OTHER MH370 STORIES I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-46-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-45-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/complete-list-of-members-on-flight.html (COMPLETE LIST)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remebering-mh370-777-200er-victims-of.html (P1 REM-MEMBERS)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remembering-mh370-777-200er-citizens.html (P2 REM-MEMBERS)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-44-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-43-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-42-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-41-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-40-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-39-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-38-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-37-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-36-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-35-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-34-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-33-mh370-missing-plane-what.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 1 TO 32 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-32-mh370-missing-plane-they-may.html
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 12:03AM WED APR 23,2014
SEARCH FOR THE PLANE YOURSELF-HERE
http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014
FLIGHTWARE-LIVE FLIGHT TRACKING
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370/history/20140307/1635Z/WMKK/ZBAA/tracklog
MALAYSIAN MH370 SEAT MAP
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Malaysia_Airlines/Malaysia_Airlines_Boeing_777-200.php
VIDEO RETIRED GENERAL SAYS THE PLANES IN PAKISTAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWiVkShm8cw
FINDING PHILIP WOOD
https://www.facebook.com/findingphilipwood370
SARAH SAYS PHILIP IS STILL ALIVE AND KIDNAPPED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKot27qbyw
SARAH BAJC SAYS PHILIP AND ALL ARE STILL ALIVE AND KIDNAPPED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKot27qbyw
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/04/08/erin-bts-bajc-mh370-plane-was-taken.cnn.html
FREESCALE LOCATIONS
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?code=GLOBAL_SITES
http://www.freescale.com/
IF you wana leave a message to Flight Mh370 Members-
http://english.astroawani.com/p/feedback/comments
Family Members website
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_12ece77a00101eh9v.html
COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 239 ON MH370-777-200ER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/complete-list-of-members-on-flight.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remebering-mh370-777-200er-victims-of.html (P1)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remembering-mh370-777-200er-citizens.html (P2)
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 12:03AM WED APR 23,2014
WELL FINALLY OFFICIALS ARE GONNA LOOK ON LAND.THEY DON'T THINK THE PLANE IS HIDDEN.BUT CRASHED ON LAND.WELL I THINK THEY WERE KIDNAPPED ON INDONESIA - NOT CRASHED LIKE THESE OFFICIALS OF THE INVESTIGATION BELIEVE.BUT AT LEAST THERE FINALLY GONNA LOOK ON LAND.
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 11:03AM WED APR 23,2014
WELL IS IT NOT INTERESTING JUST AS WE GOT THIS STORY ABOUT OFFICIALS LOOKING ON LAND TODAY.WE SUDDENLY HAVE AN ITEM OF INTEREST SHOWING UP AT AUSTRALIAS COAST.THIS ITEM IS PLEXIGLASS AND METAL WITH LOTS OF RIVOTS.AND ITS BEEN AT LEAST 3 HOURS SINCE I HEARD THIS REPORT ON TV.AND JUST LIKE MAGIC.WE ARE NOT GETTING ANY RESPONSE FROM MALAYSIA OR AUSTRALIA.
AND ALSO THE MALAYSIAN INVESTIGATERS REFUSE TO GIVE THE FAMILIES A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION REPORT.BY 30 DAYS.THE FACTS ARE SUPPOSE TO BE WRITTEN OUT AND GIVEN TO THE FAMILIES AND MEDIA.SO WE KNOW THE FACTS.THESE ARE JUST SUPPOSE TO BE THE TRUE FACTS.SO WHAT ON EARTH IS MALAYSIA COVERING UP THAT WHAT FACTS-NOT THEORIES THEY DO NOT WANT THE FAMILIES RO READ.WELL I CAN GUESS WHAT FACTS THEY DON'T WANT REVEALED.THE FACTS THAT WILL PROOVE THE PLANE LANDED IN INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA IS COVERING UP THE TRUE FACTS.
AND ALSO MALAYSIA SAYS THEIR SETTING UP AN INTERNATIONAL TEAM TO LOOK INTO THE DISAPPEARENCE OF MH370-TO KEEP IT TRANSPARENT.IF THEY WANT TRANSPERENCY.GET THE FACTS TO THE FAMILIES AT LEAST.SO THEY CAN FIGURE OUT THE COVERUP BY MALAYSIA AND IRAN AND WHOEVER IS INVOLVED IN THE KIDNAPPING OF THE FREESCALE WORKERS AND CITIZENS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ON THE PLANE.
NOW I JUST HEARD IT WILL TAKE A FEW DAYS TILL THE DEBRIS IS DETERMINED FROM MH370 OR NOT.THE DISTRACTION JUST CONTINUES.
Unidentified material washed ashore-jacc-Media Release-23 April 2014 pmWestern Australia Police have attended a report of material washed ashore 10 kilometres east of Augusta and have secured the material.The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is examining the photographs of the material to determine whether further physical analysis is required and if there is any relevance to the search of missing flight MH370.The ATSB has also provided the photographs to the Malaysian investigation team.No further information is available at this time.Any further information will be made available if, and when, it becomes available.
Suspension of air search today due to weather conditions-Media Release-23 April 2014-jaccPlanned air search activities have been suspended for today due to poor weather conditions in the search area.Three aircraft had already departed for today's search area prior to the suspension taking effect. They have been recalled.Current weather conditions are resulting in heavy seas and poor visibility and are making air search activities ineffective and potentially hazardous.The 12 ships involved in today's search will continue with their planned activities.
