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THE US NAVY has sent a second ship to the South China Sea to help in the desperate search for a missing Malaysian jet, officials said.
The naval destroyer USS Kidd has joined another American destroyer, the USS Pinckney, as Malaysian authorities announced they were doubling the size of the search area for the airliner that vanished without a trace on Saturday with 239 on board.
“We are continuing to assist the Malaysian government in search and rescue operations in conjunction with the disappearance of Flight 370,” Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren told reporters.
The two US naval ships are equipped with MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters, which are equipped with infrared cameras for night-time search operations, he said.
On Sunday, the Pinckney spotted debris in the water but officers determined it was not wreckage from the missing airliner and merely “an old shipping crate,” he said.
A P-3C Orion surveillance aircraft was already in place and was conducting nine-hour flights from a base in Subang Jaya, Malaysia.
An oiler vessel also was deployed to provide logistics support, Warren said.
The US government over the weekend sent a team of investigators and experts from the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board to help with the probe into the missing plane.
US officials say it remains unclear if there was any terror link behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which had taken off from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing.
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Very strange and eerie
At this stage I’m almost ready to put money on the theory that the plane was hijacked, communications deliberately switched off and it was landed safely somewhere hard to find.
But why?
I haven’t gotten to the why bit yet. But why does anyone hijack an aircraft ?
Hopefully to clear the confused messages and not add to them! Dreadful week for relatives and friends.
Hoping that today brings some news on this mystery.
Strange about all the Freescale semiconductor radar engineers that were on board who work on radar jamming technology, the fact that none of the cargo was x rayed nor the manifest published…. this link ,although a bit off the wall, makes interesting reading… http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/03/case-closed-hijacked-by-awacs-2916516.html
That plane was deliberately crashed the transponders were turned off manually and now they reckon radar picked up the plane near the Andaman Islands well off its flight path why were they flying West??
Guaranteed it will be either the Yanks or the Chinese who get to the bottom of this.
New documentation required before checking in to a Malaysian Airlines flight: up-to-date last will and testament.
Why did a pilot with so much experience need a flightsimulator at home? Was it to train someone else?
I’d say a lot of pilots do. I used to dabble in that and a lot of the guys on online forums know way more than your average geek enthusiast could.
It’s hard to believe that a Boeing 777 with 239 people on board could literally vanish off the face of the earth. The only hope by now is that military/ intelligence/ surveillance or spy satellites and any recorded data can be used to find out where the plane went. What the relatives of this missing must be going through has to defy description
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