Missing flight: Why are the phantom phones ringing FOUR DAYS after mystery disappearance? (Perhaps not underwater?)
Many desperate and devastated families of the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight are clinging to hope. For days they have been waiting anxiously for any word from officials about the status or location of the plane and its 239 passengers. Some of the family members have been able to ’connect’ to their missing loved ones via cellphones - the phones ring at the passenger end, but no one picks up. Is this an indication that the plane may not be underwater? Could the GPS signals from phones be used to triangulate a location? Phone networks and carriers don’t seem to think so.Mirror News reports:
It has emerged that phones taken on board flight MH370 are still ringing FOUR DAYS after the plane’s disappearance.
Reports suggest as many as 19 families have managed to call phones of their missing loved ones, while the airline itself has got through to some of the missing crew’s handsets.
According to Chinese media, the 19 families have signed a joint statement confirming they made calls which connected to the missing passengers but without an answer.
In addition a Malaysia Airlines official confirmed that they too had tried to get in touch with cellphones of missing crew members, but again without a response.
And even more bizarrely, some social media sites have shown missing passengers as still being ’online’.
One man said that his missing brother’s QQ profile - a Chinese social networking site - was still logged in.
But frustratingly for all the heartbroken families all messages or calls are yet to be reciprocated.
This isn’t the first time that the phones of those people missing were able to be ’reached’. [...]
Read more at: mirror.co.uk
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