It said that there was 2 stolen passport's. Hijacker's could of turned off the planes signal for all we know

Radar signals still bounce off of a plane even if the radio/radar equipment has stopped working.

... and you can't just "turn off plane signals". 

UPDATE:

Vietnam Navy spots floating object. However, it's too dark to identify Floating object

Oh my

UPDATE:

HO CHI MINH CITY: Possible debris from vanished Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was found in the sea off Vietnam Sunday, a senior official said.

"We received information from a Vietnamese plane saying that they found two broken objects, which seem like those of an aircraft, located about 50 miles to the south-west of Tho Chu Island," said the official from the National Committee for Search and Rescue, who did not want to be named.

Flight MH370, carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew, went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing about an hour after taking off from KLIA Saturday.

It should have landed in Beijing at 6.30am on Saturday.

- AFP/xq

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) -- The mysteries surrounding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and the true identities of some of its passengers, are as deep as the southeast Asian waters where multinational search teams are searching for the jet.

Navies from two of Malaysia's neighbors were pursuing new leads as Sunday turned into Monday in southeast Asia.

Vietnam's navy has spotted a floating object about 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of Vietnam's Tho Chu Island, which is located off the country's southwest coast in the Gulf of Thailand, Vietnam National Search and Rescue Committee Spokesman Hung Nguyen told CNN. The object was spotted by a Vietnamese navy rescue aircraft at about 7:30 a.m. ET Sunday (6:30 p.m. local time). Due to the dark, the navy aircraft could not get close enough to identify the floating object, and was recalled to base. Three search and rescue boats have since been deployed to that location.

Meanwhile, Thailand's navy is shifting its focus in the search away from the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea, Thai Navy Rear Adm. Karn Dee-ubon told CNN on Sunday. The shift came at the request of the Malaysians, who are looking into possibilities the plane turned around and could have gone down in the Andaman Sea, near Thailand's border, Karn said.

The Andaman Sea lies to the west of a narrow strip of Thailand that ends in the Malaysian peninsula, while the Gulf of Thailand lies to the east of that Thai isthmus.

One promising lead has turned out to be a dead end. A "strange object" spotted by a Singaporean search plane late Sunday afternoon is not debris from the missing jetliner, a U.S. official familiar with the issue told CNN on Sunday.

A U.S. reconnaissance plane "thought it saw something like debris but it was a false alarm," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

By the end of the day Sunday, more than 40 planes and more than two dozen ships from several countries were involved in the search. Two reconnaissance aircraft from Australia, and one plane and five sea vessels from Indonesia were the latest additions, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, the director general of civil aviation in Malaysia, told reporters Sunday. In addition, the Chinese navy dispatched a frigate and an amphibious landing ship, according to a online post by China's navy. Those ships are expected to arrive on site Monday morning (Sunday night ET).

Photos: Malaysia airliner loses contact Photos: Malaysia airliner loses contact

Those reinforcements join the rescue teams already scouring the South China Sea, near the Gulf of Thailand, on Sunday for any sign of where the flight, operated by Malaysia's flagship airline, might have gone down, Malaysian authorities said.

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The area in focus, about 90 miles south of Vietnam's Tho Chu Island, is where a Vietnamese search plane reportedly spotted oil slicks that stretched between 6 and 9 miles.

Malaysian authorities have not yet confirmed the report of the oil slicks, which came from Vietnam's official news agency.

Big questions far outweigh the few fragments of information that have emerged about the plane's disappearance.

What happened to the plane? Why was no distress signal issued? Who exactly was aboard?

The flight may have changed course and turned back toward Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian military officials said at a news conference Sunday.

But the pilot appears to have given no signal to authorities that he was turning around, the officials said, attributing the change of course to indications from radar data.

As the search continues, the agonizing wait goes on for relatives of the 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board the plane.

Among the passengers, there were 154 people from China or Taiwan; 38 Malaysians, and three U.S. citizens. Five of the passengers were younger than 5 years old.

Stolen passports

Interpol said Sunday that at least two passports -- one Austrian and one Italian -- recorded in its Stolen and Lost Travel Documents database were used by passengers on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The passports were added to the database after being stolen in separate incidents over the past two years, Interpol said.

Italy and Austria have said that none of their citizens were on board the plane.

The Italian man whose passport was allegedly used, Luigi Maraldi, contacted the Italian consulate in Phuket, Thailand, on Saturday, after receiving a call from his parents, Italian Consul Franco Cavaliere told CNN on Sunday.

Maraldi is staying on Phuket Island as a tourist, and his passport disappeared in July 2013, Cavaliere said.

