Thursday 20 March 2014

A startlingly simple theory about the missing Malaysia Jet Airline


There has been a lot of speculation about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Terrorism, hijacking, meteors. I cannot believe the analysis on CNN; it’s almost disturbing. I tend to look for a simpler explanation, and I find it with the 13,000-foot runway at Pulau Langkawi.

We know the story of MH370: A loaded Boeing 777 departs at midnight from Kuala Lampur, headed to Beijing. A hot night. A heavy aircraft. About an hour out, across the gulf toward Vietnam, the plane goes dark, meaning the transponder and secondary radar tracking go off. Two days later we hear reports that Malaysian military radar (which is a primary radar, meaning the plane is tracked by reflection rather than by transponder interrogation response) has tracked the plane on a southwesterly course back across the Malay Peninsula into the Strait of Malacca.

The left turn is the key here. Zaharie Ahmad Shah1 was a very experienced senior captain with 18,000 hours of flight time. We old pilots were drilled to know what is the closest airport of safe harbor while in cruise. Airports behind us, airports abeam us, and airports ahead of us. They’re always in our head. Always. If something happens, you don’t want to be thinking about what are you going to do–you already know what you are going to do. When I saw that left turn with a direct heading, I instinctively knew he was heading for an airport. He was taking a direct route to Palau Langkawi, a 13,000-foot airstrip with an approach over water and no obstacles. The captain did not turn back to Kuala Lampur because he knew he had 8,000-foot ridges to cross. He knew the terrain was friendlier toward Langkawi, which also was closer.

Take a look at this airport on Google Earth. The pilot did all the right things. He was confronted by some major event onboard that made him make an immediate turn to the closest, safest airport.

When I heard this I immediately brought up Google Earth and searched for airports in proximity to the track toward the southwest.

  • For me, the loss of transponders and communications makes perfect sense in a fire. And there most likely was an electrical fire. In the case of a fire, the first response is to pull the main busses and restore circuits one by one until you have isolated the bad one. If they pulled the busses, the plane would go silent. It probably was a serious event and the flight crew was occupied with controlling the plane and trying to fight the fire. Aviate, navigate, and lastly, communicate is the mantra in such situations.

    There are two types of fires. An electrical fire might not be as fast and furious, and there may or may not be incapacitating smoke. However there is the possibility, given the timeline, that there was an overheat on one of the front landing gear tires, it blew on takeoff and started slowly burning. Yes, this happens with underinflated tires. Remember: Heavy plane, hot night, sea level, long-run takeoff. There was a well known accident in Nigeria of a DC8 that had a landing gear fire on takeoff. Once going, a tire fire would produce horrific, incapacitating smoke. Yes, pilots have access to oxygen masks, but this is a no-no with fire. Most have access to a smoke hood with a filter, but this will last only a few minutes depending on the smoke level. (I used to carry one in my flight bag, and I still carry one in my briefcase when I fly.)

    What I think happened is the flight crew was overcome by smoke and the plane continued on the heading, probably on George (autopilot), until it ran out of fuel or the fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed. You will find it along that route–looking elsewhere is pointless.

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    Ongoing speculation of a hijacking and/or murder-suicide and that there was a flight engineer on board does not sway me in favor of foul play until I am presented with evidence of foul play.

    We know there was a last voice transmission that, from a pilot’s point of view, was entirely normal. “Good night” is customary on a hand-off to a new air traffic control. The “good night” also strongly indicates to me that all was OK on the flight deck. Remember, there are many ways a pilot can communicate distress. A hijack code or even transponder code off by one digit would alert ATC that something was wrong. Every good pilot knows keying an SOS over the mike always is an option. Even three short clicks would raise an alert. So I conclude that at the point of voice transmission all was perceived as well on the flight deck by the pilots.

    But things could have been in the process of going wrong, unknown to the pilots.

    Evidently the ACARS went inoperative some time before. Disabling the ACARS is not easy, as pointed out. This leads me to believe more in an electrical problem or an electrical fire than a manual shutdown. I suggest the pilots probably were not aware ACARS was not transmitting.

