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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: tcrlaf

I don’t know why the N S A doesn’t just go through all the info they collect and find out what happened? Sheeesh. /s


361 posted on 03/11/2014 3:22:05 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Malaysia would be looking for the black box and concrete proof that a suicide attack was underway before admitting to any shootdown - even if it takes months. If the story somehow comes out before they have proof the shootdown was necessary, the second-guessing is going to be overwhelming.

The idea that the government of Malaysia would shoot down a commercial airliner full of civilians (2/3 Chinese nationals), and decide not to tell the public for days or weeks or months is just not credible.

They can not just say "well, we decided not to tell you for a while." The outrage would be massive.

362 posted on 03/11/2014 3:23:08 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Travis McGee

Osama used a satellite phone. IJS....


363 posted on 03/11/2014 3:24:45 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)
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To: LUV W

That radar tracking video is hinky. Off to the right of MH370 is a loose group of yellow aircraft icons. At 1:46, one of the yellow icons flips to the reverse direction. At 2:29, another icon disappears from the screen.


364 posted on 03/11/2014 3:24:46 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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To: NautiNurse

I liked the one that accelerated to mach 6 then just stopped and hung around for a while.


365 posted on 03/11/2014 3:27:51 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
A large amount of metal debris has reportedly been found off the coast of Vietnam in the search for flight #MH370 Next at 11 that was last night PzFeed Top News ‏@PzFeed 18h BREAKING NEWS: "Large solid debris"

This may be the remains of the flight, it may also be the remains of the flight shot down to let the Iranian-boarded flight continue to Tehran copying this legit flight's data.

If there are 150 Chinese bodies eventually floating to the surface, then it was MH370. If Iranians float up, it was the flight shot down to let the Malaysian flight cruise on to Tehran.

366 posted on 03/11/2014 3:27:58 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: LUV W

GPS’s only receive. How would they transmit a message?


367 posted on 03/11/2014 3:28:01 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
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To: cynwoody

Now the plane’s moving East.


368 posted on 03/11/2014 3:29:18 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Obadiah

I thought that if the transponder was turned off, it triggered an automatic hijack alert.


369 posted on 03/11/2014 3:32:44 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“Via CNN.” That’s how I missed it.


370 posted on 03/11/2014 3:36:06 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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371 posted on 03/11/2014 3:37:30 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: carriage_hill

I don’t see that information on cnn . com


372 posted on 03/11/2014 3:38:45 PM PDT by keeper53
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To: cynwoody; SilvieWaldorfMD
"If you are going to steal an airliner, you'd want to fly it somewhere where piracy is a profession, and a stolen airliner would be seen as a major achievement. E.g., from their last reported position to Mogadishu is 4,000 miles and 7.25 hours. Maybe a little longer to avoid Sri Lanka and stay over water.

Of course, they'd have needed a full fuel load, not just a Beijing load. Perhaps a little palm-grease at KUL to arrange it?

Sleeping passengers wake up. Why isn't it morning? Why are all the Beijing airport people anthracite-black?

Then what's next ... ?

"Reuters news agency, citing an unidentified Malaysian military source, said military radar picked up the plane as it flew across the Malaysian peninsula in its final minutes. Malaysian media reported that some residents spotted a plane flying at about 3,000 feet near the eastern city of Kota Bharu. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/search-expands-for-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight/2014/03/11/fea6df4a-a8e8-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html

Preparing for a landing at 3,000 feet? Perhaps a refuel in Banda Aceh, then off to Mogadeshu 3,455 miles away as theoriezed?

373 posted on 03/11/2014 3:39:05 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Especially since the bulk of the pax were Chinese.


374 posted on 03/11/2014 3:39:30 PM PDT by Portcall24
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To: carriage_hill

And this wasnt even mentioned again. When I saw this last night(And our Local ABC 7 in Los Angeles reported it as breaking news) I thought maybe the search was finally over, watched the press conference online and they didnt even mention it, just talked about the Iranians on board


375 posted on 03/11/2014 3:40:26 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: tcrlaf

Don’t these planes send out an emergency beacon in the event of a crash?


376 posted on 03/11/2014 3:41:55 PM PDT by LukeL
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Mogadishu


377 posted on 03/11/2014 3:43:27 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: ecinkc

Have been thinking the same as you. Wonder if the pilots knew them?
This gets stranger by the minute.

Is Iran behind this?


378 posted on 03/11/2014 3:45:19 PM PDT by pugmama
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To: NautiNurse

Well, I didn’t say I knew everything about radar and such...just thought it curious. I also wondered about the one going so fast and then disappears and the fact that the narrator seems so interested in it.

Oh, well....on with the thread. :)


379 posted on 03/11/2014 3:46:43 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)
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To: keeper53

That was lifted from the ABCNews quote; I can’t find that exact CNN story, either. So maybe it was rewritten by ABC?

CNN has it all on one page:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1


380 posted on 03/11/2014 3:57:33 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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