JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.
OTHER MH370 STORIES I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-38-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-37-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-36-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-35-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-34-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-33-mh370-missing-plane-what.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 1 TO 32 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
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THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 12:03AM TUE APR 15,2014
WE WILL HAVE THE FIRST BLOOD MOON IN BETWEEN 2-4 HOURS.SEE WHAT PROPHECIES GOD WILL FULFIL THROUGH ISRAEL TODAY.WILL IRAN GET IT.WILL SOMEBODY START A MINOR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL.AND WILL ISRAEL FINISH OFF DAMASCUS.ONLY TIME WILL TELL.BUT I WILL BE WATCHING PROPHECY CLOSELY FROM NOW ON.MAYBE THE PLANE WILL BE DISCOVERED TODAY.ONLY GOD KNOWS WHAT PROPHECIES HE WILL FULFILL WE CAN WATCH GODS PROMISES COME TO ISRAEL BEFORE OUR EYES LITERALLY.
AND THIS TELEPHONE PING FROM THE PLANE BY THE CO-PILOT IS MORE PROOF TO ME THE PILOTS WERE INVOLVED IN THE KIDNAPPING.AND IT WAS RIGHT NEAR INDONESIA WHEN THE PING WENT OFF.SO MAYBE THE CO-PILOT WAS TRYING TO WARN INDONESIA.WERE BRINGING THE PLANE DOWN NOW.GET THAT CLONE READY TO GET IN THE AIR FOR THE DECEPTION.ALSO THE SUB ABORTED TODAY.IT WENT TO FAR DOWN AND IT ABORTED ITSELF FROM THE MISSION.THIS WATER IS UNCHARTED TERRITORY.SO THEY DO NOT HAVE A CLUE WHAT IS GOING ON INDER THE WATER.THEY DO NOT WANNA LOSE THEIR SUB.OR THEY ARE COOKED.
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 8:03AM TUE APR 15,2014
THE BLUEFIN-21
The Bluefin-21 is a highly modular autonomous underwater vehicle able to carry multiple sensors and payloads at once. It boasts a high energy capacity that enables extended operations even at the greatest depths. The Bluefin-21 has immense capability but is also flexible enough to operate from various ships of opportunity worldwide.
FREE-FLOODED MODULARITY – The vehicle design includes swappable payload sections and battery modules for in-field mission reconfiguration. Subsystems can be quickly accessed for rapid turnaround between missions and also allow for in-field maintenance, accelerating operational tempo.
EFFICIENT WORKHORSE – The Bluefin-21 is an efficient, deep-rated AUV able to execute surveys with demanding requirements typically addressed by larger, more cumbersome platforms. Its small size and ability to be launched and recovered from a simple A-frame or docking head allow it to take advantage of ships of opportunity.
ACCURATE NAVIGATION – The Bluefin-21 uses an INS to provide the best possible navigation accuracy. Dead reckoning drift is typically less than 0.1% of distance traveled, yielding higher quality data. USBL aiding further improves navigation accuracy.
AIR-SHIPPABLE – The vehicle, batteries and support equipment can be broken down and packaged into easily transportable sections, making the system ideal for time-critical and remote operations.
http://www.bluefinrobotics.com/products/bluefin-21/
Unmanned ‘Bluefin-21′ Sub Searching for Flight 370: Here’s What It Does
By Colleen Curry-Apr 14, 2014 10:44am
Search teams scanning the depths of the Indian Ocean for signs of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are using a high-tech drone submarine known as the “Bluefin” to take sonar images of the ocean floor to aid in the search.The search crews detected multiple “pings” on sonar equipment last week that they hoped indicated the presence of the plane’s black box, but no pings have been detected in days, leading searchers to conclude the batteries have likely run out on the recording device.The next step, according to Angus Houston, the head of the search effort known as the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, is to send the Bluefin 21 automated submarine down to try and find actual evidence of wreckage on the seafloor.The Bluefin 21 can dive as deep as 14,000 feet. It’s limit is right about the depth of the Indian Ocean where the pings were detected.The submarine will take 24 hours to complete each mission: two hours to dive to the bottom, 16 hours to search the seafloor, two hours to return to the surface, and 4 hours to download the data from each search, Houston explained today.The data will create a 3D sonar map of the area to check for any debris on the seafloor.Houston said that with the size of the search area right now, the Bluefin will take weeks or months to comb the entire area.
