MH370 Missing Aircraft Investigation -Search history.

Tabnabs

A second merchant ship, M/V Greenery Seas, appears to have joined the search.

https://m.facebook.com/IHSMaritime/photos/a.421294981286694.98286.404969079585951/603734519709405/?type=1&theater&utm_content=buffer9d866&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Plus a possible third.

http://ihsmaritime.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/mh370-search-off-australia/?utm_content=buffer69f3c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Supercell

CAPT ZAHARIE THE SCAPEGOAT? Who was he calling just minutes before MH370 took off?

The pilot of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane made a mystery phone call just minutes before flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, it emerged last night.
Investigators are now urgently trying to work out who Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah spoke to in the cockpit before the plane took off on March 8.
There is a hope that the phone call could hold the answer to the plane's mysterious disappearance.

Full article: http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=247612:all-out-to-make-pilot-the-scapegoat-who-was-capt-zaharie-calling-just-minutes-before-mh370-took-off?&Itemid=2#ixzz2wYUieAOI

guyjohn

<Snip>

Please use the other thread for speculation/theories,this thread is for updates only.

weisses

From satellites to binoculars, the hardware being used in the search for the missing Malaysian plane off Australia’s west coast ranges from the sophisticated to the simple. Here’s a look at some of the equipment being used in the search for Flight 370, which went missing on March 8.

ORION PLANES:
The plane most utilized in the search so far has been the Lockheed P-3 Orion, a four-engine turboprop favored by the Australian and New Zealand defense forces. Because the search area in the southern Indian Ocean is so remote—some 2,500 kilometers southwest of Perth—it’s an eight-hour round trip, leaving the planes just two or three hours to search.
One advantage of this plane is that it can fly at low altitudes for long periods. Mike Yardley, an air commodore with New Zealand’s air force, said that his team’s Orion flew at just 200 feet above the water Thursday to stay below thick clouds and fog—which requires intense concentration by the two pilots.
The Orion has a crew of 13, some of whom are stationed on an observation deck to search. As well as using their eyesight, Yardley said they also use a state-of-the-art radar system and three cameras—one infrared, one long-range, and one high resolution. The combination of systems helps them detect almost anything that’s on the surface, he said. The crew also films everything so they can review what they’ve seen after they return to base.
The Orion comes equipped with a sonar system for searching below sea level, although it’s not being used in this search, Yardley said.
Other planes used in the search Friday include a United States Navy P-8 Poseidon, which has been designed for anti-submarine warfare, and a civilian Bombardier Global Express, a long-range corporate jet with state emergency service observers on board. More planes are on the way.

BINOCULARS:
The Norwegian cargo vessel Hoegh St. Petersburg arrived in the area late Thursday and used lights to search overnight.
The Filipino crew of 20 was planning to use binoculars and their eyesight to scour the water Friday. The ship had been carrying a load of cars from South Africa to Australia before being asked to join in the search.
Another commercial ship was due to arrive later Friday and three Chinese naval ships were heading to the area. China also planned to send an icebreaker that happened to be in Perth following a voyage to Antarctica.
Any plane debris that is found will be transported back by the Australian navy ship the HMAS Success, which is due to arrive at the search site Saturday.

BUOYS WITH GPS:
The New Zealand Orion plane dropped two buoys Thursday that will help searchers figure out where any debris might drift. Searchers were also planning to drop more buoys from a C-130 Hercules military transport plane.
The buoys resemble a poster tube, each about 1 meter (3.3 feet) long, with an antenna that transmits a GPS signal that can be tracked by searchers.
The idea is that the buoys drift in a manner similar to any debris, giving searchers clues as to where debris might move over time. The system isn’t perfect—the wind can move the buoys at a different rate than larger objects—but is designed to factor in some of those variables.