Search continues for Malaysian flight MH370-Media Release-23 April 2014—am-jaccUp to 10 military aircraft and 12 ships will assist in today's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Today the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has planned a visual search area totaling approximately 37,948 square kilometres. The centre of the search area lies approximately 1584 kilometres north west of Perth.Bluefin-21 AUV is currently completing mission ten in the underwater search area. Bluefin-21 has now completed more than 80 per cent of the focused underwater search area. No contacts of interest have been found to date.The focused underwater search area is defined as a circle of 10km radius around the second Towed Pinger Locator detection which occurred on 8 April.The weather forecast for today is for isolated showers increasing to heavy rain, widespread low cloud, with south easterly winds, sea swells up to 2.5 metres and visibility of one kilometere. Prevailing weather conditions may affect today's air search.
-JACC
Will the agony ever end for MH370 families? Now search teams think they may be looking in the wrong place for debris amid fresh rumour it may have LANDED.-Sources with the search team say the aircraft may have landed somewhere, rather than crashed into the Indian Ocean as previously believed-If no debris is found in the next few days the team may shift search focus-Fits with alleged sightings of MH370 at the time of disappearance-By Richard Shears-Published: 05:43 GMT, 22 April 2014 | Updated: 17:10 GMT, 22 April 2014-MAILONLINE
The fruitless search for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet might have to start all over again from scratch if no clues to its fate are found in coming days, it was claimed today.The international team searching the Indian Ocean for the Boeing 777 are now considering the seemingly impossible scenario of the aircraft having 'landed' somewhere, instead of crashing in the southern Indian Ocean.'We may have to regroup soon to look into this possibility if no positive results come back in the next few days,' sources within the International Investigation Team were quoted as telling the New Straits Times today.Looking in the wrong place? Sources from the investigation team have told the New Straits Times that if they do not find debris in the ocean soon they may have to search elsewhere.Looking in the wrong place? Sources from the investigation team have told the New Straits Times that if they do not find debris in the ocean soon they may have to search elsewhere.While the sources have not suggested which country the aircraft might have landed - or crashed - in, the possibility that an entirely new search in a different area is in line with suggestions by the Mail weeks ago that alleged sightings of a low-flying aircraft could have located it in a different place than the ocean.'The thought of it landing somewhere else is not impossible, as we have not found a single debris that could be linked to MH370,' sources were quoted as telling the paper.Sabotage probe after ANOTHER Malaysian Airlines flight is forced to make emergency landing after landing gear malfunctions.'However, the possibility of a specific country hiding the plane when more than 20 nations are searching for it, seems absurd,' said the sources.But they admitted that it was difficult to determine if the plane had really ended in the Indian Ocean, despite calculations seeming to point to that direction.The Mail reported early in the search that fishermen and villagers living in north east Malaysia had filed official statements with police claiming to have seen - or heard - a low-flying aircraft at the time when MH370 lost all contact with ground control.
THE 45 DAY RULE
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has now been missing for 46 days - an important milestone as it allowed U.S. lawyers to pursue Boeing in U.S. courts.A 45-day rule, enforced by the National Transportation Safety Board, means that families can now file suits in U.S. courts against Boeing, an American manufacturer.'We don't feel we have a whole lot of other choices because we're certainly not getting any answers without (legal action),' Sarah Bajc told CNN. Ms Bajc, whose partner Philip Wood was on the flight, said she hoped that pressure in the courts might lead to the Malaysian government releasing important data.One key problem however could bt the lack of any plane.'If we don't have the "black box" with all the critical information on it, or we don't have any part of the wreckage, it would be very hard to maintain a claim against Boeing in any court in the United States,' Daniel Rose, an aviation attorney from Kreindler & Kreindler, told CNN.Their descriptions of a 'very loud engine' and headlights like those switched on by an aircraft about to land at night suggested that the aircraft was flying to the west, across jungle, very fast, at a low altitude.The sources told the government-controlled paper that it was difficult to determine if the plane had really ended in the Indian Ocean, although calculations pointed to that direction.The Malaysian-led investigation team, along with experts from Inmarsat and the UK's Air Accidents Investigation Branch, had to rely on an Inmarsat communications satellite, which did not provide any definite details, including the aircraft's direction, altitude and speed.One of the sources told the New Straits Times: 'A communications satellite is meant for communication...the name is self explanatory.'The reason investigators were forced to adopt a new algorithm to calculate the last known location of MH370 was because there was no global positioning system following the aircraft as the transponder went off 45 minutes into the flight.'The source added that the international team was looking at adding more ships and aircraft to the existing search area in the Indian Ocean - as well as widening the area because there were fears that searchers had been 'looking for the plane in the wrong place'.'We can't focus on one place too long as the ocean is very big, although the search team has been following the leads received and analysed.'It is by luck if we find the wreckage using the Bluefin-21 (the US-owned underwater search vehicle).' There is no physical evidence and we are totally depending on scientific calculations since day one, including the pings.'With the search now into its 45th day, Malaysian authorities are hoping more countries will come forward to share their crucial satellite and radar data. Suggesting that national security of various countries was involved, the source added: 'We have mainly been provided with selective data.'The source said that because the information potentially involved the national security of the country from which it was requested, only partial raw data had been provided, making it difficult for Malaysian authorities to get the full picture.'The data involved would be official information, so the (foreign) country cannot simply give it to us on paper or in soft copy - they will select only the ones that can be revealed.'The Malaysians had asked the US government to view data collected by its secret base, Pine Gap, in the Australian outback.But the request had been denied, sources said, after the US had said that no contact had been made with MH370.'We can't be forcing them to show us the data, as they had already said there was nothing,' one source said.
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Search continues for Malaysian flight MH370-Media Release-22 April 2014—am=JACC
Up to 10 military aircraft and 10 ships will assist in today's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Today the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has planned a visual search area totaling approximately 49,491 square kilometres. The centre of the search area lies approximately 1584 kilometres north west of Perth.Bluefin-21 AUV is currently completing mission nine in the underwater search area. Bluefin-21 has searched approximately two thirds of the focused underwater search area to date. No contacts of interest have been found to date.The focused underwater search area is defined as a circle of 10km radius around the second Towed Pinger Locator detection which occurred on 8 April.The weather forecast for today is for scattered showers to continue with south easterly winds, sea swells up to three metres and visibility of four kilometres.
