MALAYSIAN Airlines flight en route to China is missing.

[syed putra]

Re: Chinks Are Uncultured Retards!

The northern barbarians know how to handle the chinks. maybe MAS should hire them during next media assignment.

 

[Leongsam]

Australia is left with 200,000 aboriginals today and where were the millions of different tribes of aboriginals now? Extinct?

Australia would be a much better place today if there were no abos left.

 

[The_Hypocrite]

Re: MAS CEO confesses MH370 was carrying highly flammable cargo

If the plane did had dangerous goods. N blew up mid air. How come search in Indian ocean where is thousands of miles off course? Should have found the plane in south cina sea etc. Just more smoke n feeding conspiracy theories.

 

[tanakow]

Re: Chinks Are Uncultured Retards!

They are setting up the stage to ask for megamillion compensations.

 

[THE_CHANSTER]

Re: MAS CEO confesses MH370 was carrying highly flammable cargo

If the plane did had dangerous goods. N blew up mid air. How come search in Indian ocean where is thousands of miles off course? Should have found the plane in south cina sea etc. Just more smoke n feeding conspiracy theories.

Precisely. The lithium battery fire scenario is a red herring. If there were an un-contained explosion due to fire, wreckage would have been found along the flightpath.
The fact that SAR are looking in an area which so way off course points to malicious intent by the pilots or someone with very advanced aviation knowledge of a B777.

Hopefully, retrieval and examination of the deleted data on the flight simulator might provide some clues but I doubt it.

 

[Sinkie]

Re: MAS CEO confesses MH370 was carrying highly flammable cargo

The plane is said to be in Pakistan..........with the Talibans.

 

[po2wq]

...

eh! ...

u go ask dat ah hishamudin 2 bring out his crooked dagga n yaya-papaya back la ...

 

[chongpangchixwings]

eh! ...

u go ask dat ah hishamudin 2 bring out his crooked dagga n yaya-papaya back la ...

No can do because its deep in his ass. He will display it again when its election time.

 

[Arena]

No can do because its deep in his ass. He will display it again when its election time.

I can't go for that, no can do...

 

[virus]

Pls dun underestimate tonychat. He is their rear admirer.

 

[YouMakeMyDreams]

Airliner crisis compounds Malaysian government's woes

PUBLISHED : Saturday, 22 March, 2014, 2:34pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 22 March, 2014, 2:34pm

Agence France Press in Kuala Lumpur

A family member of a passenger onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 cries at a briefing from Malaysian government in Beijing. Photo: Reuters

Malaysia’s missing-plane crisis has exposed the shortcomings of a ruling regime already wrestling with a rapidly shrinking support base, fierce racial divisions and international criticism of its tough handling of political opponents.

The same government has ruled since Malaysia’s birth in 1957, and political observers said its much-criticised response to the jet drama is symptomatic of years of institutional atrophy under an ethnic Malay elite known for cronyism.

Analysts said rancour over the still-unexplained disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and its 239 people, two-thirds of whom were Chinese, could also complicate plans to draw closer to China -- Malaysia’s biggest trading partner and a growing source of tourist revenue.

“The general level of Malaysian political performance, competence and adequacy has plummeted,” said Clive Kessler, a Malaysia politics researcher at the University of New South Wales, who cites a “long, slow, protracted crisis of governance” over the past decade.

Experts stress that any country would struggle to cope with the plane’s baffling disappearance on March 8, and Malaysia denies mishandling it.

But allegations of incompetence and evasiveness have clearly unsettled the ruling Barisan Nasional (National Front) government.

Chinese relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave the lounge in the Metro Park Lido Hotel, after a meeting with Malaysian officials in Beijing on March 21. Photo: AFP

Not used to being challenged

Barisan is unused to being challenged by Malaysia’s meek, state-dominated press and has basked in decades of admiration of Malaysia as an economically successful melting pot, despite longstanding criticism over policies that discriminate against non-Malay minorities.

But ashen-faced officials have been subjected to daily grillings by combative foreign media in daily briefings in sometimes tense scenes beamed live in Malaysia and around the world.

“This is not a good look for Malaysia. I do think that the Barisan government has done some serious damage to its international reputation,” said Michael Barr, an Asian politics expert at Australia’s Flinders University.

The affair also has trained attention on Barisan’s bruising political tactics, particularly its treatment of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Anwar, who accuses the government of hurling false criminal charges against him in a bid to halt the stunning recent successes of his opposition alliance, was convicted of sodomy and sentenced to five years in jail just hours before MH370 took off.

The verdict, denounced by rights groups and questioned by Washington, was dragged into the MH370 media glare after it was revealed that the flight’s captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, was a member of Anwar’s political party.

“With an international audience watching, this is showing that what (Malaysia’s government) thinks is acceptable here, is not at all tolerable by international standards,” said Bridget Welsh, a Malaysia politics analyst at Singapore Management University.