IMAGES FROM SPACE:
Satellite images taken by a private company and released by the Australian government appeared to show two large objects, which prompted searchers to investigate further.
However, the images aren’t definitive. They came from a DigitalGlobe satellite that can look left or right, but which gets lower quality images the father to the side it looks.
The satellites aren’t like the all-powerful ones in the movies that can, say, read a license plate from space. The images appear to be little more than smudges to the untrained eye, and need experts to interpret them. One thing experts look for are reflections, which can help indicate whether a smudge is an object or just water movement.
Australian authorities have redirected other commercial satellites to the area to take higher resolution images, which may provide more answers.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/587805/satellites-to-binoculars-used-in-flight-370-search

Tenger

Perhaps a better ship to have on site could be Royal Navy vessel HMS Echo which has been dispatched to the area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Echo_(H87)

HMS Echo is the first of two multi-role hydrographic survey ships commissioned by the Royal Navy............On 20 March 2014 Echo was in the Indian Ocean when redeployed......... to join the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Prior to this, she was mid-way through an 18-month deployment "to improve charts used by seafarers throughout the world".......Echo was expected to arrive in the search area within 48–72 hours.

wil

The official AMSA news site detailing todays (and everydays) search roster and updates. All pdfs

https://www.amsa.gov.au/media/

https://twitter.com/AMSA_News

detailed media kit
http://www.amsa.gov.au/media/incidents/mh370-search.asp

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has tasked six aircraft to be involved in today’s search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P3 Orion departed for the search area at around 9am. Two ultra long range commercial jets departed for the search area at around 9.15am.

A second RAAF P3 Orion is due to depart for the search area at approximately 11am.

A New Zealand P3 Orion is due to depart for the search area at approximately 1pm.

A third RAAF P3 Orion aircraft is due to depart for the search area at approximately 3pm.

Due to the distance to and from the search area, the P3 Orion aircraft involved have an endurance of approximately two (2) hours of search time. The ultra long range commercial jets have an endurance of approximately five (5) hours of search time.

Two merchant vessels are currently in the search area. The Royal Australian Navy HMAS Success is also en route to the search area and is due in the area late this afternoon.

Four self locating datum marker buoys (SLDMB) dropped in the search area earlier this week continue to report water movement data back to AMSA

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Malaysia asks US for underwater search equipment, and Pentagon considers.
http://stream.wsj.com/story/malaysia-airlines-flight-370/SS-2-475558/

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 Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein asked for undersea surveillance equipment in a phone call with US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, as the Pentagon tallied US$2.5 million in costs so far in the nearly two-week-old search.

wil

China sends 7 ships to southern Indian Ocean

CHINA said it was sending seven ships to help search for the missing Malaysian aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean as news emerged that India had declined a similar aid offer from Beijing for the search further north in the Andaman Sea. News of the deployments came as Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott disclosed that Chinese President Xi Jinping was "devastated" by the incident. -

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China Xinhua News ‏@XHNews · 35m
Chinese Air Force IL-76 transport plane takes off from Royal Malaysia Airforce Base in Subang in search of MH370

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Bad start for high-level Malaysian delegation in Beijing
Relatives of those on missing plane accuse KL of hiding vital facts
THE high-level delegation sent by Malaysia to Beijing to explain the search efforts was meant to pacify angry Chinese relatives of passengers on the missing Malaysian jetliner. But the first meeting it had with some 200 to 300 family members at the Metropark Lido Hotel in Beijing yesterday ended up acrimonious from the get-go, with the relatives accusing the Malaysian government of hiding crucial information. "You have wasted so much time," one family member shouted when the briefing started at 10am. Over the next three hours or so, the delegation, made up of Malaysian civil aviation, military and Malaysia Airlines officials, elaborated on technical information of the search, but did not reveal any new information

Nibs05

http://news.sky.com/story/1230164/missing-plane-china-spots-large-object-in-sea

The Chinese government has said it has located a large object in the sea after viewing satellite imagery.

During a news conference in Kualu Lumpur on Saturday, Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein was handed a piece of paper containing details of the apparent discovery.

The object is thought to be 72ft long (22m) and 98ft wide (30m) and was spotted somewhere in the southern search corridor in the Indian Ocean.

