The whole country of Malaysia, no correction - the whole world is praying revelation on MAS's missing airplane number MH370.
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UPDATE [12.51pm]: Malaysian police
searched the homes of the crew members of flight MH370 as they pursue
the sabotage angle, a local Malay-language daily reported. Cops are also
checking the background of a passenger of Uighur descent. Full story here.
Meanwhile,
a British terror plotter was quoted by the Daily Star as saying he was
aware of plans for an 'earlier shoe bomb attack in Malaysia'. Read it here.
UPDATE
[12.07pm]: Vietnam says the area where Chinese satellite images show
what might be debris from MH370 has been thoroughly searched in recent
days.
Read it here.
UPDATE
[11.17am]: A senior Chinese aviation official said authorities could
not confirm any link between the floating objects captured on Chinese
satellite images to MH370.
Details here.
UPDATE
[9.52am]: Malaysia is sending a search aircraft to the possible crash
site identified by a Chinese government website, says an air force
official.
Full story here.
UPDATE [7.01am]: US satellites have not detected any sign of a
mid-air explosion, say American officials. "If they had picked up
something (by satellite), our ships would have been sent to that spot."
Full story here.
UPDATE [6.15am]: An image taken by a Chinese satellite shows a possible crash site of MH370.
Three objects sized 13m x 18m, 14m x 19m and 24m x 22m were spotted in the South China Sea. More here.
UPDATE [3.14am]: A fleet of Earth-monitoring satellites has joined
the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The so-called
International Charter on Space and Major Disasters, comprising 15 space
agencies or national space institutes, will provide high-resolution
images from satellites flying over the location.
Full story here.
AFP speaks to experts regarding five possible theories behind the
MH370 disappearance. Did the pilot commit suicide? Was there an
explosion on board? Did the plane break up in mid air?
Answers here.
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What we know as of 1:00am, 13 March 2014:
Search and rescue operations:
1. Search and rescue
efforts will still continue, says acting Transport Minister Hishamuddin.
2. Researchers say
China missed a chance to use its satellites to find MH370.
3. The search has been
expanded into the Andaman Sea, as the air force believes MH370
might have strayed west.
4. Vietnam is
scaling back the search for MH370.
5. Malaysia's air force chief denies saying
the plane turned back into the Straits of Malacca.
6. The Indian navy has joined in, together
with the navy satellite Rukmini or GSAT-7.
7. A crowdsourced initiative to find the MH370 has
overloaded the provider’s servers.
8. Searchers describe their efforts as akin to
looking for the needle in a haystack.
9. Relatives of passengers are claiming that
phones are still ringing when they try calling them.
10. Strange reports have emerged that MH370 was
detected at the Straits of Malacca at about 2:40am on Saturday.
11. Vietnamese officials say they are
preparing for the worst. However they are widening their search net, and Singapore is set to
join the underwater search today.
12. An American satellite imaging company, DigitalGlobe, is getting the public to
join the search by analyzing satellite imagery.
13. The search area has
expanded to 500,000 square nautical miles (1.7mil sq km), from Sumatra to Hong Kong.
14. The
USS Kidd joins the search, with both having Seahawk helicopters designed for search and rescue.
15. A commercial plane from out of Hong Kong reportedly saw several
large pieces of debris 60km southeast of Vung Tau, a coastal city in
Vietnam.
16. A low-flying plane was allegedly sighted early in the morning of March 8. Authorities refuse to confirm.
17. Malaysian submaries
will not be deployed as they are not 'equipped for search and rescue'.
18. Vietnam, China, Singapore, United States, Indonesia, Thailand,
Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and India are assisting in the
search.
Investigations still on-going:
1. A lawyer has slammed Malaysia for the
‘misleading information’ on MH370.
2. MAS insists that
all planes are ‘airworthy’ despite the Boeing 777 flaw being noted.
3. Under fire by the media, Hishamuddin insists
there is no confusion in the MH370 search.
4. A Malaysian minister
blamed the media for conflicting statements attributed to the government.
5. A senior MAS executive says there’s no reason to believe this was
caused by the crew.
6. The plane sent back
two bursts of technical data before vanishing.
7.
Legalities and jurisdiction issues are hampering investigations.
8. France is opening a
manslaughter investigation into the MH370 disappearance.
9. Police are investigating the matter from four angles: hijacking,
sabotage, psychological problems, and personal problems among passengers
and crew.
10. The B777-200 aircraft that operated MH207 had
undergone maintenance 12 days before the flight. There were no issues.
11. Previously-thought floating debris turns out to be
cable reel – not a
door or
life raft. Analysis of oil slick reveals that
it isn't aviation fuel from MH370 , but from ship bunkering activities.
More pictures here .
12. Experts are starting to believe the plane veered from its flight path, and could be
hundreds of kilometers away.
13. French accident board BEA offers help,
citing similarities with the
2009 Air France Flight 447 crash.
14. Boeing’s Airplane Health Management system, which allows real-time plane monitoring,
was not installed in the missing flight MH370.
15. No signals were spotted from the plane's
Emergency Locator Transmittor (ELT) .
