The Australian government, in concert with Malaysia and China, announced on 4 June last that unless they find an identifiable artifact from the missing Boeing 777 aircraft, Malaysia Flight 370 now missing for fifteen-months, the search would terminate sometime mid-next year. An international team of scientists using available information calculated that Flight 777 crash landed […]
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Malaysia Missing Flight
It’s now thirteen weeks since Malaysia Flight 370—a Boeing model 777 aircraft disappeared. It’s not where the searchers heard the pings in the Indian Ocean: about one-thousand miles off the coast of western Australia. Searchers are at a loss. Flight 370 seems to have vanished into the ether, or elsewhere. Today, I received an email […]
Famous Missing Flights
Malaysia Flight 370 disappeared over six weeks ago. The primary search instrument is damaged, and for now, the hunt for this airplane is on hold. Some of the searchers wonder if this airplane is in the wide area in which they are looking. Meantime, let’s review some of the more famous aircraft disappearances. 8 […]
Other Missing Flights
Malaysia Flight 370 has been missing for 41 days. Best deductions from all data indicates that Flight 370’s Boeing 777 aircraft is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean about 1,200 nautical miles west of Perth, Down Under. It’s black-box is dead—no longer transmitting locating pings. Experts in the field speculate that it may years […]
Malaysian Flight #370…What Next?
This is the 38th day of the search Malaysia Flight 370. Yesterday, eleven aircraft and “about” as many ships were searching in an area about 24,000 square-miles: In an area located about 1,400 miles northwest of Perth. (The search area seems to change almost daily.) Here’s the update: the searchers have not heard any pings […]
Flight 370 Tracker Update
We’re now 32-days in the continuing odyssey of the misusing Malaysia Flight 370 with 239 souls onboard. Last Friday, 4 April, while searching the Indian Ocean about 900 nautical miles west of Perth, the Chinese patrol ship, Haixum 01, reportedlyheard electronic pings that resemble those that might be transmitted by the aircraft’s “black box.” The […]
Malaysia Flight 370: Have they found it?
Review: Malaysian Flight 370 departed Kala Lumpur at 41 minutes after midnight on 8 March 2014 bound for Beijing. The aircraft was a Boeing model 777-200 ER (Extended Range). Approximately 60 minutes later, electronic transmission from Flight 370 ceased. Several hours later Malaysian Airlines declared Flight 370 missing. Over this past month, aircraft and ships […]
Malaysian Flight # 370 Disappearance: What Happened to Flight 370?
Malaysian Flight # 370 Disappearance S. Martin Shelton Today’s date 23 March 2014 Let’s review the hard facts about the mysterious disappearance of Flight # 370. Malaysia Flight # 370 originated at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and its destination was Beijing, People’s Republic of China—about 2,700 miles to the northeast. On board were 228 passenger and […]