[TomGuy]

from BBC.com: Missing Malaysia Airlines plane 'deliberately diverted'





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Curious that the newsies are pointing out that the plane could have flown as far as Kazakhstan, but they fail to mention Iran.

Considering that at least 2 passengers, apparently of Iranian descent, were flying on stolen passports, I would have Iran high on the list of possible locations.

[cuspofcommonsense]

Me too!

[wtd]

Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah ...isn't "shah" an Iranian surname?

Last name: Shah - This noble and honourable surname is of Persian, Turkish and Hindi origin,

Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Shah#ixzz2w2sAP4Vs

• Persian= Iranian

[lacrew]

Those two orange lines look like arcs on a circle. My guess is they indicate the coverage boundary of a sat that did NOT get a ping, and the assumption is the plane could not be anywhere ‘inside the circle’ formed by these arcs.

But it leads to two wildly different tracks, one going over lots of land that surely has radar coverage, and one going to the end of the earth.

My bet is a determination is made that the one sat malfunctioned or wasn’t set up to recieve the ping...and the orange tracks will go away....and they’ll be back looking at a straight west track over the Indian Ocean.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Consider the possible fact that the capt’s middle name is Ahmad (also known as Achmad or Achmed) is, IIRC, a Shia name and his last name, ‘Shah’, could be Iranian. Maybe his father was Iranian?