Chinese authorities are expected to reveal more information over the discovery later.

wil

Nibs05 wrote: »

http://news.sky.com/story/1230164/missing-plane-china-spots-large-object-in-sea

In a later press statement, the transport ministry clarified that there was one “suspected” object with an estimated size of 22.5 metres by 13 metres (74 by 43 feet).
Hishammuddin had provided different dimensions which the statement said was the result of a telephone miscommunication

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object was spotted on March 18, two days after the satellite image announced by Australia. -- Reuters

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(Full) statement by Hishammuddin
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Operational update:

In the northern corridor, in response to diplomatic notes, we can confirm that China, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Laos, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have verbally informed the search and rescue operation that, based on preliminary analysis, there have been no sightings of the aircraft on their radar.

With respect to the southern corridor, today two Chinese Ilyushin IL-76s will arrive in Perth to begin operations. The Shaanxi Y-8 which arrived yesterday will be operating from Subang air base in Malaysia. China is also sending an additional two ships from the Andaman Sea to join the five Chinese ships already in the southern corridor.

Two Indian aircraft, a P-8 Poseidon and C-130 Hercules, arrived in Malaysia at 18:00 yesterday to assist with the search.

HMS Echo is currently in the Persian Gulf and is en route to the southern corridor. The ship is equipped with advanced sensors that allow it to search effectively underwater.
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A cyclone warning has been declared for Tropical Cyclone Gillian, which is located in the southern corridor. Very strong winds and rough seas are expected there today....

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No sign of plane entering India airspace
The response from India is crucial because any radar data from that country could help identify whether the jet turned north or south after disappearing on March 8, but the issue is also sensitive because of the presence of military radar

India has said it is possible that the military radars were switched off as it operates on an "as required" basis in that area.

A reluctance to share sensitive military radar data in a region where countries are wary of each other has hampered investigators' attempts to solve the baffling disappearance, officials have said. -- Reuters

ProfessorPlum

New images of 'possible jet debris'
Last updated 4 minutes ago


Malaysia says it has received new satellite images from France showing potential debris from missing flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean.

This is the third set of images in a week of possible debris in the area.

Australia is coordinating the search and earlier said it was investigating sightings of a pallet and other items.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on 8 March en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board.

Malaysian officials believe the plane was deliberately taken off course.

Based on information received from a satellite, the search has been in two distinct corridors - one stretching to the north-west of the last known location in the Malacca Straits and one to the south-west.

However, none of the countries on the northern corridor have reported any radar contact, and the satellite images of possible debris in the south Indian Ocean have concentrated the search there.

A statement published on the Malaysian ministry of transport's Facebook page said: "This morning, Malaysia received new satellite images from the French authorities showing potential objects in the vicinity of the southern corridor.

"Malaysia immediately relayed these images to the Australian rescue co-ordination centre."


(On phone - can't link web address - from BBC news site)

wil

AMSA search concluded today

"There were no sightings of significance."

A total of eight aircraft and HMAS [FONT=Arial,Arial][FONT=Arial,Arial]Success [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Arial][FONT=Arial,Arial][/FONT][/FONT]supported ......
Chinese military Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft and Japanese P-3C aircraft will join the search on Monday

wil

Australia 'clutching' at leads after new data
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"The French sighting is I guess a piece of new material because that is in a completely different location.
That is about 850 kilometres north of our current search area..
While Malaysian authorities initially said the latest data came in the form of images,
France's foreign ministry clarified this, saying it came in the form of "satellite-generated radar echoes".

A radar echo is an electronic signal that contains information about the location and distance of the object which bounces the signal back.

ardle1

A Chinese search plane, finds/spots suspicious white and square objects floating in the Southern Indian Ocean! (no link available)....


Link Update: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/french-images-show-debris-jetliner-23023844

Hogzy

Emergency Family Meeting called in Kuala Lumper.

News breaking now on Sky News. Looks like a major update.

wil

UK AAIB, Inmarsat Northern / Southern corridors analysis
Last position WAS in Indian ocean west of Perth
announced by Malaysian PM today

vicwatson

wil wrote: »

UK AAIB, Inmarsat Northern / Southern corridors analysis
Last position WAS in Indian ocean west of Perth
announced by Malaysian PM today

Full text of statement by Malaysian PM -

"This evening I was briefed by representatives from the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). They informed me that Inmarsat, the UK company that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern and southern corridors, has been performing further calculations on the data. Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort, they have been able to shed more light on MH370’s flight path.

