Besides, ask the NSA what they know, or they don't get next month's budget allocation.
Rather ridiculous...
It doesn’t mean they think it was exploded by a nuke.
It means they want to know if instruments that listen for explosions heard anything.
A plane disappears without a call from the pilots.
1. Terrorist bomb
2. Catastrophic disintegration of airplane
3. Pilot deliberately crashing plane
Thought they’d fixed those nasty center fuel tank spontaneous explosions
If this plane was blown up by a bomb or a missile I am not so sure that that piece of information would be permitted out. If it were such a device then it would be consistent to translate that to something like “center fuel tank explosion.”
If we get assurances from every government agency that has anything to say about it that it was an isolated event then we know that it was Moslems doing what they like to do more than anything else and what they will continue to do so long as they have the resources to do it i.e. Western oil money.
I think the plane was beamed up to the mother ship.
There are some pretty incredible sensor nets out there. Within 20 minutes of the Russian sub Kursk blowing up in the Baltic some of our seismic guys had pinpointed the event.
On the other hand, a plane at 35K feet that can be taken out by a 1/2 pound of Semtex won’t couple into the water/ground.
Starting to wonder if the plane was hijacked. I would have thought if it was blown to pieces it would have left some debris.
I know, the ocean is large, but still, how far off track could the plane have gotten
It didn’t explode, otherwise debris would have been found.
So, based on what we know, here are the options(yes, some are far fetched)
1. Sudden disintegration due to structural failure [no debris]
2. Terrorist bomb [See #1, and no one credible has come forward]
3. Surface to air missile [in a 777, pilot(s) should have seen something on radar and [See #1]
4. Air to air missile via stealth aircraft [See #1]
5. low level thermonuclear attack [would leave no debris on direct hit, but would have left an obvious heat/gamma signature]
6. Plane hickjacked, taken below radar level, landed elsewhere. [plausible, but flew crew who have the ability to warn ATC that something was wrong]
7. passengers and crew told prepare for emergency landing, pilots fly plane below radar and land at remote location. [In both cases of 6 & 7, it’s kinda hard to hide a 777 from satellites (even on the ground - unless there’s a big hangar near by)]
8. New Next Gen Weapon - the kinda stuff Tom Clancy used to write fiction about [See #5]
9. Debris found, official cover-up for whatever reason [Too many countries with competing interests to keep everyone quiet]
10. I’m stumped. This isn’t an old DC-10 we’re talking about. This is state of the art 777. Even if it blew up, there’s should be a signature somewhere. As the communications officer stated on Star Trek (everything’s gotta have a tailpipe). In other words, every flying craft leaves a signature.