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26-Apr-2014 18:47
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" We went all in on this small area and didn' t find anything, the official said. " And now you' re talking years. " Now you' ve got to go back to the big area." On Friday, the undersea drone Bluefin-21 is expected to finish what may be the last of its 16-hour trips to depths of more than 4.5km (2.8 miles) searching a 10 sq k/m (6.2 sq mile) stretch of seabed about 2,000 miles northwest of Perth. Authorities had identified the area as their strongest lead in determining the plane' s final resting place after detecting what they suspected was a signal, or " ping" , from the plane' s black box recorder on April 4. |
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26-Apr-2014 18:42
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" MAS is not at fault" and search continue after 50 days,.......for the missing plane. Dr Mahathir Mohamad has blamed aircraft manufacturer Boeing for the missing M' sia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 and said how it could have produced a plane with communications and tracking systems that were so easily disabled. In defending the national carrier which had been blamed by upset relatives of the 239 passengers on board, especially those from China. Dr M said he was upset, Malaysia Airlines staff were held for more than 10 hours in a hotel in Beijing. The families in Beijing had expressed dissatisfaction in obtaining details of the missing aircraft, MAS had said. " I am upset because they are blaming the wrong people. The loss of the plane is due to the makers Boeing. |
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26-Apr-2014 11:46
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 Malaysia Foreign Minister Anifah said Obama&rsquo s visit a nod to Malaysia&rsquo s growing role in the international stage.....
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/04/26/A-recognition-of-our-rising-influence/ |
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19-Apr-2014 18:59
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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/crews-test-submersibles-limits-push-mh370-164828848.html The mini-sub searching for missing flight MH370 has reached record depths well beyond its normal operating limits, officials said Friday as it dived on its fifth seabed mission. With no results to show since the Boeing 777 carrying 239 people disappeared on March 8, Australia' s Prime Minister Tony Abbott has set a one-week deadline to locate the plane which is believed to have crashed in a remote area of the Indian Ocean west of Perth. Searchers have extended the hunt beyond the normal 4,500 metre (15,000 feet) depth range of the US Navy' s Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) called Bluefin-21. " The AUV reached a record depth of 4,695 meters during mission four," the US Navy said. " This is the first time the Bluefin-21 has descended to this depth. " Diving to such depths does carry with it some residual risk to the equipment and this is being carefully monitored," a statement said. |
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18-Apr-2014 12:54
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Friday - Mini-sub. Bluefin-21, searching for missing flight MH370 dived on its fifth seabed mission. Testing the vehicle' s recommended depth limits after failing to find any wreckage. Searchers are pushing the hunt beyond the normal 4,500 metre (15,000 feet) depth range of the US Navy' s Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), the Perth-based Joint Agency Coordination Centre said. " Overnight Bluefin-21 AUV completed another mission in the underwater search area and has commenced mission five." " Data analysis from the fourth mission did not provide any contacts of interest." The unmanned Bluefin-21 which maps the seafloor by sonar, has searched 110 square kilometres (43 square miles) to date. The UAV, which re-surfaced after hitting a pre-programmed max depth of 4.5k/m (2.8 miles), would now be sent deeper after the manufacturer advised this was an " acceptable" risk. " This expansion of the operating parameters allows Bluefin-21 to search the sea floor within and without detailing how deep the device would be deployed. JACC said Hopes for finding the plane have focused on the Bluefin-21 after signals believed to be emanating from the plane' s flight data recorders on the seabed fell silent in recent days before their source could be pinpointed exactly. Bluefin-21 is being deployed from an Australian vessel. " We believe that search will be completed within a week or so, If we don' t find wreckage, we stop, we regroup, we reconsider." Abbott told the Wall Street. - Huge costs building up - However suggestions have emerged that more sophisticated -- and highly expensive -- deep-diving equipment may be needed for the challenging search at such extreme depths. " We have to look at contractors, and the cost of that will be huge,"
