Something is rotten in the state of Malaysia.
From Yahoo News:
In a strange twist, Malaysia's military believes it tracked the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 by radar over the Strait of Malacca, far from where it last made contact with civilian air traffic control over the Gulf of Thailand. A military source confirmed with Reuters that the Boeing 777-200ER with 239 on board changed course and made it to the other side of the Malay peninsula.
"It changed course after Kota Baru and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Strait," the military official, who has been briefed on investigations, told Reuters. The Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping channels, runs along Malaysia's west coast.
The airline said on Saturday that the flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew last had contact off the east coast Malaysian town of Kota Baru. The Berita Harian newspaper was the first to report this development, quoting the Royal Air Force Malaysia (RMAF) chief General Tan Sri Rodzali Daud as saying they tracked the signal to Pulau Perak on the country's west coast.
"The last time the plane could be traced by an air control tower was near Pulau Perak, which is on the Straits of Malacca at 2.40am. "After that, the signal from the plane was lost," he said. Incidentally, Malaysia Airlines first statement on the missing jetliner on Saturday said that air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane at 2.40am but it was later corrected to 1.30am.
It was also reported that a Singaporean air traffic surveillance and control unit also picked up the signal that MH370 "made a turn back before it was reported to have climbed 1,000 metres from its original altitude at 10,000 metres”.
It was widely reported that the plane went missing at around 1.30am while flying above the South China Sea between the Malaysian east coast and the southern coast of Vietnam.
The plane reported went off radar and its last known location was 065515 North (longitude) and 1033443 East (latitude). This is also supported with police reports made by some east coast residents, who claimed that they have seen huge lights and a plane flying at some 1000 metres above sea level off Kota Baru.
However, search and rescue (SAR) authorities have failed to find any sign of the plane in the waters of the South China Sea. Indications that MH370 might have turned back have since led the SAR operations to be expanded to the Straits of Malacca and the Andaman Sea.
The operations to find the missing plane involve armed forces and authorities from Australia, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines and the United States, apart from Malaysia. The SAR operations are in its fourth day. – March 11, 2014.MEANWHILE, SOME NEWS REPORTS HAVE STATED THE WANTED MAN LOOKED LIKE SOCCER STAR MARIO BALOTELLI.
Here's Balotelli:
Here's the two men with fake passports:
AND DOES THIS MEAN ANYTHING?
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Interpol: Malaysia Flight 370 not terrorism
I guess they mean, that settles it.
People-smuggling link on missing plane
Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370: Two Men Claim to Have Seen Plane Plunging into Sea
Missing jet flew for an hour after vanishing: military source Add to ...
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raelynx 23 minutes ago
Some Military aircraft are designed to be "stealth" machines with the express purpose to avoid detection by ground based radar. Commercial aircraft do not have this capability, so how does a civilian aircraft disappear from radar and continue to fly for up to an hour?
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Marc in Montreal 12 minutes ago
From what I heard on the news yesterday, their location meant that they were tracked by their secondary radar (primary radar system is only visible when they are within air traffic control's tracking area), which is only visible when they are above seomething like 30000 feet. Therefore, they will not be tracked by this radar if they are at 9000 meters. I don't really know anything about this, but it's what I understood.
Interpol
Quote: "He said the passport birthdates indicated one was 19 and the other 29. The 19-year-old, whose name differed slightly from that given by Malaysian authorities, is believed to have planned to seek asylum in Germany."
Recall:
5 passengers checked but did not board plane
I haven't found any article which resolved that security breach to conclude the elimination of the possibility of terrorism.
“Earlier, it was reported that the passenger manifest was leaked onto a Chinese website, with one name oddly blurred out…”
Was that resolved as well?
Malaysia military tracked missing plane to west coast: source
(Reuters) - Malaysia's military believes a jetliner missing for almost four days turned and flew hundreds of kilometers to the west after it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country's east coast, a senior officer told Reuters on Tuesday.
What stolen passport passengers did before boarding plane
Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad and Delavar Syed Mohammad Reza are the two Iranians who used stolen passports on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, according to officials. (interesting image at link - one of the blurred images appears to more suit the soccer player
http://www.whas11.com/news/editors-pick/What-stolen-passport-passengers-did-before-boarding-plane-249444861.html
Quotes from above link:
"Interpol later identified the other man as Delavar Syed Mohammad Reza, 29."
and
"Besides the hushed phone conversations, Mallaeibeasir said that the pair just hung out with him and his housemate and watched movies. Then Mallaeibeasir drove them to the airport.
"They stayed here only the last night before the flight. They were supposed to stay in Malaysia for three days but I think they stayed for one week," Mallaebeasir said. "They were with me because I had a car and I told them I will take you to the airport. They came to my house."
Mallaeibeasir and Pouria went to high school together in Tehran two years ago, before Mallaebeasir moved to Malaysia to study business information technology. He said he did not know Reza until the two arrived at his home for a quick night's stay.
Mallaeibeasir said he did not ask Pouria or Reza why they were in Malaysia. Pouria said he was heading to Germany or Copenhagen after Malaysia in order to visit his mother because they were having family problems, Mallaeibeasir said.
The two men traveled lightly, Mallaebeasier said. Pouria had a mountain climbing-type backpack and a laptop, while Reza carried a suitcase and a laptop, he said."
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