Interpol released photos of the 2 Iranians.
Had valid passports when they entered Malaysia. Traded, apparently, passports for 2 European passports.
[Obligatory?] No sign of terrorism or terrorist ties.
Posted on 03/11/2014 6:25:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Malaysia's military believes a jetliner missing for almost four days turned and flew hundreds of kilometers to the west after it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country's east coast, a senior officer told Reuters on Tuesday. --SNIP--
Malaysian authorities have previously said flight MH370 disappeared about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for the Chinese capital Beijing.
"It changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Strait," the senior military officer, who has been briefed on investigations, told Reuters.
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In a line with Sri Lanka and Somalia.
And yet, the Malaysian authorities let/directed 10+ countries with hundreds of ships and aircraft to search a completely different area of the sea on the opposite side of the country.
So... what else don’t we know?
Interpol released photos of the 2 Iranians.
Had valid passports when they entered Malaysia. Traded, apparently, passports for 2 European passports.
[Obligatory?] No sign of terrorism or terrorist ties.
Why are we just finding this out now? The Malaysians know more than they are telling. I wonder what really happened? It sounds like the course and altitude change are deliberate, meaning part of a plan. If we were still in search and rescue mode, why wasn’t this info given out initially? Time to come with with a ransom? A cover story?
——Why are we just finding this out now? ——
Your presumption of a right to know has no basis. You have no right to know
Ping.
This might explain China’s comments yesterday telling Malaysia to do a better job searching.
Do we know the pilots names?
Lax security at the boarding gate.
Two Muslims travelling on stolen passports.
A rule breaking copilot known for lax cockpit security.
What could possily go wrong?
Dumb question:
Why can a pilot turn off the transponder on a large passenger jet?
In what circumstance would it be necessary to do that?
Why not make them stay on all the time, with no way to turn them off?
Also Western Indonesia, the Maldives, north to Burma and Bangladesh, and obviously India. Not sure the plane would’ve had enough fuel to get to Somalia.
A transponder has several frequencies. Pilots are asked to squawk a specific channel to distinguish them one from another
Have they tried calling this guy to help?
Of course, a lot depends on passenger load, but a 777-200 has a maximum range of 5,240 nautical miles.
"First officer Fariq Abdul Hamid (left) and Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah were flying the missing aircraft."
And yet, the Malaysian authorities let/directed 10+ countries with hundreds of ships and aircraft to search a completely different area of the sea on the opposite side of the country.
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Saw an ‘expert’ on this sort of thing on TV last night. He said the authorities made a mistake when they started searching from the oil slick that was spotted - the one that turned out NOT to be from a plane. He said they should always start at the ‘beginning’, where the plane was last seen on radar/contacted, etc. and search from there. A lot of time was wasted, searching from that oil slick - tried to ‘short cut’ the process which unlucky for everybody, didn’t pan out. Send somebody to investigate the oil slick by all means, but keep with the ‘regular’ plan as well. Whoever is running their SAR needs to be replaced.
um.... so why did they let the search continue in the wrong place?
New form of Somalia style piracy? Ransom for the plane and souls on board.
It’s called “hide the pea” commonly played on the streets… :-)
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