Malaysian Airlines- Mystery of missing plane? Another air tragedy pg5 - Page 2

(Reuters) - U .S. investigators probing the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet believe it may have flown for four hours after losing contact with air traffic controllers, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

If confirmed, the report would represent another dramatic twist in what is already one of the most baffling mysteries in modern aviation history - the fate of Flight MH370, which took off from Kuala Lumpur early on Saturday and dropped off civilian radar screens less than an hour into its flight to Beijing.

On the sixth day of the search, planes were sweeping an area of sea where Chinese satellite images had shown what could be debris, but had so far found no sign of the airliner.

The Wall Street Journal said U.S. aviation investigators and national security officials believed the plane flew for a total of five hours, based on data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the Boeing 777's engines as part of a standard monitoring program. (r.reuters.com/ruw57v)

It raises the possibility that the plane, and the 239 people on board, could have flown on for an additional distance of about 2,200 miles, potentially reaching Pakistan, destinations in the Indian Ocean or Mongolia, the paper said.

A senior Malaysia Airlines official told Reuters that no such data existed, while a second official said he was unaware of it. A spokeswoman for engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce had no immediate comment.

Malaysia Airlines has said previously that the Rolls-Royce Trent engines stopped transmitting monitoring signals when contact with the plane was lost.

Have we ruled out the possibility of a wormhole ripping open in the space time continuum and transporting the plane into another dimension, another place, another time.

Is there any possibility to jam the radar or cloak the plane to be stealth? Even if not readily available or manufactures, is such a thing hypothetically possible? Are there any whether phenomenon that can jam signals or make objects invisible to radar? Any sort of magnetic storm or such? Is there any way for crew or passengers to access and tamper with a black box?

One another note, I think it is a ridiculous thing to stop trusting Malaysian airlines. This is a reputed airline with good customer ratings and good safety record. Freak accidents happen. When such accidents defy known information, even the best of the best will be confused and bewildered. This is a rarest of rare occurrences and I feel people are just expecting too much from the airlines and authorities. Most importantly there is absolutely no indication to prove that this happened because of the airlines incompetence or error.

Originally posted by: Vinzy

Did anyone look towards bin laden's sea burial site?😕

Originally posted by: King-Anu

What is this suppose to mean? Is this is a joke?-- Pata nai!!😊...People seem to have forgotten that on September 11 a bunch of hapless amateurs hijacked three planes and flew them into protected airspace around New York and Washington... supposedly the most secure airspace in the world, protected by the world's most powerful military...😊

It interesting to note that it went west and not east. Was it being taken to a certain place? And in that it got crashed? Was it going to western region of China?

If it were to do that it had to go through Indian sub-continent and none of the countries detected anything?

So it must have crashed before reaching land