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The search for MH370 has become "even more difficult", with the search area expanded to include large tracts of land across 11 countries and oceans.

- The number of countries involved has increased from 14 to 25. Full story here.

- Malaysia's Foreign Ministry has requested support from over 22 countries, including: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia & Australia. 

- This support would be in the form of general satellite data, radar playback and provisions for ground, sea and aerial search and rescue.

- Both northern & southern corridors are being treated with equal importance. 

For more on the difficulty of the search, go here.

- According to Malaysia Airlines, the pilot and co-pilot did not ask to fly together. Full story here.

- The MH370 aircraft was subjected to Boeing's mandatory maintenance program, fully serviced and fit to fly.

- Malaysia Airlines says the plane departed with its planned fuel load with nothing extra.

TIADA ISU TRANSPONDER DI TUTUP SEPERTI LAPORAN WALL STREET

The Wall Street Journal melaporkan pegawai mencegah keganasan AS sedang memeriksa sama ada MH370 "secara sengaja mengubah haluan" daripada laluan yang dirancang dengan "hasrat untuk menggunakannya kemudian bagi tujuan lain."

Laporan itu juga dipetik sebagai menyatakan bahawa transponder pesawat itu sengaja ditutup untuk mengelak daripada dikesan radar.

Hishammuddin berkata, berikutan laporan mengenai dakwaan itu, MAS bertanya kepada Rolls Royce dan Boeing Company secara khusus mengenai data itu, dan syarikat itu berkata laporan itu tidak tepat.

Hishammuddin berkata, isu itu juga tidak pernah dibangkitkan oleh pasukan Rolls Royce dan Boeing, yang berada di Kuala Lumpur sejak Ahad lalu untuk membantu penyiasatan itu.          

AMERIKA PULAK BAGI PETUNJUK KEHILANGAN MH 370

Amerika Syarikat (AS) mendedahkan mempunyai "petunjuk" pesawat MH370 mungkin terhempas di Lautan Hindi dan sedang menggerakkan kapal USS Kidd ke kawasan tersebut untuk mencarinya, lapor stesen televisyen ABC News awal hari ini.

Pegawai kanan Pentagon memberitahu stesen televisyen AS itu pihaknya memerlukan masa 24 jam untuk menggerakkan kapalnya ke kawasan itu.

"Kami ada petunjuk pesawat itu terhempas di Lautan Hindi," kata pegawai kanan berkenaan dipetik berkata mengenai pencarian pesawat Malaysia Airlines yang hilang pada Sabtu.

Pegawai itu berkata, mereka ada petunjuk pesawat itu terbang empat atau lima jam selepas hilang daripada radar dan mereka percaya ia terhempas ke dalam laut. Tetapi pihak berkuasa Malaysia menolak teori itu semalam dengan kedua-dua Malaysia Airlines dan Rolls Royce berkata, data mengenai enjin berakhir pada 1:07 pagi pada Sabtu, kira-kira 20 minit sebelum hilang daripada sistem radar awam.

AS mempunyai pangkalan tentera di Diego Garcia yang terletak di Lautan Hindi.

Tindakan AS dilakukan beberapa jam selepas pegawai tertinggi Malaysia berkata mereka memperluaskan misi mencari dan menyelamat ke Laut Andaman dan meminta bantuan India untuk mencari Boeing 777-200ER dan 239 penumpangnya yang hilang.

Penyiasat juga berkata pegawai AS memberikan sebab untuk terus mencari di kawasan perairan di sebelah barat Malaysia, lebih jauh daripada laluan pesawat Malaysia Airlines itu

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MISTERI TELEFON BIMBIT MH 370

HIASAN 

LONDON 12 Mac - Laporan beberapa ahli keluarga penumpang yang mendakwa berjaya menghubungi telefon bimbit penumpang yang menaiki pesawat MH370, terus mengusutkan lagi teori kehilangan kapal terbang yang membawa 239 penumpang itu ketika operasi mencari dan menyelamat masuk hari kelima, hari ini.

Profesor William Webb dari Akademi Kejuruteraan Diraja Britain ketika menjawab isu itu berkata, telefon bimbit penumpang sepatutnya tidak akan berfungsi kerana mungkin berada di dalam air, di luar kawasan liputan dan juga kehabisan bateri.

Dalam kes yang didakwa ahli keluarga mangsa, deringan yang didengari mungkin nada sebelum panggilan itu memasuki perkhidmatan peti suara,’’ katanya kepada MailOnline.

Sementara itu, seorang lagi pakar telekomunikasi, Alan Spencer berpendapat deringan tersebut membuktikan telefon bimbit itu tidak berada di dalam air.

