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Missing Malaysia Airlines flight systems disabled, PM says
BBC News ^ | 3/15/2014 | BBC

Posted on 03/15/2014 1:24:00 AM PDT by Nextrush

The communications systems of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were deliberately disabled, Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak has said.

According to satellite and radar evidence, he said, the flight then changed course and could have continued flying for a further seven hours.

He said the "movements are consistent with the deliberate action of someone on the plane."

The plane disappeared a week ago with 239 people on board.

The Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight last made contact with air traffic control over the South China Sea to the east of Malaysia, about one hour after take off.

Mr. Razak told a news conference that new satellite evidence shows "with a high degree of certainty" that the aircraft's communications systems were disabled and then it changed course, flying back over Malaysia towards India.

Satellite signals continued to be picked up from the plane some seven hours after it lost radar contact.

Mr. Razak said the authorities were now trying to trace the plane across two possible corridors.

. from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan through to northern Thailand

. south from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.....

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: breakingnews; malaysia; mh370
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To: Nextrush
There’s so much bad stuff within the potential flight path of that plane from...

So; the important question is...


Are YOU ready to meet your Maker?

21 posted on 03/15/2014 9:58:21 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ilovesarah2012

The aircraft was probably taken to 45,000 feet and the engines possibly turned off, to deprive the passengers of oxygen.. I believe the cabin pressurization is enabled by the engines, so killing the engines temporarily would depressurize the cabin, killing the passengers. Then the aircraft glides, engines restarted, passengers are now dead then aircraft can be taken to covert location and landed.


22 posted on 03/15/2014 12:31:00 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: CivilWarBrewing

And you know all that how?


23 posted on 03/15/2014 12:32:08 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
I don't think the pilot, Zaharie, did this because he would NOT have just said "all right, good night".. This is someone who knew the 777 flight software, but not proper radio protocols.

The two Iranians are suspect, but I would DEFINITELY investigate the 2 Ukrainians + 1 Russian on board (3 is a team).. Possibly pro-Putin with a mission to cause a media diversion from the invasion of Crimea.

24 posted on 03/15/2014 12:37:37 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Revolting cat!

I’m guessing, and my guess is the 2 Ukrainians and 1 Russian are involved. They are either pro-Putin to cause a media diversion away from Crimea by order of higher ups, or they are ANTI-PUTIN and stealing an aircraft to use in an attack AGAINST the Russians.


25 posted on 03/15/2014 12:40:30 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Revolting cat!
I just read on another blog that a very good source says a major agency in the U.S. believes the aircraft might be in Africa..

Based on my research, this is Oleg Chustrak, one of two Ukrainians on board:

Anyone have any info. on him?

26 posted on 03/15/2014 1:10:55 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: CivilWarBrewing

‘Africa’ as in Somalia????


27 posted on 03/15/2014 1:12:31 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: redgolum

Assuming the passengers are dead and the plane is parked somewhere. Just how do they dispose of over 200 bodies?


28 posted on 03/15/2014 1:20:34 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Toespi

Mass grave..look at what the drug cartels do in Mexico, everyday they find mass graves with 30-40 bodies..wouldn’t be difficult to create a mass grave for these people(If they are deceased) I doubt they would dump them in the ocean, they would float, even Laci Peterson after being missing for six months floated to the San Francisco bay along with her unborn child


29 posted on 03/15/2014 1:29:04 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: blueplum

The plane identifies itself when airborne so if that feature is disabled then the only 777 in the air that does not identify itself is our mystery plan. So I think the plane would have a hard time penetrating a protect airspace.


30 posted on 03/15/2014 1:33:46 PM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: Toespi

That seems to be a minor problem. The plane is worth a 1/4 of a BILLION dollars. Piracy seems more likely as the days go on.


31 posted on 03/15/2014 1:36:12 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Straight Vermonter

What year was the plane? If it was a decade old, probably worth more like forty million.