"Whilst it is too soon to speculate about any connection between these stolen passports and the missing plane, it is clearly of great concern that any passenger was able to board an international flight using a stolen passport listed in INTERPOL's databases," said Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble in a statement.

The two passengers who used the passports in question appear to have bought their tickets together.

The tickets were bought from China Southern Airlines at identical prices, paid in Thailand's baht currency, according to China's official e-ticket verification system Travelsky. The ticket numbers are contiguous, which indicates the tickets were issued together.

The two tickets booked with China Southern Airlines both start in Kuala Lumpur, flying to Beijing, and then onward to Amsterdam. The Italian passport's ticket continues to Copenhagen, the Austrian's to Frankfurt.

Authorities say they are investigating the identities of some of those on board who appear to have issues with their passports.

"I've seen these reports about the passports. We're looking into that, but we don't have anything to confirm at this point," U.S. deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "The reports certainly raise questions and concerns, and that's exactly why we're looking into them. But right now, it would be premature to speculate," he said.

Plane was 'at safest point' in flight

Terrorism Concerns

A fuller picture of what happened may not become available until searchers find the plane and its flight data recorder.

"We have not been able to locate anything, see anything," Rahman told reporters Sunday.

The passport mystery raised concerns about the possibility of terrorism, but officials cautioned that it was still too early to arrive at any conclusions.

Malaysian authorities have been in contact with counterterrorism organizations about possible passport issues, acting Transportation Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Sunday.

He didn't specify how many potential passport issues there were, saying authorities are looking at the whole passenger manifest.

Additionally, no inquiry was made by Malaysia Airlines to determine if any passengers on the flight were traveling on stolen passports, he said. Many airlines do not check the database, he said.

Five passengers ended up not boarding the aircraft. Their bags were removed and were not on board the jet when it disappeared, Hussein said.

A U.S. intelligence official said that no link to terrorism had been discovered so far, but that authorities were still investigating.

Another possible explanation for the use of the stolen passports is illegal immigration.

There are previous cases of illegal immigrants using fake passports trying to get into Western countries. And Southeast Asia is known to be a booming market for stolen passports.

Disappearing during cruise

There is a precedent for a modern jetliner to fall from the sky while "in the cruise" and lie hidden for months, according to CNN aviation correspondent Richard Quest.

On June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 was en route from Rio De Janeiro to Paris when communications ended suddenly from the Airbus A330, another state-of-the-art aircraft.

It took four searches over the course of nearly two years to locate the bulk of flight 447's wreckage and the majority of the 228 bodies in a mountain range deep under the ocean. It took even longer to find the cause of the disaster.

In May 2011, the aircraft's voice recorder and flight data recorder were recovered from the ocean floor after an extensive search using miniature submersible vehicles.

It was not until July 2012 that investigators published their report, which blamed the crash on a series of errors by the pilots and a failure to react effectively to technical problems.

The National Transportation Safety Board announced late Saturday that a team of its investigators was en route to Asia to help with the investigation, the agency said.

If all those on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are found to have died, it will rank as the deadliest airline disaster since November 12, 2001, when American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into a New York neighborhood, killing all 260 people on board and five more on the ground.

CNN's Jim Clancy reported from Kuala Lumpur and Mark Morgenstein wrote from Atlanta. CNN's Kocha Olarn, Jethro Mullen, Barbara Starr, Steven Jiang, Ben Brumfield, Khushbu Shah and Kevin Wang, and CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes contributed to this report.

Edited March 9, 201412 yr by ASTTrprDillon95

How the heck does someone lose track of a huge airplane? this sucks lets hope they are found

How the heck does someone lose track of a huge airplane? this sucks lets hope they are found

 

2 ways you can lose track of a plane. First off you can't turn off a GPS or tracking device on a plane, after 9/11 they made it so all commercial airliners are like that.

 

1.) (99.99% likely) It left the area of radar Which would be going out into space maybe going to mars?

 

2.) (less likely ones) They crashed into the ocean really fast (Probably a nose dive) that completely destroyed the plane and any evidence of it. 

 

Edited March 9, 201412 yr by Darkangel

2 ways you can lose track of a plane. First off you can't turn off a GPS or tracking device on a plane, after 9/11 they made it so all commercial airliners are like that.

 

1.) (99.99% likely) It left the area of radar Which would be going out into space maybe going to mars?

 

2.) (less likely ones) They crashed into the ocean really fast (Probably a nose dive) that completely destroyed the plane and any evidence of it.

I think a rapid crash into the sea is more likely than an airplane going into low earth orbit.

I think a rapid crash into the sea is more likely than an airplane going into low earth orbit.

