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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Apr 13, 2021 12:27 am

Hopes MH370 will finally be found

Missing flight MH370 set off "radio tripwires" which could finally reveal its true location, a top expert has revealed

The claims come seven years after the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 suddenly vanished with 239 on board, sparking the world's greatest aviation mystery.

Flight MH370 flight disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board

Richard Godfrey - of the respected Independent Group probing the disappearance - has now called for the use of Weak Signal Propagation (WSPR) data to map the doomed passenger plane's final movements.

WSPR is a grid of radio signals which covers the globe allowing planes to be tracked as they they set off invisible “digital tripwires” which reveal their position.

“WSPR is like a bunch of tripwires or laser beams, but they work in every direction over the horizon to the other side of the globe,” Godfrey reveals in a new report.

“JORN or any Over-The-Horizon-Radar is similar to WSPR," he adds. "It also uses HF radio waves that bounce off the ionosphere and is effectively a very sophisticated tripwire detection system.”

Godfrey’s report says that MH370 crossed eight WSPR "tripwires" as it flew over the Indian Ocean, which backs up previous flight path analysis.

It's believed MH370 triggered a number of 'digital tripwires' on its final flight

In busy airspace, these tripwires are crossed so frequently it can be extremely difficult to track individual aircraft.

But he says if the French Air Transport Gendarmerie – the only official body still probing the mystery – were to combine WSPR data with pings from the cockpit's satellite phone then MH370 could finally be tracked down.

"Both systems were designed for another purpose other than the detection, identification and localisation of aircraft,” writes Godfrey.

“However....together the two systems can be used to detect, identify and localise MH370 during its flight path into the Southern Indian Ocean.

“Neither system is perfect for this task, but together they can give a good result.”

Those that lost family members in the mystery have now hailed the potential "breakthrough" on the official MH370 Facebook page.

A wing part found in South Africa is claimed to be the latest piece crash debris

Relatives of those on board still do not know what happened seven years on

They wrote: "Mr Richard Godfrey...has put forth a new credible method that can be utilised to identify possible MH370 Flight Paths using WSPRnet [Weak Signal Propagation Report (WSPR)] and Inmarsat Satellite data.

“This is a new approach that requires interpreting existing data collected and made available on WSPRNet

“We are hoping further research and refinement of possible flight paths using this methodology will help in further validating/narrowing the potential splash point of MH370.”

Problems appeared to start for the passenger jet at 1.20am on March 8, 2014, just 38 minutes into its nine-hour plus flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, over the South China Sea.

In the official version of events the plane performed a U-turn and was tracked by radar crossing Malaysia.

Later atellite analysis was said to have identified a potential splashdown site in the Indian Ocean.

A £110million search led by Australia scoured 50,000 square miles of the ocean floor using high-resolution sonar from 2014 to 2017.

A second search sponsored by the Malaysian government also failed to find any trace.

So far 33 pieces of debris - either confirmed or deemed highly likely to be from MH370 - have been found in Mauritius, Madagascar, Tanzania and South Africa.

Another suspected piece was found in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in February.

Last month, we reported how a panel of oceanographers and flight experts have identified a new area where they think the plane is lying.

Ocean drift analysis and a review of a revised flight path released late last year agreed it probably went down about 1,200 miles west west of Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia.

The area is notorious for its deep ocean floor canyons and underwater mountains.

Peter Foley, who oversaw the first large-scale search, told The Times he agreed with the experts.

He said a new inquiry should examine the sea floor 70 nautical miles either side of the original target area.

Theories put forward include the pilot crashing on purpose; a drop in air pressure leaving crew unconscious; a lightning strike; and lithium batteries in the cargo hold catching fire.

Cops inspect debris found on a beach on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Apr 28, 2021 1:13 am

WSPR May Hold The Key To MH370

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after an unexplained course change sent it flying south over the Indian Ocean in March 2014 still holds the mystery of the wreck’s final location

There have been a variety of efforts to narrow down a possible search area over the years, and now we have news of a further angle from an unexpected source. It’s possible that the aircraft’s path could show up in radio scatter detectable as anomalously long-distance contacts using the amateur radio WSPR protocol.

WSPR is a low-power amateur radio mode designed to probe and record the radio propagation capabilities of the atmosphere. Transmit beacons and receiving stations run continuously, and all contacts however fleeting are recorded to an online database.

This can be mined by researchers with an interest in the atmosphere, but in this case it might also provide clues to the missing airliner’s flightpath. By searching for anomalously long-distance WSPR contacts whose path crosses the expected position of MH370 it’s possible to spot moments when the aircraft formed a reflector for the radio waves.

These contacts can then either confirm positions already estimated using other methods, or even provide further course points. It’s an impressive demonstration of the unexpected data that can lurk in a trove such as the WSPR logbook, and also that while messing about on the airwaves the marks we leave behind us can have more benefit than simply bragging rights over the DX we’ve worked.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu May 20, 2021 12:35 pm

Missing Aircraft Mysteries: From Malaysia MH370 To Flying Tiger Flight 739, Still No Answers

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Cover of Stars and Stripes day after Flight 739 disappeared

Air travel is generally safe. Commercial aircraft undergo rigorous checks and pilots and flight crew undergo extensive training. Airliners are packed with state-of-the-art communications equipment and continually check in with air traffic control. But despite all this, sometimes aircraft do disappear.

Although it does not seem that long ago, Malaysia MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014. The plane, a Boeing 777-200ER, carrying 227 passengers and a crew of 12, was flying from Kuala Lumpur to its planned destination, Beijing Capital International Airport. Despite air and sea searches of vast stretches of the Indian Ocean, the aircraft and its passengers has never been found.

A recent memorial reminds that MH370 is not the only missing aircraft out there. The saga of Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 a Lockheed Super Constellation, is less known, but to the survivors of its 107 passengers and flight crew, equally painful.

Flying Tiger Line was the first scheduled cargo airline in the U.S., founded by ex-military pilots in 1945. It was acquired by FedEx in 1989, after more than 40 years of flying cargo and passenger charters for the military during the Cold War. Flying Tiger Flight 739, carrying 93 U.S. and three South Vietnamese soldiers and a crew of 11, was one such charter. The Super Constellation aircraft, whose final destination was Saigon, disappeared somewhere between Guam and the Philippines on March 15, 1962.

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Flying Tiger Super Constellation like Flight 739 that disappeared over the Wes term Pacific on ... [+] March15,1962, killing 107.

The ill-fated flight and its passengers were recently recognized at a new memorial at Columbia Falls, Maine, organized by the non-profit Wreaths Across America. Although the aircraft was carrying Army soldiers for a reported covert mission in Vietnam, the organization notes “every attempt to get the names of their loved ones on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. has been met with the response, “they weren’t in combat operations or a combat zone.”

Flight 739 originated at Travis Air Force base in California. It made stopovers in Honolulu, (HNL) at Wake Island Airfield (AWK) and on Guam (UAM). It departed Guam for Clark Air Base (CRK) in the Philippines on March 15, 1962, the last stop before its destination of Saigon. The flight disappeared without a trace somewhere over the Western Pacific. The only clue to its fate was a report by crewmen on a Liberian tanker of a fireball in the sky along what would have been its expected fight path.

In the hunt for Flight 739, more than 200,000 square miles (520,000 km) of the Pacific was searched by air and sea during the course of eight days. The search was eventually abandoned when no sign of the aircraft was found.

At the time one of the largest searches ever conducted, the hunt for Flight 739 eventually would be dwarfed by the so-far equally unsuccessful search for Malaysia MH370. The surface search for that missing Boeing 777 covered over 4,000,000 sq. kilometers. A bathymetric survey and underwater search also took place.

