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Maldives 'witnesses' report seeing 'low flying jet' on morning that MH370 disappeared
The Telegraph ^

Posted on 03/18/2014 9:57:14 AM PDT by bryan999

Maldives 'witnesses' report seeing 'low flying jet' on morning that MH370 disappeared - follow latest updates on missing Malaysia Airlines plane

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; malaysia; malaysianairlines; maldives; maylasianairlines; mh370; waronterror
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To: bryan999
Correct me if I'm wrong but a Maldives location seems to be totally inconsistent with the published contour based on the Last Satellite Ping received from the aircraft.


21 posted on 03/18/2014 10:22:00 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: McGruff

I don’t care how beautiful it is, I’d never travel to a Muslim country.


22 posted on 03/18/2014 10:22:31 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Meet the New Boss

Flight time from say Ho Chi Min City (Saigon) is a little under 5 hours at jet cruise. But presuming they were flying low, the total flight time would be higher.

Go with 5 hours +/-.

Do the time zone changes and flight times make sense?


23 posted on 03/18/2014 10:23:04 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: bigdaddy45
I'm not buying it

Me neither, but we don't know what happened, so we HAVE to speculate.

Anyways to answer your questions:

So.... where is it now?
That is THE question. Methinks its in the drink. If not, it already was fueled and took off with Muslim terrorist sympathizers.

Did they see/hear it take off again?

Maldives archepeligo is massive. It is very doubtful the same witnesses saw it took off again.

How did it get refueled?
Pre-planned sympathizers?

Were passengers offloaded? (if you’re going to steal a plane, logically you’d ditch the passengers).

Not if they were going to kill them via asphyxiation at high altitude.

If its terrorism.... how come no one has claimed responsibility, demanded ransom, etc etc.?
Because they need the plane for their next attack? I dunno. I just don't think the terrorists we are fighting are this sophisticated/lucky. I'm thinking mid-air emergency, crew dead, autopilot ran until fuel out. I’m not buying it.

24 posted on 03/18/2014 10:24:03 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Rennes Templar

I’d buy that if it weren’t for the pilot’s political activism.


25 posted on 03/18/2014 10:24:15 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: bryan999

think about it....a mystery B777 lands at a public airport, surely would attract attention....I feel that the aircraft had problems, like an explosion/fire, that decompressed the aircraft...and the situation went downhill after that...

Rest assured, that Boeing, will find the aircraft and the black boxes....


26 posted on 03/18/2014 10:24:46 AM PDT by B212
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To: Black Agnes

I’ve always wanted to go to the Maldives. Until I learned they were controlled by the Muslims.


27 posted on 03/18/2014 10:24:52 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: DCBryan1

Still, if they asphyxiated the bodies... you gotta get rid of them. Would YOU want to fly around with 230 rotting corpses? So, if they landed, logically they offloaded the bodies. Where are they?


28 posted on 03/18/2014 10:26:14 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: InterceptPoint
Correct me if I'm wrong but a Maldives location seems to be totally inconsistent with the published contour based on the Last Satellite Ping received from the aircraft.

There's the rub: would they even have had enough fuel to start in the right direction, loop back, fly at low altitude (using much more fuel), and THEN get to the Maldives. Not likely.

Max range of a 777-200 is 5,240 nautical miles... with full fuel.

29 posted on 03/18/2014 10:26:43 AM PDT by alancarp
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To: bigdaddy45

How do they refuel the plane without anyone knowing?


30 posted on 03/18/2014 10:27:04 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Rennes Templar

the Goodfellow theory here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3134508/posts

If this sighting is bona fide, it fits this theory. Pilots had a fire/smoke event, turned plane for the near Palau Langkawi runway, were overcome by smoke before they could land plane and plane kept going (passing over Maldives) until ran out of fuel and crashed in Indian Ocean.


31 posted on 03/18/2014 10:27:34 AM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: bigdaddy45
Would YOU want to fly around with 230 rotting corpses? So, if they landed, logically they offloaded the bodies. Where are they?

Remember, we are dealing with death-worshipping muzzies here, first. Second, I think they WOULD get rid of the bodies for weight/range but that would be a monumental undertaking in strength and manpower....almost inconceivable unless there were many hijacker/terrorists. I've done fireman carry drills in full-battle rattle. I'd be pooped after carrying 10 bodies and possibly muscle fatigue/failure.

This is going to be the BIG mystery of this century if never found.

I guess I'll sum up what a former CIA guy said on the news this morning, "If it is terrorism, it ain't the same type of terrorists ive been hunting and killing since the mid-1990s....they aren't that technically proficient, smart, or lucky".

32 posted on 03/18/2014 10:32:41 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Meet the New Boss

That makes all the sense in the world. Good read.


33 posted on 03/18/2014 10:33:55 AM PDT by alancarp
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To: angcat
It is stunning that area.

Wouldn't want to be there when a tsunami hit.

34 posted on 03/18/2014 10:34:13 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: bryan999
travelling North to South-East, towards the Southern tip of the Maldives – Addu

Doesn't sound like the right direction.

35 posted on 03/18/2014 10:37:51 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: bryan999
"The airport resides at an elevation of 6 feet (2 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,200 m × 45 m (10,499 ft × 148 ft).[2]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Nasir_International_Airport
36 posted on 03/18/2014 10:37:55 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: bryan999
"The Maldives, eh?"

"UPDATE: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Officials Say Plane's Route Changed Via Computer Program Run By Someone In Cockpit; Police Find Indian Ocean Runways On Pilot's Simulator
By Sneha Shankar on March 18 2014 1:11 AM

Update as of 12:20 a.m. EST: The Malay Mail Online, citing a local news source, Berita Harian, reported Tuesday that authorities investigating the flight simulator found in the home of Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the captain of the missing Flight MH370, had found five practice runways located in the Indian Ocean.

“The simulation programmes are based on runways at the Male International Airport in Maldives , an airport owned by the United States (Diego Garcia), and three other runways in India and Sri Lanka, all have runway lengths of 1,000 metres (3,300 feet)," the source reportedly said, adding: “We are not discounting the possibility that the plane landed on a runway that might not be heavily monitored, in addition to the theories that the plane landed on sea, in the hills, or in an open space.”"
http://www.ibtimes.com/update-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-officials-say-planes-route-changed-computer-program-run

The runway at the International Airport in Maldives is 10,000 feet+ in length. See post above.

37 posted on 03/18/2014 10:41:33 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: alancarp

Malaysian Air Force that its military radar tracked the plane as it passed over the small island of Pulau Perak.

If you draw line from where the aircraft turned and the island of Pulau Perak you will hit Maldives.


38 posted on 03/18/2014 10:43:52 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: bryan999

The engine pings put it a long way from there and engine pings are a lot more reliable than someone who claims he saw something.


39 posted on 03/18/2014 10:44:34 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: bryan999

I saw Big Foot once. Or was it twice?


40 posted on 03/18/2014 10:45:05 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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