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-51-mh370-777-200er-missing-plane.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-50-mh370-777-2000er-missing-plane.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-49-mh370-777-2000er-missing-plane.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-48-mh370-777-2000er-missing-plane.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-47-mh370-777-2000er-missing-plane.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 33 TO 46 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-47-mh370-777-2000er-missing-plane.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 01 TO 32 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-32-mh370-missing-plane-they-may.html
SEARCH FOR THE PLANE YOURSELF-HERE
http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014
FLIGHTWARE-LIVE FLIGHT TRACKING
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370/history/20140307/1635Z/WMKK/ZBAA/tracklog
MALAYSIAN MH370 SEAT MAP
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Malaysia_Airlines/Malaysia_Airlines_Boeing_777-200.php
VIDEO RETIRED GENERAL SAYS THE PLANES IN PAKISTAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWiVkShm8cw
FINDING PHILIP WOOD
https://www.facebook.com/findingphilipwood370
SARAH SAYS PHILIP IS STILL ALIVE AND KIDNAPPED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKot27qbyw
SARAH BAJC SAYS PHILIP AND ALL ARE STILL ALIVE AND KIDNAPPED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKot27qbyw
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/04/08/erin-bts-bajc-mh370-plane-was-taken.cnn.html
FREESCALE LOCATIONS
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?code=GLOBAL_SITES
http://www.freescale.com/
IF you wana leave a message to Flight Mh370 Members-
http://english.astroawani.com/p/feedback/comments
Family Members website
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_12ece77a00101eh9v.html
COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 239 ON MH370-777-200ER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/complete-list-of-members-on-flight.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remebering-mh370-777-200er-victims-of.html (P1)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remembering-mh370-777-200er-citizens.html (P2)
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 4:00PM MON APR 28,2014
I CAN GUARENTEE THIS IS A FALSE FIND OF MH370.IF THEY WOULD LOOK IN INDONESIA,ADDAMAN ISLANDS OR POSSIBLY EVEN INDIA.THEY MIGHT FIND IT.BUT THE OCEAN.I DOUBT IT IMMENCLY.UNLESS WE ARE BEING SETUP FOR A DECEPTION SCAM TO TRY TO GET THE WORLD TO THINK ITS FINALLY FOUND.
The images showing chemical elements detected in the area the company believes it has located MH370. Photo: FIRST ON 7.-pic7News
Position where GeoResonance claimed to have found the wreckage of flight MH370 in the
Bay of Bengal. 20.00.00.0. N -- 90.18.00.0.E OFF THE COAST OF BANGLEDESH
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MH370: Company claimed to have found plane wreckage- Astro Awani | Updated: April 28, 2014-(First published on: April 28, 2014 22:21 MYT)--ASTRO AWANI
MH370: Company claimed to have found plane wreckage
KUALA LUMPUR: An Australia based exploration company said it may have found the wreckage of the missing Malaysian Airlines (MAS) MH370 which went missing on March 8.The company, GeoResonance, based in Adelaide, claimed the wreckage was found about 5,000km away from where the authorities have been looking, 7News Adelaine reported.The company which had started its own search for the missing plane on March 10 said its research has identified elements on the ocean floor consistent with material from a plane.Position where GeoResonance claimed to have found the wreckage of flight MH370 in the Bay of Bengal.“The technology that we use was originally designed to find nuclear warheads, submarines… our team in the Ukraine decided we should try and help,” David Pope from GeoResonance told 7News.He said the company surveyed over 2,000,000 square kilometres of the possible crash zone, using images obtained from satellites and aircraft.He added that scientists focused their efforts north of the flight’s last known location, using over 20 technologies to analyse the data including a nuclear reactor.The team had verified its finding by analysing images from the same area on March 5 and found that the wreckage was not there before the flight’s disappearance.“We’re not trying to say that it definitely is MH370, however it is a lead we feel should be followed up,” Pope was quoted.Monday's search area released by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.GeoResonance’s Pavel Kursa who was also quoted by the report said that they had identified chemical elements and materials that make up a Boeing 777.“These are aluminium, titanium, copper, steel alloys and other materials,” he said.The flight carrying 239 passengers and crew went missing while on its way to Beijing.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014-Missing MH370: Check Kandahar, say family members-Reports that MH370 is in Kandahar prompts family members to request Malaysian government to search for the plane there.
PETALING JAYA:Family members of the missing MH370 flight passengers want the government to investigate claims that the missing flight is in Kandahar, Afghanistan.There are reports that the plane is in the South Asian country and it quoted Russian intelligence agency as the source.The request was made by the next of kin in a letter dated April 14 and is addressed to Acting Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein. A copy was also forwarded to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.“We are aware that Government of Malaysia is currently focusing its search effort in South Indian Ocean based on the data supplied by Inmarsat. However, we are entering the 37th day without success in finding any physical evidence in this area.“Hence, it is high time that the Government should start thinking out of the box by exploring and re-examining all leads, new and old.“Based on this spirit, we respectfully request your kind consideration to re-engage the Russian and Afghanistan governments in order to examine and verify the claim that MH370 landed in Afghanistan.“We are confident that the Malaysian government will find that this path is worth exploring considering the lives of 239 passengers and crew on board MH370,” said the next of kin in the letter that was published on Facebook.The MAS flight bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur International Airport had gone missing from radar on March 8.Search efforts have been focused in the southern part of the Indian Ocean but to date nothing related to MH370 has been found.Posted by wikisabah at 5:18 PM
Friday, April 25, 2014-MH370 search likely to last for years
SYDNEY - The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to drag on for years, a senior U.S. defence official told Reuters on Friday, as an underwater search for any trace of the plane's wreckage off west Australia appeared to have failed.The official, speaking under condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to comment on the search effort, said two weeks of scouring the Indian Ocean floor with a U.S. Navy submersible drone had turned up no wreckage.He said the search for the jetliner, which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board, would now enter a much harder phase of scouring broader areas of the ocean near where the plane is believed to have crashed."We went all in on this small area and didn't find anything. Now you've got to go back to the big area," the official said. "And now you're talking years."On Friday, the undersea drone Bluefin-21 is expected to finish what may be the last of its 16-hour trips to depths of more than 4.5km (2.8 miles) searching a 10 square km (6.2 square mile) stretch of seabed about 2,000 miles northwest of Perth.Authorities had identified the area as their strongest lead in determining the plane's final resting place after detecting what they suspected was a signal, or "ping", from the plane's black box recorder on April 4.But the U.S. official said Malaysia would have to decide how to proceed with the search, including whether to bring in more underwater drones, even with the understanding that the search could continue for years without a refined search area.MATT SIEGEL, REUTERS
Monday, April 28, 2014-Search for MH370 will scour larger area of ocean floor, says Aussie PM-The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will enter a new phase after 52 days of searching failed to find any sign of the plane wreckage, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced.
