MH370 Malaysian Airlines missing

A bit strange this one. With all the safety systems and high tech in planes these days, I find it a little odd that you can turn off pretty much all tracking from the cockpit. Even my car has a tracker anti theft thing in it that I can't switch off. Nor do I even know where it is. My last car had a system where if a tab and the keys were separated by more than 100 metres, you got a phone call and a text to warn you. If you then confirmed the car was stolen, they could turn it off by satellite! They even waited for it to be in a safe place before they turned it off. They reckoned they could find a car anywhere on the planet and claimed they had never lost one. Now, if they can do that in a car, how come they can't in a plane?
Also, are they saying every mobile on the plane was switched off? Calls were made from the hijacked planes on 9/11. Of course, I am no expert but from that you can only assume the passengers were unaware the plane was off in the wrong direction, or over the sea the whole time with no coverage?
 
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The Malaysian PM now says that the flight was deliberately diverted

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Mr Razak told a news conference that new satellite evidence shows "with a high degree of certainty" that the one of the aircraft's communications systems - the Aircraft and Communications Addressing and Reporting System- was disabled just before it reached the east coast of Malaysia.

ACARS is a service that allows computers aboard the plane to "talk" to computers on the ground, relaying in-flight information about the health of its systems.

Shortly afterwards, near the border between Malaysian and Vietnamese air traffic control, the plane's transponder - which emits an identifying signal - was switched off, he said.

According to a military radar, the flight then turned and flew back over Malaysia before heading in a north-west direction.

A satellite was able to pick up a signal from the plane until 08:11 local time - more than seven hours after it lost radar contact - although it was unable to give a precise location, Mr Razak said.
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He went on to say that based on this new data, investigators "have determined the plane's last communication with a satellite was in one of two possible corridors":

a northern corridor stretching from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan through to northern Thailand
a southern corridor stretching from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean


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The PM just added more fuel to the WTFness around this mystery. The corridor is so large that you could smuggle a few countries into it? Looks like whoever did this knows more about planes and flying it than the security forces in all those countries. How can a plane of that size not be detected by air traffic, satellite and military radars of so many countries? What does this say about the state of airline and national security in all these countries?
 
Sweep said:
Also, are they saying every mobile on the plane was switched off? Calls were made from the hijacked planes on 9/11. Of course, I am no expert but from that you can only assume the passengers were unaware the plane was off in the wrong direction, or over the sea the whole time with no coverage?
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As you allude to, mobile phones have an extrmely short range and need to be in line of sight with telecommunication masts which then relay the signals. There are no such things in the ocean so mobiles wouldn't work, they did however work in the USA as you state, but that was because the aircraft was over land and therefore in range of mobile phone masts.
 
Oddsocks said:
Is it just me that's worried that a plane of this size can go missing on a global scale for almost 5 days....
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Yep ya kinda think if you were a passenger & were on the ground somewhere that help was on it way , this day & age they should get to us fast ,, truth is there are parts of the world that they can lose you ,200 other people and a ruddy big plane

doesnt make sense at all
 
Oddsocks said:
Is it just me that's worried that a plane of this size can go missing on a global scale for almost 5 days....
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No ... There is a few air traffic controls units need investigating. But seriously what are they going to do with this plane ? Plus to upset the Chinese could be a mega mistake, they won't give a darn about PC or Geneva convention . Pretty sure they will go in hard and just keep coming ... Think it would be wise to step back and let them do it.
 
bladeplayer said:
Yep ya kinda think if you were a passenger & were on the ground somewhere that help was on it way , this day & age they should get to us fast ,, truth is there are parts of the world that they can lose you ,200 other people and a ruddy big plane

doesnt make sense at all
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do you remember the airbus crash in the French forest it happened under their noses, took the ages to find it more than 24 hrs and lots died because of the delay.
 
Oddsocks said:
Is it just me that's worried that a plane of this size can go missing on a global scale for almost 5 days....
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I saw a stat recently saying there have been 50+ large planes go missing since 1948 and never found- cant find the stat again or source?
 
So all the people still active on QQ (Chinese Facebook) .. Why don't they post up pics ?? Or comments or add friends ...
 
After all the billions spent after 9/11 - can anyone explain why pilots are able to switch off transponders in the first place?

Maybe someone should try smoking in the toilet.. that might set off an alarm somewhere...

Not sure how true this is..
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