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Showing posts with label Missing Malaysian Plane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Missing Malaysian Plane. Show all posts

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Malaysian Plane Mystery !

Inmarsat report now dumped as inaccurate report for the search area.

This will go down in history as one of the other blunders, which top leaders and politicians made on public expense. Also is a reflection of how poorly the logic and thinking process works in top management.

This was one subject which was covered by the whole global media and none of the journalist every put up this hard question to any of the authorities, how come a plane would simply follow a mathematical calculation, when there is a co-pilot to resist any move for the pilot to recourse to another flight path. Plus there is a crew and there are 240 pax. 

I have been following all the reports related to the search and the most hilarious moment was when Tony Abbot allocated 80 Million AUD for the search of the plane in the sea around Australia. The budget to be shared by China and Malaysia. Again interestingly, none of the Aussie journalist or anyone object to such a move. Further, one week later, Tony came out with a budget slashing monies to health care and education. On one end blow off 80 million AUD on a totally unrelated, unseen, unheard, unknown lost plane and the other hand cut budgets for students and pensioners. I thought, it was only in India, we had such ambiguities, but now, I know the politicians are the same breed all over the world.

This week, I was watching Aussie TV show Four Corners , wherein there was a documentary on the Malaysian missing plane. It starts very well and exposes a new element that the ATC actually reached out to the Malaysian airline on the missing plane after Vietnam ATC alerted it. But the airline took it lightly and even gave co-ordinates of the plane in Cambodian air space. This part has never been researched further.
However, Four Corners again did not address to any of the investigating agencies, how come the plane will simply follow the inmarsat path without the resistance of the co-pilot or others. Also, the 15 mins traverse of the plane on Malaysian radar was not really well explored .

CNN also came out with a report by its famous journalist Richard on the missing Malaysian plane, who went around interviewing Malaysian and Aussie authorities, but nowhere puts up the hard questions, if they are really sure, if the Inmarsat calculations are the right way to proceed with the search. Infact most of them supported the Inmarsat calculations and criticized the Malaysian government in delaying in accepting the report and moving to another search area.

When they announced that it would take 2 years for them to search the plane, I was already thinking, with the kind of search, it would take many more years and with nothing in hand.

But this is exactly the way one sees routinely decisions are taken and millions of dollars are blown off and time is wasted.

Everything returns to square one again.


Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Malaysian Plane : Weird Dream

As the world tries to reconcile with the loss of the Malaysian plane and then now you see a South Korean ship sinking with school kids. It seems , traveling is becoming more and more dangerous. My sympathies with those who lost their loved ones.

Last night, the dream will perhaps never get erased out of my memory box. Normally one gets too many dreams and one hardly remembers any of these. However, this one was related to the Missing Malaysian Plane.

I see in my dream , the air hostess of the plane coming to my window and telling me, I am from the missing Malaysian plane. I tell her, wait , I am coming to talk to you and she again tells me, I am, here, but walks back, but I can still see her clearly. Then I jump from my bed and run to the door out and run to the window, where she is ,but as soon as she sees me coming, she runs very fast and disappears. Huh! What a tragedy. I woke up and kept thinking about it for very long.

But this was the second dream in the last two weeks, the first one was when I got the dream that the plane was actually in a small pool of water and not in the big sea. However, I ignored that dream .

Perhaps, I have been writing too much about the missing plane and monitoring the developments, the thoughts moved further into my dreams.  But this dream will go very far with me.

Discovery put in a documentary on the missing plane today , but was very poorly made. The whole premises of search is based on one single Inmarsat calculation. And this is far too vague to calculate from sound wavelength, the possible movement of the plane. So far, it has all shown that there is not even one clue of the plane being in the searched location.

Unless, they have other data from spy satellites, which they are not disclosing, the possibility of the plane being there seems to be remote.

Meantime, I hope the air hostess does show up again in my dreams and gives me better insight.

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Malaysian Plane :Eco Protest By Marine Life .

Finally the search team is wearing out and are giving up hopes of finding the plane in the search area. While Tony Abbot is still making super announcements of getting closer to finding the plane, the team in-charge is already sending Pings to the world that the plane cannot be there.

Earlier atleast they could announce each day that one or two pings were heard, now all that is gone. So they don't really know, where to start and where to finish. There is no clue at all.

