does 'ringing' mean 'getting through'?

US officials now believe the plane may have been stolen "with the intention of using it later for another purpose." They also say an engine communications system on the plane was pinging a satellite for 4-5 hours after it went missing, which pretty much rules out a crash at sea.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...34653903086282



But Malaysia says the engine did not continue communicating with the satellite....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...formation.html

Hoping this isn't the case...

i saw on the front page of one of the national newspapers here all the id card pictures of the passengers - i think they published all the passengers faces. i just was thinking how the media got that information so fast from the airline or customs office or whatever, i would have thought they wouldn't have released that and not for a price.