Paris Match publishes article which seems to confirm Maldives sighting and wreckage recovery of 370

Today Paris Match has reported that French Author Marc Dugan has investigated the disappearance of flight 370 and concluded that after deviating from its route to China, overflew the Maldive Islands, and was destroyed approaching Diego Garcia. The Dugan article was reported in English by The Mirror, and TheLocal.fr .
  Dugan claims to have gone to the Maldives and interviewed local citizens who witnessed a plane of the airliners description on the morning after its disappearance, and confirmed that wreckage recovered was in fact from a Boeing airliner.
  Both events were previously reported in the Maldives press an  here and here on this blog.

Remote Sensing company that specializes in mineral and defense analysis of airborne data sets announces discovery of a submerged jet

GeoResonance, a  corporation that specializes in remotes sensing analysis of satellite data, primarily for the mineral aind mining industry has announced that it has found what appears to be a submerged commercial jet in the Bay of Bengal. According to the press release:

GeoResonance has discovered what they believe to be the wreckage of a commercial aircraft. The wreckage is located approximately 190km south of Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal. The wreckage is sitting on the seabed approximately 1000m to 1100m from the surface. The company is not declaring this is MH370, however it should be investigated.

Furthermore, this cannot be considered a case of mistaken data interpretation as a "23 page report", presumably of scientific type, was given to Malaysian authorities on April 15, approximately 7 days after the plane was reported missing. The Malaysian authorities have never anounced the existance of a 23 page scientific report detailing the location of a missing airliner in the initial search region identified by the emergency authorities. At this point, the press release from GeoResonance raises questions about the handling of the investigation by Malaysian authorities, and those other authorities with potential interest in finding the airliner. From the GeoResonance press release:

 he approximate location was passed onto Malaysian Airlines and the Malaysian and Chinese Embassies in Canberra, Australia, on March 31, 2014. It was well before the black box batteries had expired. These details were also passed onto the Australian authorities (JACC) in Perth on April 4, 2014. A more detailed study was completed in early April. The final 23 page report including the precise location of the wreckage was passed onto Malaysian Airlines, Malaysian High Commission in Canberra, Chinese Embassy in Canberra, and the Australian authorities (JACC) on April 15, 2014.

Boeing airliner component washes ashore on Maldives beach

The Maldives newspaper Haveeru has reported that a "suspicious object" has washed ashore. The object is a metallic tank that has not been in the water very long judging by the condition of its finish. It has not yet had time to fowl with barnacles and algae.

 The object was subsequently identified as a portion of a Boeing aircraft fire suppression system by theconservativetreehouse.com.
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Inmarsats new math feats face online critics

Inmarsat, the operator of the satellite communication systems (ACARS) for Flight 370 has released more details about how they tracked the mysterious flight to the southern Indian Ocean. The following is from Aviation Week:

A key calculation done by Inmarsat was determining the “Doppler shift” in the ping, or the slight change in the frequency of the signal caused by the movement of the aircraft relative to the satellite in space.

“From that process – a compression or an expansion of the wavelengths – you can determine whether the aircraft is getting closer or farther away,” McLaughlin explains. “It’s been a groundbreaking but traditional mathematics-based process that was then peer-reviewed by others in the space industry, and indeed contributed to by Boeing.”

Unfortunately for the concept of "peer review", it seems that not all of the peer reviewers in the comments section of Aviation Week imediatelly agreed with the validity of Inmarsats calculations. The following is from Mr.

MylesFmNowhere

5:30 PM on 3/25/2014

It seems to me that the key time period where the doppler readings would determine North vs South route is in the portion of the journey shortly after the left-turn and crossing Malaysia. At that point, if the plane headed north, it already being in the North several degrees, the GEO satellite would see a faster 'approaching' plane if it were heading South than if it were heading North. But what gets me is the numbers. Even if you assumed a net approaching speed of 300meters/second reltative to the sattelite (probably a stretch), the amount of frequency shift would be only 1ppm. Are we to believe that this satellite resolves EACH and EVERY frequency source it's monitoring to 1ppm? Are they saving raw signals or does the satellite itself count cycles per second & save it? Curious.
 

Bill O'Reilly congradulates himself on solving the mystery in the face of a sea of charlatan aviation experts

Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly has lashed out at his counterparts (presumably CNN) for behaving as "charlatans" with respect to the coverage of the Flight 370 mystery.

Finally, you guys watch this broadcast to get the truth,” he said. “I gave you the truth last week, seven full days before the announcement today. By doing that, I got hammered by dishonest contemptible media people… I’m proud we got the story right, as usual. We will always tell you the truth on ‘The Factor’ and we will always present facts.”

What is particularly curious is that "scientists" at Inmarsat produced an novel experiment subject to "instant peer review" in order to conclude that the airliner was truly lost only this week. As such, O'Reilly's "mentalist" ability and consequent priviledge as a pundit allowed him to beat the authorities to the conclusion by a full week. Good job Bill!

Freescale semiconductor of Austin Texas announces they had twenty employees on flight 370

Freescale Semiconductor, which formally spun off of Motorola in 2004, has announced that they had twenty employees on Flight 370.  Condolences to their co-workers and survivors.

Flight altitude data comes from secondary radar

CNN has now been reporting altitude changes after Flight 370 terminated contact with flight control for hours, if not days on end. Kindly, the BBC has provided a tutorial on modern aircraft tracking with particular relevance to Flight 370.

Of particular note is the method of altitude tracking. Altitude data on the controllers display comes from "secondary" radar, or signals received from the aircrafts transponder. The radar set then fuses the transponder data with primary returns ( from the skin of the aircraft.)
If there is one thing that seems certain, it is that the cockpit turned off the transponder and ACARS before it began its deviant maneuvers. It is questionable, based upon physics, that CNN could have new altitude data if the transponder and ACARS were disabled.