MH370 search called
off, but debris found (2017)
This newsletter is at http://mailstar.net/bulletins/170201-b2910-MH370.rtf
My webpage MH370 was Hijacked is at http://mailstar.net/MH370.html
(1) Wikipedia
"Unofficial" MH370 webpage takes Cass Sunstein's debunker line
(2) Rolls Royce goes
quiet over Engine Health Management (EHM) system
(3) WSJ report says
MH370 sent data via satellite for 5 hours after last confirmed location
(4) WSJ update, a few
hours later
(5) Dow Jones version
of WSJ report
(6) New Scientist
says Rolls Royce received two data reports from MH370; it keeps real-time tabs
on its engines
(7) The Guardian: US
officials say plane sent signals 'hours' after losing contact
(8) Malaysia Airlines
subscribed to engine health monitoring that enabled MH370 to send data to Rolls
Royce
(9) Rolls Royce
website says its Engine Health Management (EHM) tracks the health of thousands
of engines using onboard sensors and live satellite feeds
(10) Rolls Royce pdf
shows engine sensors
(11) Image of Rolls
Royce engine sensors
(12) Co-pilot tried
to make a call from his Mobile Phone
(13) Amateur
investigator Blaine Gibson found pieces of MH370 around Madagascar; gives
credence to Maldives/ Diego Garcia theory
(14) Murdock's
Australian interviewed Maldives witnesses; Gov't investigators ignored
them
(15) Government
wasted $200 million of OUR money, but neglected to pursue other leads costing
$10,000
(1) Wikipedia
"Unofficial" MH370 webpage takes Cass Sunstein's debunker
line
by Peter Myers, February 1, 2017
MH370 kept flying for 5 hours after its last known location,
proving that mechanical failure was not the problem.
The Transponder and ACARS were turned off, proving conspiracy
of some kind. Either by one of the pilots, or by an intelligence agency taking
control of the plane and flying it remotely like a drone.
After its diversion, and without radar protection, the plane
first flew high, to avoid collision with other planes, then flew low to avoid
radar, as it doubled back and flew west over Malaysia. It successfully dodged
mountains, suggesting computer control.
The co-pilot attempted to make a distress call from his
mobile phone, as the plane neared the Penang mobile system towers at low
altitude.
If it had crashed at sea, there would have been a huge debris
field. Given the worldwide interest, that would have been spotted. It wasn't -
so the plane landed somewhere; Diego Garcia is the most likely location. There
were no secheduled flights from Diego Garcia airport on March 8-10, 2014;
flights resumed on March 11.
The only credible motive concerns Freescale semiconductor
technology - either cargo on its way to China, or the 20 employees en route from
Malaysia to China. Details of the cargo in the hold have not been
released.
The intelligence agency behind the hijack (CIA or Mossad)
could have disposed of the plane later, after it faded from media
interest.
Wikipedia has two webpages on MH370, one presenting the
official theory, and one presenting unofficial or conspiracy theories; the two link to each
other. The official one is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370.
In the past, the unofficial one, being edited by many people,
at times presented incriminating information. However, it no longer does so;
it's now written by the same people as the official one. The difference is that,
whereas the official one ignores conspiracy theories, the unofficial one seeks
to debunk them.
The current Wikipedia webpages, official and unofficial, make
no mention of the comments of Emirates
CEO Tim Clark, who said he believed MH370 was hijacked, and that Government
agencies were covering up. Emirates flies more 777s than any other
airline.
When I checked it on January 28, 2017, I found that the
unofficial webpage not only omitted the most
incriminating evidence, but favorably quoted Cass Sunstein, a leading,
government-appointed, debunker of 9/11
and other conspiracy theories. It even included a photo of him. This is what it
said:
'Harvard professor Cass Sunstein noted that the conflicting
information initially released by the
Malaysian government explains the interest in alternative theories.
Sunstein, who has written on the topic,
argued in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on 20 March 2014 that
conspiracy theories in general often are
borne out of horrific and disastrous situations, because such events make people
angry, fearful and looking for a
"target".' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370_unofficial_disappearance_theories
Cass Sunstein, when at Harvard University, authored a paper
recommending "Cognitive infiltration" of Dissident groups by Government
agents:
Conspiracy Theories, by Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule,
both of Harvard Law School, January 15, 2008: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084585
Sunstein was later appointed by Obama to take on this
role.
