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I guess he meant 2 P-8I aircrafts. Because in other tweets, he clearly stated 5 aircrafts.
Indian Navy joins search for missing Malaysian plane in the Malacca Straits
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Possible but AFAIK the IN has deployed 1 TU-142 and I P-8I, don't see why they couldn't deploy a second P-8I, possible due to other tactical requirements on the current limited fleet (3 P-8Is only so far).
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MH370: Two P-8Is comb India’s east coast
Barely a year after it was inducted into the Indian Navy, the Boeing P-8I ‘submarine-hunter’ has been assigned to carry out one of the biggest search operations to be undertaken by the force the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370.
The navy on Saturday deployed two P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft to scour an expanse of more than 9,000 sq km in the Bay of Bengal on a day Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak asserted that the plane was deliberately flown across the Malay Peninsula towards the Indian Ocean.
Kuala Lumpur had on Friday requested New Delhi to deploy assets in the Bay of Bengal to expand the scope of the search operations.“Two P-8Is and two Dornier planes are combing the new area marked for search. Warships are on their way to the new search zone,” a navy official said.
Last May, the navy had inducted the first of its eight P-8I planes ordered from the United States at a cost of $2.1 billion in 2009. It has so far inducted three P-8Is, which are based at naval air station Rajali in Tamil Nadu. Three more planes are likely to join the navy’s air wing this year, followed by the remaining two in 2015.
The planes were ordered to replace the navy’s ageing fleet of Soviet-era Tu-142s.The new search area is more than 900 km west of Andaman and Nicobar Islands capital city of Port Blair, barely 300 km from the Chennai coast. Search for the plane has entered India’s exclusive economic zone, which extends 370 km from the east coast.
The Indian Navy is the first international customer for the P-8, a variant of the P-8A Poseidon developed for the US Navy. The P-8I is capable of carrying out a raft of roles such as anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance.
The planes four more are to be bought are expected to shape the navy’s air power beyond 2050.It is a military derivative of Boeing’s 737-800 commercial aircraft.
India, which joined the search on Wednesday, has deployed six warships and four surveillance planes to comb more than 34,000 sq km east of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
P-8I ‘SUBMARINE HUNTERS’ fact file
Length: 39.47 m
Wing Span: 37.64 m
Height: 12.83 m
Max takeoff weight: 85,139 kgs
Top speed: 789 km/h
Range: 2,222 km
MH370: Two P-8Is comb India’s east coast | idrw.org
Barely a year after it was inducted into the Indian Navy, the Boeing P-8I ‘submarine-hunter’ has been assigned to carry out one of the biggest search operations to be undertaken by the force the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370.
The navy on Saturday deployed two P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft to scour an expanse of more than 9,000 sq km in the Bay of Bengal on a day Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak asserted that the plane was deliberately flown across the Malay Peninsula towards the Indian Ocean.
Kuala Lumpur had on Friday requested New Delhi to deploy assets in the Bay of Bengal to expand the scope of the search operations.“Two P-8Is and two Dornier planes are combing the new area marked for search. Warships are on their way to the new search zone,” a navy official said.
Last May, the navy had inducted the first of its eight P-8I planes ordered from the United States at a cost of $2.1 billion in 2009. It has so far inducted three P-8Is, which are based at naval air station Rajali in Tamil Nadu. Three more planes are likely to join the navy’s air wing this year, followed by the remaining two in 2015.
The planes were ordered to replace the navy’s ageing fleet of Soviet-era Tu-142s.The new search area is more than 900 km west of Andaman and Nicobar Islands capital city of Port Blair, barely 300 km from the Chennai coast. Search for the plane has entered India’s exclusive economic zone, which extends 370 km from the east coast.
The Indian Navy is the first international customer for the P-8, a variant of the P-8A Poseidon developed for the US Navy. The P-8I is capable of carrying out a raft of roles such as anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance.
The planes four more are to be bought are expected to shape the navy’s air power beyond 2050.It is a military derivative of Boeing’s 737-800 commercial aircraft.
India, which joined the search on Wednesday, has deployed six warships and four surveillance planes to comb more than 34,000 sq km east of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
P-8I ‘SUBMARINE HUNTERS’ fact file
Length: 39.47 m
Wing Span: 37.64 m
Height: 12.83 m
Max takeoff weight: 85,139 kgs
Top speed: 789 km/h
Range: 2,222 km
MH370: Two P-8Is comb India’s east coast | idrw.org
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India prepared to be embarrassed. The plane will be discovered near India and it will highlgiht alarming gaps in our radar defence/offence. Thank your gov't Congress for being corrupt for 50 yrs.
