Friday, April 4, 2014

Malaysia Flight 370 May Never Be Found

Not until the "terrorists" fly it into an intended target or all the parts are recovered and returned to the chop shop because this laughable story isn't flying anymore:

"Malaysian police: Jet mystery may never be solved" by Eileen Ng and Nick Perry | Associated Press   April 03, 2014

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A police investigation may never determine the reason why the Malaysia Airlines jetliner disappeared, and search planes scouring the Indian Ocean for any sign of its wreckage are not certain to find anything either, officials said Wednesday.

The assessment by Malaysian and Australian officials underscored the lack of knowledge authorities have about what happened on Flight 370. It also points to a scenario that becomes more likely with every passing day: that the fate of the Boeing 777 and the 239 people on board might remain a mystery forever....

OMG!

The British government said a nuclear-powered submarine with advanced underwater search capability had arrived in the southern Indian Ocean....

Could all this be cover for war preparation?

Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the multinational search effort out of Australia, said that no time frame had been set for the search to end, but that a new approach would be needed if nothing showed up.

How many millions is this costing taxpayers?

‘‘Over time, if we don’t find anything on the surface, we’re going to have to think about what we do next, because clearly it’s vitally important for the families, it’s vitally important for the governments involved that we find this airplane,’’ he said.

Flight Lieutenant Dave O’Brien, captain of an Australian P-3 Orion that searched Wednesday, said it was another fruitless day despite favorable weather and sea conditions.

‘‘We didn’t see anything at all of interest,’’ he said. ‘‘So a fairly quiet day for us out there. However, we are back out tomorrow to try it all again.’’

With no other data available indicating where the plane went down, spotting wreckage is key to narrowing down the search area and ultimately finding the plane’s flight data recorders, which would provide a wealth of information about the condition the plane was flying under and the communications or sounds in the cockpit.

Somehow I'm getting the feeling they are never going to find those black boxes.

The data recorders emit a ‘‘ping’’ that can be detected by special equipment towed by a ship in the immediate vicinity. But the battery-powered recorders stop transmitting the pings about 30 days after a crash. Locating the data recorders and wreckage after that is possible, but it becomes an even more daunting task.

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No sign of it in today's Globe:

"Gunmen abduct tourist, resort worker in Malaysia" by Kirk Semple and Floyd Whaley | New York Times   April 04, 2014

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a Chinese tourist and a Filipino hotel worker, both women, from a beach resort on an island in Malaysian Borneo, the Chinese and Malaysian authorities said Thursday, spurring an international manhunt for the assailants.

The abductions late Wednesday appeared to be the work of insurgents from the nearby islands of the southern Philippines who have been fighting the Filipino government for years, security experts said.

They just made peace in the Philippines so this smells real suspicious.

The women were taken from the Singamata Reef Resort, a diving and snorkeling retreat built on stilts above a reef off Sabah, a state in eastern Malaysia.

Chinese tourists at the resort told the Chinese Huaxi Metropolitan Daily that they had heard gunshots as a group of gunmen stormed the hotel, grabbed the victims, and spirited them away on speedboats....

They can't track boats, either, huh?

Various armed groups, including Muslim separatist factions fighting to establish an independent state, operate throughout the southern Philippines and use kidnappings for ransom to help finance their operations.

Why would they do this now when they just signed a peace deal?

The Foreign Affairs Department of the Philippines said in a statement Thursday that the country’s maritime forces and anti-kidnapping teams were “actively and closely coordinating with their Malaysian counterparts in exchanging information and in working toward the speedy resolution of the case.”

Smells like a psyop.

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Related: Malaysian Flight 370 Vanishes Again 

I'll bet it pops up in my Globe again!