Search for missing Malaysia Airlines airliner widens after Beijing urges action (new debris sighted)

[brooklynite]

Source: South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

Malaysian aviation authorities on Monday vowed to widen its search for a missing Malaysian Airlines passenger plane, after Beijing called for swifter action amid increasing pressure from dozens of angry relatives of the some 150 Chinese passengers feared dead.

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Hong Kong’s Civil Aviation Department (CAD) said on Monday it had received a report from the crew of a Cathay Pacific Hong Kong-Kuala Lumpur bound flight that a large amount of debris was spotted at about 3pm off the coast of Vung Tau, southeast Vietnam. The department said it had notified its counterparts in Vietnam, Malaysia and in Sanya city, Hainan province of the sighting.

The location of suspected debris does not match the path expected to have been taken by Malaysia Airlines flight 370, which should have flown directly over Ho Chi Minh City. The location supplied to the CAD was over the sea more than 125 kilometres south-east of the original flight path.

A spokeswoman for Malaysia Airlines said the airline had not received any reports from its crew about spotting debris in the sea near Vung Tau.

Read more: http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1444784/china-urges-malaysia-step-search-missing-passenger-plane-families-grow

[lostincalifornia]

1. "swifter action"? Aren't they already doing that?

[itsrobert]

2. The ocean in that area of the world is extremely polluted.

That part of the world has been used as a dumping ground of all kinds of obsolete electronic and applicances. It should not surprise anyone to find debris fields all over the ocean that doesn't come from the plane.

[Turbineguy]

9. Those oil slicks on TV

looked more like the result of oil tanker tank cleaning. Later they were determined not to be from the missing aircraft.

[uppityperson]

3. I've a question for you, in particular

I have noticed you are posting a lot about this, wondering if you have people involved or are interested in it like I am otherwise? Thanks.

[brooklynite]

4. I have a personal and professional interest, and I lived in Southeast Asia...

[Skittles]

5. thank you for the updates brooklynite

yes INDEED

[uppityperson]

7. Thank you for all the updates and I am sorry.

[calimary]

8. This has to be utterly gnawing! Damn. It's the not knowing.

Thanks for the updates, brooklynite. Appreciate your perspective on this, too.

[davidpdx]

12. I'm curious where

South Korea here!

[brooklynite]

19. Philippines...

[jsr]

6. Yeah, swifter action! Crank it up! Fly faster!!!

[SoapBox]

10. It's getting weirder and weirder...

As someone in a previous article said.

[countryjake]

11. Kick and recommend

[davidpdx]

13. I feel bad for these families having to wait for news

I mean it really never looked good from the beginning, but they need something to bring closure.

[africanadian]

14. I'm just amazed that no Republican has blamed Obama for this incident

Yet.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. Or Ben ghazi.

[dipsydoodle]

15. Why are the missing Malaysian Airlines passengers' phones still ringing?

The 'unprecedented mystery' behind the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370 deepened on Monday when relatives claimed they were able to call the cellphones of their missing loved ones.

According to the Washington Post, family of some of the 239 people on board the vanished Boeing 777 said that they were getting ring tones and could see them active online through a Chinese social networking service called QQ.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578020/Why-cellphones-missing-Malaysian-Airlines-passengers-ringing-Family-members-claim-loved-ones-smartphones-active.html#ixzz2veK7SWws

[Berlin Expat]

16. You will hear

a ring tone even if a mobile phone is switched off.

As an example, completely switch off your mobile phone, then call that number from another mobile phone or a landline; you'll hear it "ringing". The ring tone is provided by the telephone carrier, not the device itself.

[dipsydoodle]

17. With UK carriers for example that's not true.

If a 'phone is "off" then call goes straight through to message service - doesn't ring.

[brooklynite]

20. UPDATE: Search for missing jet covers mountainous, forest areas

HANOI: Massive search for the missing Malaysian plane will be expanded to scour mountainous and forest areas, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) quoted Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, Lt Gen Vo Van Tuan as saying.

“We have informed units and localities on land, including Military Zones 5, 7 and 9, and localities in the western, southeastern and central regions to deploy forces to seek the plane,” Tuan said on Tuesday while instructing the operation.

Units managing border areas were requested to increase coordination with Lao and Cambodian forces in searching border areas in their territories, he said.

Two hotlines were also set up at the command office in Phu Quoc Island, southern Kien Giang province to promptly provide information relating to the search.

http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-color-red-missing-mh370-font-search-for-missing-jet-covers-mountainous-forest-areas-1.507924

[Agschmid]

21. Kick thanks for updates.