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Maldives sighting: A piece of the MH370 puzzle?By J.E. Dyer on March 19, 2014 at 1:03 amRead more at http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/03/19/maldives-sighting-

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Kuda Huvadhoo, Dhaalu Atoll, Maldives. If you have to see a low-flying jumbo jet, it might as well be here.

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Interestingly, the sighting of an unidentified jumbo jet in the Maldives on

8 March, just after 6:00 AM, doesn’t conflict with any other known

information about the missing Malaysian Air 777.

So that’s a point worth considering. Before going further, I should

mention that I don’t think the aircraft stopped in the Maldives and

remained there. There would be no way to hide it, on any island where it

could have landed or tried to land. But the Maldives would be one heck

of a place to refuel.

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So here’s the story. (Be sure to read Bryan Preston’s post on this as well.

He vacationed there some years back.)

According to local media, villagers from Kuda Huvadhoo, a town of about

3,800 in Dhaalu Atoll in the central Maldives archipelago, saw a very

large, “low-flying jumbo jet” go overhead around 6:15 AM on 8 March,

heading from northwest to southeast (see here and here). Residents said

they were prompted to go outside and look by the extraordinary noise the

aircraft was making. Observers said the plane was low enough that they

could make out the doors, and some described a paint scheme that

sounds like a Malaysian Air aircraft.

Maldivians suggested that the plane appeared to be headed for the

airport in Addu Atoll on Gan Island. That airport is not the

main international airport in the capital of Male, which is in the northern

half of the Maldives chain. Gan’s is a smaller airport, but is also an

international airport. Its runway length is just under 8,700 feet, shorter

than optimum for landing a 777. It is noteworthy that a Dubai-based

company, Gulf Cobla, is currently working on expanding the runway and

revetment facilities at the Gan International Airport.

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It’s also of interest that recent political events in the Maldives have

consolidated management of the main airports (in Male and Gan) under a

quasi-public Maldivian company created in a partial privatization

initiative in 2010. That part isn’t remarkable in itself, but the

management of the airport in Male, Ibrahim Nasir International, had

been contracted under the previous government, in 2010, to an Indian

company, with a contract duration of 25 years. In late 2012, however, the

contract with the Indian company was summarily abrogated, and the

Indians were given one week to vacate the premises. The quasi-public

Maldivian company, MACL, took over management of the Ibrahim Nasir

International. Earlier in 2012, MACL had formed a partnership to run the

Gan airport, Addu International Airport Ltd (AIA).

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What intervened between 2010 and mid-2012 was the “coup” in Maldives

in February 2012, by which the nation’s first democratically elected

president, Mohammed Nasheed, was removed. Hard-line Islamists were

behind Nasheed’s ouster, as they were behind his arrest in March

2013 for supposedly having improperly detained a judge prior to the

coup. Nasheed was still around to participate in a series of ill-fated

elections in the latter half of 2013, but the outcome ultimately accepted

by election officialswas a victory for Yaamin Abdul Gayoom, the brother

of long-time Maldivian strongman and Islamist Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.

For a flavor of the Abdul Gayoom family political tendency, we can note

that in January 2014, Yaamin Abdul Gayoom vetoed a bill sent to him by

the Maldivian parliament which would have prohibited husbands from

raping their wives with the intent to infect them with STDs. In Mr. Abdul

Gayoom’s opinion, it is “un-Islamic” to allow a wife to deny her husband

sex for any reason.

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Rounding out this interesting picture is the information that the United

States, up through late 2013, was vigorously pursuing an agreement with

the Maldives to gain basing rights and station military forces there. In

2012, Indian observers were seeing something of a U.S. juggernaut: in

the perception of some, American influence was peaking, and in 2013,

a formal status-of-forces agreement seemed to be in the offing.

But in January 2014, the Abdul Gayoom regime rejected the proposal. I

doubt many readers will blame them. Uncle Sam’s not a very good bet

right now.