In reply, David Ray Griffin wrote a book Cognitive
Infiltration: An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory:
http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Infiltration-Appointees-Undermine-Conspiracy/dp/1566568218.
To counter government disinformation, I collected the best
articles and assembled them in
newsletters which you can download as Microsoft Word files. I composed
them in Word 95 (Word 6), but I now use
Word 98 (97). I do not have any macros on my old Mac, which runs the officially
extinct OS 9. I prefer Word 95 &
Word 98 because of their simplicity and lack of clutter. These files will open
in later versions of
Word.
1: Maldives sightings: http://mailstar.net/bulletins/140319-b2362-MH370.rtf
2: Mahathir alleges remote hijacking by CIA; Yoichi Shimatsu
presents a detailed case: http://mailstar.net/bulletins/140521-b2388-MH370.rtf
3: Internet contributors assemble evidence of Hijacking to
Diego Garcia, despite official
obfuscation: http://mailstar.net/bulletins/140727-b2420-MH370.rtf
4. MH370 one year on: Emirates head Tim Clark says MH370 was
hijacked, warns "others would like to
bury" the truth: http://mailstar.net/bulletins/150315-b2427-MH370.rtf
5. MH370 search called off, but debris found (2017): http://mailstar.net/bulletins/170201-b2910-MH370.rtf
(2) Rolls Royce goes
quiet over Engine Health Management (EHM) system
With regard to reports that MH370 sent signals to Rolls Royce
for 5 + hours after the initial disappearance:
The reports from the Wall St Journal are supplied
below.
The WSJ later corrected its report to state that the signals were sent from a
satellite-communication link, not from the Rolls-Royce engines. And that they
were sent to Boeing, not to Rolls Royce.
Aviator, however,
wrote "Rolls Royce made the initial announcement that the engines were
communicating ... From my perspective as an Aviator Rolls Royce knows exactly where this Flight
landed but are saying nothing!" http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1044524/
(3) WSJ report says
MH370 sent data via satellite for 5 hours after last confirmed
location
The Wall Street Journal
U.S. Investigators Suspect Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Flew On for Hours
Investigators Believe Plane Flew On for Total of Up to Five
Hours
By Andy Pasztor and Jon Ostrower
Updated March 13, 2014 3:08 p.m. ET
U.S. investigators suspect that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
stayed in the air for up to four hours
past the time it reached its last confirmed location, according to two
people familiar with the details, raising the possibility that the plane could
have flown on for hundreds of additional miles under conditions that remain
murky.
The investigators believe the plane flew for a total of up to five hours, according to
these people, based on analysis of signals sent by the Boeing 777's
satellite-communication link designed to automatically transmit the status of
certain onboard systems to the ground. Throughout the roughly four hours
after the jet dropped from civilian radar screens, these people said, the link
operated in a kind of standby mode and sought to establish contact with a
satellite or satellites. These transmissions did not include data, they
said, but the periodic contacts indicate to investigators that the plane was still intact and believed to be
flying.
(4) WSJ update, a few
hours later
Satellite Data Reveal Route of Missing Malaysia Airlines
Plane
Jetliner 'Pinged'
Satellites With Location, Altitude for Hours After
Disappearance
WSJ's Andy Pasztor has been reporting on Flight MH370 since
it disappeared. Here he explains how a plane can still transmit "pings" that
allow investigators to track it even after its main tracking systems — or
transponders — are shut off.
By Jon Ostrower, Andy Pasztor and Julian E.
Barnes
Updated March 14, 2014 5:57 a.m. ET
Malaysia Airlines' missing jet transmitted its location repeatedly to
satellites over the course of five hours after it disappeared from radar,
people briefed on the matter said, as searchers zeroed in on new target areas
hundreds of miles west of the plane's original course.
The satellites also received speed and altitude information
about the plane from its intermittent "pings," the people said. The final ping
was sent from over water, at what one of these people called a normal cruising
altitude. They...
