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SHIPS SEARCHING THE vast Indian Ocean for a Malaysian airliner have detected three separate underwater signals.
More ships and planes were diverted to the area today to investigate whether they could have come from the plane’s black box.
Angus Houston, head of the Australian search mission, said the detections were being taken “very seriously” as time ticked down on the battery life of the black box’s tracking beacons.
He said China’s Haixun 01 vessel has twice detected an underwater signal on a frequency used for the plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders — once for 90 seconds on Saturday and another more fleeting “ping” on Friday a short distance away.
A third “ping” was also being scrutinised, 300 nautical miles away in the Indian Ocean.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard vanished on 8 March during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
“This is an important and encouraging lead but one which I urge you to continue to treat carefully,” Houston told reporters.
We are working in a very big ocean and within a very large search area.
Speculation and unconfirmed reports can see the loved ones of the passengers put through terrible stress and I don’t want to put them under any further emotional distress at this very difficult time.
The search
Earlier, Houston said Australian ship Ocean Shield — also equipped with a black box locator — and Australian air force planes were being diverted to the area to help discount or confirm the Chinese signals.
Ocean Shield was also investigating the signal it detected on Sunday in its current location, about 300 nautical miles north of Haixun 01, in waters far off Australia’s west coast.
Houston said the Chinese finding was more promising.
“I think the fact that we’ve had two detections, two acoustic events in that location, provides some promise which requires a full investigation,” he said.
Time running out
The hunt for the jet was refocused on the southern end of the search zone today after corrected satellite data showed it was more likely the plane entered the water there.
Houston said the Haixun 01 was already operating in that more southerly zone.
Some analysts greeted the acoustic detections with optimism, saying a 37.5 kHz signal can only be transmitted by an emergency beacon. But others were sceptical and said it was vital to find supporting evidence.
Houston said Haixun 01 was in waters about 4.5 kilometres deep, meaning “any recovery operation is going to be incredibly challenging and very demanding and will take a long period of time” if the plane is found there.
Houston said time was critical.
This is Day 30 of the search and the advertised time for the life of the batteries in the beacon is 30 days. Sometimes they last for several days beyond that — say eight to 10 days beyond that — but we’re running out of time in terms of the battery life of the emergency locator beacons.
Up to 10 military planes, two civil aircraft and 13 ships were scouring the remote waters on Sunday, concentrating on about 216,000 square kilometres (86,400 sq miles) of the Indian Ocean around 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) northwest of Perth.
Houston insisted that China was “sharing everything that’s relevant to this search” with the lead authority, and sidestepped questions over the Haixun 01′s location far from the other lead vessels in the search.
“China has seven ships out there, that’s by far the largest fleet of ships out there. I think we should be focusing on the positives,” he said.
In Kuala Lumpur more than 2,000 people including relatives held an emotional mass prayer today for the safety of the passengers.
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Go Home Ireland, You’re Drunk.
Now thats on the road for comment of the week.
That’s good. Just woken and logged on and could not fathom out why Ireland was sitting in the Indian ocean. I know i sleep deep but surely would not have missed that kind of earthquake.
Is Ireland in the Indian Ocean now?
I thought it was fairly sunny alrigh.
Just so it’s clear: the map was made by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority to give an idea of the scale of the search area today. We’d probably have noticed if we’d actually moved south of the Equator.
Ireland in the Indian ocean and the island of Britain is no longer our friendly neighbours what about all the English footie and tv soaps and Saturday night shows Rte will never reach all the way from the Indian ocean:-(
I think I’m hyperventilating.
It has been alot warmer today than usual, Im just wondering…
Hopefully the weather will pick up now – and just in time for summer!!
Yeah but it’s heading into the winter down there
Christine your joking? Ah did we not really move south? Just thought how easy it would be for the Irish to emigrate to Australia.
There’s great drying out
Damn it, Christine. I’ve already set every feckin’ clock and watch in the house forward 7 hours!
Where’d you think all that sand came from? :)
Sometimes in winter I wish we had!
Jezz we’d be right close to Australia. Just get 50 strong fcukers from Longford and they’d drag the country the rest of the way.
I think Britain sank………
Has everybody missed the.obvious question here… Say one if these “pings” is the plane…. WTF are the the other two?!?!?!?!?!?
pongs
Two black boxes on an aircraft (one data and one voice recorder). Both boxes have their own pinger. Two pulse signals picked up by Chinese across Friday and Saturday using surface rods with receivers, which are prone to interference from other vessels transmitting test signals in the search area. It’s a little like fishing for a large fish using a stick, and a string with a bait on the end. Sure, you just might be lucky, but the elements, size and depth of the ocean is against you. The third pulse signal was picked up by an Australian vessel 350 miles away. None have been verified.