But Americans also need to understand what this is emblematic of: the

fact that we’re entering a period in which things are thinkable that didn’t

use to be. It’s not as far-fetched as it was five years ago that someone

might try to steal a jumbo jet, for what could only be nefarious purposes

– and do strange things in goofy places to accomplish the objective.

A couple of additional points. One, if there was a stop in the Maldives, I

assume it was for refueling. The other thing it would allow is for the

aircraft to obscure its geographic origin in an attempt to enter flight

patterns in South Asia or East Africa. This would be more important if

the plane was headed for Iran or Pakistan. (I don’t think it was headed

for Pakistan. If it had an objective on the western end of the Indian

Ocean, I think it would have been Iran or a couple of possibilities in East

Africa: perhaps Comoros or Mozambique.)

Getting to Iran from the Indian Ocean would typically require flying

through air space monitored continuously by U.S. military assets. This

does not mean that U.S. operators would recognize the plane’s precise

identity if it showed up on their command and control systems. If it acted

normal and was detected in commercial air corridors making like any

other airliner, U.S. operators wouldn’t pay it much attention. Nor would

they have a reason to challenge the aircraft, since they’re not the civil

authorities for the flight region. The plane could have headed for a

runway in the extreme southeastern portion of Iran, and spent very little

time on the radar screen of a U.S. military asset.

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I like the plane’s chances of escaping detection less, after a stop in the

Maldives, if the ultimate objective is assumed to be in Central Asia. On

the other hand, the chances seem to be even better if we imagine the

plane going to East Africa. In any of the postulated cases, the plane

would have needed to get back in the air within a couple of hours.

The other point is that this Maldives scenario is compatible with the

aircraft’s final “ping” exchanges with the satellite. The arcs along which

the plane is thought to have proceeded have been considered the most

likely because of calculated assumptions about the aircraft’s distance

from the satellite. However, a range ring from the satellite at a steeper

angle runs directly through the Maldives. It may or may not be less likely

that the plane was located along that range ring; what we can say is that

it is possible.

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None of this is to talk ourselves into this particular scenario. But there is

something American minds need to come to grips with. There really is a

loss of “limits” with the decline of U.S. power. To say that weird things

just don’t happen is to assume that the global infrastructure of modern

vigilance – complex but quiescent; disciplined and standardized –

remains in place. The problem is that there’s no longer a center of

gravity – American leadership – keeping it stable.

Vladimir Putin pushed at the old status-quo boundary and found there

was nothing there pushing back. We have no basis for assuming that

whoever diverted flight MH370 was fated to be less successful. The laws

of physics haven’t changed, nor have the laws of probability. But some of

the “constants” – the key assumptions – have.

P.S. This (from 15 minutes ago) is not definitive, but interesting.

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Maldives locals hear 'roaring plane' on day MH370 vanished

 19th Mar 2014 5:30 AM

the remote Maldives island of Kuda Huvadhoo. Source: Google Earth

RESIDENTS of the remote Maldives island of Kuda Huvadhoo have reported seeing a "low flying jumbo jet" on the morning of the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Several residents of the Dhaal Atoll island told  Haveeru  on Tuesday that they saw a "low flying jumbo jet" at around 6:15am on March 8.

They said that it was a white aircraft, with red stripes across it - which is what the Malaysia Airlines flights typically look like.Eyewitnesses from the Kuda Huvadhoo concurred that the aeroplane was travelling North to South-East, towards the Southern tip of the Maldives - Addu.

They also noted the incredibly loud noise that the flight made when it flew over the island.

"I've never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We've seen seaplanes, but I'm sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly," said an eyewitness. 

Malaysia Airlines' 'heartless' in moving out relatives

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ANGRY  relatives labelled Malaysia Airlines "heartless" after being told their rooms at a 5-star resort hotel in Cyberjaya where they had been staying since last week were pre-booked for the Malaysian Formula 1 Grand Prix from this weekend.

It also emerged last night that a flight simulator taken from the home of one of the missing pilots held software for five practice runways scattered around the Indian Ocean - where the search is now focused.About 15 relatives had taken up the offer by Malaysia Airlines to travel to Kuala Lumpur to wait for news on the missing flight, including three relatives of Auckland man Ximin Wang. Mr Wang's family have since returned to New Zealand.