(5) Dow Jones version
of WSJ report
U.S. Investigators Suspect Malaysia Flight 370 Was Airborne Hours After
Vanishing
Andy Pasztor reported a major new turn in the continuing
mystery over the disappearance of Flight 370, breaking the news that U.S.
investigators suspect that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stayed in the air for
about four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location. The
report, citing sources, raised the possibility that the plane could have flown
on for hundreds of additional miles. In later reports, the WSJ said the
officials’ suspicions were based on an analysis of signals sent through the
plane’s satellite-communication link, and not engine monitoring systems, as
first reported.
U.S. counterterrorism officials are pursuing the possibility
that a pilot or someone else on board
the plane may have diverted it toward an undisclosed location after
intentionally turning off the jetliner’s transponders to avoid radar
detection.
The story as it appeared on Dow Jones:
March 13, 2014 – 12:23 AM EDT- U.S. Investigators Suspect
Malaysia Flight 370 Was Airborne Hours After Vanishing -Sources
12:24 AM EDT: U.S. Officials Pursue Possibility Plane
Diverted to Undisclosed Location -Sources
12:24 AM EDT: Jet’s Transponders May Have Been Turned off
Intentionally – Sources
12:27 AM EDT: U.S. Investigators Suspect Missing Airplane
Flew On for Hours
By Andy Pasztor
U.S. investigators suspect that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
stayed in the air for about four hours past the time it reached its last
confirmed location, according to two people familiar with the details, raising
the possibility that the plane could have flown on for hundreds of additional
miles under conditions that remain murky.
The investigators believe the plane flew for a total of five
hours, according to these people, based on analysis of signals sent by the Boeing Co. 777¢s
satellite-communication link designed to automatically transmit the status
of certain onboard systems to the ground. ...
As of Wednesday it remained unclear whether the plane reached
an alternate destination or if it ultimately crashed, potentially hundreds of
miles from where an international search effort has been focused.
...
Corrections & Amplifications
This item was corrected at 5:13 p.m. ET because the original version incorrectly said
investigators based their suspicions on signals from monitoring systems embedded
in the plane’s Rolls-Royce PLC engines.
U.S. investigators suspect Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 flew
for up to four 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.
(6) New Scientist
says Rolls Royce received two data reports from MH370; it keeps real-time tabs
on its engines
New Scientist
11 March 2014
Malaysian plane sent out engine data before
vanishing
By Paul Marks
The missing Malaysia Airlines jet sent at least two bursts of technical data
back to the airline before it disappeared, New Scientist has learned. The
data may help investigators understand what went wrong with the aircraft, no
trace of which has yet been found.
To aid maintenance, most airlines use the Aircraft
Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), which automatically collates
and files four technical reports during
every flight so that engineers can spot problems. These reports are sent via
VHF radio or satellite at take-off, during the climb, at some point while
cruising, and on landing.
Malaysia Airlines has not revealed if it has learned anything
from ACARS data, or if it has any. Its eleventh media statement since the plane
disappeared said: “All Malaysia Airlines aircraft are equipped with…
ACARS which transmits data automatically. Nevertheless, there were no distress
calls and no information was relayed.”
This would suggest no concrete data is to hand. But New
Scientist understands that the maker of the missing Boeing 777’s Trent 800 engines, Rolls Royce, received two data reports
from flight MH370 at its global engine health monitoring centre in Derby, UK, where it keeps real-time tabs
on its engines in use. One was broadcast as MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur
International Airport, the other during the 777’s climb out towards
Beijing.
As the engine data is filtered from a larger ACARS report
covering all the plane’s critical flight systems and avionics, it could mean the
airline has some useful clues about the condition of the aircraft prior to its
disappearance. The plane does not appear to have been cruising long enough to
issue any more ACARS reports. It disappeared from radar at 1.30 AM local
time, halfway between Malaysia and Vietnam over the Gulf of
Thailand.
Under International Civil Aviation Organisation rules, such reports are normally kept secret until
air investigators need them. ...
(7) The Guardian: US
officials say plane sent signals 'hours' after losing contact
MH370: US officials say plane sent signals 'hours' after losing
contact
Matthew Weaver in London and Tom McCarthy in New
York
Friday 14 March 2014 09.07 AEDT First published on Thursday
13 March 2014 18.31 AEDT
10.07pm GMT
Summary
• Malaysia Airlines flight 370 continued to send automatic status
transmissions for hours after the plane lost contact with ground control,
possibly indicating the plane remained in flight during that time, unnamed US
officials told reporters.
