“We will find that plane. Unfortunately it will be after it is used for an attack.”
Wonder why all the eye witness accounts of islanders seeing a plane flying VERY low, and those on the oil rigs who thought they saw one in distress were never given any investigation I’ve seen reported.
Regardless of whether it was highjacked and to be used as a flying bullet to somewhere....or purposefully taken into the sea by a mad man pilot, the weakness of being able to track large commercial planes in that area of the world is now widely known to all terrorist groups.
It was kept quiet for a number of reasons. Mainly because admitting that a plane could fly that close to Chinese airspace undetected is very embarrassing.