CHINESE MEDIA PRESS CONFERENCE BY HOUSTON APR 14,14
http://www.jacc.gov.au/media/interviews/2014/april/tr010.aspx
You can’t phone from the air’-Alfian ZM Tahir- | April 15, 2014
A retired Air Force officer says it is not possible because telco antennas are directed toward the ground.Fariq Abdul HamidKUALA LUMPUR: A retired Air Force officer today expressed doubt that anyone on Flight MH370 made a mid-flight telephone call with a mobile phone, as recent news reports have suggested.Captain Abdul Rahmat Omar told FMT it would be improbable for telecommunication towers to receive cellular signals from a plane because their antennas were directed toward the ground.“Basically, you can’t make a call from a plane,” he said. “A plane moves fast and the reception is unstable. Furthermore, our telco antennas don’t point skyward. They face the ground.”He was commenting on a New Straits Times report over the weekend quoting unnamed sources as saying that co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid made a desperate call from his mobile phone when the Malaysia Airlines craft was close to Penang after veering from its KLIA-Beijing route on March 8.The daily said the plane was then low enough for the nearest telecommunication tower to pick up his phone’s signal before it ended abruptly.However, Abdul Rahmat suggested that Fariq might have switched on his mobile phone and the signal was picked up by the nearest tower but went off due to the speed of the flight.“Maybe the co-pilot had his mobile phone turned on and the signal was traced by the telco tower just for a few seconds,” he said.“But you can’t make a phone call because the reception is not stable. The plane is too fast for the phone to connect with a signal.”
CNN quoting a US official, has also reported today that Fariq’s phone made contact with a telecommu nication tower in Penang.However, it said there was no evidence to show that Fariq had actually tried to make a call.It quoted the unnamed official as saying the tower detected the first officer’s phone searching for service roughly 30 minutes after authorities believe the plane made a sharp turn westward.
Mobile signal, not call
A former commercial pilot meanwhile told FMT it was possible that the tower in Penang picked up a telephone signal from the plane.“In my opinion, there is a chance that it can happen,” he said. “Maybe the telco tower did capture the signal for a few seconds, but I am not saying that the co-pilot managed to call out.”He said that in the 1990s anyone on a flight was able to make a phone call using the old 010 mobile channel, which has now been discontinued.“I am not very familiar with the new telco system because nowadays you have 3G, 4G and many others,” he said.“In those days, you could make a call on air if you were using the 010 channel, but I’m not talking about the new 010 channel.”MH370 disappeared from civilian radar while flying over the South China Sea. It is believed to have made a sudden turn and was spotted on military radar on the western side of Peninsular Malaysia heading for the Andaman Sea.Searchers are still looking for the plane in the southern part of the Indian Ocean.
US official: Fariq’s phone attempted contact-April 15, 2014
US investigator says the handphone of MH370's first officer made contact with telecommunications tower in Penang.Fariq Abdul HamidPETALING JAYA: A US official has revealed that the mobile phone of MH370′s first officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid, made contact with a telecommunication tower in Penang just before the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft disappeared in the wee hours of March 8, CNN reported today.The cable news network however said that there was no evidence to verify if Fariq had indeed tried to make a call just before the plane went missing with 239 passengers on a seemingly routine flight from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing, China.Quoting an unnamed US official, CNN said that a cell-phone tower in Penang, Malaysia — about 250 miles from where the flight’s transponder last sent a signal — detected the first officer’s phone searching for service roughly 30 minutes after authorities believe the plane made a sharp turn westward.The details do appear to reaffirm suggestions based on radar and satellite data that the plane was off course and was probably flying low enough to obtain a signal from a cell tower, the US official was reported to have said.The revelation follows a reporting over the weekend in a Malaysian newspaper that the first officer had tried to make a telephone call while the plane was in flight.Asked Sunday by CNN about the newspaper report about a purported effort to make a call by the first officer, Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said: “As far as I know, no, but as I said that would be in the realm of the police and the other international (authorities) and when the time comes that will be revealed. But I do not want to speculate on that at the moment.”US officials familiar with the investigation told CNN they have been told that no other cell phones were picked up by the Penang tower.Pilots are supposed to turn off their cell phones before pushing back from the gate.“It would be very rare in my opinion to have someone with a cell phone on in the cockpit,” safety analyst David Soucie was quoted by CNN. “It’s never supposed to be on at all. It’s part of every check list of every airline I am familiar with,” he added.When the plane first went missing, authorities said millions of cell phone records were searched, looking for evidence that calls had been made from the plane after it took off, but the search turned up nothing.MH370 disappeared from the civilian radar while flying towards Vietnam over the South China Sea. It is believed to have made a turn and was spotted on military radar western side of peninsula Malaysia heading for the Andaman Sea.Satellite pings from the plane revealed that it diverted from its flight path and headed towards the southern Indian Ocean before ending its flight in the wild, deep blue ocean.Searchers are still looking for the plane in southern Indian Ocean.
