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originally posted by: roadgravel
The report
Ho Chi Minh first enquired about MH370, informed KL-ATCC that verbal contact was not established with MH370 and radar target was last seen at BITOD.
KL-ATCC informed HCM that after IGARI, MH370 did not return to
Lumpur frequency.
HCM queried about MH370 again, stating that radar contact was established over IGARI but there was no verbal contact. Ho Chi Minh
advised that the observed radar blip disappeared at waypoint BITOD.
They used the term 'at' which sounds like it was there.
originally posted by: jaffo
originally posted by: violet
originally posted by: Golantrevize
reply to post by Zaphod58
Where is the black box situated on a plane? And will the ROV have adequate tools to get it and bring it back? On accident such as these do they leave the corpses in the ocean or it is possible to have them sent back to their families? Anyone knows the rate of putrefaction of a human body in the ocean? Must be quick with al these shrimps and crabs down there.
I think the flight data recorder or black box is located in the tail. The other one, the cockpit voice recorder I don't know.
To retrieve wreckage they would need different equipment.
It wouldn't surprise me if all they do is just show photos of the wreckage and say sorry we can't get back down there to get it. It's buried in silt.
Can't really trust what's being reported.
Really? Why not? What concrete evidence do you have that we "can't trust what is being reported"? My God, why does EVERYTHING have to be some goofball conspiracy around here? Sometimes things are simply a mystery waiting to be solved rather than some nefarious conspiracy by THEM. Like this. I mean really, what is the realistic motivation for a conspiracy here?! Nations are POURING money into this search and giving hour by hour updates and yet people are STILL questioning every single thing they are told. Some of you people are just never going to believe anything you eventually learn about this and really it's kind of sad. Increasingly I wonder how many of the folks on this site have a genuine mental illness. Just sayin...
originally posted by: sy.gunson
originally posted by: roadgravel
The report
Ho Chi Minh first enquired about MH370, informed KL-ATCC that verbal contact was not established with MH370 and radar target was last seen at BITOD.
KL-ATCC informed HCM that after IGARI, MH370 did not return to
Lumpur frequency.
HCM queried about MH370 again, stating that radar contact was established over IGARI but there was no verbal contact. Ho Chi Minh
advised that the observed radar blip disappeared at waypoint BITOD.
They used the term 'at' which sounds like it was there.
What Ho Chi Minh were receiving were real time transponder returns via SITA picked up on VHF repeater station at Kuala Terengganu. Vietnam has no radar coverage of its own for the area.
Regarding your questions over the predicted paths shown in the preliminary report, here is what a weibo contact has told me (she has a family member onboard the flight, and was present at the Beijing briefing on April 29):
“Only the ‘Estimate Data to Beijing’ chart was produced by Malaysian aviation authorities. The rest charts, including the ’7 Data Point’ elevation angles chart and the BFO chart, were provided by Inmarsat. All parties at the Malaysia side, including its government and aviation department, didn’t perform any other data calculation except the ‘Estimate Data to Beijing’ chart. Malaysia has no raw data; it doesn’t know Inmarsat’s algorithm. It’s impossible for them to produce any kind of predicted paths.”
originally posted by: earthling42
Good information, thanks for posting it.
originally posted by: earthling42
I think we can be fairly certain that they were only batteries, not goods which contained them.
The Malaysian government finally released a recording today with their report of the conversation between Malaysian Flight 370 and Air Traffic Control. I had the opportunity to listen to the recording and have several concerns from an audio forensic perspective.
During the regular press conference of Malaysia's Transport Minister on Mar 24th 2014 the airline representative stated, that the first officer was on his 6th flight on the Boeing 777 after having undergone conversion training from another aircraft type. The aircraft was carrying wooden pallets but there is no evidence the wooden pallet sighted in the South Indian Ocean was one carried by MH-370. The aircraft was carrying 200kg of Lithium batteries packaged in full compliance with safety requirements in addition to electronics and several tons of fruit.
originally posted by: earthling42
There is very little information, so every possibility will be investigated, but it does not mean that 'terrorists' were indeed behind the disappearance of MH370.
The conflicting part of the emergency call is that dispite they had supposedly listened to the pilots talking about 'cabin collapse' and forced landing, there is a search area thousands of miles away from the location at which it disappeared from radar.
A few weeks ago in the first topic i posted a link to liveleak about a programm from presstv which is on youtube now.
Listen to what the pilot says, the transponder in standby means the aircraft is still visible on radar, only without the additional information such as identification, altitude, speed and so on.
It does however disappear from FR24 or similar sites because these sites are reliant on ads-b information from the transponder.
So if it vanished from radar, that can only mean it had crashed, surely if Malaysia was able to see the aircraft returning to the Malaysian peninsula, Vietnam would have seen the same.