Suspension of air search today due to weather conditions-Media Release-22 April 2014-JACC
Planned air search activities have been suspended for today due to poor weather conditions in the search area as a result of Tropical Cyclone Jack.It has been determined that the current weather conditions are resulting in heavy seas and poor visibility, and would make any air search activities ineffective and potentially hazardous.The 10 ships involved in today's search will continue with their planned activities.
Submarine drone search for Malaysian plane to continue
By Byron Kaye 4 hours ago-APR 22,14-YahooNews
PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - A U.S. submarine drone will keep scouring the Indian Ocean floor for traces of a missing Malaysian jetliner after it finishes its current targeted search, Australian authorities told Reuters as a tropical cyclone suspended the air search.Authorities are under growing pressure to decide their next course of action as the Bluefin-21 drone nears the end of its first sweep of remote seabed which authorities believe is the most likely resting place of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board.The Bluefin-21 is expected to finish its targeted search of a 10 square kms (6.2 square mile) stretch of ocean floor, where a signal suspected to be from the plane's black box was detected, come Wednesday. No wreckage has yet been found."Bluefin-21 has now completed more than 80 percent of the focused underwater search area and further missions are planned," the Perth based Joint Agency Coordination Centre told Reuters in an email."The search will continue. We are currently consulting very closely with our international partners on the best way to effect this for the future."As the Bluefin embarked on its 10th trip to depths of more than 4.5 kms (2.8 miles), some 2,000 kms (1,200 miles) northwest of the Australian city of Perth, a tropical cyclone heading south over the Indian Ocean suspended the air search."It has been determined that the current weather conditions are resulting in heavy seas and poor visibility, and would make any air search activities ineffective and potentially hazardous," the JACC said.The ships involved in the day's search about 1,600 kms (990 miles) northwest of the Australian city of Perth would continue with their planned activities, the center added.The search coordinator, retired Australian Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, said on April 14 that the air and surface component of the operation would end about a week ago.But daily sorties have continued unabated in what is shaping to be the most expensive search in aviation history, involving some two dozen nations."There will be no change to our mission of one nine-hour flight per day," U.S. 7th Fleet public affairs officer Commander William J. Marks told Reuters on Tuesday.Meanwhile, a statement attributed to the families of passengers on board the missing flight accused the Malaysian government of giving information about the investigation to the media before them and demanded "regular pre-payments" of compensation before the investigation was complete.Many family members have been critical of the Malaysian government's handling of the so far fruitless search."We don't expect that they find all of the plane, or all of the bodies, or even that they know everything about how this surreal situation happened, but we do expect at least a tiny bit of concrete evidence," said the statement, published on the families' Facebook page on Tuesday.Until conclusive proof confirms the plane's fate, the Malaysian government has "an obligation to make regular pre-payments to the families in need and they have an obligation to exert themselves beyond repeated attempts to force a closure of the issue".(Editing by Michael Perry)
VOICE OF RUSSIA-MAR 31,14
According to one of the latest, unlike what Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak backed by his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott is claiming, the plane did not crash into the southern Indian Ocean but was captured.MH370 could have been kidnapped to get to the technical brain-trust on board - 20 Freescale Semiconductor employees travelling to China. Freescale attracted attention because it is a Texas-based technology firm that develops components for hi-tech weapons systems and aircraft navigation among other things.Interestingly, that leading innovative company has been oddly unwilling to provide information on the missing people. Only the nationalities of the employees were made public: 12 of them were from Malaysia and eight from China. However, Freescale has persistently declined to release their identities. "Out of respect for the families' privacy during this difficult time, we will not be releasing the names of the employees who were on board the flight at this time," Freescale spokeswoman Jacey Zuniga said.Nevertheless, Mitch Haws, Freescale's vice president, described them as "people with a lot of experience and technical background," adding that "they were very important." According to Reuters, the vanished employees were engineers or specialists involved in projects to streamline and cut costs at key manufacturing facilities in China and Malaysia.
MAR 8,14 USA TODAY
Freescale Semiconductor is a technology company focused on what he calls " solutions in processing", and works with a variety of markets such as automotive and consumer electronics, to address issues of technology using microprocessors and sensors.Malaysia sent nine ( 2 MILITARY PLANES AT LEAST) planes and 15 ships to search waters between Malaysia and Vietnam. The Philippines dispatched three Navy ships and a surveillance plane. China sent two ships. (AND THE SAME MORNING SAT MAR 8,14 IN CANADA AND SUN MAR 9,14 IN MALAYSIA CHINA HAD 2 BOMBERS IN THE DISPUTED AREAS WITH JAPAN AROUND 11AM.AND THE MH370 WAS IN THE AIR TILL 6:30AM AT LEAST).I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE WITH 11 PLANES AND CHINAS 2 BOMBERS IN THE AIR LOOKING FOR THE PLANE THEY NEVER SPOTTED IT.AND AT LEAST 2 OF THE PLANES WERE IN THE STRAIT OF MAALACA LOOKING AND NEVER FOUND IT.WELL IF IT WAS IN INDONESIA LANDED AND THE 2ND PLANE SENT TO THE INDIAN OCEAN.THIS IS THE ONLY REASON I CAN BELIEVE WHY 9 MALAYSIAN PLANES -15 SHIPS AND 2 CHINESE WAR PLANES COULD NOT FIND THE PLANE RIGHT OFF.AND THERE WERE OTHER COUNTRIES THAT SENT PLANES OUT ALSO.I THINK THAILAND AND VIET NAM.BUT NOTHING FROM INDONESIA.THIS TELLS ME THE PLANE WAS LANDED IN INDONESIA AND THEY DID'NT WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SEARCH.THEY JUST WANTED TO BE HUSH HUSH ABOUT THE KIDNAPPED PLANE LANDING IN INDONESIA.(MY COMMENTS)
FREESCALE IS INVOLVED WITH CARS LIKE THIS TO.