On Monday, Mr Abbott said it was highly unlikely that any debris from the plane would be found on the ocean surface.But Mr Abbott defended the search operation in the southern Indian Ocean, saying authorities remain confident that signals detected weeks ago were from a black box recorder.Speaking in Canberra, Mr Abbott said the "most difficult search in human history" would switch its focus to underwater operations over an expanded area – roughly 700 kilometres by 80 kilometres.The Bluefin-21 submersible, which has been criticised as unreliable, will still be used to search the ocean floor, along with specialised sonar equipment towed by ships that will scan the seabed for wreckage."We will do everything we humanly can, everything we reasonably can, to solve this mystery. We will not let people down," Mr Abbott said."While the search will be moving to a new phase in coming weeks, it certainly is not ending."By this stage, 52 days into the search, most material would have become waterlogged and sunk."With the distances involved, all of the aircraft are operating at close to the limit of sensible and safe operation. Therefore, we are moving from the current phase to a phase which is focused on searching the ocean floor over a much larger area."The new search phase will cost "in the order of $60 million", Mr Abbott said.MH370 vanished on March 8 carrying 239 people, including six Australians.It would be a "terrible outcome" for the families of those on board if the plane was not found, Mr Abbott said.Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, who has been co-ordinating the search, said the revised search could take up to eight months to complete.He said searchers were still confident they were searching in the right area."If everything goes perfectly, I would say we will be doing well if we do it in eight months," he said."But then you have issues, potential issues, with weather, potential issues with equipment. Witness what's happened with the 'Bluefin-21', a number of teething problems with it."Mr Abbott defended his handling of the search and his declaration at the time the signals were detected that searchers were confident they were in the right area."Our way of operating at all times has been to release credible information as soon as we've had it so that we could be as transparent as possible," Mr Abbott said."We still have a considerable degree of confidence that the detections that were picked up using the equipment deployed from Ocean Shield were from a black box recorder."We are still baffled and disappointed that we haven't been able to find undersea wreckage based on those detections."A preliminary report into the plane's disappearance by the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organisation has been handed to Malaysian authorities and is expected to be released to the public this week. The report is expected to recommend real-time tracking of commercial aircraft.with AAP
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 12:03AM MON APR 28,2014
Media Release-28 April 2014—am-JACC
Up to 9 military aircraft and 12 ships are planned to assist in today's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Today the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has planned a visual search area totaling approximately 54,921 square kilometres. The centre of the search area lies approximately 1667 kilometres north west of Perth.Bluefin-21 has completed mission 15 and has commenced mission 16 this morning.
No contacts of interest have been found to date.Bluefin-21 will continue to examine the areas adjacent to the focused underwater search area during mission 16.The weather forecast for today indicates the cold front will move out of the search area and be replaced by a southerly trade flow, sea swells of four to five metres.
Any further information will be made public if, and when, it becomes available.
-JACC
Search continues for Malaysian flight MH370-Media Release-27 April 2014—am-JACC
Due to deteriorating weather conditions, the planned air and surface search has been suspended for today.Bluefin-21 has completed mission 14 and is expected to commence mission 15 this morning.
No contacts of interest have been found to date.Bluefin-21 is expected to complete the focused underwater search area and continue examining the areas adjacent to it during mission 15.Any further information will be made public if, and when, it becomes available.
HOPEFULLY IN THE PRELIMINARY REPORT ON MH370-777-200ER.MALAYSIA ANSWERS SOME OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS QUESTIONS THEY WANT ANSWERED.
The key of questions from family members-(2014-04-16 17:44:40)
Emergency locator transmitter
As far as we know, MH370 has one fixed ELT and two portable ELT. All ElT has passed the latest maintains check (Malaysia airlines has promised to ask when they did the last check and what has been checked)
1. How many ELT are there on the plane? Including fixed and portable. We have heard two versions. We would like to insure how many?
2. Did Malaysia Airline have regular maintains check for ELT? When was latest check for MH370 ‘s ELT? What is the maintainous interval? And we need to see results of maintainous check. If not possible to see the result during the investigation. We would like to know what has been checked.
3. How your 406 MHz is certified. Your licences?
4. Is it possible to break the ELT at high impact? Where is the 406 MHz ELT exactly located on MH370? (tail of the flight or on the celling of business class)
5. Is the ELT protected in the compartment within the fuselage? Surrounding by metal? will the signal be weaken if the metal shield_
6. Is the cable and blade antenna 9G certified? How much impact is need to active ELT? Does the ELT active in Asiana accident and France Air 447?
7. Are 121.5 MHz 243 MHz useless when aircraft crash in water?
8. The manufacturer of the ELT, the signal of 406MHz supposed to be detected by satellite.
9. Is the 406 MHz is a separate service beside the 121.5 and 243 MHz?
10.If the crew has been trained on how to use ELT?
11. Can ELT unlock and bounce to the surface of water?
12.When plane is trying to land on the sea, can ELT can be activated?
Black box
1. The serials number of the black box on MH370. Manufacturer?
2. What kind of characteristic signal does MH370’s black box pinger send? Is it a pulse, with a peak at 37.5 kHz? The width, the shape of the pulse?
3. What is the sample that Boeing has sent to Australia to compare with the detected pinger? Was it from a normal black box signal or the specific black box on boeing 777, or even the exact black box mount on MH370?
4. How many items can the Flight Data Recorder provide? 25, 57 or 88?
5. How long time can the Cockpit Voice Recorder provide? When did Malaysia Airline start to prolong 2 hours record?
6. Can the detected frequency 33.3kHz can illustrate the coverage environment of the black box? Can the location of the black box also te illustrated?
7.Can the investigation team make an experiment on checking the 33.3kHz is caused by the weaken battery? And how long can 33.3 kHz can be detected under the weaken power situation?
Protocol
1. What protocol does ICAO do when flight missing. What did Malaysia Airline do when MH370 missing. What organization are Malaysia in.
2. We want MH370’s logbook
3. We need Malaysia Civil Aviation Control MH370 Voice Record.
4. Inmarsat in Malaysia , NTSB ，Chief engineer Zaharie personal contact phone number. Directly contact information.
5.Have the searching and rescue team got final result from the searched areas? Are they ensure any impossibility on thosed closed area, if not why close all the other areas?
6. Can Malaysia Government specify the right of kins, especially the right to know the facts of a cases or the details of an incident?
7.We require the ATC audio.
From:The Committee of MH370 family Members APR 16,2014
LEADERS Sarah Bajc-Steven Wang (WITH GETTING TRUTH TO THE MEDIA) and most of the Kidnapped Family Members Loved Ones.
