A Chinese satellite has located what may be the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Then again, we’ve head that before.
The Chinese agency gave coordinates of 105.63 east longitude, 6.7 north latitude, which would put it in waters northeast of where it took off in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and south of Vietnam, near where the South China Sea meets the Gulf of Thailand.
There’s still many unanswered questions surrounding this incident. What about the first officer inviting pretty flirts into the flight deck on previous flight? Did the pilots have something to do with this, especially considering there was no distress or hijacking squawk? What about the four traveling on fake passports? How is that even possible in 2014?
All we can do now is ask questions and speculate, so I will not add anything more. While closure is important to the grieving families who have been in limbo the last five days, I hope that this latest satellite findings turns out not to be the remains of MH370. At least then, all hope would not be lost.
UPDATE 1:01a ET – looks like another false alarm…
I’m still cobsmacked by the fact people are able to travel on reported stolen passports. Totally blows my mind that this is even possible.
I’m sure there are far more people traveling using bogus travel docs than anyone cares to admit. Just because the US, UK, Canada, and Australia actually DO check the authenticity of their passengers, “security” in the rest of the world is even a bigger a joke.
What baffles me is that you can find a lost or stolen smartphone within minutes and pinpoint it on a map anywhere on the planet yet they cannot locate a huge commercial aircraft with 239 people on board? It just vanishes?
Yes, a few questions I have about this flight. As you mentioned Will, just WHY do you have a GIANT database of lost and stolen passports and, from what I’ve read, it’s ACCEPTED as ok that no airlines are required to check boarding passengers against this database! Amazing! Also, why is it not found to be unusual for a pilot to change course of his flight,WITHOUT RADIOING TO AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL what he is doing? For all he knows he might be turning into the flight plan of another plane! Am I alone in thinking this strange?
@Will Not to sound cynical, but people have and continue to a LOT worse than simply traveling on stolen passports. Why wouldn’t it be possible? It’s only cursory check here and there…