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18-Apr-2014 11:27
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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/64-people-quarantined-in/1074966.html Malaysia has quarantined 64 people in a southern village after one of its residents become the country' s first person to die of a respiratory illness that is spreading from the Middle East, local media reported. 1st fatality in Muslim-majority M' sia - a 54-year-old man, died in hospital in the southern state of Johor on Sunday. He had developed fever, cough n breathing difficulties after returning from pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia' s holy city of Mecca on March 29. Health authorities screened some 100 people from the man' s village, Kampung Bintang, in Johor to check for more infections, The Star newspaper said, In the Philippines, officials asked more than 400 passengers who shared an airline flight with a man infected with the MERS virus to check in with the health department immediately. The move was a precautionary measure to ensure none of the 418 passengers were infected by the man, who has since been quarantined along with his family, a health official said. He had returned from the Middle East on the flight. MERS is considered a deadlier but less-easily transmitted cousin of the SARS virus that erupted in Asia in 2003 and infected 8,273 people, killing nearly 800. The MERS outbreak was initially concentrated in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia but has now spread to other areas of the country and abroad. Experts are still struggling to understand MERS, for which there is no known vaccine. - AFP/ac
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17-Apr-2014 17:39
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Another China developer, the Greenland Group, flocks to Iskandar, plans RM10bil projects..... http://www.thestar.com.my/Business/Business-News/2014/04/17/Another-developer-from-China-comes-to-Johor-Baru/ |
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17-Apr-2014 08:05
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A M'sian has died ftom complication caused by the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (Mers-CoV) after returning from Saudi Arabia.
Hospitals in Singapore are in the alert for any cases of Mers-CoV following first M'sian comfirmed victim of this type of infectious disease. |
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16-Apr-2014 23:17
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Dr Mahathir: Why keep the Causeway if plans to build a Friendship Bridge were to go ahead? http://www.nst.com.my/latest/tun-m-why-keep-the-causeway-1.569980 (The Friendship Bridge was proposed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak at a joint press conference with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong after the annual Malaysia-Singapore Leaders' Retreat in Putrajaya on April 7.) |
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teeth53
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15-Apr-2014 18:01
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PERTH (AP) ? Search area for the missing M'sian jet has proved too deep for a robotic submarine which was hauled back to the surface of the Indian Ocean less than halfway through its first seabed hunt for wreckage and the all-important black.Search crews sent Bluefin 21 deep into the Indian Ocean on Monday to begin scouring the seabed for the missing M'sia Airlines Boeing 777 after failing for six days to detect any signals believed to be from its black boxes.But just six hours into its planned 16-hour mission on the sea bed, the unmanned sub exceeded its maximum depth limit of 4,500 meters.
The data collected by the Bluefin was analyzed after it returned to the surface and nothing of interest was found, the Search crews is sending it back under water, if weather conditions permit.Search authorities knew that the primary wreckage from Flight 370 was likely lying at the limit of the Bluefin's dive capabilities. Deeper diving submersibles have been evaluated, but none is yet available to help.The Bluefin was programmed to hover 30 meters (100 feet) over the seafloor as it moved through the search area, but ended up reaching its maximum depth, triggering the safety feature that returned it to the surface, the U.S. Navy said. It wasn't damaged and is being reprogrammed to account for the inconsistencies in the seafloor's depth.A safety margin would have been included in the sub's program to protect the device from harm if it went a bit deeper than its 4,500-meter limit, said Stefan Williams, a professor of marine robotics at the University of Sydney."Maybe some areas where they are doing the survey are a little bit deeper than they are expecting," he said. "They may not have very reliable prior data for the area, so they have a general idea. But there may be some variability on the sea floor that they also can't see from the surface."Meanwhile, officials were investigating an oil slick about 5,500 meters (3.4 miles) from the area where