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BREAKING NEWS:

Missing Malaysia Airlines flight 'was flown to Taliban-controlled area to be used at a later date'

17 March 2014 08:35 AM By Richard-Hartley-Parkinson

Missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 could now be in a Taliban-controlled base on the Afghanistan and north west Pakistan border, it has been claimed.

The search, now covering 11 countries, has so far offered very few clues on the whereabouts of the Boeing 777 which disappeared nine days ago from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Experts are now in agreement that the plane was hijacked or sabotaged and one theory that has been put forward is that it is being kept in a Taliban area ready for use at a later date, according to the Independent.

The plane is believed to have flown either to the north west from the Malaysian peninsula or south west.

If it was the former, then it could be in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan or Tajikistan.

As part of the investigation police are looking into the backgrounds of captain- Zaharie Ahmed Shah, 53, and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, and their homes have been searched.

Analysis is also taking place on flight simulators built by Mr Shah and found at his home.

A flight engineer who was a passenger on the plane is also being investigated.

Malaysian national Mohd Khairul Mari Selamat, 29, is believed to have worked for a private charter jet company and is being probed as authorities look into anyone who had technical flying knowledge.

McCaul interview
Meanwhile a senior US congressman has said the disappearance of the aircraft was no accident.

Congressman Michael McCaul, Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said the disappearance of flight MH370 on March 8 "was an intentional, deliberate act to bring down this airplane."

Congressman McCaul told Fox News that there were a lot of "warning signs" surrounding the flight, including stolen passports used by two Iranian passengers and one-way tickets bought with cash "that hijackers are known to do."

"We don't have any evidence that this is terrorist related, although you can't rule that out," he said.

"I think all the evidence is pointing towards the cockpit, towards the pilot and co-pilot."

 

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Police investigate flight engineer over disappearance of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370

17 March 2014 06:28 AM By Andy-Lines, Sam-Adams

Police are investigating a flight engineer who was among the passengers on board the missing Malaysian Airlines jet.

The man, named as Mohd Khairul Amri Selamat, 29, is a Malaysian who is believed to have worked for a private jet charter

It comes as authorities focus on the pilots and anyone else on board who had technical flying knowledge.

"Yes, we are looking into Mohd Khairul as well as the other passengers and crew. The focus is on anyone else who might have had aviation skills on that plane," a senior police official with knowledge of the investigations said.

Meanwhile a senior US congressman has said the disappearance of the aircraft was no accident.

Congressman Michael McCaul, Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said the disappearance of flight MH370 on March 8 "was an intentional, deliberate act to bring down this airplane."

 

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Tracking system on Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 'was disabled AS pilot made last radio contact'

17 March 2014 02:55 AM By Andy-Lines, Sam-Adams

The plane's data communications system was switched off soon after Captain Zaharie Ahmed Shah told Malaysian air traffic controllers: "all right, good night"

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Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein
Someone on board the missing Malaysian Airlines plane was already disabling the aircraft's tracking systems as the pilot made his last radio contact, officials believe.

When Captain Zaharie Ahmed Shah said "all right, good night" as the aircraft left Malaysian-run air space on March 8, the plane's data communications system was switched off, Malaysia's Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said .

Both the timing and informal nature of the phrase, spoken to air traffic controllers could further heighten suspicions of hijacking or sabotage on the plane, which was carrying 239 people when it vanished.

The sign-off came after one of the plane's data communication systems, which would have enabled it to be tracked beyond radar coverage, had been deliberately switched off, said Mr Hussein.

"The answer to your question is yes, it was disabled before," he told reporters when asked if the ACARS system - a maintenance computer that sends back data on the plane's status - had been deactivated before the voice sign-off.

The pilot's informal hand-off went against standard radio procedures, which would have called for him to read back instructions for contacting the next control center and include the aircraft's call sign, said Hugh Dibley, a former British Airways pilot and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Investigators are likely to examine the recording for any signs of psychological stress and to determine his identity to confirm whether the flight deck had been taken over by hijackers or the pilot himself was involved, he said.

Malaysian investigators are trawling through the backgrounds of the pilots, crew and ground staff who worked on the missing plane for clues as to why someone on board flew it perhaps thousands of miles off course.

Meanwhile, relatives of the 239 passengers and crew on board missing Flight MH370 are clinging to every shred of evidence their loved ones are still alive.

Last night they were given a major boost after the authorities admitted for the first time the missing Malaysia Airlines jet may have landed rather than crashed.