The New Zealand Herald understands that relatives are now deciding whether to go to relocated hotels yet to be booked by the carrier.

"It is hard enough waking up every day, and now they want to move us," said one woman. "They are really so heartless."

Hotel rooms are hard to come by in Kuala Lumpur due to the influx of international media covering the missing plane and people there for the race.A support worker said it was tough for the families to be split up because they relied heavily on each other for support.

Auxiliary police and guards have been seconded to watch over the entrance of the hotel in a bid to block the media from accessing the relatives, but one woman spoke to the Herald briefly when she stepped outside the hotel.

She felt like a prisoner, she said, and was being monitored all the time and being instructed not to speak to the media.

As suspicions harden that the plane was hijacked, investigators have been examining virtual flight paths used on a simulator built by Zaharie Ahmad Shah, one of the two pilots on board the flight.

Malaysian news outlet Berita Harian reported that software found included the Male International Airport in the Maldives, three airports in India and Sri Lanka, and one belonging to the United States military base in Diego Garcia.

All have runways of 1000m.

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A Malaysia airlines plane is being pulled at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang.EPA - Ahmad Yusni

At the weekend investigators confirmed that the Boeing 777 was deliberately diverted during its overnight flight.

They established the jet continued flying for six hours, but there has been no sign of it, its 227 passengers or 12 crew since.

The turn was programmed into the aircraft's computer navigation system, probably by someone in the cockpit, the New York Times reported last night.

Rather than manually operating the plane's controls, whoever altered the path typed seven or eight keystrokes into a computer situated between the captain and the co-pilot, according to officials.

The computer is called the Flight Management System.

It directs the plane from point to point specified in the flight plan submitted before a flight.

It is not clear whether the plane's path was reprogrammed before or after it took off, the Times said.

Hijacking, sabotage, or pilot suicide have not been ruled out.

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Backgrounds of passengers and staff associated with the flight are being checked but the investigation is still heavily focused on pilots Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 57, and Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27.

Missing Malaysia Airlines pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah is pictured on a visit to Auckland in 2012.

Neighbours of Captain Shah yesterday remained staunchly supportive and described him as jovial and generous.

One neighbour said he loved to cook.

"We all know he's really good at making rendang and other Malay dishes and would share it around," she said.

"None of us believe any of the reports that he's responsible for the plane's disappearance."

The pilot's 27-year-old daughter has just flown back from Australia, where she now lives, to be with the family.

Security guards said the family had moved out of the house.

At least 26 countries are now assisting in the ground, sea and aerial search for the plane.

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An RNZAF P-3 Orion has also joined the search and was yesterday concentrating on an area in the Indian Ocean, about 3000km southwest of Perth.

Picture taken from aboard a flying Soviet-made AN-26 used as a search aircraft by Vietnamese Air Force to look for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

10 days later, Thailland's military admits it may have seen plane

FEARS are growing that the hunt for missing Flight MH370 is being hampered by failures by many of the countries involved to work together on the search.

10 days after the aircraft disappeared, Thailand's military said yesterday that its radar detected a plane that may have been the Malaysia Airlines jet, minutes after its communications went down, but did not share the data earlier because officials "did not pay any attention to it" and were not specifically asked for it.

Air Vice Marshal Montol Suchookorn admitted Thai authorities could not be sure the aircraft picked up by the radar was the missing plane carrying 239 passengers and crew, but the new information raised further questions about the effectiveness of search efforts, which are being coordinated by Malaysian authorities.

Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12.40am Malaysian time on 8 March, destination Beijing.

The plane's transponder, which allows air traffic controllers to identify and track it, stopped communicating at 1.20am.

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At 1.28am, Thai military radar "was able to detect a signal, which was not a normal signal, of a plane flying in the direction opposite from the MH370 plane," back toward Kuala Lumpur, Montol said.

The plane later turned right, towards the Malacca strait.

