Missing Flight MH370: Terror Threat Made Against Beijing Airport Before Jet's Disappearance

International Business Times ^ | March 12, 2014 | By Vasudevan Sridharan

[Oldeconomybuyer]

A terror threat was made against the Beijing Capital International Airport days prior to the abrupt disappearance of the Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

China Airlines has revealed they had alerted the authorities at the Civil Aviation Administration of China regarding the terror threat which was made on 4 March by an unknown man.

The airline operator's chief representative in Beijing, Peng Rong-min, said the unidentified man made the phone call threatening that a terrorist strike would take place at the Beijing airport.

[Vaquero]

Usually the morons come forward and claim it is a victory. Was any such claims made??

[PghBaldy]

Yes, from a group no one believed or heard of before.

[yldstrk]

I would guess getting a threat is not unusual. sheesh we had them monthly at my high school

[Lazamataz]

Well, THIS changes EVERYthing.

[ncfool]

I think that Malaysia or China shot this plane down they keep changing their story as to which direction the plane was flying and what they saw on radar. There is something tragically wrong here.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

There is something tragically wrong here.

All we know for sure is that flight MH370 landed safely or unsafely somewhere.

[binreadin]

I second a comment from an earlier thread, which surmised the plane had been hijacked and possibly flown to Iran. Good friend is a 777 pilot, and he says they carry an extra 45 minutes of fuel overseas. When the flight deviated it was possibly headed towards Pakistan or Iran. The passengers may be used for leverage, or disposed of. The plane can become a nuclear weapons delivery system, possibly an EMP explosion. As Iran has an extensive underground bunker system, maybe the aircraft is being stored in one of those facilities. Other option would be a repeat of the Egyptian flight that was flown into the ocean by one of the pilots.

[maggief]

“The anonymous caller started off the conversation in French but later spoke in Mandarin as the China Airlines’s staff do not understand French. He said he represented the East Turkestan Liberation Organisation; the authenticity of the phone call or the person’s identity could not be verified.”

Ping!

[hoosiermama]

Curiouser and curiouser!

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Actually, I read recently that something like 80% of terrorist attack are never “claimed” by anyone.

[cynwoody]

I second a comment from an earlier thread, which surmised the plane had been hijacked and possibly flown to Iran. Good friend is a 777 pilot, and he says they carry an extra 45 minutes of fuel overseas.

Do we know that MH370 was fueled for Beijing plus 45 minutes? Or did they top it off at KUL, accidentally or on purpose?

The airplane in question is or was a Boeing 777-200ER. According to the Wikipedia, it has a maximum range of 8892 miles.

[cornfedcowboy]

I would think it highly probable that brighter minds “in the know” have pretty good info just what has actually happened. Time will tell and it will be quite interesting.

[LucyT]

Check out # 9 and # 11.

Thanks, Maggie.

[GOPJ]

The plane can become a nuclear weapons delivery system, possibly an EMP explosion.

Can planes fly high enough to do REAL damage with an EMP? I thought it was something like 125 miles above Kansas would take out most of the unprotected chips in the US. That's pretty high up... Anyone know?

[chimera]

Starfish Prime detonated at 250 miles up. You likely have to be out of the atmosphere to get the energetic particles injected back into the atmosphere to generate the EMP. I don’t know for sure, it’s not my area of expertise.