http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cia-chief-ruling-terrorism-malaysia-airlines-tragedy/story?id=22863091
“CIA Chief: Not Ruling Out Terrorism in Malaysia Airlines Tragedy”
March 11, 2014
By LEE FERRAN and JAMES GORDON MEEK
SNIPPET: “Brennan also confirmed reports that the plane’s transponder had been disabled or turned off at some point during the flight, saying it was one of a number of “curious anomalies about all of this.”
“You cannot discount any possibility… Who had the ability to turn off the transponder? I don’t know,” he said. “You know, might it have been something that had happened inside the aircraft that led to its ultimate fate? Or could it have just been some type of sort of catastrophic event that unfortunately led to that aircraft’s and those passengers’ demise? I don’t know. But I don’t think people should at this point rule out any of these lines of inquiry.””
“Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Terror Threat Made Against Beijing Airport Before Jet’s Disappearance”
By Vasudevan Sridharan
March 11, 2014 05:26 AM
SNIPPET: “China Airlines has revealed they had alerted the authorities at the Civil Aviation Administration of China regarding the terror threat which was made on 4 March by an unknown man.
The airline operator’s chief representative in Beijing, Peng Rong-min, said the unidentified man made the phone call threatening that a terrorist strike would take place at the Beijing airport.
The spokesperson added that they had informed the authorities concerned immediately after the call, the China Post reports.
The anonymous caller started off the conversation in French but later spoke in Mandarin as the China Airlines’s staff do not understand French. He said he represented the East Turkestan Liberation Organisation; the authenticity of the phone call or the person’s identity could not be verified.”
http://rodrigoebr.tumblr.com/post/79633358093/malaysian-pm-announcement-on-mh370
“Malaysian PM announcement on #MH370”
SNIPPET: “Early this morning I was briefed by the investigation team – which includes the FAA, NTSB, the AAIB, the Malaysian authorities and the Acting Minister of Transport – on new information that sheds further light on what happened to MH370.
Based on new satellite information, we can say with a high degree of certainty that the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) was disabled just before the aircraft reached the East coast of peninsular Malaysia. Shortly afterwards, near the border between Malaysian and Vietnamese air traffic control, the aircraft’s transponder was switched off.
From this point onwards, the Royal Malaysian Air Force primary radar showed that an aircraft which was believed – but not confirmed – to be MH370 did indeed turn back. It then flew in a westerly direction back over peninsular Malaysia before turning northwest. Up until the point at which it left military primary radar coverage, these movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane.Today, based on raw satellite data that was obtained from the satellite data service provider, we can confirm that the aircraft shown in the primary radar data was flight MH370. After much forensic work and deliberation, the FAA, NTSB, AAIB and the Malaysian authorities, working separately on the same data, concur.
According to the new data, the last confirmed communication between the plane and the satellite was at 8:11AM Malaysian time on Saturday 8th March. The investigations team is making further calculations which will indicate how far the aircraft may have flown after this last point of contact. This will help us to refine the search.”
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