[UPDATE]-Malaysia Airlines plane crashes in South China Sea after the Flight Vanishesd with 239 passengers .

[Reefa]

Flight MH370: last message to Malaysia sent 'after communications disabled'

The person in control of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 issued their last communication to air traffic control after the first set of aircraft communications was disabled, Malaysian authorities have confirmed, adding further weight to suspicion that the plane was hijacked.

The latest revelation suggests that the person who delivered the "All right, good night" message to Kuala Lumpur air traffic controllers just before the Boeing-777 disappeared from their radar at 1.22am and diverted from its scheduled flightpath to Beijing was also aware that the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (Acars) had been manually shut down.

Investigations still do not appear to know who was at the helm and what their intentions were when the aircraft disappeared from civilian radar more than a week ago.

Experts on aircraft maintenance have explained that the plane's communications system can only be disabled manually – a process that requires switching a number of cockpit controls in sequence until a computer screen necessitates a keyboard input.

Authorities have not yet disclosed whether the person who issued the last message to controllers was Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, or co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, or an unknown third person. It is also unclear if such messages are recorded by air traffic control and are available for expert analysis to determine who the voice belongs to.

Malaysia Airlines could not be reached for comment and Malaysia's transport ministry declined to comment.

Malaysia's police chief, Khalid Bakar, has said authorities were investigating all crew, passengers and ground staff involved with MH370 under a penal code that includes hijacking, sabotage and terrorism. Police had questioned Zaharie's friends and family, and dismantled and reassembled at headquarters a flight simulator Zaharie kept in his house on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.

Police also searched Fariq's home, although it was unclear if anything was confiscated.

According to Malaysia Airlines, the pilot and co-pilot did not ask to fly together, reducing the probability of a co-ordinated plan between the pilots to hijack the aircraft.

Khalid told reporters that all 239 people on board – 228 passengers and 11 Malaysian crew – were being investigated for suspicious activity, but that police were waiting for background information from some of the nations whose citizens were on the plane.

Eight days after the Boeing-777 vanished, with no concrete leads on its whereabouts, investigators are now searching for the plane along two possible flight corridors from the its last known location at 2.15am last Saturday over the Malacca strait – one stretches south from Indonesia towards the Indian Ocean, a vast expanse with very little radar coverage; the other reaches north from Thailand up towards central Asia, a heavily militarised area whose airspace is carefully scrutinised.

There are 25 countries assisting in the search, said Malaysia's defence and acting transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein – raising the additional challenges of co-ordinating ground, sea and aerial efforts as well as the delicate diplomatic issue of sharing significant sensitive information, from satellite data to primary and secondary radar playback, as well as any ground, sea and aerial co-ordination efforts.

"This is a significant recalibration of the search," Hishammuddin told reporters on Sunday. "From focusing mainly on shallow seas, we are now looking at large tracts of land, crossing 11 countries, as well as deep and remote oceans.

The search was already a highly complex, multinational effort. It has now become even more difficult."

Malaysia's prime minister, Najib Razak, has already spoken with the heads of state of Bangladesh, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and India; the foreign ministry has briefed at least 22 countries regarding the new search efforts as well as any additional countries that may be able to provide assistance.

Those countries include Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia, with special assistance regarding satellite data requested from the US, China and France.

Surveillance airplanes and maritime vessels will also be needed in the search for the missing jet along the southern corridor, where the Indian Ocean can reach depths of two miles and radar coverage is patchy at best.

Malaysia Airlines has confirmed that the plane departed for Beijing with enough fuel only to reach its scheduled destination, so it would have been likely to run out after about seven hours' flight time – if flying at normal cruising altitudes. But with reports emerging that the aircraft may have been flying at altitudes as high as 45,000ft, authorities also confirmed on Sunday that the plane need not have been flying for the duration of the period it was picked up by satellites.

The satellite "pings" that were last read at 8.11am on Saturday – six hours after Malaysian military radar last detected the aircraft over the Malacca strait at 2.15am – could still have been transmitting data from the ground, if the plane were to have landed, said Malaysia's civil aviation chief, Abdul Rahman.

"The plane can still transmit pings from the ground as long as there is electrical power," he said.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/16/flight-mh370-last-message-communications-disabled-malaysia

Edited March 16, 2014 by F3dupsk1Nup

[J.D]

I don't think the Malaysian authorities are being totally honest at the daily news Updates .

