Radar Shows Plane Deliberately Flew Toward Indian Ocean: Reports

NBC News ^ | March 14, 2014 | Alastair Jamieson

[MRadtke]

So the pilot accomplished whatever task he had to do, then ditched the plane at a prearranged location. He then escaped with the aid of a nearby waiting boat. This does sound possible.

[MRadtke]

You do make a good point. But if they want to acquire a plane anonymously for some reason, a highjacking as in flight 370 seems like the way to go. That way there is deniability if the plane were involved in a future “incident”.

[Geosmth]

Who knows, as the actual location wasn’t disclosed and recently there have been reports that he wasn’t actually buried at see. I am sure given a seven hour max flight range as announced today, the general area was reachable, to include the eastern tip of the Horn of Africa.

[Geosmth]

Possibly, but why not do it a little early? Before anyone began to tighten up security or what if they were tipped off. This flight, BTW, was a daily scheduled flight from KL to Beijing.

[stormingseas]

So they are packaging engineers? So they would know when items are shipped, how they are shipped, what is shipped, destinations (who they are shipped to), how things are packaged and stored etc etc correct?

[stormingseas]

I am no expert or anything but why steal a plane with people just to crash it elsewhere later on? Why not just use one easier to obtain for whatever your plans for a plane are? Maybe one not quite so large. (maybe kimmy in Korea wants a big plane to match his dads shoes) Why not just keep on the regular path with this 777 and hit a base on land ahead or something else with people? I guess we will know someday. Can not expect crazy to make sense I don’t suppose.

[mad_as_he$$]

Yes. They apparently were going to a packaging facility in China. Packing in semiconductors means the case that the actual device is set in. Not boxes etc.

[the OlLine Rebel]

So what?

I really don’t get why everyone is hung on this idea about engineers from the same company. I worked in electronic packaging for years and never heard of these guys. And we had 1 employee here on FR comment on it.

What is the big deal? There are plenty chip manufacturers, many more famous than this.

[crazycatlady]

Generalissimo Franco still dead.

[WildHighlander57]

thanks for the post Big Giant Head! Cyber Liberty, all y’all, ping to this post!

Cyber Liberty,

Any light you can shed on this: “...I’ve been reading elsewhere theories about the company that had all the employees on board, fast-something or other. They were developing very interesting electronics. Also, four of the five patent holders for some product of this company that held the potential to earn billions... were on board. Leaving ONE patent holder, and a huge incentive to disappear the rest. AND the patent was just approved. One owner stands to suddenly get very rich.”

[crazycatlady]

That was one if my first theories. But every time it appears that somebody sees oil, wreckage or some other physical evidence, it turns out not to be.

[crazycatlady]

Interesting.

[null and void]

Generally speaking anything invented on company time belongs to the company, regardless of the names on the patent.

Inventors typically get a nominal one-time cash award (usually $100), and maybe a plaque, and possibly a nice note in their personnel folder.

The “owner” in the sense of making money on the patent is the company, and they will make money regardless of the continued survival of the inventors.

The company has every incentive to keep the inventors alive and continuing to invent new stuff.

[crazycatlady]

I agree.

[crazycatlady]

I understand that they did take on extra fuel.

[crazycatlady]

“Hijacking gone wrong” being a figure of speech, of course.

[crazycatlady]

Not amazing, human nature.

[maggief]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/malaysia-airlines-plane-mh370-latest-conspiracy-theory-were-freescale-semiconductor-top-employees-1440097

Malaysia Airlines Plane MH370 Latest Conspiracy Theory: Who were Freescale Semiconductor Experts on Board?

[WildHighlander57]

Greg, thanks for the link and quote!

Pinging this scenario out to all y’all:

Ok if:

the last sat ping was ~90 minutes past the distance to Beijing,

PLUS the ELT’s haven’t gone off,

then it means it landed someplace around 90 minutes past the distance to Beijing,
and someone got in the electronics and defeated the sat system, ID system, etc.

around 90 minutes past Beijing puts it in the northwest quadrant; the southwest is just water (maybe some islands)

Now you’ve got a plane that doesn’t communicate with the satellite, doesn’t have the ACARS running, and probably any other ID’ing systems... other than the ones they want to use to trick ATC’s into thinking its a legit flight.

Now they’ve had a whole week to retrofit it.. and load it :0

Not. Good. At. ALL

[crosslink]

Thanks for adding me.