Tesla delivers first China cars, plans expansion-By JOE McDONALD 44 minutes ago-APR 22,14-YahooNews
BEIJING (AP) — Tesla Motors Inc. delivered its first eight electric sedans to customers in China on Tuesday and CEO Elon Musk said the company will build a nationwide network of charging stations and service centers as fast as it can.Tesla probably will invest several hundred million dollars in charging infrastructure in China, Musk told reporters. He said it will open several hundred service centers."My instructions to the team are to spend money as fast as they can spend it without wasting it," he said.The Palo Alto, California, company previously announced a $121,000 sticker price for its Model S in China. It said import taxes and shipping account for the difference with its U.S. price tag of $81,000.Customers received the first Model S sedans at a brief ceremony at Tesla's office in a Beijing industrial park, also the site of its first Chinese charging station."I'm incredibly appreciative of customers like you for taking a chance on a new product from a new company," Musk told them. "Without customers like you, we would have no chance."Chinese leaders want to develop an electric car industry and called in 2009 for annual sales of 500,000 electric cars by 2015 but have scaled back those plans. Industry growth has been slow partly due to rules that limit market access unless foreign manufacturers share technology with Chinese partners that might become rivals.Tesla hopes to partner with China's state-owned power monopolies, State Grid and Southern Grid, to operate charging stations, but no "serious discussions" have begun, Musk said. He said the car can be charged from a wall socket but the charging stations speed up the process.The stations will have solar panels, but Musk said that was meant to show vehicles can run without power generated from coal rather than to make them independent of utility companies. He said charging stations will be built both in cities and between them to facilitate long-distance travel.Musk said previously Tesla might sell 5,000 cars this year in China but emphasized Tuesday that was "just a guess.""I do think that's probably a good number. Maybe it will be higher," he said. "I don't honestly know. Thus far the response has been very positive."Musk also previously said Tesla might try to manufacture cars in China in as little as three to four years. He said that might take longer but the company still hopes to produce vehicles where they are sold.Foreign manufacturers that want to produce electric cars in China are subject to import taxes unless they give ownership of key technology to a Chinese partner. Producers such as General Motors Co. and Nissan Motor Co. have chosen instead to import electric and hybrid vehicles and pay duties that boost their price and limit sales.Some Chinese customers expressed frustration after Tesla delayed deliveries by several months. Musk said the company wanted to avoid a repeat of trouble it had in Europe when it rolled out vehicles too quickly. He said deliveries were postponed while the company made sure all customers had access to charging facilities."We intentionally held back on the debut to the Chinese market until we were confident of that," he said. Referring to customers, he said, "I met with them earlier today and personally apologized."Musk said Tesla still is deciding where in the United States to build what it says could be the biggest factory to produce lithium-ion batteries.The company is looking at four states — Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Texas — and is likely to break ground in more than one before making a final decision, Musk said. He said the company wants to make sure construction stays on schedule and keeps up with demand from Tesla's California auto assembly line."We are going to proceed with at least two locations in parallel, just in case one of them encounters some issues after breaking ground," Musk said. He said Panasonic was likely to be Tesla's partner in battery production.Tesla has no plans for additional modifications to strengthen the Model S undercarriage to protect against road debris after announcing in March it would add a titanium shield, said a company spokesman, Simon Sproule. Tesla announced the modification after two cars were destroyed in the United States in fires blamed on road debris that punctured an aluminum shield and their batteries.
Cyclone curtails aerial search for MH370-APR 22,14-YahooNews
Perth (Australia) (AFP) - The aerial search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was suspended Tuesday due to a tropical cyclone, but not before several aircraft had departed on the mission, Australian officials said.Up to 10 military aircraft had been scheduled to fly over the Indian Ocean in hopes of spotting clues as to the fate of the Boeing 777, which vanished on March 8 carrying 239 people."Planned air search activities have been suspended for today due to poor weather conditions in the search area as a result of Tropical Cyclone Jack," Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre said, adding that 10 ships in the search zone would continue their work."It has been determined that the current weather conditions are resulting in heavy seas and poor visibility, and would make any air search activities ineffective and potentially hazardous."JACC later advised that prior to the decision to suspend search activities, four military aircraft had left the Pearce air base north of Perth, bound for the 49,491 square kilometre (19,108 square mile) visual search zone in the remote Indian Ocean.A fifth plane helping coordinate the search also left from the Learmonth base on Australia's western coast."These aircraft will continue with their missions, however, individual aircraft captains will assess the conditions once on station and use their discretion as to whether they continue their planned search activities or return to base."Australia is leading the hunt for MH370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean after veering sharply from its route for no apparent reason.No debris has yet been found from the plane and authorities say their best lead has been signals picked up by a black box locator earlier this month, which have since fallen silent.Australia's Ocean Shield ship has deployed an underwater autonomous vehicle (UAV) to scour the seabed at a depth of some 4,500 metres (15,000 feet) in the vicinity of these signals, hoping to find wreckage of the missing plane.But Prime Minister Tony Abbott suggested last week that the submersible Bluefin-21 would only be deployed for about a week, and the sonar scanning device has already covered two-thirds of the search zone without result."Bluefin-21 AUV has completed the ninth mission. No contacts of interest have been found," JACC said late Tuesday."Bluefin-21 is currently undertaking mission ten in the underwater search area."Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said severe Tropical Cyclone Jack was about 700 kilometres west-southwest of the Cocos Islands and moving south-southeast early Tuesday.While it posed no threat to the Cocos Islands or Western Australia, the likelihood of the system remaining a tropical cyclone in the region was high on Tuesday.
