The World Today- The Malaysian flight

Bradsher, Keith, and Chris Buckley. "Malaysia Officials, Saying Missing Jet Was Diverted, Open Criminal Inquiry." The New York Times. The New York Times, 15 Mar 2014. Web. 15 Mar 2014.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight.html?_r=0

This article is about the Malaysian flight and how new evidence points to it being purposely put off course. The communications aboard the flight were turned off right when the plane was in between 2 different communication networks, like a no mans land, thus making it more difficult to track. This, and the fact that the Boeing 777 is hard to fly, seems to lend itself to the argument that one of the pilots was either in on the conspiracy or was being forced to cooperate. New data from satellites has shown that the flight flew for anywhere up to 8 hours after the last commercial communications, when the plane would most likely be running out of fuel. However, with the evidence pointing to a pilot being involved, there is a possibility that the plane could have landed somewhere, even though this would seem highly unlikely.


http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/16/290627472/flight-370-investigators-seek-motive-for-jet-s-disappearance

This article is about the Malaysian flight and the most recent rumors surrounding its disappearance. The article says that it has been confirmed that the plane flew for at least another 6.5 hours after its last radio check in. This completely changes the search efforts for the countries involved not only because it makes the search area much bigger, but also because the ocean in the new region is much, much deeper, and therefore harder to find stuff at the bottom. This changes the scenario greatly because it is becoming less and less likely that they will find the plane within 30 days, and after 30 days the locator devices in the plane completely turn off, making it much more difficult to find.


http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/22/292778260/chinese-satellite-images-show-new-floating-objects

This article is about the disappearance of the Malaysian Flight. In recent days satellites have found debris in the search areas that could be parts of the plane. There are 2 pieces of debris, one of which is around 80ft long, so you would think that the search planes would be able to find it. However, search groups have not been able to find any of the debris in 3 days. Even though there is debris, there is a good likelihood that it is not debris from the plane because there is often a lot of debris in those regions. It seems like all things that could go wrong in this search could go wrong.