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Boeing Source: Missing Plane in Pakistan
Lignet ^ | March 17, 2014, 5:30 p.m. |

Posted on 03/17/2014 3:01:29 PM PDT by robowombat

The Malaysian government reportedly is investigating the possibility that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 avoided radar detection and landed in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border inside Taliban-controlled territory, according to the UK Independent . . . investigators confiscated a homemade flight simulator from the pilot’s home to see if it reveals any useful information . . . the Malaysian foreign minister told reporters that Malaysia asked several Asian countries for assistance in its investigation, including Pakistan . . . Pakistan dismissed the idea that a Boeing 777 could land undetected inside the country but promised to work with the Malaysian government in its search for the missing plane . . . a LIGNET analyst received information from a source at Boeing that the company believes the plane did land in Pakistan . . . Israel is taking the possibility of a terrorist attack seriously by mobilizing air defenses and scrutinizing approaching civilian aircraft, according to the Times of Israel . . . a Boeing 777 requires a lengthy, 7,500-foot runway, and Pakistan has many of them, meaning Flight 370 could conceivably be hidden in a hangar inside the country . . . U.S. surveillance of the area may be able to shed light on the theory through satellite imagery or signals intelligence.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boeing; hijack; iran; lignet; malaysia; mcinerny; mh370; pakistan; planehijak; thomasmcinerney; waronterror
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To: Parmenio

I’m out.


121 posted on 03/17/2014 4:28:01 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: robowombat

Which Boeing source would that be???

Other Boeing sources put the plane around the satellite arc.

Perhaps the Boeing sources should be talking with each other.


122 posted on 03/17/2014 4:30:47 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: McGruff

D10 and an open spot. They will never notice the smell in Pokestan.


123 posted on 03/17/2014 4:32:21 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: TexasGator

And that was a plane with a standard passenger load.

That’s as bad as taking off from John Wayne!


124 posted on 03/17/2014 4:33:52 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: EEGator

You become a Lord by choosing your ancestors very, very wisely.


125 posted on 03/17/2014 4:35:50 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: fso301
Flying to the remotest part of the region possible before going in is called preventing closure.

That is understood. However none of this is a typical terrorist's modus operandi. Let's presume that the pilot got mad and wanted to kill every Chinese person he can reach (since most of his passengers were Chinese.) He is expected to fly over China and he has permission. He will be flying over thousands of soft targets - residential areas of high density, chemical plants, hospitals... wouldn't it be reasonable for a terrorist to drop his plane onto one of those targets? He can't possibly not know about 9/11, being a pilot and all.

The problem with the "Drop it in the South" scenario is that it does not fit into any logical scheme. Resort to "he was mad" is just a deus ex machina. There was a mad Egyptian pilot once that brought the aircraft down. (Whether he was mad or just a good son of Allah is hard to tell, if even there is a difference.) That pilot wasted no time in fighting for the controls. In this case the pilot carefully and professionally flew his aircraft for hours after he severed the communications. It's not what fanatics do. One has to have nerves of steel to fly for that long and then to kill himself. A special operations soldier can do it to save his country; but a common suicider cannot. I'd buy it if there was anything in the South to destroy. But there is nothing all the way to the South Pole; you won't even count 1 man per 1,000 square miles.

The only "realistic" scenario that requires dumping the plane in the deep ocean is if the cargo contained some alien or magical artifact that must never fall into hands of humans. I don't think this is very likely - not on a commercial flight, at least :-)

126 posted on 03/17/2014 4:39:28 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: cicero2k

But how do “we” know? You think “they” are telling everything they do know?


127 posted on 03/17/2014 4:40:21 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: McGruff

Given the tensions between China and India it is very hard to believe.


128 posted on 03/17/2014 4:41:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: ilovesarah2012; cicero2k

Well, what’s their track record on that?


129 posted on 03/17/2014 4:42:22 PM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: babble-on

“I am strongly in the camp that believes that I don’t know what happened with the plane.”

Move over, and make room on that bench for me.


130 posted on 03/17/2014 4:46:23 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: elcid1970

Can blue collar Irish guys be Lords?


131 posted on 03/17/2014 4:49:56 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: robowombat
Think again!

Someone sent me another piece of information you should read. That's a really good theory. But there's problems when you try to match it with the
the arc graph (click on it for more detailed info) that shows the estimated range of the aircraft with it's remaining fuel IF it was flying at its MAXIMUM SPEED or 7 hours 30 minutes of fuel.

Now, from the article: My problem is ~ I don't know how accurate that Red Arc map is,
and I don't know whether to trust it or not.

I've been trying to match up the numbers on a "guess-ta-mated" flight path.

You can narrows down the search area if you take all the Satellite "Handshakes" into consideration for the search of runways/landing strips that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 could have landed on. The Way Point on the northwet side of her screen is "IGREX" on Jet Route "P628" where the heading changes to a more northerly direction 320 degrees to PORT BLAIR Navaid. That's a total airborne time of about 4 hours 40 minutes from takeoff.

The arc graph shows the estimated range of the aircraft with it's remaining fuel IF it was flying at its MAXIMUM SPEED or 7 hours 30 minutes of fuel.

Now, from the article:

That's 7 hours and 31 minutes after takeoff.
That leaves 2 Hours 50 minutes to travel from "IGREX" on Jet Route "P628 to an undefined point on that arc of 7 hours 30 minutes from takeoff.

Let's say that the pilot leans the engines out to get the most out of his fuel for distance with the remaining time for "IGREX" and gets 3 hours if time,
before he hits his 20 minutes safety margin on fuel and then starts to burn his 1 hour emergency fuel.
At maximum speed of Mach 0.89 (590 mph, 950 km/h, 512 knots) at a cruise altitude of 35,000 ft , that would allow him 1770 miles of distance (to the red arc), before hitting his reserves.

Let's assume that since he stayed on the Jet Routes, he continued to stay on the Jet Routes.

Now take that information and the arc ping map (important to view this map at this link for more details) along with the jet route map, and you can find possible links.

Now I run the numbers on the Jet Routes starting from "IGREX" on Jet Route "P628" and starting subtotaling for a target of 1770 Nautical Miles.
Take a look from SkyVector.com.

132 posted on 03/17/2014 4:51:06 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

That’s been photoshopped. I can tell by the pixels.


133 posted on 03/17/2014 4:53:37 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: All

Looks like we will be hearing of more drone strikes in Pakistan.


134 posted on 03/17/2014 4:55:38 PM PDT by mulder1 ("The past is prologue")
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To: F15Eagle
Land it on the shortest runway possible.....hide it (the aircraft) and begin extending the runway, camouflaging the work as you go until you are ready to launch.
135 posted on 03/17/2014 4:56:47 PM PDT by XRdsRev (New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
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To: robowombat

Didn’t Pakistan tell us they didn’t know where Osama was?


136 posted on 03/17/2014 5:03:03 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: RummyChick

We do - AWACS - cloak a plane, make radar blip ‘ghost’ at a false location, etc.


137 posted on 03/17/2014 5:05:02 PM PDT by kickme (...at the window watching...waiting for my NUKalert to start chirpin'....)
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To: robowombat

the pakis will deny this, just like they denied that OBL was living right around the corner from their military HQ.

denial runs like a river thru their veins...


138 posted on 03/17/2014 5:05:23 PM PDT by sassy steel magnolia
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To: robowombat

Clearly the Langoliers ate it.


139 posted on 03/17/2014 5:05:49 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: robowombat

I heard it was in a used 777 lot in Pacoima.


140 posted on 03/17/2014 5:06:52 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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