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 ...
If it is terrorism, will China regard it as an act of war?
So the, 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....
Ping.
Someone here mentioned the theory that it was hijacked, taken to a lower altitude, and flown to a landing strip somewhere. Then it could be re-painted, re-fueled, and a nuclear bomb could be placed aboard.
Then on to America.
Sounds like something from Homeland, but then so does this story.
Getting stranger...
Nav systems these days tend not to allow that to be accidental.
Getting stranger... Too bad “homeland’ is busy turning the war on drugs into an excuse for a police state...
Yep. It isn’t like trying to fly with a stopwatch and a compass.
The longer this goes on, the more possible it becomes that something really crazy happened to that plane.
That plane could be anywhere in the world — 8 to 10 hours worth of gasoline could place it going south of India, across Antarctica, and into southern South America somewhere...
I am still smelling the “Religion of Peace”,regardles of Interpols’ assertion to the contrary.
But lets look ova here because the light’s better!
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 fact that the transponder was off is most concerning.
Two muslims entered the cockpit and killed everyone there, then steered the plane into the ocean, imho.
Me too, like the brothers involved in Boston bombing,
the two Iranians boarded together, and they are not related!
It’s a possibility someone hijacked the plane ... but how did they keep over 200 persons from using their phones?... surely someone could have notified a family member.
There are no cell towers at 35,000 feet.....nor at 25,000 feet.
... Burma
You would think there would have been radio contact. Unless a pilot was in on the scam.
I started thinking that the public is being prepared for something.. I started thinking yesterday that the authorities pretty much know what happened.
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