16. A portion of the aircraft wingtip
was fixed by Boeing and was certified safe to fly. They dismissed the possibility of a technical problem and any form of threat prior to this.
17. PM Najib said that satelite imagery cannot be used as it cannot detect anything below the water surface.
18. MAS Operations Control Vice President Fuad Sharuji said the aircraft was
carrying 7.5 hours of fuel at the time of its disappearance (2.40am).
Situation in Malaysia:
1. MAS denies sending family members of MH370 passengers from
Hong Kong to India instead of Malaysia.
2. Year Three students from a rural school
made a touching tribute to the passengers on MH370.
3. A local bomoh (shaman)
returned for a second try, to the scorn and
ridicule of netizens .
4. Malaysians have grown
angry over discrepancies and concealed information.
5. MAS is shocked by
allegations of questionable behavior of the co-pilot above the MH370.
6.
Hoaxers, opportunists and tasteless jokers have come out of the woodworks.
7. Malaysia Airlines will provide
a total of 31,000 yuan (RM16,577) to all families of MH370 passengers, and
will be flown to the crash site once the location is known.
8. A local bomoh (shaman) and psychic
claim to be able to find MH370, and an African televangelist says he predicted this last July.
9. Guo Shaochun, head of a joint working group from the China govt has
arrived in KLIA to further assist in the case, as well as the welfare of
Chinese families here.
10. Ex-PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad chastises those who are
'playing the blame game' over the MH370 case.
11. Ex-NST head laments
'lax’ security at KLIA, blames third world mentality.
12. The internet is ablaze with concerned netizens
and celebrities expressing their views. Hashtags #MH370 and #PrayForMH370
were trending on Twitter.
13. Politician Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin
was slammed for an insensitive tweet about a 'new Bermuda triangle'.
14. The DCA Dir-Gen Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said the airport
authorities have examined security footage of the passengers and the
baggage,
and he is satisfied.
15. MAS says all other flights will proceed as usual, for now.
Missing passports and possible terror links:
1. All passengers who checked in for the flight
had boarded the plane, dispelling earlier claims that 5 passengers were missing.
2. DCA Dir-Gen denies
inconsistencies with police information.
3. The immigration chief insists
security SOPs were followed.
4. The two passengers travelling with stolen passports
were likely migrants, not terrorists. The first, Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad, 19, had
wanted to migrate to Germany. The second is Delavar Syed Mohammad Reza, 30. They had both
stayed over at a friend’s house before leaving for MH370.
5. U.S. and European government sources are skeptical that MH370 was the
target of an attack..
6. Thailand has been
exposed as a crime hub for forged documents.
7. Azharuddin said all cabin baggage on the flight
went through security screening, following protocols. MAS also confirms plane security complied with ICAO regulations.
8. Security in Malaysian airports remain the same as the government is
not treating this as a security threat yet, despite PM Najib Razak
saying KLIA security protocols
will be reviewed and improved if necessary. An Immigration Dept source admits “
the SOP does need to be reviewed.”
9. The Chinese Martyr's Brigade claims responsibility, but authorities
brush off the ‘unheard-of group’.
10. The Immigration Department
is under internal investigation following reports that Italian and Austrian passengers with Asian facial features were allowed to pass through. They had
bought their tickets together through an
Iranian link.
11. Interpol confirmed that the two missing passports
were recorded in its Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) database.
12. Malaysia is
working with the FBI on possible terror links to the MH370 disappearance.
Analysis, theories, opinions:
1. Here are the
key areas of confusion in relation to the missing MH370.
2. CNN laid out
four possible scenarios regarding the MH370 disappearance.
3.
Authorities are investigating the possibilities of a mid-air disintegration. A video explains the theory further. Radar and transponder information alone would be enough to confirm this theory,
says a veteran pilot.
4. Industry experts offer
insights into major questions, as well as a
detailed analysis of possible reasons behind the MH370 disappearance.
5. An aviation lawyer said that the plane
might have broken up due to lack of pressurisation or electrical failure.
6. Retired American Airlines Capt. Jim Tilmon said the route taken by
the aircraft had plenty of antennae, radar and radios for contact, and
the plane was 'as sophisticated as any commercial airplane could
possibly be with an excellent safety record'.
7. The flight was piloted by
Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, with total flying hours of 18,365 hours. First officer, Fariq Ab.Hamid, 27, has a total flying hours of 2,763 hours.
Stories surrounding missing passengers:
1. Abdul Hamid Mohd Daud
has not given up hope on his son, Fariq, 27, who is the first officer aboard MH370.
2. 38 Malaysians were on-board MH370, including
twelve colleagues, a family of three, a couple on honeymoon, a woman who had just celebrated her retirement and about
20 top management staff from Freescale Semiconductor.
3. The niece of Kuching police chief ACP Roslan Bek Ahmad
was a passenger on MH370.
4.
MH370 Full passenger list here .
Editors's note: The public may contact 
+603 7884 1234. Next-of-kin may head to the Support Facility Building at KLIA's South Support Zone. For directions, call 03 8787 1269.
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