    As for the reports of altitude fluctuations, given that this was not transponder-generated data but primary radar at maybe 200 miles, the azimuth readings can be affected by a lot of atmospherics and I would not have high confidence in this being totally reliable. But let’s accept for a minute that the pilot may have ascended to 45,000 feet in a last-ditch effort to quell a fire by seeking the lowest level of oxygen. That is an acceptable scenario. At 45,000 feet, it would be tough to keep this aircraft stable, as the flight envelope is very narrow and loss of control in a stall is entirely possible. The aircraft is at the top of its operational ceiling. The reported rapid rates of descent could have been generated by a stall, followed by a recovery at 25,000 feet. The pilot may even have been diving to extinguish flames.

    But going to 45,000 feet in a hijack scenario doesn’t make any good sense to me.

    Regarding the additional flying time: On departing Kuala Lampur, Flight 370 would have had fuel for Beijing and an alternate destination, probably Shanghai, plus 45 minutes–say, 8 hours. Maybe more. He burned 20-25 percent in the first hour with takeoff and the climb to cruise. So when the turn was made toward Langkawi, he would have had six hours or more hours worth of fuel. This correlates nicely with the Inmarsat data pings being received until fuel exhaustion.

    The now known continued flight until time to fuel exhaustion only confirms to me that the crew was incapacitated and the flight continued on deep into the south Indian ocean.

    There is no point speculating further until more evidence surfaces, but in the meantime it serves no purpose to malign pilots who well may have been in a struggle to save this aircraft from a fire or other serious mechanical issue. Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah was a hero struggling with an impossible situation trying to get that plane to Langkawi. There is no doubt in my mind. That’s the reason for the turn and direct route. A hijacking would not have made that deliberate left turn with a direct heading for Langkawi. It probably would have weaved around a bit until the hijackers decided where they were taking it.

    Surprisingly, none of the reporters, officials, or other pilots interviewed have looked at this from the pilot’s viewpoint: If something went wrong, where would he go? Thanks to Google Earth I spotted Langkawi in about 30 seconds, zoomed in and saw how long the runway was and I just instinctively knew this pilot knew this airport. He had probably flown there many times.

    Fire in an aircraft demands one thing: Get the machine on the ground as soon as possible. There are two well-remembered experiences in my memory. The AirCanada DC9 which landed, I believe, in Columbus, Ohio in the 1980s. That pilot delayed descent and bypassed several airports. He didn’t instinctively know the closest airports. He got it on the ground eventually, but lost 30-odd souls. The 1998 crash of Swissair DC-10 off Nova Scotia was another example of heroic pilots. They were 15 minutes out of Halifax but the fire overcame them and they had to ditch in the ocean. They simply ran out of time. That fire incidentally started when the aircraft was about an hour out of Kennedy. Guess what? The transponders and communications were shut off as they pulled the busses.

    Get on Google Earth and type in Pulau Langkawi and then look at it in relation to the radar track heading. Two plus two equals four. For me, that is the simple explanation why it turned and headed in that direction. Smart pilot. He just didn’t have the time.

    Source- www.wired.com

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    NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us

    Civilization was pretty great while it lasted, wasn't it? Too bad it's not going to for much longer. According to a new study sponsored by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, we only have a few decades left before everything we know and hold dear collapses.

    The report, written by applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center along with a team of natural and social scientists, explains that modern civilization is doomed. And there's not just one particular group to blame, but the entire fundamental structure and nature of our society.

    Analyzing five risk factors for societal collapse (population, climate, water, agriculture and energy), the report says that the sudden downfall of complicated societal structures can follow when these factors converge to form two important criteria. Motesharrei's report says that all societal collapses over the past 5,000 years have involved both "the stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity" and "the economic stratification of society into Elites [rich] and Masses (or "Commoners") [poor]." This "Elite" population restricts the flow of resources accessible to the "Masses", accumulating a surplus for themselves that is high enough to strain natural resources. Eventually this situation will inevitably result in the destruction of society.

    Elite power, the report suggests, will buffer "detrimental effects of the environmental collapse until much later than the Commoners," allowing the privileged to "continue 'business as usual' despite the impending catastrophe."

    Science will surely save us, the nay-sayers may yell. But technology, argues Motesharrei, has only damned us further:

    Technological change can raise the efficiency of resource use, but it also tends to raise both per capita resource consumption and the scale of resource extraction, so that, absent policy effects, the increases in consumption often compensate for the increased efficiency of resource use.

