears that the likely location of the plane is hundreds of miles southwest of where all previous search efforts in the southern Indian ocean have been concentrated.

Media reports today are saying that the Malaysian police are closing in on the missing plane's captain and expect to name him as the person responsible for the plane's disappearance.

The key evidence is said to be that he'd used his flight simulator many times to land on a short island runway in a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean. Although he'd deleted those records from the simulator it's reported that computer experts in the USA were able to retrieve them.

Detectives also found that Captain Zaharie had made no social or professional commitments beyond the date of the missing flight, in contrast to his co-pilot and the rest of the flight’s crew who all had arrangements for future activities.

A new search area has been identified now, further to the south.

BBC News Wrote:The new search area focuses on the "7th arc" - a line through which the analysis suggests the jet had to have crossed as it made a final, brief, connection with ground systems. The interpretation of the data is that this "electronic handshake" was prompted by a power interruption onboard MH370 as its fuel ran down to exhaustion. As auxiliary power came on, the jet tried to log back into the satellite network.

In normal circumstances following such a logon request, there would usually have been additional "chatter" between the network and MH370. That these connections are not seen in the data log are a very strong indication that the jet was in its crash descent.

Several teams within the investigation have been running the numbers; this is not the sole work of the satellite system's operator - Inmarsat.

The collective opinion of several independent teams has therefore arrived at a zone of highest priority covering some 60,000 sq km. Once the ocean floor there is mapped, the investigation team can then summon the best - but also the most appropriate - submersibles in the world to go hunt for sunken wreckage.

(new search area shown in orange)

(25-06-2014 11:46 )Glenn Miller Wrote:  The key evidence is said to be that he'd used his flight simulator many times to land on a short island runway in a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean.

Detectives also found that Captain Zaharie had made no social or professional commitments beyond the date of the missing flight

This still doesn't add up. Everyone seems to agree that the plane ditched in the ocean, so how is it relevant that the captain practiced landing on a remote island when the missing plane didn't land on a remote island?

I'm not being awkward here, I'm just trying to make sense of the whole thing. Making no future arrangements looks suspicious I'd have to agree, but it's only circumstantial evidence rather than proof of anything.

(09-06-2014 11:59 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  If there is some sort of high-level cover-up going on, I don't think $3 million is going to be enough compensation to a whistle-blower, it doesn't buy enough security.

It looks like the families agree with you, because they have said pretty much the same thing and are trying to increase the reward for anyone who can reveal the location of the plane from $3m to $100m.

Even if they could raise $100m in reward money I doubt if it would do any good.

Does a recent incident hold the clue to the mystery of MH370?

On 12 July a Boeing 777 of United Airlines suffered an avionics bay fire en-route to Guam which disrupted cockpit displays and caused major power outages. The plane (flight UA201) with considerable smoke in the cockpit, made an emergency diversion to Midway, a remote Pacific island.

This video shows how easy (shockingly easy?) it is to access the avionics bay on a Boeing 777.

So within any new search area what would be the most remotest island possible for any landing if there was one? I too find it strange that the captain never made any social/professional commitments after the missing date and the clearly suggests he was party od some elaborate scheme - for what? Insurance?
If the plane did ditch why hasn't debris floating on the surface been discovered before now? and could we be looking now at a Bermuda triangle type disappearance after all this time?