Relatives of passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight
MH370 claimed that they were able to call cell phones of their loves ones,
according to media reports.
The Washington Post said that the families of some of the 239 people
onboard the missing Boeing 777 claimed to have heard the mobile ringtones.
“In some cases, the relatives could see them active online through a
local Chinese networking site called QQ,” the Post reported.
The eerie development comes even as Malaysian authorities described
MH370′s disappearance an unprecedented mystery.
One man told the Washington Post that his brother-in-law’s QQ account
indicated that he was online.
Frustratingly for those desperate for some news or sign, messages have
gone unanswered and calls were not picked up.
Search and rescue (SAR) operation involving 10 countries has so far
failed to find any trace of the missing airliner.
Britain’s Daily Mail reported that the phantom phone calls and online
presence had set off a new level of hysteria among relatives and next-of-kin,
most of whom have spent three days cooped up at a Beijing Hotel waiting for
news on the missing plane.
MAS officials in Beijing have been told repeatedly about the QQ accounts
and ringing telephone calls, and relatives are hoping that SAR forces will be
able to triangulate the GPS signals of the phones to locate their loved ones.
Bian Liangwei, sister of one of the passengers aboard MH370, claimed
that she was able to reach her elder brother’s phone.
“This morning, around 11:40am, I called my older brother’s number twice,
and I got the ringing tone,” she told the International Business Times.
At 2pm, Bian called again and again heard its ring tone.
“If I could get through, the police could locate the position, and there
is a chance he could still be alive,” she said.
However, at a press conference in Beijing, MAS spokesman Ignatius Ong
said one of the numbers provided to the airline’s head office in Kuala Lumpur
had failed to get through.
“I myself have called the number five times while the airline’s command
centre also called the number. We got no answering tone,” Ong said.
Search for the missing plane has now moved to the Straits of Malacca,
some 100 miles away from where it was last recorded by electronic monitoring
devices.
The dramatic shift raises the possibility that it flew undetected,
crossing mainland Malaysia, before ditching into the sea.
MAS said Malaysia’s western coast near the Straits of Malacca was now
the focus of the hunt.
Civil aviation chief Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, however, said the
statement didn't imply authorities believed the plane was off the western
coast.
“The search is on both sides,” he said.
The plane was carrying 239 people when it vanished off radar screens
early Saturday morning en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, triggering a
massive international search effort.
Authorities have expanded their search to include areas where the plane
could have in theory ended up given the amount of fuel it had on board.
On Sunday, Malaysia’s air force chief said military radar indicated that
the jet might have turned back before disappearing. – March 11, 2014.
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