Vlucht MH370 Malaysia Airlines 170 UUR vermist #12

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Op donderdag 13 maart 2014 22:02 schreef eight het volgende:
Topic gaat hard zeg..
Als ik kijk bij laatste update in de OP staat het 4 uur doorvliegen nog vermeld. Dit was toch ontkracht??
Nog wat anders gebeurt?

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Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and CNN [and the Chicago Tribune] are quoting unnamed investigators as saying that MH370 continued to send electronic signals after it lost contract with ground control. The Boeing 777 was equipped with a satellite-communication link “designed to automatically transmit the status of some onboard systems to the ground,” the Journal reports:

Investigators are still working to fully understand the information, according to one person briefed on the matter. The transmissions, this person said, were comparable to the plane “saying I’m here, I’m ready to send data.”

Here’s how Reuters explains the “pings”:

Communications satellites picked up faint electronic pulses from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 after it went missing on Saturday, but the signals gave no indication about where the stray jet was heading nor its technical condition, a source close to the investigation said on Thursday.

The “pings” equated to an indication that the aircraft’s maintenance troubleshooting systems were ready to communicate with satellites if needed, but no links were opened because Malaysia Airlines and others had not subscribed to the full troubleshooting service, the source said.

The Wall Street Journal continues to build out its report, first published this morning, that the plane flew for hours after “disappearing.” See the subsequent post on this blog about an important correction the WSJ has appended to its initial report: the theory that the plane flew for hours was based not on a signal from a system inside the Rolls-Royce engines but on a signal from a separate satellite communication systems in the plane, the Journal says.

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Op donderdag 13 maart 2014 22:10 schreef iksnaperniksvan het volgende:
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Amerikanen schijnbaar wel, en vandaar dat zij dus wel die informatie konden interpreteren.

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Op donderdag 13 maart 2014 22:14 schreef iksnaperniksvan het volgende:

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Ik dacht dat ik dat wel zei, maar ok ik vind het in ieder geval opmerkelijk dat ze er niet geabonneerd op zijn. Lijkt me toch vrij handig als luchthaven zijnde...

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Op donderdag 13 maart 2014 22:15 schreef El_Matador het volgende:

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Ik haal niks meer weg wat "ontkracht" is. Veelal is het berichtgeving van de Maleiers die het tegendeel stelt, dat maakt het nog niet waar.

Als Boeing of Rolls Royce met zo'n bericht komt, wie zijn wij -of de Maleisische overheid- dan om daar aan te twijfelen?

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On Saturday, the US Navy will contribute new state-of-the-art surveillance aircraft to the search for MH370, according to a Navy press release:

The aircraft has a maximum speed of 490 knots, a ceiling of 41,000 feet, and provides a range of more than 1,200 nautical miles with four hours on station. For a mission such as the MH370 search, the P-8 will typically fly at 5,000 to 10,000 feet at 350 knots, with a search time of approximately 8-9 hours depending on distance to search area.

The P-3C Orion will “remain on station to assist with the search in a daily rotation with the P-8,” the navy said, adding that it was sending the USS Pinckney, a destroyer, “to Singapore for planned maintenance and routine voyage repairs”:

With the search area expanding into the Strait of Malacca Pinckney is not currently needed until follow-on information is available and planning occurs. She will continue searching during her transit south today.

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Op donderdag 13 maart 2014 22:27 schreef gijsman het volgende:
http://www.washingtonpost(...)62f9996_graphic.html