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Man arrested after body of woman found in flat

The discovery was made last night.

POLICE IN NORTHERN Ireland have arrested a man in connection with the death of a 31-year-old woman.

The woman’s body was discovered at a flat in the Victoria Street area of Lurgan, Co Armagh late last night.

A 36-year-old man has been arrested in relation to the incident and is currently being held in police custody.

Police are investigating the incident and a post-mortem examination is due to be carried out on the body of the woman in order to determine the cause of death.

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    Mute George Grey
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    Apr 19th 2014, 3:38 PM

    Mini sub in a vast ocean…….is there any hope left? Fair play to the Aussies for their generous efforts.

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    Apr 19th 2014, 3:36 PM

    They landed a man on the moon in the 60′s, you can track planes with an app on your phone, you can ask your phone a question and it will reply to you with the answer, yet they say they cant find a massive plane filled with passengers equipped with all the latest technology. Strange!

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    Mute Frank
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    Apr 19th 2014, 3:46 PM

    They like us to believe that they landed a man on the moon in the 60′s,

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    Apr 19th 2014, 3:50 PM

    They did. If they didn’t, the Soviets would certainly have exposed any hoax. They didn’t. It was never disputed. Today there is a reflective sheet left on the moon by astronauts that allows scientists to measure its distance by beaming a laser at it.

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    Mute James O Donoghue
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    Apr 19th 2014, 4:58 PM

    See all the tech is the world is no good if you turn it off :)

    Just need to build in a separate system running on a battery that can not be turned off by anyone on aircraft

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    Mute Declan Noonan
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    Apr 19th 2014, 5:56 PM

    Seaneen, none of what you say matters when in all likelihood it’s at the bottom of a ocean.

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    Mute Declan Noonan
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    Apr 19th 2014, 5:58 PM

    Frank, I think that it’s you who doesn’t exist. Your parents faked your birth and childhood. You are not real. ;)

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    Mute Eoin O'Neill
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    Apr 19th 2014, 10:41 PM

    The apollo astronauts left a mirror on the moon that they bounce lasers off all the time. They use this to judge the speed the moon is receeding from the earth at. It’s the best proof man walked on the moon.

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    Apr 19th 2014, 11:39 PM

    Mel Gibson was brilliant in Conspiracy Theory.

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    Apr 20th 2014, 3:21 AM

    Did they though????

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    Apr 21st 2014, 10:40 AM

    Who are “they” and if “they” are up there who’s controlling down here and if down here is actually real why are we so clueless as to what’s going on and if what’s going on is actually happening who or what is doing it and are those my feet!

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    Apr 19th 2014, 3:38 PM

    And yet not a single piece of physical evidence has been found. the story continues…

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    Mute David O Connor
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    Apr 19th 2014, 7:40 PM

    Even the most off the wall conspiracy theories have more potential meat at this stage…cant rule anything out without evidence

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    Mute Niall Mullins
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    Apr 19th 2014, 4:03 PM

    Surely the good old US of A have a nuclear sub that could find it without a problem. That said they’re all probably tied up bringing democracy to the countries that have oil.

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    Apr 19th 2014, 4:36 PM

    I’m no expert but it doesn’t seem plausible that a Boeing 777 landed in the sea somewhere and sank fully intact. At the risk of being labelled a conspiracy theorist someone in some government knows exactly where that aircraft is.

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    Mute James O Donoghue
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    Apr 19th 2014, 5:05 PM

    I don’t think so on both counts. If it flew straight in one direction till fuel ran out its hardly in the mind of the person in control to survive and put her down. Besides landing on water is next to impossible. That time in new York was calm weather and a 1 in 100 bit of luck with a skilled pilot. Plus you would have bits floating from air slides. So no she went down hard. The time it took to even know where to look everything dispersed and sank.

