Posted on 03/18/2014 7:02:56 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Is Zaharie Ahmad Shah a real-life Marko Ramius? Is the mystery of Malaysia flight 370 lifted straight from a famous bestselling thriller-turned-Hollywood-blockbuster? Recall: A brand new high tech Soviet nuclear submarine vanishes with officers and full crew aboard. A frantic search begins, though the alarmed Kremlin is silent about the fact that it has been notified by the captain that he intends to defect and hand the sub over to the Americans. The officers — but not the crew — are in on the plan.
The Israeli government is alarmed that the vanished Malaysian plane has in fact been hijacked to Iran in order to attack Israel with a weapon of mass destruction, and the New York Times reports that the “first turn that diverted the missing Malaysia Airlines plane from its route was entered into a computer system, most likely by someone in the plane’s cockpit.” So too in the late Tom Clancy's bestselling thriller does a stunned debate rage at the highest levels over the intent of those aboard the missing sub. Is it ready to park off the U.S. coast and launch its nuclear missiles — as the Kremlin is falsely telling American officials? Or is it a bold defection, an attempt, in words of one American official, by the captain to hand over “several billion dollars' worth of Soviet state property”?
The storyline, of course, is from Clancy’s famous novel The Hunt for Red October, later made into a Hollywood blockbuster (trailer here) starring Sean Connery as the Red October’s Captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as CIA analyst Jack Ryan.
But how farfetched is the Clancy story from what is going on right now in the massive 25-nation search for the Malaysian flight 370, a Boeing 777, the civilian airline equivalent ~snip~ submarine Red October?
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Hey NAPA, this is Al Queda calling from Pakistan.
You got a couple oil filters and a set of brake pads for 2002 Boeing triple 7-200?
My husband suggested Iran as a possible destination (and why the location has not been reported) early last week!
Brit bomber gets hijacked, lands in water, so terrorists can steal nuclear missiles.
5 or 6 years ago, I would have written something like this off as silly conspiracy crap. But seeing how some of the tin-foil crowd got it right about how devious our own government actually was, I have a more open mind these days.
“One of the memorable events of 9/11 was the rebellion by the passengers of United Flight 93. Learning of the other airline hijackings that morning by cell phone calls from family — and the attacks using those planes on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — the Flight 93 passengers took matters into their own hands and fought back. The plane crashed in a field in western Pennsylvania, but it is gospel today that the heroic actions of the passengers prevented an attack on either the U.S. Capitol or the White House.”
I think this could be the reason for stealing that 777, since the White House or the Crapitol is unfinished business for the Muzzies.
And here we are today, almost 2 weeks from the flight and NO SIGNS of debris, no publicized negotiations for the passengers, or a bunch of dead people found in a ditch. Each day that passes makes this event more fantastic.
Have they located the family of the pilot and interviewed them yet?
30 years ago, an Air Canda 767 ran out of fuel at 41,000. Luckily, the pilot was able to make a dead-stick landing...and the legend of the “Gimli Glider” was born. Happily, everyone walked away. The idea that a modern jet could run out of fuel, through a combination of human error and PC induced stupidity is impossible to imagine. Yet it happened. Just like that this plane has vanished..
What we know for now:
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
“devious our own government actually was”?
That’s a quaint way of saying our gob mint is full of lying duplicitous bastards.
General McInerny (sp?) on Fox this morning doubled down on Pakistan hinting he had inside contacts feeding him info.
Another article on FR by a pilot says it was an intentional turn by a veteran pilot due to a mayday on board like fire in the electrical system. He would have programmed the closest, easiest airport and then gone to fight the fire, electrical meaning turning off systems one at a time to find the source, but smoke overcoming everyone, they just kept on south toward the indian ocean til they ran out of gas and crashed into the sea.
Both are plausible given that McInerny is Air Force, does have contacts, and could be getting fed info. If the military has set up a group solely focused on the threat aspect, they would be collecting and processing info based on that assumption which is too deadly to leave alone. They must operate under the assumption of threat until proven otherwise. It cannot be left to fester.
I keep reading folks saying “they’ll put a suitcase nuke on board and fly it to....”.
Why a suitcase nuke? Those are for sneaky operations trying to escape detection by folks traveling on public transit or highways. If you own the entire plane and you’re in Pakistan or Iran, you can put the real McCoy on a 777-200.
The Israelis are also nervous..the IAF has stepped up alert status.
Until resolved this is an open threat and the hijack scenario is the most dangerous.
Just realized that this is the first event in 14 years for which Bush hasn’t been blamed..
Quaint was not my objective, but I like the way you put it better anyway. Thanks for calling me out on my obfuscation of the subject. :o)
Exactly. You could put a whole lot of crap on an otherwise empty 777. Paint it, re-program or switch out some parts, give the plane a new transponder signal, book a flight, flight plan and all and you could fly that plane about anywhere in the world you wanted to.
It ain't over yet. Don't hold your breath. There is only 2 degrees of separation from any bad news and President Bush for any situation imaginable. Since there is no ending yet, they haven't been able to complete the mental Rube Goldberg exercise to tie the blame back to him.
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