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Boeing Co on Wednesday said the missing 777 Malaysia Airlines jetliner was not subject to a new U.S. safety directive that ordered additional inspections for cracking and corrosion on certain 777 planes.
The Federal Aviation Administration last week ordered additional, repeated inspections of certain Boeing 777 aircraft, warning that corrosion and cracking could lead to rapid decompression and damage to the structure of the aircraft.
A Chinese government agency has published satellite pictures that show “three suspected floating objects” in the South China Sea. The images were published by the Chinese State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND), and dated 11am on Sunday, March 9.
The images were published on Wednesday evening local time in Beijing, some 10 hours ago, but were not picked up by international media until the past few hours. China’s official news agency, Xinhua, says the objects measure 13m by 18m (43ft by 59ft), 14m by 19m and 24m by 22m. For context, the Boeing 777 is just under 64m long.
Publication of the images has raised the already-strained tensions between the Chinese and Malaysian authorities. Two thirds of the passengers on flight MH370 were from China, and the authorities in Beijing have made it clear that they have deep concerns about how the Malaysians have conducted the search. Malaysian civil aviation director general Abdul Rahman told CNN his agency had not seen the images as of 6am local time Thursday.
The Malaysian authorities leading the investigation into the missing plane have added to the confusion about its last known whereabouts. At a hostile press conference military officials said the last possible recording of flight MH370 was at 2.15am on Saturday morning 200 miles north west of Penang. The authorities had initially said air traffic control lost contact at 1.20am on the east side of the peninsula. On Tuesday the head of the armed forces was reported as saying it was picked up by military radar at 2.40am - a statement he has since denied making.
The search area has been expanded still further to two areas either side of the Malaysia peninsula. The total search area now covers 27,000 square nautical miles and involves 42 ships and 39 aircraft. The investigators said they were still not sure whether the aircraft changed course and were “baffled” by why no distress signal was sent. Malaysia military chief said raw data of the radar recordings would be released to the public once it had been corroborated.
Malaysia Airlines insisted that the missing Boeing was airworthy before taking off, but declined to reveal whether it had been inspected for a known potential problem with the fuselage. In November the Federal Aviation Administration warned airlines to look out for corrosion under the skin of the Boeing 777’s fuselage related to a satellite antenna. Boeing said in a statement that the antenna covered by the safety bulletin was not installed on MH370.
The last message from the cockpit of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight was routine. “All right, good night,” was the signoff transmitted to air traffic controllers five days ago. Then the Boeing 777 vanished.
Cydonia2012
andy1972
If the photos are from SUNDAY, why wait until now to release them..or have they only just noticed??
my thoughts exactly. Even if this was the wreckage, by now it probably drifted so far which makes these pics irrelevant. If they saw this sunday, why didn't they go check it out then?
carewemust
reply to post by Awolscout
If you pour over satellite images, you'll always find "things" floating in the ocean. That's what happens when the earth is populated by humans. For the sake of the families, I hope this doesn't end up being another wild-goose-chase. But, I do enjoy seeing CNN create hours and hours of discussions when so little is known. They seem to have a personal interest in this story for some reason.
-cwm
China’s official news agency, Xinhua, says the objects measure 13m by 18m (43ft by 59ft), 14m by 19m and 24m by 22m. For context, the Boeing 777 is just under 64m long.
[.....Authorities investigate unidentified flying object
Air force chief Rodzali Daud said authorities were investigating an unidentified flying object about 320 kilometres north-west of the Malaysian state of Penang at 2:15am on Saturday.
That is hundreds of kilometres to the west of the plane's planned flight path between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing.
Authorities have said radar data records indicated the "possibility" that the plane may have attempted to "turn back" to Kuala Lumpur shortly before its disappearance, but have not revealed the specifics of the data.
"We are corroborating this. We are not saying this is MH370. It's an unidentified plot," General Rodzali said.]
carewemust
reply to post by 12voltz
UFO involvement is what I first suspected after it was reported that the plane's technology (some of it top secret) stopped communicating and it had vanished into thin air. A shoe-bomb, or small explosion onboard wouldn't have severed every communications conduit in an instant.
12voltz
reply to post by Awolscout
Are you sure about that because the General isnt
"We are corroborating this. We are not saying this is MH370. It's an unidentified plot," General Rodzali said.]
kosmicjack
There is also this weirdness:
The 727 that Vanished from Angola in 2003
So, they never found that one either and there were ties to known terrorists.edit on 3/11/2014 by kosmicjack because: (no reason given)
Vietnam has already searched the area where Chinese satellites showed objects that could be debris from a missing Malaysia Airlines jet but a plane has been sent to check the area again, Vietnamese military officials said.
Logarock
For all we know at this point, the plane could have been drifting in and then out and back into a dimensional warp. It is said happened before.
Bitxushanty
reply to post by ReturnofTheSonOfNothing
It was the Daleks!
Logarock
For all we know at this point, the plane could have been drifting in and then out and back into a dimensional warp. It is said happened before.