32 posted on 03/15/2014 3:39:44 PM PDT by dinodino
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Both Fox and CNN commentators confirmed the ascent to 45,000ft would have made the air so thin that it would have deprived the passengers of oxygen long enough—even after use of oxygen masks—to first put them to sleep and then kill them. BUT, the captain’s cabin had access to more oxygen, long enough so that they could drop down to a 23,000 cruising altitude—and then fly for another 7 hours!


33 posted on 03/15/2014 5:08:36 PM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: dinodino
What year was the plane? If it was a decade old, probably worth more like forty million.

No one would bother for such a trifling amount.

34 posted on 03/15/2014 5:35:38 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Straight Vermonter

I agree with you. Nobody would stage a skyjacking to ransom the aircraft—it’s patently ridiculous.


35 posted on 03/15/2014 5:44:33 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: blueplum
>>>For all we know this plane is now hiding in plain sight, in a maintenance hanger, for instance.

My theory: Those chose this aircraft and flight for a reason. The 777-200ER has very quiet engines and so it could land in the early morning hours and not attract a lot of attention...and the flight time would put it over the middle east in the 3-4 AM timeframe.

My theory, if it was state sponsored (Iran), is that they have thought about your concerns. IF I were planning this op...I would land it where I could hide it...and repaint it...then load whatever I wanted to on it (nuke? Dirty material?). It would be somewhere near a known air route. So for instance...If I knew (not hard to figure out) there were 777-200ER flying from Singapore or Manila to Jerusalem...I would paint it in Singapore Air colors and give it one of their tail numbers. Then at the designated time...I would "switch" the aircraft by shooting the Singapore Airlines 777 down...and let MH370 continue towards the designation.

You have to know that if this is a hijacking and its landed somewhere...they've thought through the end game. And part of that end game planning is how do you sneak it in when people are looking for it. This is how I would do it.

Add to this all the talk in the last week from Iran saying the liberation of Jerusalem is close. Perhaps they DO have a nuke....but its not to the advanced stages that we have where it could fit on top of a missile...but resembles Fat Man or Little Boy...and thus would need to be put on an aircraft with lots of lifting capabilities.

36 posted on 03/15/2014 5:51:45 PM PDT by NELSON111
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To: NELSON111

Hijacking a cargo bird would make more sense. No passengers to worry about. Sneaking a 777 back into any airspace now would attract too much attention.


37 posted on 03/15/2014 8:53:15 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: NELSON111

I understand we’re not dealing with fishermen pirates here but the problem I can’t see the hijackers/terrorists getting around is simply that flying computers are getting updates all the time. The engines pinged 4 times in 4 hours for instance. Hit the air after a vacation and the aircraft is flagged as not having been updated in x number of cycles - which cycles have since been changed in frequency or order. Then all kinds of bells and whistles and fighter go-see’s go off. I’d imagine both Rolls and Boeing, for two, have softies working around the clock reprogramming for such an event - at least I hope they do. So the hijackers may find themselves in the same situation as the pirates in the Alabama Merck - in reality, with nothing of value on their hands and a whole lot of headaches about to rock their world.


38 posted on 03/15/2014 11:23:46 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: Nextrush
Here is something conspiracy theorists can sink their teeth into.
Many know that in the Freemasonry world and the Illuminati world numbers have meaning... like the number 11 , the number 13, the number 33.
Also ? in the Occult world the Spring and Fall equinox have meaning and both fall on the number 21.
March the 21st and September 21.
It so happens that the Malaysian Airline plane went mission 13 days before the Spring equinox.
So ? just as mysterious as how the plane went mission, so too will it be mysterious in how it will be found.
Also ? it so happens this is 13 years after 9/11.
Yeah, I know, stuff of wild conspiracy theory and Coast to Coast Am.
The Illuminati could be setting up Iran to attack Israel in their nefarious plans for the new world order.
39 posted on 03/16/2014 5:48:42 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: USAF80

That was tried in 1994 by some hammer swinging head case aboard a FedEx flight out of Memphis. The hijacker is now in federal prison and the three FedEx pilots no longer fly because of the injuries sustained during the attempted takeover.


40 posted on 03/16/2014 6:56:21 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (I am proud of what America USED TO BE.)
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