    In other words, the benefits of technology are outweighed by how much the gains reinforce the existing, over-burdened system — making collapse even more likely.

    The worst-case scenarios predicted by Motesharrei are pretty dire, involving sudden collapse due to famine or a drawn-out breakdown of society due to the over-consumption of natural resources. The best-case scenario involves recognition of the looming catastrophe by Elites and a more equitable restructuring of society, but who really believes that is going to happen? Here's what the study recommends:

    The two key solutions are to reduce economic inequality so as to ensure fairer distribution of resources, and to dramatically reduce resource consumption by relying on less intensive renewable resources and reducing population growth.

    These are great suggestions that will, unfortunately, almost certainly never be put into action, considering just how far down the wrong path our civilization has gone. As of last year, humans are using more resources than the Earth can replenish and the planet's distribution of resources among its terrestrial inhabitants is massively unequal. This is what happened to Rome and the Mayans, according to the report.

    ... historical collapses were allowed to occur by elites who appear to be oblivious to the catastrophic trajectory (most clearly apparent in the Roman and Mayan cases).

    And that's not even counting the spectre of global climate change, which could be a looming "instant planetary emergency." According to Canadian Wildlife Service biologist Neil Dawe:

    Economic growth is the biggest destroyer of the ecology. Those people who think you can have a growing economy and a healthy environment are wrong. If we don't reduce our numbers, nature will do it for us ... Everything is worse and we’re still doing the same things. Because ecosystems are so resilient, they don’t exact immediate punishment on the stupid.

    In maybe the nicest way to say the end is nigh possible, Motesharrei's report concludes that "closely reflecting the reality of the world today ... we find that collapse is difficult to avoid."

    Writes Nafeez Ahmed at The Guardian:

    "Although the study is largely theoretical, a number of other more empirically-focused studies — by KPMG and the UK Government Office of Science for instance — have warned that the convergence of food, water and energy crises could create a 'perfect storm' within about fifteen years. But these 'business as usual' forecasts could be very conservative."

    Well, at least zombies aren't real.

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    MH370: Dua objek dipercayai milik pesawat ditemui, kata PM Australia


    KUALA LUMPUR: Dua objek yang mungkin berkait rapat dengan pesawat Malaysian Airlines (MAS) MH370 yang hilang sejak 8 Mac, telah dijumpai, kata Perdana Menteri Australia Tony Abbot.

    Menurut laporan AFP, pesawat P-3 Orion milik Australia telah dihantar ke kawasan di mana objek itu kelihatan.

    Australia mengetuai pasukan pencarian di bahagian selatan Lautan Hindi.

    Abbot berkata pihak Berkuasa Keselamatan Maritim Australia telah menerima maklumat tersebut berdasarkan maklumat yang diterima daripada satelit.

    "Berikutan analisis pakar imej satelit ini, dua objek mungkin berkaitan dengan pencarian telah dikenal pasti." katanya di Parlimen negara itu.

    The Sydney Morning Herald melaporkan bahawa Abbot telah memberitahu Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak mengenai perkara ini.

    Pihak Berkuasa Keselamatan Maritim Australia dijangka mengadakan sebuah sidang media pada pukul 12.30 petang waktu Malaysia.


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    Wednesday 12 March 2014

    #MH370: GEMPAR! SURAT PEKERJA PELANTAR MINYAK DAKWA NAMPAK PESAWAT TERBAKAR & MENJUNAM DIDEDAHKAN


    TORONTO - Seorang pekerja pelantar minyak mendakwa dia melihat kemalangan pesawat #MH370 milik Malaysia Airlines semasa bekerja di luar pantai selatan Vietnam.

    Bob Woodruff, seorang wartawan ABC News, memperoleh salinan emel lelaki yang dikenali sebagai Michael McKay berkata dia menghantar surat itu kepada majikannya menyatakan dia menyaksikan kemalangan itu.

    "Saya percaya saya melihat kapal terbang Malaysia Airlines menjunam. Ia selari dengan waktu kejadian yang dilaporkan pesawat MH370 hilang dari radar" kata McKay dalam e-melnya itu.

    Jelas McKay lagi, "Saya cuba menghubungi pegawai-pegawai Malaysia dan Vietnam beberapa hari lepas. Tetapi saya tidak pasti jika mesej itu telah diterima."

