Scan the passenger list for political targets for possible clues.
US Navy ships in the area no doubt have that flight on their radar logs. Military intelligence knows what happened. Its interesting that the Muslim terrorism directed at China has been very bloody but has not been accompanied by statements to the press or the public identification of organized groups. This may be a new strategy to make reprisals and defense difficult. Nevertheless China now has a significant terrorist problem to solve.
“We have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft let alone the aircraft,” Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director-general of Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation, said on Monday in Kuala Lumpur. “We will be intensifying our efforts to locate the aircraft.”Of the two men, he said that after studying closed circuit TV footage at the airport, “it is confirmed that they are not Asian-looking men”. He declined to give details of their appearances, but said: “Do you know a footballer by the name of Balotelli?”, an apparent reference to Mario Balotelli, an Italian born to Ghanaian parents.
I am sure it was a spark in the fuel tank like flight eight hundred.
The plot thickens ....
Odd. Alot of Chinese on that plane. Wouldn't want China pissed off at me.
They would have found a debris field by now. Breaking up at flight elevation would leave chunks falling for miles and they would be picked up on radar also.
The black boxes would be pinging and the general location is known.
We have a number of satellites that would have seen the thermal images from any explosion.
The most likely scenario is that they went into the water intact. There would be a short list of causes of that.
Iran vs China. Fingers crossed the mullahs are that stupid!
This sounds like a Star Trek episode where a man presumed killed was still alive but actively worked at not being found in the Enterprise so Capt Kirk would be courts martialed for incompetence. Maybe the flight was hijacked and flown out of contact w the rest of the world.
Benjaporn Krutnait, of Grand Horizon Travel, booked the tickets, choosing Malaysian Airlines because it was the cheapest. She had earlier booked flights on Qatar Airways, but those bookings expired because "Mr Ali", the Iranian middleman, didn't get back to her in time. She also said Mr Ali had been using her for about three years, during which he booked travel for himself or others at least once a month.
She does not believe Mr Ali is a terrorist, since he merely asked for the cheapest route to Europe without specifying an airline. And indeed, the first flights she came up with were on an Arab airline.
Weird. They still use travel agents and middle men earning commissions over there. I can't remember the last time I booked a flight through a human (other than recovering from cancelled flights, etc).
My take on this. You will find the Boeing 777 parked at an airfield in Iran and the passengers are in a secret prison near Tehran to be used as human shields later on.
My take on this: nobody knows, everybody thinks he knows.
I am sure it was a spark in the fuel tank like flight eight hundred.