When asked why it took so long to release the information, Montol said "…we did not pay any attention to it. The Royal Thai Air Force only looks after any threats against our country," adding that Malaysia's initial request for information in the early days of the search was not specific.

Relatives desperate for information on the fate of loved ones on board the missing jet have reportedly threatened to go on hunger strike if the authorities in Kuala Lumpur are not more forthcoming.

"What we want is the truth," one woman said, after a meeting with Malaysian authorities, according to the BBC. "Don't let the passengers become the victims of a political fight."

The families of passengers missing on Flight 370 for more than 11 days are being pushed out of their Kuala Lumpur hotel, as they wait for news of their loved ones.

More on this story at The Independent

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Maldives island residents report sighting of 'low flying jet'Farah Ahmed and Ahmed Naif, Haveeru Online

Mar 18, 2014 - 02:5513 comments

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A map showing the route that the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is believed to have

travelled. PHOTO/ BBCResidents of the remote Maldives island of Kuda Huvadhoo in Dhaal Atoll have reported seeing a "low flying jumbo jet" on the morning of the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Whilst the disappearance of the Boeing 777 jet, carrying 239 passengers has left the whole world in bewilderment, several residents of Kuda Huvadhoo told Haveeru on Tuesday that they saw a "low flying jumbo jet" at around 6:15am on March 8.

They said that it was a white aircraft, with red stripes across it – which is what the Malaysia Airlines flights typically look like.

Eyewitnesses from the Kuda Huvadhoo concurred that the aeroplane was travelling North to South-East, towards the Southern tip of the Maldives – Addu. They also noted the incredibly loud noise that the flight made when it flew over the island. 

"I've never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We've seen seaplanes, but I'm sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly," said an eyewitness.

"It's not just me either, several other residents have reported seeing the exact same thing. Some people got out of their houses to see what was causing the tremendous noise too."

Mohamed Zaheem, the Island Councilor of Kuda Huvadhoo, said that the residents of the island had spoken about the incident.

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A local aviation expert told Haveeru that it is "likely" for MH370 to have flown over the Maldives. The possibility of any aircraft flying over the island at the reported time is extremely low, the expert added. 

The Malaysia airlines jet disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing. Investigators say it was deliberately diverted off course.

Twenty-six countries are now helping to hunt for the plane after satellite and military radar data projected two huge corridors through which it might have flown.

Satellite data suggests that the last "ping" was recieved from the flight somwhere close to the Maldives and the US naval base on Diego Garcia.

But the Maldives is not amongst the countries that Malaysian authorities had sought help from in its search for the missing jet. Malaysia has listed the countries that it had appealed for assistance: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and France.

http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/54062

Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:21

NOTHING on our radars - Maldives military says no signs of MH370 despite claims from villagers of low-flying jumbo jet

KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 — The Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) said it did not

observe Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on radar, following reports that some residents saw a low-

flying “jumbo jet” the same day the plane went missing.

In a statement posted on the website of the country’s foreign affairs ministry, it said that its

military radars did not register any unauthorised intrusion into its airspace.

“Furthermore, no trace of the MH 70 Airline (sic) has been found from the data scrutinized thus

far from radars stationed at the airports in the Maldives,” it said in the statement.

Yesterday, the island’s police said they were investigating a report on the Haveeru news website

that local residents had spotted a large plane flying over the remote southern island of Kuda

Huvadhoo on March 8.

“The police are looking into the reports in the media saying that a low-flying airplane was sighted

above Kuda Huvadhoo,” the statement said.

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Twenty six countries are searching for the MAS plane with 239 people onboard along two arcs,

one stretching Thailand to the borders Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan border, and another from

Indonesia to the south Indian Ocean.

Maldives is not located at either corridor. -Malaymail

 

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Maldives: No trace of missing MH370 hereFMT Staff | March 19, 2014

The country's authorities say none of its military radar picked up the ill-

fated flight.

UPDATED

PETALING JAYA: Maldives National Defence Force today denied spotting Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 which went missing on a journey from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing on March 8.

