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MH370: Aviation Expert Jeff Wise Spells out his Theory
South China Morning Post ^ | 3/13

Posted on 03/14/2015 10:25:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Mr Ramsbotham

?

A pound of gold was around $20,000.

A commercial airliner can carry thousands of pounds of cargo easily. A couple of tons is pushing $100,000,000.

How many tens of millions of dollars makes it “worthwhile”?


21 posted on 03/14/2015 11:44:14 PM PDT by DB
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To: dr_lew

I agree.

I haven’t heard anything yet that points in a different direction.


22 posted on 03/14/2015 11:44:58 PM PDT by DB
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To: nickcarraway

Nice read!


23 posted on 03/14/2015 11:45:29 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Yes it is very dense - but it is also worth a lot.

Lets say those 500 pounds of stuff labelled batteries was really gold. 500 pounds x 12 troy ounces/pound x $1,200/ounce = $7.2 million dollars.

It looks like a 777 can carry about 350 people (and their luggage and other cargo like “batteries”). About 240 people went missing. So that meant 100 empty seats.

Say 100 empty seats at 200 lbs/seat (person and luggage) gives us 20,000 pounds of extra capacity. At 12 ounces x $1,200 that is another $288 million.

Of course the plane itself is worth $350 million.

All that said - seems pretty far-fetched. But an interesting tale. And really, the entire thing (a 777 disappearing) is an interesting tale and seems pretty far-fetched. But there it is.


24 posted on 03/15/2015 12:29:15 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: nickcarraway
I was able to chart the plane's speed and general path, which happened to fall along national borders. Flying along borders, a military navigator told me, is a good way to avoid being spotted on radar.

Wut? Flying along borders lights you up like a Christmas Tree by both countries!

25 posted on 03/15/2015 1:15:39 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

each country assumes it is an unknown aircraft belonging to the other country? (just an uneducated guess)


26 posted on 03/15/2015 2:12:37 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: nickcarraway

I knew a guy in High School, Josh Mangosteen.
Wonder whatever happened to him.


27 posted on 03/15/2015 3:22:59 AM PDT by lbryce (:Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Bastard Offspring of Satan And Medusa.)
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To: Greysard

A towelette? It could have easily come from any number of Malaysian Airline flights or someone who dropped it while walking. To connect it to the missing aircraft is a bit far fetched, I think.


28 posted on 03/15/2015 3:31:21 AM PDT by lbryce (:Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Bastard Offspring of Satan And Medusa.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

It also was carrying 17 engineers who developed a system to make aircraft invisible to radar.

Not that the chi-coms or ruskies would care to have them.


29 posted on 03/15/2015 3:58:31 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie)
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To: nickcarraway

Not sure if this fits with his theory: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/03/breaking-lt-gen-mcinerney-says-mh370-in-pakistan-i-got-a-source-at-lignet-that-confirmed-it-yesterday-video/


30 posted on 03/15/2015 5:19:33 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: nickcarraway

It’s at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. If it is ever found it will be in 100 years, we’ll never know why it went down. That’s life folks.


31 posted on 03/15/2015 5:22:41 AM PDT by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: nickcarraway

I know a few professional conspiracy theorists, one who shocked me into finishing my sentence about someone and her girlfriend who traveled with her, telling me her last name, and that was not public at all, and very few knew she was with her these times.

Anyways, he has become an itinerant speaker of sorts, and he believes it is General’s Mcinerney’s(SP?) theory that is correct, such as this one, that the plane is in Russia.

It is the reason it was taken over that I heard recently, from him, that is amazing.

The newer stealth technology? The creation of a surface that bends light around an object?

The Chinese scientists who were on that flight? That was one of their projects.

And everyone else is just collateral damage.


32 posted on 03/15/2015 5:36:04 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
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To: Joe Boucher

Cargo, people, or the plane... Too much effort if it was just for cargo...


33 posted on 03/15/2015 5:44:39 AM PDT by GOPJ (Gore: Punish those who buck 'accepted science' as was done to Galileo Galilei -freeper Darksheare)
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To: Greysard

The lack of proof of a highly complex conspiracy proves just how good the cover-up of the conspiracy actually is. Zero evidence means EVIDENCE of a cover-up.


34 posted on 03/15/2015 5:56:15 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: Talisker

Yeah. . I noticed that particular piece of idiocy, too.


35 posted on 03/15/2015 6:00:30 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: RaceBannon

“The newer stealth technology? The creation of a surface that bends light around an object?”

We’ve had that for quite a while. Costly, but we have it.


36 posted on 03/15/2015 6:01:50 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: faithhopecharity

My theory is Diego Garcia. If it didn’t land there it was splashed by 0 and the info and location in his formidable lock box.


37 posted on 03/15/2015 6:05:06 AM PDT by mcshot (I pray someone comes forth with the strength, fortitude and burning desire to save our Republic)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Gold is very dense, and consequently very heavy. You probably couldn't transport enough gold on a commercial airliner to make it worthwhile for anybody concerned to hijack it.

The math is fairly easy. The 777 can carry 112 tons, or 224,000 pounds or 3.5 million ounces. Assuming a gold price of $1300 per ounce that means this plane has the potential to carry $4,550,000,000 (4 and a half BILLION dollars worth of gold). Even deducting say half to account for passengers and luggage let's say it could only carry TWO billion in gold. It would then depend on your definition of "worthwhile". I can't think of a single aircraft where its cargo, if its cargo were gold at capacity limits, wouldn't be worth many, many times the value of the aircraft. Hell, 100 pounds of gold carried in a Super Cub would be worth more than $2 million!
38 posted on 03/15/2015 6:40:30 AM PDT by 762X51
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To: nickcarraway

#9 A “World Warm” would be a catastrophe as the north and south poles would melt and out coastlines inundated with water.... : )


39 posted on 03/15/2015 6:40:46 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: lbryce

I knew him too.... He was on that Malaysian airplane.


I knew a guy in High School, Josh Mangosteen.
Wonder whatever happened to him.


40 posted on 03/15/2015 6:43:26 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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