28 April 2014| last updated at 11:22PM-Air search for missing Malaysian plane called off-New Straits Times
CANBERRA: The aerial search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was called off Monday, and the underwater hunt will be expanded to include a vast swath of ocean floor that may take at least eight months to thoroughly search, Australian officials said.Not a single piece of confirmed debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been recovered by a massive multinational hunt that began after it disappeared March 8 with 239 people on board.“It is highly unlikely at this stage that we will find any aircraft debris on the ocean surface. By this stage, 52 days into the search, most material would have become waterlogged and sunk,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott said.“Therefore, we are moving from the current phase to a phase which is focused on searching the ocean floor over a much larger area,” he said. The U.S. Navy’s Bluefin 21 robotic submarine has spent weeks scouring the initial search area for the plane in the remote Indian Ocean far off Australia’s west coast, but has found no trace of the missing aircraft.Officials are now looking to bring in new equipment that can search a larger patch of seabed for the plane, Abbott said. The aerial search officially ended Monday, the search coordination center confirmed.Radar and satellite data show the jet veered far off course for unknown reasons during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. Analyses indicate it would have run out of fuel in the remote section of ocean where the search has been focused. The unmanned sub has been creating a three-dimensional sonar map of the ocean floor for more than two weeks near where signals consistent with airplane black boxes were heard on April 8. The sub has searched a nearly 400-square kilometer (150-square mile) area.Crews will now begin searching the plane’s entire probable impact zone, an area 700 kilometers (430 miles) long and 80 kilometers (50 miles) wide, Abbott said.That will be a monumental task — and one that will take time, warned Angus Houston, head of the search effort. “If everything goes perfectly, I would say we’ll be doing well if we do it in eight months,” Houston said, adding that weather and technical issues could prolong the search well beyond that estimate. Australian officials will be contacting private companies to bring in additional sonar mapping equipment that can be towed behind boats to search the expanded area at an estimated cost of US$60 million, Abbott said. It could take officials several weeks to organize contracts for the new equipment and the Bluefin will continue to scour the seabed in the meantime, Abbott said.So far, each country involved in the search has been bearing its own costs. But Abbott said Australia would now seek contributions from other countries to help pay for the new equipment.Two weeks ago, Abbott said officials were “very confident” that a series of underwater signals picked up by sound-detecting equipment came from Flight 370’s black boxes.On Monday, he maintained that he still had a “considerable degree of confidence” — but opened up the possibility that the signals were yet another dead end in a search that has been peppered by them. “We’re still baffled and disappointed that we haven’t been able to find undersea wreckage based on those detections, and this is one of the reasons why we are continuing to deploy the Bluefin 21 submersible — because this is the best information that we’ve got,” Abbott said.“It may turn out to be a false lead, but nevertheless it’s the best lead we’ve got.” Abbott also acknowledged it was possible that no debris from the plane would ever be found.“Of course it’s possible, but that would be a terrible outcome because it would leave families with a baffling uncertainty forever,” he said.“The aircraft plainly cannot disappear — it must be somewhere — and we are going to do everything we reasonably can, even to the point of conducting the most intensive undersea search which human ingenuity currently makes possible of some 60,000 square kilometers under the sea.” “We are going to do all these things because we do not want this crippling cloud of uncertainty to hang over these families and the wider traveling public,” he said.--AP
Chagos Islands dispute: court to rule on UK sovereignty claim-Success of case could lead to return of hundreds of exiled islanders who were forced to leave archipelago-Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent- The Guardian, Monday 21 April 2014 11.09 BST
Britain's sovereignty over the Chagos Islands and America's lease for the Diego Garcia military base could be thrown into doubt by an international court hearing due to open in Istanbul on Tuesday.It is considered of such importance that the attorney general, Dominic Grieve QC, will appear to defend Britain's declaration of a marine reserve around the archipelago.The challenge by Mauritius to the legality of the marine protected area announced by the then foreign secretary, David Miliband, in April 2010, will be heard behind closed doors by the permanent court of arbitration (PCA), a UN-backed tribunal that resolves disagreements between states. Its rulings are binding.Mauritius, which launched its legal challenge three years ago, believes a ruling in its favour could lead to the unravelling of Britain's colonial-era claim and the eventual return of hundreds of exiled islanders who have been forced to leave the archipelago. Many now live in Britain.
Location of Chagos islands
The PCA is based at The Hague, in the Netherlands, but its judicial proceedings are often held in neutral, international venues. Turkey is host for the latest round in the dispute. The hearing is expected to last several weeks although Grieve will only present the UK's opening arguments.Teams of prominent British and American lawyers have also been hired by the UK and Mauritius. Among the UK counsel are Sir Michael Wood, a former Foreign Office adviser; Mauritius has recruited Prof James Crawford, Prof Philippe Sands QC and Elizabeth Wilmshurst, a Foreign Office lawyer who resigned on the eve of the invasion of Iraq.The hearing will be held in secret with none of the proceedings open to the public. At some point it is hoped the documents may be made public, including internal Foreign Office files relating to key decisions from 1965 to April 2010.The Mauritian prime minister, Navinchandra Ramgoolam, has claimed that the decision to establish a 1,411,550sq km (545,000sq mile) marine reserve was carried out in defiance of assurances given to him at the time by the then UK prime minister, Gordon Brown, in 2009.A US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks recorded a Foreign Office official's assertion that "establishing a marine park would, in effect, put paid to resettlement claims of the archipelago's former residents", who were described as "Man Fridays".In a statement to the UN's general assembly last summer, Ramgoolam said: "The dismemberment of part of our territory, the Chagos archipelago – prior to independence – by the then colonial power, the United Kingdom, in clear breach of international law, leaves the process of decolonisation not only of Mauritius, but of Africa, incomplete."He added: "I am confident that the UK and the US would want to be on the right side of history. States which look to the law and to the rules of the comity of nations for the resolution of disputes should not be frustrated by the lack of avenues under international law for settlement of these disputes."In 1965, three years before Mauritius attained independence, the UK decided to "detach" the Chagos Islands from the rest of its then Indian Ocean colony. The Mauritian government, supported by every country in Africa, claims this was in breach of UN general assembly resolution 1514, passed in 1960, which specifically banned the breakup of colonies prior to independence.The Chagos archipelago was subsequently declared to be part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot) from which, in 1971, the 1,500 islanders were deported. The largest island, Diego Garcia, was then leased to the US as an airbase. The lease is due to be renegotiated later this year.Claims that Diego Garcia was used as a secret "black site" detention centre during CIA rendition operations after 2001 resurfaced this month after Abdel-Hakim Belhaj – a rebel military commander and opponent of Muammar Gaddafi arrested in Malaysia and forcibly returned to Libya with his then pregnant wife – reported that he had been held there. The Foreign Office has disputed the claim.The PCA case is being fought within the arcane legal territory of the United Nations convention on the law of the sea (Unclos), an area in which the UK could be at disadvantage. While Mauritius and the Seychelles have put in mutually agreed claims for large tracts of the nearby seabed, the UK has not put in any proposals to the UN commission on the limits of the continental shelf in respect of Biot and has now run out of time to do so.The UK is hoping to persuade the five arbitrators to rule that they do not have jurisdiction over the dispute, but an earlier effort to get that argument decided before dealing with the substantive claim was rejected by the tribunal last year.A Foreign Office spokesman said: "The rules of procedure established for the purposes of these proceedings provide that any evidence submitted alongside the pleadings of either party is confidential. Therefore, the UK is not in a position to comment on matters which are before the tribunal."• This article was amended on 24 April 2014 to clarify that a diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks recording the thoughts of a Foreign Office official came from the US embassy, not the Foreign Office.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians
