V12 - MH370 kena hijack?

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Kod tango bermaksud rampasan pesawat
WARTAWAN SINAR HARIAN
13 Mac 2014


SHAH ALAM - Seseorang juruterbang hanya akan mengaktifkan kod rahsia 'tango' atau 'charlie' apabila berlaku kecemasan seperti rampasan pesawat di udara.

Ia disahkan juruterbang berpengalaman mengenai isyarat tango yang didakwa diaktifkan oleh juruterbang Kapten Zaharie Shah setelah pesawat MH370  hilang dari radar menara kawalan selepas 40 minit di udara.

"Setiap juruterbang akan diingatkan mengenai isyarat-isyarat ini. Ia hanya boleh diaktifkan jika rampasan dan tidak pernah menjadi mainan mana-mana juruterbang sebelum ini. Ini etika kami sebagai juruterbang," katanya kepada Sinar Harian, semalam.

Katanya, pengaktifan kod tersebut untuk memberitahu Pusat Kawalan Trafik Udara Nasional (NATCC) bahawa pesawat yang dikendalikan dalam masalah dan unit kawalan akan mengambil tindakan selanjutnya.

"Kita mempunyai kod rahsia masing-masing, tetapi tango atau charlie adalah sebagai pengenalan jika berlakunya rampasan," katanya.

Ditanya sama ada isyarat itu dikeluarkan menerusi komunikasi juruterbang dengan menara kawalan atau menerusi butang khas, beliau enggan mendedahkan mekanisme itu kerana maklumat itu sulit.

Katanya, NATCC akan memantau dan beritahu pihak keselamatan selain  menghubungi juruterbang untuk arahan seterusnya.

"Hanya dua perkataan itu digunakan sebagai isyarat. Ini perkara serius. Jika benar juruterbang telah mengaktifkan isyarat itu, pasti bukan main-main.

"Dua perkataan itu dikhaskan untuk kes-kes rampasan. Isyarat sama juga digunakan pusat kawalan yang akan menghubungi juruterbang jika berlaku kes seumpama itu," katanya.

Berkaitan kes kehilangan pesawat MH370 yang masuk hari kelima semalam, pelbagai spekulasi ditimbulkan termasuk Kapten Zaharie, juruterbang pesawat itu dikatakan menghidupkan isyarat tango bagi memaklumkan menara kawalan bahawa penerbangannya dalam situasi cemas.

Ia diperkuatkan lagi dengan kenyataan Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar mengenai empat aspek tumpuan pihak berkuasa mengenai kehilangan pesawat itu, iaitu rampasan, sabotaj, masalah psikologi dan peribadi.

Polis juga tidak menolak kemungkinan berlakunya rampasan ke atas pesawat itu membabitkan perancangan rapi dan berkumpulan.

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MISSING MH370: No debris found

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: No signs of the missing Malaysian jetliner have been found at a spot where Chinese satellite images showed what might be plane debris, Malaysia’s civil aviation chief said Thursday, deflating the latest lead in the five-day hunt.

“There is nothing. We went there, there is nothing,” Director-General of the Civil Aviation (DCA) Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman told reporters in Kuala Lumpur.

Vietnamese officials previously said the area had been “searched thoroughly” in recent days.

The hunt for the Boeing 777 has been punctuated by false leads since it disappeared with 239 people aboard just hours after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing early Saturday.

The plane was heading northeast over the South China Sea when it disappeared, but authorities believe it may have turned back and headed into the upper reaches of the Strait of Malacca or beyond.

The location where Chinese images showed possible debris is not far from where the last confirmed position of the plane was between Malaysia and Vietnam.
The images and coordinates were posted on the website of China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence.

A Xinhua report said the images from around 11 a.m. on Sunday appear to show “three suspected floating objects” of varying sizes in a 20-kilometer radius, the largest about 24-by-22 meters (79-by-72 feet) off the southern tip of Vietnam.

Pham Quy Tieu, deputy transport minister, told The Associated Press that the area had been “searched thoroughly” by forces from other countries over the past few days.

Doan Huu Gia, chief of air search and rescue coordination centre, said Malaysian and Singaporean aircraft were scheduled to visit the area again.

Li Jiaxiang, chief of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said later China had yet to confirm any link between the suspected floating objects and the plane.
Malaysia has come under some criticism for its handling of the search, which currently covers 35,800 square miles (92,600 square kilometres) and involves 12 nations. --AP

The image captured by China's satellites.