• The search for the jet, which disappeared carrying 239
passengers and crew, was set to enter its seventh day. The search effort now
comprises dozens of ships and aircraft from 12 nations over an area of 35,800
square miles (92,600 square kilometers).
• The search intensified in the Indian Ocean, where the
United States said it was deploying additional ships and
aircraft.
• Earlier Thursday, Malaysian officials said reports that
the plane stayed in the air for hours after losing contact were “inaccurate”.
The officials have not commented on the latest claims by US officials.
9.36pm GMT
The “new information” that Press Secretary Jay Carney
referred to today was “that the plane’s engines remained running for approximately four hours after
it vanished from radar,” the Washington Post quotes anonymous “Obama
administration officials” as saying. The information is in line with multiple
reports this afternoon. The Post reports:
One senior administration official said the data showing the
plane engines running hours after contact was lost came from the Aircraft Communications
Addressing and Reporting System, or ACARS, a way that planes maintain
contact with ground stations through radio or satellite signals. The official
said Malaysian authorities shared the flight data with the
administration.
Read the full piece here.
9.29pm GMT
Flight MH370 sent
“signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing,” the
Associated Press quotes an unnamed US official as saying:
The official said the Boeing 777-200 wasn’t transmitting data to the satellite,
but sending out a signal to establish contact. Boeing offers a satellite service that
can receive a stream of data during flight on how the aircraft is
functioning.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because
he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, said MALAYSIA AIRLINES DIDN’T SUBSCRIBE TO THAT
SERVICE, BUT THE SYSTEM WAS AUTOMATICALLY PINGING THE SATELLITE
anyway.
The official also said SOME MESSAGES INVOLVING A DIFFERENT DATA
SERVICE were received for a short time after the plane’s transponder went
silent. ...
Updated at 8.10pm GMT
8.01pm GMT
Summary
• The White House said Thursday that an unspecified
“possible piece of information, or pieces of information, has led to the
possibility that a new search area may be opened up over the Indian Ocean” for
MH370.
• The Pentagon said it was sending the USS Kidd destroyer
northwest through the Strait of Malacca to cover a new search area. It was
unclear what new information the Pentagon was acting on.
• Multiple news reports quoting unnamed investigators said
an automatic onboard satellite link sent pings from the plane after it lost
contact with ground control.
• The Wall Street
Journal retracted a report that a system inside the plane’s Rolls-Royce engines
had sent signals indicating it was still flying after losing contact with
ground control. A different system sent
the signals, the paper said. ...
Updated at 8.47pm GMT
7.30pm GMT
The 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:
Corrections & Amplifications
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.
Updated at 7.35pm GMT
7.27pm GMT
Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and CNN [and the Chicago
Tribune] are quoting unnamed investigators as saying that MH370 continued to
send electronic signals after it lost contract with ground control. The Boeing 777 was equipped with a satellite-communication link “designed
to automatically transmit the status of some onboard systems to the ground,” the
Journal reports:
Investigators are still working to fully understand the
information, according to one person briefed on the matter. The transmissions,
this person said, were comparable to the plane “saying I’m here, I’m ready to
send data.”
Here’s how Reuters explains the “pings”:
Communications satellites picked up faint electronic pulses
from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 after it went missing on Saturday, but the
signals gave no indication about where the stray jet was heading nor its
technical condition, a source close to the investigation said on Thursday.
The “pings” equated to an indication that the aircraft’s
maintenance troubleshooting systems were ready to communicate with satellites if
needed, but no links were opened because Malaysia Airlines and others had not
subscribed to the full troubleshooting service, the source said.
The Wall Street Journal continues to build out its report,
first published this morning, that the plane flew for hours after
“disappearing.” See the subsequent post on this blog about an important
correction the WSJ has appended to its initial report: the theory that the plane
flew for hours was based not on a signal
from a system inside the Rolls-Royce
engines but on a signal from a separate satellite communication systems in
the plane, the Journal says. ...
