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The five airports are located in the Maldives, Diego Garcia, India and Sri Lanka. News out today claims multiple eye-witnesses in the Maldives: "Residents of

The five airports are located in the Maldives, Diego Garcia, India and Sri Lanka. News out today claims multiple eye-witnesses in the Maldives: "Residents of the remote Maldives island of Kuda Huvadhoo in Dhaal Atoll have reported seeing a "low flying jumbo jet" on the morning of the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. They said that it was a white aircraft, with red stripes across it – which is what the Malaysia Airlines flights typically look like. ... "I've never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We've seen seaplanes, but I'm sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly," said an eyewitness. "It's not just me either, several other residents have reported seeing the exact same thing. Some people got out of their houses to see what was causing the tremendous noise too." http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/54062 http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/54062

wikiburner 13y ago
Yep, I was just about to post this one: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10704769/Malaysian-Airlines-MH370-live.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/1070...
Shivetya 13y ago
I was under the impression this is rule out because the timing is eight hours after it vanished
- hkphooey 13y ago
  The last INMARSAT ping was at 8:11am, the plane lost contact around 1:19am, so it's possible. http://theaviationist.com/2014/03/16/satcom-acars-explained/ http://theaviationist.com/2014/03/16/satcom-acars-explained/ Note the comments in the above link, the authorities have only released the INMARSAT ARC corresponding to a single ping. They have not released the ARCs for all the pings which would indicate if the plane was flying West or not. It may be that authorities are already investigating the Maldives and possible follow-on destinations, but do not want to publicly alert the pilot/hijackers that they are on their trail, so in public the focus has been on the northern corridor and Kazakhstan.
superuser2 13y ago
Why didn't they come forward before? Seems a little odd that they waited until after other evidence pointed to an island landing to claim they saw the plane.
- mikeash 13y ago
  Why would they think it was related? They're about 2,000 miles away from where the plane was originally thought to have crashed, and saw it hours after it supposedly crashed. Imagine a plane goes missing in Hawaii and hours later you see an unusual plane over San Francisco. The news is talking about how the plane disappeared over Hawaii and crashed into the ocean around there and lots of planes and ships are combing the waters around Hawaii... are you really going to connect your unusual sighting with those events happening half an ocean away?
xefer 13y ago
All the stories seem to be quoting the same source, which seems a bit shaky. "Satellite data suggests that the last “ping” was recieved from the flight somwhere close to the Maldives and the US naval base on Diego Garcia." Where is this coming from? Nowhere have I seen anything to suggest there was a "ping" anywhere specific. We've only heard about ping data along non-specific arcs well away from the Maldives.

wikiburner 13y ago

Yep, I was just about to post this one: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10704769/Malaysian-Airlines-MH370-live.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/1070...

Shivetya 13y ago

I was under the impression this is rule out because the timing is eight hours after it vanished

hkphooey 13y ago
The last INMARSAT ping was at 8:11am, the plane lost contact around 1:19am, so it's possible. http://theaviationist.com/2014/03/16/satcom-acars-explained/ http://theaviationist.com/2014/03/16/satcom-acars-explained/ Note the comments in the above link, the authorities have only released the INMARSAT ARC corresponding to a single ping. They have not released the ARCs for all the pings which would indicate if the plane was flying West or not. It may be that authorities are already investigating the Maldives and possible follow-on destinations, but do not want to publicly alert the pilot/hijackers that they are on their trail, so in public the focus has been on the northern corridor and Kazakhstan.

superuser2 13y ago

Why didn't they come forward before? Seems a little odd that they waited until after other evidence pointed to an island landing to claim they saw the plane.

mikeash 13y ago
Why would they think it was related? They're about 2,000 miles away from where the plane was originally thought to have crashed, and saw it hours after it supposedly crashed. Imagine a plane goes missing in Hawaii and hours later you see an unusual plane over San Francisco. The news is talking about how the plane disappeared over Hawaii and crashed into the ocean around there and lots of planes and ships are combing the waters around Hawaii... are you really going to connect your unusual sighting with those events happening half an ocean away?

xefer 13y ago

All the stories seem to be quoting the same source, which seems a bit shaky. "Satellite data suggests that the last “ping” was recieved from the flight somwhere close to the Maldives and the US naval base on Diego Garcia." Where is this coming from? Nowhere have I seen anything to suggest there was a "ping" anywhere specific. We've only heard about ping data along non-specific arcs well away from the Maldives.