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-46-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-45-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/complete-list-of-members-on-flight.html (COMPLETE LIST)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remebering-mh370-777-200er-victims-of.html (P1 REM-MEMBERS)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remembering-mh370-777-200er-citizens.html (P2 REM-MEMBERS)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-44-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-43-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-42-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-41-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-40-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-39-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-38-mh370-missing-plane-search-goes.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-37-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-36-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-35-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-34-mh370-missing-plane-narrowing.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-33-mh370-missing-plane-what.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 1 TO 32 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-32-mh370-missing-plane-they-may.html
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 12:03AM WED APR 23,2014
SEARCH FOR THE PLANE YOURSELF-HERE
http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014
FLIGHTWARE-LIVE FLIGHT TRACKING
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370/history/20140307/1635Z/WMKK/ZBAA/tracklog
MALAYSIAN MH370 SEAT MAP
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Malaysia_Airlines/Malaysia_Airlines_Boeing_777-200.php
VIDEO RETIRED GENERAL SAYS THE PLANES IN PAKISTAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWiVkShm8cw
FINDING PHILIP WOOD
https://www.facebook.com/findingphilipwood370
SARAH SAYS PHILIP IS STILL ALIVE AND KIDNAPPED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKot27qbyw
SARAH BAJC SAYS PHILIP AND ALL ARE STILL ALIVE AND KIDNAPPED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKot27qbyw
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/04/08/erin-bts-bajc-mh370-plane-was-taken.cnn.html
FREESCALE LOCATIONS
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?code=GLOBAL_SITES
http://www.freescale.com/
IF you wana leave a message to Flight Mh370 Members-
http://english.astroawani.com/p/feedback/comments
Family Members website
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_12ece77a00101eh9v.html
COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 239 ON MH370-777-200ER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/complete-list-of-members-on-flight.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remebering-mh370-777-200er-victims-of.html (P1)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remembering-mh370-777-200er-citizens.html (P2)
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 12:03AM WED APR 23,2014
WELL FINALLY OFFICIALS ARE GONNA LOOK ON LAND.THEY DON'T THINK THE PLANE IS HIDDEN.BUT CRASHED ON LAND.WELL I THINK THEY WERE KIDNAPPED ON INDONESIA - NOT CRASHED LIKE THESE OFFICIALS OF THE INVESTIGATION BELIEVE.BUT AT LEAST THERE FINALLY GONNA LOOK ON LAND.
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 11:03AM WED APR 23,2014
WELL IS IT NOT INTERESTING JUST AS WE GOT THIS STORY ABOUT OFFICIALS LOOKING ON LAND TODAY.WE SUDDENLY HAVE AN ITEM OF INTEREST SHOWING UP AT AUSTRALIAS COAST.THIS ITEM IS PLEXIGLASS AND METAL WITH LOTS OF RIVOTS.AND ITS BEEN AT LEAST 3 HOURS SINCE I HEARD THIS REPORT ON TV.AND JUST LIKE MAGIC.WE ARE NOT GETTING ANY RESPONSE FROM MALAYSIA OR AUSTRALIA.
AND ALSO THE MALAYSIAN INVESTIGATERS REFUSE TO GIVE THE FAMILIES A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION REPORT.BY 30 DAYS.THE FACTS ARE SUPPOSE TO BE WRITTEN OUT AND GIVEN TO THE FAMILIES AND MEDIA.SO WE KNOW THE FACTS.THESE ARE JUST SUPPOSE TO BE THE TRUE FACTS.SO WHAT ON EARTH IS MALAYSIA COVERING UP THAT WHAT FACTS-NOT THEORIES THEY DO NOT WANT THE FAMILIES RO READ.WELL I CAN GUESS WHAT FACTS THEY DON'T WANT REVEALED.THE FACTS THAT WILL PROOVE THE PLANE LANDED IN INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA IS COVERING UP THE TRUE FACTS.
AND ALSO MALAYSIA SAYS THEIR SETTING UP AN INTERNATIONAL TEAM TO LOOK INTO THE DISAPPEARENCE OF MH370-TO KEEP IT TRANSPARENT.IF THEY WANT TRANSPERENCY.GET THE FACTS TO THE FAMILIES AT LEAST.SO THEY CAN FIGURE OUT THE COVERUP BY MALAYSIA AND IRAN AND WHOEVER IS INVOLVED IN THE KIDNAPPING OF THE FREESCALE WORKERS AND CITIZENS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ON THE PLANE.
NOW I JUST HEARD IT WILL TAKE A FEW DAYS TILL THE DEBRIS IS DETERMINED FROM MH370 OR NOT.THE DISTRACTION JUST CONTINUES.
Unidentified material washed ashore-jacc-Media Release-23 April 2014 pmWestern Australia Police have attended a report of material washed ashore 10 kilometres east of Augusta and have secured the material.The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is examining the photographs of the material to determine whether further physical analysis is required and if there is any relevance to the search of missing flight MH370.The ATSB has also provided the photographs to the Malaysian investigation team.No further information is available at this time.Any further information will be made available if, and when, it becomes available.
Suspension of air search today due to weather conditions-Media Release-23 April 2014-jaccPlanned air search activities have been suspended for today due to poor weather conditions in the search area.Three aircraft had already departed for today's search area prior to the suspension taking effect. They have been recalled.Current weather conditions are resulting in heavy seas and poor visibility and are making air search activities ineffective and potentially hazardous.The 12 ships involved in today's search will continue with their planned activities.