5th Annual MH370 Remembrance Event

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KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - FEBRUARY 3: Visitors write messages on the board during a commemoration ... [+] event to mark the 5th anniversary of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on March 03, 2019. The Boeing 777 Malaysia Airlines MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014 while en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 227 passengers and 12 crew.

Although 33 suspected and confirmed parts of Malaysia MH370have been found, the aircraft is still considered missing, most probably in in the southern Indian Ocean. Wreck hunter Blaine Gibson, who found a number of parts, recently pleaded for a new search, citing drift analysis done by Prof. Chari Pattiaratchi at the University of Washington. He said, “Both Prof. Chari and I think the most likely crash site lies between 32°S and 34° S latitude, most likely [underwater] at the foot of Broken Ridge at about 32.5 °S.”

A compelling question about the loss of MH370 is how a modern aircraft packed with electronics that should have showed its location could simply disappear. More than 100 books have been written about the missing 777. Theories range from a depressed pilot to accidental shoot-down to a stowaway terrorist, but conclusive proof is lacking.

Similarly, the disappearance of Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 raised many questions, with few answers. The big Lockheed Super Constellation was only 5 years old, with 17,000 hours of flight time. The weather was clear for what proved to be its final flight.

Theories as to the aircraft’s destruction range from a possible malfunction of secret military cargo (a similar Super Constellation carrying classified equipment, which also departed Travis AFB, crashed in the Aleutians a few days before) to sabotage.

Flying Tiger raised that possibility itself at a press conference. The carrier posited sabotage of one or both planes. Alternately, it suggested, a conspiracy theory as wild as any raised for Malaysia MH370, the possible kidnapping of the craft with 107 persons aboard. But as a news report of the time noted, “the Flying Tiger Line stressed it has no evidence of either possibility and they are strictly in the realm of wild guesses.”

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Granite monument to the 107 dead on Flying Tiger Flight 739, which disappeared March 15, 1962.

The Maine monument to the passengers and crew of Flying Tiger Flight 739, installed by the ... [+] non-profit Wreaths Across America May 15, 2021. The flight disappeared on March 15, 1962.

In April of 1963, the Civil Aeronautics Board investigation on the fate Flight 739 concluded, “A summation of all relevant factors tends to indicate that the aircraft was destroyed in flight. However, due to the lack of any substantiating evidence the Board is unable to state with any degree of certainty the exact fate of N6921C.”

The unveiling of the memorial in Maine, attended by 250 relatives of the victims, may have helped ease the pain of the families. “The memorial ceremony offers some closure,” Marie Mull, 82, told the NY Post. She lost her brother, Sgt. Clarence Ganance of Rensselaer, NY. “We’ve always wondered what happened. . probably always will.”

But the mystery of what happened to Flying Tiger Flight 739 remains. As with Malaysia MH370 and the dozens of other aircraft that have disappeared since Flight 739, hopefully one day there will be answers, instead of questions.

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Over 250 FTLF 739 family members in attendance for the unveiling on May 15th in Maine.

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Re: All Malaysian Flight 370 could be still alive and kickin

PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Aug 05, 2021 7:55 pm

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New tracking technology for MH370 search

Significant progress has been achieved in refining a fascinating new technology, Weak Signal Propagation, (WSPR) which is a digital radio communication protocol that is providing new hope that a more precise resting place can be determined for MH370 which disappeared over seven years ago with 239 souls on board

Aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey has used various known flight paths to help validate his new technology called GDTAAA (Global Detection and Tracking of Aircraft Anywhere Anytime). The system takes data from the WSPRnet and feeds it automatically into a flight tracking system.

But recently a new far more complex blind test of GDTAAA was devised by Mike Glynn a former Qantas pilot and uses a flight that operated without passengers, that you will not find in ADS-B archives.

Since Mike Glynn was the captain of the flight, he has the flight track data and revealed the data after the GDTAAA results had been published for the flight.

AirlineRatings.com agreed to be an independent adjudicator of the GDTAAA Blind Test.

While the first blind test failed to track the aircraft precisely from Johannesburg to Perth due to a calculation error in mapping the WSPRnet link path around the globe the error has now been corrected and a second blind test will start this week.

Following further blind tests using data from recent flights between 2019 and 2021, a key test of GDTAAA will be to follow the track of an AMSA MH370 SAR flight from Perth to the search area in 2014.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force has kindly supplied detailed flight information to Mr. Godfrey for their sortie during the MH370 aerial search on 28th March 2014.

These tests will take two months to run and evaluate and are planned for August and September 2021.

The refined and tested GDTAAA will then be used with confidence to detect and track MH371 from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur on 7th March 2014 where we have the flight data as a final check before detecting and tracking MH370 from Kuala Lumpur into the Indian Ocean on 7th / 8th March 2014.

These tests are planned for October and November 2021 says, Mr. Godfrey.

It is hoped that GDTAAA will help refine the WSPRnet data analysis and over-the-horizon radio reception anomalies and taken together with the other data available, will help us to narrow down the MH370 search to a more precise crash location.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:52 am

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China's aircraft tracking satellite

China has tested a superfast aircraft tracking satellite with the aim of preventing another MH370-style tragedy

The revolutionary technology can update the status of an aircraft every EIGHT seconds - boasting a system twice as fast as the US - allowing an airline to accurately track planes, even if it loses contact with them.

If successful, the Beihang Kongshi 1 could transform the aviation industry forever and see "hundreds of satellites" control a global tracking system, according to state-run publication Science and Technology Daily.

After launching last November in near-Earth orbit, the pioneering radio surveillance technology and hardware was reported to have worked "quite well" after being sent up into space.

Somewhat inspired by China's newest missile defence system, the Beihang Kongshi 1 has an antenna that can unfold in space with multiple layers.

Its multidimensional design gives it the capability to receive and characterise a larger number of similar radio waves at the same time.

Its efficiency allows radio signals emitted by each aircraft, which are notoriously difficult to monitor over such a huge scale of airspace, to be pinpointed within seconds.

Therefore even if planes lose contact - as the Malaysian Airlines passenger plane did - the Beihang Kongshi 1 could provide a more precise timeline of its path.

    On March 8, 2014, the Boeing 777 - carrying 239 people on board - mysteriously disappeared from radar after taking off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, bound for Beijing

    The plane took an unexplained U-turn from its planned flight path and headed back across the Malay Peninsula and the Malacca Strait before vanishing
Seven years on from flight MH370, some investigators believe the plane's captain made a series of zig-zagging movements to throw off air traffic teams and evade radar systems.

Despite aerospace engineers suggesting the aircraft could have set off invisible "electronic trip-wires", the busy airspace makes it extremely difficult to confirm if it was the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane.

After years of unsuccessful searches, the tragedy prompted a huge focus on producing improved tracking technology that could sit in the skies.

GLOBAL SATELLITE RACE

Ground-based tracking systems are limited because they only have the capacity to cover 30 per cent of the Earth's surface.

Its restrictions saw the US, Germany, Canada and Denmark join the race to create a new form of technology to keep tabs on planes.

Typically, radio beaming devices known as an automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) are installed in most passenger planes, but it emits weaker signals at a longer distance.

Experts believe such signals could be more effectively tracked by satellites in orbit - if its antenna was sensitive enough - like the Beihang Kongshi 1's unfolding "lotus flower" transmitter.

China have been keen to get one up on the US after Aireon launched the world's first space-based tracing system with an international network incorporating over 60 new-gen Iridium satellites in 2019.

The country could knock the Western superpower off the top spot after snubbing America's technology - reportedly due to its sensitivity regarding possible military functions.

In a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Chinese Space Science and Technology in June, Professor Chen Lihu, of the National University of Defence Technology in Changsha, said: "The ADS-B data can be used for monitoring and reconnaissance of military targets in the air."

CHINA'S SUCCESS

After trialling the Tiantuo 3 in 2015, China's first satellite fitted with an aircraft tracking system, they have quietly advanced their technology over the years.