Katanya, telefon bimbit hanya akan berbunyi jika dihidupkan dan berada di dalam kawasan liputan.

Ini bermakna, jika telefon bimbit itu benar-benar dapat dihubungi, pesawat itu telah mendarat di daratan dan di lokasi yang mempunyai liputan berbanding di dalam hutan atau kawasan laut.

Sementara itu, Dr. Martyn Thomas dari Institut Teknologi dan Kejuruteraan tampil dengan teori yang men dakwa kehilangan MH370 mungkin melibatkan kerosakan alat komunikasi secara tiba-tiba.

Martyn menjelaskan, proses penyahmampatan secara mengejut yang berlaku di dalam pesawat boleh menyebabkan semua penumpang, krew dan juruterbang pengsan atau terbunuh, sekali gus merosakkan peralatan komunikasi.

Dalam senario itu, katanya, pesawat terbabit mungkin terbang secara sendiri melalui sistem panduan automatik dan berada pada jarak kira-kira 3,218 kilometer dari lokasi kejadian sebelum mendarat atau terhempas.

BEIJING TERSILAP?

Kerajaan China mengakui siaran imej satelit negara itu yang kononnya menunjukkan tiga objek didakwa serpihan MH370 adalah satu kesilapan. 

Pemangku Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein berkata ia dimaklumkan sendiri oleh Duta China ke Malaysia, Huang Hui Kang menerusi surat yang dikirimkan semalam. 

“Katanya (Hui Kang) itu adalah tindakan peribadi individu tertentu, yang memuat naik gambar imej satelit berkenaan dalam laman web. Beliau juga menegaskan kerajaannya tidak memberi kebenaran atau memperakui perbuatan itu yang kini sedang disiasat. 

“Tambahnya lagi, imej yang dipaparkan itu belum lagi disahkan sama ada mempunyai kaitan dengan pesawat MH370 yang hilang,” katanya. 

Yang hadir sama Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Penerbangan Awam (DCA), Datuk Azharuddin Yahya dan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif MAS, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya. 

Hishammuddin berkata, Hui Kang juga memberi jaminan akan memaklumkan terlebih dulu sebarang perkembangan baru berkaitan kehilangan pesawat MH370, untuk diperakui Kerajaan Malaysia. 

Katanya, penyiaran imej satelit itu menyebabkan Agensi Penguatkuasaan Maritim Malaysia (APMM) terpaksa menghantar pasukan pemantau ke kawasan berkenaan pagi semalam bagi mengesahkan penemuan itu tetapi tidak menemui serpihan terbabit. 

Hishammuddin berkata, dalam krisis membabitkan operasi yang rumit, bukan mudah bagi menumpukan sepenuh perhatian terhadap usaha mencari dan menyelamat (SAR). 

“Kita tidak boleh melakukan sesuatu yang boleh menjejaskan SAR. Ada masanya kita tidak boleh mendedahkan maklumat, umpamanya isyarat radar tertentu, kerana ia memerlukan analisis dan pengesahan pelbagai agensi sebelum didedahkan. 

“Kalau kita dedahkan maklumat seperti ini sebelum disahkan, ia bukan saja menjejaskan siasatan, malah menambah kesengsaraan keluarga penumpang yang masih menaruh harapan,” katanya.

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PESAWAT DIKESAN ????

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Murky satellite images that a Chinese science and defense agency said may show debris from the missing Malaysian Airlines jetliner provided a fresh clue Thursday in the search for the plane, pointing searchers to a location nearer to the plane's original flight path south of Vietnam.

The revelation could provide searchers with a focus that has eluded them since the plane disappeared with 239 people aboard just hours after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing early Saturday. Since then, the search has covered 35,800 square miles (92,600 square kilometers), first east and then west of Malaysia and even expanded toward India on Wednesday.

The Chinese sighting, if confirmed, would be closer to where the frantic hunt started.

The Xinhua report said the images from around 11 a.m. on Sunday appear to show "three suspected floating objects" of varying sizes in a 20-kilometer radius, the largest about 24-by-22 meters (79-by-72 feet).

The images originally were posted on the website of China's State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. That site reports coordinates of a location in the sea off the southern tip of Vietnam and east of Malaysia.

But since the satellite images were taken four days ago, it is far from certain that whatever they show would be in the same location now.

No other governments have confirmed the Xinhua report, which did not say when Chinese officials became aware of the images and associated them with the missing plane.

Two-thirds of the passengers were Chinese, and the Chinese government has put increasing pressure on Malaysian officials to solve the mystery of the plane's disappearance.

