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.....
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Does anyone think that the Maldives are a possible landing site? They’re in range and Muslim. They would be a good launching point to head for Israel, too. Passengers are likely dead from the ascent to 45,000—that would be another indication that this was very carefully planned.
Much easier to hijack a jet in the Middle East seeing as their security is not that great.
The only thing that came off was a couple of feet of horizontal stabilizer. It was back in service a week later. I have always wanted to see a computer generated re-enactment of how the plane was flown. That must have been some ride. The pilot, wounded as he was, flew it like a fighter jet, like the ones he flew in the service. To fly a fully loaded DC-10 like a F-16 was one hell of a job.
It never seizes to amaze me how modern technology works, but in the end, too destroy peoples lives.
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