The statement released in Dhivehi, Maldives said: “The Maldivian National Defense Force (MNDF), in monitoring the areas of the Maldivian territory, is conducting its surveillance efforts with a heightened level of vigilance, in connection to the disappearance of the Malaysian Airline MH370.

“Further to the surveillance conducted thus far, none of the military radars in the country has detected a trace of the missing plane.  Furthermore, no trace of the MH370 Airline has been found from the data scrutinized thus far from radars stationed at the airports in the Maldives.

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“Further, the MNDF is extending all necessary assistance to the efforts by the Maldivian police in its investigation of the [claim in the media reports] and searches that are conducted by international agencies, in connection to this incident,” the statement said.Earlier, several residents at Maldives had claimed to have spotted a ‘low flying jumbo jet’ at their island on March 8, fuelling speculation that it could be the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.The United Kingdom based media, The Telegraph, was reported as saying that several witnesses in Dhaalu Atoll saw a plane heading south, which bore the red stripe and white background of Malaysia Airlines planes.

“I’ve never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We’ve seen seaplanes, but I’m sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly,” a witness was reported saying.The sighting was believed to have occurred more than seven hours after the plane lost contact with air traffic control in Kuala Lumpur and took a sudden westward turn towards the Straits of Malacca.

On March 8, flight MH370, which was carrying 12 crew and 227 passengers, lost contact with air traffic control in wee hours of the day.

The missing flight triggered a massive search and rescue effort, involving 25 nations which includes the US, Australia, China, across the Indian Ocean and Andaman seas.

According to The Telegraph, the witness said that he was not the only one who saw the low flying plane.

“Some people got out of their houses to see what was causing the tremendous noise too.” said the anonymous witness.

Last Saturday, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak had confirmed that the missing MH370, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, was deliberately re-routed from its original flightpath to Beijing.He also said that someone had switched off the plane’s Aircraft Communications Addressing andReporting System (ACARS) and its transponder before changing the route.The police have since raided pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s home and seized his flight simulator device for investigation.

Police has yet confirm the details about the flight simulator to date.

Maldives is an island nation in the Indian Ocean consisting of a double chain of twenty-six atolls, oriented north-south, that lie between Minicoy Island (the southernmost part of Lakshadweep, India) and the Chagos Archipelago.

The chains stand in the Laccadive Sea, about 700 kilometres south-west of Sri Lanka and 400 kilometres south-west of India.

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This area falls within the southern corridor which the investigators said was a possible route that could have been taken by the vanishing plane.

Maldives Airport: No credible information

Meanwhile Maldivian newsportal Minivannews.com quoted spokesman for the Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL) Hassan Areef as urging caution regarding the reported sightings in Kudahuvadhoo.

“We have no credible information about the plane in terms of radar or sightings,” said Areef.

“There are so many conspiracy theories – we have no credible information that the plane has come to us.”

One such conspiracy theory has the US base at Diego Garcia – which lies around 700 miles south of Kudahuvadhoo – as a potential landing site for the plane, though Malaysian authorities are said to have dismissed this rumour.

Another portal, Haveeru.com.mv has quoted a local aviation expert who said the possibility of any aircraft flying over the island was extremely low.Published: Wednesday March 19, 2014 MYT 6:31:00 PM 

Updated: Wednesday March 19, 2014 MYT 8:58:34 PM

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Missing MH370: Plane not sighted over Maldives, says HishamBY TAN YI LIANG

   

SEPANG: MH370 was not seen over the Maldives, said acting Transport

Minister Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Hussein (pic).

Speaking at a press conference at the Sama-Sama hotel here,

Hishamuddin said the confirmation was made by top-level armed forces

personnel in both countries.

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"Regarding reports that the plane was sighted in the Maldives, I can

confirm that the Malaysian Chief of the Defence Force has contacted his

counterpart in the Maldives, who has confirmed that these reports are not

true," said Hishamuddin on Wednesday.

