It seemed inconceivable, above all, that the Sentinelese islanders could have survived, living as they did on a remote island directly in the tsunami’s path.
Yet when a helicopter flew low over the island, a Sentinelese man rushed out on to the beach, aiming his arrow at the pilot in a gesture that clearly said, ‘We don’t want you here’. Alone of the tens of millions of people affected by the disaster, the Sentinelese needed no help from anyone.
Perhaps no people on Earth remain more genuinely isolated than the Sentinelese. They are thought to be directly descended from the first human populations to emerge from Africa, and have probably lived in the Andaman Islands for up to 60,000 years. The fact that their language is so different even from other Andaman islanders suggests that they have had little contact with other people for thousands of years.
This does not mean, however, that they live just as they did 60,000 years ago. Commonly described, for instance, as belonging to the ‘Stone Age’, they do in fact make tools and weapons from metal, which they recover from ships wrecked on the island’s reefs.
Hampir kesemua rakyat Malaysia dalam pesawat miliki insurans hayat Bernama| Kemas kini: Mac 25, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR: Persatuan Insurans Hayat Malaysia (LIAM) berkata 47 daripada 50 rakyat Malaysia dalam pesawat malang MH370, memiliki polisi insurans.
Ia meliputi 38 penumpang dan 12 anak kapal, dengan polisi insurans hayat dari 14 syarikat di Malaysia.
Presiden LIAM Vincent Kwo berkata kira-kira enam rakyat asing turut diinsuranskan dengan syarikat anggota LIAM.
"Anggota keluarga atau waris pemegang polisi boleh menghubungi LIAM di 03-26916628 atau e-mel [email protected], jika mereka mahu mengetahui syarikat insurans yang melindungi orang kesayangan mereka," katanya menerusi satu kenyataan di sini hari ini.
Sementara itu dalam kenyataan berasingan, AIA Bhd berkata ia akan menghubungi keluarga pemegang polisi.
"Kami memberi jaminan kepada keluarga terbabit bahawa kami akan menghubungi mereka untuk menyegerakan proses tuntutan insurans hayat dalam tempoh 24 jam akan datang.
"Waris juga boleh menghubungi 1300-88-8860/70 untuk bantuan atau e-mel [email protected]," kata Ketua Pegawai Eksekutifnya Bill Lisle.
Malam tadi Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak mengumumkan penerbangan MH370, yang hilang semasa merentasi Laut China Selatan ketika dalam penerbangan dari Kuala Lumpur ke Beijing pada 8 Mac, "berakhir di selatan Lautan Hindi".
Pesawat Boeing 777-200ER, dengan 227 penumpang dan 12 anak kapal, berlepas dari Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa KL pada 12.41 tengah malam. Ia dijadual mendarat di Beijing pada 6.30 pagi (waktu Malaysia) pada hari sama.
'Also, some of them are just angry. They are so mad they haven't been found. Others in a way accept it, and have had a peacefulness come over them..ni yg kapir lah ni..
Rhyno posted on 25-3-2014 04:40 PM
Seriously aku tak rasa MH370 jatuh dalam Lautan Hindi. Aku rasa US terlibat dalam hal ini.
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saya spekulit mcm tu juga..awal rancangannya..perjanjiannya...tapi bila nak landing boleh boleh mamat salleh tu berpaling tadah...tembak kalau dekat...mau ac to panicing terbang tak tentu hala sampai habis minyak....hehehehe
Malaysia
Mystery of MH370 ‘may never be solved’
March 25, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 ― Even if searchers are able to miraculously pluck Malaysia Airlines flight 370's “black box” from the depths of the vast Indian Ocean, experts say it may not solve one of aviation's greatest mysteries.
Planes, ships and state-of-the-art tracking equipment are hunting for any trace of the passenger jet, which Malaysia said crashed in the forbidding waters after veering far from its intended course.
They face a huge challenge locating the Boeing 777's “black box”, which holds vital clues to determining what caused the plane to vanish after it took off from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing on March 8.
But experts believe the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder may not yield answers on the riddle of how and why the plane diverted an hour into the flight, and embarked on a baffling journey to the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean.
The data recorder details the aircraft's path and other mechanical information for the flight's duration, and “should provide a wealth of information”, US-based aviation consultancy firm Leeham Co said in a commentary.
But the cockpit voice recorder ― which could reveal what decisions were made by those at the helm and why ― retains only the last two hours of conversations before the plane's demise.
That means potentially crucial exchanges surrounding the initial diversion, which took place halfway between Malaysia and Vietnam, will be lost.
“Clearly, it won't reveal anything that happened over the Gulf of Thailand ― this will have been overwritten by the end of MH370,” it said.
Leeham added that it also remains to be seen whether the cockpit recorder will contain anything pertinent about the plane's final two hours, when it is believed to have either ditched or run out of fuel.
Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said yesterday that Flight MH370 had gone down in the Indian Ocean with its 239 passengers and crew, citing new satellite data analysis.
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But its exact location and the circumstances of its diversion remain a mystery. No distress signal was ever received.
Three scenarios have gained particular traction: hijacking, pilot sabotage, or a sudden mid-air crisis that incapacitated flight crew and left the plane to fly on auto-pilot for several hours until it ran out of fuel.
Malaysia has said it believes the plane was deliberately diverted by someone on board.
But with the travelling public and aviation industry hanging on every twist in the drama, no firm evidence has emerged from a Malaysian investigation to support any of the theories circulating.
British aviation expert Chris Yates said that even if the black boxes are found, “it seems unlikely that we will get that answer” of why the plane ended up thousands of kilometres off course.
“We still have no idea as to the mental state of the pilot and co-pilot, we have no idea if somebody managed to get into the cockpit to seize the aircraft, and we've certainly had no admissions of responsibility since this whole episode started,” he told BBC television.
“It is a mystery like no other.”
Debris has been sighted far off Australia's west coast but an international search effort has been unable to retrieve any for confirmation, and wreckage could have drifted hundreds of kilometres from where the plane crashed.
“As investigators, we deal with physical evidence and right now we don't have any physical evidence to work with,” Anthony Brickhouse, a member of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators, told AFP.
The batteries powering the locator signal of the black boxes will run out in less than two weeks.
A US device capable of detecting that signal even on the ocean floor was being sent to the scene, but weather and treacherous sea conditions have hampered the effort to pinpoint the black box location.
Paul Yap, an aviation lecturer at Singapore's Temasek Polytechnic, said that if the black box is not found, “chances are we are never going to find out what really happened”.
“With the new satellite data, I think we can say it is a chessboard,” he said of the wide search area.
“The question now is to find which grid on that chessboard to focus on, where the black boxes are.” ― AFP
aderaderker posted on 25-3-2014 04:49 PM
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sapa2 yag tak suka pengumuman semalam..ini la salah satu sebab kenapa kena umumkan berita sedih itu.. dgn bukti dan data yg ada.. baru insuran boleh di lanjutkan
TimahMulia posted on 25-3-2014 04:53 PM
'Also, some of them are just angry. They are so mad they haven't been found. Others in a way accept ...
org Islam kena terima ketentuan Tuhan...kalau tak nak terima..itu tandanya melawan kuasa tuhan..besar dosanya...kena redha dan sabar...meratapi pun sudah dikira berdosa....
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