Maldives police on Tuesday announced an investigation into reports that residents of the remote Maldives island of Kuda Huvadhoo in Dhaal Atoll have seen a "low flying jumbo jet" on the morning of the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
But the police did not reveal any details.
Whilst the disappearance of the Boeing 777 jet, carrying 239 passengers has left the whole world in bewilderment, several residents of Kuda Huvadhoo toldHaveeru on Tuesday that they saw a "low flying jumbo jet" at around 6:15am on March 8.
They said that it was a white aircraft, with red stripes across it – which is what the Malaysia Airlines flights typically look like.
Eyewitnesses from the Kuda Huvadhoo concurred that the aeroplane was travelling North to South-East, towards the Southern tip of the Maldives – Addu. They also noted the incredibly loud noise that the flight made when it flew over the island.
A local aviation expert told Haveeru that it is "likely" for MH370 to have flown over the Maldives. The possibility of any aircraft flying over the island at the reported time is extremely low, the expert added.
The Malaysia airlines jet disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing. Investigators say it was deliberately diverted off course.
From the flight path they are describing, southeastward, it doesn't sound likely to be the missing plane. It would have been moving west unless it changed direction north of the sighting.Eyewitnesses from the Kuda Huvadhoo concurred that the aeroplane was travelling North to South-East, towards the Southern tip of the Maldives – Addu. They also noted the incredibly loud noise that the flight made when it flew over the island.
Whut? Things are confusing enough without following a statement with an immediate contradiction.
Thanks Balance, great time event article
Thanks. It's kinda crazy, trying to get quickly up to speed on all this technical stuff.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/15/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-chronology/index.html.
Thai radar picks up unknown aircraft: 1:28 a.m.
The Thai radar station in southern Surathani province picks up an unknown aircraft flying in a direction opposite to what Flight 370 had been traveling, a Royal Thai Air Force spokesman told CNN.
But don't military installations have that ability. I thought they did because its not likely your gonna have military jets flying around with transponders on during war time.
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It's pretty much impossible for radar waves to resolve airplanes with enough detail to tell exactly what kind they are. The wavelengths are just too long. Military airplanes do have systems to identify each other, but the details are classified (as far as I know).
Sorry, I cited a quote from CNN about the unknown aircraft seen heading in the opposite direction after it's transponder was shut off. I didn't mean to go off topic, and I thought maybe this unknown aircraft could've been important to the investigationThere are other (military) methods ( think "Star Trek"
But here we are discussing civilian aviation transponders.
So what plane was it then?“The Maldivian National Defense Force (MNDF), in monitoring the areas of the Maldivian territory, is conducting its surveillance efforts with a heightened level of vigilance, in connection to the disappearance of the Malaysian Airline MH370.
“Further to the surveillance conducted thus far, none of the military radars in the country has detected a trace of the missing plane. Furthermore, no trace of the MH370 Airline has been found from the data scrutinized thus far from radars stationed at the airports in the Maldives.
Well if UPS and FedX subscribes to that for their drivers, I can see the same process happening towards pilots for insurance purposes, god forbid there is an accident
Its contradicting right? On one hand they say they've detected a "trace" of the missing plane, but in the same breath they say "no trace" of the missing plane has been found yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircra...ing_System#Flight_management_system_interfaceIn the wake of the crash of Air France Flight 447, there has been discussion about making ACARS an "online-black-box." If such a system were in place, it would avoid the loss of data due to: (1) black-box destruction, and (2) inability to locate the black-box following loss of the aircraft. However, due to high bandwidth requirements, the cost would be excessive and there have in fact been very few incidents where the black boxes were not recoverable.
I think you might be misreading that, they say no trace appeared on Maldives radar. My question as to what plane it was is about the reports of a low-flying extremely loud airliner - that's not something that can be confused with anything else, so unless they were lying, they saw something where it didn't belong. They should at least explain what that was.
WeedWhacker, isn't there a GPS locator attached to these black boxes that send out a signal for a month or so. If the black box ends up in the ocean how far down does it have to be to stop transmitting a signal, and would military ships or submarines still be able to hear the signal in the ocean even if it was deep
I agree Peter, Your talking about the witnesses, not the radar blip that came back moments after the plane disappeared off of radar going in the opposite direction...
A bit OT, didn't know where to put this about the flight and I apologize ahead of time, but it might lend credence to the lack of motivation by Malaysia. The longer they wait the harder the investigation becomes.
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia believes data from US spy satellites monitored in Australia could help find missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 but the information is being withheld.
The country's Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has specifically asked the US to share information obtained from the Pine Gap base near Alice Springs, according to the government-controlled New Straits Times newspaper.
Authorities in Kuala Lumpur believe that finding the plane now depends on the willingness of a number of countries to share potentially sensitive radar and satellite data.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/missing...-to-release-pine-gap-data-20140319-hvkf2.html
Well lets home thats the case, because time is of the essence now Peter. Aren't we able to locate the black boxes though, I thought they had a GPS locator fixed to them that sent out a signal for a month or so.
They are only detectable by sonar within a 25 mile radius (maybe even less), so it's still necessary to find the crash location first. No GPS as far I know.