It had been reported by the Maldivian daily Haveeru that residents of Kuda

Huvadhoo in Dhaal Atoll in the Maldives reportedly saw a "low-flying jumbo

jet" flying over houses early in the morning of March 8, the same day

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing.

Eyewitnesses who reportedly saw the aircraft agreed that it was travelling

in a north to southeast heading towards Addu, the southern tip of the

Maldives, and all commented on the very loud noise the aircraft made

when flying over the island.

MH370 had left Kuala Lumpur International Airport for Beijing with 239

passengers and crew. The Boeing 777 disappeared from Malaysian radars

at 2.15am on March 8.

Unknown object 'likely' aircraft fire suppression bottle, claim expertsAli Naafiz, Haveeru Online

Mar 26, 2014 - 07:35

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The unknown object that was found washed up on Baarah beach.

The unknown object found in Baarah in Haa Alif Atoll of the Maldives is "very likely" to be a fire suppression bottle from an aircraft, local aviation experts said on Wednesday.Residents of the island have assumed the object, which was found washed up at the beach on Monday, to be bomb or sea mine, but the Maldives NationalDefence Force (MNDF) on Wednesday said it was not an explosive device. But the army did not specify the nature of the object.

An experienced local aircraft engineer, who wished to remain anonymous, told Haveeru that the object is "very likely" to be a fire suppression bottle from an aircraft.

"But I'll have to see it in person and cross check the part number on it. Then only I'll be able to say which type of aircraft it belongs to," the aircraft engineer said.

Two other aircraft engineers and a Maldivian pilot working at a foreign airline also said that the object was "likely" a fire suppression bottle from an aircraft. However, they also decline to arrive at a conclusion unless they see the object in person.

The news of the unidentified object, believed to be a fire suppression bottle from an aircraft, comes about a week after several residents of Kuda Huvadhoo in Dhaal Atoll claimed to have seen a "low flying jumbo jet" at around 6:15am on March 8 – the day of the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The reported sighting of the missing aircraft over the Maldives led to a probe by Maldives police. But both the MNDF and Malaysian authorities have denied the reported sighting.

The Malaysia airlines jet disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board after taking off from

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Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing. Investigators say it was deliberately diverted off course.

Dozens of floating objects detected at sea provided fresh evidence Wednesday that the difficult search for flight MH370 debris was on course, as US lawyers fired the first salvo in an expected barrage of lawsuits on behalf of grieving families.

Malaysia said satellite images taken in recent days showed "122 potential objects" in the remote southern Indian Ocean, a discovery likely to energise an international effort to recover suspected debris from the missing plane that has been frustrated by stormy weather.

MH370: Object washed ashore, plane sighting causes stir in Maldives

Nation

by Himanshu Bhatt

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GEORGE TOWN (March 4): Questions are being raised in the Maldives while the

international search-and-rescue mission for missing Malaysian Airlines flight

MH370 continues west of Australia.

Attention is being focused on an object that resembles a fire suppression bottle

for aircraft found washed ashore on a beach at the northern Maldivian island of

Baarah on March 24.

The website Maldives Finest ( www.maldivesfinest.com ) has featured a series of

reports, together with photographs of the object. 

In particular, the website’s editorial stressed that questions are being raised on

why the authorities are not releasing updated information on it.

“Are they simply trying to ignore the fact that an object possibly belonging to

MH370 has been found? Or the authorities want the world to focus on the depths

of massive oceans just to say, at last, the plane may never be found?” the report

said.

“We can’t believe Boeing and the Malaysian authorities are not aware of this

object. Why have not they said anything so far?” it asked.

“Why are the major news networks not reporting this?”

(Incidentally, the secretive US military base on the atoll of Diego Garcia is about

700km south of Maldives, or just about an hour’s flight for a Boeing 777-200ER

like the one operating as MH370.)

The website has also tagged Boeing and MAS on a Tweet button on its page,

and is encouraging concerned readers to click on it to tweet the message:

“@Boeing @MAS What happened to the possible Fire Suppression Bottle found

washed up on Maldives beach? #MH370 http://goo.gl/i7GYl4.”