Either they are still looking for the Aircraft which is time consuming or they have an idea or even know where the plane is but cannot act because they need a major power with all the equipment eg the US or NATO or others .So basically, after 8 days, there is no more data to come in, any relevant data is stored on some Govt database and the aircraft is either at the bottom of sea or it has been stolen in flight and landed somewhere for further use at a later date .

As it looks like a Hijack or Air Piracy and the favoured track was NW, that takes the flight over a lot of 'bandit' country and possibly as far away as one of the old Soviet 'Stan' countries .With the standard reserve fuel, the aircraft had enough fuel for roughly ~8 hour flight .Thats why the authorities are saying they have to look at 10%(?) of the Earths surfice eg ~3,000 mile radius (or more) from their starting point of KL .Experienced Pilots are saying they would bet on NW Pakistan so I expect US drones are already on the case .

[shamu726]

Timeline: How Malaysia's Flight MH370 went missing

Here is a timeline of events in the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner which vanished from radar screens on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on Saturday, March 8: (all times are local Malaysian, eight hours ahead of GMT)

- 0041: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 departs from Kuala Lumpur International Airport and is due to land in Beijing at 0630 the same day. On board the Boeing 777-200ER are 227 passengers and 12 crew.

- 0107: After take-off and ascent, the plane sends its last ACARS transmission, which gives engine maintenance data to the ground. The system is then deactivated.

- A few minutes later: Someone in the cockpit says "All right, good night" to Malaysian air traffic control. They were the last words heard from Flight MH370.

- 0121: The plane drops off air traffic control screens as its transponder - which responds to civilian radar - is switched off. The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam says the plane failed to check in as scheduled at 0121 with air traffic control in Ho Chi Minh City. Malaysian authorities believe that someone on board shut off the plane's communications systems and turned it sharply to the west.

- 0215: Malaysian military radar plots Flight MH370 at a point south of Phuket island in the Strait of Malacca, hundreds of miles west of its last known location.

- 0811: The last signal received from the plane, according to satellite tracking data. The final communication placed the plane somewhere in one of two corridors: a northern arc stretching from northern Thailand to Kazakhstan, or a southern one stretching from Indonesia to the vast southern Indian Ocean.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/17/us-malaysia-airlines-highlight-idUSBREA2G09320140317

[J.D]

Correct Shamu726, thats my understanding too .

[dMog]

certainly looks like the plane was taken over

[shamu726]

Planning could hold key to disappearance of Flight MH370

Whether by accident or design, whoever reached across the dimly lit cockpit of a Malaysia Airlines jet and clicked off a transponder to make Flight MH370 vanish from controllers' radars flew into a navigational and technical black hole.

By choosing one place and time to vanish into radar darkness with 238 others on board, the person - presumed to be a pilot or a passenger with advanced knowledge - may have acted only after meticulous planning, according to aviation experts.

Understanding the sequence that led to the unprecedented plane hunt widening across two vast tracts of territory north and south of the Equator is key to grasping the motives of what Malaysian authorities suspect was hijacking or sabotage.

By signing off from Malaysian airspace at 1.19 a.m. on March 8 with a casual "all right, good night," rather than the crisp radio drill advocated in pilot training, a person now believed to be the co-pilot gave no hint of anything unusual.

Two minutes later, at 1.21 a.m. local time, the transponder - a device identifying jets to ground controllers - was turned off in a move that experts say could reveal a careful sequence.

"Every action taken by the person who was piloting the aircraft appears to be a deliberate one. It is almost like a pilot's checklist," said one senior captain from an Asian carrier with experience of jets including the Boeing 777.

There is so far no indication whether the co-pilot was at fault or had anything to do with turning off the transponder. Pilots say the usual industry convention is that the pilot not directly responsible for flying the plane talks on the radio.

Police have searched the premises of both the captain and co-pilot and are checking the backgrounds of all passengers.

Whoever turned the transponder to "off", whether or not the move was deliberate, did so at a vulnerable point between two airspace sectors when Malaysian and Vietnamese controllers could easily assume the airplane was each others' responsibility.

"The predictable effect was to delay the raising of the alarm by either party," David Learmount, operations and safety editor at Flight International, wrote in an industry blog.

That mirrors delays in noticing something was wrong when an Air France jet disappeared over the Atlantic in 2009 with 228 people on board, a gap blamed on confusion between controllers.

