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botsapper 03-11-2014 11:48 PM

Help find Malaysian Airlines 370!
 
An unprecedented request, how you can volunteer and help find Malaysia Airlines 370.

DigitalGlobe, https://www.digitalglobe.com/

An advance commercial satellite imagery network is asking the whole internet public to scour their recent map data. 'Crowdsourcing' into action!
They have available 1,235 square miles of high resolution maps and more maps updated everyday. Hopefully thousands, even hundreds of thousands of volunteers could bring their eyes on these maps and share their findings.
You might find that 'needle in the haystack' to identify life rafts, debris, oil slick or even the wreckage at a remote location.
DigitalGlobe was instrumental in the aftermath of the Philippine typhoon Haiyan, tagging points of interests and for rescues. The were crucial to pinpoint locations for emergency responders and crucial aid.

Discoveries could be shared at CNN iReport page;
Malaysia Airlines MH370 / TomNod crowd-search - CNN iReport

botsapper 03-12-2014 12:28 AM

In 5 minutes...found a fishing vessel or raft? Map 21651

Tomnod

user removed 03-12-2014 09:11 AM

If they shut everything off as far as electronic location then that plane may not have crashed. Maybe some kind of pirate action like the Somalis do with shipping. They also dropped to very low altitude to avoid radar. It could be sitting at some airport highly camouflaged. A lot of money could be extorted.

regards
Mech

botsapper 03-12-2014 11:41 AM

...something's very mistrustful about the latest 'official' announcements, now they say that the flight may have diverted westward over the Malaysian peninsula and are now looking at the Strait of Malacca and maybe even into the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

P-hack 03-12-2014 04:15 PM

Well, the copilot wasn't too worried about cockpit security (and he stole my patented palm reading technique, that basterd!). Transponder off, dived below radar, thing was jacked.

Playboy pilot at controls of MH370 had a track record of inviting pretty passengers into his cockpit where he smoked and posed for snaps | News.com.au

botsapper 03-12-2014 04:44 PM

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/a...plane1103a.jpg

Nefarious voice..."we'll send our blonde brigade first to distract the crew and the rest of our soldiers commandeer the plane, dive below radar and land at our remote strip..."

gone-ot 03-12-2014 05:01 PM

...reminiscent of "Where in the World Is Waldo?"

P-hack 03-12-2014 05:24 PM

Are you able to zoom in on 105.63 east longitude, 6.7 north latitude with that link, Bot?

botsapper 03-12-2014 05:59 PM

Using Google Earth, can't access those coordinates in DigitalGlobe.

Thanks for the two million...
Malaysia Airlines: Two million internet users take part in 'crowd sourcing' search for plane - Telegraph

...with that many Chinese searchers...
Malaysia Airlines: Have Chinese satellites spotted the wreckage? - Telegraph

botsapper 03-12-2014 06:23 PM

Latest news;

Floating wreckage and debris field?!
Tomnod

Two ships side-by-side or one alongside a fuselage? http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/...2014/map/24080

Structures but no ship wakes?
Tomnod

Large oil slick
Tomnod


Structure in the water? east of Malacca Strait.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/4%...!3m1!1s0x0:0x0

gone-ot 03-12-2014 08:53 PM

That Tomnod link is down...probably overloaded/swamped by people.

NachtRitter 03-13-2014 02:40 AM

Ya, I found saw the same two ships you saw in square 21431. Quite a few ships and oil rigs, in fact.

botsapper 03-13-2014 02:51 PM

See the scale of the digital map search. In a 160,000 sq mile grid box, find the plane in a square mile box.
The scale of the search for Flight MH370 - The Washington Post

euromodder 03-14-2014 06:45 PM

So we're 2014 and we're still losing a/c as we did way back i the pioneering days of aviation :rolleyes:

We can track our stuff using cell/sat phones, but not a/c :confused:


I wouldn't be looking at the ocean, but search for abandoned airstrips beyond ATC that can take a 777

user removed 03-14-2014 07:23 PM

The 777 needs 3700 feet to land. The altitude variations remind me of pulse and glide, maybe to conserve fuel, which could extend the range considerably. Whoever took control of the plane knew what they were doing, whether coerced or planned. I'd be leaning towards a landing in Pakistan or maybe even further northwest.

My post on 3-12 basically said this, except for a specific landing location. Notcie the "altitude variations". I wonder if they were climbing then gliding with low power to stretch out the range.

Maybe the pilots or copilots "retirement plan".

regards
Mech

redneck 03-14-2014 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Old Mechanic (Post 415278)
The 777 needs 3700 feet to land. The altitude variations remind me of pulse and glide, maybe to conserve fuel, which could extend the range considerably. Whoever took control of the plane knew what they were doing, whether coerced or planned. I'd be leaning towards a landing in Pakistan or maybe even further northwest.

My post on 3-12 basically said this, except for a specific landing location. Notcie the "altitude variations". I wonder if they were climbing then gliding with low power to stretch out the range.

Maybe the pilots or copilots "retirement plan".

regards
Mech


Pulse & Glide

Maybe the pilots or copilots are ecomodder members. LOL...

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botsapper 03-15-2014 10:44 AM

Still looking?...for an intact plane!

They'll have new maps...on a much larger region of the Indian Ocean and Southwest Asia!

botsapper 03-15-2014 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by botsapper (Post 414890)
http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/a...plane1103a.jpg

Nefarious voice..."we'll send our blonde brigade first to distract the crew and the rest of our soldiers commandeer the plane, dive below radar and land at our remote strip..."

...a few days later, can't joke about this anymore.

NachtRitter 03-16-2014 02:17 PM

Strange way to extort money... by keeping silent. :confused: Also not an effective way to strike terror into people's hearts, whether it was deliberate or not.

California98Civic 03-16-2014 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by redneck (Post 415310)
Pulse & Glide

Maybe the pilots or copilots are ecomodder members. LOL...

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Actually the captain's facebook page reportedly features how to vids and tips, among them how to mod a home airconditioner to save energy and money.

botsapper 03-17-2014 12:07 AM

The airspace is getting definitely getting crowded.

Tomnod

http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/...2014/map/53863

http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/...014/map/654342

NachtRitter 03-17-2014 12:13 AM

Nice finds!

user removed 03-19-2014 01:43 PM

Probably won't be there long.

Used Boeing 777

regards
Mech

cbaber 03-19-2014 02:37 PM

It's amazing how slow and uncoordinated this investigation has been. How many days were wasted looking in the wrong areas when we had data all along that tells us the plane was flown off course for hours after the transponders were shut off?

Hopefully the pilots flight simulator reveals some clues. Apparently he had been practicing flights and then deleted them, and they are trying to recover the flights. That would be a major clue if the pilot was practicing flying a certain path that is similar to what we know happened, and maybe it will lead us to the actual airport he practiced to land at.

Of course it could be nothing, either. If you have ever played Microsoft Flight Simulator it's perfectly normal to delete data you don't care to keep to save space or just to keep it tidy. And I have flown many jumbo jets into the ground for fun, so it's really not significant if his flight histories show aggressive or suicidal behavior. (Imagine if your real life was judged on how you played Grand Theft Auto).

NachtRitter 03-24-2014 03:11 PM

FYI...
MH370: Australian and Chinese planes spot possible debris in Indian Ocean | World news | theguardian.com
Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane: New Debris Located in Search for Jet - ABC News


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