So what is happening with the search for Malaysia Air MH370?

Still more questions than answers...

So where is MH370?

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Breaking News: Did they hear a "ping" from Malaysia Air MH370's black box?

The race to locate the black box: its batteries are expected to fail soon…

Breaking: Chinese ship may have detected a pulse signal from the MH370 black box

Has MH370 Debris Finally Been Found? Crashed in Indian Ocean on "southern arc" Update: Was the cargo the cause of this disaster?

Australia, China Confirming Debris Field In Southern Arc?

AoSHQ is breaking news from Malaysia saying Flight MH370 "ended" in the Indian Ocean

Update:
So what was the cargo on MH370?
Was it lithium ion batteries in cargo that exploded?
Malaysia Airlines defends battery cargo
Proposed movie of airline crash at sea and Chinese passengers eaten by sharks put on hold…
MH370 crew and passengers all lost in Southern Indian Ocean
The ping theory reasoning on MH370 taking a southern arc route…

CNN's Idiot Host Don Lemon: Is it time to stop crazy speculation on Malaysia Flight MH370?

It is hard to fill the 24 hour "news" cycle sometimes...

Update:
Plane story sucks Media into a black hole...
Lem's Place is on it!  

Did Malaysia Airlines MH370 Fly To Pakistan? Update: Pilot allegedly "obsessive" about a Malaysian opposition leader who was sentenced for sodomy the day MH370 took off?

This is getting stranger and stranger as the days pass…

Various Drudge Report links here:

'Deliberate Action': Focus Shifts to Passengers, Crew as New Clues Emerge...

'Conclusive' Someone Hijacked Jet...

'May Have Sent Signals On Ground'...

Pilot was 'political activist'...

Can a plane really just vanish?

Murdoch: Maybe 'Hidden' in Pakistan, 'Like Bin Laden'…

What is odd is how little is known a week after the aircraft went missing. It is still mostly speculation in the media (although I assume investigators are keeping what most of what they know or are learning to themselves). If it crashed in the ocean, wouldn't there be evidence of some sort (floating debris, oil, kerosene slicks, etc.).

This is especially tough on the families who have no idea whatsoever (which is shocking after a week) if their loved ones are dead or kidnapped.  

Update:
Pilot's "obsessive" political views being looked at…hmmmm.
Obsessed over opposition leader who was sentenced for five years for sodomy, the day the MH370 took off?
Open Blogger at AoSHQ

Maetenloch at AoSHQ explains options…

More updates from Ace at AoSHQ
American Power: Daunting new phase in the search for MH370
More updates March 18 from AoSHQ
Maldives witnesses report seeing low flying aircraft the day MH370 went missing...
TOM: More Malaysia Mystery...
Is the answer this simple (and this tragic)
TOM: More Malaysia Updates (there is not much to update)
More from AoSHQ (not too much more to say)

So where is Malaysia Air Flight MH370?

Where is MH 370?

When conspiracy theories are about just as valid as anything else (days after the plane when missing) something is very wrong.

Prior EBL Posts:
The oil slick observed is not the missing plane…
Why did Malaysia Air Fight MH370 disappear?
How can an airline jet just disappear?

Update:
Did Chinese satellites pick up wreckage? 
Oil rig worker says he saw the plane go down…
Did the aircraft land?  Or did it crash on the way to a landing?

Signficant: Two communications systems on the missing Malaysian Airlines flight shut down separately-14 mins apart http://t.co/wBHnoIHWBh
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) March 13, 2014

Missing aircraft may have flown over five hours from last contact… 
More from Hot Air…
Indonesian Al Qaeda Terror Group?
Sabotage?
Hijacked?  Steered off course?
Can bombs disable transponders like this?
Did the aircraft fly on for seven hours?
Is China being targeted by al Qaeda?

The oil slick observed off Vietnam is not from the missing Malaysia Air flight? Where is MH370?

The oil slick observed is not from MH370?

What is going on with the search for MH370 and why did it disappear?
It is a mystery.
Vast waters hide wreckage
Unprecedented Mystery

Update:
What the passport passenger may have looked like, and now five are missing and a mysterious Iranian businessman?

Two mystery passengers identified?
The plane then changed course and flew hundreds of miles in a different direction?
Crowd sourcing the search for Malaysia Flight 370…
Malaysia not sure where the plane was going…

Did Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 crash in the South China Sea? Update: Oil slick spotted off Vietnam coastline. Update II: Terrorism?

Hopefully this is not as bad as it seems...

This is breaking news and not yet confirmed:

A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew crashed in the South China Sea on Saturday, Vietnamese state media said, quoting a senior naval official.
The Boeing 777-200ER flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had been missing for hours when Vietnam's Tuoi Tre news quoted Admiral Ngo Van Phat as saying he had asked boats from an island off south Vietnam to rush to the crash site. 

Malaysia Airlines had yet to confirm that the aircraft had crashed. It said earlier in the day that no distress signal had been given and cited early speculation that the plane may have landed in Nanming in southern China. 

If the report that the plane crashed is confirmed, it would mark the US-built airliner's deadliest crash since entering service 19 years ago. The loss would mark the second fatal accident involving a Boeing 777 in less than a year and by far the worst since the jet entered service in 1995. An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777-200ER crash-landed in San Francisco in July 2013, killing three passengers and injuring more than 180. 

Boeing said it was aware of reports that the Malaysia Airlines plane was missing and was monitoring the situation but had no further comment. The flight was operating as a China Southern Airlines codeshare.

Update:
Oil slick spotted off Vietnam coastline. 
Stolen passports used for two passengers...terrorism? 
Appears to have been catastrophic...
Protein Wisdom: Darleen suspects something more…
Debka has what little other sites have…

« Breaking News »

Terrorism suspected in Malaysian airline disaster 

DEBKAfile March 8, 2014, 8:36 PM (IST)

The Malayasian Airlines Flight MH370, carrying 227 passengers and a dozen Malaysian crew members en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, lost contact with air controllers Saturday, two hours after takeoff. Security authorities started suspecting terrorism when it was discovered that an Italian national listed on the manifest was not on the plane but in Thailand, and an Austrian citizen reported his passport was stolen in Thailand two years ago. The Vietnam air force reported oil slicks in the sea off southern Vietnam, but no sign of wreckage. An explosion in the luggage hold or a suicide bomber in the passenger section could have caused the plane to vanish in a sudden catastrophe before an emergency was signaled.

Interpol: No database check passport check pre-flight…
CNN: The two passengers who had stolen passports bought their ticket together…
Where is the plane?  Limited wreckage spotted?
ABC: Absolutely baffling so few answers this long after being reported missing…
Protein Wisdom: What is the point of having passports if you don't check them…
Debka: World-wide probe to identify the two passengers traveling on false ids…
Oil slick not from missing plane?
Vast waters hide location of wreckage