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 Flight 370 One Year Ago
Malaysia Flight 370, a Boeing model 777-200 ER (Extended Range) disappeared 1 year and 45 days ago—one of aviation’s biggest mysteries. Notwithstanding extensive searching by temas from Malaysia, China, and Australia in the Indian Ocean off the coast of western Australia, not a trace of this aircraft has been found. In a Press Release, dated […]
Malaysia Flight 370
The saga continues re Malaysia Flight 370 that disappeared a year ago this past weekend. Notwithstanding the labor and equipment employed, not a scintilla of a clue of this aircraft or its 239 passengers and crew has been found. The search extended to the Asia mainland and in the Indian Ocean off the west coast […]
Malaysia Flight 370, # 14
On Friday, 30 January 2015, the Malaysian government formally declared Malaysia Flight 370 an accident and all 239 souls on board are presumed deceased. Flight 370 last reported a position late on the evening of 8 March 2014 (now 327 days missing). Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said “ At this juncture, there is no […]
Malaysia Flight 370: Will they find it?
A couple days ago, Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, announced that they have resumed the search for Malaysia Flight 370. Recall that this flight disappeared on 8 March last. Speculation posits that the Boeing model 777-200 ER crashed into the Indian Ocean some 1,200 miles west of Australia. A cadre […]
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 […]
Malaysia Flight 370 New Information?
Perhaps, maybe, possibly, if the “kreek don’t rise,” the searchers might have enough apocryphal evidence to conclude tentatively that Flight 370 is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Searchers estimate is position is located within 16,000 square nautical miles. This center of this area is about 1,500 nautical miles west of Perth “down under.” […]
Malaysian Flight 370, Number Two
Twenty-three days ago, Malaysian Flight 370 disappeared. At first, aircraft and ships from several neighborhood countries and the United States searched for the Boeing 777 in the area northeast of Malaysia in the South China Sea—the proposed track for this flight—to no avail. Based on technical date, the searchers changed directions to the west and […]