I don’t think people in the west, especially Americans, realize how backward other countries really are. The Malays lost me when they called in the witch doctors.
Look for the PRC to take over the investagation.
Spoonts theory is a good as most others.
The people on that jet were murdered. If the real story were told the Malaysian government would probably fall. China is already pressuring them.There are many corrupt government officials who are getting rich siphoning oil money. They fear losing their access to their revenue sources and prison. The stonewalling will continue.
Still scratching my head about the Inmarsat bit. Inmarsats are communications satellites. They have navigation systems and communications transponders. Transponders do not have Doppler sensors as far as I know, and to acheive direction finding you must have a DF processor, Are they implying they used data from multiple satellites that received the pings from the engines to guess which way the airplane headed? The path they drew implies that time difference from one geostationary satellite would give a path either north or south of the Equator proportionally. It makes no sense because there is no way they could plot or guess coordinates without at least 2 signal sources.
Probably in cahoots with Pakistan and Al Qaeda. A Muzzy conspiracy to launch a manned cruise missle at the west.
There are too many cultural things involved here to hold a rational, by Western standards, discussion. Take a quick look at the crash in SFO as an example.
Having said that, it is in the very best interest of Malaysia and every other Islamic based government to solve this, by Western standards, quickly. Otherwise the use of Islamic based airlines and tourist travel to/from tourist destinations in Islamic nations will drop off.
Who wants to go on business, much less vacation, if you have doubts that you will get there and return safely?
All it will take is another disappearance similar to this one to start the cancelations.
Will there be another one? Unfortunately my logic trail says yes; it is only a question of when.
Can someone tell me why pilots have the ability to turn off the transponder while in flight?
However, if there was gold in that cargo hold destined for China, that would explain China's increased hostility.
A very interesting read. Plausible. Thanks for sharing it.
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Thank you for posting this.
Spoonts’ hypothesis is basically that which I asserted the other day.
I also don’t believe the US government is too keen to publicize another plane downed by a Muslim fanatic. (think?)
Probably the best analysis I’ve read yet, and stinging conclusion hypothesis, even if there are no facts to corroborate any of it. Speaking of which, there are no (public) facts to corroborate the Malay government’s conclusion that it crashed, either...let alone any other ‘theory’. /s
And insofar as the magnitude of the Inmarsat revelations: How frequently in the past have we been subject to ‘skewed data’ to support an agenda? I’m awaiting the ‘CIA Animation’ on how the plane went missing and crashed after flying ‘zombie’ for thousands of miles... (big /s)
China is demanding the raw Malaysian radar data in order to firm up the search area and they should get it because the US has been requesting it for weeks to no avail.
Malaysia does not want to find the wreckage in the southern Indian Ocean — they still want it in the South China Sea and are trying to find a way to get it there.
I think Malaysia wants to know but there’s a matter of scale involved. The area the plane could have gone down in is many times the size of their country, and mostly not terribly close to the country. They aren’t terribly rich, they aren’t terribly powerful, they really just don’t have the material or manpower to be running a high tech search over a massive area of ocean. And while help is available you still need co-ordination, everybody expects that to come from the “host” country, but in this case it’s a country that doesn’t really know how to do this stuff. Everybody is complaining they aren’t doing this stuff like well (like America would) and forgetting the fact this a country smaller (in every way you could measure) than California. Our NTSB probably has a bigger budget than their entire government, you just can’t expect them to throw a couple thousand highly trained people at a problem, they don’t have them. It’s kind of screwed up how much everybody seems to be looking at them going “it’s your plane find it”, especially given how regularly we send in groups like the Red Cross to this part of the world. We tend to solve most of their problems, and now we’re shocked they don’t know how to solve this problem.