Based on their new analysis, Inmarsat and the AAIB have concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor, and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth.

This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

We will be holding a press conference tomorrow with further details. In the meantime, we wanted to inform you of this new development at the earliest opportunity. We share this information out of a commitment to openness and respect for the families, two principles which have guided this investigation.

Malaysia Airlines have already spoken to the families of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development. For them, the past few weeks have been heartbreaking; I know this news must be harder still. I urge the media to respect their privacy, and to allow them the space they need at this difficult time."

Iwannahurl

The aeroplane had Inmarsat’s ‘Classic Aero’ satellite system, which collects information such as location, altitude, heading and speed, and sends it through Inmarsat’s satellites into their network.

This ‘ACARS’ (aircraft communications addressing and reporting system) was switched off or interrupted early in the flight, meaning no such information was available to track the plane.

However the Classic Aero system still sent hourly ‘pings’ back to Inmarsat’s satellite for at least five hours after the aircraft left Malaysian airspace, the company discovered.

These pings contained no data – they were just a simple ‘hello’ to keep the link open – however their timing and frequency contained hidden mathematical clues.

The company looked at the ‘Doppler effect’ – tiny changes in the frequency of the ping signal, caused by the relative movement of the satellite and the plane (the Doppler effect is the reason why, for example, police sirens are a different pitch or frequency depending on whether they are travelling toward you or away from you).

This analysis allowed Inmarsat to map two huge ‘corridors’ for the plane’s possible location, in big arcs stretching thousands of kilometres north and south of the point where the last radar contact with MH370 was made.

Australian and US experts took this information, added some assumptions about the plane’s speed, and narrowed the southern option into an area of ocean that could be realistically searched.

Meanwhile, Inmarsat went back to its satellite data. Its new analysis found that the northern route did not quite correlate with the frequency of the pings from the plane – meaning the plane must have been heading south.

It also suggested that the plane had been travelling at a steady cruising altitude above 30,000 feet.

They compared satellite data from MH370 with that from previous Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 flights, going back a few weeks, in order to better model the movement of the plane.

“This really was a shot in the dark,” Chris McLaughlin, senior vice president of external affairs at Inmarsat told the BBC. “It’s a credit to the scientific team that they managed to model this.

“Just a single ‘ping’ can be used to say the plane was both powered up and travelling. And then by a process of elimination comparing it to other known flights and established that it went south.”

The UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch also contributed to the analysis.

Emphasis added.


http://www.smh.com.au/world/mh370-search-how-new-satellite-data-confirmed-malaysia-airlines-plane-was-lost-20140325-hvme8.html#ixzz2wujGLhWT

Mech1

Terrible circumstances to prove a theory, but all in all, we gotta say "well done Inmarsat" I recon they have probably been releasing daily updates to the relevant people as this theory got more and more convincing.

Synode

Search suspended due to adverse weather. Things going from bad to worse.

From here:

Search suspended
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa) has suspended the search for debris and other signs of the missing plane due to adverse weather conditions.

In a statement released on Tuesday morning, the Amsa said:

Due to rough seas, HMAS Success departed the search area early this morning and is now in transit south of the search area until seas abate. A sea state ranging between 7 to 8 is forecast today with waves up to two metres and an associated swell of up to four metres.

The area is also forecast to experience strong gale force winds of up to 80km/h, periods of heavy rain, and low cloud with a ceiling between 200 and 500 feet.

AMSA has undertaken a risk assessment and determined that the current weather conditions would make any air and sea search activities hazardous and pose a risk to crew. Therefore, AMSA has suspended all sea and air search operations for today due to these weather conditions.

AMSA has consulted with the Bureau of Meteorology and weather conditions are expected to improve in the search area in the evening and over the next few days. Search operations are expected to resume tomorrow, if weather conditions permit.

HMAS Success will return to the search area once weather conditions improve.

wil

BBC News 25/3/2014 11:28GMT
excerpts below, full article at
Missing Malaysia plane: What we know




What do we know about the plane's disappearance?

