Tuesday, March 11, 2014

WE ARE NO CLOSER TO FINDING MH 370

WE ARE NO CLOSER TO FINDING MH 370


A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 takes off




The mystery of flight MH370: How on earth, with all our technology, do we lose a giant plane? (Updated)

By Sebastian Anthony on March 11, 2014 at 4:50 pm

Updated @ 16:35 March 11:

The fourth day of the MH370 search-and-rescue mission has come to a close, and we’re still no closer to finding the missing plane. The search area has been expanded from 50 nautical miles (57 miles; 93km) to 100 nautical miles.

It has also come to light that MH370′s co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid, was extremely unprofessional during a flight in 2011. On a flight from Phuket to Kuala Lumpur, Hamid invited two South African teenagers into the cockpit, where they remained for the entirety of the flight, while he and the pilot smoked cigarettes while flying the plane.

Whether this new finding has any bearing on the fate of MH370, we’ll have to wait and see. Read on for previous updates and the original story.

Updated @ 08:40 March 11: As the Malaysia Airlines MH370 search-and-rescue mission enters its fourth day, we still know almost nothing about the fate of the plane and the 239 people on board. Two passengers were travelling with stolen passports, but Interpol says they weren’t terrorist threats. According to Malaysian military radar, it now seems likely that MH370 turned back after its last contact with air traffic control, possibly crashing into the Strait of Malacca. We still have no idea why it turned back, or where the plane ended up.
Updated @ 19:30 March 10: Very little new information has come to light since this story was first published this morning. Despite some oil slicks and debris being found in the South China Sea, authorities have confirmed that they didn’t originate from the MH370. Numerous experts have attested to the Boeing 777′s excellent reliability and safety record, and puzzlement at how it could vanish from the skies. We still have no idea how or why the plane disappeared, nor where it crashed. There are very, very few reasons for a modern plane to suddenly disappear. Read on for the original story.
Three days ago, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished from radar off the south coast of Vietnam in the South China Sea. 239 people were on board — and at this point, it is presumed that they have all perished in some kind of disaster. A massive search and rescue effort involving 40 ships and 34 aircraft from nine different nations has yet to discover any sign of the missing aircraft. For me, this is almost incomprehensible: Despite all of the awesome technology that mankind has developed, it’s still possible for a Boeing 777-200 with 239 people on board to vanish. For me, it’s mind blowing that all we have to go on is the plane’s radar signature — and even then, that last radar reading was so poor that the search area is thousands of square miles of open water. Surely, given the fact that we can track a damn smartphone anywhere on Earth down to a few meters, there’s a better way of keeping track of missing aircraft?
In the words of Malaysia’s civil aviation chief, the fate of MH370 is “a mystery.” The Boeing 777 took off from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia en route to Beijing, was cruising normally at 35,000 feet… and then disappeared. There was no distress call. The weather was fine. The plane’s last known position, via radar, was just south of Vietnam in the South China Sea — which is where search efforts have been focused so far — but one theory suggests that the plane turned back just after the last radar ping, meaning the plane could be hundreds of miles away in the Strait of Malacca. In the absence of any other information, there is speculation that the plane was target of a terrorist attack.


Flight path and search area for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

                                                                                             Flight path and search area for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 [Image credit: BBC]


For me, the most shocking aspect of the MH370 disaster is that we won’t know what fate befell those 239 souls until we find MH370′s Flight Data Recorder (FDR), aka the black box. Except for that last radar reading, we have absolutely no knowledge of the flight at all until we find that FDR. We have no clue what was said in the cockpit by the captain and first officer — though, seemingly, if something did go wrong, they didn’t even have time to send a mayday message. We have no clue if the plane hit a patch of bad weather, or whether it was hijacked. It really will be one huge mystery until the FDR is recovered — and there’s a good chance, if MH370 did crash into the ocean, that the FDR will never be recovered. In the case of Air France flight AF447, which disappeared off the coast of Brazil, it took two months to locate the wreckage, and almost two years to find the the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and FDR.
The FDR has an underwater locator beacon (ULB) that will ping for at least 30 days, and can be detected up to around two miles away, but when you’re talking about a search area consisting of thousands of square miles, and waters that are almost a mile deep on average, finding the black box will be no mean feat. (Read: Worried about black boxes snooping on you? One is in your car already.)

Do we live in the stone age or something?

Inside a modern, solid-state Cockpit Voice Recorder
Inside a modern, solid-state Cockpit Voice Recorder. The Flight Data Recorder is very similar.