    Menurut Woodruff, pegawai Vietnam mengesahkan mereka menerima e-mel McKay. Woodruff juga mengesahkan emel yang dihantar oleh McKay itu juga adalah benar.


    BAWAH: Gambar e-mel dari McKay


    Dalam e-mel itu, Michael McKay menerangkan pesawat yang disaksikannya itu terbakar pada ketinggian yang sangat tinggi dalam jarak kira-kira 50 hingga 70 kilometer dari tempatnya

    Di bawah gambar peta dan koordinat yang dikongsikan oleh McKay yang mendakwa telah menyaksikan pesawat MH370 terjunam.


    Pekerja pelantar minyak disediakan GPS Koordinat lokasi dan beliau lokasi anggaran di mana dia melihat kapal terbang. - My Media Hub (kredit to Global News & Astro Awani)
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    3 Dead, Several Missing After Explosion Levels Buildings In East Harlem



    Watch: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9940178

    NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Three people are dead and at least nine people are missing after a massive explosion rocked East Harlem Wednesday morning, leveling two buildings and sending smoke and flames billowing into the air.

    At least 70 others were also injured in the blast, which happened at 9:31 a.m. Wednesday on Park Avenue at 116th Street, 1010 WINS reported.

    While the FDNY only listed 27 injured patients, many others came to hospitals independently and were not treated by the department.

    PHOTOS: Harlem Explosion

    The explosion reduced two five-story buildings to rubble. It also shattered store windows for blocks and hurled glass, bricks and other debris throughout the neighborhood reports

    The explosion and building collapses were so strong it generated weak seismic signals that were recorded at seismographic stations in New York City, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory said.

    Click Here To View Seismic Records From Park Avenue Explosion And Building Collapse

    Lamont-Doherty Cooperative Seismographic Network is a regional center for the Advanced National Seismic System.

    The seismic waves were recorded at both the Central Park station and the Fordham University station in the Bronx at 9:31 a.m.

    “I came out, looked up and a building was just gone,” witness Mack Mayor said. “It’s just like a war zone out here.”

    “Like a bomb, an explosion. Very loud. It scared the daylights out of me,” East Harlem resident Wilfredo Cruz told CBS 2′s Don Champion.

    “I was sleeping in my bed and all of a sudden something blew up and the bed started shaking, the floor. And I said ‘what is this,’ I thought the world was coming to an end,” said East Harlem resident Robert Santiago.

    “The smoke started to rise. It looked like something fell because it wasn’t like a fire. It just looked like debris smoke, similar to 9/11,” said witness Samuel Paul, who was on the 15th floor of a building on 125th Street.

    Lashean Daniels, who lives next door to one of the buildings, told CBS 2′s Tracee Carrasco the blast ripped the wall out of her apartment and sent her running for her life.

    “When we got downstairs we thought it was safe and it wasn’t. They started saying ‘run, run it’s going to explode again’ and people were running down the block. It was chaotic,” Daniels said.

    More than 250 firefighters responded to the scene. By 5 p.m. the flames had mostly been knocked down.

    More Than 70 Injured & Nine Still Missing

    The mayor’s office said nine occupants of the building remain unaccounted for, according to Fire Marshals and the NYPD.

    Searches of the street have been completed and did not produce any additional victims, the mayor’s office said.

    “Our hearts go out to all the families involved,” de Blasio said at a news conference earlier Wednesday. “We are spending every effort to locate each and every loved one.”

    The White House also issued a statement offering “thoughts and prayers” and commended first responders.

    Sgt. Griselde Camacho (Credit: CBS 2)

    Sgt. Griselde Camacho (Credit: CBS 2)

    One of the victims was identified as 44-year-old Sgt. Griselde Camacho by Hunter College, CBS 2 reported.

    The college said Sgt. Camacho served as a public safety officer at Hunter since 2008 and worked in Silberman School of Social Work building.

    “We are sad to report that, in an explosion that destroyed two buildings in East Harlem this morning, we have lost a member of the Hunter family….Our hearts go out to Griselde’s family at this terrible time,” Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab said in a statement.