    No conspiracy. Well maybe but would have been a conspiracy by those on board. Needless to say everyone is dead deep in ocean their final resting place

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    Apr 19th 2014, 3:52 PM

    It’s a vast ocean, it’s needle in haystack stuff,but it does seem incredible that it can’t be found with the technology available today. And it feeds into the nutty conspiracy theorists who think aliens were involved etc.

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    Mute Colette Kearns
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    Apr 19th 2014, 4:00 PM

    The Rothschild conspiracy is becoming more believable as each day passes! Let the red thumbs commence! :-)

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    Apr 19th 2014, 4:07 PM

    Just to let you know I red thumbed you,incase your wondering. :)

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    Mute Declan Noonan
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    Apr 19th 2014, 6:18 PM

    Colette, those Rothschild’s are a very busy family!
    Where do they find the time and energy to do all these things around the world?

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    Apr 19th 2014, 4:03 PM

    Any form of radio equipment and that is what these search devices are, has a limited range. The search signals are sent out and then bounced back if the range of the device is not great enough it won’t find anything. Also at these sort of depths there are probably “mountain ranges” which also play havoc with the signals.

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    Apr 19th 2014, 3:59 PM

    Its crazy with all the technology today that it hasnt been found,especially when they seem certain that this is where the plane went down, I feel for the families,they are looking for answer and the authorities havent a clue as to where it is

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    Apr 19th 2014, 6:41 PM

    This isn’t as unusual as it might seem. When the Air France jet crashed, it took 2 years to locate the black box and the plane. They found a few small pieces within a few days and it still took that long to find the rest. That plane was 13,000 ft down and they believe this plane is about 15,000 ft down. This is going to be no easy feat but that doesn’t mean there’s a major conspiracy or that information is being withheld.

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    Apr 19th 2014, 7:47 PM

    Good chance of finding a black box in copper faced jacks.

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    Apr 20th 2014, 11:17 AM

    It took that long to find the black box but after 2 days they had large pieces of the plane

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    Apr 19th 2014, 5:56 PM

    Where’s Frank?thought he would be all over this story

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    Apr 19th 2014, 6:13 PM

    It has certainly turned into a bed time story..

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    Apr 19th 2014, 4:48 PM

    I find this very hard to believe.. They say they are following every possible lead what type of leads can you get from a plane that just disappeared of the radar.. And had its black box turned off.. And how the hell can you you turn of the black box the most important part of the plane if it goes down can be just turned off by a switch I find that hard to believe that there is a switch for that black box.. I still think they still have not a clue were the plane is and are just searching places on the presumption that the plane went down in that area.. Also if the plane went down were they think surely there would be something floating on the surface like bits of the plane, luggage, clothing something.. I just find this whole situation very hard to believe that a plane can just disappear of the radar with not a trace behind it with all this technology at there disposal and a clue on the surface to show that there was a plane even went down in the area that they are looking at.. I find this very hard to believe…

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    Apr 19th 2014, 4:56 PM

    The “black box” can’t and wasn’t turned off

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    Apr 19th 2014, 5:06 PM

    They said it was turned off when it went down.. So if your saying they didn’t it goes to prove they haven’t a bog what happened, what they have suppose to have did ( pilots ) and everything is still up in the air apart from the plane…

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    Apr 19th 2014, 5:07 PM

    You find it hard to believe because your not clued in with facts or how things work. Black box can’t be turned off and is not even related to the transponder

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    Apr 19th 2014, 5:07 PM

    My wife said it was the transponder they turned off whatever the hell that does??

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    Apr 19th 2014, 5:09 PM

    No they didn’t…

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    Apr 19th 2014, 7:16 PM

    So where is the signal from the plane to let them know where it is???

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    Apr 19th 2014, 7:45 PM

    A satalite ping from the Rolls Royce engines is how they tracked it, all of the planes tracking equipment was disabled during the flight. The black box works of a battery which transmits on a specified frequency for 30-40 days after the aircraft has been lost

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    Mute Colette Kearns
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    Apr 19th 2014, 7:01 PM

    Agh Declan I’m not suggesting the men at the top whom as you say are very busy, but they have the power & definitely the money to arrange it!

