MH370 - what happened

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Flight 370 did not explode; it vanished

There are some astonishing things you're not being told about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the flight that simply vanished over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board.

The mystery of the flight's sudden and complete disappearance has even the world's top air safety authorities baffled. "Air-safety and antiterror authorities on two continents appeared equally stumped about what direction the probe should take,".

• Fact #1: All Boeing 777 commercial jets are equipped with black box recorders that can survive any on-board explosion

No explosion from the plane itself can destroy the black box recorders. They are bomb-proof structures that hold digital recordings of cockpit conversations as well as detailed flight data and control surface data.

• Fact #2: All black box recorders transmit locator signals for at least 30 days after falling into the ocean

Yet the black box from this particular incident hasn't been detected at all. That's why investigators are having such trouble finding it. Normally, they only need to "home in" on the black box transmitter signal. But in this case, the absence of a signal means the black box itself -- an object designed to survive powerful explosions -- has either vanished, malfunctioned or been obliterated by some powerful force beyond the worst fears of aircraft design engineers.

• Fact #3: Many parts of destroyed aircraft are naturally bouyant and will float in water

In past cases of aircraft destroyed over the ocean or crashing into the ocean, debris has always been spotted floating on the surface of the water. That's because -- as you may recall from the safety briefing you've learned to ignore -- "your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device."

Yes, seat cushions float. So do many other non-metallic aircraft parts. If Flight 370 was brought down by an explosion of some sort, there would be massive debris floating on the ocean, and that debris would not be difficult to spot. The fact that it has not yet been spotted only adds to the mystery of how Flight 370 appears to have literally vanished from the face of the Earth.

• Fact #4: If a missile destroyed Flight 370, the missile would have left a radar signature

One theory currently circulating on the 'net is that a missile brought down the airliner, somehow blasting the aircraft and all its contents to "smithereens" -- which means very tiny pieces of matter that are undetectable as debris.

The problem with this theory is that there exists no known ground-to-air or air-to-air missile with such a capability. All known missiles generate tremendous debris when they explode on target. Both the missile and the debris produce very large radar signatures which would be easily visible to both military vessels and air traffic authorities.

• Fact #5: The location of the aircraft when it vanished is not a mystery

Air traffic controllers have full details of almost exactly where the aircraft was at the moment it vanished. They know the location, elevation and airspeed -- three pieces of information which can readily be used to estimate the likely location of debris.

Remember: air safety investigators are not stupid people. They've seen mid-air explosions before, and they know how debris falls. There is already a substantial data set of airline explosions and crashes from which investigators can make well-educated guesses about where debris should be found. And yet, even armed with all this experience and information, they remain totally baffled on what happened to Flight 370.

• Fact #6: If Flight 370 was hijacked, it would not have vanished from radar

Hijacking an airplane does not cause it to simply vanish from radar. Even if transponders are disabled on the aircraft, ground radar can still readily track the location of the aircraft using so-called "passive" radar (classic ground-based radar systems that emit a signal and monitor its reflection).

Thus, the theory that the flight was hijacked makes no sense whatsoever. When planes are hijacked, they do not magically vanish from radar.

Conclusion: Flight 370 did not explode; it vanished

The inescapable conclusion from what we know so far is that Flight 370 seems to have utterly and inexplicably vanished. It clearly was not hijacked (unless there is a cover-up regarding the radar data), and we can all be increasingly confident by the hour that this was not a mid-air explosion (unless debris suddenly turns up that they've somehow missed all along).

The inescapable conclusion is that Flight 370 simply vanished in some way that we do not yet understand. This is what is currently giving rise to all sorts of bizarre-sounding theories across the 'net, including discussions of possible secret military weapons tests, Bermuda Triangle-like ripples in the fabric of spacetime, and even conjecture that non-terrestrial (alien) technology may have teleported the plane away.

Personally, I'm not buying any of that without a lot more evidence. The most likely explanation so far is that the debris simply hasn't been found yet because it fell over an area which is somehow outside the search zone. But as each day goes by, even this explanation becomes harder and harder to swallow.

The frightening part about all this is not that we will find the debris of Flight 370; but rather that we won't. If we never find the debris, it means some entirely new, mysterious and powerful force is at work on our planet which can pluck airplanes out of the sky without leaving behind even a shred of evidence.

If there does exist a weapon with such capabilities, whoever control it already has the ability to dominate all of Earth's nations with a fearsome military weapon of unimaginable power. That thought is a lot more scary than the idea of an aircraft suffering a fatal mechanical failure.

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When a flight attendant utters the familiar phrase, ''in the unlikely event of an emergency'' in a pre-take-off airline safety demonstration passengers can be more certain than ever that it is not a platitude.

And while it will provide cold comfort to the loved ones of the passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the reality is that such events are increasingly and remarkably rare.

Just a few decades ago, such incidents, especially those not suspected of being caused by terrorists, would likely have registered considerably more muted international media attention. Airline crashes, after all, were simply too frequent.

But unquestionably, today's passengers enjoy far more reliable, better-engineered aircraft as well as vastly improved security and safety standards.

It is therefore all the more alarming when a respected airline such as Malaysia Airlines loses an aircraft in such mysterious circumstances.

Consider the fact that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) declared 2012 to be the safest year in the history of aviation. It had the lowest number of accidents involving Western-built jets.

IATA estimated that the accident rate (measured in ''hull'', or whole fuselage, losses per million flights) was equivalent to one accident every 5 million flights, a nearly 50 per cent improvement on 2011 when the accident rate was one for every 2.7 million flights.

In 2012, none of IATA's more than 240 members recorded hull losses of a Western-built jet.

Furthermore, it took just four years from the first commercial flight of a Boeing 747 for the aircraft to record its first disaster.

In contrast, the A380 superjumbo, which first flew commercially in 2007, is yet to suffer a fatal accident.

The most potentially dangerous event involving an A380 was that of Qantas Flight 32 in 2010 which landed in Singapore with no loss of life.

Yet it is not just safety standards that have changed. The composition of the passenger lists aboard many overseas flights are unrecognisable compared to a decade ago.

The majority of the passengers aboard the ill-fated Flight MH370 were Chinese nationals. Ten years ago that would not have been possible since only a tiny number of Chinese citizens were permitted to travel abroad.

Now tens of millions of Chinese have the financial ability and the acquiescence of their government to do so, and also run the statistical risk, albeit minute, of being involved in a misadventure like Flight MH370.

Nowadays, airlines and the loved ones of passengers involved in an accident must also contend with the vagaries of social media.

At the weekend, Twitter was alive with misguided theories offering false hopes about the fate of Flight MH370, with suggestions that the aircraft had variously landed at Nanning Wuxu International Airport in southern China and Nanjing Lukou International Airport.

10th March 2014
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Is this caused this accident to missing MH370...?? The wing damaged was reported and this could have made structural damage to the air craft.. not limited to wings but possible fuselage..

why Malaysian immigration was failed to stop two fake passport travelers though it was activated by Interpol two years ago.. What is the fundamental issue here... there is a common issue exist..!!

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