    “We know this is a difficult time for all those who knew and worked with Sergeant Camacho, whether at the Silberman School or as part of the public safety office. All of you will be in our thoughts in the days ahead. We will update the community soon about plans to hold a memorial and about where to send your condolences,” the statement said.

    A second victim has been identified as Carmen Tanco, 67, who worked as director of communications at Bethel Gospel Assembly. She was inside the building at the time.

    Carmen Tanco, 67, was one of three people killed when an explosion leveled two buildings in Harlem on Wednesday, March 12. (Credit: Tanco Family)

    Carmen Tanco, 67, was one of three people killed when an explosion leveled two buildings in Harlem on Wednesday, March 12. (Credit: Tanco Family)

    The FDNY has not yet identified the two other victims, both of whom were said to be female, CBS 2 reported.

    A representative of Harlem Hospital Center said the hospital received 13 patients from the explosion. Three patients were children, one of which was in critical condition. The other two were in stable condition. The hospital said 10 adult patients, ranging in age from 20 to 79 years old, were in stable condition.

    A Metropolitan Hospital Center spokesperson said the hospital had received 17 patients related to building collapse. Six came by ambulance and eleven walked in on their own with minor complaints, the hospital said. Nine adults and one pediatric patient remained under evaluation and in stablecondition 

    Doctors said 22 people were at Mount Sinai Hospital, some of which walked in for treatment, 1010 WINS’ Holli Haerr reported. Most of the injuries were minor, but a doctor told Haerr the hospital had one person in critical condition with a head injury, WCBS 880′s Rich Lamb reported. Three children were also brought to the hospital, two of which were treated and released.

    NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital said it had 10 patients related to the incident. They were being evaluated at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, sources told CBS 2.

    Source - CBS

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    MISSING MH370: Family members attends late night briefing Read more: MISSING MH370: Family members attends late night briefing - Latest - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-color-red-missing-mh370-font-family-members-attends-late-night-briefing-1.509919#ixzz2vnwJaEvb

    PUTRAJAYA: The family members of passengers aboard MH370 are being given a briefing on the progress of the search and rescue mission now.

    They were called to the ballroom at Everly Hotel, here, for the briefing which included Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency deputy director-general Vice-Admiral Datuk Ahmad Puzi Abdul Kahar. 
     
    Family members of 38 Malaysians aboard MH370 have been waiting anxiously for the past five days for the news of their loved ones who vanished en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.
     
    The MH370 went missing from the radar at approximately 1.30am on Saturday morning and was scheduled to land in Beijing on the same day at 6.30am
     
    There were 237 passengers on the flight which two-third were made up of Chinese nationals. 

    Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency deputy director-general Vice-Admiral Datuk Ahmad Puzi Abdul Kahar briefed family members of passengers aboard MH370. Pix by NSTP/ Fariz Iswadi Ismail.



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    Stanford student's theory on disappearance of MH370 goes viral

    -- PHOTO: FROM ANDREW AUDE'S LINKEDIN

    A young American undergraduate student at Stanford University has come up with a theory - yet to be verified by aviation experts - on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that has gone viral on the Web.

    Andrew Aude, 20 and a computer science student, told The Straits Times that he "considered studying Aerospace engineering" as his father had an airline pilot licence and he grew up around aviation. When he was in middle school, he also attended the Boeing 787 roll-out premiere with his father.

    In his Tumblr post, Aude cited a 2013 Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) Airworthiness Directive for the 777 which spotted a weakness in the plane.

    According to the directive which he quotes, there had been a report of "cracking in the fuselage skin underneath the satellite communication (satcom) antenna adapter".

    From this, he theorised that MH370 could have experienced the same issue, leading to the failure of satellite-based communications as well as to a slow decompression of the plane which left passengers unconscious and pilots disoriented. "If the decompression was slow enough, it’s possible the pilots did not realise to put on oxygen masks until it was too late," he wrote.  

    He also noted that the Boeing 777 aircraft does not deploy passenger oxygen masks until the cabin altitude reaches 13,500 feet. By then, passengers were likely to be unconscious if there was a slow decompression. Moreover, MH370 was a red-eye flight and most passengers would be trying to sleep, hence masking the effects of oxygen deprivation.

    The autopilot function would have ensured that the plane maintained course and altitude before crashing into the East China Sea, the Sea of Japan or the Pacific Ocean, miles from the intensive search zone in the South China Sea where rescue efforts have been concentrated in the past few days.

