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Malaysian Boeing 777 goes missing


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Why turn off ACARS and avoid detection extending your flight for hours and hours in order to kill yourself? If you believe that you'll believe anything.

Um, so people can’t definitively prove it was a suicide, thus allowing your family insurance payments etc.? Pretty basic, no?

 

And it worked.

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Um, so people can’t definitively prove it was a suicide, thus allowing your family insurance payments etc.? Pretty basic, no?

 

And it worked.

Come on Sheeple!!!

 

(Spy Bee thinks they were kidnapped to provide food for the lizard overlords)

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You'd think he'd have done a factory reset on his home flight simulator so as not to leave a gargantuan smoking gun right where it could be found.

I think he had right? Took some special FBI shit to get the memory, what the Malaysian police couldn’t do.

Obviously the bureau could simply have planted that evidence to cover the Diego Garcia story.

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Behind a paywall, Adam.

 

Guardian LiveBlog.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/jul/30/mh370-final-report-released-by-malaysian-government-live

 

 

 

 

What we learned

 

  • The 1,500 page investigative report into the disappearance of MH370 resulted in the ultimate conclusion that investigators do not know what happened to the Malaysian Airlines plane, which vanished four years ago
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  • Lead investigator Kok Soo Chon says MH370 deviated from its path, and this was more than as a result of system anomalies, but that the air turn back was made under manual control.
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  • Investigators said they put every conspiracy theory, rumour and piece of gossip on social media “on the table” and considered all of them, eventually whittling down the list to about seven plausible theories.
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  • Investigators identified a series of mistakes made at various points, including by air traffic control, who did not initiate various emergency phases available to them, delaying search and rescue operations.
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  • The pilot and first officer were well-rested and not under apparent financial, emotional or psychological stress.
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  • Kok added that some evidence that “points irresistibly to unlawful interference, such as the communications ceasing and the manual turn back” and said several times that “unlawful interference” could not be ruled out.
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  • Families of those onboard the missing aircraft expressed their anger at the lack of answers provided in the report, with one saying “Four years on, we are none the wiser”.
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  • Though the Malaysian authorities billed today’s report as their “final” report into the disappeared aircraft, much to the upset of many family members, Kok began the press conference by clarifying it was not a “final” report and that the search might continue.

 

 

 

 

Full report link here.

 

http://mh370.mot.gov.my/

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My colleague Naaman Zhou has been following the story of MH370 throughout the search for the missing plane, he has this analysis of today’s report:

 

Very little in today’s report is new. 

 

However, there are a few small revelations that will be interesting to the family members and next of kin.

 

The first is that MH370’s emergency locator transmitters (ELT) all malfunctioned.

 

ELTs are supposed to transmit distress signals that could have helped locate the plane, but all four of MH370’s ELTs failed. Their batteries were within their expiry dates, but for whatever reason, no signal was sent out.

 

The report found that “there have been reported difficulties with ELT signals if an aircraft enters the water ... In these instances, the ELT does not activate, or the transmission is ineffective as a result of being submerged.”

 

The second is about mangosteens and batteries.

 

MH370 was carrying 4,566 kg of mangosteens and 221 kg of lithium-ion batteries in its cargo hold. It has long been speculated that this could have sparked a fire that led to the crash.

 

The report today rejects this theory – but the analysis is based only by looking at previous battery and mangosteen shipments.

 

The fine details confirm that the battery shipment did not go through x-ray screening on the day of the flight because “there were no available x-ray machines large enough”. Larger machines were installed a few months after MH370 disappeared.

 

This could raise questions about whether a battery malfunction, or improper packing, could have led to the crash.

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Still one of my favourite threads this. Absolutely tragic event of course that still hasn’t been solved but on the first page alone we had Aliens, Godzilla, the McCanns and a flying shark rugby tackling it out of the sky with its teeth. I’ve just re-read the first 8 pages and I’m almost in tears here. 

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