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Malaysia widens search for missing plane, saying it might have flown for several hours
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian authorities expanded their search for the missing jetliner westward toward India on Thursday, saying it may have flown for several hours after its last contact
with the ground.
That scenario would make finding the Boeing 777 a vastly more difficult task, and raises the possibility that searchers are currently looking in the wrong place for the plane and its 229 passengers and crew.
In the latest in a series of false leads, planes were sent Thursday to search an area off the southern tip of Vietnam where Chinese satellite images published on a Chinese government website
reportedly showed three suspected floating objects.
They saw only ocean.
``There is nothing. We went there, there is nothing,'' said acting Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.
Compounding the frustration, he later said the Chinese Embassy had notified the government that the images were released by mistake and did not show any debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight H370.
The plane was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing early Saturday when it lost contact with ground controllers and civilian radar.
An international search effort is sweeping the South China Sea, where the airliner was last known to be. A roughly similar sized hunt is being conducted in the northern stretches of the Strait of
Malacca because of military radar sightings that might indicate the plane headed west after its last contact and passed over Peninsular Malaysia.
The Wall Street Journal newspaper quoted U.S. investigators on Thursday as saying they suspected the plane remained in the air for about four hours after its last confirmed contact, citing data from the plane's engines that are automatically transmitted to the ground as part of a routine maintenance program.
Hishammuddin said the government had contacted Boeing and Rolls Royce, the engine manufacturer, and both said the last engine data was received at 1:07 a.m., around 23 minutes before the plane lost contact.
But asked if it were possible that the plane kept flying for several hours, Hishammuddin said: ``Of course, we can't rule anything out. This is why we have extended the search. We are expanding our search into the Andaman Sea.''
He said Malaysia was asking for radar data from India and other neighbouring countries.
India plans to deploy airplanes and ships in the southern section of the sea, a senior Indian official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
More than two-thirds of those on board the plane were from China, which has shown impatience with the absence of any results. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told reporters in Beijing on Thursday that it he would like to see better co-ordination among countries involved in the search.
The passengers' ``families and friends are burning with anxiety, the Chinese government and Chinese people are all deeply concerned about their safety,'' he said at the close of the annual session of the country's legislature. ``As long as there is a glimmer of hope we will not stop searching for the plane.''

Guy

The possible way, to make the plane disappear and hard to search for it, is to gently land the aircraft on water and let it sink. so that the debris field will be minimal.

To prevent people from escaping from a gentle landing plane on water, all you need to do it land upside down on water.
How?
-When the plane is upside down, it will be a lot more difficult  to reach your life jacket once you fell out from the seat and landed on the cabin ceiling. (life jacket will be 6 feet above)
- The door will be pushed close with the water pressure.
Even if the door does open and life raft is deployed, the sea water will be flowing in and push you away from the door.
As the the plane sunk further, the deflated door life raft will bend toward the belly due to buoyancy. It is hard to pull the detaching cord at the wrong angle.

Even so. it is very hard to land or even fly a plane upside down due to various of reason, such as oil pressure, fuel pump failure etc, the plane can only fly invert for a short period of time. it requires a lot of skills and muscle power to battle with the york.

on second thought, may be that is what the flight simulator is for, to practice invert flying.

lo_pak

Where is the plane??

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Vietnamese Air Force Col. Pham Minh Tuan uses binoculars on board a flying aircraft during a mission to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Gulf of Thailand over the location where Chinese satellite images showed possible debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner, Thursday, March 13, 2014. (AP Photo)

In this March 9, 2014 satellite image seen on the website of the Chinese State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, floating objects are seen at sea next to the red arrow which was added by the source. China's Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday that the images show suspected debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner floating off the southern tip of Vietnam.

An operation map is displayed on the wall as Indonesian Air Force personnel listen to a briefing following to a search mission for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was conducted over the Strait of Malacca, at Suwondo air base in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Malaysia asked India to join the expanding search for the missing jetliner near the Andaman Sea, far to the northwest of its last reported position and a further sign Wednesday that authorities have no idea where the plane might be more than four days after it vanished. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)