    This led him to conclude that  "this was likely not an explosive decompression or inflight disintegration".

    The theory adds to the list of possible explanations put forth by experts, including mechanical fault, mid-air explosion and sabotage. But none has been backed up by concrete evidence.

    Aude wrote the piece, he said, "after discovering the FAA’s Airworthiness Directive on PPRUNE forums. In the same forum, I discovered how some of the 777’s radar systems depend on satcom and GPS. I considered these facts alongside the mobile phones ringing and the mumbling pilots, and I had come up with the proposed explanation".

    PPRUNE is the Professional Pilots Rumour Network, an aviation website for airline pilots and aviation buffs.

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    Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: satellite images give fresh lead


    Chinese government website releases images of objects floating in sea, near plane's original flight path
    Hopes of finding the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been raised after satellite images showing possible debris from the plane were released on a Chinese government website.

    The images – taken at about 11am on Sunday but released on Wednesday – appear to show "three suspected floating objects" of varying sizes, the largest about 24 metres (79 feet) by 22 metres (72 feet), the national defence technology site reported.

    It locates them in the sea off the southern tip of Vietnam and east of Malaysia, near the plane's original flight path.

    The revelation could provide searchers with a focus that has eluded them since the plane disappeared with 239 people aboard in the early hours of Saturday.

    However this is not the first time authorities have announced sightings of objects or oil slicks that they claim might be tied to the missing aircraft.

    No other governments have confirmed the latest report, and on Wednesday evening one senior US defence official said that American satellites had not located any sign of a crash.

     A family member of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
     A family member of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Photograph: Imaginechina/REX
    The last words from the jet before it disappeared five days ago were "All right, good night" as the crew responded to Malaysian air traffic controllers, relatives of some of the 239 missing on board were told on Wednesday.

    The crew were responding to information from controllers that the flight was entering Vietnamese airspace and that air traffic controllers from Ho Chi Minh City would take over.

    The Malaysian government's envoy to China revealed the last words after being pressed by relatives of Chinese passengers on what information the military had given civil officials. The envoy said now was "not the time" to reveal the last transmission, Singapore's Straits Times reported, but went on to disclose it anyway.

    Malaysia has been criticised for giving conflicting and confusing information on the last known location of aircraft. Amid the confusion, Vietnam briefly scaled down search operations in waters off its southern coast, saying it was receiving poor information from Malaysia. Hanoi later said the search was back on in full force and was even extending on to land.

    A Vietnamese air force plane involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
     A Vietnamese air force plane involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Photograph: Le Quang Nhat/AFP/Getty

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    Datuk Dr James Peter Ongkili

    A Short Story About The Singer ” Tadau Tagazo Doh Kaamatan ” By Datuk James P Ongkili


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    Dr. James was born on March 13, 1939 in Tambunan, Sabah. Wife Datin Margaret Gonduong fromTamparuli Sabah(68) and has 6 children, Dr. David, Dr. Jimmy, Judith, Julia, Paul Martin and Mark Moses. His younger brother Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili is the Minister in the Prime Minister department.