Search and recovery continues for Malaysian flight MH370
Media Release-15 April 2014—am-JACC
Up to nine military aircraft, two civil aircraft and 11 ships will assist in today's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Today the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has planned a visual search area totalling approximately 62,063 square kilometres. The centre of the search areas lies approximately 2,170 kilometres north west of Perth.The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle deployed last night from ADV Ocean Shield.After completing around six hours of its mission, Bluefin-21 exceeded its operating depth limit of 4,500 metres and its built in safety feature returned it to the surface.The six hours of data gathered by the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle is currently being extracted and analysed.Bluefin-21 is planned to redeploy later today when weather conditions permit.The weather forecast for today is south easterly winds with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms, sea swells up to two metres and visibility of five kilometres. The Chief Coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston (Ret'd), will provide further updates if, and when, more information becomes available.
-JACC
Officials consider underwater robot launch for Malaysia jet
By Lincoln Feast and Stuart Grudgings -APR 14,14
SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Australian officials leading the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean are weighing when to deploy an underwater robot to aid in the hunt, now in its sixth fruitless week.Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared soon after taking off on March 8 from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board, triggering a multinational search that is now focused on the Indian Ocean.Searchers are confident they know the approximate position of wreckage of the Boeing 777, some 1,670 km (1,040 miles) northwest of Perth, after picking up several acoustic signals they believe are from its black box recorders.With the batteries on the locators now two weeks past their 30-day expected life, the focus may soon shift to trying to find wreckage using sonar and cameras on a small unmanned "robot" known as an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.Two ships, one towing a sophisticated "towed pinger locator", are still criss-crossing the zone where four signals or pings were picked up, but the last was almost a week ago."This work continues in an effort to narrow the underwater search area for when the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle is deployed," the Australian agency heading the search said in a statement on Sunday.The mystery has sparked what is on track to be the most difficult and expensive search and recovery operation in aviation history."Trying to locate anything 4.5 kilometers beneath the surface of the ocean about 1,000 kilometers from land is a massive, massive task and it is likely to continue for a long time to come," Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said at the weekend.
CO-PILOT CALL?