Military radar DID track an unidentified aircraft at the time MH370 disappeared, Malaysian PM reveals six weeks after the search began-By Dan Bloom and Richard Shears-Published: 20:25 GMT, 24 April 2014 | Updated: 07:29 GMT, 25 April 2014-MAIL ONLINE
Military radar in Malaysia did track an unidentified aircraft as it flew across the country's airspace after MH370 lost contact with ground control, it was revealed today.Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said the military's radar tracked what is believed to have been the Malaysian Airlines plane after it had turned back while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.'The military radar, the primary radar, has some capability,' Mr Najib said.'It tracked an aircraft which did a turn back but they were not sure, exactly sure, whether it was MH370.'What they were sure of was that the aircraft was not deemed to be hostile.'Mr Najib told CNN he did not believe it when he first heard about the critical satellite data on which the current search in the Indian Ocean is based on.'To be honest, I found it hard to believe,' said the Prime Minister.'It's a bizarre scenario which none of us could have contemplated so that's why when I met the team...of foremost experts in aviation industry I asked them again and again "are you sure?"''And their answer to me was we are as sure as we can possibly be.'Earlier reports had suggested military radar had not picked up any definite radar information, leading to speculation that the Boeing 777 had been flown deliberately low and close to the coastline to avoid radar.CNN said that when Mr Najib was asked if he believed the plane was now lost, he replied: 'On the balance of the evidence it would be hard to imagine otherwise.'The Prime Minister also revealed that the government's preliminary report into the disappearance of the aircraft, which had 239 passengers and crew, would be released next week.Malaysia's preliminary report into the disappearance of flight MH370 will be released next week, the country's Prime Minister has said.Najib Razak made the surprise announcement as his government continued to be beseiged by angry families, some of whom refuse to accept the plane was destroyed unless they have hard evidence.The report has already been sent to the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization but not made public.Mr Razak told CNN: 'I have directed an internal investigation team of experts to look at the report, and there is a likelihood that next week we could release the report.'He later confirmed it will be released next week, CNN reported.Despite seven weeks passing since the Malaysia Airlines jet vanished, Mr Razak declined to say outright that it had been lost for good - 'out of respect' for grieving families.
He told CNN's Richard Quest: 'At some point in time I would be, but right now I think I need to take into account the feelings of the next of kin, and you know some of them have said publicly that they aren't willing to accept it until they find hard evidence.'The denial came despite Malaysian authorities a month ago telling families definitively - and by text message - that 'none of those on board survived'.The government has been repeatedly attacked by relatives of passengers, the majority of whom were from China, for not doing enough in its search for the jet.Mr Razak's announcement came as a tropical cyclone again threatened to hamper a 26-nation air, surface and underwater search of the Indian Ocean.Airborne searches were partly suspended for the last two days because of heavy rain, strong winds, rough seas thanks to Tropical Cyclone Jack.The hunt is already the most expensive in aviation history and is focusing on an area where acoustic 'pings' were detected, possibly from the jet's black box recorder, a month after it disappeared. Key to the mission is the U.S. Navy undersea drone Bluefin-21, which will soon finish scouring a 6.2 square mile stretch of seabed.Authorities have said if Bluefin-21 fails to find a trace of the plane in its initial target search area, 1,200 miles north west of Perth, it will be redeployed to new areas.Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the airliner's probable impact zone was 430 miles long and 50 miles wide.A new search strategy would be adopted if nothing is found in the current seabed search zone. ‘If at the end of that period we find nothing, we are not going to abandon the search, we may well rethink the search, but we will not rest until we have done everything we can to solve this mystery,’ he said.Yesterday authorities ruled out any link between debris picked up on an Australian beach and the missing jet.The debris, found on Wednesday on a beach at the southern tip of Western Australia state, was seen as the first lead since April 4 when the pings were detected.But it took Australian authorities less than a day to analyse detailed photographs of the beached debris, which included sheet metal with rivets, and dismiss the possibility that it may be linked to the plane.'We're not seeing anything in this that would lead us to believe that it is from a Boeing aircraft,' said Australian Transport Safety Bureau commissioner Martin Dolan.
MH370: Government to release preliminary report next week - Najib- Bernama | Updated: April 26, 2014-ASTRO AWANI
KUALA LUMPUR: The preliminary findings on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 are likely to be released next week, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak."In the government's commitment to the unrelenting search for MH370, I have also commissioned an internal investigation experts team and the preliminary findings are likely to be released next week," he said in his Facebook account today.Flight MH370, with 239 people on board, left the KL International Airport at 12.41am on March 8 and disappeared from radar screens about an hour later while over the South China Sea. It was to have arrived in Beijing at 6.30am on the same day.A multinational search was mounted for the aircraft, first in the South China Sea and then, after it was learned that the plane had veered off course, along two corridors - the northern corridor stretching from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand and the southern corridor, from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.Following an unprecedented type of analysis of satellite data, the United Kingdom satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat and the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) concluded that Flight MH370 flew along the southern corridor and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth, Australia.Najib then announced on March 24 - 17 days after the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, that Flight MH370 "ended in the southern Indian Ocean". The search continues there.Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein pledged earlier this month that any data eventually recovered from the aircraft's black box would be publicly released.On Wednesday, Department of Civil Aviation director-general Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said they had sent a preliminary report of the incident to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the United Nations body for global aviation.Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with CNN s aviation expert Richard Quest, Najib said there was nothing in the report that was embarrassing to Malaysia. " I just want this team to go through it, but in the name of transparency, we will release the report next week, we will release it," he said.Asked on what made him so convinced with the Inmarsat data, Najib said: "When I met the (search and rescue) team and mind you, these are the foremost experts in the aviation industry, they are real experts as you know."I asked them are you sure? I asked them again and again, are you sure and the answer was 'we are sure as we can possibly be'," he said.Najib said the MH370 incident was very different from the Air France and the Silk Air incident."This is totally unprecedented. What do we have going for us? What is the evidence? The evidence simply lies with the pings, the handshakes that we have analysed. That's all we have," he said.
