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Mystery Malaysia flight may have been hundreds of miles off course (CNN Breaking)
CNN ^ | 3-11-2014 | Michael Pearson and Jethro Mullen

Posted on 03/11/2014 11:13:53 AM PDT by tcrlaf

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was hundreds of miles off course, traveling in the opposite direction from its original destination and had stopped sending identifying transponder codes before it disappeared, a senior Malaysian Air Force official told CNN Tuesday.

If correct, these are ominous signs that could call into question whether someone in the cockpit might have deliberately steered the plane away from its intended destination, a former U.S. aviation investigator said.

"This kind of deviation in course is simply inexplicable," said Paul Goelz, former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board.

(snip) The Malaysian Air Force lost track of the plane over Pulau Perak, a tiny island in the Straits of Malacca -- many hundreds of miles from the usual flight path for aircraft traveling between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, the official said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; iran; jet; malaysia; mh370; terrorism; waronterror
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To: bigdaddy45

“Hi Boeing, this is Abdul from Suicides-a-Plenty, could we order a plane?”

Nothing suspicious about that/s


81 posted on 03/11/2014 11:42:11 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: FAA
"Weird" as in????


82 posted on 03/11/2014 11:43:00 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: grania

Easily. There are thousands of junked aircraft at airports all over the world. One more would not easily be noticed.


83 posted on 03/11/2014 11:43:46 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: trisham

Doors to the cockpit are locked after takeoff.

So now we have a new report that the plane was miles off course and being tracked.


84 posted on 03/11/2014 11:43:55 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: LyinLibs

The area is a muzzie HQ. With the new details it reeks of 9/11 copy cat plan gone wrong. That would be bad PR for Malaysia so I can see them slow playing this. Are they are investigating the background of the crew and passengers?


85 posted on 03/11/2014 11:44:24 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Yeah, sumpin’ like that......


86 posted on 03/11/2014 11:44:27 AM PDT by FAA
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
I started thinking yesterday that the authorities pretty much know what happened.

Yep, just trying to fabricate the story they want to be told.

87 posted on 03/11/2014 11:44:58 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: nikos1121
Doors to the cockpit are locked after takeoff.

You must have missed the story where this same pilot let two hot chicks in the cockpit for the entire flight.
88 posted on 03/11/2014 11:45:12 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Obadiah

Yes, you can turn off the transponder with the switch or by pulling the circuit breaker.


89 posted on 03/11/2014 11:45:38 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Starting to look more like a hijacking than not. The question remains, where is it? Did it crash or did it land on some remote airfield?

Another tidbit that it might have crashed over land:

16.30 Tom Phillips, our correspondent in Kuala Lumpur, says villagers from near Marang, on Malaysia's eastern coast, told police they had heard a "loud and frightening noise" at around 1.20am on Saturday morning.

Alias Salleh, a 36-year-old lorry driver told Malaysia's The Sun Daily, he and friends had run towards the source of the noise, "but did not see anything unusual".

The noise sounded like "the fan of a jet engine," Mr Salleh added.

Mohd Yusri Mohd Yusof, a 34-year-old villager, said: "My friends and I heard the ringing noise for about two minutes."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10687223/Malaysia-Airlines-MH370-plane-crash-live.html

90 posted on 03/11/2014 11:45:42 AM PDT by CedarDave (Obama - "That's the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want" (02/10/14 declaration))
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To: nikos1121; All

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91 posted on 03/11/2014 11:45:43 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Lazamataz

Need a shave

Have no care

When irradiated

You lose your hair

BURMA SHAVE


92 posted on 03/11/2014 11:45:51 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
the one I think of.

2003 Boeing 727-223 disappearance

93 posted on 03/11/2014 11:46:05 AM PDT by Theoria (End Socialism : No more GOP and Dem candidates)
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To: Lazamataz

Where would BURMA SHAVE be if the guy with the billboard idea quit after his first critic? You go, boy!


94 posted on 03/11/2014 11:46:56 AM PDT by bramps (Go West America!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
..but the MAF would know where they shot it down.

And have a good reason to keep it quiet while governments worked on a cover story. The world's airlines would have a screaming fit if it ever got out that governments were willing to shoot down any hijacked flight that acted suspicious - the entire industry would be bankrupt in short order. The corporatist crony governments involved need to work up a TWA 800-like cover story, before any facts come out.

95 posted on 03/11/2014 11:47:08 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: tcrlaf
Let's face it folks. It may be time for the U-2S piloted spyplane and the RQ-4 Global Hawk operated from Beale AFB near Marysville, CA to assist in search duties to find this 777-200ER. By flying at 60,000+ feet altitude and with modern advanced sensors, they may be able to find the plane once and for all.
96 posted on 03/11/2014 11:47:32 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: nikos1121

Maybe they had an accomplice in the cockpit?


97 posted on 03/11/2014 11:47:41 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: lodi90

I can think of one law that would definitely save lives, and it’s “ALL AIRLINES ARE REQUIRED TO PUBLISH THE NAMES OF ALL PILOTS AND CREW FOR EACH FLIGHT”. Boarding an aircraft with Muslim pilots and stewards is a DEATH SENTENCE.


98 posted on 03/11/2014 11:47:51 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: tcrlaf

If it didn’t explode into little pieces, the plane wouldn’t just disappear from the radar screen if the transponder were disabled. The passive image would still be trackable. This revelation only says that many people have been lying about the mystery from the first announcement. If this report is true, millions of dollars and days of time have been spent looking for wreckage in places that important people have known from the beginning were false leads. Why?


99 posted on 03/11/2014 11:48:19 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Theoria

True. Also there were at least 2 iranian passengers using passports that were stolen 2 YEARS AGO.

Roommate claims those 2 wanted to ‘emigrate to Europe,’ but who waits 2 years holding stolen passports before finally fleeing Iran?


100 posted on 03/11/2014 11:48:51 AM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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