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No sign missing Malaysian jet was on a 9/11 type attack: Khurshid
While there are some reports that the missing Malaysian jet MH 370 was headed for a 9/11 style attack on India, Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid has said that India had not got any indications as yet for such an attack. “I don’t think we have gone so far. Security agencies would look at all possibilities,” he said.
However, he maintained that the security agencies will probe all angles assuring that India will put in all its efforts to help in the rescue operation. “We will give them the essential just give them the back up that they need in terms of man power, vessels, equipment. India did provide the largest number of ships and other vessels. We will continue to do so to the best of our abilities, but the operation will be led by them,” he said.
“First it was focus area which was sea searching and rescue mission, they then expanded it with more information. They looked at diff trajectories. Finally they have concluded that the search should also be west wards which is over the Indian ocean,” he said speaking about the rescue operation.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian authorities have confirmed that the pilot spoke to air traffic control after a signalling system was disabled on the jet, without referring to any trouble. This comes even as suspicions grow of possible pilot complicity and fears of a possible hijack.
The Malaysian PM had on Sunday hinted at foul play saying someone probably deliberately diverted the plane from its flight path from Kuala Lampur to Beijing. A member of the Royal Malaysian Police has confirmed that a flight simulator was recovered from the flight captain’s home. The simulator is being analysed by experts.
Malaysia has asked India for techincal assistance on corroborating possible flight.
No sign missing Malaysian jet was on a 9/11 type attack: Khurshid | idrw.org
While there are some reports that the missing Malaysian jet MH 370 was headed for a 9/11 style attack on India, Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid has said that India had not got any indications as yet for such an attack. “I don’t think we have gone so far. Security agencies would look at all possibilities,” he said.
However, he maintained that the security agencies will probe all angles assuring that India will put in all its efforts to help in the rescue operation. “We will give them the essential just give them the back up that they need in terms of man power, vessels, equipment. India did provide the largest number of ships and other vessels. We will continue to do so to the best of our abilities, but the operation will be led by them,” he said.
“First it was focus area which was sea searching and rescue mission, they then expanded it with more information. They looked at diff trajectories. Finally they have concluded that the search should also be west wards which is over the Indian ocean,” he said speaking about the rescue operation.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian authorities have confirmed that the pilot spoke to air traffic control after a signalling system was disabled on the jet, without referring to any trouble. This comes even as suspicions grow of possible pilot complicity and fears of a possible hijack.
The Malaysian PM had on Sunday hinted at foul play saying someone probably deliberately diverted the plane from its flight path from Kuala Lampur to Beijing. A member of the Royal Malaysian Police has confirmed that a flight simulator was recovered from the flight captain’s home. The simulator is being analysed by experts.
Malaysia has asked India for techincal assistance on corroborating possible flight.
No sign missing Malaysian jet was on a 9/11 type attack: Khurshid | idrw.org
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As far as I know both P8 from Arakkonam are deployed , the other one is in Goa.
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MH370 : Radars on Andaman nicobar islands might have been off
Its now confirmed that missing Malaysian jet might have headed into two possible route , but one possible route involves passing over Indian ocean around andaman islands , but then again India has heavy military presence in andaman islands but it now seems that radar guarding skies over Andaman nicobar islands might have been off .
According to Military officers who have spoken to media reporters have confirmed that there is no permanent radar coverage on the islands , India does not keep its radar facilities operational at all times because of cost, and it is possible that the military radars were switched off as they are operated on an ‘as required’ basis.” due to low level of threat perception .
Another route was northern western one, towards Pakistan/China but then again how can a civilian aircraft fly over India towards pakistan and was undetected ? , unlike limited Radar coverage over Andaman due to lower threat perceptions , eastern sector of India are pretty much have good radar coverage .
that brings to another question was plane hijacked to carry out another 9/11 type attack on Indian city ? or like reports in Japanese media reported that aircraft might have reached shores of pakistan before it ran out of fuel , but then again how it went over Indian airspace undetected ? well there is again two possible theory one been that since it was a civilian aircraft flying with switched off transponder Air Traffic Control radars might have missed it and military radars operators neglected it .