OTHER MH370 STORIES I DONE
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LINKS FROM DAYS 33 TO 46 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
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LINKS FROM DAYS 01 TO 32 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-32-mh370-missing-plane-they-may.html
SEARCH FOR THE PLANE YOURSELF-HERE
http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014
FLIGHTWARE-LIVE FLIGHT TRACKING
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370/history/20140307/1635Z/WMKK/ZBAA/tracklog
MALAYSIAN MH370 SEAT MAP
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Malaysia_Airlines/Malaysia_Airlines_Boeing_777-200.php
VIDEO RETIRED GENERAL SAYS THE PLANES IN PAKISTAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWiVkShm8cw
FINDING PHILIP WOOD
https://www.facebook.com/findingphilipwood370
SARAH SAYS PHILIP IS STILL ALIVE AND KIDNAPPED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKot27qbyw
SARAH BAJC SAYS PHILIP AND ALL ARE STILL ALIVE AND KIDNAPPED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKot27qbyw
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/04/08/erin-bts-bajc-mh370-plane-was-taken.cnn.html
FREESCALE LOCATIONS
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Family Members website
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COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 239 ON MH370-777-200ER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/complete-list-of-members-on-flight.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remebering-mh370-777-200er-victims-of.html (P1)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remembering-mh370-777-200er-citizens.html (P2)
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 4:00PM MON APR 28,2014
I CAN GUARENTEE THIS IS A FALSE FIND OF MH370.IF THEY WOULD LOOK IN INDONESIA,ADDAMAN ISLANDS OR POSSIBLY EVEN INDIA.THEY MIGHT FIND IT.BUT THE OCEAN.I DOUBT IT IMMENCLY.UNLESS WE ARE BEING SETUP FOR A DECEPTION SCAM TO TRY TO GET THE WORLD TO THINK ITS FINALLY FOUND.
The images showing chemical elements detected in the area the company believes it has located MH370. Photo: FIRST ON 7.-pic7News Position where GeoResonance claimed to have found the wreckage of flight MH370 in the
Bay of Bengal. 20.00.00.0. N -- 90.18.00.0.E OFF THE COAST OF BANGLEDESH
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MH370: Company claimed to have found plane wreckage- Astro Awani | Updated: April 28, 2014-(First published on: April 28, 2014 22:21 MYT)--ASTRO AWANI
MH370: Company claimed to have found plane wreckage
KUALA LUMPUR: An Australia based exploration company said it may have found the wreckage of the missing Malaysian Airlines (MAS) MH370 which went missing on March 8.The company, GeoResonance, based in Adelaide, claimed the wreckage was found about 5,000km away from where the authorities have been looking, 7News Adelaine reported.The company which had started its own search for the missing plane on March 10 said its research has identified elements on the ocean floor consistent with material from a plane.Position where GeoResonance claimed to have found the wreckage of flight MH370 in the Bay of Bengal.“The technology that we use was originally designed to find nuclear warheads, submarines… our team in the Ukraine decided we should try and help,” David Pope from GeoResonance told 7News.He said the company surveyed over 2,000,000 square kilometres of the possible crash zone, using images obtained from satellites and aircraft.He added that scientists focused their efforts north of the flight’s last known location, using over 20 technologies to analyse the data including a nuclear reactor.The team had verified its finding by analysing images from the same area on March 5 and found that the wreckage was not there before the flight’s disappearance.“We’re not trying to say that it definitely is MH370, however it is a lead we feel should be followed up,” Pope was quoted.Monday's search area released by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.GeoResonance’s Pavel Kursa who was also quoted by the report said that they had identified chemical elements and materials that make up a Boeing 777.“These are aluminium, titanium, copper, steel alloys and other materials,” he said.The flight carrying 239 passengers and crew went missing while on its way to Beijing.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014-Missing MH370: Check Kandahar, say family members-Reports that MH370 is in Kandahar prompts family members to request Malaysian government to search for the plane there.
PETALING JAYA:Family members of the missing MH370 flight passengers want the government to investigate claims that the missing flight is in Kandahar, Afghanistan.There are reports that the plane is in the South Asian country and it quoted Russian intelligence agency as the source.The request was made by the next of kin in a letter dated April 14 and is addressed to Acting Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein. A copy was also forwarded to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.“We are aware that Government of Malaysia is currently focusing its search effort in South Indian Ocean based on the data supplied by Inmarsat. However, we are entering the 37th day without success in finding any physical evidence in this area.“Hence, it is high time that the Government should start thinking out of the box by exploring and re-examining all leads, new and old.“Based on this spirit, we respectfully request your kind consideration to re-engage the Russian and Afghanistan governments in order to examine and verify the claim that MH370 landed in Afghanistan.“We are confident that the Malaysian government will find that this path is worth exploring considering the lives of 239 passengers and crew on board MH370,” said the next of kin in the letter that was published on Facebook.The MAS flight bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur International Airport had gone missing from radar on March 8.Search efforts have been focused in the southern part of the Indian Ocean but to date nothing related to MH370 has been found.Posted by wikisabah at 5:18 PM
Friday, April 25, 2014-MH370 search likely to last for years
SYDNEY - The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to drag on for years, a senior U.S. defence official told Reuters on Friday, as an underwater search for any trace of the plane's wreckage off west Australia appeared to have failed.The official, speaking under condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to comment on the search effort, said two weeks of scouring the Indian Ocean floor with a U.S. Navy submersible drone had turned up no wreckage.He said the search for the jetliner, which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board, would now enter a much harder phase of scouring broader areas of the ocean near where the plane is believed to have crashed."We went all in on this small area and didn't find anything. Now you've got to go back to the big area," the official said. "And now you're talking years."On Friday, the undersea drone Bluefin-21 is expected to finish what may be the last of its 16-hour trips to depths of more than 4.5km (2.8 miles) searching a 10 square km (6.2 square mile) stretch of seabed about 2,000 miles northwest of Perth.Authorities had identified the area as their strongest lead in determining the plane's final resting place after detecting what they suspected was a signal, or "ping", from the plane's black box recorder on April 4.But the U.S. official said Malaysia would have to decide how to proceed with the search, including whether to bring in more underwater drones, even with the understanding that the search could continue for years without a refined search area.MATT SIEGEL, REUTERS
Monday, April 28, 2014-Search for MH370 will scour larger area of ocean floor, says Aussie PM-The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will enter a new phase after 52 days of searching failed to find any sign of the plane wreckage, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced.
