Plane with 239 people on board crashes in Southern Indian Ocean

[DINGO Joe]

What the heck ?

First, the airport video-footage apparently showed that the 2 guys with the stolen passports were "Asian-looking".

Now, the guy from the investigation says they look like footballer Mario Balotelli:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2014/mar/10/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-search-continues-live-updates

Well, remember the racial confusion over the early pics of the Tsarnaev brothers?  People bring their own assumptions into things like this, and that colors what they see.

Mario Balotelli



Guy who looks like Mario Balotelli

[DINGO Joe]

Malaysia air force chief denies saying lost plane tracked to west

http://news.yahoo.com/malaysia-military-source-says-missing-jet-veered-west-004734056--sector.html

Yeah, they're not gonna find that plane.

[DINGO Joe]

Malaysian now saying the flight was hijacked and that it's not a theory, it's "conclusive".  

http://news.yahoo.com/malaysian-investigators-conclude-flight-hijacked-035744022.html

I'm sure the "conclusive" part is subject to change

[DINGO Joe]

Bloomberg sez that the last satellite transmission was about 1,000 miles West of Perth Australia, but that it may have kept on going after that, except for a group of islands called the French Southern and Antarctic Lands there's nothing out there.  Really, it looks like an incredibly cruel elongated suicide.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-14/india-looking-for-malaysian-jet-as-u-s-sees-air-piracy.html

[DINGO Joe]

The theory that it might have been shot down by one of the countries in the region seems less likely after reading this:

http://news.yahoo.com/malaysian-plane-saga-highlights-air-defense-gaps-165945271--sector.html

It's just not a region with that level of conflict/readiness.  India almost certainly has every radar along it's border with Pakistan running, but what about the radar in the Andamans?

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[DINGO Joe]

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[DINGO Joe]

I have seen this mentioned elsewhere, and you are correct--there has been no information about any other hourly pings provided to the public.

It seems  most likely  that the plane flew on a steady course from it's last sighting via military radar and when it last pinged along the arc line, an erratic path over Asia or Indonesia would have been likely to ultimately draw some attention from military radar Whether suicide or something catastrophic disabled the pilots, a long steady path to the arc in the South Indian Ocean really seems the most likely outcome by far.

[DINGO Joe]

If media reports are correct, then the turn back across Malaysia had been programmed into the flight system at least 12 minutes before the plane signed off from Malaysian airspace at 1:19, which I guess means the ASCAR communication at 1:07 contained that info.

Basically means that the turn was premeditated and not in response to some type of emergency on the plane.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/18/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html

[DINGO Joe]

Radio this morning was quoting reports from the Maldives of a very low-flying jet passing overhead and continuing out to sea at about the right time for this flight to have possibly have reached there. Apparently said jet was white with red stripes.

I've seen those stories too, the only problem is that the search seems very focus on the arc line from the final ping and the Maldives are nowhere close to the arc and in fact are almost directly underneath the satellite.

[DINGO Joe]

Radio this morning was quoting reports from the Maldives of a very low-flying jet passing overhead and continuing out to sea at about the right time for this flight to have possibly have reached there. Apparently said jet was white with red stripes.

So... we have sightings in the Maldives, we have a search area the size of France 3000km to the west of Perth, we have the theory of an electrical fire (which is plausible), the satellite images that could be wreckage in the Straits of Malacca... it's just f'ing nuts.

Speaking of f'ing nuts:

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/courtney-love-claims-she-may-have-found-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-picture-2014183

[DINGO Joe]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11226334

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Well, haven't seen other news organizations run with this, so right now this seems speculative at best.