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11 Mar 2014 09:57 #182125
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Flight 370 Iranian Sought Asylum
Investigators are still searching for clues in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, but they have concluded on Tuesday that at least one of the ticket-holders with a stolen passport was merely a teenager seeking asylum. While some theorized the passengers with stolen passports were evidence of potential foul play, it appears Pouria Nour Mohammed Mehrdad, 19, was trying to migrate to Germany, according to authorities. His mother was waiting for him in Frankfurt. Another Iranian man was traveling on a stolen passport was identified by Interpol as Delavar Syed Mohammad Reza, age 29. There is still no trace of the flight carrying 239 passengers that disappeared Friday, but authorities say this new information about the stolen passport-holders made terrorism a less likely cause.
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11 Mar 2014 12:43 #182195
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Why Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Must Have Died InstantaneouslyFour days of searching hasn’t turned up a speck of debris. What’s clear though is that the pilots made no distress call, which means whatever happened, it happened fast. From the beginning, a fog of speculation has swirled around the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. There have been the continual false reports of wreckage being found. The presence aboard the flight of passengers using stolen passports immediately raised the issue of terrorism—though exactly why this airline would have been targeted is baffling, nor has there been any claim by a terrorist group. Now Malaysian authorities have said that one of the passengers with a stolen passport was an Iranian seeking asylum in Europe (and this has opened up a tangential security concern about the volume of stolen passports and their widespread use). Then there is the uncertainty of where exactly the Boeing 777 was when it disappeared—we have no reliable timeline of its course from takeoff and exchanges between controllers and the crew. The Malaysians have now added to this confusion by raising the issue of “psychological†problems among either the crew or passengers.
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11 Mar 2014 13:30 #182209
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Malaysian military has radar data showing the missing Boeing 777 jetliner changed course and made it to the Malacca Strait, hundreds of kilometers (miles) from the last position recorded by civilian authorities, according to a senior military official.
The development injects more mystery into the investigation of the disappearance of Saturday's flight, and raises questions about why the aircraft was not transmitting signals detectable by civilian radar.
Local newspaper Berita Harian quoted Malaysian air force chief Gen. Rodzali Daud as saying radar at a military base had detected the airliner at 2:40 a.m. near Pulau Perak at the northern approach to the strait, a busy waterway that separates the western coast of Malaysia and Indonesia's Sumatra island.
"After that, the signal from the plane was lost," he was quoted as saying.
A high-ranking military official involved in the investigation confirmed the report and also said the plane was believed to be flying low. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.
Authorities had earlier said the plane, which took off at 12:20 a.m. and was headed to Beijing, may have attempted to turn back to Kuala Lumpur, but they expressed surprise that it would do so without informing ground control.
The search for the plane was initially focused on waters between the eastern coast of Malaysia and Vietnam, the position where aviation authorities last tracked it. No trace of the plane, which was carrying 239 people, has been found by than 40 planes and ships from at least 10 nations searching the area.
Earlier Tuesday, Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that search and rescue teams had expanded their scope to the Malacca Strait. An earlier statement said the western coast of Malaysia was "now the focus," but the airline subsequently said that phrase was an oversight. It didn't elaborate. Civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said the search remained "on both sides" of the country.
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12 Mar 2014 16:10 #182387
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Did the plane go off course?
It certainly appears so. While accounts from Malaysian authorities have been at times confusing and sometimes conflicting, authorities said Wednesday that radar picked up an unidentified aircraft flying over the Malay Peninsula into the Strait of Malacca early Saturday night. That's
hundreds of miles
from the Beijing-bound plane's flight path. Authorities cautioned they aren't sure the blip was Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and on Tuesday another Malaysian official said there wasn't any evidence the plane had turned around. We could find out more soon, as Malaysian officials have asked international experts to help interpret the data.
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