Yet whereas the Rio-Paris disaster was later traced to pilot error, the suspected kidnapping of MH370's passengers and crew was carried out with either skill or bizarre coincidences.

Whether or not pilots knew it, the jet was just then in a technically obscure sweet spot, according to a top radar expert.

Air traffic controllers use secondary radar which works by talking to the transponder. Some air traffic control systems also blend in some primary radar, which uses a simple echo.

But primary radar signals fade faster than secondary ones, meaning even a residual blip would have vanished for controllers and even military radar may have found it difficult to identify the 777 from other ghostly blips, said radar expert Hans Weber.

"Turning off the transponder indicates this person was highly trained," said Weber, of consultancy TECOP International.

NOT IN THE MANUAL

The overnight flight to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur is packed year-round with business people, Chinese tourists and students, attracted in part by code-sharing deals, regular travelers say.

The lockdown of MH370 may have begun as early as 40 minutes into the flight at a point when meals are being hurriedly served in time to get trays cleared and lights dimmed for the night.

"It was a red-eye flight. Most people - the passengers and the crew - just want to rest," a Malaysia Airlines stewardess said. "Unless there was a reason to panic, if someone had taken control of the aircraft, they would not have noticed anything."

At some point between 1.07 a.m. and 1.37 a.m., investigators believe someone switched off another system called ACARS designed to transmit maintenance data back to the ground.

While unusual, this may not necessarily raise alarms at the airline and the passengers would not have known that something was amiss, said some of the six pilots contacted by Reuters, none of whom agreed to be identified because of company rules.

"Occasionally, there are gaps in the communications systems and the guys in ground operations may not think much of it initially. It would be a while before they try to find out what was wrong," said one captain with an Asian carrier.

Cutting the datalink would not have been easy. Instructions are not in the Flight Crew Operating Manual, one pilot said.

Whoever did so may have had to climb through a trap door in full view of cabin crew, people familiar with the jet say.

Circuit-breakers used to disable the system are in a bay reached through a hatch in the floor next to the lefthand front exit, close to a galley used to prepare meals.

Most pilots said it would be impossible to turn off ACARS from inside the cockpit, though two people did not rule it out.

Malaysia Airlines said 14 minutes elapsed between the last ACARS message and the transponder shutdown that - in the growing view of officials - confirmed a fully loaded jet was on the run. The ACARS must have been disabled within 16 minutes after that.

In the meantime a voice believed to be that of the co-pilot issued the last words from MH370 and the transponder went dead.

HIDING IN FULL VIEW?

The northeast-bound jet now took a northwestern route from Kota Bahru in eastern Malaysia to Penang Island. It was last detected on military radar around 200 miles northwest of Penang.

Even that act of going off course may not have caused alarm at first if it was handled gradually, pilots said.

"Nobody pays attention to these things unless they are aware of the direction that the aircraft was heading in," said one first officer who has flown with Malaysia Airlines.

The airline said it had reconstructed the event in a simulator to try to figure out how the jet vanished and kept flying for what may have been more than seven hours.

Pilots say whoever was then in control may have kept the radio on in silent mode to hear what was going on around him, but would have avoided restarting the transponder at all costs.

"That would immediately make the aircraft visible ... like a bright light. Your registration, height, altitude and speed would all become visible," said an airline captain.

After casting off its identity, the aircraft set investigators a puzzle that has yet to be solved. It veered either northwards or southwards, within an hour's flying time of arcs stretching from the Caspian to the southern Indian Ocean.

The best way to avoid the attention of military radars would have been to fly at a fixed altitude, on a recognized flight path and at cruising speed without changing course, pilots say.

Malaysian officials dismissed as speculation reports that the jet may have flown at low altitude to avoid detection.

But pilots said the best chance of feeling its way through the well-defended northern route would have been to hide in full view of military radar inside commercial lanes - raising awkward questions over security in several parts of the Asia-Pacific.

"The military radar controllers would have seen him moving on a fixed line, figured that it was a commercial aircraft at a high altitude, and not really a danger especially if he was on a recognized flight path," said one pilot.

"Some countries would ask you to identify yourself, but you are flying through the night and that is the time when the least attention is being paid to unidentified aircraft. As long as the aircraft is not flying towards a military target or point, they may not bother with you."

Although investigators refused on Monday to be drawn into theories, few in the industry believe a 250-tonne passenger jet could run amok globally without expert skills or preparation.