The nation then managed to outperform European competitors with their upgraded model, according to Professor Chen, after launching the Tinatuo 5 in August 2020.

With a detection range of more than 2,485 miles, it can receive more than 3 million messages a day and has provided the framework for the Beihang Kongshi 1.

China could now triumph over the US by steering clear of polar areas, where many of the Aireon systems are closely located, as it is a zone where planes fly.

Now, the creators are now tasked with tackling the problem of overlapping signals in areas with high aircraft density before it progresses past the experimental stage.

The missing MH370 flight is regarded as the world's greatest aviation mystery

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Re: All Malaysian Flight 370 could be still alive and kickin

PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Oct 10, 2021 9:00 pm

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Search for MH370 continues with experts and amateurs still sleuthing

Somewhere in the vast expanse of Earth’s oceans lies MH370, the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board.

Authorities closed the books on the search in 2017, but all over the world people are continuing the hunt. And one day the plane will be found.

So says the Australian who was in charge of the amateur search, because people won’t give up looking for it.

Peter Foley was the program director for the international effort led by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. Hundreds of people helped search more than 120,000 square kilometres of the southern Indian Ocean seafloor. They mapped the area, tried to trace debris back to its origin, and prepared for a recovery mission, before the search was suspended at the start of 2017.

In its closing report, the ATSB explained its scientific processes and professed very human emotions while talking directly to the families of the disappeared.

“We share your profound and prolonged grief, and deeply regret that we have not been able to locate the aircraft, nor those 239 souls on board that remain missing,” the report says.

“It is almost inconceivable and certainly societally unacceptable in the modern aviation era … for a large commercial aircraft to be missing and for the world not to know with certainty what became of the aircraft and those on board.”

Foley focuses on that empathy and regret, and says MH370 will be found, and it will be found near the area they were looking in.

“It’s one of those things that will enthral people until the mystery is solved,” he says. “It is a mystery that must be solved and will be solved eventually.”

MH370 disappeared from air traffic control radar 38 minutes into its flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China. Analysis of satellite and radar data showed it had kept flying for another seven hours.

Conspiracy theories about what happened abound. On social media people speculate about the involvement of organ harvesters and black holes, aliens and North Korea. Other theories, including that it was a murder/suicide plot by the pilot, or that the pilot was unconscious, have been taken more seriously – although never confirmed.

In January 2018 the Malaysian government contracted marine robotics company Ocean Infinity to send in autonomous underwater vehicles in a “no-find, no-fee” deal. By May they had given up – for now.

There are still dedicated searchers, ranging from conspiracy theorists to well-intentioned amateurs and full-blown experts.

They include those who work with new data models and are driven to solve the MH370 mystery for glory, or money, or knowledge, or to give the loved ones left behind some answers.

Dr Ian MacLeod, an expert in shipwrecks, a diver of the deep, and a lover of ocean mysteries, also says it’s a matter of when, not if, it will be found.

A world-famous authority on maritime corrosion and conservation and a WA Museum fellow, Macleod says MH370 mystery hunters are people who enjoy “unscrambling the bullshit” around what happened to that plane.

“What happens is there are people who do not accept lies, and sniff them out at a thousand paces and who are passionate and persistent and clever,” he says. “You need those three combinations, just like you need three points of reference to triangulate a falling meteorite.

“People will not give up until the last breath has gone out of their body. People will find it. New information will come to light, governments will change, and they’ll go back and find it.”

The Malaysian government said in 2018 that it wasn’t ruling out future missions, and the family members of those lost are urging them on. Ocean Infinity has said it is open to a new search.

One of those leading the pack of MH370 detectives is aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey, part of the independent group of scientists hunting for the wreckage.

Speaking from Frankfurt in Germany, Godfrey says he’s “quite focused”, spending hours every day for the past seven-and-a-half years on the search. He uses the weak signal propagation report (WSPR) network to track disturbances in radio waves. A global database of radio waves that are reflected or scattered when an aircraft crosses them.

Imagine trip wires forming a mesh across a prairie, he says.

“Each step you make you tread on particular trip wires and we can locate you … we can track your path as you move through the prairie.”

Those disturbances, mapped together with satellites pinging the plane, can help “fill in some of the gaps and help us to know more precisely where MH370 crashed”. He says his findings suggest the MH370 pilot laid false trails to confuse authorities before plunging into the southern Indian Ocean. That in turn suggests the pilot knew what he was doing.

Godfrey says his interest in the fate of MH370 stemmed from something that happened to him. In 2009 he was booked on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. A week later that same flight, Air France 447, crashed into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. After nearly two years of searching, the main wreckage was found.

When MH370 went missing, Godfrey wanted answers. So do the next-of-kin, he says, and the aviation industry, not to mention anyone who gets on a plane expecting to land safely at the other end.

There are many others who share his passion. Wreck hunter Blaine Gibson is still searching for answers. Bob Ballard, who found the Titanic wreck in 1985, wants to help. The families have always said they would keep fighting.

MacLeod, the Perth-based corrosion expert, talks about what remains and how knowing what’s down there could help those left behind.

Depending on the damage done on impact, if the plane settled on a hard surface – say, rock at the bottom of a watery abyss – it could be well preserved. But if it has sunk into silt, the aluminium will have corroded. Much will depend on where it is, and deep sea currents that can have high or low salinity, high or low temperatures.

But it could look “remarkably unchanged”, MacLeod says, with the windows popped out by the pressure, but the tube intact. And it should be left under water, because bringing into the air could see it crumble.

The important thing is giving the families closure. MacLeod talks about the emotion of finding the HMAS Sydney, when survivors and relatives went out and laid wreaths over the site.

And he was on the HMAS Anzac for the 100th anniversary of the sinking of AE2 – Australia’s second submarine – where joint Australian/Turkish bands played in the memory of those who went down. (Australia’s first submarine, the AE1, was found in 2017 off the coast of Papua New Guinea).

As a boy in Ballarat, he rang the memorial bells to mark Harold Holt’s death on a summer’s day in 1967 when the then prime minister went missing in the heavy surf near Portsea in Victoria. He was never seen again. MacLeod rang the bells, and went on to a career based on lives lost at sea.

“There are certain rites of passage that you participate in,” he says. “I owe my whole professional career in corrosion and conservation to the death and misfortune of people who got shipwrecked on the WA coast.

“People who lost their lives, that was not in vain, because their story lives on … that’s what motivates me. It’s why I give public talks about decay and preservation … even after we’re dead, our stories only begin to be retold in another way, through the processes of decay.

“Every bit of decay has a story to tell.”

Foley is retired now, but is obviously still emotionally connected to the MH370 story, and he has a clear-eyed overview of everything that’s happened since the ATSB search ended.

He says he is “extraordinarily keen” to see another search started, for the plane to be found. He is also extraordinarily keen to direct questions about his role back to the work other people did, and the reason they did it – the families.

“I honest believe the people who were so far from home in really appalling weather in the Indian Ocean are the absolute heroes of the search and we really worked incredibly hard to find that aircraft,” he says.

“And it would be such a relief for everyone involved to see it was finally found and that there were answers for 239 families.

“Whether it’s pure dumb luck and a fisherman picks up a piece of debris on a long line or whether it’s an advance in technology that allows us to search in great detail large areas of the ocean floor or whether it’s a philanthropist who uses existing technology … it will be found.”

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:18 am

Renewed Search New Evidence Found

American businessman Randy Rolston has released an extensive report detailing newly discovered evidence compiled by independent researchers in the disappearance of the Boeing 777. The new evidence reveals that the likely impact location of MH370 is 1130 kilometers west of Coral Bay, Western Australia. Malaysia and the 12 countries that lost citizens on flight 370 were sent copies of the report

The 35-page report has new evidence retrieved from NASA and NOAA satellite data from March 8, 2014, pinpointing an impact location within 12 nautical miles of the last satellite communication from the aircraft in the northern Indian Ocean. The report also shows cross-matched environmental data from previous air/sea accidents indicates a high likelihood that MH370’s wreckage should be found within this 12-mile zone.