    As a young boy he attended school in St. Francis Xavier, Keningau. Then studied at Jesselton La Salle High School, Kota Kinabalu. Next further his study for undergraduate and graduate (BA, MA Hons) University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in the University after writing a thesis title of nationalism in Malaysia.
    After he finish study, Dr James worked as a district officer in the Kinabatangan and Keningau in 1967 and 1968. Between January 1969 – April 1976 he became a lecturer at Universiti Malaya.
    Politics
    In April 1976, Dr. James competed and won big majority in Tamparuli under the tickets of Berjaya Party. Therefore, he was appointed as the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in  Sabah on 20 April 1976.
    Dr James was appointed as Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Industry and Rural Development on July 17, 1976. Dr James awarded Indera Mahkota Pahang which carries the title Datuk by the Sultan of Pahang on 23 October 1976. Later he was appointed as the Vice President of Berjaya on March 18, 1977.
    In the 1978 General Election, Dr James won Parliment seat competed in Tuaran. He won the seat in the state Tamparuli 1981 election with a majority of 2.559 votes. He continues as the Deputy Chief Minister of Sabah until the Berjaya Party reshuffle after the elections in April 1981.
    Dr James was appointed by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as the Minister in the Prime Minister on June 2, 1983. After that he did not contest the state assembly in Tamparuli. He was appointed Minister of Justice in the cabinet until it was reshuffle on July 14, 1984.
    He retired from politics in July 1986 and not nominated by the party’s Berjaya  parliamentary seat for Tuaran. In May 1988 he resigned from the party’s Berjaya. In July 1988 he founded the Sabah People’s Party (PRS) and became the first president.
    In July 1990 he lost the seat to contest the ticket Tamparuli under PRS. He was defeated by Datuk Wilfred Bumburing of Sabah United Party (PBS, led by its nephew Tan Sri Joseph Pairin). On August 1, 1990 he announced and retired from PRS and politics, but joined the Sabah United Party in March 1991 in Tamparuli.
    He contributed to the writing of the National Fundamental principles that underlie the formation of a plural society in Malaysia and Vision 2020. He was a true nationalist and proud to be Malaysians. Dr James reviewed the history of the country, the construction of Malaysia and ethnic relations. He thinks a lot of politicians for the relationship established between ethnic tolerance.
    His former press secretary, Almain Ajirul who is now a Director of Information Sabah consider Dr James as a dedicated person to his work.
    Death
    He suffered pain and uses a wheelchair for 10 years because of the stroke / stroke 3.Bagi overcome the illness, he took six types of medicine. The first stroke was successfully overcome. The second attack he can still walk. But the third attack make him weak and have to use a wheelchair to move around.
    He died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah on March 20 at the age of 67 years. Funeral be conducted by the Church of St John, Tuaran on March 22 and was buried at the cemetery site in Bukit Aman, Jalan Kiulu, Kionsom Baru Tamparuli, Sabah.
    Story By: Harry George
    Sources: Dr Jimmy Ongkili, Wikipedia, Parti Berjaya
    Picture: Tamparuli Candidate for Berjaya Party 1977
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    Tuesday 11 March 2014

    The 30 Most Powerful Photos Ever Taken. These Will Leave You Utterly Speechless.

    It’s not easy putting strong feelings into words, especially when those feelings come about after seeing other people in moments of complete loss and despair. While our Must See Photos From The Past story showed humans at incredible moments in the past, these photos capture humans at critical moments in more recent times. There is just something about the love, unity and compassion displayed in many of these photos that makes us want to be good for ourselves, others and the world we live in. We hope these photos inspire you too.

    #1. A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009

    #2. Starving boy and missionary

    #3. Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner.

    #4. Father and son (1949 vs 2009)

    #5. Diego Frazão Torquato, 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence through music

    #6. Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt

    #7. Indian homeless men wait to receive free food distributed outside a mosque ahead of Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India

    #8. Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months

    #9. Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11. “The Falling Man.”

    #10. Young man just found out his brother was killed

    #11. Alcoholic father with his son

    #12. Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory

    #13. Sunset on Mars

    #14. Five-year-old gypsy boy on New Year’s Eve 2006 in the gypsy community of St. Jacques, Perpignan, Southern France. It is quite common in St. Jacques for little boys to smoke

    #15. Hhaing The Yu, 29, holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon (Rangoon). In May 2008, cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar, leaving millions homeless and claiming more than 100,000 lives

    #16. A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero in 2011.

    #17. “Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940

    #18. An old WW2 Russian tank veteran finally found the old tank in which he passed through the entire war – standing in a small Russian town as a monument

    #19. Some parents, likely now in their 70′s, still looking for their missing child.

    #20. The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888

    #21. Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012

    #22. Demonstration of condom usage at a public market in Jayapura, capital of Papua, 2009

    #23. Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943

    #24. During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, in 2011, a heroic villager saved numerous stray cats by carrying them with a basket balanced on his head

    #25. An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers

    #26. A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994

    #27. Flower power

    #28. A woman sits amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunam, in Natori, northern Japan, in March 2011

    #29. Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber

    #30. Zanjeer the dog saved thousands of lives during Mumbai serial blasts in March 1993 by detecting more than 3,329 kgs of the explosive RDX, 600 detonators, 249 hand grenades and 6406 rounds of live ammunition. He was buried with full honors in 2000

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