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Expert Believes Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight Being Held For Ransom (Theory Du Jour)
CBS NEWS ^ | March 19, 2014

Posted on 03/19/2014 10:57:51 AM PDT by McGruff

Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 is no closer to being found as the disappearance of the Boeing 777 carrying 239 people nears its two-week mark.

Pilot suicide, terrorism and hijacking are some possibilities that are being theorized to the plane as the search area expanded to 7 million square miles. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said last week that “there are a number of possible scenarios that are being investigated as to what happened to the flight.”

Rick Mathews, of the National Center for Security & Preparedness at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy of SUNY Albany, tells CBSDC that there is another theory that should be put into play: the missing flight is being held for ransom by a group of individuals, maybe including people from the flight crew.

“You want to most likely hide the plane so that it will not be seen and get these people away from there. You want a place to prove life, confirm the fact that they are alive without giving away their location,” Mathews told CBSDC, adding that this was an “internal hijacking” that might have been perpetrated by one or more members of the crew.

Mathews feels the hijackers will go public “anytime now” because the weight of the world and governments will be on them.

“If they are ransoming, they want to get away with this,” Mathews explained. “They are not doing this as a suicidal play, they want to make use of this. They want to make sure they have a place for themselves.”

Mathews believes whoever took the plane had an air strip prepared for landing and camouflage as to not be caught by satellites.

“It takes a great deal of coordination to hide a plane,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washington.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 777; fakebutaccurate; ibrahim; iran; malaysia; malaysian; mh370; missingplane; muslimbrotherhood; mythmaking; plane; ratherbiased; seebsnews; waronterror
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To: McGruff

I think CNN alreay did the “alien abduction” theory. Seriously. sheesh

In any case, I want news media to stop covering this 24/7, and get back to Obamacare, 2014 election, etc. Enough already!


61 posted on 03/19/2014 4:08:55 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: onyx

After manuevering through the TSA gauntlet of goons, passengers never know what the pilots might then do to them. Freedom of travel by any mode has been eroded via underhanded backdoor methods of making it just plain miserable and troublesome to move around. How about the example made out of that jogger in Austin? Ruffle the wrong feathers while out getting a little exercise and bam, down you go!


62 posted on 03/19/2014 4:13:18 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: onyx
I've endured CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and some English accent guy and it's embarrassing. Had to flip them off. You didn't miss anything.
63 posted on 03/19/2014 4:18:01 PM PDT by McGruff (They say the first casualty of war is truth)
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To: Uncle Chip
There's another Christmas Island about 400 miles ESE of Christchurch, NZ. It's on the mapsites.
64 posted on 03/19/2014 5:30:19 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: McGruff

I believe the alien theory before I’d believe this. And if it does turn out to be true, the hijackers will soon be meeting the Navy Seals.


65 posted on 03/19/2014 5:41:15 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: onyx
Pakistan .... or Iran. The Iranians love to play, and there were a couple of Iranians on board.

Theory i) The two Iranians were actually Quds Brigade goons doing the hijacking.

Theory ii) The two Iranians were wanted by the Iranians' goonocracy, who sent a Quds team to 'jack the airliner and return the twosome to Tehran, to be dragged on their faces, backwards, up the main drag of the city to the Quds Hilton.

Theory iii) The actors were Salafis instead, the Iranian "mystery duo" had nothing to do with it except as victims trying to emigrate to Europe and sanity, and the Salafis have some further use for the a/c (such as lugging a 50-kt device to New York or Paris and detonating it about 4000 feet above the target while orbiting for a normal landing at some mostly-freight airfield, like Teterboro).

Think that dog'll hunt?

66 posted on 03/19/2014 5:43:19 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: MinuteGal

George Peppard’s Banacek would be proud of your conclusion.


67 posted on 03/19/2014 6:20:49 PM PDT by aloppoct (stucnsf)
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To: onyx; Ezekiel

I have to agree. Those pilots don’t appear suicidal in any pics Onyx.

If Mr. Zaharie (pilot) was involved in anything. Why now? Why this particular flight and destination? No obvious statements or notes left behind from him either... (As far as we know of.) If the pilot wasn’t suicidal. It would have been a hijacking by someone else. If someone else took control of the plane, the pilot might have been kept alive to fly while the passengers were expendable. Thus the quick up in elevation to depressurize. It is even possible that one of the pilots could have flown it into the ocean after that rather then cooperate further with someone’s demands

You have to wonder about the contact and communication with that plane and Malaysian ground control. With all those poor families awaiting news, it would be infuriating if information was being withheld that may already be known.

There is NO WAY I would want to be flying on one of those airlines. Certainly not after this.


68 posted on 03/19/2014 8:34:58 PM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: 444Flyer

A muslim hijacking (redundant, I know) is always a logical possibility, but to then land it and hide it? Even if the pilot were in on it, that scenario just seems to stretch the luck of allah a bit much.

Bottom of the IO? Mohammed plotted, trained, and stole a plane, but forgot to consider fuel range? That does fit with the low IQ blow-up-real-good morons. We’ll never know the truth. The media has been breathlessly reporting any and all theories and conjecture, so what difference are outright lies put out by say, the White Hut?


69 posted on 03/19/2014 8:54:34 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: cork

Based on some things Ive been reading and hearing lately, they are never going to find it. It will become another of those mysteries of the air, like DB Cooper, like Amelia Earhart, only involving a lot more people.


70 posted on 03/19/2014 9:51:01 PM PDT by crazycatlady
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To: Uncle Chip

Yes, same place JonBenet Ramsay and the Lindbergh baby were held.


71 posted on 03/19/2014 9:56:07 PM PDT by crazycatlady
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To: USAF80

I assume there were no militant atheists aboard.


72 posted on 03/19/2014 10:02:34 PM PDT by crazycatlady
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To: Red Badger

Right. A bunch of men got their act together to feed 239 people for two weeks. Because this is what men do.


73 posted on 03/20/2014 5:13:10 AM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: JimRed

It is possible a ransom demand has been made and for obvious reasons it is being withheld from the public, thus allowing searchers to keep all their options open — like, they may have to shoot it down.


74 posted on 03/20/2014 10:33:49 AM PDT by TiaS
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To: TiaS

Your comment makes a lot of sense.

The governments know what happened. They’ve been trying to buy time. In the meantime Israel and others are on alert.

Notice, our dear leader is keeping a very low profile on this one.


75 posted on 03/20/2014 12:09:39 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Red Badger

this is absolutely preposterous.

I’m coming to the idea that the plane had something happen to it. The pilot reacted. Probably an attempted hi jacking.

The pilot probably a hero.


76 posted on 03/20/2014 12:31:41 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Tallguy

I agree. Plane flew on auto pilot until it crashed into the ocean.


77 posted on 03/20/2014 12:32:21 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

We will find out from the black boxes when they are found. Until then, everything is ‘up in the air’....................


78 posted on 03/20/2014 12:38:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: RedWhiteBlue

“Father-in-law of pilot is jailed. “

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Huh ?

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79 posted on 03/20/2014 12:41:13 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

See post 19 above.


80 posted on 03/20/2014 2:12:01 PM PDT by RedWhiteBlue (Mama tried)
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