Malaysia's civil aviation chief, Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, said Malaysia had not been officially informed by China about the images, which he said he was learning about from the news.

He said if Beijing informs them of the coordinates, Malaysia will dispatch vessels and planes immediately.

"If we get confirmation, we will send something," he told The Associated Press early Thursday.

Until then, he urged caution. "There have been lots of reports of suspected debris."

On Wednesday, it was revealed that the last message from the cockpit of the missing flight was routine. "All right, good night," was the signoff transmitted to air traffic controllers five days ago.

Then the Boeing 777 vanished as it cruised over the South China Sea toward Vietnam, and nothing has been seen or heard of the jetliner since.

Those final words were picked up by controllers and relayed in Beijing to anguished relatives of some of the people aboard Flight MH370.

The Chinese reports of the satellite images came after several days of confusing and conflicting statements from Malaysian officials.

Earlier Wednesday, the Malaysian military officially disclosed why it was searching on both sides of country: A review of military radar records showed what might have been the plane turning back and crossing westward into the Strait of Malacca.

That would conflict with the latest images on the Chinese website.

For now, authorities said the international search effort would stay focused on the South China Sea and the strait leading toward the Andaman Sea.

Chinese impatience has grown.

"There's too much information and confusion right now. It is very hard for us to decide whether a given piece of information is accurate," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in Beijing.

"We have nothing to hide," said Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein. "There is only confusion if you want to see confusion."

Flight MH370 disappeared from civilian radar screens at 1:30 a.m. Saturday at an altitude of about 35,000 feet above the Gulf of Thailand between Malaysia and southern Vietnam. It sent no distress signals or any indication it was experiencing problems.

If all those on board are confirmed dead, it would be the deadliest commercial air accident in 10 years.

The amount of time needed to find aircraft that go down over the ocean can vary widely. Planes that crash into relatively shallow areas, like the waters off Vietnam, are far easier to locate and recover than those that plunge into undersea canyons or mountain ranges.

Much of the Gulf of Thailand is less than 300 feet (91 meters) deep.

The Malaysian government said it had asked India to join in the search near the Andaman Sea, suggesting the jetliner might have reached those waters after crossing into the Strait of Malacca, 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the flight's last-known coordinates.

Malaysian officials met in Beijing with several hundred Chinese relatives of passengers to explain the search, and to relay the last transmission that Malaysian air traffic controllers received before the plane entered Vietnamese airspace, according to a participant in the meeting.

Aviation officials in Vietnam said they never heard from the plane.

Its sudden disappearance led to initial speculation of a catastrophic incident that caused it to disintegrate. Another possibility is that it continued to fly despite a failure of its electrical systems, which could have knocked out communications, including transponders that enable the plane to be identified by commercial radar.

Authorities have not ruled out any possible cause, including mechanical failure, pilot error, sabotage and terrorism, and they are waiting to find any wreckage or debris to determine what went wrong.

Two U.S. Federal Aviation Administration technical experts and a regional representative are in Kuala Lumpur as part of a National Transportation Safety Board team supporting the investigation. Experts in air traffic control and radar are providing technical help, the board said.

Hishammuddin described the multinational search as unprecedented. Some 43 ships and 39 aircraft from at least eight nations were scouring an area to the east and west of Peninsular Malaysia.

"It's not something that is easy. We are looking at so many vessels and aircraft, so many countries to coordinate, and a vast area for us to search," he told a news conference.

Confusion over whether the plane had been seen flying west prompted speculation that different arms of the government might have different opinions about its location, or even that authorities were holding back information.

Choi Tat Sang, a 74-year-old Malaysian, said his family is still holding out hope that the plane and all on board are safe. His 45-year-old daughter-in-law, Goh Sock Lay, was the chief flight attendant. Her 14-year-old daughter, an only child, has been crying every day since the plane's disappearance.

"We are heartbroken. We are continuing to pray for her safety and for everyone on the flight," he said.

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MCA TIADA TEMPAT DI SELANGOR!!!!

khalid dengan bongkak menyatakan  bukti penolakan rakyat Selangor terhadap MCA jelas apabila parti itu yang memiliki dua kerusi di Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Selangor pada pilihan raya umum 2008 kini tidak lagi berada di dewan itu selepas menerima penolakan secara besar-besaran.

MCA tiada kerusi langsung di Selangor. tahun 2008 hanya mampu 2 kerusi sahaja.

“Jika di Kajang hendak memilih MCA, tidak payahlah sebab dia tiada tempat di DUN Selangor,” katanya ketika berucap di hadapan 100 penduduk Taman Mesra Kajang malam kelmarin

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