On Monday, Mr Abbott said it was highly unlikely that any debris from the plane would be found on the ocean surface.But Mr Abbott defended the search operation in the southern Indian Ocean, saying authorities remain confident that signals detected weeks ago were from a black box recorder.Speaking in Canberra, Mr Abbott said the "most difficult search in human history" would switch its focus to underwater operations over an expanded area – roughly 700 kilometres by 80 kilometres.The Bluefin-21 submersible, which has been criticised as unreliable, will still be used to search the ocean floor, along with specialised sonar equipment towed by ships that will scan the seabed for wreckage."We will do everything we humanly can, everything we reasonably can, to solve this mystery. We will not let people down," Mr Abbott said."While the search will be moving to a new phase in coming weeks, it certainly is not ending."By this stage, 52 days into the search, most material would have become waterlogged and sunk."With the distances involved, all of the aircraft are operating at close to the limit of sensible and safe operation. Therefore, we are moving from the current phase to a phase which is focused on searching the ocean floor over a much larger area."The new search phase will cost "in the order of $60 million", Mr Abbott said.MH370 vanished on March 8 carrying 239 people, including six Australians.It would be a "terrible outcome" for the families of those on board if the plane was not found, Mr Abbott said.Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, who has been co-ordinating the search, said the revised search could take up to eight months to complete.He said searchers were still confident they were searching in the right area."If everything goes perfectly, I would say we will be doing well if we do it in eight months," he said."But then you have issues, potential issues, with weather, potential issues with equipment. Witness what's happened with the 'Bluefin-21', a number of teething problems with it."Mr Abbott defended his handling of the search and his declaration at the time the signals were detected that searchers were confident they were in the right area."Our way of operating at all times has been to release credible information as soon as we've had it so that we could be as transparent as possible," Mr Abbott said."We still have a considerable degree of confidence that the detections that were picked up using the equipment deployed from Ocean Shield were from a black box recorder."We are still baffled and disappointed that we haven't been able to find undersea wreckage based on those detections."A preliminary report into the plane's disappearance by the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organisation has been handed to Malaysian authorities and is expected to be released to the public this week. The report is expected to recommend real-time tracking of commercial aircraft.with AAP
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 12:03AM MON APR 28,2014
Up to 9 military aircraft and 12 ships are planned to assist in today's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Today the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has planned a visual search area totaling approximately 54,921 square kilometres. The centre of the search area lies approximately 1667 kilometres north west of Perth.Bluefin-21 has completed mission 15 and has commenced mission 16 this morning.
No contacts of interest have been found to date.Bluefin-21 will continue to examine the areas adjacent to the focused underwater search area during mission 16.The weather forecast for today indicates the cold front will move out of the search area and be replaced by a southerly trade flow, sea swells of four to five metres.
Any further information will be made public if, and when, it becomes available.
-JACCSearch continues for Malaysian flight MH370-Media Release-27 April 2014—am-JACC
Due to deteriorating weather conditions, the planned air and surface search has been suspended for today.Bluefin-21 has completed mission 14 and is expected to commence mission 15 this morning.
No contacts of interest have been found to date.Bluefin-21 is expected to complete the focused underwater search area and continue examining the areas adjacent to it during mission 15.Any further information will be made public if, and when, it becomes available.
HOPEFULLY IN THE PRELIMINARY REPORT ON MH370-777-200ER.MALAYSIA ANSWERS SOME OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS QUESTIONS THEY WANT ANSWERED.
The key of questions from family members-(2014-04-16 17:44:40)
Emergency locator transmitter
As far as we know, MH370 has one fixed ELT and two portable ELT. All ElT has passed the latest maintains check (Malaysia airlines has promised to ask when they did the last check and what has been checked)
1. How many ELT are there on the plane? Including fixed and portable. We have heard two versions. We would like to insure how many?
2. Did Malaysia Airline have regular maintains check for ELT? When was latest check for MH370 ‘s ELT? What is the maintainous interval? And we need to see results of maintainous check. If not possible to see the result during the investigation. We would like to know what has been checked.
3. How your 406 MHz is certified. Your licences?
4. Is it possible to break the ELT at high impact? Where is the 406 MHz ELT exactly located on MH370? (tail of the flight or on the celling of business class)
5. Is the ELT protected in the compartment within the fuselage? Surrounding by metal? will the signal be weaken if the metal shield_
6. Is the cable and blade antenna 9G certified? How much impact is need to active ELT? Does the ELT active in Asiana accident and France Air 447?
7. Are 121.5 MHz 243 MHz useless when aircraft crash in water?
8. The manufacturer of the ELT, the signal of 406MHz supposed to be detected by satellite.
9. Is the 406 MHz is a separate service beside the 121.5 and 243 MHz?
10.If the crew has been trained on how to use ELT?
11. Can ELT unlock and bounce to the surface of water?
12.When plane is trying to land on the sea, can ELT can be activated?
Black box
1. The serials number of the black box on MH370. Manufacturer?
2. What kind of characteristic signal does MH370’s black box pinger send? Is it a pulse, with a peak at 37.5 kHz? The width, the shape of the pulse?
3. What is the sample that Boeing has sent to Australia to compare with the detected pinger? Was it from a normal black box signal or the specific black box on boeing 777, or even the exact black box mount on MH370?
4. How many items can the Flight Data Recorder provide? 25, 57 or 88?
5. How long time can the Cockpit Voice Recorder provide? When did Malaysia Airline start to prolong 2 hours record?
6. Can the detected frequency 33.3kHz can illustrate the coverage environment of the black box? Can the location of the black box also te illustrated?
7.Can the investigation team make an experiment on checking the 33.3kHz is caused by the weaken battery? And how long can 33.3 kHz can be detected under the weaken power situation?
Protocol
1. What protocol does ICAO do when flight missing. What did Malaysia Airline do when MH370 missing. What organization are Malaysia in.
2. We want MH370’s logbook
3. We need Malaysia Civil Aviation Control MH370 Voice Record.
4. Inmarsat in Malaysia , NTSB ，Chief engineer Zaharie personal contact phone number. Directly contact information.
5.Have the searching and rescue team got final result from the searched areas? Are they ensure any impossibility on thosed closed area, if not why close all the other areas?
6. Can Malaysia Government specify the right of kins, especially the right to know the facts of a cases or the details of an incident?
7.We require the ATC audio.
From:The Committee of MH370 family Members APR 16,2014
LEADERS Sarah Bajc-Steven Wang (WITH GETTING TRUTH TO THE MEDIA) and most of the Kidnapped Family Members Loved Ones.
