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UPDATE!

Now it gets eerie! 

ZEE NEWS: “the cellphones of the passengers on the missing plane were ringing, but went unanswered …..  concerned families of the missing passengers managed to connect the calls successfully, but no one picked the call.” If this is correct and the plane is in water then it cannot be very deep down.

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According to a report on the Swedish radio web-site the aircraft has been “found” (tracked) by military radar in the Malacca Straits. It is not yet completely certain that this is MH370 but the searches to the east of Malaysia have been called off.

The Malacca Straits would fit with the aircraft trying to get back to Kuala Lumpur. But the lack of communication remains a mystery.

According to Dagens Nyheter it could have come down in an area which was a “radar blind spot”. That doesn’t explain the journey to the “blind spot” of course.

Pulau Perak

Reuters:

Malaysian authorities have previously said flight MH370 disappeared about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for the Chinese capital Beijing.

At the time it was roughly midway between Malaysia’s east coast town of Kota Bharu and the southern tip of Vietnam, flying at 35,000 ft (10,670 metres).

“It changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Strait,” the military official, who has been briefed on investigations, told Reuters.  …. Earlier on Tuesday, Malaysia’s Berita Harian newspaper quoted air force chief Rodzali Daud as saying the Malaysia Airlines plane was last detected by military radar at 2:40 a.m. on Saturday, near the island of Pulau Perak at the northern end of the Strait of Malacca. It was flying at a height of about 9,000 metres (29,500 ft), he was quoted as saying. ….. If the reports from the military are verified, it would mean the plane was able to maintain a cruising altitude and flew for about 500 km (350 miles) with its transponder and other tracking systems apparently switched off.

Tags: MH370

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