As the search, widened a senior official in Kuala Lumpur confirmed it was “possible” -satellite signals from the plane could have been sent while it was on the ground.

That sparked hopes it may have been flown to a remote spot by hijackers who at some point will outline their demands.

But there were also fears for the safety of those on board after the FBI described the -disappearance as “an act of piracy”.

 

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Updates: 48 min ago

Chinese ambassador to Malaysia: We have ruled out the possibility that Chinese passengers on MH370 were involved in terrorism - cctvnews

 

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Breaking Updates:

US Navy confirms it has completed its search of the Andaman Sea in hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines jet; 'no debris or wreckage' found - Via NBCNews

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(CNN) -- As investigators search for clues to unravel the mystery of where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went, there were several key developments over the weekend.
But major questions still remain.

Here's a cheat sheet to help you get up to speed on the latest developments:

Where are investigators searching now?

The search has expanded to cover large swaths of land and sea, including 11 countries and deep oceans. Where the plane went is anybody's guess. As 26 nations help try to find the missing plane, there's also a process of elimination in which investigators try to piece together where the aircraft isn't. Pakistan said Sunday that the plane never showed up on its civilian radars and would have been treated as a threat if it had. The Times of India reported that India's military also said there was no way the plane could have flown over India without being picked up on radar.

 

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What's one main focus of the investigation?

Malaysia's Prime Minister has said that somebody deliberately steered the plane off course. That means the pilots have become one obvious focus for investigators. On Sunday, Malaysian police said they were still investigating a flight simulator seized from pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah's home. Peter Chong, a friend of the 53-year-old pilot's, said it's unfair to imply that Zaharie had anything to do with what happened to the plane. He said he'd been to Zaharie's house and tried out the flight simulator. "It's a reflection of his love for people," Chong said, "because he wants to share the joy of flying with his friends." A 29-year-old Malaysian civil aviation engineer, Mohammed Khairul Amri Selamat, who works for a private jet charter company, was on the flight. Police are investigating all passengers and crew, but he is likely to be of particular interest because of his aviation knowledge. "I am confident that he is not involved," his father said. "They're welcome to investigate me and my family."

 

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What do we know about key moments on the flight?

For days, we've been talking about the last transponder signal the plane sent. And now it appears another system that sends data about the plane, the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, was shut off, too. Authorities say the last transmission from that system came early in the flight, at 1:07 a.m. But they say they don't know exactly when the system was shut down, as the next transmission wasn't due until 1:37 a.m. Someone inside the cockpit, believed to be the co-pilot, made the plane's last verbal communication with air traffic controllers at 1:19 a.m., saying, "All right, good night." The transponder was then switched off at 1:21 a.m., authorities say, and all civilian radar lost contact with the plane altogether about 1:30 a.m. Military radar last detected the plane at 2:15 a.m. off Malaysia's west coast, hundreds of miles off course. And at 8:11 a.m., more than seven hours after takeoff, a satellite made the last electronic connection, known as a "handshake," with the plane.
Though some details have come into focus, major questions remain unanswered:

 

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Where's the plane?

Satellite and radar data have given authorities some clues but not enough to pinpoint the plane. Right now, investigators are focusing on two corridors where the plane might have either crashed or landed: a northern arc that stretches from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in central Asia to northern Thailand, and a southern arc that spans from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean. Because the northern parts of the traffic corridor include some tightly guarded airspace over India, Pakistan and even some U.S. installations in Afghanistan, U.S. authorities believe it's more likely the aircraft crashed into waters outside of the reach of radar south of India, a U.S. official told CNN. If it had flown farther north, it's likely it would have been detected by radar. However, on Monday, an Indian military official told CNN that its military radar in the area of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands isn't as closely watched as it is in other areas. This leaves open the possibility that the flight may not have been picked up by Indian military radar around the time of its last believed Malaysian radar contact, near the island of Pulau Perak in the Strait of Malacca.

 

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Who would deliberately divert it?

In addition to the pilots, other passengers and crew members on board the plane, as well as any ground staff who came into contact with it, are under investigation. The bottom line, investigators say, is that whoever flew the plane off course for hours appeared to know what they were doing. Investigators are looking into the backgrounds of the passengers to see whether any of them were trained pilots. "There are still a few countries who have yet to respond to our request for a background check," said Khalid Abu Bakar, inspector general of the Royal Malaysian Police Force. "But there are a few ... foreign intelligence agencies who have cleared all the(ir) passengers."

 

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Why would they do it, and how?