Barisan is routinely rapped by anti-graft groups for widespread corruption and cronyism -- Transport and Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, the government’s face on MH370, is the cousin of Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Even China’s opaque Communist Party leadership has criticised Malaysia’s perceived lack of transparency, while Chinese relatives of passengers angrily allege a cover-up.

Pragmatic Beijing is unlikely to upset mutually beneficial trade links, but the plane drama will certainly cause economic worry in Malaysia, said Welsh.
Exports to China have become critical to maintaining the growth Barisan banks on for support.

Bilateral trade has soared - up 11.8 per cent last year to US$106 billion, according to Chinese figures. Najib and China’s President Xi Jinping last year pledged still-cosier ties and targeted US$160 billion in trade by 2017.

The flow of Chinese tourists to Malaysia also has accelerated, hitting 1.8 million last year, up 15 per cent on-year, behind only Singaporean and Indonesian visitors.

A Chinese relative of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane cries as she holds a banner in front of journalists reading 'We are against the Malaysian government for hiding the truth and delaying the rescue. Release our families unconditionally!" at a hotel in Sepang on March 21. Photo: AP

Rebuilding credibility

“This will require a significant effort to rebuild Malaysia’s credibility abroad,” Welsh said of the potential economic impact.

“Once you lose it, it takes time to win back.”

The crisis comes at a bad time for the mild-mannered Najib, who launched a reform drive three years ago in a failed bid to shore up voter support. That has been abandoned under pressure from conservatives in his ruling party, and Najib appears weakened.

Malaysian voters have deserted Barisan at an accelerating pace over corruption, rule of law concerns, and a sense of drift.

Anwar’s opposition won more votes than Barisan in May last year elections but the ruling coalition retained parliament thanks to seat allocations that favour its rural Malay base.

In particular, Malaysia’s sizable Chinese community - whose industriousness is a critical component of growth - increasingly chafe under a decades-old system of preferences for Malays.

Racial tensions also have flared in recent months over disputes between the Muslim majority and Christian minority.

Analysts said Barisan could turn things around by successfully appealing to national unity amid the crisis - especially if the plane is found.

Hishammuddin outlined that hope Friday, saying the MH370 situation “cuts across race, cuts across religion and now it cuts across boundaries amongst Malaysians.”

 

[YouMakeMyDreams]

Police intervene as Chinese anger mounts over fate of MH370

PUBLISHED : Saturday, 22 March, 2014, 2:43pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 22 March, 2014, 2:51pm

Agence France Press in Beijing

A relative of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines, flight MH370, protests after Malaysian government representatives leave after a briefing in Beijing on Saturday. Photo: AP

Police were forced to intervene on Saturday as relatives of Chinese passengers aboard vanished Flight MH370 rushed towards Malaysian officials at a Beijing hotel, demanding answers over the fate of their loved ones.

The confrontation at the Lido Hotel came as the search for the missing jet entered its third week, with many clinging to the hope that family members might still be alive and alleging Malaysian involvement in a cover-up.

A total of 153 Chinese were on board the Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared from civilian radar screens on March 8, nearly an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur. The plane was carrying 239 passengers and crew.

“Government of Malaysia, tell us the truth! Give us back our loved ones!” shouted audience members at Saturday’s briefing at the hotel attended by government officials. The hotel has hosted daily briefings for relatives from representatives of the airline.

A relative of Chinese passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines, flight MH370 cries as others protest after a briefing by Malaysian government representatives at a hotel in Beijing on Saturday. Photo: AP

“The Malaysian government is deceiving us. They don’t dare to face us. The Malaysian government are the biggest murderers,” a relative in the audience shouted, even though there is no evidence to suggest a government conspiracy.

As anger in the hall mounted, some relatives rushed towards the Malaysian officials but police intervened and the officials left the room.

“We can’t bear it any longer,” one woman said. “They’re offering us compensation, but we’ve lost our entire families. This is China. They can’t just tell us to come or go as they please. We’re going to wait here. If they don’t come, we’re not leaving.”

Dozens of countries have been involved in the search for the missing plane but the lack of firm answers from airline officials has undermined the relatives’ confidence in the hunt for the jet.

On Friday, a first meeting was organised between the passengers’ families and Malaysian government officials. That meeting also resulted in heated exchanges, boos and eruptions of anger.

A Chinese woman who is a relative of a passenger from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, with her three-year-old daughter and another family member as they arrive at Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on Saturday for a meeting with Malaysian officials. Photo: AFP

Six planes, including four Orion anti-submarine aircraft packed with state-of-the-art surveillance equipment, joined the search for debris from the aircraft over a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean, 2,500 kilometres (1,500 miles) southwest of Perth on Saturday.

Chinese, British and Australian naval ships were all steaming to the same area where two floating objects - possibly plane wreckage - were picked out on grainy satellite pictures.

