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Oil rig worker says he saw missing plane go down: report
The Washington Times ^ | 3/12/14 | By Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 03/12/2014 12:33:06 PM PDT by Fitzy_888

Edited on 03/12/2014 12:35:14 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff has obtained a letter that an oil rig worker in Vietnam wrote to his employer claiming he saw Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 go down in flames.

Mr. Woodruff tweeted an image of the letter saying,

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 370; australia; ccp; china; iran; malaysia; mh370; oceaninfinity; oilrig; oilrigworker; philippines; roaringforties; seabedconstructor; shotdownbychinese; southchinasea; spratlies; spratlyislands; spratlys; thephilippines; thespratlys; vietnam; vungtau; waronterror
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To: WildHighlander57; maggief

Someone somewhere saw or heard something and may hesitant to say anything


21 posted on 03/12/2014 12:49:59 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: Fitzy_888

That so weird


22 posted on 03/12/2014 12:50:03 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: PGR88

Yeah, they are either incompetent, corrupt or both. In many cases incompetently corrupt. On the other hand the US is very competent and completely corrupt.


23 posted on 03/12/2014 12:52:24 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: justlurking

Nothing there but a southbound delta winged jet, painted green.


24 posted on 03/12/2014 12:55:37 PM PDT by biggerten (Love you, Mom.)
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To: Rodamala

Assuming it’s not a hoax.


25 posted on 03/12/2014 12:56:37 PM PDT by virgil
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To: Fitzy_888

If the plane was wildly off its flight plan, it is conceivable that it could have been shot down.


26 posted on 03/12/2014 12:57:07 PM PDT by kabar
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To: wtd

The oil rig guy is nowhere near the flight path.


27 posted on 03/12/2014 12:57:16 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
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To: wtd

You would think that FB picture would be a lead story. Not every day one looks out the window of a plane in mid air and see another plane on fire across the sky.


28 posted on 03/12/2014 12:57:44 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: kabar

It was never wildly off of its flight path when the transponder quit.


29 posted on 03/12/2014 12:58:29 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
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To: G Larry
The distance from his location to the airplane's last reported location is 365 miles.


30 posted on 03/12/2014 12:59:12 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

That certainly is within the realm of possibility.


31 posted on 03/12/2014 1:01:37 PM PDT by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: Fitzy_888

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/america-strong-withstand-9-11-president-obama-tells-author-bob-woodward-article-1.442891

President Obama smugly told Bob Woodward (cited above)that the US could just absorb another 9-11 attack. I think China would absorb an attack, blame it on their Muslim separatists and use it as an excuse to go in and kill thousands. But making themselves the bad guy is very unlikely. It is almost impossible to keep something like this secret. When the Soviet premier came out and said they didn’t shoot down KAL-007, Reagan produced the recording of the ground controllers ordering the pilot to fire his missile. They know better than to lie. It seems very improbable that anybody shot it down. It’s most likely it was hijacked and then crashed due to whatever was going on in the cockpit. Or, it might just have been a spectacular “oops!”


32 posted on 03/12/2014 1:01:42 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: US_MilitaryRules

The rig at that location does not match the name in his letter.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/8767771/vessel:TAM_DAO_01

Thats a vietnamese rig. His name doesn’t sound Vietnamese.


33 posted on 03/12/2014 1:02:15 PM PDT by barmag25 (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!!!)
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To: US_MilitaryRules

“The oil rig guy is nowhere near the flight path.”

At this point... What difference does it make?

(Sorry, somebody had to do it...) ;-)


34 posted on 03/12/2014 1:02:35 PM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Elections have consequences - NOW LOOK what we have to deal with...)
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To: SatinDoll

I don’t think anyone picked up the calls. The fact that the phones rang only means that the towers or satellites were trying to connect with the phones.

Besides, all the batteries would be dead by now anyway.


35 posted on 03/12/2014 1:02:55 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: SatinDoll
There have been a number of passenger’s families who have called cell phones on that flight and had someone pick up the calls, and then click off.
Probably picked up by Louis Farrakhan on the mothership.
36 posted on 03/12/2014 1:03:20 PM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: wtd

That photo looks horrible. Those poor people!


37 posted on 03/12/2014 1:03:52 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: Fitzy_888

I call Hoax on the letter.


38 posted on 03/12/2014 1:04:50 PM PDT by barmag25 (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!!!)
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To: PGR88

...3rd world cultures and government bureaucracies amuse me...

yeah just like the USA


39 posted on 03/12/2014 1:06:42 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Gen.Blather
Why on Earth would China shoot down an airliner?

It doesn't have to be intentional......Back in November they scrambled jets to investigate U.S. and japanese aircraft in the E. China sea.......and tensions have been increasing in the S. China sea as China is attempting to expand their territorial claim in that area.

As a side note, following the typhoon that hit the Phillipines, the U.S. sent one aircraft carrier, two cruisers and one destroyer plus two supply ships to help in the humanitarian relief.

That's an awful lot of naval force so the question that needs to be asked, was this truly humanitarian relief or a "show of force" to the Chinese who have been rattling their swords in that region?

40 posted on 03/12/2014 1:07:58 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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