An aircraft's black box records data from the cockpit and conversations among flight crew and may provide answers about what happened to the missing plane, which flew thousands of kilometers (miles) off course after taking off.Investigators probing the disappearance suspect that the co-pilot tried to make a call with his cellphone after the plane was diverted from its scheduled route, Malaysia's New Straits Times reported sources as saying on Saturday.Government officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the report. The New Straits Times quoted acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein as saying that the report needed to be verified.But he appeared to cast doubt on the report by saying: "If this did happen, we would have known about it earlier".Malaysia is focusing its criminal investigation on the cabin crew and the pilots of the plane -- 53-year-old captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and 27-year old Fariq Abdul Hamid -- after clearing all 227 passengers of any involvement, police have said.Malaysia's government has also begun investigating civil aviation and military authorities to determine why opportunities to identify and track the flight were missed in the chaotic hours after it vanished.(Editing by Michael Perry)
OTHER MH370 STORIES I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-38-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-37-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-36-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-35-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-34-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-33-mh370-missing-plane-what.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 1 TO 32 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-32-mh370-missing-plane-they-may.html
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 12:03AM TUE APR 15,2014
WE WILL HAVE THE FIRST BLOOD MOON IN BETWEEN 2-4 HOURS.SEE WHAT PROPHECIES GOD WILL FULFIL THROUGH ISRAEL TODAY.WILL IRAN GET IT.WILL SOMEBODY START A MINOR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL.AND WILL ISRAEL FINISH OFF DAMASCUS.ONLY TIME WILL TELL.BUT I WILL BE WATCHING PROPHECY CLOSELY FROM NOW ON.MAYBE THE PLANE WILL BE DISCOVERED TODAY.ONLY GOD KNOWS WHAT PROPHECIES HE WILL FULFILL WE CAN WATCH GODS PROMISES COME TO ISRAEL BEFORE OUR EYES LITERALLY.
AND THIS TELEPHONE PING FROM THE PLANE BY THE CO-PILOT IS MORE PROOF TO ME THE PILOTS WERE INVOLVED IN THE KIDNAPPING.AND IT WAS RIGHT NEAR INDONESIA WHEN THE PING WENT OFF.SO MAYBE THE CO-PILOT WAS TRYING TO WARN INDONESIA.WERE BRINGING THE PLANE DOWN NOW.GET THAT CLONE READY TO GET IN THE AIR FOR THE DECEPTION.ALSO THE SUB ABORTED TODAY.IT WENT TO FAR DOWN AND IT ABORTED ITSELF FROM THE MISSION.THIS WATER IS UNCHARTED TERRITORY.SO THEY DO NOT HAVE A CLUE WHAT IS GOING ON INDER THE WATER.THEY DO NOT WANNA LOSE THEIR SUB.OR THEY ARE COOKED.
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 8:03AM TUE APR 15,2014
THE BLUEFIN-21
The Bluefin-21 is a highly modular autonomous underwater vehicle able to carry multiple sensors and payloads at once. It boasts a high energy capacity that enables extended operations even at the greatest depths. The Bluefin-21 has immense capability but is also flexible enough to operate from various ships of opportunity worldwide.
FREE-FLOODED MODULARITY – The vehicle design includes swappable payload sections and battery modules for in-field mission reconfiguration. Subsystems can be quickly accessed for rapid turnaround between missions and also allow for in-field maintenance, accelerating operational tempo.
EFFICIENT WORKHORSE – The Bluefin-21 is an efficient, deep-rated AUV able to execute surveys with demanding requirements typically addressed by larger, more cumbersome platforms. Its small size and ability to be launched and recovered from a simple A-frame or docking head allow it to take advantage of ships of opportunity.
ACCURATE NAVIGATION – The Bluefin-21 uses an INS to provide the best possible navigation accuracy. Dead reckoning drift is typically less than 0.1% of distance traveled, yielding higher quality data. USBL aiding further improves navigation accuracy.
AIR-SHIPPABLE – The vehicle, batteries and support equipment can be broken down and packaged into easily transportable sections, making the system ideal for time-critical and remote operations.
http://www.bluefinrobotics.com/products/bluefin-21/
Unmanned ‘Bluefin-21′ Sub Searching for Flight 370: Here’s What It Does
By Colleen Curry-Apr 14, 2014 10:44am
Search teams scanning the depths of the Indian Ocean for signs of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are using a high-tech drone submarine known as the “Bluefin” to take sonar images of the ocean floor to aid in the search.The search crews detected multiple “pings” on sonar equipment last week that they hoped indicated the presence of the plane’s black box, but no pings have been detected in days, leading searchers to conclude the batteries have likely run out on the recording device.The next step, according to Angus Houston, the head of the search effort known as the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, is to send the Bluefin 21 automated submarine down to try and find actual evidence of wreckage on the seafloor.The Bluefin 21 can dive as deep as 14,000 feet. It’s limit is right about the depth of the Indian Ocean where the pings were detected.The submarine will take 24 hours to complete each mission: two hours to dive to the bottom, 16 hours to search the seafloor, two hours to return to the surface, and 4 hours to download the data from each search, Houston explained today.The data will create a 3D sonar map of the area to check for any debris on the seafloor.Houston said that with the size of the search area right now, the Bluefin will take weeks or months to comb the entire area.
