KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — More than four days after a Malaysian jetliner went missing on route to Beijing, authorities acknowledged Wednesday they didn't know in which direction the plane and its 239 passengers was heading when it disappeared, vastly complicating efforts to find it.
Amid intensifying confusion and occasionally contradictory statements, the country's civil aviation authorities and the military both said the plane may have turned back from its original route toward Vietnam, possibly as far as the Strait of Malacca on the eastern side of the country.
How it might have done this without being clearly detected remained a mystery, raising questions over whether its electrical systems were either knocked out or turned off.
Authorities have not ruled out any possible cause, including mechanical failure, pilot error, sabotage or terrorism in the disappearance of the plane. The 777 is a modern aircraft with an excellent safety record, as does Malaysia Airlines.Authorities began their search for the missing aircraft at the position it was last reported to be at over the sea between Malaysia and Vietnam. But they have also said search operations were ongoing in the Malacca strait. Scores of planes and aircraft have been scouring both locations.
Amid intensifying confusion and occasionally contradictory statements, the country's civil aviation authorities and the military both said the plane may have turned back from its original route toward Vietnam, possibly as far as the Strait of Malacca on the eastern side of the country.
How it might have done this without being clearly detected remained a mystery, raising questions over whether its electrical systems were either knocked out or turned off.
Authorities have not ruled out any possible cause, including mechanical failure, pilot error, sabotage or terrorism in the disappearance of the plane. The 777 is a modern aircraft with an excellent safety record, as does Malaysia Airlines.Authorities began their search for the missing aircraft at the position it was last reported to be at over the sea between Malaysia and Vietnam. But they have also said search operations were ongoing in the Malacca strait. Scores of planes and aircraft have been scouring both locations.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian officials backed away today from assertions that the missing Malaysian Airlines flight made it to the Strait of Malacca after turning away from its intended course.
The country's air force chief said in a statement today the missing Boeing 777 may have attempted to turn back before it vanished from radar, but there is no evidence it reached the Strait of Malacca off the western coast of Malaysia.
Gen. Rodzali Daud denied remarks reported by a Malaysian newspaper that he had asserted otherwise, based on military radar tracking.
Meantime, the country's civilian aviation chief, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, said he could neither confirm nor deny the military's earlier reported remarks, that military radar had tracked the plane as it turned direction and flew in a western direction after ending active transponder transmissions.
The developments contributed to what appeared to be a state of confusion at the highest levels of that country over where the plane might be and deepened the mystery of what happened to flight MH370. There were 239 people aboard, including a crew of 12, on a flight to Beijing.
"There is a possibility of an air turn back. We are still investigating and looking at the radar readings," Rahman said today.
"There is a possibility of an air turn back. We are still investigating and looking at the radar readings," Rahman said today.
It is possible that the radar readings are not definitive, especially if the plane was malfunctioning.
Angeline Ng ties a prayer she wrote for people aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines jet onto a display wall on March 11 at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Her prayer reads, "Hoping for a miracle."
(Photo: Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY)
Dear readers and fellow students of Padmakumara, The Living Buddha Lian Sheng,
Edited from Notes of Lotuschef
Dear readers and fellow students of Padmakumara, The Living Buddha Lian Sheng,
Have you forgotten that To Search for Missing Persons, you invoke Padmakumara first?
Then Earth Deities & Spirits?
In this case:
1. Invoke Padmakumara & state your request, to locate & if possible find all onboard ALIVE!
2. Invoke Golden Mother of the Yao Pond - similarly state your request as above
3. Invoke Earth Deities & Spirits - request that they help to locate the missing plane & all onboard
4. Invoke Dragon Kings - request that they help to locate the missing plane & all onboard
Please go perform these requests.
Please chant relevant mantra for each invocation. :)
Please chant relevant mantra for each invocation. :)
Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef
Edited from Notes of Lotuschef
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