Flight 370 Theory: An Act of Anti-Terrorism

03/20/2014 | GLDNGUN

[GLDNGUN]

As more and more details emerge from the strange events on Flight 370, the more clear it becomes that the entire operation from the flight path re-programming, cloaking and changes in altitude to the lack of communication of distress from passengers or crew members, the vanishing of the plane and passengers and continued invisibility was done by a highly sophisticated organization. It’s something out of a “Mission: Impossible” or similar movie. Who would be capable of pulling off such a flawlessly planned and executed “clean” operation? Any why?

[blueplum]

I disagree. You havent taken into account that the first flight path change was programmed into the computer 12 or more minutes before the last voice transmission. Had a fire been discovered after the last voice transmission, why was the flight plan changed a good interval before? How did Nav and autopilot continue to operate just fine, if a fire was so catastrophic that it fried the transponder, ACARS, etc.?

[Figment]

“Before you answer with the old saw about fire in the cockpit, you might want to read this.”

You’re the one that answered with the old saw of fire in the cockpit, not me. Argue with yourself

[Figment]

“The point was maybe to make it look like an accident and not suicide.”

Except the only fact is a missing airplane. Everything else is conjecture

[old curmudgeon]

I am not suggesting it was suicide.

There were posts above discussing suicide and why a pilot would fly to the Indian Ocean to commit suicide.

Most suicides want to get even. Killing himself in the Indian Ocean is not the way to feel that he got even.

He would only do it that way if he had a large policy for his family.

That was my only point.

[cynwoody]

The plane suffered a mechanical failure of some sort. The pilots were reacting to that failure — turning the plane back to Malaysia.

No, they headed west in preparation for a turn northwest towards the 'stans. If there had been a mechanical failure, they would have made a U-turn and flown towards Sultan Mahmud (TGG), on the north coast of the Malaysian Peninsula, a distance of only 111 miles. TGG has an 11,417 foot asphalt runway perpendicular to the shore.

After programming in the waypoint, the plane systems caused the plane to rapidly change height. This asphyxiated the passengers and crew.

Why would the plane systems do that? And, if they did, why would it asphyxiate the passengers and crew? The airplane is perfectly capable of flying at FL450 without losing cabin pressurization. And, no, there is no depressurize button in the cockpit.

[old curmudgeon]

The crew can dup cabin pressure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pressurization

[Figment]

“That was my only point.”

You’re being a curmudgeon.

[jonrick46]

Even though Flight MH370's Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, or ACARS, was disabled just as MH370 reached the eastern coast of Malaysia, it cannot be totally disabled. ACARS uses an active communication system that “pings” plane systems to see if they have updates--even if the data-transmission system is shut off. The ACARS system on the plane will still return the ping if it still has power. Flight 370 continued to send return handshakes to those pings for more than seven hours, which means that the flight was still in the air, or on the ground with its engines running.

Now, my fine FReeper friends, if the plane flew for more than 7 hours, where is it and what is happening with it? 554.4 mph x 7.5 hours = 4,158 miles of feasible flight. Get that World Atlas out and draw an arc from where it was last picked up by radar to all land areas. Time to get those Google Earth satellite trackers working. However, I have a more insidious scenario which connects some dots:

Flight has 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. Suppose the plane has indeed landed somewhere. If you were to connect the dots and knows something about the criminal mind, you know the plane is not just sitting on the ground and the pilots drinking up all the on-board alcohol. This is a perfect hostage situation. The criminals who have landed, I speculate, are talking to the Malaysian government and making demands. They have a Boeing 777 and passengers and crew. They are talking big ransom money and making political demands. They are making threats. One of the demands, of course, is no talking about their exchange. If the Malaysian government talks about what they know, the rest of the world would make sure a paramilitary operation would come after them. The hostage takers know that. If the Malaysian government talks, passengers die. All the talk about satellite sightings of debris is just a way to divert talk away from the real situation. And, dead passengers would mean the end of the United Malays National Organisation's (Umno) control over Malaysia. This puts the Flight 370 situation into a political context and the Malaysian Umno Party on thin ice.

The last election in May gave Umno a thin parliamentary majority, with the growing influence and the spread of the Shia sect of Islam in Malaysia. Umno has declared war on Shia Muslims, gays, lesbians, trans-sexuals, liberals and those who have insulted Islam. This has driven support away from the Umno party to rival parties PAS and PKR. Flight 370 Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was a supporter of the People’s Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) led by Anwar Ibrahim. Could Captain Zaharie Amad Shah be given special support by a country with pro Shia connections? You can count on it. More than 67% of the world's Shi'as live in four nations: India, Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan. In Iran, 90 to 95% of the Muslim population is Shia. The distance from Malaysia to Iran is 3677.58 miles. It is my speculative conclusion that Flight 370 is not in Pakistan, as some have theorized, but in Iran.

[jonrick46]

You forgot one thing: The plane pinged the ACARS satellite for more than 7 hours. The plane had to have the engines powered up to do that. The plane landed successfully and hostage negotiations have been ongoing.

[jonrick46]

I am with you. The plane could be used as a WMD delivery vehicle. It is a cheap one too! For the cost of jet fuel, it could go anywhere.

As for those who flew Flight 370, they were in it for the money. Just how much money could they get for the 227 passengers plus 12 crew members? Let’s start with the price for a Boeing 777. One Billion? Do I have a higher bid? Two Billion? Now for the crew: For the crew they don’t kill to make their point, $10 million per person? Do I have a higher bid? $20 million? By the time it is all over, they could demand a Trillion dollar ransom. Of course, the country that allowed Flight 370 to land, is laughing at these yahoos trying to make money off their hijacking success. All they want is the airplane and a cheap WMD delivery vehicle to be flown by their modern day kamikaze pilets.

[jonrick46]

So the engines continued to run for more than 7 hours after it was shot down. For those who have paid attention, Flight MH370’s Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, or ACARS, was disabled just as MH370 reached the eastern coast of Malaysia. However, it cannot be totally disabled. ACARS uses an active communication system that “pings” plane systems by satellite to see if they have updates—even if the data-transmission system is shut off. The ACARS system on the plane will still return the ping if it still has power. Flight 370 continued to send return handshakes to those pings for more than seven hours, which means that the flight was still in the air, or on the ground with its engines running.

[jonrick46]

Just because the hijackers are not talking to you, does not mean it did not work out. They are talking. They are talking ransom and don’t want anyone to know about it. So the Malaysian government is talking to the hijackers about the terms of the ransom and other demands. They are the only ones talking to the hijackers. Only thing is they don’t want you to know about it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Have you notified the FBI about your insider information?!

If you don't, you are obstructing justice!!!

[jonrick46]

The FBI is pretty quiet too.

[ßuddaßudd]

OK, its in Pakistan . . ,