Posted on 03/16/2014 5:30:23 PM PDT by Starman417
I've avoided this topic, waiting for another shoe to drop. Now it has.
Malaysian Air Flight 370 has been an enigma almost right from the beginning. Large jet aircraft do not simply disappear. Not in 2014. A little voice in my head kept saying that there's a lot more than we're being told.
No debris field was found. Had the jet exploded high in the air, a large debris field would have been spotted, as seen following the loss of TWA flight 800. If the jet dove into the water, the debris field would have been smaller, but most definitely findable. The black boxes are designed to send signals following a crash or an explosion. It hasn't. The 777 has redundant communications systems, which are not easy to disable.
We were told the aircraft just disappeared without a trace. Later we learned that that was not true. The Malaysian government has been the biggest pain in the ass during the time the flight has been missing.
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian authorities said on Thursday there was no evidence that a jetliner missing for almost six days flew for hours after losing contact with air traffic controllers and continued to transmit technical data.
Those in the know knew better:
U.S. investigators suspect that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stayed in the air for up to four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location, according to two people familiar with the details, raising the possibility that the plane could have flown on for hundreds of additional miles under conditions that remain murky.The investigators believe the plane flew for a total of up to five hours, according to these people, based on analysis of signals sent by the Boeing 777's satellite-communication link designed to automatically transmit the status of certain onboard systems to the ground.
Throughout the roughly four hours after the jet dropped from civilian radar screens, these people said, the link operated in a kind of standby mode and sought to establish contact with a satellite or satellites. These transmissions did not include data, they said, but the periodic contacts indicate to investigators that the plane was still intact and believed to be flying.
But those dopes in Kuala Lumpur denied it:
"Those reports are inaccurate," Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a news conference. "As far as both Rolls-Royce and Boeing are concerned, those reports are inaccurate. The last (data) transmission from the aircraft was at 01:07 a.m.(local time) which indicated that everything was normal."
Now the big question- is the Malaysian government that stupid or are they inept? Or worse?
It stinks. It stinks bad.
Now come some amazing revelations:
The pilot is described as a "fanatic" and there is more eyebrow raising news:
An image has emerged of the pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet wearing a T-shirt with a 'Democracy is Dead' slogan as it has been revealed he could have hijacked the plane in an anti-government protest.Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a father-of-three, was said to be a 'fanatical' supporter of the country's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim - jailed for homosexuality just hours before the jet disappeared.
It has also been revealed that the pilot's wife and three children moved out of the family home the day before the plane went missing.
It comes as FBI investigators say the disappearance of MH370 may have been ‘an act of piracy’ and the possibility that hundreds of passengers are being held at an unknown location has not been ruled out.
Officials also revealed that it is possible the aircraft could have landed and transmitted a satellite signal from the ground. If the plane was intact and had enough electrical power in reserve, it would be able to send out a radar 'ping'.
The second we learned that officials were seeking to search the pilot's home it was apparent something curious was ongoing, and we weren't privy to it.
Malaysian officials are now certain that the jet was hijacked.
The jet is described as having climbed to 45,000 feet, possibly to cause the passengers and crew to lose consciousness, before plunging rapidly. The accuracy of the altitude changes is in dispute, however:
Goglia said he is very skeptical of reports the plane was flying erratically while it was being tracked by military radar, including steep ascents to very high altitudes and then sudden, rapid descents. Without a transponder signal, the ability to track planes isn't reliable at very high altitudes or with sudden shifts in altitude, he said.
There seems little doubt that the aircraft was hijacked and given the complexity of the actions taken, it appears that it was conducted by those with specially trained skills:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
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It could be posted here but it isn't and I'm not giving any hits to blogpimps.
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No solo? Holy Crap! No cross??!! Wow. Didn’t read that. I knew they wanted to cut short much of the training but dropping either of those you might as well just use the Sport license.
CodeToad, I need to correct my comments on the Multicrew Pilot License.
I had read the syllabus quite some time ago and was shocked how it didn’t cover the basics of aviation. I went back and re-read the whole thing. You have to have a JAA Commercial license first....THEN you pursue the MPL. The MPL is basically a shortcut in the system into the air carrier cockpit that the FAA doesn’t provide. I still think of it as a ‘cockpit assistant’ rather than a full fledged equal crewmember.
I just read it, too. Way too basic for someone working on ATP FO. It’s not even at a level we hire people to fly King Airs aircraft. *scary*
Your idea sounds plausible. Klingon cloaking device, or a facsimile thereof?
Okay, cloaking device is WAY out there and totally implausible.
I laugh at just about every aviation related movie.
Almost all are silly, Die Hard-when John Amos got sucked into the intake at power with all that combat gear and the motor did not miss a beat. I saw what a pelican did to a TF 39. It looked like someone took a chain saw to all the fan blades.
no, haven’t read any of his books.
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