"Whoever did this must have had lots of aircraft knowledge, would have deliberately planned this, had nerves of steel to be confident enough to get through primary radar without being detected and been confident enough to control an aircraft full of people," a veteran airline captain told Reuters.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/17/us-malaysia-airlines-disappearance-insig-idUSBREA2G14020140317

[ffi]

I wonder why they haven't released arcs for the other pings because you could perhaps reconstruct a flight path and Malaysia has asked the US to NOT help them. I wonder if they already know where the plane is, know it's a hostage situation and are training and preparing a SEAL-team to go in. You wouldn't want the hijackers to know about this.....

[J.D]

I wonder why they haven't released arcs for the other pings

I think now they know what happened but we will never know - the rumour is the Captain hijacked the plane and crashed - closure for the Families, closure for the Malayasian Govt - everybody goes home :huh:

[AlexCross]

I just can't imagine what's in the people's hart that are waiting for news about their families.

[ffi]

I wonder why they haven't released arcs for the other pings

I think now they know what happened but we will never know - the rumour is the Captain hijacked the plane and crashed - closure for the Families, closure for the Malayasian Govt - everybody goes home :huh:

I don't believe the captain committed suicide, I looked on his youtube page, he really seemed to be into atheism and/or secularism and into Richard Dawkins, if you read Dawkins you'll know he often argues about the true morality of atheism and secularism, if that strikes a chord with you (and I think it did with the captain looking at his likes and subscriptions) I don't think you will kill 238 other people just to commit suicide. Or look at his own movies, eg the one he made on how to conserve energy with the airconditioning, seriously someone who goes to all that trouble to help other just won't kill 238 innocent people

Edited March 17, 2014 by ffi

[J.D]

I wonder why they haven't released arcs for the other pings

I think now they know what happened but we will never know - the rumour is the Captain hijacked the plane and crashed - closure for the Families, closure for the Malayasian Govt - everybody goes home :huh:

I don't believe the captain committed suicide, I looked on his youtube page, he really seemed to be into atheism and/or secularism and into Richard Dawkins, if you read Dawkins you'll know he often argues about the true morality of atheism and secularism, if that strikes a chord with you (and I think it did with the captain looking at his likes and subscriptions) I don't think you will kill 238 other people just to commit suicide. Or look at his own movies, eg the one he made on how to conserve energy with the airconditioning, seriously someone who goes to all that trouble to help other just won't kill 238 innocent people

I cannot believe that after 10-11 days the authorities don't really have a clue as to what happened and where the plane is .Sometimes the info given by the daily Press briefing contradicts what was said a few days earlier .The whole daily 'data update' is just going round and round in circles - how long can this daily charade continue - not much longer IMO, the relatives want answers and more than half those onboard were Chinese, so an I'ntl dimession to it .I think much of this daily charade is about 'face saving' and the longer it goes on, the Malasian Govt will lose much credability throughout the world .

[ffi]

I cannot believe that after 10-11 days the authorities don't really have a clue as to what happened and where the plane is .Sometimes the info given by the daily Press briefing contradicts what was said a few days earlier .The whole daily 'data update' is just going round and round in circles - how long can this daily charade continue - not much longer IMO, the relatives want answers and more than half those onboard were Chinese, so an I'ntl dimession to it .I think much of this daily charade is about 'face saving' and the longer it goes on, the Malasian Govt will lose much credability throughout the world .

If you draw lines from the last know position to the 4 extremes of the arcs you will notice that the intermediate pings are different for the extremes, the authorities know these pings, so they should be able to much more exactly pinpoint where the plane is (there are still 2 possible locations) but not as big as they are now.

Interestingly on the day of the disappearance when everyone still thought of a normal crash there were reports the plane had landed safely somewhere in China (Namning, or something like that...)

[dMog]

they know one thing for certain... someone commandeered this plane... and i think they know a lot more than they are letting on...the intelligence agencies form just a few of the major players being on this will have dredged up a lot of info and it will be surprising if we are ever allowed to really know the entire story

[ffi]

they know one thing for certain... someone commandeered this plane... and i think they know a lot more than they are letting on...the intelligence agencies form just a few of the major players being on this will have dredged up a lot of info and it will be surprising if we are ever allowed to really know the entire story

For now I am hoping this is because they know they have a hostage situation and don't want the hijackers to know they are already on to them. It makes sense, like I said with those intermediate pings the search area can be made much smaller

[J.D]

The initial reports and and support from China put the Flight East of its flight plan with China saying it crashed in the S China sea just East of S Vietnam .Initial SAR started there but quickly moved to the West of the Straits and now either a Northerly Arc or a Southerly Arc which now covers 10% of the worlds surface .

