Basically, what people are finding doesn't make any sense logically. So, what that might mean is the jet didn't crash into the ocean. That might be what this means.
Malaysia Jet Investigators Sift Through Facts That Don't Add Up
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Investigators
from at least nine countries hunting for a missing Malaysian passenger
jet are sorting through a jumble of facts and theories that so far don't
add up into a clear explanation of what happened to the plane.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
With today’s technology, it’s unusual for a plane to vanish without a distress call. When they do disappear suddenly, it’s typically because of an event such as a massive engine failure or explosion. That however would create widely scattered debris, and search teams haven’t been able to recover any remnants. That the plane was a Boeing Co. (BA:US) 777, one of the most reliable jets in the air, only adds to the puzzle.
“It’s becoming increasingly mysterious as the days go by,” said Shukor Yusof, an analyst at Standard & Poor’s in Singapore. “Now we’re into the fourth day and we still haven’t gotten anything. That’s why it makes this deeply, deeply baffling.”
As a new day of search begins, none of the potential leads for finding the plane had panned out. Vietnamese authorities reported sighting what appeared to be a life raft and recovered the object only to find it was a moss-covered cable. There were reports that a window or door fragment from a plane had been spotted, yet the pieces were never recovered. Malaysia investigators tested samples from an oil slick once seen as a crash marker and found they were in fact marine fuel.
The latest sighting came as the search for Flight 370 left authorities confounded as to how a jet with one of the industry’s best safety records could vanish from radar without a trace, even after days of patrols by surface vessels, planes and helicopters.
“This was a relatively long flight going over large areas of water,” said John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “So there’s a reasonably large area that has to be searched to find something. I’m convinced something will turn up in the next few days.”
“We are trying to ascertain if the two holders of false passport entered Malaysia, legally or illegally,” Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said in a mobile-phone text message. The Financial Times reported that Malaysian authorities have given U.S. investigators biometric details on the travelers with the stolen passports.
Men using the passports purchased the tickets on March 6 from Six Star Travel Co. in Pattaya, Thailand, city police Commander Supachai Phuykaeokam said by phone. The person with Maraldi’s documents had a final destination of Copenhagen, while Frankfurt was listed as the last stop for the person posing as Kozel, the commander said.
An officer at Six Star Travel declined to comment. The Financial Times cited a travel agent as saying she was asked to arrange the trips for the two men by an Iranian contact. Neither Maraldi nor Kozel was on the Malaysian aircraft, their governments said.
Evidence that typically might be spotted after a terrorist incident is lacking so far, said two U.S. officials. At the same time, the absence of clues isn’t enough to rule out such an attack, said the officials, who asked not to be identified while discussing intelligence activities.
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Malaysia Jet Investigators Struggling to Find Explanation
Investigators
from at least nine countries hunting for a missing Malaysian passenger
jet are sorting through a jumble of facts and theories that so far don’t
add up into a clear explanation of what happened to the plane.
Malaysian
Airline (MAS) System Bhd.’s Flight 370 disappeared more than three days
ago en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard. The
pilots never signaled trauma or danger before losing radio contact
between Malaysia and Vietnam. With today’s technology, it’s unusual for a plane to vanish without a distress call. When they do disappear suddenly, it’s typically because of an event such as a massive engine failure or explosion. That however would create widely scattered debris, and search teams haven’t been able to recover any remnants. That the plane was a Boeing Co. (BA:US) 777, one of the most reliable jets in the air, only adds to the puzzle.
“It’s becoming increasingly mysterious as the days go by,” said Shukor Yusof, an analyst at Standard & Poor’s in Singapore. “Now we’re into the fourth day and we still haven’t gotten anything. That’s why it makes this deeply, deeply baffling.”
As a new day of search begins, none of the potential leads for finding the plane had panned out. Vietnamese authorities reported sighting what appeared to be a life raft and recovered the object only to find it was a moss-covered cable. There were reports that a window or door fragment from a plane had been spotted, yet the pieces were never recovered. Malaysia investigators tested samples from an oil slick once seen as a crash marker and found they were in fact marine fuel.
Broadening Hunt
Search teams are now broadening their hunt, dispatching ships to check debris in the South China Sea after focusing on the Gulf of Thailand. That broadens the inquiry farther from the flight’s path. Vietnam has deployed a total of 10 aircraft to search for the missing plane.The latest sighting came as the search for Flight 370 left authorities confounded as to how a jet with one of the industry’s best safety records could vanish from radar without a trace, even after days of patrols by surface vessels, planes and helicopters.
“This was a relatively long flight going over large areas of water,” said John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “So there’s a reasonably large area that has to be searched to find something. I’m convinced something will turn up in the next few days.”
False Passports
Closed-circuit television footage of two travelers with stolen passports gave investigators another set of clues to examine. Austria and Italy said the passports were stolen from their nationals. The Royal Thai Police is probing the two thefts, which occurred in Phuket in 2012 and last year, spokesman Piya Uthayo said in Bangkok.“We are trying to ascertain if the two holders of false passport entered Malaysia, legally or illegally,” Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said in a mobile-phone text message. The Financial Times reported that Malaysian authorities have given U.S. investigators biometric details on the travelers with the stolen passports.
Ticket Numbers
Tickets purchased with the pilfered passports on the flight, which belonged to Luigi Maraldi of Italy and Christian Kozel of Austria, had consecutive numbers, according to the Chinese e-ticket verification system Travelsky.Men using the passports purchased the tickets on March 6 from Six Star Travel Co. in Pattaya, Thailand, city police Commander Supachai Phuykaeokam said by phone. The person with Maraldi’s documents had a final destination of Copenhagen, while Frankfurt was listed as the last stop for the person posing as Kozel, the commander said.
An officer at Six Star Travel declined to comment. The Financial Times cited a travel agent as saying she was asked to arrange the trips for the two men by an Iranian contact. Neither Maraldi nor Kozel was on the Malaysian aircraft, their governments said.
Evidence that typically might be spotted after a terrorist incident is lacking so far, said two U.S. officials. At the same time, the absence of clues isn’t enough to rule out such an attack, said the officials, who asked not to be identified while discussing intelligence activities.
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