mobile phones on missing malaysian airlines flight reported to be ringing?

[Jason]

in what circumstances would that be normal if the phones are destroyed, disabled or immersed in water?

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/missing-malaysi...=ibtimesuk
that makes perfect sense Mask

which of course also raises the point made by one of the relatives

it should be possible to locate the phone and so establish where the wreckage is

perhaps its been found already .. ?

[Mask]

Give it a few days and the batteries will go dead. The same thing happened during and in the immediate aftermath of the attack on the Twin Towers 9/11.

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[Treforest Skunk]

Yes, to locate the phone and trace it to the wreckage sounds like a very good idea, why don't they try it? Or maybe they tried but found no signal, which is another inference of explosion. There are so many things contradicting each other. Anyway, I hope a miracle.

[Robert J]

If a phone is destroyed while switched on (or the battery taken out without switching it off first), it never 'tells' the network it has shut down so the phone network still thinks its active.

Simply flying out of range of all cell towers (ie. over the ocean) would have a similar effect - no 'shutdown' info to the phone network.

(Phones should have been turned off before takeoff so that should not happen, but a lot of people do not bother..)


On a technical note, any implication that phones are genuinely still working is a scam or deliberately misleading.

If any phones were actually still in contact with the mobile phone network, the phone locations can be found to within a few metres in a matter of minutes - the plane would not be lost..


Passengers phones CAN NOT be working.

[sweetha]

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[Albeik Taylor]

Nobody knows till date but what we can do is pray!
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[Dhiya]

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