(8) Malaysia Airlines
subscribed to engine health monitoring that enabled MH370 to send data to Rolls
Royce
What SATCOM, ACARS and Pings tell us about the missing
Malaysia Airlines MH370
Mar 16 2014 - 137 Comments
By David Cenciotti
Eight days since the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370
disappeared somewhere over southeast Asia, the last known details about the
missing Boeing 777 come from the onboard SATCOM system. [...]
Let’s see why.
ACARS
ACARS is the acronym for Aircraft Communications Addressing
and Reporting System. It’s an automated communication system used by commercial
planes to transmit and receive messages from ground facilities (airline,
maintenance department, aircraft or system manufacturer, etc). Therefore, along
with the general information about the flight (callsign, speed, altitude,
position, etc), these messages may contain what we can consider systems health
checks.
ACARS is a service: airlines have to pay for it. According
to the information available to date, it looks like Malaysia Airlines subscribed only to
engine health monitoring that enabled MH370 to send data to Rolls
Royce.
The ACARS system
aboard MH370 was switched off some minutes before the
transponder.
ACARS rely on VHF frequencies (indeed, you can track planes
and decode messages with a simple radio receiver tuned on the proper ACARS
frequencies and a software running on your computer) or SATCOM (SATellite
COMmunication).
Although this is still debated, according to several pilots
the ACARS transmissions can be switched off by the pilot from inside the
cockpit, by disabling the use of VHF and SATCOM channels. This means that the
system is not completely switched off, but it can’t transmit to the receiving
stations.
SATCOM
SATCOM is a radio system that uses a constellation of
satellites used to trasmit voice, data or both. As said, ACARS can make use of SATCOM to
transmit its data to ground stations. Dealing with ACARS, the SATCOM system used by MH370 was linked to
the INMARSAT network.
Inmarsat is a British satellite telecommunications company,
which offers global, mobile services through a constellation of three
geostationary satellites.
The system relies on “pings”. [...]
(10) Rolls Royce pdf
shows engine sensors
Health Management at Rolls-Royce - PHM Society
Oct 1, 2009 - The information in this document is the
property of Rolls-Royce Corporation and may not be ... More dedicated EHM
sensors and systems.
(11) Satellite
experts writing in The Atlantic (Monthly) find errors in Immarsat mathematics,
defining the search area
This article from The
Atlantic (Monthly) is not mentioned in Wikipedia's current official or
unofficial webpages. You can't trust Wikipedia.
Why the Official
Explanation of MH370's Demise Doesn't Hold Up
Outside satellite experts say investigators could be looking
in the wrong ocean.
ARI N. SCHULMAN
The
Atlantic
MAY 8 2014, 8:00 AM ET
(12) Co-pilot tried
to make a call from his Mobile Phone
'
Investigators reveal MH370 co-pilot tried to make a call from his
mobile phone after the aircraft 'vanished' but 'was abruptly cut off' as
U.S. deny reports the plane landed at their remote military base
Investigators say call was made from Fariq Abdul Hamid's
mobile phone
It was flying low enough for a sub-station in Penang to
pick up signal
Details of who Fariq was trying to call have not been
disclosed
It possible for a mobile phone to be connected at an
altitude of 7,000 feet
U.S. denies reports plane landed at base on remote island
of Diego Garcia
By Richard Shears for MailOnline and Tara Brady
Published: 19:31 +10:00, 12 April 2014 | Updated: 00:52
+10:00, 13 April 2014
Fariq Abdul Hamid
made a call from his mobile phone as the aircraft flew low over the west coast
of Malaysia
The co-pilot of missing flight MH370 made a call from his
mobile phone while the aircraft flew low over the west coast of Malaysia, it was
revealed today as the U.S. denied reports the plane landed at a military base on
the remote island of Diego Garcia.
Investigators have learned that the call was made from Fariq
Abdul Hamid's mobile phone as the Boeing 777 flew low near the island of Penang, on
the north of Malaysia's west coast.
The New Straits Times reported the aircraft, with 239 people
on board, was flying low enough for the
nearest telecommunications tower to pick up Fariq's signal.
The call ended abrupty, however it has been learned that
contact was definitely established with a telecommunications sub-station in
Penang state.
The paper said it had been unable to ascertain who Fariq was
trying to call 'as sources chose not to divulge details of the
investigation.'