 

True. Also, planes would eventually run out of air to suck into their engines at such at an altitude as high as when leaving the earth's atmosphere, causing the plane to either get pulled up into space (unlikely), or cause a nose plunge at something around 2-3 times the speed of sound into the sea, causing it to spontaneously disintegrate upon impact of the water. But, we should put the plane leaving the atmosphere out of the picture here, because it is a 0.5% chance that actually happened. I will laugh if that is actually the cause. I think I'm actually going to look into this - I've always been a fan of trying to piece together the events myself, or even keep up with the investigations.

i feel like it's the tv show lost

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTu8iDynwNc

 

 

Edited March 10, 201412 yr by miked9372

UPDATE:

KUALA LUMPUR: An international search and rescue effort still had not found any confirmed debris from a Malaysia Airlines jet more than two days after it mysteriously went missing, an official said on Monday.

"Unfortunately, ladies and gentleman, we have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft itself, said Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, head of Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation.

He also said Vietnamese officials had not yet confirmed to Malaysia reports that debris believed to be from the plane had been found.

- AFP/nd

This whole airplane is just headed off to government test facilities... airplanes just don't go "missing"

This whole airplane is just headed off to government test facilities... airplanes just don't go "missing"

Please just stop with these stupid conspiracy theories. You really think Obama wants to kill a bunch of people or steal their plane instead of fucking around with Putin and fighting for freedom in Ukraine? It's only logical he wouldn't do this. I don't even think the U.S. is majorly involved in this, which is a first. Let's keep it that way and just stop with these stupid theories. There is no proof it happened or not, and making false and irrational assumptions won't get you anywhere.

This whole airplane is just headed off to government test facilities... airplanes just don't go "missing"

Im sure you have EVIDENCE to support these stupid claims correct 

Im sure you have EVIDENCE to support these stupid claims correct

Although it is often I don't agree with you, this is one of the rare occasions where that does not occur. It's really stupid to put out conspiracy theories like that without proper evidence. Even with 9/11, there really wasn't any evidence to prove it as a conspiracy. Please have faith in our government. All you people who have given up on Obama are also one of the primary reasons this country's government is doing too well. Yeah, I am a patriot (kind of) but some stuff I do think is kind of stupid and really irrational.

I think a rapid crash into the sea is more likely than an airplane going into low earth orbit.

 

Really? I think them going into outer space and heading to mars would be a lot more likely... 

I'm a little bit late into this discussion, but as every hour passes we get closer to this was an act of terror. Planes don't just go down that fast, simply vanishing without pilots radioing it. My opinion is this was a bomb that took out a large amount of electronics, either in the cargo bay (Even in America, cargo bay luggage is rarely, if at all checked. Not to think sadistically, but use your imagination), or cockpit (smaller improvised bomb). 

 

Why Malaysia some may ask? One theory, low security. Whoever did it could never get away with something like this in America. Cockpit attack bomb I mean. 

 

Of course all of this is still impossible to tell until we discover the wreckage itself and of course, the pinging black box. But my opinion is it is safe to assume the plane received major catastrophic damage mid flight at 35000 feet, caused most likely by an explosion, causing a rapid deceleration and crash, everybody is dead, and terrorism is at fault. FBI wouldn't search in stuff like this without a reason. 

Please just stop with these stupid conspiracy theories. You really think Obama wants to kill a bunch of people or steal their plane instead of fucking around with Putin and fighting for freedom in Ukraine? It's only logical he wouldn't do this. I don't even think the U.S. is majorly involved in this, which is a first. Let's keep it that way and just stop with these stupid theories. There is no proof it happened or not, and making false and irrational assumptions won't get you anywhere.

 

Remind me where is said Obama or mentioned the US at all during my post.

 

Im sure you have EVIDENCE to support these stupid claims correct 

 

If I had any clue where this plane was or the passengers on the flight you'd think I would let everyone know, so of course I don't have evidence. Seems as if you are making the stupid claims, sorry you don't agree with my opinion and you have the right to not. but if I believe in something don't call it stupid or you are just a bully.

 

The issue with if it was a bomb was there would be remains. If I plane were to explode in the air, it more than likely would not vanish. Luggage would fall out, pieces would float in the ocean's currents.

This plane literally disappeared without a trace. 

 

 

If I had any clue where this plane was or the passengers on the flight you'd think I would let everyone know, so of course I don't have evidence. Seems as if you are making the stupid claims, sorry you don't agree with my opinion and you have the right to not. but if I believe in something don't call it stupid or you are just a bully.

 

i can call anyone's thoughts stupid thats the power of freedom of speech. Im not trying to be a bully and if you think i am you should't be on the internet

Edited March 10, 201412 yr by gamerdanger99