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    Mute Colette Kearns
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    Apr 19th 2014, 4:21 PM

    And again back at ya!

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    Apr 19th 2014, 4:09 PM

    I wasn’t but thanks for the info, same back at ya!

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    Apr 19th 2014, 4:14 PM

    Or was it me who red thumbed you,Next stop . . . the Twilight Zone!

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    Apr 19th 2014, 7:15 PM

    So why is it taking so long??? Black box no signal from it.. Transponder what ever the hell that does not working no debris from plane!!! So how do ye all know that it wasn’t turned of because if it wasn’t they would have found this plane weeks ago.. So tell me know it alls where is the plane and what happened to it?????

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    Mute Wayne O'Fathaigh
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    Apr 19th 2014, 7:47 PM

    According to I dependant satellite tracking it was at some point in the Southern Indian Ocean as Ocean that accounts for 20% of the water on the earths surface and has never been fully surveyed and it would take 10 years to do so

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    Mute TIPM (Mick Rooney)
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    Apr 19th 2014, 11:02 PM

    Paul, a transponder is just one element of an aircraft communication system. It also uses radio frequencies and satallite, used depending on where the aircraft is (over land or sea) and who the crew are communication with (Air Traffic Control, another aircraft crew or the airline HQ). There are usually two transponders on a modern large aircraft, one as back up for the other in case it technical failures with one. They can’t actually be turned off unless here was a complete and total power failure on the aircraft. The media have consistently used the term ‘switched off’ when talking about this aircraft’s transponder.

    There is no ‘off’ position on a transponder knob in the cockpit, only its operational modes or standby. Even in standby it stills registers a blank positive signal on radar. In full working mode in the air it also transmits an identifiable call sign so ATC can recognise who, what and where the aircraft is. A pilot will never turn the transponder to standby once in the air, unless it technically fails, there is a suspected electrical fire, or ATC reports to the pilot that it is sending a bad incorrect signal. Pilots will switch the transponder to standby once the aircraft safely lands.

    The black boxes, which record voice and data from the aircraft, have nothing to do with the transponder. They operate and are powered independently. If and when they are submerged in water, they begin emitting a sonar signal up to a radius of about 3 miles.

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    Mute TIPM (Mick Rooney)
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    Apr 19th 2014, 11:29 PM

    Paul, I do take your broad point that it’s been a baffling few weeks and we still have not a shred of physical evidence as to the whereabouts of MH370, beyond sonar pings and a series of satellite handshakes when this aircraft went missing. The Indian Ocean is one of the most hostile and unchartered expanses of sea on this planet. We have better mapping of the surface of the moon than we do the bottom of the Indian Ocean. If you wanted to locate a missing aircraft in ideal circumstances, this is one of the last places on earth you would want to be searching in. Together with the loss of communication, the scant data from satellite tracking, and the erratic flight path and altitude fluctuations, I think this is why investigators are leaning towards the conclusion that this was the actions of someone onboard with knowledge and deliberate intent to evade and make a subsequent search as complex and difficult as possible.

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    Apr 20th 2014, 3:26 AM

    Finally, someone who has explained it in layman’s terms. Thanks Mick

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    Apr 20th 2014, 7:34 PM

    @Mick…. maybe you can clear something up for me…after comms were lost with the aircraft it appears the the plane climbed to near ceiling height and then quickly dropped to about 12000ft. This kind of action would look like an attempt at extinguishing an onboard fire. If cabin depressurization was also an issue the plane would have had to maintain a low altitude while flying to the nearest airport. If the crew were overcome the plane may have continued to fly until all fuel was lost and then crashed My question is in an emergency situation like that is there any rules about using the auto pilot. If the plane stayed at a low altitude would it have had enough range to reach the suspect crash zone. If not and a later change in altitude after crossing the mallaca straights was make it must be almost certain that a person unknown had taken control and hence rule out pure mechanical failures.

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