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To: Uncle Chip

Gee, at this point they’ve looked in pretty much every place on Earth within a two thousand mile radius except Pakistan...

Uh...

Oh, never mind.


29 posted on 04/29/2014 10:53:46 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Jack Hammer

So I guess you missed this March 18 article:

Pakistan, India and Taliban deny knowledge of MH370

Aviation officials in Pakistan, India and Central Asia as well as Taliban militants said they knew nothing about the whereabouts of a missing Malaysian jetliner after the search for Flight MH370 extended into their territory.

Malaysia said it had sent diplomatic notes to all countries along an arc of northern and southern search corridors including India and Pakistan, requesting radar and satellite information as well as land, sea and air search operations.

Indian defence officials rejected the possibility of a plane flying for hours above the country undetected.

“The idea that the plane flew through Indian airspace for several hours without anyone noticing is bizarre,” a defence ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“These are wild reports, without any basis,” he said, adding a pilot would have to know the precise location of all Indian radars and surveillance systems to be able to get around them.

Pakistani officials said they had detected nothing suspicious in the skies after the plane vanished.

“We have checked the radar recording for the period but found no clue about the ill-fated flight,” the Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement.

Central Asian countries Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, at the northern end of the search arc, said no unidentified planes had entered their air space on March 8.

“Even if all on-board equipment is switched off, it is impossible to fly through in a silent mode,” the Kazakh Civil Aviation Committee said in a statement sent to Reuters.

“There are also military bodies monitoring the country’s air space.”

Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan, who are seeking to oust foreign troops and set up an Islamic state, said the missing plane had nothing to do with them.

“It happened outside Afghanistan and you can see that even countries with very advanced equipment and facilities cannot figure out where it went,” he said. “So we also do not have any information as it is an external issue.”

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2014/03/18/pakistan-india-and-taliban-deny-knowledge-of-mh370/


31 posted on 04/30/2014 4:20:01 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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