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 ...
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
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.
Osama used a satellite phone. IJS....
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.
I liked the one that accelerated to mach 6 then just stopped and hung around for a while.
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.
GPS’s only receive. How would they transmit a message?
Now the plane’s moving East.
I thought that if the transponder was turned off, it triggered an automatic hijack alert.
“Via CNN.” That’s how I missed it.
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I don’t see that information on cnn . com
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?
Especially since the bulk of the pax were Chinese.
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
Don’t these planes send out an emergency beacon in the event of a crash?
Mogadishu
Have been thinking the same as you. Wonder if the pilots knew them?
This gets stranger by the minute.
Is Iran behind this?
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. :)
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
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