The Malaysian government has yet to respond directly to Mr. Rolston on the evidence report or to his offer to fund a new search in the spring of 2022. Randy Rolston said, “The current Malaysian government is not motivated to resume the search for MH370. I don’t think they will approve a new search without international pressure from the other governments that lost citizens on flight 370. However, the evidence is strong, and our current plan is to go ahead with our search in 2022 with or without an agreement from Malaysia. The 239 families of the passengers and crew on MH370 need closure to this tragedy.”

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Nov 17, 2021 3:09 pm

Breakthrough in MH370 search

The missing Malaysian Airlines jet disappeared with 239 passengers and crew on board in 2014 and has not been heard from since - there have been numerous theories about what happened to the jet

An engineer has claimed missing flight MH370 was put into a holding pattern for 22 minutes in a possible breakthrough in the mysterious seven-year search for the plane and its 239 passengers.

Richard Godfrey said he made the discovery after tracking the Boeing 777 jet with a revolutionary technology called WSPRnet.

The aircraft went missing after it set off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport for Beijing, China on March 8, 2014.

The missing Malaysian Airlines jet disappeared with 239 passengers and crew on board and has not been heard from since, although there have been numerous theories about what happened to the jet.

Theories for the disappearance have ranged from something as benign as technical failure to as sinister as mass murder-suicide by Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, the captain.

According to AirlineRatings, Mr Godfrey now claims that he followed the coastline of Sumatra, an island belonging to Indonesia, and found that the aircraft was put into a holding pattern for a lengthy amount of time, Star Online reports.

He said that by using a set of tools he can track an aircraft anywhere and at any time currently or going back as far as 2009. Speaking about his findings, the aerospace engineer said: “What I found out, without looking for it, was that MH370 entered a race track holding pattern at around 19:12 UTC.

“I was surprised to discover that not only did MH370 enter a holding pattern but that the holding pattern lasted for around 22 minutes until 19:34 UTC."
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He added: “The Inmarsat satellite BTO and BFO data matches perfectly the timing, position, and track at the 1st Arc [18:28 UTC BTO and BFO], during the SATCOM call [18:40 UTC, BFO only] and the 2nd Arc [19:41 UTC BTO and BFO].

"On entering the holding pattern MH370 was 150 nm [nautical miles] from the coast of Sumatra and 40 nm from the 2nd Arc.”

The latest development raises questions as to why Captain Shah, the flight's pilot, or the person who was in control of the jet would have put it into a holding pattern.

“If the pilot’s goal was to make MH370 disappear without a trace, then why waste fuel with a holding pattern and why not head directly to the most remote area possible of the Indian Ocean without deviation," the engineer wondered.

“The analysis by Victor Iannello and Yves Guillaume of the Microsoft Flight simulator data found on Zaharie Shah’s extensive home flight computer set up is a smoking gun.

"Zaharie Shah simulated a single flight from Kuala Lumpur via the Malacca Strait to the point of fuel exhaustion in the southern Indian Ocean.

Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi commented: “The only possible conclusion from an oceanographic and recovered debris perspective is that MH370 lies in the southern Indian Ocean.

"A total of 33 pieces have been found by 16 unrelated people in six counties with most being identified as being from MH370 or a Boeing 777."

Mr Godfrey aims to complete his tracking to its flight's resting place by the end of this month.

The last search of the plane was carried out in 2018 by marine robotics company Ocean Infinity with unmanned underwater vehicles covering nearly 50,000 square miles but nothing was ever recovered.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sat Dec 04, 2021 3:06 pm

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Relatives, still have many unanswered questions about the disaster

The disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines flight, carrying 239 passengers and crew, is one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries.

But a British aeronautical engineer, who has spent more than a year working on the disaster, thinks he has calculated where MH370 crashed.

Richard Godfrey believes the Boeing 777 crashed into the Indian Ocean 2,000km west of Perth, Western Australia.

The aircraft vanished from radar during a flight in March 2014.

Mr Godfrey told the BBC he hoped "we'll be able to give closure to the next of kin and answers to the flying public and the aviation industry on exactly what happened with MH370 and how we prevent that in the future".

He combined different data sets that were previously kept in separate domains, to align to this new location in the Southern Indian Ocean.

Mr Godfrey said it was a "complicated exercise", but previously there was simply a lack of lateral thinking, across multiple disciplines, to bring this together.

"No one had the idea before to combine Inmarsat satellite data, with Boeing performance data, with Oceanographic floating debris drift data, with WSPR net data," he said.

Mr Godfrey said work with a team has been progressing for a year now, and "we've done quite a lot of testing of this new idea and we've came to the confidence to apply it to MH370".

Richard Godfrey hopes to "filter out the needle in the haystack".

The exact point determined by data calculations is around 33 degrees south and 95 degrees east in the Indian Ocean.

There have been two extensive searches of the Indian Ocean for MH370, which have yielded inconclusive results.

The searches have cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and whilst there is demand from family members to find their loved ones, the costs associated are enormous.

'Tangible evidence'

Grace Nathan lost her mother, Anne, in the crash.

"It's really just been an ongoing nightmare. There is never an end. We just seem to be going in circles and hitting a brick wall after another.

"We've been hoping for the longest time for something new - a new breakthrough, something new that would warrant the search starting again and at least there being a more precise location for the search being conducted at and to increase the odds of finding the plane" she told the BBC.

Ms Nathan, a criminal defence lawyer who lives in Kuala Lumpur, wants the new data to be tested by aviation experts who can understand the science and physics behind the location and to test the theory is credible.

She said: "We welcome all new findings, especially if it's based on tangible evidence. In this case it is based on tangible evidence. It's things that can be calculated. It's not based on just Google images or loose things that can't be backed up."

Previous searches for MH370 have been difficult because of the size of the search area.

Mr Godfrey said: "An area as large as a 120,000 sq km has been searched and that's not looking for a needle in a haystack - that's looking for something microscopic in a haystack. It's very difficult to do."

4,000 metres deep

The engineer's new proposal is a circle radius of 40 nautical miles, far smaller than previous searches.

"The wreckage could be behind a cliff or in a canyon on the ocean floor," he said. "And you need maybe three or four passes before you start to pick things up." The wreckage could lie as far as 4,000 metres deep, he added.

More than thirty pieces of aircraft debris have been washed up on the beaches of the African coast and islands in the Indian Ocean.

In 2009, Mr Godfrey was due to be a passenger on Air France 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, but work plans meant he had to remain in Brazil.

That flight never reached its destination and was lost in the Atlantic. From this point, he became interested in flights lost at sea and locating them.

Mr Godfrey is a founding member of the MH370 Independent Group, and an engineer with a background in building automatic landing systems and autopilot systems for aircraft.

He said: "I've done a lot of work on information systems and handling lots of data and that's important on this analysis. There is huge amount of data to get through and filter out the needle in the haystack."

David Gleave is the chief investigator at Aviation Safety Consultants. He has worked on aeroplane crashes and disappearances for decades.

Mr Gleave expects there to be a new search, saying: "The funding of the new search will be the issue. Given that we now have additional accurate data that as to where the crash site might be, that appears to be entirely credible and consistent with other theories".

The timing and launch of another search will depend on the availability of specially designed equipment and also the sea state.

Consistent evidence

He said: "Realistically we want to be in the Southern Ocean in the southern summer - which is about now. So quite when the search will be, it may start again in 12 months, because you can't get the assets together and on site in a short period of time.