So, think about this for a moment. We live in a day and age where GPS (and other radio triangulation methods) can track your smartphone to within a few meters, almost anywhere on Earth. With dedicated, land-based tracking networks, vehicles and devices can be tracked to within a few centimeters. Even in the absence of GPS or radio tracking, inertial guidance (dead reckoning) has been accurate enough since the ’60s to accurately land a nuclear ICBM on the other side of the planet, or put the Apollo mission into space. (Read: Think GPS is cool? IPS will blow your mind.)
And then there’s connectivity. On land, there are networks (both commercial and governmental) that provide data connectivity almost everywhere. Over water is definitely harder, but satellites do provide pretty good coverage — and yes, that particular region of Asia is very well covered by communications satellites. Finally, even if an aircraft is out of satellite/radio coverage, there is absolutely nothing preventing the airplane from transmitting a really juicy low-frequency radio signal that could be picked up thousands of miles away. This is how they communicate with air traffic control, after all.
Why, then, does a plane like the MH370 keep all of its secrets locked up in a black box? Why don’t planes constantly transmit all of their black box data, so that we know their exact location, bearing, altitude, and other important factors, at all times?
The short answer is, there’s no good reason.
The long answer is, an aircraft generates a lot of data, and no one has bothered to work out a way of transmitting, receiving, and storing that data in a sensible fashion. The fact that disasters like MH370 are incredibly rare is probably one reason that the airline industry hasn’t got around to figuring it out. In 2013, there were around 36 million flights, with 281 total fatalities — and only 105 of those were on commercial jetliners. Compare this to car accidents, where in the US alone 34,080 people died in 2012.
Even so, it is hard to believe that in 2014, aircraft don’t transmit their location and bearing every few milliseconds. There is more than enough bandwidth on the lower radio frequencies for an airplane to transmit this data to the nearest land-based receiving station. Some planes, as I’m sure you’ve heard, even provide WiFi internet access to passengers. It’s hard to believe that the same network couldn’t be used to beam real-time flight data back to air traffic control.
Flightradar24 does a good job of tracking aircraft using the ADS-B signal, but only over land
Flightradar24 does a good job of tracking aircraft using the new ADS-B transponder tech, but only over land. ADS-B, which is set to
replace radar for aircraft tracking in the next 10 years, will help matters — but it’s not a complete solution.
Perhaps, much like how your smartphone waits for a WiFi connection before downloading or uploading large amounts of data, the plane could scale up how much data it sends: It could transmit basic flight data at all times via VHF, and then a full stream of data from the FDR when there’s a communications satellite overhead. Ultimately, even though FDRs might record more than 100 variables and diagnostics, we’re still only talking about a maximum bandwidth requirement of a few megabits; realistically, a few hundred kilobits per second would probably be more than enough.
With the hunt for the AF447 FDR taking almost two years, and now the very high profile disaster of MH370, I wouldn’t be surprised if the airline industry finally takes a serious look at mid-flight aircraft monitoring.


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Commander Ashtar already announced that the Galactic Federation has all of the passengers, and there safe and happy, so why are you worried?
He said, "You may also have heard about the airliner which vanished in Malaysia.  Flight 370 was just off the eastern coast over shallow water when it wavered in the air then suddenly dropped from 35,000 feet to 0 and disappeared.  At the same time, radar showed a "plane" which suddenly accelerated to 4 or 5 times the speed of any other craft, hovered in one place, then suddenly vanished from the radar screen, seconds before the airliner also disappeared.

I am very pleased to tell you all that the passengers and crew of the airliner are safe and happy in a secret location.  There were several ships in the area, and the maneuver was carried out effortlessly.  It is very serendipitous that the airplane carried a large number of Lightworkers from many countries who are delighted and very enthusiastic about the proposal we have made to them, that they be used as "hostages" to expedite the following demands:

Their release will be contingent upon an immediate global agreement that all countries now in possession of any weapons of mass destruction relinquish them to be evaporated forthwith.

1. NESARA law will be presented for signature to all the world's leaders -   representatives of every country on the U.N. charter - and will be immediately enacted.  We anticipate that President Barack Obama will be first signatory on the document.

2. There will be declared a Global Celebration of Peace for every person on the planet, regardless of race, religion or nationality, to be marked by one month of singing, dancing and public performances in every village, town, and city on Earth. All expenses are to be underwritten with the funds which would have been allocated for military expenditures.

3. All military personnel will be paid full salary for three months after they turn in all weapons and uniforms and return to rebuild their own families and communities.  After that, no expenditure by any individual or nation will be permitted for any military activity or equipment whatsoever.  This will free governing bodies to use their resources for infrastructure, water and sanitary systems, sustainable agriculture, and educational and social programs to elevate the conditions for all their citizens."

Anonymous said...

It OBVIOUS to me that that plane was "Abducted" and the passengers and crew are SAFE and Sound and being treated with utmost kindness by OUR "Cosmic Family" waiting by the BILLIONS to celebrate OUR "Ascension" to a higher dimension!...This "Planned event" blew up in the cabal's face!...THEY had hoped that they were getting rid of people that are "Light Workers" that were aboard that plane...only to have the "Galactic Federation of Planets" PHUCKED up their plans, and rescued those fine people aboard that plane...They can also count on their OTHER plans for world domination to BLOW THE PHUCK-UP TOO...Ukraine ...Syria...S. America...Africa...EVERYWHERE they have their Maggot ridden fingers on...THEY already KNOW that their days a DONE..They saw that over the weekend in the Ukraine....by the presence of the 3000+ ft long "Starship"..."The New Jerusalem"...GET READY TO CELEBRATE!!!

Anonymous said...

"Dear friends:

An unusual and still mysterious event has occurred with an airliner which perceptually vanished over S.E. Asia. From the information that I received, The One intervened directly in order to avoid a potential tragic dangerous situation which could have badly affected our world because of what was intended. I will not go into more details as I myself have not received many.
Suffice it to say that, in the message I received today, The One says that It decided, for the first time in many thousands of years, to openly intervene to stop a serious situation and let this open intervention stand as a symbol to the way by which the Godliness will operate from now on at all levels of Creation and towards each entity or structure that foolishly challenges The Oneness intensely.

This is the real explanation. Please integrate the fact that our world will never operate anymore as it used to before, as the One if now fully and openly engaged. Do not take this lightly, and try to realize fully the implications.

Please read the message slowly, and let it sink in. It is a message of Love, from Love manifest, and see the intervention in the Light of Infinite-Love and Its Care for all of humanity and all life. "

Read More:

http://probablefuture.com/Be-or-Not-Be.htm

Save MH370 said...

This is something very sad. This plane had the souls of 239 people.