Search continues for Malaysian flight MH370-Media Release-23 April 2014—am-jaccUp to 10 military aircraft and 12 ships will assist in today's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Today the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has planned a visual search area totaling approximately 37,948 square kilometres. The centre of the search area lies approximately 1584 kilometres north west of Perth.Bluefin-21 AUV is currently completing mission ten in the underwater search area. Bluefin-21 has now completed more than 80 per cent of the focused underwater search area. No contacts of interest have been found to date.The focused underwater search area is defined as a circle of 10km radius around the second Towed Pinger Locator detection which occurred on 8 April.The weather forecast for today is for isolated showers increasing to heavy rain, widespread low cloud, with south easterly winds, sea swells up to 2.5 metres and visibility of one kilometere. Prevailing weather conditions may affect today's air search.
-JACC Will the agony ever end for MH370 families? Now search teams think they may be looking in the wrong place for debris amid fresh rumour it may have LANDED.-Sources with the search team say the aircraft may have landed somewhere, rather than crashed into the Indian Ocean as previously believed-If no debris is found in the next few days the team may shift search focus-Fits with alleged sightings of MH370 at the time of disappearance-By Richard Shears-Published: 05:43 GMT, 22 April 2014 | Updated: 17:10 GMT, 22 April 2014-MAILONLINE
The fruitless search for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet might have to start all over again from scratch if no clues to its fate are found in coming days, it was claimed today.The international team searching the Indian Ocean for the Boeing 777 are now considering the seemingly impossible scenario of the aircraft having 'landed' somewhere, instead of crashing in the southern Indian Ocean.'We may have to regroup soon to look into this possibility if no positive results come back in the next few days,' sources within the International Investigation Team were quoted as telling the New Straits Times today.Looking in the wrong place? Sources from the investigation team have told the New Straits Times that if they do not find debris in the ocean soon they may have to search elsewhere.Looking in the wrong place? Sources from the investigation team have told the New Straits Times that if they do not find debris in the ocean soon they may have to search elsewhere.While the sources have not suggested which country the aircraft might have landed - or crashed - in, the possibility that an entirely new search in a different area is in line with suggestions by the Mail weeks ago that alleged sightings of a low-flying aircraft could have located it in a different place than the ocean.'The thought of it landing somewhere else is not impossible, as we have not found a single debris that could be linked to MH370,' sources were quoted as telling the paper.Sabotage probe after ANOTHER Malaysian Airlines flight is forced to make emergency landing after landing gear malfunctions.'However, the possibility of a specific country hiding the plane when more than 20 nations are searching for it, seems absurd,' said the sources.But they admitted that it was difficult to determine if the plane had really ended in the Indian Ocean, despite calculations seeming to point to that direction.The Mail reported early in the search that fishermen and villagers living in north east Malaysia had filed official statements with police claiming to have seen - or heard - a low-flying aircraft at the time when MH370 lost all contact with ground control.
THE 45 DAY RULE
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has now been missing for 46 days - an important milestone as it allowed U.S. lawyers to pursue Boeing in U.S. courts.A 45-day rule, enforced by the National Transportation Safety Board, means that families can now file suits in U.S. courts against Boeing, an American manufacturer.'We don't feel we have a whole lot of other choices because we're certainly not getting any answers without (legal action),' Sarah Bajc told CNN. Ms Bajc, whose partner Philip Wood was on the flight, said she hoped that pressure in the courts might lead to the Malaysian government releasing important data.One key problem however could bt the lack of any plane.'If we don't have the "black box" with all the critical information on it, or we don't have any part of the wreckage, it would be very hard to maintain a claim against Boeing in any court in the United States,' Daniel Rose, an aviation attorney from Kreindler & Kreindler, told CNN.Their descriptions of a 'very loud engine' and headlights like those switched on by an aircraft about to land at night suggested that the aircraft was flying to the west, across jungle, very fast, at a low altitude.The sources told the government-controlled paper that it was difficult to determine if the plane had really ended in the Indian Ocean, although calculations pointed to that direction.The Malaysian-led investigation team, along with experts from Inmarsat and the UK's Air Accidents Investigation Branch, had to rely on an Inmarsat communications satellite, which did not provide any definite details, including the aircraft's direction, altitude and speed.One of the sources told the New Straits Times: 'A communications satellite is meant for communication...the name is self explanatory.'The reason investigators were forced to adopt a new algorithm to calculate the last known location of MH370 was because there was no global positioning system following the aircraft as the transponder went off 45 minutes into the flight.'The source added that the international team was looking at adding more ships and aircraft to the existing search area in the Indian Ocean - as well as widening the area because there were fears that searchers had been 'looking for the plane in the wrong place'.'We can't focus on one place too long as the ocean is very big, although the search team has been following the leads received and analysed.'It is by luck if we find the wreckage using the Bluefin-21 (the US-owned underwater search vehicle).' There is no physical evidence and we are totally depending on scientific calculations since day one, including the pings.'With the search now into its 45th day, Malaysian authorities are hoping more countries will come forward to share their crucial satellite and radar data. Suggesting that national security of various countries was involved, the source added: 'We have mainly been provided with selective data.'The source said that because the information potentially involved the national security of the country from which it was requested, only partial raw data had been provided, making it difficult for Malaysian authorities to get the full picture.'The data involved would be official information, so the (foreign) country cannot simply give it to us on paper or in soft copy - they will select only the ones that can be revealed.'The Malaysians had asked the US government to view data collected by its secret base, Pine Gap, in the Australian outback.But the request had been denied, sources said, after the US had said that no contact had been made with MH370.'We can't be forcing them to show us the data, as they had already said there was nothing,' one source said.
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Search continues for Malaysian flight MH370-Media Release-22 April 2014—am=JACC
Up to 10 military aircraft and 10 ships will assist in today's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Today the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has planned a visual search area totaling approximately 49,491 square kilometres. The centre of the search area lies approximately 1584 kilometres north west of Perth.Bluefin-21 AUV is currently completing mission nine in the underwater search area. Bluefin-21 has searched approximately two thirds of the focused underwater search area to date. No contacts of interest have been found to date.The focused underwater search area is defined as a circle of 10km radius around the second Towed Pinger Locator detection which occurred on 8 April.The weather forecast for today is for scattered showers to continue with south easterly winds, sea swells up to three metres and visibility of four kilometres.
