Bei pprune gibts in der letzten halben Stunde neue Presse / Webreferenzen:
1. Flightradar 24 hat sich per Facebook https://www.facebook.com/flightradar24
gemeldet, und folgendes veröffentlicht:
"Flightradar24.com
Here is a #MH370 situation update from Flightradar24 because of the many questions we get.
The ADS-B transponder of an aircraft is transmitting data twice per second. FR24 saves data every 10-60 second depending on altitude. On cruising altitude data is normally saved once per 60 seconds. By analyzing all our databases and logs we have managed to recover about 2 signals per minute for the last 10 minutes.
The last location tracked by Flightradar24 is
Time UTC: 17:21:03
Lat: 6.97
Lon: 103.63
Alt: 35000
Speed: 471 knots
Heading: 40
Between 17:19 and 17:20 the aircraft was changing heading from 25 to 40 degrees, which is probably completely according to flight plan as MH370 on both 4 March and 8 March did the same at the same position. Last 2 signals are both showing that the aircraft is heading in direction 40 degrees.
Today there are reports in media that MH370 may have turned around. FR24 have not tracked this. This could have happened if the aircraft suddenly lost altitude as FR24 coverage in that area is limited to about 30000 feet.
FR24 have not tracked any emergency squawk alerts for flight MH370 before we lost coverage of the aircraft. Playback for flight MH370 is available on
Flights database - Flightradar24"
2. Eine Zeitung in Malaysia zitiert einen Piloten, der offenbar der letzte war der mit der Crew MH370 in Kontakt war
MISSING MH370: Pilot: I established contact with plane - General - New Straits Times
"09 March 2014| last updated at 12:13PM [h=1]
MISSING MH370: Pilot: I established contact with plane
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'INTERFERENCE': Pilot in another plane was flying 30 minutes ahead of MH370
SEPANG: A BOEING 777 pilot, who was flying 30 minutes ahead of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft, said he established contact with MH370 minutes after he was asked to do so by Vietnamese air traffic control.
The captain, who asked to not be named, said his plane, which was bound for Narita, Japan, was far into Vietnamese airspace when he was asked to relay, using his plane's emergency frequency, to MH370 for the latter to establish its position, as the authorities could not contact the aircraft.
"We managed to establish contact with MH370 just after 1.30am and asked them if they have transferred into Vietnamese airspace.
"The voice on the other side could have been either Captain Zaharie (Ahmad Shah, 53,) or Fariq (Abdul Hamid, 27), but I was sure it was the co-pilot.
"There were a lot of interference... static... but I heard mumbling from the other end.
"That was the last time we heard from them, as we lost the connection," he told the New Sunday Times."
3. South China Morning Post
New possible sighting of debris at sea as China sends warships to join search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight | South China Morning Post
Da schreibt ein BillyBobbyJohn als "Kommentar"
"Agree - you won't see debris from 11,000m, but you may see city lights.
Don't think the plane crashed at all. Think it was hijacked by Xinjiang separatists. New flight plan to Hotan airport. Strange that K.L. -> Hotan is exactly the same distance +/- 50km as K.L. -> Beijing. Hijackers' jettisoned fuel to make it look like a crash to direct rescuers to the wrong place. Classic case of misdirection. They could have easily turned off the transponders, and it being night time, no tracking equipment (from say satellites) would have 'eye's' on the plane. China's 1st failed hijacking took place at Hotan airport back in 2012. Plenty of opportunity how to resolve what went wrong from hijackers point of view.
In that case the passengers successfully overpowered the hijackers. In this case that might have gone wrong. Anonymous Pilot mentioned background distress at 1.30am when the Vietnamese ATC asked him to contact the pilots on local frequencies.
Now 4 suspects have been identified (the right number of hijackers required to take over a plane of that size).
(thoughts)."
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Hoffentlich finden die den Flieger bald - das ist wirklich unerträglich, wie schwierig sich diese Suche offenbar gestaltet.
