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Co-pilot of MH370 tried to make a call from his mobile phone AFTER the aircraft 'vanished'...
The Daily Mail Online ^ | April 12, 2014 | RICHARD SHEARS and TARA BRADY

Posted on 04/12/2014 6:06:11 AM PDT by Uncle Chip

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To: Uncle Chip

Is there a plane down there with that black box and is that black box MH370’s black box?


21 posted on 04/12/2014 6:35:34 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Uncle Chip

He upgraded his phone and then made calls to experience the new fancy features....


22 posted on 04/12/2014 6:36:13 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: deoetdoctrinae

He is more than right. When someone from the flight crew needs access to the flight deck, it has to be opened from the flight deck. On several occasions, I have witnessed some piece of paper or form delivered to a crew member from the ground crew and the attendant knocks on the door until it is opened from inside for the pilots to get the form. The cabin crew does not have a key to the door.

www.alpa.org/ portals/ alpa/ pressroom/ inthecockpit/ SecondaryBarriersWP_3-2013.pdf


23 posted on 04/12/2014 6:36:30 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Or he killed the pilot.


24 posted on 04/12/2014 6:39:29 AM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: Spartan302

“It may take 50 years to get the real facts “
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God only knows, and he is not talking.
Maybe the plane landed in Somalia. Maybe it ditched. Maybe it crashed... I am sick of the story and no longer watching it.
Wake me after the story is over.


25 posted on 04/12/2014 6:39:51 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: Uncle Chip

Wanna bet they find that pinger down south and then they come to a conclusion it was NOT from 370?
Almost dead batteries, dropped in very very deep waters.
The last minute phone call?

All comms are being blanked out by jammers of escort aircraft but just before that one person manages to get connected.


26 posted on 04/12/2014 6:42:41 AM PDT by Spartan302
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To: DNME
“I’m still not convinced the plane ended up off the coast of Australia”

Me too neither. I think the answer is closer to North Korea than to Australia. Were not the Norks doing some "missile testing" about the time MH370 disappeared?

27 posted on 04/12/2014 6:43:24 AM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan every day)
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To: Uncle Chip
Maybe he was locked out of the cabin? That’s been my personal theory—co-pilot goes out to the bathroom, or to chat with the stewardesses, and the pilot locks him out and hijacks the plane.

Or ordered out, yes. The pilot hijacked then crashed it, knowing it would embarass the Malaysian government and focus attention on the likely trumpted up charges against Anwar.

The last part hasn't gotten traction, but that is more than compensated for by Malaysia's continued FUBAR handling of events and the ensuing distain and derision its generating, so he was successful.

28 posted on 04/12/2014 6:43:50 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: Pearls Before Swine

It would seem that the excursion to 45,000ft would have killed him if he was in the passenger compartment.

Is it possible that he may made the call at 45,000ft out of range and that it didn’t connect until it was in range and then only briefly???


29 posted on 04/12/2014 6:44:37 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: iontheball
Is there a plane down there with that black box and is that black box MH370’s black box?

They had plenty of time to prepare one and dump it there while they had everyone looking somewhere else. Even if they find a black box - or both of them - I won't be convinced at this point.

30 posted on 04/12/2014 6:49:43 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Pearls Before Swine; ponygirl
They have keys.

A little drop of Super Glue will defeat a key in a couple of seconds.

31 posted on 04/12/2014 6:50:19 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Uncle Chip

Maybe Shah was using Fariq’s phone.


32 posted on 04/12/2014 6:55:02 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: expat1000
The pilot hijacked then crashed it, knowing it would embarass the Malaysian government and focus attention on the likely trumpted up charges against Anwar.

With so much evidence pointing to the pilot who was/is Anwar's cousin one would think that Anwar was either in on this or knew about it and he would stay in the shadows and keep his mouth shut while the government tries to drag him in for questioning.

However look at what is happening --

Anwar comes out and accuses the government of incompetence in their response to the disappearance and the government is scared to death to point the fingers at his cousin Captain Shah as the likely culprit in the cockpit.

Go figure --

33 posted on 04/12/2014 6:55:31 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Spartan302

“Absolutely not a single shred of debris, not a single Styrofoam cup”

There are probably Styrofoam cups on Mars.:-)

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34 posted on 04/12/2014 7:00:38 AM PDT by Mears
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To: expat1000

Saw a theory where the pilot hijacked the plane & flew it west while ‘negotiating’ with the Malaysian government about the release of Anwar. They either released him or the pilot would take down the plane. The Malays called his bluff and the pilot wasn’t bluffing. Great reason for the Malays to keep the search in an area for a couple of days where they KNEW the plane was not and to be obfuscating, giving out false info, and not wanting the plane/black boxes found. Can you imagine China’s outrage if they knew the Malays didn’t work it out with the pilot so their 150 passengers on MH370 were saved? It was just a theory, but it answers a lot of questions as to the Malays inaction and worse.


35 posted on 04/12/2014 7:02:09 AM PDT by Qiviut (Obama: A Caesar at home & a Chamberlain abroad, dividing the country & uniting the world against us.)
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To: Uncle Chip
If Fariq was able to make a call, why was there no attempt by the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, to also make a mobile phone call?

The pilot might have been busy flying a disabled plane or in the men's room, when they went by the tower. - Tom

36 posted on 04/12/2014 7:02:58 AM PDT by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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To: PAR35
They had plenty of time to prepare one and dump it there while they had everyone looking somewhere else.

Why go through that much trouble???

Why dump it in 15,000 feet of water and go thru all the trouble to recover it since it is possible that you may not???

Why not just keep it on the deck, pour some sea water on it, and say look what we just found.

Who would know???

Ohh yehhh -- I forgot about the data inside -- the agencies of 5 separate countries will want to examine it.

37 posted on 04/12/2014 7:03:59 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Qiviut
Saw a theory where the pilot hijacked the plane & flew it west while ‘negotiating’ with the Malaysian government about the release of Anwar.

The problem with that is cousin Anwar is not in prison --

And he has been very vocal accusing the Malaysian government of incompetence in this matter.

Perhaps they should oblige him and pick him up and bring him in for questioning and let the FBI do it.

38 posted on 04/12/2014 7:11:08 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip
With so much evidence pointing to the pilot who was/is Anwar's cousin one would think that Anwar was either in on this or knew about it and he would stay in the shadows and keep his mouth shut while the government tries to drag him in for questioning.

Pushing the speculation envelope, I would say this was mostly a spur-of-the-moment decision - a few days max. I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary. Then it's not likely at all that Anwar knew about it.

Also, isn't he under arrest already? And that is a very contentious situation in Malaysia. Seems to me he would want to use the event to further publicize his situation, not the reverse. The weaker the current gov't and PM are, the stronger his own position. And there's not a whole bunch more the current gov't can do to him. He's facing 5 years in in jail which comes with a permanent ban on holding political office so they are not able to intimidate him.

39 posted on 04/12/2014 7:12:01 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: ponygirl
They have keys.

Keys won't help if there is a dead bolt lock inside the cabin. I heard it stated that some 777s have that feature.-Tom

40 posted on 04/12/2014 7:13:34 AM PDT by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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