The ship that arrived today has more sophisticated equiptment and will submerge a receiver way down into the ocean and tow it on a cable. It operates a lot closer to the seabed and is less prone to mis-signals and interference.
2 data recorders two pings….the other is probably an Angel plating the harp.
*playing
Half our youth have emigrated that direction so why not just move the whole island anyway
Three different pings.
Batteries nearly dead.
Its like they are doing their best not to find it.
They definitely know more than they are letting on.
So many false expectations…I won’t hold my breath but I hope it’s for real this time.
They say that they don’t know if the ping is from MH370. If it is not, does that mean that there is another plane under the wàter and nobody knew it?
We’d know if there was another plane missing, equipted with black boxes, and the signal on a black box only works (if entact) for roughly 30 days. Some have been known to last longer – 40+ days in extreme circumstances. Picking up a black box signal in a deep ocean (the current area is 4400-15000 deep) and subject to underwater valleys, troughs, ridges and plateaus that can interfere with the quality of the received signal. Also, some experts argue that whales can even emit signals underwater that can be wrongly received. I don’t know if that is true or not. What we need is a report from one of the search vessels that the have repeatedly recorded a consistent series of one-second pings at 37.5khz in one specific area, using submerged receivers at depth, not just from surface hydraphone receivers, which the Chinese were using. Until that happens, we are unlikely to see mini remote subs deployed with camera equiptment.
What ever they find it is it was planted there quite recently by the United States.
So it’s gone from a hanger in Israel, to Diego Garcia, & according to you on Friday was on a cargo ship out of Diego Garcia which is a 6 day sale to were the acoustic events have been flagged.
So the Americans have a ship that travels faster than any other can carry a 777 and can sail it through a massive search involving ships and planes of multiple navies & air forces.
Your story has more holes than Swiss cheese
Ah yeah, sure I read the plane didn’t crash at all. It was actually transported mid-flight to Area 51 by the US government. They did this using alien technology they recovered from the Roswell crash. Wake up sheeple!
I wonder what all these conspiracy theorist did with their time before the internet was invented??
Probably talked about it face to face
Jaysus Frank, stop taking those disco biscuits will ya!
Wayne O’Fathaigh Never said anything left the Hangar in Telaviv… According to Airliners.Net N105GT GA Telesis Boeing 777-2H6(ER) is still present in Telaviv.
http://www.planespotters.net/Production_List/Boeing/777/28416,N105GT-GA-Telesis-php
A month would buy quite a lot of time to hide / destroy the evidence…..
Whether this incident was a botched up false flag or what ever a plane cannot simply disappear from a flight path without being traced and monitored and that is coming from professional forums. What we are getting in the mainstream media is misleading bullshit. The same bullshit we are getting about all these other false flags.
You don’t understand Wayne. High level
intelligence suggests that the American ships carrying the ‘planted plane wreckage’ have new experimental invisibility cloaks that were detrimental to the disappearance of the plane in the first place. It’s actually cloaked on the back lawn of the White House. That’s right isn’t it Frank?
Frank a plane can disappear if 1) all tracking beacons are turned off which appears to have happened here and 2 if it is flown on a course/ altitude that is outside of radar coverage. Stealth aircraft take advantage of radar black spots as part of their strategy to remain invisible.
You were very definite that the plane and bodies were leaving Diego Garcia on a ship last week you even posted a requisition request?? Now Diego Garcia is an ETOPS emergency sight so covered by commercial radar, intersat are a non government I dependant company and they say it was on a course in the Indian Ocean.
I can’t wait to hear what you come up with when the hopefully find and retrieve it
Aaron, or talked to themselves, more likely.
i love you Frank
The problem with conspiracy theorists is that they are always ready with a new conspiracy theory to explain away why their previous conspiracy theory was debunked.
Wow No Sh1t Sherlock!.
You are a looser Frank
I imagine Franks house is lined with tin foil
Wayne O’Fathaigh Boll*ix… Did you see the amount of transmitters on a Commercial Jet Airline, some cannot be switched off except through the back door by intelligence agencies or the manufacturers themselves such as P&W and RR.
http://s8.postimg.org/49xomud05/Antennalocations.gif
If this had been a homing pigeon from North Korea or Iran these lying cockroaches would have had it tracked quick enough..
No one is buying their stories except the gullible that watch CNN or BBC.