CHINESE MEDIA PRESS CONFERENCE BY HOUSTON APR 14,14
http://www.jacc.gov.au/media/interviews/2014/april/tr010.aspx
You can’t phone from the air’-Alfian ZM Tahir- | April 15, 2014
A retired Air Force officer says it is not possible because telco antennas are directed toward the ground.Fariq Abdul HamidKUALA LUMPUR: A retired Air Force officer today expressed doubt that anyone on Flight MH370 made a mid-flight telephone call with a mobile phone, as recent news reports have suggested.Captain Abdul Rahmat Omar told FMT it would be improbable for telecommunication towers to receive cellular signals from a plane because their antennas were directed toward the ground.“Basically, you can’t make a call from a plane,” he said. “A plane moves fast and the reception is unstable. Furthermore, our telco antennas don’t point skyward. They face the ground.”He was commenting on a New Straits Times report over the weekend quoting unnamed sources as saying that co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid made a desperate call from his mobile phone when the Malaysia Airlines craft was close to Penang after veering from its KLIA-Beijing route on March 8.The daily said the plane was then low enough for the nearest telecommunication tower to pick up his phone’s signal before it ended abruptly.However, Abdul Rahmat suggested that Fariq might have switched on his mobile phone and the signal was picked up by the nearest tower but went off due to the speed of the flight.“Maybe the co-pilot had his mobile phone turned on and the signal was traced by the telco tower just for a few seconds,” he said.“But you can’t make a phone call because the reception is not stable. The plane is too fast for the phone to connect with a signal.”
CNN quoting a US official, has also reported today that Fariq’s phone made contact with a telecommu nication tower in Penang.However, it said there was no evidence to show that Fariq had actually tried to make a call.It quoted the unnamed official as saying the tower detected the first officer’s phone searching for service roughly 30 minutes after authorities believe the plane made a sharp turn westward.
Mobile signal, not call
A former commercial pilot meanwhile told FMT it was possible that the tower in Penang picked up a telephone signal from the plane.“In my opinion, there is a chance that it can happen,” he said. “Maybe the telco tower did capture the signal for a few seconds, but I am not saying that the co-pilot managed to call out.”He said that in the 1990s anyone on a flight was able to make a phone call using the old 010 mobile channel, which has now been discontinued.“I am not very familiar with the new telco system because nowadays you have 3G, 4G and many others,” he said.“In those days, you could make a call on air if you were using the 010 channel, but I’m not talking about the new 010 channel.”MH370 disappeared from civilian radar while flying over the South China Sea. It is believed to have made a sudden turn and was spotted on military radar on the western side of Peninsular Malaysia heading for the Andaman Sea.Searchers are still looking for the plane in the southern part of the Indian Ocean.
US official: Fariq’s phone attempted contact-April 15, 2014
US investigator says the handphone of MH370's first officer made contact with telecommunications tower in Penang.Fariq Abdul HamidPETALING JAYA: A US official has revealed that the mobile phone of MH370′s first officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid, made contact with a telecommunication tower in Penang just before the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft disappeared in the wee hours of March 8, CNN reported today.The cable news network however said that there was no evidence to verify if Fariq had indeed tried to make a call just before the plane went missing with 239 passengers on a seemingly routine flight from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing, China.Quoting an unnamed US official, CNN said that a cell-phone tower in Penang, Malaysia — about 250 miles from where the flight’s transponder last sent a signal — detected the first officer’s phone searching for service roughly 30 minutes after authorities believe the plane made a sharp turn westward.The details do appear to reaffirm suggestions based on radar and satellite data that the plane was off course and was probably flying low enough to obtain a signal from a cell tower, the US official was reported to have said.The revelation follows a reporting over the weekend in a Malaysian newspaper that the first officer had tried to make a telephone call while the plane was in flight.Asked Sunday by CNN about the newspaper report about a purported effort to make a call by the first officer, Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said: “As far as I know, no, but as I said that would be in the realm of the police and the other international (authorities) and when the time comes that will be revealed. But I do not want to speculate on that at the moment.”US officials familiar with the investigation told CNN they have been told that no other cell phones were picked up by the Penang tower.Pilots are supposed to turn off their cell phones before pushing back from the gate.“It would be very rare in my opinion to have someone with a cell phone on in the cockpit,” safety analyst David Soucie was quoted by CNN. “It’s never supposed to be on at all. It’s part of every check list of every airline I am familiar with,” he added.When the plane first went missing, authorities said millions of cell phone records were searched, looking for evidence that calls had been made from the plane after it took off, but the search turned up nothing.MH370 disappeared from the civilian radar while flying towards Vietnam over the South China Sea. It is believed to have made a turn and was spotted on military radar western side of peninsula Malaysia heading for the Andaman Sea.Satellite pings from the plane revealed that it diverted from its flight path and headed towards the southern Indian Ocean before ending its flight in the wild, deep blue ocean.Searchers are still looking for the plane in southern Indian Ocean.
