Family members of passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 say their loved ones’ phones are still ringing, and are begging authorities to use GPS to track them down.
Others say their missing friends and relatives are still signed into texting and chatting apps, but have been totally unresponsive since the plane mysteriously vanished last Friday.
But industry experts say both of these things don’t necessarily mean the missing passengers are alive — or at least not underwater.
“The ringing is not actually ringing at the other phone yet,” tech expert Jeff Kagan said. “It’s just telling you that the network is in the process of finding and connecting to it… In this particular case it’s painful because it gives people false hope.”
Distraught mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, children, other family and friends can’t help but call their loved ones repeatedly in hopes of hearing something — anything — on the other end.
But long-distance calls often “ring” many times before the phones actually connect. The sound keeps callers from hanging up because they don’t hear anything; however, if one device can’t be reached, the system eventually drops the call for the other.
Flight 370 was on its way from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing when it disappeared. But not before it went hundreds of miles off course, where military last tracked it above Pulau Perak, a tiny island in the Strait of Malacca.
Officials are still attempting to locate the plane, while conspiracy theorists are calling the whole thing very “Lost”-like.
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