Blah blah rooney….where is the plane moron…
I imagine your a gimp…..monkey even….lol
Bravo Frank the diagram you posted is of the locations of Antennas, and radar on the plane. I will give you a guess were the power switch is for all of them! In the cockpit!
I can’t believe that people think there was no malice involve with the disappearance of MH370. Far too many outs for it just have been a mechanical accident.
I don’t think we’ll ever get the truth. It’s such a tragedy for all those on board and all their families.
Agree with you, Paul. There is no way now this was an accident. The early theories of fire or depressure have gone out the window. This was an aircraft guided on various altitudes, paths by manual input down into the Indian Ocean.If it was a hijack, then it is one of the most sophisticated ever carried out. The ability to not just control an aircarft, but understand cockpit control, redial settings to the FMS, avoid radar, and understand fuel consumption is far beyond what we encountered with 911. Even a pilot under threat and duress, knows how to compromise those threats and trick hijackers into guiding a plane into an area that increases the chances of detection and survival. The hijacked Ethopian jet was a perfect example of that some years ago.This plane did everything possible to avoid detection and place the aircraft into a very inhospital area deliberately.
It just seems a means to a end, without purpose. Hijackers want purpose and attention, not to disappear without notice. A good pilot, will do everything he/she can to bring notice to an aircraft under distress, even with all communications off.
It leaves with me with one conclusion. Whoever flew MH370 into the Indian Ocean – did not want to be found easily.
911 rooney get educated…it is pretty damn obvious this is a government job….i am just a conspiracy theorist though….lol
I’m inclined to agree with you but for the lack of a mayday signal.
This will be another cover up no matter what they find, this plane was on its way to Diego Garcia when it was shot down by the americans. The Americans kicked all the natives off of this island so that they could build one of their biggest military bases. Someone on board that plane had a gripe with this and was going to crash it on Diego Garcia to highlight what the brits and yanks did to the natives. The crash site is already cleaned up.
No mystery
Nigel, I’d say yourself and Frank would get on well together!
Natives?? You mean plantation workers brought there bye the French as it was uninhibited by Humans when discovered!
The amusing thing about the conspiracy pundits that you get your “information” from is that the only sources of information they have is TV news and newspapers.
Then they put their spin on it to try and make it fit their “everything’s a conspiracy” agenda. When/if wreckage is found and the investigators figure out what happened the conspiracy theorists will forget about it and move on to something else.
Remember the 2012 hype? Loads of speculative videos were removed from YouTube after nothing happened (out of embarrassment). The same is true for the expected attack on the 2012 Olympics.
4 out of 5 lads with pending patent on new weapons tech worth billions went down with that plane. The fifth man is multi-billionaire Jacob Rothschild.
I’m not big on conspiracies but if it’s true the truth about MH370 will never be known.
Stick to the music, Paul Byrne. I’ve the flight manifest sitting in front of me as released within 48 hours of missing MH370 by Malaysia Airlines. None of those ‘lads’ you so familarily refer to them as, are listed as passengers. This conspiracy theory came out about three weeks ago and has long since been debunked. But if you want to indulge in that kind of stuff – knock yourself out.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/malaysiapatent.asp
You will find plenty of other official and unofficial links to debunk this, but again, if you look online as your sole source of information, you’ll find anything to fit explainations and conspiracy theories, from semi-conductors to aliens.
Derek u and cannot find a plane theorists but we are 100% sure because big brother told us…….you people are crazy
Not a single Inch has been found moron and you are calling people conspiracy theorists…lol
Awh shite lads, they’re onto us!
The island overlay is Ireland ….. full stop!
Still astounds me how a plane can be lost without trace & just if’s,buts & maybes surrounding it.
I hope the families get the answers they’re looking for & maybe in a more dignified way than a text.
The very least that can come out of this tragedy is that tracking and finding plane crashes will become a more refined procedure. Rip.
The pilots wife left him for another man,so he just lost the plot and did a suicide massacre simple as that…the passengers couldn’t contact family on there phones as they were to far away from any satellite phone signals and he crashed it into the ocean so in theory it was the pilots fault…like why would the last words he had with base be good night from mh370 he knew what he was doing as you don’t say that to radio control as I’ve understood from documentarys
Lol……you have to laugh at the complete morons on here….the plane will never be seen again….it is gone and their Is a massive cover up…..and do not call me a conspiracy theorist ffs…
Ireland is so broke it even had to look further a field to boost the economy. Welcome to the Indian Ocean.
I knew I felt the earth move.!
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