It added: 'The telco's (telecommunications company's) tower
established the call that he was trying to make.
'On why the call was
cut off, it was likely because the aircraft was fast moving away from the
tower and had not come under the coverage of the next one,' the paper said,
quoting 'sources'. [...]
(13) Amateur
investigator Blaine Gibson found pieces of MH370 around Madagascar; gives
credence to Maldives/ Diego Garcia theory
The Government found nothing, but an amateur investigator,
Blaine Gibson, found pieces of MH370 around Madagascar and Reunion. He also
visited the Maldives, and wrote,
"After my recent visit to Kudahuvadhoo I am more convinced
than ever of the credibility of these
witnesses and their sighting, and I personally believe, but am not yet
totally convinced, that they saw MH 370. My original theory was that MH 370
encountered an emergency ... I never believed before that MH 370 landed or was
attempting to target Diego Garcia in a 9/11 style terror
attack.
"However I cannot deny and must report the fact that upon reaching Kudahuvadhoo, whatever
that plane was, for whatever reason, made a deliberate turn and headed on a bearing in the direction of
that secretive military island."
The Maldives
Sightings
1000 Days 2nd December 2016
Blaines Independent Investigation
(14) Murdock's
Australian interviewed Maldives witnesses; Gov't investigators ignored
them
The Maldive islanders who say they can help find
MH370
Court official Abdu Rasheed Ibrahim, on the shores of Kuda
Huvadhoo, says ‘I strongly felt
those people who were searching should come here’. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen
The Australian
12:00AM April 4, 2015
Hedley Thomas
The tiny Indian Ocean island of Kuda Huvadhoo is the sleepy
fishing community that the world
forgot. Some of its villagers believe an
aircraft they saw on the morning of March 8 last year could hold the key to modern aviation’s most
confounding mystery — the disappearance
of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Some of the locals on the 60ha of sand and coral in the
Maldives chain do not understand
why, after more than a year, investigators involved in the search for
the Boeing 777 have not come to hear first-hand about the large, low-flying
passenger jet they insist they saw that
fateful morning.
They wonder why the year-long search has not ventured here to
listen to accounts from witnesses
who were surprised by the unidentified
aircraft. Two told The Weekend
Australian they could see distinctive red and blue markings — similar to the
striping on the missing plane which
was heading west towards the Maldives when last spotted on radar after departing Kuala Lumpur.
Their suspicions are no match for the highly sophisticated calculations based on satellite
connections with MH370, which have put
its likely crash zone along an arc about 1800km southwest of Perth. [...]
An interesting event on Kuda Huvadhoo is a small twin-prop
sea plane swooping nearby. An
unusual event is seeing the contrails of a large jet at high altitude — they seldom
cross the southern atoll. A
remarkable event, something the locals relate to us with the intensity of people who fear they are doubted,
is watching a large passenger jet,
like a Boeing 777, flying low about the time MH370 would have been close to running out of fuel.
“I watched this very large plane bank slightly and I saw its
colours — the red and blue lines — below the windows,
then I heard the loud noise,’’ says
Abdu Rasheed Ibrahim, 47, a court official and the -island’s keenest hobby fisherman, as
he speaks of what he saw from the
beach that morning. “It was unusual, very unusual. It was big and it was flying low. It was a holiday
(Saturday) and most people had gone
to bed after praying.”
When he went home with his catch, a barracuda tied to his
bicycle’s handlebars, Abdu spoke to
other villagers about the strange, large
aircraft. Some saw it. Others only heard it. They say they were talking about it hours before they
knew MH370 had gone missing. Later
that morning, at an extra-curricular class at school, Humaam Dhonmamk, 16, talked excitedly to
Abdu’s daughter, Aisath Zeeniya,
about seeing it — he also described the distinctive blue and red striping. It flew over as he took his
clothes from the outside line.
"I saw the blue and
red on a bit of the side," -Humaam says. “I heard the loud noise of it after it
went over. I told the police this too.”
[...]
Several people we
spoke to believe they saw MH370 about 6.30am (9.30am in Malaysia) that
day.
