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MH370 & the D-Day - Desperate, disparate, diverging times indeed?? 

Don't believe in coincidences Left field - one day we get the Chinese pitching in with a $20 million dollar shout - Li announces funds for MH370 search, urges implementation of China-Australia FTA.


The next day we get Malcolm in the middle talking up MH370 search with Najib..

MITM/NAJIB JS "..We discussed in the course of our meeting the tragic loss of MH370 and of course followed by the shocking shooting down of MH17. And we are working together to find out, find the location of MH370. Both Malaysia and Australia are cooperating in that endeavour. It’s a very large ocean of course and the search is taking time and we were both very pleased to see a contribution of a ship plus $20 million from the Chinese government yesterday – Premier Li Keqiang made that commitment. That was very helpful.."

And now today from (err... ) 'that man again'?? - courtesy the Oz:

Pilot says new tack in search will find MH370 ‘within weeks’  

• by: EAN HIGGINS, JAMES GILLESPIE
  
• From: The Australian
  
• November 23, 2015 12:00AM
  

New suspected location. Source: TheAustralian

After 20 months of fruitless search, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has switched to an area identified by a British pilot who developed a different theory about what happened to the doomed passenger jet.  

Simon Hardy, who has made the prediction based on the ­assumption that the Malaysian jet’s captain made a controlled ditch into the sea, said he ­expected MH370 would be found within the several weeks allocated for the search of the area.

The revelation came as Chin­ese media reports said that, at a meeting in Kuala Lumpur with Malcolm Turnbull at the weekend, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang had offered to commit $20 million to continue the search for the Boeing 777 that vanished in March last year with 239 passengers and crew.

However, a spokesman for Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, whose portfolio covers the search effort for MH370, said “details of the funding contrib­ution have yet to be settled”.

When Captain Hardy, a senior Boeing 777 captain with a commercial airline, revealed his analysis in The Sunday Times in March, the Australian search operat­ion was more than 100 nautical miles from the crash point he identified.

Since producing that analysis, based on his knowledge of the aircraft and a mathematical technique to calculate the plane’s route, Captain Hardy has recreated the final moments of the flight on a simulator.

“I am fairly confident that wreckage will be found within the next four to eight weeks,” he said.

A spokeswoman for the Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre, Annette Clark, confirmed that two vessels — Discovery and Equator — had arrived in the area of Captain Hardy’s proposed ­location last week.

“The vessels will be searching in the area of Captain Hardy’s prediction during the November-December period,” Ms Clark said.

The new location was within the overall greater search area, which “takes into account all the credible theories and analyses, ­including the work of Captain Hardy. He has talked with the team … we are now reaching the area he has nominated”, Ms Clark told The Australian yesterday.

The Boeing 777 left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing in the early hours of March 8 last year. The last voice heard from the plane was that of the captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, not long into the flight, although earlier commun­i­c­ations had been handled by the first officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid.

The transponder was turned off and the aircraft turned and flew back along the border between Malaysia and Thailand before ­executing a fly-past of Penang ­Island, the pilot’s home town.

Captain Hardy believes the plane came down in a controlled landing on water, which means the fuselage remained intact and could have drifted some way from the ditching point.

“But there will be some wreckage at that point,” said Captain Hardy.

“There are many movable aerodynamic surfaces on the Boeing 777, some of which will be torn from the aircraft during ditching, in a similar fashion to the flaperon, a wing control surface found at Reunion Island (in the Indian Ocean).”

Additional reporting: The Sunday Times

'Passing strange'??- Not a Muppet, a Mandarin, a Miniscule, nor a Hedley in sight


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