Suspension of air search today due to weather conditions-Media Release-22 April 2014-JACC
Planned air search activities have been suspended for today due to poor weather conditions in the search area as a result of Tropical Cyclone Jack.It has been determined that the current weather conditions are resulting in heavy seas and poor visibility, and would make any air search activities ineffective and potentially hazardous.The 10 ships involved in today's search will continue with their planned activities.
Submarine drone search for Malaysian plane to continue
By Byron Kaye 4 hours ago-APR 22,14-YahooNews
PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - A U.S. submarine drone will keep scouring the Indian Ocean floor for traces of a missing Malaysian jetliner after it finishes its current targeted search, Australian authorities told Reuters as a tropical cyclone suspended the air search.Authorities are under growing pressure to decide their next course of action as the Bluefin-21 drone nears the end of its first sweep of remote seabed which authorities believe is the most likely resting place of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board.The Bluefin-21 is expected to finish its targeted search of a 10 square kms (6.2 square mile) stretch of ocean floor, where a signal suspected to be from the plane's black box was detected, come Wednesday. No wreckage has yet been found."Bluefin-21 has now completed more than 80 percent of the focused underwater search area and further missions are planned," the Perth based Joint Agency Coordination Centre told Reuters in an email."The search will continue. We are currently consulting very closely with our international partners on the best way to effect this for the future."As the Bluefin embarked on its 10th trip to depths of more than 4.5 kms (2.8 miles), some 2,000 kms (1,200 miles) northwest of the Australian city of Perth, a tropical cyclone heading south over the Indian Ocean suspended the air search."It has been determined that the current weather conditions are resulting in heavy seas and poor visibility, and would make any air search activities ineffective and potentially hazardous," the JACC said.The ships involved in the day's search about 1,600 kms (990 miles) northwest of the Australian city of Perth would continue with their planned activities, the center added.The search coordinator, retired Australian Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, said on April 14 that the air and surface component of the operation would end about a week ago.But daily sorties have continued unabated in what is shaping to be the most expensive search in aviation history, involving some two dozen nations."There will be no change to our mission of one nine-hour flight per day," U.S. 7th Fleet public affairs officer Commander William J. Marks told Reuters on Tuesday.Meanwhile, a statement attributed to the families of passengers on board the missing flight accused the Malaysian government of giving information about the investigation to the media before them and demanded "regular pre-payments" of compensation before the investigation was complete.Many family members have been critical of the Malaysian government's handling of the so far fruitless search."We don't expect that they find all of the plane, or all of the bodies, or even that they know everything about how this surreal situation happened, but we do expect at least a tiny bit of concrete evidence," said the statement, published on the families' Facebook page on Tuesday.Until conclusive proof confirms the plane's fate, the Malaysian government has "an obligation to make regular pre-payments to the families in need and they have an obligation to exert themselves beyond repeated attempts to force a closure of the issue".(Editing by Michael Perry)
VOICE OF RUSSIA-MAR 31,14
According to one of the latest, unlike what Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak backed by his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott is claiming, the plane did not crash into the southern Indian Ocean but was captured.MH370 could have been kidnapped to get to the technical brain-trust on board - 20 Freescale Semiconductor employees travelling to China. Freescale attracted attention because it is a Texas-based technology firm that develops components for hi-tech weapons systems and aircraft navigation among other things.Interestingly, that leading innovative company has been oddly unwilling to provide information on the missing people. Only the nationalities of the employees were made public: 12 of them were from Malaysia and eight from China. However, Freescale has persistently declined to release their identities. "Out of respect for the families' privacy during this difficult time, we will not be releasing the names of the employees who were on board the flight at this time," Freescale spokeswoman Jacey Zuniga said.Nevertheless, Mitch Haws, Freescale's vice president, described them as "people with a lot of experience and technical background," adding that "they were very important." According to Reuters, the vanished employees were engineers or specialists involved in projects to streamline and cut costs at key manufacturing facilities in China and Malaysia.
MAR 8,14 USA TODAY
Freescale Semiconductor is a technology company focused on what he calls " solutions in processing", and works with a variety of markets such as automotive and consumer electronics, to address issues of technology using microprocessors and sensors.Malaysia sent nine ( 2 MILITARY PLANES AT LEAST) planes and 15 ships to search waters between Malaysia and Vietnam. The Philippines dispatched three Navy ships and a surveillance plane. China sent two ships. (AND THE SAME MORNING SAT MAR 8,14 IN CANADA AND SUN MAR 9,14 IN MALAYSIA CHINA HAD 2 BOMBERS IN THE DISPUTED AREAS WITH JAPAN AROUND 11AM.AND THE MH370 WAS IN THE AIR TILL 6:30AM AT LEAST).I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE WITH 11 PLANES AND CHINAS 2 BOMBERS IN THE AIR LOOKING FOR THE PLANE THEY NEVER SPOTTED IT.AND AT LEAST 2 OF THE PLANES WERE IN THE STRAIT OF MAALACA LOOKING AND NEVER FOUND IT.WELL IF IT WAS IN INDONESIA LANDED AND THE 2ND PLANE SENT TO THE INDIAN OCEAN.THIS IS THE ONLY REASON I CAN BELIEVE WHY 9 MALAYSIAN PLANES -15 SHIPS AND 2 CHINESE WAR PLANES COULD NOT FIND THE PLANE RIGHT OFF.AND THERE WERE OTHER COUNTRIES THAT SENT PLANES OUT ALSO.I THINK THAILAND AND VIET NAM.BUT NOTHING FROM INDONESIA.THIS TELLS ME THE PLANE WAS LANDED IN INDONESIA AND THEY DID'NT WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SEARCH.THEY JUST WANTED TO BE HUSH HUSH ABOUT THE KIDNAPPED PLANE LANDING IN INDONESIA.(MY COMMENTS)
FREESCALE IS INVOLVED WITH CARS LIKE THIS TO.
