Posted on 03/18/2014 10:48:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sounds likely. There was a report on the news a couple nights ago. That if terrorists were to fly a bomb-laden plane like that towards Israel, they would overfly Muslim nations and Israel could not attempt shooting it down until it was a few minutes from striking Israeli cities like Tel Aviv. Imagine only having a window of two to five minutes to shoot it down. You can bet Israel wants to know where the plane is, and from what direction it is coming from, and how terrorists will utilize it.
Last paragraph article
I'm sure the 777 landed at DG and the base hasn't noticed yet. /sarc
OTOH, I'm positive that intelligence and in particular the NRO knew within a few seconds or minutes if the aircraft landed in a controlled manner or crashed on land. But I'm not so sure they could detect a fairly clean nose-in plunge into deep water, unless they were already monitoring the flight progress and it suddenly disappeared. Debris would float to the surface but most would be miniscule.
yes, hoosiermama. responsibility was claimed by a group within 48 hours but those claims were initially dismissed:
http://nypost.com/2014/03/10/chinese-group-claims-plane-disappearance-amid-parallels-to-lockerbie/
the Malays say that a 35yo Uigher was on the plane. He has variously been identified as 1) a flight engineer; 2) a person who had taken flight training; 3) a professor; and 4) a person traveling with the Chinese calligraphy team.
The Uigher man identified as a professor has self-identified himself to authorities, and upon a closer look, seems to be a case of the wrong person with a matching name to that of the 35yo Uigher that was on the plane.
The name of the missing Uigher person is A. Maimaitijiang
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/uighur-professor-i-was-not-the-one-on-mh370
I take that back. It could/would be detected acoustically by undersea sensors.
Do we know the national origin of the co-pilot?
Read my link for Gans early in the thead. Runway is seasonally used for a resort spa. Good prices between February and April ;-)
upper middle class Malay, son of a government employee.
http://news.yahoo.com/missing-flights-co-pilot-religious-not-reckless-family-122704495—sector.html
CNN, coincidentally, did a film interview of him just a month prior to the hijacking and found him “charming.”
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/03/18/fariq-hamid-pilot
Thanks blue
Check out the interview with the co pilot! Ya all!
Situation calls for immediate unannounced review of Gan’s aviation fuel inventories (same at all other potential way-stations). But by whom?
Christmas Islands and the Cocos Keeling Islands are along the southern part of the Holy Arc.
LOL.
I am of the opinion that McInerny is probably right. They know where that plane is they are just not sharing. This search is starting to resemble a 3 stooges movie.
Malaysia Airlines is state owned and run.
Expect incompetence and expect the media to overlook it.
Remember the Chilean miners? Did the media criticize the mine? No, it was state owned and the media (socialist) does not criticize government as a matter of coarse...so the hoopla became about the rescue. Hooray, for the rescue! But...if say the Koch Brothers owned that mine...look out, the media would call for them to be executed on day two.
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