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New:Newer;Newest:Missing plane: Piracy Theory Gains More Credence
AP ^ | March 14, 2014 | EILEEN NG and JOAN LOWY

Posted on 03/14/2014 6:34:43 PM PDT by lbryce

Piracy and pilot suicide are among the scenarios under study as investigators grow increasingly certain the missing Malaysia Airlines jet changed course and headed west after its last radio contact with air traffic controllers.

The latest evidence suggests the plane didn't experience a catastrophic incident over the South China Sea as was initially suspected. Some experts theorize that one of the pilots, or someone else with flying experience, hijacked the plane or committed suicide by plunging the jet into the sea.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 777; iran; malaysia; malaysianairlines; mh370; waronterror
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To: stlnative

I hope that if this is what indeed happened that these passengers were already asleep(Since it was 1am most of them would have been sleeping anyway) and that they didnt feel a thing..so where are the bodies, in some mass grave somewhere? I doubt they would have just dumped them in the ocean, bodies float..even Laci Peterson after being missing for six months eventually floated, so did her unborn child


61 posted on 03/14/2014 8:48:56 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: stlnative

Bingo. And once the highjackers figured out a simulator was not the same as a real plane, and that they didn’t have sufficient fuel to get to where they were going the only direction they were going was down. I would start at the last known location and do a fan search from that point to points 4-5 hours flying time out per the engine monitors.

The whole Iran stole the plane make no sense to me. Iran has a national airline ergo they have airplanes they could repaint, refit and use as bombs. Why would they need to steal one?


62 posted on 03/14/2014 8:50:06 PM PDT by redangus
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To: Revolting cat!

Still no Adam Ant denials that the muslim pilots said “Alley Snackbar” and nosedived the plane as has happened countless times before...


63 posted on 03/14/2014 8:52:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I guess also they could have taken the plane up 45,000 ft several times during the long hi-jacked flight for short periods of time (15 sec or less) which would knock out passengers and make them very sick when they came to, thus keeping them under control. But keeping it up at 45,000 ft for minutes would kill the passengers. 5 minutes might kill all of the passengers in one whack.


64 posted on 03/14/2014 8:52:51 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: Sarah Barracuda

10,000 pounds of foam insulate and clean underwear make a footprint.


65 posted on 03/14/2014 8:53:01 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: stlnative

So by the time they died, they were all DemocRATs?


66 posted on 03/14/2014 9:02:23 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Screw the farmers. I can get everything I need at the grocery store.)
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To: stlnative
Fox News Alert ‏@foxnewsalert 24s BREAKING NEWS: Investigators conclude missing jet hijacked, official says Just breaking news according to Fox News No matter what happened, I hope to God these passengers did not suffer..that they just went to sleep and that was it..just the thought of these poor babies(So many kids on board) knowing they are about to die, everyone screaming breaks my heart
67 posted on 03/14/2014 9:06:11 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: lbryce
No, it would be a Kyrillian Battle Cruiser.
68 posted on 03/14/2014 9:08:00 PM PDT by coincheck (Time is Short, Salvation is for Today)
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To: Revolting cat!
What specifically are you referring to? I presented no theory. I merely reiterated how the latest explanation, theory combined hijacking, suicide, and crashing into the sea.

The comment I made about the UFO requires no elucidation except for those like yourself being administered hourly electroshock therapy.

Revolting Cat, Exquisitely appropriate user name. Especially the first part. Revolting Cat. I pray for your recovery.

69 posted on 03/14/2014 9:08:42 PM PDT by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: lbryce
Hard to believe someone would go to all the trouble to take over the plane, apparently subdue the passengers and other crew members, cut communications, reverse course and fly maybe thousands more miles, only then to crash a plane into the sea - Suicide? why not do it immedictely; to make a statement? - what statement? - we don't even know what happened, let alone what it means. But a couple of other theories out today might explain the plane going down in the India Ocean by accident;
A pilot on Fox observed the radical changes in altitude recorded as the plane flew, from 35000 to 45000 down to 23000 feet, and said it looked to him as though someone were trying to get control of the plane who had never actually flown it before, such as someone who had learned to fly on a simulator and now was really flying an actual plane for the first time - such a person might eventually lose control and dump it unintentionally into the ocean.
Greg Gutfeld thought that the plane could have gone down after some of the passengers attempted to take control back from a hijacker, a la the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on 911.
I'm still betting it's parked in the jungle off some half-abandoned landing strip somewhere while the hijackers lay low for a few weeks and repurpose it for something bigger.....
70 posted on 03/14/2014 9:11:37 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Absolutely, positively true. In all, every scenario presented regarding the fate of the Malaysian Airliner. suicide seems the unlikeliest of realities.


71 posted on 03/14/2014 9:16:11 PM PDT by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Absolutely, positively true. In all, every scenario presented regarding the fate of the Malaysian Airliner. suicide seems the unlikeliest of realities.


72 posted on 03/14/2014 9:16:11 PM PDT by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

They were too high up (and or far from land) for cell phones to work?


73 posted on 03/14/2014 9:20:23 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Intolerant in NJ

I agree, a suicidal pilot doesn’t care where he nosedives the plan into, he could care less, he could have done it easily in the China Sea, why would the Indian Ocean be so significant..if someone wants to off themselves for Allah or whatever I doubt the place that it is done matters


74 posted on 03/14/2014 9:21:19 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Maybe it was a test run. They wanted to see if they could do it but failed and it crashed. The rest of them are going to have to go back to training.


75 posted on 03/14/2014 9:21:37 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: VerySadAmerican

I doubt it crashed..its somewhere..question is, could they have reached Iran or Pakistan with the amount of fuel they had on board? Iran has been sending out some of their usual rhetoric this week, saying “We are just waiting for word to destroy Israel” now I know that Iran is just blowing their typical BS but maybe they have something to do with this and are just waiting for the right time..I doubt they hit Israel though, you practically need a rectal exam to enter the country, and my brother in law, he knows a few EL AL pilots, each one is given a code when they enter Israeli airspace, if these fools given them the wrong code they will get shot down no questions asked


76 posted on 03/14/2014 9:26:27 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: lbryce

India developed a deepwater transit center, harbor, highways, railroads, and a 12,500-runway at Chahbadar, Iran, on the Gulf of Oman and about 40 miles to the Pakistan border.
Distance from Kuala Lumpur to Chahbadar, 3,100 miles, well within the plane’s range.


77 posted on 03/14/2014 9:31:07 PM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.r)
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To: PghBaldy; Fester Chugabrew

While offshore on a sailboat, say, 5 - 10 nm range is typical (to the nearest cell phone tower/repeater). Sitting at the top of a mountain they’ve achieved 30-50 nm. Inside a 777 fuselage with lots of electrical noise from systems who knows?


78 posted on 03/14/2014 9:35:00 PM PDT by steve86 (to the nearest on-shore cell tower or repeater).)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I think it’s become clear that this was a hijacking. I think the ac has most likely crashed in the Indian Ocean. That seems to be the case based on the evidence/information we, the public, have been given up to now. It either crashed or was shot down. I would like to think those passengers are still alive on some remote airfield in Aceh or one of the islands, but it’s not looking like it.


79 posted on 03/14/2014 9:53:57 PM PDT by virgil
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To: Caipirabob

Or the east coast - what made you think the west coast? Just curious.


80 posted on 03/14/2014 9:56:54 PM 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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