Second theory is the wild one , did the aircraft shadowed another civilian aircraft to remain undetected over indian airspace ? then again two large aircrafts shadowing each other is not only difficult but also highly risky but technically not possible according to aviation experts .
it will be interesting to see where the crash site is found. if aircraft did flew two possible routes then it exposes India’s radar coverage not only in eastern sector but also in andaman islands .
MH370 : Radars on Andaman nicobar islands might have been off | idrw.org
Its now confirmed that missing Malaysian jet might have headed into two possible route , but one possible route involves passing over Indian ocean around andaman islands , but then again India has heavy military presence in andaman islands but it now seems that radar guarding skies over Andaman nicobar islands might have been off .
According to Military officers who have spoken to media reporters have confirmed that there is no permanent radar coverage on the islands , India does not keep its radar facilities operational at all times because of cost, and it is possible that the military radars were switched off as they are operated on an ‘as required’ basis.” due to low level of threat perception .
Another route was northern western one, towards Pakistan/China but then again how can a civilian aircraft fly over India towards pakistan and was undetected ? , unlike limited Radar coverage over Andaman due to lower threat perceptions , eastern sector of India are pretty much have good radar coverage .
that brings to another question was plane hijacked to carry out another 9/11 type attack on Indian city ? or like reports in Japanese media reported that aircraft might have reached shores of pakistan before it ran out of fuel , but then again how it went over Indian airspace undetected ? well there is again two possible theory one been that since it was a civilian aircraft flying with switched off transponder Air Traffic Control radars might have missed it and military radars operators neglected it .
Second theory is the wild one , did the aircraft shadowed another civilian aircraft to remain undetected over indian airspace ? then again two large aircrafts shadowing each other is not only difficult but also highly risky but technically not possible according to aviation experts .
it will be interesting to see where the crash site is found. if aircraft did flew two possible routes then it exposes India’s radar coverage not only in eastern sector but also in andaman islands .
MH370 : Radars on Andaman nicobar islands might have been off | idrw.org
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MH370 : Andamans islands clean, ANC says
A search of all islands in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago has drawn a naught, so far as the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is concerned, officials of the Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) confirmed on Saturday evening.
Two Indian Navy ships, along with those from other nations, are continuing their search at the location pointed out by Malaysian authorities but nothing has been spotted on the water.
“There has been no oil slick, no flotsam or a sonar ping to indicate that the jetliner crashed anywhere close to where the search operations are being carried out. Details available with us are vague. Our search teams require a particular starting point from where to begin looking. We have searched all the islands but there were no signs of the aircraft,” Rear Admiral Sudhir Pillai, chief of staff, ANC, said.
Air traffic controllers at Kolkata have also ruled out the possibility of the missing aircraft flying through Indian airspace, one of the two possibilities that Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak suggested at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
If this theory was correct, the aircraft couldn’t have avoided the Kolkata Flight Information Region. The other alternative route that the flight, whose communication system is now believed to have been deliberately disabled, is to the Indian Ocean south of the Malacca Strait where the plane was last sighted on a Malaysian military radar.
According to Pillai, this would have taken the aircraft south of the Andamans. Speaking to TOI, air traffic controllers’ guild secretary Sugata Pramanik said that while flight MH370 could have avoided detection on the Secondary Surveillance Radar, the blip by the huge Boeing 777-200 ER aircraft would surely have been spotted by the Indian Air Force that uses Primary Surveillance Radars to detect such intrusions.
“If an aircraft wants to avoid being seen, they can easily become invisible to civilian radar by switching off the transponder. But it cannot avoid defence systems. The IAF has radars in multiple installations across the country and it is inconceivable that none of them spotted the odd blip with no flight clearance,” he said. There are nine Air Defence Identification zones in the country that are manned 24×7 to prevent an enemy aircraft from violating Indian airspace.
According Guild member Sushil Mondal, all hell would break loose if the IAF detected an aircraft that did not have air defence clearance. Any plane flying through Indian airspace is first required to submit the flight plan and manifest to the air traffic controls in its flight path. This is then relayed to the air force for permission. “There are times when the Air Force finds a blip that does not match a flight plan. That usually happens when flight plans going missing at their end due to a system or link failure. They then immediately contact us for information.
If the plane flight plan isn’t of suspicious nature, a clearance is granted. Or else, it is asked to return to wherever it came from. In case, we too don’t have any information of the aircraft, there will be trouble and the air force scramble jets to take the plane down. Nothing of the kind happened last Saturday,” said Mondal. Recently, the IAF scrambled a Su-30MKI in the western sector after noticing an unidentified ‘blip’ crossing over from Pakistan; It turned out to be a weather balloon.