28 April 2014| last updated at 11:22PM-Air search for missing Malaysian plane called off-New Straits Times
CANBERRA: The aerial search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was called off Monday, and the underwater hunt will be expanded to include a vast swath of ocean floor that may take at least eight months to thoroughly search, Australian officials said.Not a single piece of confirmed debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been recovered by a massive multinational hunt that began after it disappeared March 8 with 239 people on board.“It is highly unlikely at this stage that we will find any aircraft debris on the ocean surface. By this stage, 52 days into the search, most material would have become waterlogged and sunk,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott said.“Therefore, we are moving from the current phase to a phase which is focused on searching the ocean floor over a much larger area,” he said. The U.S. Navy’s Bluefin 21 robotic submarine has spent weeks scouring the initial search area for the plane in the remote Indian Ocean far off Australia’s west coast, but has found no trace of the missing aircraft.Officials are now looking to bring in new equipment that can search a larger patch of seabed for the plane, Abbott said. The aerial search officially ended Monday, the search coordination center confirmed.Radar and satellite data show the jet veered far off course for unknown reasons during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. Analyses indicate it would have run out of fuel in the remote section of ocean where the search has been focused. The unmanned sub has been creating a three-dimensional sonar map of the ocean floor for more than two weeks near where signals consistent with airplane black boxes were heard on April 8. The sub has searched a nearly 400-square kilometer (150-square mile) area.Crews will now begin searching the plane’s entire probable impact zone, an area 700 kilometers (430 miles) long and 80 kilometers (50 miles) wide, Abbott said.That will be a monumental task — and one that will take time, warned Angus Houston, head of the search effort. “If everything goes perfectly, I would say we’ll be doing well if we do it in eight months,” Houston said, adding that weather and technical issues could prolong the search well beyond that estimate. Australian officials will be contacting private companies to bring in additional sonar mapping equipment that can be towed behind boats to search the expanded area at an estimated cost of US$60 million, Abbott said. It could take officials several weeks to organize contracts for the new equipment and the Bluefin will continue to scour the seabed in the meantime, Abbott said.So far, each country involved in the search has been bearing its own costs. But Abbott said Australia would now seek contributions from other countries to help pay for the new equipment.Two weeks ago, Abbott said officials were “very confident” that a series of underwater signals picked up by sound-detecting equipment came from Flight 370’s black boxes.On Monday, he maintained that he still had a “considerable degree of confidence” — but opened up the possibility that the signals were yet another dead end in a search that has been peppered by them. “We’re still baffled and disappointed that we haven’t been able to find undersea wreckage based on those detections, and this is one of the reasons why we are continuing to deploy the Bluefin 21 submersible — because this is the best information that we’ve got,” Abbott said.“It may turn out to be a false lead, but nevertheless it’s the best lead we’ve got.” Abbott also acknowledged it was possible that no debris from the plane would ever be found.“Of course it’s possible, but that would be a terrible outcome because it would leave families with a baffling uncertainty forever,” he said.“The aircraft plainly cannot disappear — it must be somewhere — and we are going to do everything we reasonably can, even to the point of conducting the most intensive undersea search which human ingenuity currently makes possible of some 60,000 square kilometers under the sea.” “We are going to do all these things because we do not want this crippling cloud of uncertainty to hang over these families and the wider traveling public,” he said.--AP
Chagos Islands dispute: court to rule on UK sovereignty claim-Success of case could lead to return of hundreds of exiled islanders who were forced to leave archipelago-Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent- The Guardian, Monday 21 April 2014 11.09 BST
Britain's sovereignty over the Chagos Islands and America's lease for the Diego Garcia military base could be thrown into doubt by an international court hearing due to open in Istanbul on Tuesday.It is considered of such importance that the attorney general, Dominic Grieve QC, will appear to defend Britain's declaration of a marine reserve around the archipelago.The challenge by Mauritius to the legality of the marine protected area announced by the then foreign secretary, David Miliband, in April 2010, will be heard behind closed doors by the permanent court of arbitration (PCA), a UN-backed tribunal that resolves disagreements between states. Its rulings are binding.Mauritius, which launched its legal challenge three years ago, believes a ruling in its favour could lead to the unravelling of Britain's colonial-era claim and the eventual return of hundreds of exiled islanders who have been forced to leave the archipelago. Many now live in Britain.
Location of Chagos islands
The PCA is based at The Hague, in the Netherlands, but its judicial proceedings are often held in neutral, international venues. Turkey is host for the latest round in the dispute. The hearing is expected to last several weeks although Grieve will only present the UK's opening arguments.Teams of prominent British and American lawyers have also been hired by the UK and Mauritius. Among the UK counsel are Sir Michael Wood, a former Foreign Office adviser; Mauritius has recruited Prof James Crawford, Prof Philippe Sands QC and Elizabeth Wilmshurst, a Foreign Office lawyer who resigned on the eve of the invasion of Iraq.The hearing will be held in secret with none of the proceedings open to the public. At some point it is hoped the documents may be made public, including internal Foreign Office files relating to key decisions from 1965 to April 2010.The Mauritian prime minister, Navinchandra Ramgoolam, has claimed that the decision to establish a 1,411,550sq km (545,000sq mile) marine reserve was carried out in defiance of assurances given to him at the time by the then UK prime minister, Gordon Brown, in 2009.A US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks recorded a Foreign Office official's assertion that "establishing a marine park would, in effect, put paid to resettlement claims of the archipelago's former residents", who were described as "Man Fridays".In a statement to the UN's general assembly last summer, Ramgoolam said: "The dismemberment of part of our territory, the Chagos archipelago – prior to independence – by the then colonial power, the United Kingdom, in clear breach of international law, leaves the process of decolonisation not only of Mauritius, but of Africa, incomplete."He added: "I am confident that the UK and the US would want to be on the right side of history. States which look to the law and to the rules of the comity of nations for the resolution of disputes should not be frustrated by the lack of avenues under international law for settlement of these disputes."In 1965, three years before Mauritius attained independence, the UK decided to "detach" the Chagos Islands from the rest of its then Indian Ocean colony. The Mauritian government, supported by every country in Africa, claims this was in breach of UN general assembly resolution 1514, passed in 1960, which specifically banned the breakup of colonies prior to independence.The Chagos archipelago was subsequently declared to be part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot) from which, in 1971, the 1,500 islanders were deported. The largest island, Diego Garcia, was then leased to the US as an airbase. The lease is due to be renegotiated later this year.Claims that Diego Garcia was used as a secret "black site" detention centre during CIA rendition operations after 2001 resurfaced this month after Abdel-Hakim Belhaj – a rebel military commander and opponent of Muammar Gaddafi arrested in Malaysia and forcibly returned to Libya with his then pregnant wife – reported that he had been held there. The Foreign Office has disputed the claim.The PCA case is being fought within the arcane legal territory of the United Nations convention on the law of the sea (Unclos), an area in which the UK could be at disadvantage. While Mauritius and the Seychelles have put in mutually agreed claims for large tracts of the nearby seabed, the UK has not put in any proposals to the UN commission on the limits of the continental shelf in respect of Biot and has now run out of time to do so.The UK is hoping to persuade the five arbitrators to rule that they do not have jurisdiction over the dispute, but an earlier effort to get that argument decided before dealing with the substantive claim was rejected by the tribunal last year.A Foreign Office spokesman said: "The rules of procedure established for the purposes of these proceedings provide that any evidence submitted alongside the pleadings of either party is confidential. Therefore, the UK is not in a position to comment on matters which are before the tribunal."• This article was amended on 24 April 2014 to clarify that a diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks recording the thoughts of a Foreign Office official came from the US embassy, not the Foreign Office.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians
