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Mystery Malaysia flight may have been hundreds of miles off course (CNN Breaking)
CNN ^ | 3-11-2014 | Michael Pearson and Jethro Mullen

Posted on 03/11/2014 11:13:53 AM PDT by tcrlaf

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was hundreds of miles off course, traveling in the opposite direction from its original destination and had stopped sending identifying transponder codes before it disappeared, a senior Malaysian Air Force official told CNN Tuesday.

If correct, these are ominous signs that could call into question whether someone in the cockpit might have deliberately steered the plane away from its intended destination, a former U.S. aviation investigator said.

"This kind of deviation in course is simply inexplicable," said Paul Goelz, former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board.

(snip) The Malaysian Air Force lost track of the plane over Pulau Perak, a tiny island in the Straits of Malacca -- many hundreds of miles from the usual flight path for aircraft traveling between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, the official said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; iran; jet; malaysia; mh370; terrorism; waronterror
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To: frnewsjunkie

Cell phones don’t when you are 100 miles away from the nearest tower. Just as an experiment, I turned my phone on recently while at cruising altitude over Georgia and got no signal at all. Cell tower antennas are configured to radiate outward and not upward.


101 posted on 03/11/2014 11:48:57 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

There are thousands of flights with muslim pilots which go off without a hitch each day.


102 posted on 03/11/2014 11:48:59 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Red in Blue PA

There is no confirmed tragedy (if you define tragedy as loss of life). In fact, at this point, it looks like a hijacking. One imaginative fellow had them land the plane somewhere remote, repaint it, get a new transponder, then load it with an Iranian nuke, and send it to LAX.


103 posted on 03/11/2014 11:49:06 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: PapaBear3625

With all the technology of today, I figure there must be a way to communicate even over the ocean.

I wouldn’t know... I’ve never flown over the ocean and don’t plan to.


104 posted on 03/11/2014 11:49:07 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Army Air Corps

gets weirder all the time. have to wonder about a member of the crew (copilot?) and/or possibly if it failed to respond, someone’s military shooting it down.
If it really was hundreds of miles off course, it sounds more like a member of the crew.


105 posted on 03/11/2014 11:49:21 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Theoria

“the one I think of.
2003 Boeing 727-223 disappearance...”

I do not recall hearing of this before.


106 posted on 03/11/2014 11:49:24 AM PDT by FAA
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To: RayChuang88

We already have satellites that can detect a hemorrhoid on a flea’s butt, but heavy cloud cover is a problem.


107 posted on 03/11/2014 11:49:40 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Darksheare

But problems with electrical, mechanical, and/or human systems do.


108 posted on 03/11/2014 11:49:41 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

No spoofing if you simply turn it off.


109 posted on 03/11/2014 11:49:56 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Bulwinkle

“... Burma”


Why did you say Burma?


110 posted on 03/11/2014 11:50:02 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: CedarDave

May have been the jet itself flying very low. The noise in downtown NYC the day of 9/11 when the first passenger plane flew over (right down 5th Avenue) at building top height was deafening.


111 posted on 03/11/2014 11:50:36 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Lazamataz

I must admit I find these posts pretty damn funny....


112 posted on 03/11/2014 11:50:56 AM PDT by harwood (Ann Coulter: Future SCOTUS nominee!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I knew a guy from Malaysia. He was ethnic Chinese and desperate to get out of there. The muzzies running Malaysia are not the warm fuzzy types if you are not muslim.


113 posted on 03/11/2014 11:51:04 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
I started thinking that the public is being prepared for something.. I started thinking yesterday that the authorities pretty much know what happened.

I find it hard to believe they don't know. I find it plausible they can't tell because it would reveal their spy capabilities. Maybe I've just watched too many Hollywood movies.

114 posted on 03/11/2014 11:51:21 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

That being the case, they would have notified someone of that as it would have been obvious within the cockpit.


115 posted on 03/11/2014 11:51:25 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Army Air Corps
Aha. I knew it had not crashed.

So now freepers, the most brilliant minds in the country, need to figure out why they took it ( not so important where) and what they are doing with it/the passengers.

If am wrong about the Freescale employees, so be it. But who or what was on the plane that they wanted?

116 posted on 03/11/2014 11:51:36 AM PDT by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
One scary possiibility is some terrorist group was able to jury rig a launch system for the Soviet-era 3M33 (SA-8 Gecko) surface-to-air missile, including the guidance radar system. Unlike a MANPAD missile, the 3M33 missile can hit a target up to 39,000 feet in height by radar guidance--well within the flight envelope of the 777-200ER at cruising altitude.

Indeed, one wonders was TWA Flight 800 shot down with such a jury-rigged missile launch system?

117 posted on 03/11/2014 11:51:54 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Another good theory!


118 posted on 03/11/2014 11:52:15 AM PDT by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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To: albie
I don’t believe a word CNN says. About anything.

Now that's a good point. What was it that they had to back track on recently.

119 posted on 03/11/2014 11:52:25 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Was Ron Brown on board?

Somebody with intel on Soebarkah (aka Obama) might have been fleeing Indonesia via Malaysia on that plane, before getting ‘interrupted’ in the style of Ron Brown and Loretta Fuddy.

If I were an indonesian holding dirt on Obamatollah I wouldn’t fly out of Jakarta, I’d make my way across the water to Malaysia then try flying from there to lessen my chance of detection.


120 posted on 03/11/2014 11:52:50 AM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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