Posted on 03/19/2014 12:31:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Police in the Maldives are probing reports that islanders in the tourism paradise saw a "low-flying jumbo jet" on the day the missing Malaysia Airlines plane vanished.
Police in the Maldives are probing reports that islanders in the tourism paradise saw a "low-flying jumbo jet" on the day the missing Malaysia Airlines plane vanished.
In a statement released late Tuesday, police said they were investigating a report on the Haveeru news website that local residents had spotted a large plane flying over the remote southern island of Kuda Huvadhoo on March 8.
"The police are looking into the reports in the media saying that a low-flying airplane was sighted above Kuda Huvadhoo," the statement said.
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He looka like a plane?
Why doesn’t some reporter book a flight to that island. They would be famous if they found the plane.
The island is a low-lying reef dominated by its airport runway. Given that tourism is an important industry I’d guess that low flying jumbo jets are a common sight.
Past the Maldives then a right turn north to Iran?
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