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Malaysia Flight MH370: Hijack Theory Dismissed, Foreign Reports Sensationalised, Says Malaysia
By Athena Yenko | March 14, 2014 2:14 PM EST

In Malaysia, officials are dismissing foreign media reports about the missing Malaysia airlines MH370 one after the other, saying such reports are unverified, worse, sensationalised.

One such report was the hijack theory reported by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

In the WSJ's report, US investigators, counter-terrorism experts, were claiming possibility of hijacking - the plane and passengers were being held against their will. The report said that the ones responsible for the hijacking turned the plane's transponder off to evade all detection through radar.

"Such unverified reports and rumours will disrupt our search and rescue operation," he told a press conference yesterday. Irresponsible acts such as these will affect the families (of MH370's passengers and crew) as well," Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said.

Mr Hisham also ruled out the report that a Chinese satellite was able to photograph debris near the missing MH370 vanished. He said that this still needs to be confirmed. Hence, a Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency was deployed to investigate the debris.

"But we found nothing at the site. The Chinese Embassy later notified us that the images were released by mistake and that the debris was not from MH370," Mr Hisham explained.

Mr Hisham told press that Huang Huikang, the Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia, sent him a note apologising for the mistake.

Meanwhile, MAS (Malaysia Airlines) chief executive officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya also dismissed reports that the missing MH370 was flying for hours before vanishing from radar. Speaking in a press conference, he explained that the MH370 did not continue sending signals to the ground after it lost contact with air traffic control.

Mr Jauhari Yahya said that engine manufacturer, Roll Royce, and Boeing told MAS that the report was inaccurate. The last transmission from MH370's Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) was at 1.07am (on Saturday).

"Both manufacturers, who are here in Malaysia, said they did not receive such data after the final one that was transmitted by the engines (monitoring system) at 1.07am. That transmission indicated that everything was normal," Mr Ahmad Jauhari explained.

Mr Ahmad Jauhari made it clear that MH370's ACARS could be programmed to transmit data at pre-determined intervals.

"This can be during a take-off, after reaching the top of a climb or every 30 minutes. It can also transmit data in the event of any abnormality in the engines or airframe," he said.

The press asked Mr Ahmad Jauhari if ACARS, the digital link for the plane to send messages to ground personnel about aircraft status, could be manually switched off.

"Anything is possible in an aircraft system. You can have total electrical failure and (if this happens) it won't transmit anything," he said.

On the other hand, Mr Ahmad Jauhari confirmed that there were already 43 ships and 40 aircrafts conducting search for the missing plane - with 26 ships and 25 aircraft in the South China Sea and the rest in the Straits of Malacca.

Even with Malaysia dismissing reports from foreign media, he said the country was thankful for all the aid coming in from other countries.

"With every passing day, the task becomes more difficult. As always, our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those on the flight."

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Published: Friday March 14, 2014 MYT 3:06:00 PM
Updated: Friday March 14, 2014 MYT 4:21:28 PM
Missing MH370: Seismic activity detected after plane went off radar
BY THO XIN YI




BEIJING: A research team from China's University of Science and Technology detected tremors in the sea near the Malaysia Vietnam border on March 8 hours after MH370 disappeared from the radar screen.

In a report published on its website, the Wen Lianxing Research Team said it suspected the tremor to relate to the missing MAS plane because the area "is not within seismic zone."

"The incident happened at 2.55am on March 8, about one-and-a-half hours after MH370 lost contact at 1.30am.

"One of the two possible locations is (an area) about 116km to the northeast of MH370's last confirmed location," it said.

The research team said it detected the tremor with two seismographs located within the borders of Malaysia and identified the location with the signals.

"Many countries have deployed aircrafts, vessels and satellites to locate the missing flight to no avail.

"If this tremor was indeed caused by the plane crashing into the sea, the intensity of the seismicity indicated that the crashing process was disastrous," the report said.

The Wen Lianxing Research Team is part of the university's School of Earth and Space Sciences. Four researchers were involved in this  project.

When contacted by The Star, Meteorological Department deputy director-general (strategy and technical) Dr Mohd Rosaidi Che Abas confirmed that seismographs at the department's stations in Kulim and Ipoh detected "shaking" at 2.56am on that day.

He said further investigations are underway.

Flight MH370 on a Boeing777-200ER was carrying 239 passengers and crew enroute to Beijing.