"But I think either the Chinese will take responsibility and look for their victims. Or private companies might search, sponsored by insurance companies."

There were 122 Chinese nationals on board MH370, which departed from Kuala Lumpur but never reached its destination, Beijing.

The vanishing has led to a huge number of theories as to what happened. One of the theories is that it was a 'pilot hijacking', where the pilot took control, and deactivated radar technology before turning around above the Gulf of Thailand and heading west.

Mr Gleave said: "If you are choosing to hide the aeroplane in the Southern Indian Ocean, just make sure it was further to the west of the standard flight path, far away from beyond the range of Australia's search and rescue teams aircraft. So, this pinpointed location is consistent with that theory."

The Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB) involvement in the underwater search for MH370 concluded in October 2017.

It told the BBC: "The ATSB is not involved in any contemporary efforts to establish the location of the aircraft.

"Any decision to resume the search for the aircraft would be a matter for the Malaysian government, as the state of registry of the aircraft."

The Malaysian government and Chinese government have been approached for a response.

Grace Nathan said: "It's in the interests of global aviation safety that this plane is found so we can prevent something like this happening in the future.

"It goes beyond our need for our closure."

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:03 am

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Fine detail of MH370 's flightpath

Aerospace engineer Mr. Richard Godfrey has published the flight path of MH370 in fine detail with a granularity of two-minute steps and accuracy within 18nm using the revolutionary WSPRnet tracking

In November Mr. Godfrey announced that MH370 impacted the ocean 1,933km due west of Perth at 33.177°S 95.300°E and lies at a depth of 4,000m in a very mountainous area with deep ravines and a volcano.

The location is in the zone where the University of WA Head of Oceanography Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi claims MH370 is located.

The Malaysia Airlines flight vanished during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, before plunging into the southern Indian Ocean — taking 239 passengers and crew.

Mr. Godfrey has used a revolutionary technology called weak signal propagation, first revealed by AirlineRatings.com in April, to track the plane’s final movements.

Mr. Godfrey’s new paper is 124 pages and follows his November revelation and has 89 candidate single link progress indicators and 35 candidate multiple links and multiple azimuth position indicators based on the GDTAAA analysis of the WSPRnet data.

“This results in over 200 WSPRnet links which are candidates for MH370 detection and tracking,” Mr. Godfrey said.

“Combining the Inmarsat satellite data and Boeing performance data with the WSPRnet analysis provides a much more complete view of the MH370 flight path.

“Further combining the joint Inmarsat/Boeing/WSPRnet analysis result with the Oceanographic drift analysis by Prof. Charitha Pattiaratchi of the University of Western Australia builds confidence because the data and analyses from different independent scientific and engineering domains all point to the same MH370 crash location at 33°S close to the 7th Arc.”

He adds that wreck hunter Blaine Gibson “found the majority of the floating debris items that have been recovered from around the Indian Ocean on the basis of this drift analysis.”

Mr. Godfrey says his latest report “will be followed up by a technical paper. This second paper will give the technical details of each candidate detection of MH370 using the WSPRnet data and the technical details of the tracking of the MH370 flight path.”

Thus far Mr. Godfrey has published 35 papers on the disappearance of MH370, including 11 papers specifically on the new revolutionary WSPRnet technology.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:57 am

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Expert's bombshell theory on MH370

An aerospace expert believes he has finally discovered the resting place of ill-fated flight MH370 using sophisticated radio wave technology, as he claims the pilot's 'strange' course suggests he was 'being followed'

The Malaysian Airlines flight carrying 239 people, including six Australians, vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014, shortly after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.

Despite an extensive four-year $200million international search effort spanning more than 120,000sqm, the Boeing 777's wreckage is yet to be found, with devastated families claiming the crash was not an accident.

But British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey believes MH370 hit the ocean 1,933 km due west of Perth, and lies 4,000m under the water, along a line known as the 'seventh arc'.

Using Weak Signal Propagation Reporter analysis, Mr Godfrey tracked disturbances the plane made in radio frequencies across the globe to uncover its final path - creating perhaps the most precise estimate of where the wreckage lies to date.

He found unusual patterns in the aircraft's journey, including doing 360 degree turns over the ocean, which he claims supports a theory pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah deliberately took the plane off course.

'Everyone has assumed up until now there was a straight path, perhaps even on autopilot,' he told 60 Minutes on Sunday.

'I believe there was an active pilot for the whole flight.'

Three hours into the journey, the aircraft entered an unusual holding pattern, which lasted for around 20 minutes, according to Mr Godfrey's findings.

A holding pattern is when a pilot keeps the aircraft in a pattern within a specified airspace, usually to await further clearance to proceed and typically before landing.

Mr Godfrey believes the temporary stall may indicate the pilot had stopped to make contact with Malaysian authorities - despite the government maintaining contact with the aircraft ceased 38 minutes after take off.

'It's strange to me, if you're trying to lose an aircraft in the most remote part of the Southern Indian Ocean, that you would enter a holding pattern,' Mr Godfrey explained.

The seventh arc is a vast area of the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia where experts believe the plane flew - and likely met its end

'He may have been communicating with the Malaysian government, he may have been checking whether he was being followed.

'He may have just simply wanted time to make up his mind, where he would go from here. I hope that if there was any contact with Malaysian authorities that after eight years now they'd be willing to divulge that.'

The expert pinpointed 160 points on a map where signals were disturbed over the Indian Ocean, saying only one other plane was in the area that night - and it was at least an hour away - meaning the disturbances were likely caused by MH370.

Danica Weeks' husband Paul was one of six Australians believed to have died when the plane disappeared almost eight years ago.

Until Mr Godfrey's findings, she had long insisted the plane had suffered a mechanical failure. Now, she believes the crash was an act of murder.

'I was so staunch about saying it wasn’t the pilot,' she told Sky News.

'But now I have to throw all of that out after nearly eight years (since the disappearance) and three years of searching (for the plane, by the authorities).

'I never believed it was the pilot. Unfortunately, Richard Godfrey has said that he believes with this point that the pilot was in control. And look, it makes sense that we’ve searched for a ghost plane, haven’t found it. So maybe we have to step forward and … search on that basis now.'

The mother-of-two, who remarried two years ago, says her life is on hold as she waits for closure to fulfil her promise of bringing her former husband's body home.

Families still searching for answers for missing flight MH370

British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey has written a report outlining his belief that the remains of MH370 are 4000m under the water 1933km due west of Perth

The widow is calling for a renewed search in light of Mr Godfrey's report, which was first released late last year.

'Let's join the dots, if this isn't worth another search, then I don't know what is,' she told 60 Minutes.

'I have done my research on it, and it looks so promising. I get goosebumps. I look at it, and I think, this is it.'

'It has been such a long time with no closure, no answers. There's no day I don't think about it. I promised Pauly I would bring him home. I still haven't fulfilled that.'

Ms Weeks said she met with the Malaysian Prime Minister, who vowed to continue the search, but his promises never eventuated.

A Boeing 777 flaperon cut down to match the one from flight MH370 found on Reunion island off the coast of Africa in 2015, is lowered into water to discover its drift characteristics

'I [was thinking] yes we have made a mark, they are going to take action, then it was deathly silent. It was all just talk,' she said.

'I believe his finding are solid. And so why wouldn't they search? then I'd be wondering why not. If they don't search, because this is, this is it. I feel this it.'

Other experts are peer-researching Mr Godfrey's findings, and if it receives positive reviews they will lobby the Malaysian government to reopen the search.

Mr Godfrey said while Malaysian authorities have thanked him for passing on his work, but told him they were 'very busy'.

'If it turns out the pilot was in anyway responsible, they might be faced with multimillion claims,' he said.

So maybe they just hope this will go away.

However, experts have expressed doubts over the reliability of the WSPR data, which places the plane in an underwater mountainous region of the Southern Indian Ocean.