the last underwater sounds were detected, said Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search off Australia's west coast.Crews have collected an oil sample and are sending it back to Perth in western Australia for analysis, a process that will take several days. Houston said it does not appear to be from any of the ships in the area, but cautioned against jumping to conclusions about its source.The Bluefin can create a three-dimensional sonar map of any debris on the ocean floor. But the search in this area is more challenging because the seabed is covered in silt that could potentially cover part of the plane."What they're going to have to be looking for is contrast between hard objects, like bits of a fuselage, and that silty bottom," Williams said. "With the types of sonars they are using, if stuff is sitting up on top of the silt, say a wing was there, you could likely see that ... but small items might sink down into the silt and be covered and then it's going to be a lot more challenging."The search moved below the surface after crews picked up a series of underwater sounds over the past two weeks that were consistent with signals from an aircraft's black boxes, which record flight data and cockpit conversations. The devices emit "pings" so they can be more easily found, but their batteries only last about a month and are now believed to be dead.Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott raised hopes last week when he said authorities were "very confident" the four strong underwater signals that were detected were from the black boxes on Flight 370, which disappeared. The submarine takes 24 hours to complete each mission: two hours to dive to the bottom, 16 hours to search the seafloor, two hours to return to the surface, and four hours to download the data. |
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14-Apr-2014 21:28
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PERTH, (AP) &mdash Search crews will for the first time send a robotic submarine deep into the Indian Ocean on Monday to try to determine whether underwater signals detected by sound-locating equipment are from the missing Malaysian jet' s black boxes, the leader of the search effort said. The crew on board the Australian navy' s Ocean Shield will launch the unmanned underwater vehicle Monday evening, said Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search off Australia' s west coast. The Bluefin 21 autonomous sub can create a three-dimensional sonar map of the area to chart any debris on the seafloor. |
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13-Apr-2014 11:04
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PERTH (AP) &mdash After a week of optimism over four underwater signals believed to be coming from the missing M,sian plane, the sea has gone quiet and Australia' s leader is warning that the massive search will likely be long. No new electronic pings have been heard since April 8, and the batteries powering the locator beacons on the jet' s black box recorders may already be dead. Once officials are confident no more sounds will be heard, a robotic submersible will be sent down to slowly scour for wreckage across a vast area in extremely deep water. Every day from the Perth airport and a nearby military base, about a dozen planes from several countries take flight to search for debris from missing Flight 370 &mdash so far without success. The U.S. Defense Dept alone committed $7.3 mil to the effort in the first mth of the search, much of it spent on two U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon planes that cost $4,000 per hour to fly. Lt. Cmdr. Adam Schantz is the officer in charge of the 32 air and ground crew manning the surveillance aircraft, which are modified Boeing 737s. BEIJING (AP) &mdash A Cathay Pacific flight from NY to Hong Kong was stranded for 36 hours, 16 hours in a Chinese city with all 256 passengers kept on board for the entire time late last mth b' cos of immigration regulations, bad weather and limits on the crew' s work hours. Flight 831 was diverted to the southern city of Zhuhai on the night of March 30. The plane was left sitting on the tarmac till Cathay Pacific sent in a new flight crew, with the first crew having reached work-hour limits. |
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teeth53
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12-Apr-2014 16:42
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One of the Navy' s best tools deployed in Flight 370 searchThe search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is back in high gear as an Australian ship is trying to pinpoint two new signals in the southern Indian Ocean. Officials say the pings could be from airliner black boxes. A new estimate says the search has already cost more than $44 million. Flight 370 is on track to become the most expensive recovery effort in aviation history, and it involves some of the world' s most advanced undersea technology. One of the U.S. Navy' s best tools is a device called an autonomous underwater vehicle, CBS News' Elaine Quijano reports. At just 21 inches in diameter, the specialized craft is able to travel to the furthest depths of the ocean to places no one has seen before. |
