Posted on 03/09/2014 11:11:54 AM PDT by mojito
SEPANG: A BOEING 777 pilot, who was flying 30 minutes ahead of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft, said he established contact with MH370 minutes after he was asked to do so by Vietnamese air traffic control.
The captain, who asked to not be named, said his plane, which was bound for Narita, Japan, was far into Vietnamese airspace when he was asked to relay, using his plane's emergency frequency, to MH370 for the latter to establish its position, as the authorities could not contact the aircraft.
"We managed to establish contact with MH370 just after 1.30am and asked them if they have transferred into Vietnamese airspace.
"The voice on the other side could have been either Captain Zaharie (Ahmad Shah, 53,) or Fariq (Abdul Hamid, 27), but I was sure it was the co-pilot.
"There were a lot of interference... static... but I heard mumbling from the other end.
"That was the last time we heard from them, as we lost the connection," he told the New Sunday Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at nst.com.my ...
That might be a possibility and they might have turned around to avoid whatever phenomenon they saw.
Or it could have been captured by a UFO. I remember reading about a UFO flap near Puerto Rico in the late 1980s in which three US Navy F-14 Tomcats chased after a UFO that was pretty good size. At some point one or both of the F-14s flew into the UFO and never came out.
http://www.cavinessreport.com/ED2.html
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