Finding a motive behind the plane's disappearance is a key problem investigators must solve. They haven't released any concrete details. Speculation has surged about the possibility of terrorism or hijacking, but that hasn't been confirmed.

 

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Is there any chance the passengers and crew survived?

It's possible the plane's last satellite contact could have been made from the ground, as long as the airplane still had electrical power, Malaysia's civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said Sunday. For the families and loved ones of those aboard Flight 370, some find comfort that there's no evidence the plane crashed. The father of one passenger, who watched updates from Malaysia in a Beijing hotel, said he hoped the plane was hijacked because that gave him reason to think his son had survived. "I hope they are alive," he said, "no matter how small the chance is."

 

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Does the possibility that the plane is on land change anything about the investigation?

Yes, analysts said. It means it's even more pressing that authorities find the plane. "Time is even more of the essence. If this airplane has been taken to be used as a weapon, then the time that has been taken to prepare the aircraft for whatever deed is the plan -- obviously, to thwart that, it's all about time," said Shawn Pruchnicki, who teaches aviation safety and accident investigation at Ohio State University. CNN aviation analyst Jim Tilmon, a former American Airlines pilot, said that whoever deliberately steered the plane off course probably did it with help. But what's next is anyone's guess, he said. "We have been behind them all along," he said. "So now, if they had a plan, and if that plan included being able to set down someplace and refuel a little bit, we are looking at something that we may never see the end of."

 

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Report: Plane flew low to avoid radar

Malaysian officials on Monday denied knowledge of a newspaper report that the plane may have dropped to an altitude of 5,000 feet to defeat commercial radar coverage. "We are not aware of that report, and that's a thing the investigative team has to look into. It does not come from us," Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told reporters in Kuala Lumpur. CNN could not immediately confirm the newspaper's account.
The report, published Monday by Malaysia's New Straits Times, said the flight dropped to 5,000 feet after turning back from its Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route on March 8 and quoted unnamed officials as saying "it's possible that the aircraft had hugged the terrain in some areas that are mountainous to avoid radar detection." New Straits Times Editor Farrah Naz Karim told CNN's "New Day" that the newspaper spoke to sources close to the investigation and asked how flying at that altitude could be done. She added that this is one aspect that investigators could be looking into but it's all speculation at this point

 

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Why are we so gripped by missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

(CNN) -- It's been more than a week since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 seemingly vanished into thin air. Clues are few and far between.
Yet we remain glued to the story -- hungry, some almost desperate, for any tidbit of news. Why? "I think the most fascinating aspect of this story now is that it's become ... transcendent. And by that, I mean, it's no longer a story about an airplane crash; it's a mystery story," Patrick Smith, an airline pilot, blogger and author, told CNN's "Piers Morgan Live." The story of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has dominated headlines and social media since it broke. By Sunday night, it was no longer trending on Twitter in the United States, but it remained among the top stories in Malaysia and India.

Thousands of aspiring good Samaritans volunteered their time to scour part of the plane's search zone using detailed satellite images posted online by DigitalGlobe, a Colorado firm that owns one of the world's most advanced commercial satellite networks.In fact, so many people joined the effort that the firm's website -- with its pinpoint pictures of everything floating in the ocean -- crashed.One volunteer, Mike Seberger, 43, found a fascinating image in a matter of minutes: the silhouette in the ocean has the scale of a Boeing 777-200, the same model of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. His discovery can be seen on his CNN iReport page.It's both the flight's commonness and its rareness that might have us gripped.

One the one hand, many people travel by plane who can relate easily to the experience of flying.Until the mystery is solved, who among us isn't going to jump the next time we're on a plane and feel a bump of turbulence? That's what happened to Brian Stelter, host of CNN's "Reliable Sources."
"We tend to identify with these kinds of disasters, and so the fear of flying may go up for many people," psychiatrist Gail Saltz said on that program.
An insatiable demand for news What does the U.S. know about MH 370?
On the other hand, cases such as the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are extremely rare.

"This is a very strange event," said aviation historian Carroll Gray. "It doesn't lend itself to the normal sets of explanations."
Such mysteries are "phenomenally gripping," Gray said. "Things that are unsolved just sort of grab people, especially when you have the common experience of flying."Saltz agreed.

"They want someone to hold accountable. It's a very disturbing thought, and right now we can't figure out who's to blame," she said. The psychiatrist summed up our fascination: "I think this nebulousness keeps us riveted."


READ: Malaysian government uncomfortable in spotlight over missing plane

 

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Updates:

China has deployed 21 satellites to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner - reuters

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