Kolkata airport has an Automatic Dependence Surveillance Radar and Controller-Pilot Datalink Communication that enables it to not only trail planes when it is in the radar zone of 60 nautical miles or nearly 120 km and beyond through very high frequency radio but also through the data link when the plane goes out of voice communication range. There are large areas in the Kolkata Flight Information Region, particularly over Bay of Bengal, that have no radar coverage at present. A radar has been installed in Andaman and Nicobar Islands but is yet to be commissioned. Officials suspect that there is an arrangement between Malaysia and US agencies. Not sufficient of what Malaysia knows is being transmitted to India or other countries involved in a ‘wild goose chase’.
MH370 : Andamans islands clean, ANC says | idrw.org
A search of all islands in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago has drawn a naught, so far as the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is concerned, officials of the Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) confirmed on Saturday evening.
Two Indian Navy ships, along with those from other nations, are continuing their search at the location pointed out by Malaysian authorities but nothing has been spotted on the water.
“There has been no oil slick, no flotsam or a sonar ping to indicate that the jetliner crashed anywhere close to where the search operations are being carried out. Details available with us are vague. Our search teams require a particular starting point from where to begin looking. We have searched all the islands but there were no signs of the aircraft,” Rear Admiral Sudhir Pillai, chief of staff, ANC, said.
Air traffic controllers at Kolkata have also ruled out the possibility of the missing aircraft flying through Indian airspace, one of the two possibilities that Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak suggested at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
If this theory was correct, the aircraft couldn’t have avoided the Kolkata Flight Information Region. The other alternative route that the flight, whose communication system is now believed to have been deliberately disabled, is to the Indian Ocean south of the Malacca Strait where the plane was last sighted on a Malaysian military radar.
According to Pillai, this would have taken the aircraft south of the Andamans. Speaking to TOI, air traffic controllers’ guild secretary Sugata Pramanik said that while flight MH370 could have avoided detection on the Secondary Surveillance Radar, the blip by the huge Boeing 777-200 ER aircraft would surely have been spotted by the Indian Air Force that uses Primary Surveillance Radars to detect such intrusions.
“If an aircraft wants to avoid being seen, they can easily become invisible to civilian radar by switching off the transponder. But it cannot avoid defence systems. The IAF has radars in multiple installations across the country and it is inconceivable that none of them spotted the odd blip with no flight clearance,” he said. There are nine Air Defence Identification zones in the country that are manned 24×7 to prevent an enemy aircraft from violating Indian airspace.
According Guild member Sushil Mondal, all hell would break loose if the IAF detected an aircraft that did not have air defence clearance. Any plane flying through Indian airspace is first required to submit the flight plan and manifest to the air traffic controls in its flight path. This is then relayed to the air force for permission. “There are times when the Air Force finds a blip that does not match a flight plan. That usually happens when flight plans going missing at their end due to a system or link failure. They then immediately contact us for information.
If the plane flight plan isn’t of suspicious nature, a clearance is granted. Or else, it is asked to return to wherever it came from. In case, we too don’t have any information of the aircraft, there will be trouble and the air force scramble jets to take the plane down. Nothing of the kind happened last Saturday,” said Mondal. Recently, the IAF scrambled a Su-30MKI in the western sector after noticing an unidentified ‘blip’ crossing over from Pakistan; It turned out to be a weather balloon.
Kolkata airport has an Automatic Dependence Surveillance Radar and Controller-Pilot Datalink Communication that enables it to not only trail planes when it is in the radar zone of 60 nautical miles or nearly 120 km and beyond through very high frequency radio but also through the data link when the plane goes out of voice communication range. There are large areas in the Kolkata Flight Information Region, particularly over Bay of Bengal, that have no radar coverage at present. A radar has been installed in Andaman and Nicobar Islands but is yet to be commissioned. Officials suspect that there is an arrangement between Malaysia and US agencies. Not sufficient of what Malaysia knows is being transmitted to India or other countries involved in a ‘wild goose chase’.
MH370 : Andamans islands clean, ANC says | idrw.org
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A map showing the search areas where Indian Armed Forces are focusing their hunt from the air for the missing MH370.
A Real-Time map of initial search ops detailing the designated search area for flight MH370 released by Indian Navy MOC
A Real-Time map of initial search ops detailing the designated search area for flight MH370 released by Indian Navy MOC
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Indian air force officer surprised by slowness of Malaysian reaction to missing plane
A senior Indian Air Force officer has expressed surprise over the slowness of reaction of Malaysia to its missing plane, said local daily Times of India online Sunday.