00:41, 8 March: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Saturday, 8 March (16:41 GMT, 7 March), and was due to arrive in Beijing at 06:30 (22:30 GMT).
Malaysia Airlines says the plane lost contact less than an hour after takeoff. No distress signal or message was sent.

01:07: The plane sent its last ACARS transmission - a service that allows computers aboard the plane to "talk" to computers on the ground. Some time afterwards, it was silenced and the expected 01:37 transmission was not sent.

01:19: The co-pilot was heard to say "All right, good night" to Malaysian air traffic control.
A few minutes later, the plane's transponder, which communicates with ground radar, was shut down as the aircraft crossed from Malaysian air traffic control into Vietnamese airspace over the South China Sea.

01:21: The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam said the plane failed to check in as scheduled with air traffic control in Ho Chi Minh City.

02:15: Malaysian military radar plotted Flight MH370 at a point south of Phuket island in the Strait of Malacca, west of its last known location. Thai military radar logs also confirmed that the plane turned west and then north over the Andaman sea.

08:11: (00:11 GMT, 8 March) Seven hours after contact with air traffic control was lost, a satellite above the Indian Ocean picked up data from the plane in the form of an automatic "handshake" between the aircraft and a ground station.
This information, disclosed a week after the plane's disappearance, suggested the jet was in one of two flight corridors, one stretching north between Thailand and Kazakhstan, the other south between Indonesia and the southern Indian Ocean.

08:19: There is some evidence of a further "partial handshake" at this time between the plane and a ground station but experts are still working on analysing this data, the Malaysian transport minister said on 25 March.

09:15: (01:15 GMT) This would have been the next scheduled automatic contact between the ground station and the plane but there was no response from the aircraft.

wil

SAR Resumes

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the search would continue until there was no hope of finding anything.
“We are just going to keep on looking because we owe it to people to do everything we can to resolve this riddle,” he told the Nine Network.
“It is not absolutely open-ended but it is not something we will lightly abandon.”

Six countries are now assisting in the operation — Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Japan, China and South Korea — to help bring some closure to relatives with definitive physical proof of the plane’s destruction.
The US Navy has also sent a specialised device to help find the “black box” of flight and cockpit voice data, along with a robotic underwater vehicle that can scan the ocean’s depths.

Before the weather halted operations on Tuesday hopes had been high that wreckage would be found after two new objects — a green circular item and an orange rectangular one — were spotted on Monday by an Australian military plane.
This followed larger “white and square” objects seen by a Chinese Ilyushin IL-76 reconnaissance plane, which came after satellite images and data captured by Australia, China and France showed indistinct items in the southern Indian Ocean
Mark Binskin, vice chief of Australia’s Defence Force, underscored the daunting size of the area under scrutiny by air crews flying exhausting sorties out of Perth.
“We’re not trying to find a needle in a haystack, we’re still trying to define where the haystack is,” he told reporters on Tuesday.

AMSA 26th March, 2014: 8am (AEDT)
Search operation for Malaysia Airlines aircraft continues: Update 18
The search for any signs of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft in the Australian Search and Rescue Region is scheduled to get underway around 8am AEDT this morning.

A total of six countries are now assisting in the search and recovery operation – Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Japan, China and the Republic of Korea.

Today’s search is split into three areas within the same proximity covering a cumulative 80,000 square kilometres.
Weather conditions have improved in the area and HMAS Success is now on its way back to the search area. On its arrival, HMAS Success will conduct a surface sweep of an area identified on Monday afternoon by a RAAF P3 Orion as the location for several objects of interest.
China’s polar supply ship Xue Long is expected to arrive in the search area later this morning.

