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Oil rig worker says he saw missing plane go down: report
The Washington Times ^ | 3/12/14 | By Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 03/12/2014 12:33:06 PM PDT by Fitzy_888

Edited on 03/12/2014 12:35:14 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff has obtained a letter that an oil rig worker in Vietnam wrote to his employer claiming he saw Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 go down in flames.

Mr. Woodruff tweeted an image of the letter saying,

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


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 370; australia; ccp; china; iran; malaysia; mh370; oceaninfinity; oilrig; oilrigworker; philippines; roaringforties; seabedconstructor; shotdownbychinese; southchinasea; spratlies; spratlyislands; spratlys; thephilippines; thespratlys; vietnam; vungtau; waronterror
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To: Aria

That’s right. The batteries should be dead. If the phones are underwater they wouldn’t be working, either. But this has happened to more than a dozen families; they place a call to a cell phone, someone picks up the call and then disconnects.

This occurred yesterday and was reported here on FR.

I’ve been following this situation for a while, it is now day three.


61 posted on 03/12/2014 1:21:53 PM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: PGR88
3rd world cultures and government bureaucracies amuse me.

Like the one we have now?

62 posted on 03/12/2014 1:21:54 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Gen.Blather

P.S. After the Muzzie knife attack in China, killing 27 innocent people, I’m sure China is a bit trigger happy upon any Muzzie airline heading into their airspace. I don’t blame them. Not one bit.


63 posted on 03/12/2014 1:23:06 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: NautiNurse

SO vietnamese oil rigs hire Kiwis. Sounds odd.


64 posted on 03/12/2014 1:24:11 PM PDT by barmag25 (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!!!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

“You can’t be serious. If China air traffic controllers had ANY indication the flight has been hijacked for the purpose of crashing into their iconic landmarks, skyscrapers or population centers you can bet the farm they’d shoot it down without hesitation.”

The guys running the show have no love for the populace. Being as we’re from a completely different culture it would be almost impossible to predict how they’d react. Plus, they’d have to know it had been hijacked. I believe American plans have a switch they can pull to signal a hijacking. Did they do that? Certainly, nobody would just shoot a civilian plane down without justification. The potential repercussions are too large and unknowable. And, if they did, why wouldn’t they own up to it, as hiding it given the way everybody is watching them electronically would be much worse than admitting it?

Nope, I don’t believe anybody shot this one down. It’s either a failed hijacking, a spectacular mistake, or a mechanical problem.


65 posted on 03/12/2014 1:25:44 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: barmag25

I think most folks like that are contractors from English speaking countries who have attended schools like UT, Texas A&M, Colorado School of Mines, etc.


66 posted on 03/12/2014 1:27:05 PM PDT by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: Fitzy_888
Thank God for oil rigs!!!! Without them, we wouldn't have OIL or witnesses to catastrophic events!

Just another reason we should drill everywhere we can find oil.

67 posted on 03/12/2014 1:30:59 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SatinDoll
But this has happened to more than a dozen families; they place a call to a cell phone, someone picks up the call and then disconnects.

Sounds like an average morning at the NSA.

68 posted on 03/12/2014 1:32:17 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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To: PGR88

Sounds like they’re related to Obama.


69 posted on 03/12/2014 1:32:20 PM PDT by TurkeyLurkey
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To: TBall
RE: 48

LOL! Yup, TWA800 went down due to spontaneous combustion. Those dozens of eyewitnesses were on dope, or something...

70 posted on 03/12/2014 1:32:42 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: nascarnation

I CALL BULLOBAMA on this letter.

The rig the guy says he is on is currently being used off the coast of CUBA!!!!!!!!!

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-79.38331/centery:22.84518/zoom:8/oldmmsi:538002373/olddate:lastknown


71 posted on 03/12/2014 1:34:52 PM PDT by barmag25 (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!!!)
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To: Gen.Blather
I’m far more nuanced.

Then I feel sorry for you. Where I grew up, someone who was "nuanced" had a corn cob shoved up their.........oops, sorry.

Since you obviously are college egucated, maybe you can explain to the unegucated exactly how one becomes "nuanced"?

72 posted on 03/12/2014 1:35:42 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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To: NautiNurse
That may explain why he provided his New Zealand passport number at the end of the letter.

but it doesn't explain the foreign date and time in the upper right hand corner of the email/letter.....

73 posted on 03/12/2014 1:38:18 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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To: All

The closest rig to this Location is the TAM DAO 01.

@ 9.469483 / 107.8553

There is not a rig at the location in the letter.


74 posted on 03/12/2014 1:39:59 PM PDT by barmag25 (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!!!)
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To: barmag25

This site has the rig off Vietnam.

http://www.rigzone.com/data/offshore_drilling_rigs/416/Semisub/Songa_Offshore_AS/Songa_Mercur


75 posted on 03/12/2014 1:41:18 PM PDT by jimbobfoster
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To: Gen.Blather
No matter how it went down, it cut through the water at just the right angle.. like butter.. or sliced into thick jungle, like butter.. Leaving no visible wreckage.

Or it was successfully STOLEN and landed somewhere.

Stay tuned..

76 posted on 03/12/2014 1:41:57 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: US_MilitaryRules

On March 11th CIA Directer John Brennan “confirmed reports” that Malaysia Flight 370’s transponder “had been disabled or turned off at some point during the flight” and said he is not ready to rule out terrorism as the cause behind the plane’s disappearance.

According to ABC News, Brennan was speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations when he said these things.

He said:

[There have been] some claims of responsibility that have not been confirmed or corroborated at all. We are looking at it very carefully. We, the CIA, are working with the FBI and TSA and others. Our Malaysian counterparts are doing everything they can to try to put together the pieces here. But clearly this is still a mystery, which is very disturbing.


77 posted on 03/12/2014 1:42:13 PM PDT by kabar
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To: barmag25
SO vietnamese oil rigs hire Kiwis. Sounds odd.

Why?

Internationally, New Zealand Oil & Gas has an interest in onshore Sumatra, Indonesia, where an exploration well is currently being drilled. We hold interests in further prospects in both Tunisia and Indonesia.

New Zealand Oil & Gas holds a 15 per cent stake in dual listed Pan
Pacific Petroleum, which has non-operated interests in New Zealand,
Australia, Vietnam and Timor Leste-Australia Joint Petroleum
Development Area. NZO&G


78 posted on 03/12/2014 1:42:44 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

“I’m far more nuanced.”

That was intended to be read as an apocryphal quote from our esteemed president. Your interpretation of it, however, was dead-nuts on.


79 posted on 03/12/2014 1:44:57 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: jimbobfoster

Whats the location at this present moment?


80 posted on 03/12/2014 1:45:14 PM PDT by barmag25 (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!!!)
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