The unnamed officer also said it was unlikely that the plane flew above Indian skies as it could have come under attack.
“We are surprised that the Malaysian military authorities did not react for two days after their primary radar spotted the plane, ” he was quoted as saying.
He said India committed a similar mistake in 1995 in the Purulia arms drop case in which unauthorised arms were dropped from an aircraft to the West Bengal state in India.
“Surveillance authorities should immediately react to anonymous flights and such information should be shared across civilian and military agencies too. If the assumptions are true, the missing plane would have needed to fly through the airspace of several countries in the region,” the officer said.
The Purulia arms drop case was reportedly carried out by European mercenaries tasked to drop arms to rebel-infested areas in northeast India.
Indian air force officer surprised by slowness of Malaysian reaction to missing plane | idrw.org
A senior Indian Air Force officer has expressed surprise over the slowness of reaction of Malaysia to its missing plane, said local daily Times of India online Sunday.
The unnamed officer also said it was unlikely that the plane flew above Indian skies as it could have come under attack.
“We are surprised that the Malaysian military authorities did not react for two days after their primary radar spotted the plane, ” he was quoted as saying.
He said India committed a similar mistake in 1995 in the Purulia arms drop case in which unauthorised arms were dropped from an aircraft to the West Bengal state in India.
“Surveillance authorities should immediately react to anonymous flights and such information should be shared across civilian and military agencies too. If the assumptions are true, the missing plane would have needed to fly through the airspace of several countries in the region,” the officer said.
The Purulia arms drop case was reportedly carried out by European mercenaries tasked to drop arms to rebel-infested areas in northeast India.
Indian air force officer surprised by slowness of Malaysian reaction to missing plane | idrw.org
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This is not possible. Either they know everything where the aircraft is or they do not know anything.
B777 is a huge aircraft, and not just military, it might have been detected by other passenger aircrafts flying nearby by their collision avoid system.
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Shut up false flagger
@Topic, there is something shady going on here, IAF and IN officials have now both said the Malaysians have reacted in a very abnormal way to this entire affair and as far as the search goes have actually been hampering the IN's own search. The Chinese have also called the Malysians out on the belated nature of the information they are putting out.Indian air force officer surprised by slowness of Malaysian reaction to missing plane
A senior Indian Air Force officer has expressed surprise over the slowness of reaction of Malaysia to its missing plane, said local daily Times of India online Sunday.
The unnamed officer also said it was unlikely that the plane flew above Indian skies as it could have come under attack.
“We are surprised that the Malaysian military authorities did not react for two days after their primary radar spotted the plane, ” he was quoted as saying.
He said India committed a similar mistake in 1995 in the Purulia arms drop case in which unauthorised arms were dropped from an aircraft to the West Bengal state in India.
“Surveillance authorities should immediately react to anonymous flights and such information should be shared across civilian and military agencies too. If the assumptions are true, the missing plane would have needed to fly through the airspace of several countries in the region,” the officer said.
The Purulia arms drop case was reportedly carried out by European mercenaries tasked to drop arms to rebel-infested areas in northeast India.
Indian air force officer surprised by slowness of Malaysian reaction to missing plane | idrw.org
I suspect there is something very dubious going on on the part of the Malaysians here...
With the most nationals on board the Chinese need to pressure the Malaysians and get the truth out of them, what I am hearing from them just isn't adding up...
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False flagger.....typical British pansy......you dont like the msg....toughen up ....im not the one with a British flag.....your loyalty lies with the same ppl who destroyed india....so suck it
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One possibility could be all the navigation system of aircraft and its all means of communication totally malfunctioned due to xyz reason and to avoid direct head on collision with other aircraft it flew at 43000 feet and to find a place to land through manual navigation via compass they lost somewhere and in the end crashed.
That is highly unlikely main reason being that the aircrafts have redundancy measure in which case the aircrafts can be guided by the Air traffic controller. Even that was turned off, from what is being reported on the news, they interviewed a pilot and he said that if there is any malfunction of any case, the aircraft system report that problem to the ground control, and for any abnormal thing such as all systems crashing, they have to happen in a split second, where the plane is literally has to blow up within a second. But this didn't happen the plane signal was active and was functioning even after it changed course and flied across Malaysia into the Malacca strait which points to someone deliberately messing with the controls.
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