Maybe go back to basics and further explore the Chinese data - maybe the plane broke up or possible was shot down by mistake and nobody wants to own up to it (we do know for training exercise, the military do 'paint aircraft' with their radar and a friendly training intercept could have gone badly wrong - so distract the World and go in the opposite direction and then expand the area to a massive search - the Malasian govt may not really want to find the wreckage because they know what happened)

[ffi]

The initial reports and and support from China put the Flight East of its flight plan with China saying it crashed in the S China sea just East of S Vietnam .Initial SAR started there but quickly moved to the West of the Straits and now either a Northerly Arc or a Southerly Arc which now covers 10% of the worlds surface .

Maybe go back to basics and further explore the Chinese data - maybe the plane broke up or possible was shot down by mistake and nobody wants to own up to it (we do know for training exercise, the military do 'paint aircraft' with their radar and a friendly training intercept could have gone badly wrong - so distract the World and go in the opposite direction and then expand the area to a massive search - the Malasian govt may not really want to find the wreckage because they know what happened)

The waters in the S China Sea are really shallow and very busy, it's unlikely that if the plane crashed there nothing would have been found

[J.D]

The initial reports and and support from China put the Flight East of its flight plan with China saying it crashed in the S China sea just East of S Vietnam .Initial SAR started there but quickly moved to the West of the Straits and now either a Northerly Arc or a Southerly Arc which now covers 10% of the worlds surface .

Maybe go back to basics and further explore the Chinese data - maybe the plane broke up or possible was shot down by mistake and nobody wants to own up to it (we do know for training exercise, the military do 'paint aircraft' with their radar and a friendly training intercept could have gone badly wrong - so distract the World and go in the opposite direction and then expand the area to a massive search - the Malasian govt may not really want to find the wreckage because they know what happened)

The waters in the S China Sea are really shallow and very busy, it's unlikely that if the plane crashed there nothing would have been found

True if you mean wreckage but then none has been found anywhere, therefore you cannot assume it didn't crash in to the sea .

There have been no Sonar underwater scans/searches, all SAR has been done by MK1 eyeball .

Edited March 18, 2014 by J.D

[kn_andre]

I have been Following this Missing Plane Story right from the Start and i will State here that, there is More to this Story than Meets the Eyes !!! Too much Mystery Surrounding this Plane's Disappearance .. Lots of Loose Ends that just do not Add up at All ... I have been flying for Long and i was in a Plane which Encountered Turbulence .. We were Flying in that Situation for over 4 hours and the Whole Plane was Shaking so Violently !! The Pilot Instructed everybody, including Crew members to sit and Strap on our Sit Belts Throughout the Flight !! Many Passengers where Crying and Praying, While others were either calling their Family and Sending SMS messages through their Phones to Inform their Family Members what was going on !

Even on the 9/11 Hijacked Planes, Some Passengers on that ill Fated Flight still were able to call their Family on Phone/Send SMS to say their last words - and that was 13 years ago when Smartphones were not so Rampart .. We have heard Stories how Some Passengers were able to call or Send Messages to their Families or Friend from their Phones while there were in a Distressed Plane .. Are we Supposed to believe that a Plane that was Supposedly Diverted and Flew more than 5 hours and out of 239 Passengers NOT even One Passenger was able to Send a Distress Call or SMS from their Phone ??

Let us Assume that 1 out of 10 People have Speed Dial Numbers on their Phone, how long will it take to either Place a call or send a Text message from a phone ??? At this Day and Age of Smartphone Proliferation and Usage, i will say 20 Seconds is Enough to send a SMS from a phone to speed dial Number.. No matter the Situation and Danger - there are Always Distractions that will Allow Opportunities to hit numbers or letters on your Phone... But if this was not Possible? Then what would have happened to 239 people at the same time that Not Even One of them Could have got Hold of their Phones?? I mean, What Really Happened to this Plane ??????