Search and recovery continues for Malaysian flight MH370
Media Release-15 April 2014—am-JACC
Up to nine military aircraft, two civil aircraft and 11 ships will assist in today's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Today the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has planned a visual search area totalling approximately 62,063 square kilometres. The centre of the search areas lies approximately 2,170 kilometres north west of Perth.The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle deployed last night from ADV Ocean Shield.After completing around six hours of its mission, Bluefin-21 exceeded its operating depth limit of 4,500 metres and its built in safety feature returned it to the surface.The six hours of data gathered by the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle is currently being extracted and analysed.Bluefin-21 is planned to redeploy later today when weather conditions permit.The weather forecast for today is south easterly winds with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms, sea swells up to two metres and visibility of five kilometres. The Chief Coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston (Ret'd), will provide further updates if, and when, more information becomes available.
-JACCOfficials consider underwater robot launch for Malaysia jet
By Lincoln Feast and Stuart Grudgings -APR 14,14
SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Australian officials leading the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean are weighing when to deploy an underwater robot to aid in the hunt, now in its sixth fruitless week.Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared soon after taking off on March 8 from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board, triggering a multinational search that is now focused on the Indian Ocean.Searchers are confident they know the approximate position of wreckage of the Boeing 777, some 1,670 km (1,040 miles) northwest of Perth, after picking up several acoustic signals they believe are from its black box recorders.With the batteries on the locators now two weeks past their 30-day expected life, the focus may soon shift to trying to find wreckage using sonar and cameras on a small unmanned "robot" known as an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.Two ships, one towing a sophisticated "towed pinger locator", are still criss-crossing the zone where four signals or pings were picked up, but the last was almost a week ago."This work continues in an effort to narrow the underwater search area for when the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle is deployed," the Australian agency heading the search said in a statement on Sunday.The mystery has sparked what is on track to be the most difficult and expensive search and recovery operation in aviation history."Trying to locate anything 4.5 kilometers beneath the surface of the ocean about 1,000 kilometers from land is a massive, massive task and it is likely to continue for a long time to come," Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said at the weekend.
CO-PILOT CALL?
An aircraft's black box records data from the cockpit and conversations among flight crew and may provide answers about what happened to the missing plane, which flew thousands of kilometers (miles) off course after taking off.Investigators probing the disappearance suspect that the co-pilot tried to make a call with his cellphone after the plane was diverted from its scheduled route, Malaysia's New Straits Times reported sources as saying on Saturday.Government officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the report. The New Straits Times quoted acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein as saying that the report needed to be verified.But he appeared to cast doubt on the report by saying: "If this did happen, we would have known about it earlier".Malaysia is focusing its criminal investigation on the cabin crew and the pilots of the plane -- 53-year-old captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and 27-year old Fariq Abdul Hamid -- after clearing all 227 passengers of any involvement, police have said.Malaysia's government has also begun investigating civil aviation and military authorities to determine why opportunities to identify and track the flight were missed in the chaotic hours after it vanished.(Editing by Michael Perry)