Zuhuriyya Ali, 49, who watched it from her home’s courtyard,
still “feels strange when thinking
about the people on it”. “I consider it a lot,’’ she says. “I am concerned there
is a connection to the Malaysia
plane.”
Ahmed Shiyaam, 34, an IT manager at the local medical clinic
who was riding with his daughter,
Uyoon, 6, along one of the island’s sandy paths that morning, stopped and looked
up on March 8 last year — they had never
seen such a large plane fly so low.
“I’m very sure of what I saw on a very clear and bright day,
and what I saw was not normal — the
plane was very big, and low. I did not know until later that other people saw it
too. I don’t know if it’s the
Malaysia plane.”
Ahmed Ibrahim,
40, who saw it from his garden, also described it to us in confident detail.
“This was not a normal sight — the plane was different,’’ he
says. “It was very big, very noisy,
flying low. Later that afternoon on the
beach I was told the news about the missing plane. I think this is the same flight.”
Back on the exact spot where he was standing on March 8 last
year when he saw the aircraft, Abdu
Rasheed Ibrahim says: “First, I saw the
plane flying towards me over water. When it was over my head I saw it starting to turn away. At first
glance, I did not know it was a
missing plane. I didn’t know that a plane was missing. I went straight home and told my wife about it. I told
my family, ‘I saw this strange
plane’. This is the biggest plane I have ever seen from this island. My family says, ‘It might be the
Malaysian plane’. I have seen
pictures of the missing plane — I believe that I saw that plane. At the time it was lost, I strongly felt
those people who were searching
should come here.”
The Weekend
Australian spent three days interviewing locals, all of whom described the
incident in a similar way. Six of the key witnesses we spoke to were interviewed last year
by police at the direction of
authorities in Male, and each signed
statements of their versions. A
senior source familiar with the police probe confirmed the witness accounts were regarded as truthful and
consistent. The office of the new
President in Male declined to comment; his immediate predecessor is languishing in a nearby prison.
“These people were not seeking attention and they did not go
to the police about it, the police
went to them after hearing about this,’’
the source says. “They are not dishonest and they have no motive to lie. They all told the police it was
big, low and noisy. If it was not
the missing plane, then which plane was it? We do not see planes close and low to Kuda -Huvadhoo. Nobody
knows what has really happened.”
There were other reasons the people of Kuda Huvadhoo were not taken seriously. The Maldives
National Defence Force, responsible for
guarding the security and sovereignty of the low-lying country, issued a statement in March last year ruling
out any such aircraft movement over
its air space. The locals were surprised and felt humiliated. Several of those we spoke to in Kuda
Huvadhoo were scornful, accusing
their defence chiefs of seeking to save face and not wanting to admit to their people or the world that the
limitations of Maldives radar and
other equipment could not detect such flights.
Around this time, Malaysian authorities agreed that the
aircraft’s “pings” — like
breadcrumbs being left in a trail — meant MH370 should have crashed somewhere along one of
two potential arcs. The arcs are in
opposite hemispheres, but the most probable extended in the Indian Ocean west of Perth where vessels and
aircraft are engaged in a search
across a massive haystack for an infinitesimally small needle.
[...]
(15) Government
wasted $200 million of OUR money, but neglected to pursue other leads costing
$10,000
by Peter Myers, February 1, 2017
The fruitless search has been called off, after Governments
spent $200 million of OUR money.
It would have cost only $10,000 or so to send investigators
to the Maldives to check our eyewitness reports. But Gvernments chose not to,
replying on Inmarsat's faulty mathematics instead.
Journalists from Paris March and Rupert Murdock's The
Australian did later visit the Maldives, more than a year after the
disappearance. Government investigators never bothered.
Authorities spurned offers by Georesonance, and also also
turned down a Hydrometeorologist's offer
to locate MH370 by tracking its vapour trail:
Could this technology find missing Malaysian Flight
MH370?
By MARNIE O’NEILL
The Australian October 17, 2014 6:04PM
AN Australian scientist says it is possible to locate missing
Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 by identifying cloud changes for evidence of vapour trails caused by burning
fuel emissions from the aircraft. Hydrometeorologist Aron Gingis, head of
environmental consultancy firm Australian Management Consolidated, and a former
Monash University academic, specialises in cloud microphysics.
[...]