Tesla delivers first China cars, plans expansion-By JOE McDONALD 44 minutes ago-APR 22,14-YahooNews
BEIJING (AP) — Tesla Motors Inc. delivered its first eight electric sedans to customers in China on Tuesday and CEO Elon Musk said the company will build a nationwide network of charging stations and service centers as fast as it can.Tesla probably will invest several hundred million dollars in charging infrastructure in China, Musk told reporters. He said it will open several hundred service centers."My instructions to the team are to spend money as fast as they can spend it without wasting it," he said.The Palo Alto, California, company previously announced a $121,000 sticker price for its Model S in China. It said import taxes and shipping account for the difference with its U.S. price tag of $81,000.Customers received the first Model S sedans at a brief ceremony at Tesla's office in a Beijing industrial park, also the site of its first Chinese charging station."I'm incredibly appreciative of customers like you for taking a chance on a new product from a new company," Musk told them. "Without customers like you, we would have no chance."Chinese leaders want to develop an electric car industry and called in 2009 for annual sales of 500,000 electric cars by 2015 but have scaled back those plans. Industry growth has been slow partly due to rules that limit market access unless foreign manufacturers share technology with Chinese partners that might become rivals.Tesla hopes to partner with China's state-owned power monopolies, State Grid and Southern Grid, to operate charging stations, but no "serious discussions" have begun, Musk said. He said the car can be charged from a wall socket but the charging stations speed up the process.The stations will have solar panels, but Musk said that was meant to show vehicles can run without power generated from coal rather than to make them independent of utility companies. He said charging stations will be built both in cities and between them to facilitate long-distance travel.Musk said previously Tesla might sell 5,000 cars this year in China but emphasized Tuesday that was "just a guess.""I do think that's probably a good number. Maybe it will be higher," he said. "I don't honestly know. Thus far the response has been very positive."Musk also previously said Tesla might try to manufacture cars in China in as little as three to four years. He said that might take longer but the company still hopes to produce vehicles where they are sold.Foreign manufacturers that want to produce electric cars in China are subject to import taxes unless they give ownership of key technology to a Chinese partner. Producers such as General Motors Co. and Nissan Motor Co. have chosen instead to import electric and hybrid vehicles and pay duties that boost their price and limit sales.Some Chinese customers expressed frustration after Tesla delayed deliveries by several months. Musk said the company wanted to avoid a repeat of trouble it had in Europe when it rolled out vehicles too quickly. He said deliveries were postponed while the company made sure all customers had access to charging facilities."We intentionally held back on the debut to the Chinese market until we were confident of that," he said. Referring to customers, he said, "I met with them earlier today and personally apologized."Musk said Tesla still is deciding where in the United States to build what it says could be the biggest factory to produce lithium-ion batteries.The company is looking at four states — Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Texas — and is likely to break ground in more than one before making a final decision, Musk said. He said the company wants to make sure construction stays on schedule and keeps up with demand from Tesla's California auto assembly line."We are going to proceed with at least two locations in parallel, just in case one of them encounters some issues after breaking ground," Musk said. He said Panasonic was likely to be Tesla's partner in battery production.Tesla has no plans for additional modifications to strengthen the Model S undercarriage to protect against road debris after announcing in March it would add a titanium shield, said a company spokesman, Simon Sproule. Tesla announced the modification after two cars were destroyed in the United States in fires blamed on road debris that punctured an aluminum shield and their batteries.
Cyclone curtails aerial search for MH370-APR 22,14-YahooNews
Perth (Australia) (AFP) - The aerial search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was suspended Tuesday due to a tropical cyclone, but not before several aircraft had departed on the mission, Australian officials said.Up to 10 military aircraft had been scheduled to fly over the Indian Ocean in hopes of spotting clues as to the fate of the Boeing 777, which vanished on March 8 carrying 239 people."Planned air search activities have been suspended for today due to poor weather conditions in the search area as a result of Tropical Cyclone Jack," Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre said, adding that 10 ships in the search zone would continue their work."It has been determined that the current weather conditions are resulting in heavy seas and poor visibility, and would make any air search activities ineffective and potentially hazardous."JACC later advised that prior to the decision to suspend search activities, four military aircraft had left the Pearce air base north of Perth, bound for the 49,491 square kilometre (19,108 square mile) visual search zone in the remote Indian Ocean.A fifth plane helping coordinate the search also left from the Learmonth base on Australia's western coast."These aircraft will continue with their missions, however, individual aircraft captains will assess the conditions once on station and use their discretion as to whether they continue their planned search activities or return to base."Australia is leading the hunt for MH370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean after veering sharply from its route for no apparent reason.No debris has yet been found from the plane and authorities say their best lead has been signals picked up by a black box locator earlier this month, which have since fallen silent.Australia's Ocean Shield ship has deployed an underwater autonomous vehicle (UAV) to scour the seabed at a depth of some 4,500 metres (15,000 feet) in the vicinity of these signals, hoping to find wreckage of the missing plane.But Prime Minister Tony Abbott suggested last week that the submersible Bluefin-21 would only be deployed for about a week, and the sonar scanning device has already covered two-thirds of the search zone without result."Bluefin-21 AUV has completed the ninth mission. No contacts of interest have been found," JACC said late Tuesday."Bluefin-21 is currently undertaking mission ten in the underwater search area."Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said severe Tropical Cyclone Jack was about 700 kilometres west-southwest of the Cocos Islands and moving south-southeast early Tuesday.While it posed no threat to the Cocos Islands or Western Australia, the likelihood of the system remaining a tropical cyclone in the region was high on Tuesday.