 

[YouMakeMyDreams]

Re: Ever wonder why so many countries take part in search


UPDATE 1 - U.S. may give sonar gear to Malaysia for plane search

Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:47pm EDT

(New throughout, adds Malaysian request for undersea surveillance equipment)

By Phil Stewart and David Alexander

(Reuters) - The Pentagon is weighing a request from Malaysia for sonar equipment to bolster the so-far frustrated search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, as concerns grow that any debris may have sunk to the bottom of the sea.

Malaysia's Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein asked for undersea surveillance equipment in a phone call with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, as the Pentagon tallied $2.5 million in costs so far in the nearly two-week-old search.

"No specific request was made for any particular type. It was just a general request for us to help them locate the wreckage and/or the black box," Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby told Reuters on Friday.

"The Secretary said he would consider the request, that he would examine whether we had anything that was both available and potentially helpful and that he would get back to the minister in the very near future."

The U.S. Navy has a variety of active and passive sonar systems, some of which search the ocean for objects by emitting sound "pings" and monitoring the echoes that bounce back and others that listen for sound like an undersea microphone.

One system, called a "Towed Pinger Locator", is towed behind ships and is used to listen for downed Navy and commercial aircraft at depths of up to 20,000 feet (6000 meters), according to the U.S. Navy's website.

The U.S. military loaned this technology to France during its two-year effort to locate the black box from an Air France jetliner that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in June 2009.

The P-8 and P-3 spy planes, which the United States is already deploying in the Malaysian jetliner search, also carry "sonobuoys" that can be dropped into the sea and use sonar signals to search the waters below.

"Sound actually travels a long distance under water, depending on the conditions," Kirby said.

"Temperature, current, the underwater topography, all of these things change the way sound travels underwater. But sound can travel a long, long way."

One big question will be where to drop any sonar equipment.

Investigators suspect Flight MH370, which took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing shortly after midnight on March 8, was deliberately diverted thousands of miles from its scheduled path. They say they are focusing on hijacking or sabotage but have not ruled out technical problems.

There has been no confirmed sign of wreckage so far and Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss cautioned on Friday that anything once floating "may have slipped to the bottom."

Hishammuddin, who is also acting transport minister, has acknowledged that the clock was ticking.

The plane's "black box" voice and data recorder only transmits an electronic signal for about 30 days before its battery dies, after which it will be far more difficult to locate.

"We've got three more weeks to find those pingers on the black boxes -- or else this plane may never be found," said Alan Diehl, who spent 40 years investigating aircraft accidents for the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. military.

He said the Pentagon should send submarines and more aircraft.

In its first disclosure of the cost of the U.S. search, the Pentagon estimated about $2.5 million had been spent so far. It added the U.S. Defense Department had set aside about $4 million -- enough to cover operations through early April. (Additional reporting by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Alistair Bell and David Gregorio)

 

[Cosmos10]

Re: Ever wonder why so many countries take part in search

10:29 am (UTC Time), March 22, 2014

This is the note handed to the Malaysian transport minister in the middle of this morning's press conference.

It reads: "Sir, Ambassador Huong informed they received satellite image of floating object in southern corridor.

"They will be sending ship to verify.

"The Beijing Government will announce this in a couple of hours.

"Floating object 22m long by 30m wide."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-plane-live-latest-news-3270424

 

[red amoeba]

Y not just send their nuclear subs to hunt for the plane. These beasts can spend months underwater on ends ... SAF may b tempted to throw in our subs to horne their skills

 

[Cosmos10]

10:43 am UTC time 22 March 2014

This is the satellite image the Chinese say could show debris in the latest search development.

It lies 120km west of the current search zone in the southern Indian Ocean.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-plane-live-latest-news-3270424#ixzz2wgn0W6gM

 

[Cosmos10]

11:08 am UTC time, 22 March 2014

Here is the moment Malaysian transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein was handed a note telling him of the discovery of another piece of suspected debris in the Indian Ocean.

The object is 22.5m long and 13m wide, and was spotted by satellites 120k west of where teams have been working off the coast of Australia.

[video]http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-plane-live-latest-news-3270424[/video]



http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-plane-live-latest-news-3270424#ixzz2wgnPjJ3G

Malaysia has clarified that the object found by China is 22.5m by 13m, not 22m by 30m.

Its transport ministry says it received the information by phone during the press conference and was misheard.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-plane-live-latest-news-3270424#ixzz2wgq5Hcbi

 

[tanwahtiu]

good thing may come up in a situation like this 不能同年同月同日生 以能同年同月同日死

every time, i go on a plane, i will pray "tolong...tolong..., dun crash...":o

 

[chonburifc]

Y not just send their nuclear subs to hunt for the plane. These beasts can spend months underwater on ends ... SAF may b tempted to throw in our subs to horne their skills

Not that kind of depth. Probably crushed like a coca cola can even before submerged half way.

 

[virus]

11:08 am UTC time, 22 March 2014

Here is the moment Malaysian transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein was handed a note telling him of the discovery of another piece of suspected debris in the Indian Ocean.

maybe they doctored it. originally one probably scold him KNNCCCB you can stop the fooking wayang anot?