re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

A possible break?

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#BreakingNews - A large amount of metal debris has reportedly been found off the coast of Vietnam in the search for flight #MH370 Next at 11

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According to the Washington Post, the phones of the passengers and crew appeared to be functioning after the plane disappeared:

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One of the most eerie rumors came after a few relatives said they were able to call the cellphones of their loved ones or find them on a Chinese instant messenger service called QQ that indicated that their phones were still somehow online.

A migrant worker in the room said that several other workers from his company were on the plane, including his brother-in-law. Among them, the QQ accounts of three still showed that they were online, he said Sunday afternoon.

Adding to the mystery, other relatives in the room said that when they dialed some passengers’ numbers, they seemed to get ringing tones on the other side even though the calls were not picked up.

The phantom calls triggered a new level of desperation and anger for some. They tried repeatedly Sunday and Monday to ask airline and police officials about the ringing calls and QQ accounts. However unlikely it was, many thought the phones might still be on, and that if authorities just tracked them down, their relatives might be found. But they were largely ignored.
According to Singapore’s Strait Times, a Malaysia Airlines official, Hugh Dunleavy, told families that the company had tried calling mobile phones of crew members as well and that they had also rang. The company turned over those phone numbers to Chinese authorities.

The caller's phone registers a ring when the network is trying to connect, It doesn't mean the other phone is ringing. Try it yourself, turn off your phone and call it from another phone. You'll hear a ring on the other phone.

Here's the 2 dudes with the stolen passports.

So it possibly flew all the way back across Malaysia? Reuters.

Malaysia military tracked missing plane to west coast: source

FYI for everyone who likes to make "the ocean is really big, idiots" type posts

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a U.S. Navy P-3 aircraft capable of covering 1,500 sq miles every hour was sweeping the northern part of the Strait of Malacca

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1,500 sq mi/hr., with one plane, folks. The entire Gulf of Thailand is 120,000 sq mi, so just one P-3 could survey the entire thing in 10 days, 2 in 5, 3 in 3.pi and they have WAY more resources than that.

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"the ocean is really big, idiots"

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Nothing changes this point.
So are you saying that the P-3 can find any debris automatically.

Hell, they don't even know where the fck they are supposed to be looking.

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So are you saying that the P-3 can find any debris automatically.

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Yes! Read the article, guy! They say so far it has only detected floating pieces of wood and other detritus that's normally in the sea.

I mentioned that when I saw that map last night. How in the hell are you looking NNE and it may be to the west of Malaysia?

Wow. So there's a possibility the plane turned around in the middle of the Gulf of Thailand and flew all the way across Thailand/Malaysia, all the while undetected by any radar, and all the while making no communication whatsoever? Unbelievable!