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12-Apr-2014 16:36
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http://www.bluefinrobotics.com/news-and-downloads/press/cbs-news-one-of-the-navy-s-best-tools-deployed-in-flight-370-search/ Innovative deep-sea explorers is being test to it limited. Bluefin-21, the submersible vehicle can descend two-and-a-half miles below the ocean' s surface to some of the most inhospitable places on the planet. Bluefin-21 will only be deployed when the pings from the black box have narrowed down a searchable area or when they have disappeared completely. Since, a signal has been received, the torpedo-like craft will be soon be put to work. It will scour an area the size of Texas at a rate of 40 square miles each day. Kelly explained, " Down there, it' ll run what' s called a lawnmower pattern. It' s just like mowing the lawn at your house." On each " mission," the craft uses sonar technology to scan the ocean floor. Those sounds create images that researchers analyze when the craft resurfaces once every 24 hours. |
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10-Apr-2014 19:54
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Thursday - For first time. An Australian navy aircraft picked up a new underwater signal while searching the same part of the Indian Ocean where earlier sounds were detected that were consistent with an aircraft' s black boxes. The P-3 Orion, which has been dropping sound-locating buoys into water near where the original sounds were heard, picked up a " possible signal" that may be from a man-made source, said Angus Houston. Royal Australian Navy Commodore Peter Leavy said each buoy is dangling a hydrophone listening device about 300 meters (1,000 feet) below the surface. Each buoy transmits its data via radio back to the plane. If confirmed, this would be fifth underwater signal detected in the hunt for Flight 370, On Tuesday, Ocean Shield picked up two underwater sounds, and an analysis of two other sounds detected in the same general area on Saturday showed they were consistent with a plane' s flight recorders, or " black boxes." The underwater search zone is currently a 1,300 square kilometer (500 square mile) patch of the ocean floor, and narrowing the area as small as possible is crucial before an unmanned submarine can be sent to create a sonar map. Thursday - Search for floating debris on ocean surface was narrowed to its smallest size yet &mdash 57,900 sq kilometers (22,300 sq miles), or about one-quarter the size. Crews hunting for debris on the surface have already looked in the area they were crisscrossing, but were moving in tighter patterns. Complicating matters, is depth of the seafloor search area. " It' ll be pretty close to its operating limit. The search coordination center - its contingency plans should the black box be too deep. If that happens, the search will be delayed while an underwater vehicle rated to 6,000 meters (19,700 feet) was dismantled and air freighted from Europe, the U.S or from Japan. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts had autonomous and remotely operated underwater vehicles that will dive to 11 kilometers (36,100 feet), although they might not be equipped for such a search. Underwater vessels rated to 6,500 meters (21,300 feet) could search the sea bed of more than 90% of the world' s oceans. Williams said it was unlikely that the wreck had fallen into the narrow Diamantina trench, which is about 5,800 meters (19,000 feet) deep, since sounds emanating from that depth would probably not have been detected by the pinger locator. |
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09-Apr-2014 23:55
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Ship detects more pings of electronic origin
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09-Apr-2014 23:41
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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/more-underwater-pings-heard-hunt-plane-033345073.html A ship searching for the missing Malaysian jet has detected two more underwater signals that may be emanating from the aircraft' s black boxes, and the Australian official in charge of the search expressed hope - Wednesday. Ocean Shield 1st detected underwater sounds on Saturday before losing, but managed to pick them up again on Tuesday. The ship is equipped pinger locator that is designed to detect signals, flight data recorder & cockpit voice recorder. A data analysis of signals heard on Saturday determined they were distinct, clear and pulsed consistently &mdash indicating they were coming from a plane' s black box, Houston said. " (The analysts) therefore assess that the transmission was not of natural origin and was likely sourced from specific electronic equipment," " They believe the signals to be consistent with the specification and description of a flight data recorder." Despite the