Mr Godfrey claims it was missed in previous searches.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau described Mr Godfrey as 'credible' and would renew the data, but didn't confirm if the search would be re-started.

Australian air safety investigators, spearheaded by a new director, have quietly renewed their search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board.

'The ATSB is aware of the work of Mr Richard Godfrey and acknowledges that he is a credible expert on the subject of MH370,' ATSB Chief Commissioner Angus Mitchell said in a statement.

Queensland couple Rodney and Mary Burrows were among the 239 people on board MH370 on March 8 in 2014

Fellow Queensland residents Catherine and Robert Lawton also perished on the doomed flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing

'But the ATSB does not have the technical expertise to, and has not been requested to, review his "MH370 Flight Path" paper and workings. As such the ATSB cannot offer an assessment of the validity of Mr Godfrey’s work using WSPR data.'

Mr Mitchell said Mr Godfrey's findings would be passed on to Geoscience Australia for review to ensure no items of interest were missed during the initial search.

'The ATSB does acknowledge that Mr Godfrey’s work recommends a search zone for MH370, a significant portion of which covers an area searched during the ATSB-led underwater search,' he said.

'Out of due diligence the ATSB requested Geoscience Australia review the data it held from the search to re-validate that no items of interest were detected in that area.'

WHAT HAPPENED TO MH370? SOME OF THE THEORIES INTO THE MYSTERY EXAMINED

DID THE PILOT HIJACK HIS OWN PLANE?

Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah planned mass murder because of personal problems, locking his co-pilot out of the cockpit, closing down all communications, depressurising the main cabin and then disabling the aircraft so that it continued flying on auto-pilot until it ran out of fuel.

That was the popular theory in the weeks after the plane's disappearance.

His personal problems, rumours in Kuala Lumpur said, included a split with his wife Fizah Khan, and his fury that a relative, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, had been given a five-year jail sentence for sodomy shortly before he boarded the plane for the flight to Beijing.

But the pilot's wife angrily denied any personal problems and other family members and his friends said he was a devoted family man and loved his job.

This theory was also the conclusion of the first independent study into the disaster by the New Zealand-based air accident investigator, Ewan Wilson.

Wilson, the founder of Kiwi Airlines and a commercial pilot himself, arrived at the shocking conclusion after considering 'every conceivable alternative scenario'.

However, he has not been able to provide any conclusive evidence to support his theory.

The claims are made in the book 'Goodnight Malaysian 370', which Wilson co-wrote with the New Zealand broadsheet journalist, Geoff Taylor.

It's also been rumoured that Zaharie used a flight simulator at his home to plot a path to a remote island.

However, officials in Kuala Lumpur declared that Malaysian police and the FBI's technical experts had found nothing to suggest he was planning to hijack the flight after closely examining his flight simulator.

And there are also theories that the tragic disappearance may have been a heroic act of sacrifice by the pilot.

Australian aviation enthusiast Michael Gilbert believes the doomed plane caught fire mid-flight, forcing the pilot to plot a course away from heavily populated areas.

IF NOT THE PILOT, WAS THE CO-PILOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MYSTERY?

Co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, again for personal problems, was suspected by rumour-spreaders to have overpowered the pilot and disabled the aircraft, flying it to its doom with crew and passengers unable to get through the locked cockpit door.

Theorists have put forward the suggestion that he was having relationship problems and this was his dramatic way of taking his own life.

But he was engaged to be married to Captain Nadira Ramli, 26, a fellow pilot from another airline, and loved his job. There are no known reasons for him to have taken any fatal action.

There have been a series of outlandish theories about the disappearance of the plane

Others have suggested that because he was known to have occasionally invited young women into the cockpit during a flight, he had done so this time and something had gone wrong.

Young Jonti Roos said in March that she spent an entire flight in 2011 in the cockpit being entertained by Hamid, who was smoking.

Interest in the co-pilot was renewed when it was revealed he was the last person to communicate from the cockpit after the communication system was cut off.

DID THE RUSSIANS STEAL MH370 AND FLY THE JET TO KAZAKHSTAN

An expert has claimed the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 was hijacked on the orders of Vladimir Putin and secretly landed in Kazakhstan.

Jeff Wise, a U.S. science writer who spearheaded CNN's coverage of the Boeing 777-200E, has based his outlandish theory on pings that the plane gave off for seven hours after it went missing, that were recorded by British telecommunications company Inmarsat.

Wise believes that hijackers 'spoofed' the plane's navigation data to make it seem like it went in another direction, but flew it to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is leased from Kazakhstan by Russia.

However, Wise admits in New York Magazine that he does not know why Vladimir Putin would want to steal a plane full of people and that his idea is somewhat 'crazy'.

Wise also noted there were three Russian men onboard the flight, two of them Ukrainian passport holders.

Aviation disaster experts analysed satellite data and discovered - like the data recorded by Inmarsat - that the plane flew on for hours after losing contact.

Careful examination of the evidence has revealed that MH370 made three turns after the last radio call, first a turn to the left, then two more, taking the plane west, then south towards Antarctica.

MH370 WAS USED BY TERRORISTS FOR A SUICIDE ATTACK ON THE CHINESE NAVY

This extraordinary claim came from 41-year-old British yachtsman Katherine Tee, from Liverpool, whose initial account of seeing what she thought was a burning plane in the night sky made headlines around the world.

On arrival in Thailand's Phuket after sailing across the Indian Ocean from Cochin, southern India with her husband, she said: 'I could see the outline of the plane - it looked longer than planes usually do.There was what appeared to be black smoke streaming from behind.'

Ms Tee's general description of the time and place was vague and she lost all credibility when she later stated on her blog that she believed MH370 was a kamikaze plane that was aimed at a flotilla of Chinese ships and it was shot down before it could smash into the vessels.

Without solid proof of the satellite data, she wrote on her blog, Saucy Sailoress, the plane she saw was flying at low altitude towards the military convoy she and her husband had seen on recent nights. She added that internet research showed a Chinese flotilla was in the area at the time.

While the debris proved the plane went down in the Indian Ocean, the location of the main underwater wreckage — and its crucial black box data recorders — remains stubbornly elusive.

THE JET LANDED ON THE WATER AND WAS SEEN FLOATING ON THE ANDAMAN SEA

On a flight from Jeddah to Kuala Lumpur that crossed over the Andaman Sea on March 8, Malaysian woman Raja Dalelah, 53, saw what she believed was a plane sitting on the water's surface.

She didn't know about the search that had been started for MH370. She alerted a stewardess who told her to go back to sleep.

'I was shocked to see what looked like the tail and wing of an aircraft on the water,' she said.

It was only when she told her friends on landing in Kuala Lumpur what she had seen that she learned of the missing jet. She had seen the object at about 2.30pm Malaysian time.

She said she had been able to identify several ships and islands before noticing the silver object that she said was a plane.

But her story was laughed off by pilots who said it would have been impossible to have seen part of an aircraft in the water from 35,000ft or seven miles.

Ms Raja filed an official report with police the same day and has kept to her story.

'I know what I saw,' she said.

THE AIRCRAFT SUFFERED A CATASTROPHIC SYSTEMS FAILURE AND CRASH-LANDED ON THE OCEAN

A catastrophic event such as a fire disabling much of the equipment resulted in the pilots turning the plane back towards the Malaysian peninsula in the hope of landing at the nearest airport.

Satellite data, believable or not, suggests the aircraft did make a turn and theorists say there would be no reason for the pilots to change course unless confronted with an emergency.

A fire in a similar Boeing 777 jet parked at Cairo airport in 2011 was found to have been caused by a problem with the first officer's oxygen mask supply tubing.

Stewarts Law, which has litigated in a series of recent air disasters, believes the plane crashed after a fire - similar to the blaze on the Cairo airport runway - broke out in the cockpit.

