Posted on 03/11/2014 11:13:53 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was hundreds of miles off course, traveling in the opposite direction from its original destination and had stopped sending identifying transponder codes before it disappeared, a senior Malaysian Air Force official told CNN Tuesday.
If correct, these are ominous signs that could call into question whether someone in the cockpit might have deliberately steered the plane away from its intended destination, a former U.S. aviation investigator said.
"This kind of deviation in course is simply inexplicable," said Paul Goelz, former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board.
(snip) The Malaysian Air Force lost track of the plane over Pulau Perak, a tiny island in the Straits of Malacca -- many hundreds of miles from the usual flight path for aircraft traveling between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, the official said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Cell phones don’t when you are 100 miles away from the nearest tower. Just as an experiment, I turned my phone on recently while at cruising altitude over Georgia and got no signal at all. Cell tower antennas are configured to radiate outward and not upward.
There are thousands of flights with muslim pilots which go off without a hitch each day.
There is no confirmed tragedy (if you define tragedy as loss of life). In fact, at this point, it looks like a hijacking. One imaginative fellow had them land the plane somewhere remote, repaint it, get a new transponder, then load it with an Iranian nuke, and send it to LAX.
With all the technology of today, I figure there must be a way to communicate even over the ocean.
I wouldn’t know... I’ve never flown over the ocean and don’t plan to.
gets weirder all the time. have to wonder about a member of the crew (copilot?) and/or possibly if it failed to respond, someone’s military shooting it down.
If it really was hundreds of miles off course, it sounds more like a member of the crew.
“the one I think of.
2003 Boeing 727-223 disappearance...”
I do not recall hearing of this before.
We already have satellites that can detect a hemorrhoid on a flea’s butt, but heavy cloud cover is a problem.
But problems with electrical, mechanical, and/or human systems do.
No spoofing if you simply turn it off.
“... Burma”
May have been the jet itself flying very low. The noise in downtown NYC the day of 9/11 when the first passenger plane flew over (right down 5th Avenue) at building top height was deafening.
I must admit I find these posts pretty damn funny....
I knew a guy from Malaysia. He was ethnic Chinese and desperate to get out of there. The muzzies running Malaysia are not the warm fuzzy types if you are not muslim.
I find it hard to believe they don't know. I find it plausible they can't tell because it would reveal their spy capabilities. Maybe I've just watched too many Hollywood movies.
That being the case, they would have notified someone of that as it would have been obvious within the cockpit.
So now freepers, the most brilliant minds in the country, need to figure out why they took it ( not so important where) and what they are doing with it/the passengers.
If am wrong about the Freescale employees, so be it. But who or what was on the plane that they wanted?
Indeed, one wonders was TWA Flight 800 shot down with such a jury-rigged missile launch system?
Another good theory!
Now that's a good point. What was it that they had to back track on recently.
Was Ron Brown on board?
Somebody with intel on Soebarkah (aka Obama) might have been fleeing Indonesia via Malaysia on that plane, before getting ‘interrupted’ in the style of Ron Brown and Loretta Fuddy.
If I were an indonesian holding dirt on Obamatollah I wouldn’t fly out of Jakarta, I’d make my way across the water to Malaysia then try flying from there to lessen my chance of detection.
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