With so many ships, so many submarines , planes and boats etc, the whole eco system has come under fire. It is about time that Greenpeace Australia starts protesting about the disturbance being caused by these war machines.

Let us keep watching, where it is going. Now they have come up with another announcement that the co-pilot tried calling up from the phone. This is after one month. Something, which the investigating agencies should have checked in the first few days itself. It does look, there are many things, which are being slowly released to the public.

Now, unless there is some very strong evidence that the plane actually flew at the spot being searched and that is not known to the public domain, the chance of finding the plane here is minimal. But if it is not found there,, there will be too much to be explained by too many people. One cannot simply rush to a spot , based on some inmarsart clues and some mathematical calculations.

If the plane was indeed there, some debris would have certainly come up by now. Some oil spills would have certainly shown up. And above all the fishes and the marine life will show a strange behavior. None of this is seen so far.

They have no choice, but to release some sharks or whales with GPS sensors into the sea and monitor their movements. That is the fastest and the simplest and the cheapest way of locating the plane.

Friday, April 4, 2014

Malaysian Plane : Technology versus commonsense

I am a little surprised with the Aussie Journalist. None of them asked the difficult question to Aussie PM and Malaysian PM on the show at Perth that " How sure were they with the correctness of the Inmarsat data and Doppler calculations " Because none of the two have been put in public domain for peer review.

Now, they have announced a total of 500 Million would get spend in search of the plane. At the end, the bill may be send to Inmarsat, if the plane is found elsewhere.

There are too many other details, which are missing from the public domain viz


The Ping theory of Inmarsat, becomes questionable as the first ping is 1hr 30 mins after the flight took off. Where as it says, the pings are after each hour. All subsequent pings are exactly after each 60 mins. How come the first ping was 90 mins from the time of the rolls royce engine would have been energized. ? This clearly cast doubts that the pings belonged to another plane, which successfully landed and then the last ping was unscheduled. Showing that the engine was now being turned off.

The inspection report of maintenance before the flight was approved.

The Quality of the fuel used.

The Communication jammers, if any or bugs, which could have been planted.

The flight experience of the last 5 pilots on the same plane for the same or other destinations.

What was the last breakdown for which the plane was repaired ?

What is the standard procedure, if Vietnam ATC finds that the plane has not logged ? The Vietnam ATC asked another plane to reach out MH 370 and could only get murmurs. So, for sure ATC in Malaysia got alerted and what emergency measures were taken to redeem the situation ?

Where are the Oil slicks on the Ocean ? Why none of the satellites have been able to find one single spot of Oil slicks.

Well, now that the Black Box locator is there in the sea with its ping. Day is not far, when the debris should get located.

But this will go down as the one of the worst cases of mismanagement.



Monday, March 31, 2014

Missing Malaysian Plane : Time to Sue Inmarsat ?

Now that it is clear that the debris found so far is all Tsunami waste from Japan. It is about that all those who people misled the investigation to this area be made accountable.

Imagine, how many planes, how many ships, how many people and how many trips made to one location first and then another location around 1000 kms away from the first location.

The worst is that people still dont use their common sense to declare that the spot itself is wrong , because Australian PM " Tony" has made a statement in the parliament on the spotting of the debris and ofcourse Malaysian PM rushed to make an announcement of plane crashing in the Indian Ocean, based on Inmarsat calculations. Now all this has become so messy , that they do not know, how to withdraw from it.

They are hoping that after sometime the issue will be forgotten and quietly they will make a statement on the wrong spot.  Millions and Millions of Dollars of taxpayers money is wasted on something, which remotely was not sure as plane debris.

Inmarsat is the first company, who should be made accountable and the second should be the French satellite , which declared that a 30 meters long object was most likely the plane debris.

The black box life of 30 days gets over soon. It is still time to move the black box locater equipment on the track, which the plane originally was programmed to fly.

There is no positive report, which shows that the plane took a turn back. It is all based on a radar image. Like, I have written before, the plane crossed whole of Malaysia again and there should be many many more radars , which should have spotted the plane, but not one such proof exist. Look at the flight path of the plane as now being described and you will see that it crosses over Malaysia and then flies into Indian Ocean. 

Now unless something is not being disclosed, this is already a good proof that the plane did not go back. And all the calculations of Inmarsat therefore become null and void.

And what about all the spy satellites, which track all such planes, which are offtrack ?

It is about time Inmarsat is Sued.