After an investigation into the Cairo blaze, Egypt's Aircraft Accident Investigation Central Directorate (EAAICD) released their final report which revealed that the fire originated near the first officer's oxygen mask supply tubing.

The cause of the fire could not be conclusively determined, but investigators pinpointed a problem with the cockpit hose used to provide oxygen for the crew in the event of decompression.

Following the 2011 fire, US aircraft owners were instructed to replace the system - it was estimated to cost $2,596 (£1,573) per aircraft. It was not known whether Malaysia Airlines had carried out the change.

If either pilot wanted to crash the plane, why turn it around? So the turn-around suggests they were trying to land as soon as possible because of an emergency.

THE US SHOT DOWN THE AIRCRAFT FEARING A TERROR ATTACK ON DIEGO GARCIA

The Boeing 777 was shot down by the Americans who feared the aircraft had been hijacked and was about to be used to attack the U.S. military base on Diego Garcia atoll in the Indian Ocean. So conspiracy theorists claim.

And former French airline director Marc Dugain said he had been warned by British intelligence that he was taking risks by investigating this angle.

There is no way of checking whether Dugain received such a warning or why he believes the Americans shot down the plane.

But adding to the theory that the aircraft was flown to Diego Garcia, either by the pilot Zaharie or a hijacker, was the claim that on the pilot's home flight simulator was a 'practice' flight to the island.

Professor Glees said: 'The Americans would have no interest in doing anything of the kind and not telling the world.

'In theory, they might wish to shoot down a plane they thought was attacking them but they wouldn't just fire missiles, they'd investigate it first with fighters and would quickly realise that even if it had to be shot down, the world would need to know.'

Mr Rosenschein said: 'The U.S. would not have been able to hide this fact and in any event, if it were true, they would have admitted their action as it would have prevented a successful terrorist action on this occasion and acted as a deterrent for future terrorist attacks.'

The ATSB expects that review to be finalised in coming weeks, the results from which will be made public on the ATSB’s website.

While a formal conclusion over MH370's fate is yet to be reached, many theories and conspiracies have circulated since the plane's disappearance.

A popular theory from respected aviation journalist Christine Negroni is that the plane's cabin pressure system rapidly decompressed, sucking out all the oxygen.

With Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah in the bathroom, First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid is believed to have taken over.

Negroni surmises that co-pilot Hamid was left with a major problem with zero access to oxygen - and even with a mask, he would have been in trouble and not able to think clearly.

His arms also would have started to jerk spasmodically.

This is why Ms Negroni believes the plane was switched to 'standby' instead of putting out a mayday call - explaining why the transponder signal stopped and controllers could still see the airplane on radar but couldn't determine its altitude.

Additionally, someone was still flying the plane - and flying it on a bizarre course, turning southwest, then north and then south.

Ms Negroni is adamant co-pilot Mr Hamid, 27, quickly overcome with oxygen deprivation, was at the controls.

'I think he was no longer doing much reasoning, because his ability to do that was long gone,' she said.

'When you consider how muddled Fariq's mind must have been, you can see many ways in which MH-370's bizarre flight path can be explained.'

The plane then flew hours more, likely on autopilot, and vanished.

Queensland couples Catherine and Robert Lawton as well as Mary and Rodney Burrows were also on the doomed flight, along with Sydney-based Gu Naijun and Li Yuan.

Key dates in the search for missing MH370

March 8, 2014: MH370 disappears from the radar 40 minutes into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board

April 8, 2014: An Australian ship hears two signals consistent with MH370's flight recorders in waters west of Australia. 'I'm now optimistic that we will find the aircraft, or what is left of the aircraft, in the not-too-distant future,' search coordinator Angus Houston says

April 28, 2014: The air search ends after failing to see a single piece of debris in 4.6 million square km of ocean

Jan 29, 2015: Malaysia formally declares MH370 an accident and says all 239 people on board are presumed dead

March 8, 2015: Australia's then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott doubles the area of the underwater search to 120,000 square km

July 29, 2015: A wing part known as a flaperon found on Reunion Island, east of Madagascar, is the first piece of the plane to be recovered. Since then, 27 pieces have been found

July 28, 2016: Data from flight captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's home simulator shows it was used to plot a course to the southern Indian Ocean, bolstering speculation he ditched the plane in a premeditated plot

Dec 20, 2016: The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says MH370 is unlikely to be in the 120,000 sq km search area is more likely in an area immediately to the north

Jan 17, 2017: Search is called off

Jan 19, 2017: Malaysia offers cash rewards to private parties for 'substantial information or evidence' about the location of the wreckage

April 21, 2017: The CSIRO releases a report saying the most likely location of the jet is a new 25,000 sq km area, north of the original 120,000 sq km search area

January 3, 2018: The search resumes after Malaysia enters into a 'no find, no fee' arrangement with US company Ocean Infinity, with up to $70 million offered if the wreckage is found

March 3, 2018: Malaysia says the new search will likely end in June, as families of passengers mark four years since the plane disappeared

May 29, 2018: Second search is called off

July 30, 2018: Investigators release what was flagged as the final report into the aviation mystery, but say the search may resume and it cannot be the final report until wreckage is found. They said they did not believe the pilot was behind the change in direction and 'unlawful interference by a third party' could not be ruled out

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Re: All Malaysian Flight 370 could be still alive and kickin

PostAuthor: Anthea » Sat Mar 12, 2022 12:25 am

MH370 key detail found

This marked eight years since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radars not long after taking off from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing. What happened to the flight and the 239 on board is unknown

The materials found have only prompted further theories and more questions as to what exactly happened to the Boeing 777-200ER and its passengers.

Some people, many amateurs, have dedicated their lives to finding MH370's resting place.

As recently as December, British engineer Richard Godfrey — who has spent seven years researching the case — claimed to have pinpointed the exact location of the airliner: about 2,000 kilometres (1,242 miles) west of Perth, Western Australia.

A large-scale search with his location data has not yet been carried out, and so the mystery remains unsolved for now.

Flight MH370: It is one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries

Mystery: The family and friends of those who were onboard flight MH370 still have no answers

Investigative journalists have also picked up the case, including Jeff Wise, author of The Plane That Wasn’t There.

Writing in his 2016 book, he said investigators faced a huge surprise after finding out that the flight's satcom was turned off after the plane initially disappeared, but then switched back on again.

At 18:03 UTC, a satellite tried to make contact with MH370 but received no response, but at 18:35 it initiated a log-on itself, meaning it was coming back online.

This data was obtained by British telecommunications company Inmarsat, whose satellite 3F1 had been in communication with MH370 during its final hours.

Mr Wise wrote: "Another detail of the Inmarsat data seemed a curiosity at first but in time would be recognised as having great significance.

Debris: Snippets of material from the Boeing 777-200ER have been found in the Indian Ocean area

"We had always assumed that while the transponder and radios had gone dark shortly after ‘Goodnight Malaysia Airlines 370’ [the last words spoken by the pilot over radio], the satcom system had remained active.

After all, whoever took the plane never used the satcom.

They probably had no idea that its intermittent handshake exchanges could be used to track the plane, since the technique hadn’t been invented yet.

But lo and behold, looking at the fine print of the Inmarsat data log, we saw that in fact the system had been turned off and then back on again.

At 18:03, 42 minutes after the plane disappeared from air traffic control, radar the satellite tried to put through a text message. MH370’s satcom hadn’t responded.

Then 22 minutes later at 18:25, MH370 initiated a log-on with Inmarsat. It was coming back online.

This suggested that the plane had not gone dark because of an electrical disaster.

Researchers determined that, following the satellite communications system being turned back on over the Malacca Strait, the plane likely flew on for no more than 15 minutes before making a final turn south.