promising evidence, Finding black boxes quickly is a matter of urgency. Once beacons blink off, locating black boxes in such deep water &mdash about 4,500 meters, (15,000 ft), would be an immensely difficult, if not impossible, task. Houston acknowledged they were running out of time, and noted that the signals picked up on Tuesday were weaker and briefer than the ones heard over the weekend &mdash if they are coming from the plane' s black boxes, the batteries are dying. The two signals detected on Saturday lasted two hours and 20 minutes and 13 minutes, respectively the sounds heard Tuesday lasted just 5 and a half minutes and 7 minutes. Picking up the sound again is crucial to narrowing the search area so a small, unmanned submarine can be deployed to create a sonar map of a potential debris field on the seafloor. It takes the sub, dubbed " Bluefin 21," six times longer to cover the same area than it does the towed pinger, which is pulled behind the boat at a depth of 3,000 meters (9,800 feet). U.S. Navy Capt. Mark Matthews said the detections indicate the device emitting the pings is somewhere within about a 20 kilometer (12 mile) radius, that equates to a 1,300 sq kilometer (500 sq mile) chunk of the ocean floor, which would take the sub about six weeks to two months to canvass. The fading strength of the more recent signals could indicate any number of things about the device emitting them, " It could be sinking into silt, it could be the batteries reaching the end of their life, it could be further away," Matthews said. " It could be even closer, but with different temperature, salinity or pressure profiles affecting the sound." Decision had not yet been made on how long searchers would wait after the final sound was heard only that time was " not far away." The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has sparked one of aviation' s biggest mysteries. But finding any wreckage in such deep water has proved to be a monumental task. The Bluefin sub' s sonar can scan only about 100 meters (328 feet) and it can " see" with lights and cameras only a few meters. The maximum depth it can dive is 4,500 meters (14,800 feet) &mdash and there are some areas of the search zone that are deeper than that. That means a different machine may need to be brought in if debris is resting on the deepest part of the seafloor. Search crews are also contending with a thick layer of silt on the seafloor that can both hide any possible wreckage and distort the sounds emanating from the black boxes that may be resting there, said Royal Australian Navy Commodore Peter Leavy, who is helping to lead the search. Meanwhile - 15 planes and 14 ships scouring a 75,400 sq kilometer (29,100 sq mile) area that extends from 2,250 kilometers (1,400 miles) northwest of Perth. " I' m an engineer so I don' t talk emotions too much," Matthews said. " But certainly when I received word that they had another detection, you feel elated. You' re hopeful that you can locate the final resting place of the aircraft and bring closure to all the families involved." |
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09-Apr-2014 22:09
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09-Apr-2014 00:04
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PACC Offshore Services Holdings (part of the empire of Malaysia&rsquo s richest man Robert Kuok) draws two IPO investors for its Singapore listing to raise about US$400mil ..... http://www.thestar.com.my/Business/Business-News/2014/04/08/POSH-draws-two-IPO-investors/ |
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08-Apr-2014 21:10
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Taking it to the limit - A daunting task lies ahead, especially if the pings cannot be reacquired to narrow the search area. The 4.5-kilometre (nearly three-mile) depth of the ocean floor is the absolute operating limit for a Bluefin-21, which is designed for deep-sea surveying. Ocean Shield, which earlier picked up two series of pulses, one lasting two hours and 20 minutes and the other 13 minutes, is operating at the northern end of the defined search area. The Chinese ship Haixun 01 and Britain' s HMS Echo are working the southern end. Gerry Soejatman, an independent aviation analyst based in Jakarta, said if a crash site cannot be pinpointed, underwater sonar mapping can take an entire day for an area the size of a football field, and possibly " a month, or maybe more," for a one-square-kilometre section. " It is crucial to find the location where the signal is coming from. Time is running out. If the signal stops, it will be a much harder task," he said. Commander William Marks of the US Seventh Fleet had said earlier one of the signals strengthened for a time and then weakened as the Ocean Shield swept by. He said this indicated crews were near its source as a signal strengthens when approached, and weakens when left behind. Around a dozen planes also continued scanning the area 2,200 kilometres northwest of Perth, looking for floating debris. |
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