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14 March 2014| last updated at 02:31PM
MISSING MH370: New US lead thrusts Malaysia jet search into Indian Ocean

KUALA LUMPUR: The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for a missing Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean Friday after the White House cited “new information” that it might have flown for hours after vanishing nearly seven days ago.


    Multiple US media reports, citing American officials, said the Malaysia  Airlines Boeing 777’s communication system continued to “ping” a satellite for  a number of hours after it disappeared off radar with 239 people aboard, en  route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

   “It’s my understanding that based on some new information that’s not  necessarily conclusive, but new information, an additional search area may be  opened in the Indian Ocean,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

   “The USS Kidd is transiting the Strait of Malacca en route to the Indian  Ocean,” a US Navy official told AFP, referring to a guided-missile destroyer  initially deployed to the Gulf of Thailand on the other side of Malaysia’s  coast.

   It was the latest in a series of tantalising leads that have pulled the  search for flight MH370 in multiple directions and deepened what is fast  becoming one of the biggest mysteries in modern aviation history.

   “I can’t think of any other incident like this where there is so little  clue as to what actually happened,” said Ravikumar Madavaram, an aerospace  consultant at Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific.

   The new thrust opens an additional search front of daunting magnitude. The  Indian Ocean is the world’s third largest with an average depth of nearly 3,900  meters (12,800 feet).

   It is like going “from a chessboard to a football field”, Commander William  Marks of the US 7th Fleet told CNN.

   Marks insisted the search remained coordinated with the Malaysian  authorities and that the US Navy was “not out here freelancing”.    Malaysia has yet to react publicly to the latest US information, but a  spokesman for the search response effort said the government was aware of the  media reports and White House comments.

   Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that it had “nothing further to add.”   

  The lack of results so far has created a volatile mix of grief, anger,  frustration and speculation that the Malaysian authorities have struggled to  control.
   
The government has stressed the “unprecedented” nature of the challenge,  with the search parameters expanding daily and the focus swinging wildly from  the east to the west of the Malaysian peninsula.

The Boeing 777 that vanished early Saturday over the South China Sea with  no indication of distress has one of the best safety records of any jet. The  airline also has a solid record.

The explanation void has been filled with a host of theories that include a  mid-air explosion, terrorist act, catastrophic technical failure or rogue  missile strike.

“There are so many stories swirling around. This morning one man told me  the plane had landed in Africa,” said Subramaniam Gurusamy, a 60-year-old  Malaysian security guard whose son was on the flight.

   “How am I going to explain to my grandchildren that nobody knows where  their father is?” he told AFP.

   Adding to the anguish of relatives — most of whom are Chinese — has been  the succession of false leads, mixed signals, and miscommunication between the  various countries involved in the hunt.

   Malaysia on Thursday denied that Chinese satellite imagery had picked up  wreckage in the South China Sea.

   The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and major US networks have all  cited unidentified officials as saying the plane continued to emit signals via  satellite “pings” for four or five hours.

   The last signal was sent from over water, at a normal cruising altitude,  the Journal cited investigators as saying.

   Gerry Soejatman, an independent aviation analyst based in Jakarta, was  sceptical that the plane could have flown undetected to the Indian Ocean given  the number of military radars operated in the region by Malaysia, India,  Thailand and Indonesia.

   “How could it get past all of that?” said Soejatman. “And if it did, how  many people in the military are going to lose their jobs?"
   
   ABC news said US investigators believe the aircraft’s data reporting system  and its transponder — which reports its position in flight to ground-based  radar — shut down separately.
   
   The 14-minute interval suggests they may have been deliberately disabled or  at any rate did not fail as a result of a catastrophic airframe incident, the  US network said.
   
   Coupled with Malaysian radar data indicating that the plane may have  inexplicably started to turn back, the sequential shutdown could lend credence  to the theory of a cockpit takeover.
   
   But Soejatman said the time lag could have been the result of a fire.
   
  “We have seen cases where there have been cockpit fires, and then the  systems go down one by one,” he said. “It doesn’t necessarily have to be  deliberate.”    The plane lost radar contact at around 1:30 am, less than an hour after  take-off, according to Malaysian officials.
   
   They have confirmed that the last words heard from the cockpit were a  relaxed “Alright, good night” as the plane was due to pass from Malaysian to  Vietnamese air traffic control. The night was clear and the weather was fine. -- AFP


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