From 19:41 UTC, its flight path matched a straight line, indicating that it was in autopilot.

But it is still unclear why the pilot would turn the satcom off and then back on.

The detail added yet another mystery to the already puzzling and disjointed narrative.

In December, when Mr Godfrey announced his latest discovery, he told a number of publications that he hoped his work would be able to provide "closure" to the families, who have for years been unable to find an answer about their lost loved ones.

Questions: Many questions remain over what exactly happened to flight MH370

Combining different data sets that were previously kept in seperate domains, he aligned the new location in the southern Indian Ocean.

Mr Godfrey told the BBC it was a "complicated exercise", but previously there was simply a lack of lateral thinking, across multiple disciplines, to bring this together.

He said: "No one had the idea before to combine Inmarsat satellite data, with Boeing performance data, with Oceanographic floating debris drift data, with WSPR [computer program] net data."

The exact point determined by data calculations is around 33 degrees south and 95 degrees east in the Indian Ocean.

Two extensive searches have been carried out in the Indian Ocean to find MH370, but neither yielded conclusive results.

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Re: All Malaysian Flight 370 could be still alive and kickin

PostAuthor: Anthea » Mon May 02, 2022 2:05 am

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION:

Shocking new claims

This Sky News Australia special investigation into the missing MH370 flight reveals new evidence and shocking allegations about the disappearance of the doomed plane.

On the night of March 8, 2014, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 239 passengers, including six Australians, vanished without a trace while on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Sky News anchor and investigative journalist Peter Stefanovic presents the one-hour documentary MH370: The Final Search.

The loved ones of those lost, esteemed authorities, leading aviation experts and oceanographers all provide their insights into the lasting mystery surrounding the disappearance of the flight - and their thoughts about what may have happened.

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Re: All Malaysian Flight 370 could be still alive and kickin

PostAuthor: Anthea » Sat Sep 24, 2022 9:10 pm

LOCATION OF MH370

A new report into the disappearance of MH370 has pinpointed a location further north than first thought

The report is a refined and updated study using the revolutionary WSPRnet tracking technology.

It is authored by aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey and Dr Hannes Coetzee.

The report states: “In the previous paper titled MH370 GDTAAA WSPRnet Analysis Flight Path Report dated 31st December 2021, we tracked MH370 from take off to the end of the flight.

“Since the previous paper was published we have made a number of improvements in the GDTAAA software and WSPRnet data processing.

“One of the key changes is a tighter definition of the WSPRnet SNR anomalies.

The refined flight path has many twists and turns and the authors say they “have presented evidence that the pilot may have been disoriented, which can be caused by hypoxia.”
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The report states that MH370 crashed between 00:22 UTC and 00:27 UTC, which is 8.22 am and 8.27 am local time.

It adds that at 8.22 am the position from the WSPRnet analysis was estimated to be 30.00°S 98.70°E.

At 8:26 am the position from the WSPRnet analysis was estimated to be 30.57°S 98.75°E.

The crash location is further north than previously thought and up to 42 nmiles South East of the 7thArc.

The report also states that “we have presented evidence that there was an active pilot until the end of the MH370 flight.”

Famous debris hunter Blaine Gibson, who has found much of the MH 370 debris said: “Your [Mr Godfrey’s] statement and the paper are both excellent !

The WSPR crash site fits within Prof. Pattiaratchi’s UWA drift analysis, which identified the origin of MH 370 debris between 28°S and 33°S. That drift analysis accurately predicted where and when MH 370 debris would arrive, and led me to find and collect from local people many pieces of the plane.

Search On, and let’s find the rest of the plane, the truth, and the proof!”

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Jan 31, 2023 5:22 am

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Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappearance, also called MH370 disappearance, disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet on March 8, 2014, during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The disappearance of the Boeing 777 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board led to a search effort stretching from the Indian Ocean west of Australia to Central Asia. The perplexing nature of the loss of flight 370 is such that it has become one of history’s most famous missing aircraft

Disappearance and search

Flight 370 took off at 12:41 am local time and reached a cruising altitude of 10,700 metres (35,000 feet) at 1:01 am. The Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), which transmitted data about the aircraft’s performance, sent its last transmission at 1:07 am and was subsequently switched off.

The last voice communication from the crew occurred at 1:19 am, and at 1:21 am the plane’s transponder, which communicated with air-traffic control, was switched off, just as the plane was about to enter Vietnamese airspace over the South China Sea.

At 1:30 am Malaysian military and civilian radar began tracking the plane as it turned around and then flew southwest over the Malay Peninsula and then northwest over the Strait of Malacca.

At 2:22 am Malaysian military radar lost contact with the plane over the Andaman Sea. An Inmarsat satellite in geostationary orbit over the Indian Ocean received hourly signals from flight 370 and last detected the plane at 8:11 am.

Initial searches for the plane concentrated on the South China Sea. After it was determined that flight 370 had turned to the west shortly after the transponder was switched off, search efforts moved to the Strait of Malacca and the Andaman Sea. On March 15, a week after the plane had disappeared, the Inmarsat contact was disclosed.

Analysis of the signal could not locate the plane precisely but did determine that the plane might have been anywhere on two arcs, one stretching from Java southward into the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia and the other stretching northward across Asia from Vietnam to Turkmenistan.

The search area was then expanded to the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia on the southern arc and Southeast Asia, western China, the Indian subcontinent, and Central Asia on the northern arc. On March 24 Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that, based on analysis of the final signals, Inmarsat and the U.K.

Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) had concluded that the flight crashed in a remote part of the Indian Ocean 2,500 km (1,500 miles) southwest of Australia. Thus, it was extremely unlikely that anyone on board survived.

The search for wreckage was hampered by the remote location of the crash site. Beginning on April 6, an Australian ship detected several acoustic pings possibly from the Boeing 777’s flight recorder (or “black box”) about 2,000 km (1,200 miles) northwest of Perth, Western Australia.

Further analysis by the AAIB of the Inmarsat data also found a partial signal from the plane at 8:19 am consistent with the location of the acoustic pings, the last of which were heard on April 8. If the signals were from flight 370, the flight recorder was likely at the end of its battery life.

Further searches were conducted using a robotic submarine. However, the pings had been spread over a wide area, the submarine found no debris, and tests found that a faulty cable in the acoustic equipment could have produced the pings.

Debris discovery

The first piece of debris was not found until July 29, 2015, when the right wing flaperon was discovered on a beach on the French island of Réunion, about 3,700 km (2,300 miles) west of the Indian Ocean area that was being searched by Australian authorities.

Over the next year and a half, 26 more pieces of debris were found on the shores of Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar, and Mauritius. Three of the 27 pieces were positively identified as coming from flight 370, and 17 were thought to have likely come from the plane. Two pieces came from the cabin interior, suggesting that the plane had broken up, but whether the plane broke up in the air or on impact with the ocean could not be determined.

Study of the Réunion wing flaperon and a piece of the right wing flap found in Tanzania showed that the plane had not undergone a controlled descent; that is, the plane had not been guided to a water landing.

Some researchers note that flight 370 could have struck the water vertically, a possibility in which the results of one modeling study conducted before the flaperon’s discovery suggests could explain the dearth of physical evidence. The debris locations were used to narrow the search area in the Indian Ocean, since some possible crash sites would have been unlikely to produce debris that would have drifted to Africa.

The governments of Malaysia, Australia, and China called off the search for flight 370 in January 2017. An American company, Ocean Infinity, received permission from the Malaysian government to continue searching until May 2017, when the Malaysian Transport ministry announced that it would call off that search. In July 2018 the Malaysian government issued its final report on flight 370’s disappearance. Mechanical malfunction was deemed extremely unlikely, and “the change in flight path likely resulted from manual inputs,” but the investigators could not determine why flight 370 disappeared.

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