AMSA has tasked a total of 12 aircraft today to search for possible objects in the search area.
Five civil aircraft will be involved in search activities today and will have AeroRescue Aviation Mission Coordinators on board.
A total of 34 State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers from Western Australia will again be air observers on board the civil aircraft.
A total of seven military aircraft will join search operations today.
One Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft from China, a P3 Orion from Japan, a P3 Orion from the Republic of Korea, two Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P3 Orion, a United States Navy P8 Poseidon, and a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3 Orion will join today’s search.
The Chinese aircraft will be the first aircraft to depart for the search area about 8am.
Further departure times of aircraft will be provided later today.

vicwatson

122 objects being observed in the sea at the search area, images provided by French Satellite, some are as long as 23 metres, some are bright, it's being called "the most significant lead they have so far"

wil

vicwatson wrote: »

122 objects being observed in the sea at the search area, images provided by French Satellite, some are as long as 23 metres, some are bright, it's being called "the most significant lead they have so far"

The images from Airbus Defence and Space in France show the objects in a 400-square-kilometre (160-square-mile) area of the ocean, said Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein
NST

AMSA twitter
3 objects spotted in #MH370 search. Civil a/craft spotted 2 objects-likely rope. NZ P3K-a blue object. None relocated on further passes.1/2
None distinctive of #MH370 or satellite imagery. 2/2

Final aircraft has left the #MH370 search area. Nothing further identified after initial sighting of three objects. 1/2
Positions in the Malaysia Remote Sensing Agency satellite information tweeted on 26 March were within today's #MH370 search area. 2/2

sopretty

Oops, wrong thread!

wil

US law firm launches legal action over MH370

(excerpts below, full article at link)
A US law firm said on Wednesday it has initiated what it called the first civil legal proceedings over the crash of flight MH370 and said it planned to pursue lawsuits seeking "millions of dollars" for aggrieved families.
Chicago-based Ribbeck Law Chartered International said it filed a court petition in the US state of Illinois targeting Malaysia Airlines and Boeing, blaming the two companies for the "disaster".
"We are going to be filing the lawsuits for millions of dollars per each passenger based on prior cases that we have done involving crashes like this one," the firm's head of aviation litigation, Monica Kelly, told reporters in Kuala Lumpur.
The development appeared to mark the start of what legal experts have warned could be a cascade of lawsuits by passengers' relatives livid over the unexplained disappearance of their loved ones.
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Ribbeck issued a statement earlier Wednesday saying it had filed a "petition of discovery" in Illinois requesting a court to order defendants to provide potential evidence and other information.
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Boeing and Malaysia Airlines have 30 days to reply, Kelly told reporters, adding that a lawsuit could take years to conclude..
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Floyd Wisner, another US-based aviation crash attorney, said Malaysia Airlines' liability was "almost certain, no matter what the cause of the crash ultimately is determined to be".
"The fact that the wreckage has not yet been found does not have any real legal impact upon the families' claims against Malaysia Airlines," he told AFP.
However, other lawyers said lawsuits could be bogged down by the lack of evidence.
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Kelly said her firm believed equipment failure caused a fire or sudden loss of pressure that rendered the pilots unconscious and the aircraft "a ghost plane" that flew for several hours until it ran out of fuel.
Malaysia Airlines said in a statement to AFP that it was aware of the court petition and that its lawyers had been "advised of this development", but declined further comment.
The national flag carrier has already paid $5,000 to next-of-kin, but they are entitled to up to about $176,000 under an international convention

wotswattage

28th March

From the press release:
The search area for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been updated after a new credible lead
was provided to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).

As a result today’s search will shift to an area 1,100 kilometres to the north east based on updated
advice provided by the international investigation team in Malaysia.

The new search area is approximately 319,000 square kilometres and around 1,850 kilometres west of
Perth.

The new information is based on continuing analysis of radar data between the South China Sea and the
Strait of Malacca before radar contact was lost.

It indicated that the aircraft was travelling faster than previously estimated, resulting in increased fuel
usage and reducing the possible distance the aircraft travelled south into the Indian Ocean.

Source http://www.amsa.gov.au/media/documents/28032014MH370Update23.pdf

Iwannahurl

vicwatson

Seems like they've pulled some debris :-(

sopretty

vicwatson wrote: »

Seems like they've pulled some debris :-(

Link?

Growler!!!

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/29/MH370-crash-nothing-sinister-in-pilots-flight-simulator/

Results back from FBI investigation into captains deleted flight sim files. Malaysian police chief to confirm.