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What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane?

posted by Fnord666 on Monday June 17 2019, @10:27PM   
from the truth-is-out-there dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/

Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.

There are a lot of technical details in the article that raise some very interesting questions.

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• Tomnod Tomnod (Score: 3, Interesting) by inertnet on Tuesday June 18 2019, @01:24AM (1 child)

  by inertnet (4071) on Tuesday June 18 2019, @01:24AM (#856859) Journal

  I remember spending hours looking at satellite images, supplied by an organization called Tomnod, trying to spot debris from the plane. Only to learn later that they supplied images of completely wrong sections of the ocean, based on an unreliable so called eye witness account.

  I'd do that again if images from that day were available and I myself would be able to choose the locations to examine. I'll never waste my time again on images chosen by others though.

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• tinfoil hat... (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 18 2019, @05:05PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 18 2019, @05:05PM (#857068)

  Well maybe if you were working for the right people in the DoD you would be able to take a look at the images taken by USA 245 and USA 224 when they were over the areas of interest at around that time.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-245 [wikipedia.org] see [0]
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-224 [wikipedia.org]

  It is rather unbelievable that the US military wouldn't know more about the plane given those satellites and also that there were a few military exercises in that area close to that time, and they'd probably be concerned about China...

  How likely is it for the relevant assets to travel all the way elsewhere after Cobra Gold 2014 ( 1/10/2014 to 2/22/2014 ) and then come all the way back for Cope Tiger 2014 ( 9-21 March 2014[1]) and be 100% not be around or active in between for MH 370?

  [0] https://www.heavens-above.com/gtrack.aspx?satid=39232&mjd=56723.6952702068&lat=5.5285&lng=101.9971&loc=Unspecified&alt=276&tz=MALST [heavens-above.com]
  https://www.heavens-above.com/gtrack.aspx?satid=39232&mjd=56723.7052702068&lat=5.5285&lng=101.9971&loc=Unspecified&alt=276&tz=MALST [heavens-above.com]
  Fiddle with the mjd numbers to get to the times you want. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370 [wikipedia.org]

  [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S.,_Singapore_and_Royal_Thai_Air_Force_pilots_discuss_mission_plans_before_starting_flying_exercises_for_Cope_Tiger_14_in_Korat,_Thailand,_March_9,_2014_140309-F-BC061-012.jpg [wikimedia.org]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWFepAwrZEc [youtube.com]

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