I am not trying to Draw any Conclusions here, but just trying to cover some Bases and touch some points that others too might be Thinking about .... There are too much Questions but Not yet even One Answer to this Mystery !!! From the Look of things, I Doubt even if the Real Truth of what Caused the Disappearance of this Missing Plane will ever be Told ! At the End, Bureaucracy and Capitalism will come in to Play to give a " Cover Up Version of the Truth "

Lastly, my Heart and Prayers goes out to To All The Families and Friends who had People on that Missing Plane ... I can not even begin to Imagine their State of Mind at the Time.. May God Grant them Strength, Endurance and Courage to Pull through this Nightmare !! I Hope we all Try to wish them the Best and Remember them in our Supplications ... Cheers ..

[J.D]

_{NOT even One Passenger was able to Send a Distress Call or SMS from their Phone ??}

The latest is, the Aircraft they think now took the Southern Arc down the Indian Ocean in to the S Pacific towards Australia but not to Australia, but to the West of Perth .To be able to make a Cellphone call, you need a Cellphone Network and there isn't any in the Ocean .In addition, Pilots are saying that to use CellPhones in an Aircraft you need to be below 10,000 feet otherwise to many Networks will try to respond to your 'digital signature' and it will fail .

[dMog]

kn ...i agree with your post except for the cell phone issue...the plane was flying in an area that had no cell coverage...also google how a cell phone is able to make calls at 30 thousand feet and what is required on the plane to do so

[implague]

Several days and several searches later, when many countries came up empty in their search for the MH370, Malaysian Airlines flight which went missing about 10 days ago, A Hyderabad based software techie may have found possibly the most vital clue in finding this aircraft. Anoop Madhav Yeggina, an IT professional working with a software company in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, uploaded a satellite image and claimed it was the image of the missing flight. While searching images of DigitalGlobe Satellite QB02, Anoop had found a satellite image of a large aircraft flying very low above the Andaman Islands on March 8.

http://www.igyaan.in/74091/mh370-satellite-images/

[Sonar]

Several days and several searches later, when many countries came up empty in their search for the MH370, Malaysian Airlines flight which went missing about 10 days ago, A Hyderabad based software techie may have found possibly the most vital clue in finding this aircraft. Anoop Madhav Yeggina, an IT professional working with a software company in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, uploaded a satellite image and claimed it was the image of the missing flight. While searching images of DigitalGlobe Satellite QB02, Anoop had found a satellite image of a large aircraft flying very low above the Andaman Islands on March 8.

http://www.igyaan.in/74091/mh370-satellite-images/

lets hope hes on with a winner - if its a no public zone someone high up in the ranks has been involved for sure.

[nanana1]

Several days and several searches later, when many countries came up empty in their search for the MH370, Malaysian Airlines flight which went missing about 10 days ago, A Hyderabad based software techie may have found possibly the most vital clue in finding this aircraft. Anoop Madhav Yeggina, an IT professional working with a software company in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, uploaded a satellite image and claimed it was the image of the missing flight. While searching images of DigitalGlobe Satellite QB02, Anoop had found a satellite image of a large aircraft flying very low above the Andaman Islands on March 8.

http://www.igyaan.in/74091/mh370-satellite-images/

Read the attached comment :

News site 3news reported that the image which Yeggina claims shows a plane the colour and size of a Boeing 777 that appeared to be flying low to the ground not far from an airstrip controlled by the Indian Navy was outdated.

The image he had used was from a base layer of the map, which dated back to at least 2012. This was confirmed on Twitter by Mapbox Chief Scientist Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño. Please update the article accordingly instead of misguiding people.

[J.D]

Several days and several searches later, when many countries came up empty in their search for the MH370, Malaysian Airlines flight which went missing about 10 days ago, A Hyderabad based software techie may have found possibly the most vital clue in finding this aircraft. Anoop Madhav Yeggina, an IT professional working with a software company in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, uploaded a satellite image and claimed it was the image of the missing flight. While searching images of DigitalGlobe Satellite QB02, Anoop had found a satellite image of a large aircraft flying very low above the Andaman Islands on March 8.

http://www.igyaan.in/74091/mh370-satellite-images/

Read the attached comment :

News site 3news reported that the image which Yeggina claims shows a plane the colour and size of a Boeing 777 that appeared to be flying low to the ground not far from an airstrip controlled by the Indian Navy was outdated.

The image he had used was from a base layer of the map, which dated back to at least 2012. This was confirmed on Twitter by Mapbox Chief Scientist Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño. Please update the article accordingly instead of misguiding people.

Thats what I read 2012 or even earlier according to some Metadata contained within Images - also Pilots claim it is not a B777 either but an A320 (?)

[dMog]

so who ever is taking credit for the image ....... faked it.........