MH730 disappeared in the pre-dawn hours of March 8 while flying from Kuala

Lumpur to Beijing via the South China Sea.

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Search operations moved to the Indian Ocean a few days later when it was

determined that the plane had made an “air turn-back” through deliberate

means.

" Military denies access to object"

Maldivian news portal Haaveru Daily ( http://www.haveeru.com.mv ) first reported

about the object when it was found on March 24.

The residents alerted the police who handed it over to the military.

Haaveru then reported on March 26 that residents had assumed the object to be

a bomb or sea mine, but the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) said it

was not an explosive device.

It also quoted an experienced local aircraft engineer, who wished to remain

anonymous, as saying that the object is "very likely" to be a fire suppression

bottle from an aircraft, but could not say which type of aircraft without seeing it in

person and cross-checking the part number on it.

It was earlier reported that residents of Kudahuvadhoo island further south

claimed to have seen a low-flying aircraft of similar size as a Boeing 777 on the

morning of March 8.

According to Maldives Finest, the authorities investigated and said the claim was

not valid.

On March 27, the website reported that the spokesperson of the MNDF, Major

Hussain Ali, had confirmed to it that they are aware of the talk relating object with

missing MH370.

Hussain said the MNDF was in touch with the 'relevant authorities, but declined

to confirm when asked if they are in touch with Malaysian authorities or the

airline.

“When requested to grant access to our staff to photograph the object, the officer

declined to give that chance,” the report stressed.

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On March 29, the site attributed unconfirmed reports as saying that the Maldives

military had sent pictures of the object to Boeing.

In its latest update on March 31, Maldives Finest said it had contacted Hussain

again but could did not get any additional information about the object.

“When asked about pictures being sent to Boeing, the spokesperson said that he

can’t confirm that and he does not have any additional update of the

investigation,” the report said.

The reports can be viewed at

 http://www.maldivesfinest.com/mh370-evidence and http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/

54178 .

Read more: http://www.fz.com/content/mh370-object-washed-ashore-plane-sighting-

causes-stir-maldives#ixzz2y2FXqiqO

http://www.maldivesfinest.com/fire-suppression-bottle

Authorities keep shut over possible Fire Suppression Bottle found in Maldives. Why??

5 Apr 2014: Many days have passed without an update on possible fire suppression bottle. This is highly unusual for a media-friendly military like Maldives National Defence Force. The object was initially thought as a bomb or a sea mine. Maldives military started an investigation and next day they said it was not a bomb or any kind of explosive device. This indicates the normal reaction speed of Maldives military is very fast, it took only 1 day to reach conclusion and release to media. In another case, some residents from Kudahuvadhoo claimed to have sighted a large low flying plane, after 2 days the military said claim not credible. The fast reaction of the Maldives military is obvious, not just in these 2 incidents.

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The case of unknown object washed up ashore at Baarah was progressing fast, just like any other, till an aircraft engineer said it looked like fire suppression bottle of an

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aircraft. That was the turning point. Updates stopped and media-friendly military kept shut. But, why?

On 24th March the Malaysian Airlines sent a text message to the families of passengers aboard missing jet MH370. The sms has sparked criticism on Malaysian Airlines and the government over alleged mishandling of the situation.

Earlier the Malaysian authorities have said that the plane's movements were consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane, rising suspicion of terrorism as the cause of flight disappearance.

If the authorities announced it was fire suppression bottle of the missing MH370 flight and bottle was empty, its a possible indication that crew fought a fire on board. Theories came up from Malaysia authorities would then be the opposite of facts. This would expose authorities to overwhelming criticism from families of the passengers and the rest of the world, and may be from Malaysia itself.

Unbearable shame and criticism could possibly be avoided if Maldivian authorities prolong the process till plane is found. Families of the passengers may then not seek answers as much as at present, and a new phase of investigation would begin.

In the absence of comments from authorities this is the most likely hypothesis.

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/04/new-flight-370-details-all-signs-point-to-backdoor-westwardly-landing-approach-onto-secret-island-base-2933502.html

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