Military radar DID track an unidentified aircraft at the time MH370 disappeared, Malaysian PM reveals six weeks after the search began-By Dan Bloom and Richard Shears-Published: 20:25 GMT, 24 April 2014 | Updated: 07:29 GMT, 25 April 2014-MAIL ONLINE
Military radar in Malaysia did track an unidentified aircraft as it flew across the country's airspace after MH370 lost contact with ground control, it was revealed today.Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said the military's radar tracked what is believed to have been the Malaysian Airlines plane after it had turned back while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.'The military radar, the primary radar, has some capability,' Mr Najib said.'It tracked an aircraft which did a turn back but they were not sure, exactly sure, whether it was MH370.'What they were sure of was that the aircraft was not deemed to be hostile.'Mr Najib told CNN he did not believe it when he first heard about the critical satellite data on which the current search in the Indian Ocean is based on.'To be honest, I found it hard to believe,' said the Prime Minister.'It's a bizarre scenario which none of us could have contemplated so that's why when I met the team...of foremost experts in aviation industry I asked them again and again "are you sure?"''And their answer to me was we are as sure as we can possibly be.'Earlier reports had suggested military radar had not picked up any definite radar information, leading to speculation that the Boeing 777 had been flown deliberately low and close to the coastline to avoid radar.CNN said that when Mr Najib was asked if he believed the plane was now lost, he replied: 'On the balance of the evidence it would be hard to imagine otherwise.'The Prime Minister also revealed that the government's preliminary report into the disappearance of the aircraft, which had 239 passengers and crew, would be released next week.Malaysia's preliminary report into the disappearance of flight MH370 will be released next week, the country's Prime Minister has said.Najib Razak made the surprise announcement as his government continued to be beseiged by angry families, some of whom refuse to accept the plane was destroyed unless they have hard evidence.The report has already been sent to the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization but not made public.Mr Razak told CNN: 'I have directed an internal investigation team of experts to look at the report, and there is a likelihood that next week we could release the report.'He later confirmed it will be released next week, CNN reported.Despite seven weeks passing since the Malaysia Airlines jet vanished, Mr Razak declined to say outright that it had been lost for good - 'out of respect' for grieving families.
He told CNN's Richard Quest: 'At some point in time I would be, but right now I think I need to take into account the feelings of the next of kin, and you know some of them have said publicly that they aren't willing to accept it until they find hard evidence.'The denial came despite Malaysian authorities a month ago telling families definitively - and by text message - that 'none of those on board survived'.The government has been repeatedly attacked by relatives of passengers, the majority of whom were from China, for not doing enough in its search for the jet.Mr Razak's announcement came as a tropical cyclone again threatened to hamper a 26-nation air, surface and underwater search of the Indian Ocean.Airborne searches were partly suspended for the last two days because of heavy rain, strong winds, rough seas thanks to Tropical Cyclone Jack.The hunt is already the most expensive in aviation history and is focusing on an area where acoustic 'pings' were detected, possibly from the jet's black box recorder, a month after it disappeared. Key to the mission is the U.S. Navy undersea drone Bluefin-21, which will soon finish scouring a 6.2 square mile stretch of seabed.Authorities have said if Bluefin-21 fails to find a trace of the plane in its initial target search area, 1,200 miles north west of Perth, it will be redeployed to new areas.Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the airliner's probable impact zone was 430 miles long and 50 miles wide.A new search strategy would be adopted if nothing is found in the current seabed search zone. ‘If at the end of that period we find nothing, we are not going to abandon the search, we may well rethink the search, but we will not rest until we have done everything we can to solve this mystery,’ he said.Yesterday authorities ruled out any link between debris picked up on an Australian beach and the missing jet.The debris, found on Wednesday on a beach at the southern tip of Western Australia state, was seen as the first lead since April 4 when the pings were detected.But it took Australian authorities less than a day to analyse detailed photographs of the beached debris, which included sheet metal with rivets, and dismiss the possibility that it may be linked to the plane.'We're not seeing anything in this that would lead us to believe that it is from a Boeing aircraft,' said Australian Transport Safety Bureau commissioner Martin Dolan.
MH370: Government to release preliminary report next week - Najib- Bernama | Updated: April 26, 2014-ASTRO AWANI
KUALA LUMPUR: The preliminary findings on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 are likely to be released next week, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak."In the government's commitment to the unrelenting search for MH370, I have also commissioned an internal investigation experts team and the preliminary findings are likely to be released next week," he said in his Facebook account today.Flight MH370, with 239 people on board, left the KL International Airport at 12.41am on March 8 and disappeared from radar screens about an hour later while over the South China Sea. It was to have arrived in Beijing at 6.30am on the same day.A multinational search was mounted for the aircraft, first in the South China Sea and then, after it was learned that the plane had veered off course, along two corridors - the northern corridor stretching from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand and the southern corridor, from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.Following an unprecedented type of analysis of satellite data, the United Kingdom satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat and the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) concluded that Flight MH370 flew along the southern corridor and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth, Australia.Najib then announced on March 24 - 17 days after the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, that Flight MH370 "ended in the southern Indian Ocean". The search continues there.Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein pledged earlier this month that any data eventually recovered from the aircraft's black box would be publicly released.On Wednesday, Department of Civil Aviation director-general Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said they had sent a preliminary report of the incident to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the United Nations body for global aviation.Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with CNN s aviation expert Richard Quest, Najib said there was nothing in the report that was embarrassing to Malaysia. " I just want this team to go through it, but in the name of transparency, we will release the report next week, we will release it," he said.Asked on what made him so convinced with the Inmarsat data, Najib said: "When I met the (search and rescue) team and mind you, these are the foremost experts in the aviation industry, they are real experts as you know."I asked them are you sure? I asked them again and again, are you sure and the answer was 'we are sure as we can possibly be'," he said.Najib said the MH370 incident was very different from the Air France and the Silk Air incident."This is totally unprecedented. What do we have going for us? What is the evidence? The evidence simply lies with the pings, the handshakes that we have analysed. That's all we have," he said.
