Posted on 03/14/2014 9:50:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Indian aircraft on Friday combed Andaman and Nicobar, made up of more than 500 mostly uninhabited islands, for signs of missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 that evidence suggests was last headed towards the heavily forested archipelago.
Popular with tourists and anthropologists alike, the islands form India’s most isolated state. They are best known for dense rainforests, coral reefs and hunter-gatherer tribes who have long resisted contact with outsiders.
The search for MH370 has expanded dramatically in the past week but failed to locate the plane or any wreckage, making it one of the most baffling mysteries in aviation history.
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There are plenty of isolated airstrips in the Maldives other than Male. With he connivance of the Muslim government, refueling would be simple.
They could have flown to Beijing if they burned some of their two hour reserve.
Plenty of 7500-foot airstrips? I doubt that.
If the Maldives are a busy tourist destination what are the odds that a plane landing on a runway at a busy airport would be noticed? As opposed to all the other planes that land there? Especially if it didn’t taxi to a gate but to a maintenance facility or the like. Particularly one landing at night before the news of its disappearance became widespread.
It would absolutely not be possible to arrive unannounced. You are assigned a specific landing slot. We are not talking about landing a Piper Cub at an uncontrolled airport.
You’re assuming that that the 100% muslim Maldives would be unable to get any one else in on the scheme.
How many schemers would be necessary to pull this off at 4am in a tourist trap? If you’re the one who schedules work details, just make sure everyone working the night shift is loyal to the ‘cause’.
BTW, I think a landing at Banda Aceh is more likely. Assuming the 2000g extra fuel the captain requested according to some sources isn’t true.
If it IS true then a refueling stop wouldn’t have been necessary to get to Iran, Afghanistan or any of the other stans.
Sorry, farfetched beyond belief.
How do you think the mob and drug rings operate?
Please post a link for your excess fuel claim. This would have been known to MH from the start.
Not by landing stolen widebodies at busy international airports.
Saw it on one of the other threads. Supposedly information in an Aviation mag another poster read.
As I said on another thread. What we’re getting from the authorities is known as ‘trickle-truth’. The errant husband starts off with ‘we’re just really good friends’. Then ‘Ok, we made out but nothing else happened’. Then ‘Ok, I boinked her’. Then ‘Ok, she wasn’t the first one...’.
Eventually the whole truth comes out.
So you have no citation for this claim.
We’ll see what happens with this claim.
There was no ‘citation’ for the ‘flew over the WEST side of Malaysia’. Then there was. Then the claim that the plane flew for FOUR MORE HOURS. Then it changed altitude after it changed direction. NOW it’s flown for a possible SEVEN more hours.
Trickle truth.
If it DID fly for seven more hours it either requested and received additional fuel prior to takeoff OR it refueled somewhere along the way.
This information from Malaysian authorities that waited nearly a WEEK to search the captain and co-pilot’s lodgings.
Yeah. I trust them right now. Don’t you?
I think they do not know what happened. I have worked with this airline, and they are a reputable outfit. We must wait for the facts. My hunch is the airplane is underwater as the result of a hijacking.
If they’re so reputable why did it take a WEEK for them to search the captain and copilot’s apartments?
Why the trickle truth with the plane’s last known position and direction? Why the denial that any sat info was sent from the engines?
There are hundreds of lives and possibly a billion dollars at stake. Combine this with wild speculation from the media, and you have a recipe for confusion. I’m sure the debris field will be located soon.
‘Confusion’ == trickle truth.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mh370-live-first-pictures-child-3245935
Scroll down for the tweets regarding the Malaysians. Now they think searching the stans isn’t such a bad idea after all...and that the plane is probably on the ground after all.
This a WEEK after the plane went missing. And lots of time for anything that happened on the ground there to be cleaned up and sanitized.
Yes, I’ve seen that. I still maintain that searchers will find a floating debris field.
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