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Mystery Malaysia flight may have been hundreds of miles off course (CNN Breaking)
CNN ^ | 3-11-2014 | Michael Pearson and Jethro Mullen

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; iran; jet; malaysia; mh370; terrorism; waronterror
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

We had Somalia in mind personally.


121 posted on 03/11/2014 11:53:00 AM PDT by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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To: Chaguito
Perhaps the authorities already know that five pieces of bomb-laden luggage boarded the plane, and a couple of terrorist Muzzie employees in on the plot cleared the luggage for take-off.

Malaysia airlines is a done deal. Over and done with.

122 posted on 03/11/2014 11:53:04 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Obadiah
Not a pilot, but pretty sure either you cannot turn off the transponder, or at the very least, it requires a deliberate manual act.

The transponder can be turned off by the pilot or anyone in the cockpit that knows how to do so.

It used to be turned on at the end of the runway just before departure. However, the FAA now recommends it be turned on before start of taxi, so aircraft is visible to ATC surveillance systems while on the airport.

You are also supposed to put the transponder briefly into "standby" mode whenever changing the ATC-assigned transponder code. This prevents an inadvertent alert if the transponder is briefly set to 7500, 7600, or 7700 -- various emergency codes.

123 posted on 03/11/2014 11:53:33 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: freedomlover

“Because Myanmar is hard to spell.”

(Obscure Bullwinkle reference)


124 posted on 03/11/2014 11:54:18 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: LyinLibs
Perhaps now was their only opportunity or such. Dunno, but I suspect that lots of flights everyday has some shady stuff going on. They only reason we know about these gentlemen is because the plane disappeared. Sucks for them, if this was part of their getaway.
125 posted on 03/11/2014 11:54:26 AM PDT by Theoria (End Socialism : No more GOP and Dem candidates)
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To: Red in Blue PA

There are thousands of flights with muslim pilots which go off without a hitch each day.


Egyptair 990 went right off the hitch and into the bottom of the Atlantic with a muslim pilot. Don’t discount sudden jihad syndrome as a possibility here. Wouldn’t be the first time.


126 posted on 03/11/2014 11:54:32 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

****So then, based on a plane full of gas, it could’ve flown 8-10 hours off course and end up crashing at the Southern part of the Indian Ocean, near Antarctica....****

No evidence so far that it did, in fact, crash.

That is why it seems so mysterious - everyone believing this was an accidental or deliberate downing or ‘crash’ in the ocean or on land.

Maybe not.


127 posted on 03/11/2014 11:54:45 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers.)
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To: harwood

If your plane

Just went away

And you searched

Both night and day

On Islam

Your hopes will pin

More specific:

The Iranians

BURMA SHAVE


128 posted on 03/11/2014 11:55:02 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: frnewsjunkie
there must be a way to communicate even over the ocean.

There is: RADIO. Planes carry them too.

129 posted on 03/11/2014 11:55:04 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: AppyPappy

Hard to believe they could take over a cockpit without a single radio message. Also hard to believe a plane can be stolen without anyone seeing it on radar or spotting it? Sounds like massive explosion with no large debris. I personally think the remnants of that plane is at the bottom of the ocean. They may never find it.


130 posted on 03/11/2014 11:55:18 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: AppyPappy
That's what freepers can figure out. My theory has been they wanted the 20 Freescale employees. What or who was on the plane that they wanted is the mystery...

Or maybe as someone suggested the plane will be repainted and emerge here in some ugly way.

131 posted on 03/11/2014 11:56:13 AM PDT by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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To: MarMema

The Maldives... Islamic leaning island chain south of India, 2000 miles from Malaysia, 7 total airports, atleast 2 of which could easily handle this plane.


132 posted on 03/11/2014 11:56:26 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: plain talk

I am of the opposite opinion; the more I hear, the more I think it was a hijacking.


133 posted on 03/11/2014 11:56:46 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: tcrlaf

Was one of the Passengers named John Locke?


134 posted on 03/11/2014 11:56:52 AM PDT by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Remember, this isn’t America. Just being close to the ground doesn’t mean you are close to cellular service.


135 posted on 03/11/2014 11:57:46 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: God luvs America
one of the 200 people could’ve sent an email...

or a facebook message...

136 posted on 03/11/2014 11:58:39 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Darksheare

Not if your communications aren’t working (electrical, I.e.).

I watch a lot of Air Disasters and the like. It’s very informative. Anything goes.


137 posted on 03/11/2014 11:58:43 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: MarMema

I couldn’t make it to the US from there. Air traffic is too tightly controlled.
If there was a breach in the fuselage causing everyone to die, that could explain it (ala Payne Stewart)


138 posted on 03/11/2014 11:58:44 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: frnewsjunkie

There is such a technology, and it’s called ‘satellite phones’. The odds of one person on board having one out of 200 passengers is slim, but if someone flies a lot there might be one.


139 posted on 03/11/2014 11:58:49 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Black Agnes

“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.”

That noise also had hundreds of square miles of glass to echo off of.


140 posted on 03/11/2014 11:59:44 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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