So now Malaysian plane flew for four hours off into Indian Ocean (?)

[cthulu2016]

The Rolls Royce engines of the Malaysian plane report back to Rolls Royce and Rolls Royce seems to say that there was no data from the engines after around when the transponder shut off.

But... a "senior US official" tells CNN that the engines were running for up to four hours after the plane was last seen on radar based on some sort of satellite data... and off into the Indian Ocean.

(Thus the Jay Carney comment that the search field is widening.)

If true, the plane was definitely "hijacked," though the hijacker could have been the pilot. (Meaning that somebody dropped the idea of going to China, and instead going someplace off in the direction of India.)

But a "senior" somebody once told CNN that the Boston bombers had been arrested well before they were even identified.

Caveat Viewor.

All utterly bizarre.

[Renew Deal]

1. I can understand how it was hijacked.

I can't understand how it could land somewhere without anyone noticing.

[cthulu2016]

2. I figure either way, it eventually crashed

[JI7]

4. unless it crashed, but what do we know about the passengers

did anyone other than the pilots have experience or even license to fly these planes ?

maybe it was someone who learned but was not very experienced and ended up crashing.

[pokerfan]

3. Officials deny that missing Malaysian plane flew for four hours after losing contact

So many conflicting reports...

Officials have rejected a Wall Street Journal report that the plane may have flown for four hours after losing contact with air traffic controllers. The paper said this was based on data automatically sent to the ground from the Boeing engines. But Malaysian officials deny that.

Transport Minister Hishammudin Hussein told a news conference: “Rolls Royce and Boeing teams are here in Kuala Lumpur and have worked with MAS (the airline) and the investigation teams since Sunday. These issues have never been raised.

“Whenever there are new details they must be corroborated. Since today’s media reports MAS has asked Rolls Royce and Boeing specifically about the data; as far as Rolls Royce and Boeing are concerned, those reports are inaccurate.”

http://www.euronews.com/2014/03/13/officials-deny-that-missing-malaysian-plane-flew-for-four-hours-after-losing-/

[jakeXT]

7. It's a different system

he Wall Street Journal has issued a correction to its report early Thursday that MH370 flew for hours after losing contact with ground control based on signals from systems in the plane’s Roll-Royce engines.

The theory that the plane flew for hours is based on a signal coming from a different system inside the plane – a satellite-communication link – and not the Rolls-Royce engines, the Journal now reports. Here’s the correction:


U.S. investigators suspect Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 flew for hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location, based on an analysis of signals sent through the plane’s satellite-communication link designed to automatically transmit the status of some onboard systems, according to people familiar with the matter. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said investigators based their suspicions on signals from monitoring systems embedded in the plane’s Rolls-Royce PLC engines and described that process.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2014/mar/13/mh370-no-sign-of-debris-detected-by-chinese-satellite-live-updates

[countryjake]

8. Read this..."newer information" that was released from Washington...

within the past hour:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=754241

[KansDem]

5. I would think with all the trillion-dollar spy networks we have in the sky and on the ground...

...this wouldn't be such a mystery.

But a "senior" somebody once told CNN that the Boston bombers had been arrested well before they were even identified.

Makes you wonder...

[Schema Thing]

6. I can't answer you because I don't know. Sorry.

I'll probably know something within a few weeks, but it's hard to say exactly because, you know, the information isn't available right now.


Hope this helps.

[Fumesucker]

9. And Dubya twice said he watched the first plane hit the WTC live...

The transcripts used to be on the Whitehouse.gov website, I haven't looked for years they might still be.