Mystery Malaysia flight may have been hundreds of miles off course (CNN Breaking)

CNN ^ | 3-11-2014 | Michael Pearson and Jethro Mullen

[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.

[Mike Darancette]

From where it reportedly last seen the plane could have gone down in Indonesia.

[boxlunch]

China or Russia could attack a US city with impunity because Obama has already said that the US is big enough to absorb the damage without retaliating.

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/09/22/obama-tells-woodward-we-can-absorb-another-terrorist-attack/

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The MAIN, primary reason for the existence of our federal government (as opposed to 50 independent states) is to protect us from foreign enemies.

If the President of the United States, the Commander in Chief of our armed forces, has publicly stated that a foreign power can attack us with impunity, he should have immediately been dragged out of his office, court martialed, and put on trial for treason. (I know there are hundreds of other things impeachment worthy, but that one right there absolutely takes the cake.)

I do NOT understand how he was able to say that publicly without senior military taking steps. That is the most treasonous thing any president has ever said!! He practically invited a foreign power to attack us!

Arggg. 3 more years...... I hope we all survive.

[Lazamataz]

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)

That doesn't explain the sharp left-hand turn.

[CivilWarBrewing]

There are multiple eye-witnesses who saw a contrail going up towards flight TWA800.

[Black Agnes]

It’s still loud in the woods at the end of any runway.

It would have been very much out of the ordinary in a rural jungle area. Particularly one far off any flight path.

It’s notable that this particular account doesn’t mention a big ‘kaboom’.

[AppyPappy]

Any large airfield would have too many witnesses

[Celtic Conservative]

Why did you say Burma?

I panicked.

CC

[1Old Pro]

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,

No kidding

[Meet the New Boss]

lost track of the plane over Pulau Perak, a tiny island in the Straits of Malacca

If this is true, the target may have been India, perhaps Mumbai. The ROP hates India as much as the US. They turned off the transponder and then headed west toward the Indian Ocean in the direction of their target. For whatever reason they never made it, perhaps an uprising by passengers or screw-up by terrorist pilots. They should look for a debris field in the ocean short of Sri Lanka or India.

[Viennacon]

Then it IS a hijacking, either by a passenger or the pilots themselves. What were they up to.
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[Darksheare]

Doesn’t take into account that there was contact after “initial disappearance” between the missing flight and another aircraft.
That wouldn’t have been possible.

[MarMema]

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.

It's not a bad theory, but wouldn't air traffic control need to know about the plane and help it land?

[Viennacon]

Jammer?

[freedomlover]

Thanks. You don’t get an posting opportunity like that every day.

[Blood of Tyrants]

“I personally think the remnants of that plane is at the bottom of the ocean.”

But the lack of a debris field is puzzling. There should be luggage, clothing, insulation, shoes, maybe even the life rafts or emergency slides and bodies floating around somewhere.

[maggief]

Thanks for the ping ... just tuning in.

[Meet the New Boss]

A target in India might explain the disappearance this way: the terrorist pilots were trying to fly as low as possible to avoid detection by the Indian air force, but weren’t skilled enough to pull it off without crashing into the waves.

[Black Agnes]

wouldn’t have to land. Just get into LA airspace and press the red button.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I agree you couldn’t hide it, this is a weird event.

[MarMema]

Yes. Exactly. That’s the question that I know freepers can answer.