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Missing Plane......
Missing Plane......
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chinese have shipped the iranians a 777 fitted with a cloaking device, a nuclear bomb and enough staff to open a dim sum restaurant
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This is what happens when there is too much cargo on board, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M01RmcKsm2k
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they knew they were going to die
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4ATj9k7y_k&noredirect=1
This is quite a logical take on it |
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load of kak
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well they've narrowed down the search to about 1 million sq miles, should be easy now
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panic over Uri Geller has been drafted in
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police began searching the house of the pilot, 53-year-old Zaharie Ahmad Shah, Reuters reported. The official said they had gone to collect evidence that could help with the investigation.
back to the pilot lost the plot scenario |
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CNN reported that Capt Zaharie had posted on German online forum, X-Sim.de, that he had built a flight simulator himself in November 2012.
"About a month ago I finish assembly of FSX and FS9 with six monitors" in a message signed Capt Zaharie Ahmad Shah BOEING 777 MALAYSIA AIRLINES. Checks reveal that FSX and FS9 were over the counter flight simulator games made by Microsoft that could be easily bought online. Capt Zaharie studied aviation at the Philippine Airlines Aviation School in Pasay City, Manila in 1980, before joining Malaysia Airlines in 1981. The Penangite became a captain in the early 1990's and has 33-years and 18, 360 hours of flying experience under his belt. His colleagues described him as a jovial but professional "aviation geek" who collects remote controlled miniature aircrafts, light twin engine helicopters and amphibious aircrafts. Outside of aviation, he runs a YouTube channel dedicated to DIY projects, where he teaches viewers how to fix home appliances like air-conditioners. Pilot throwing up a big fat blank, with background checks |
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strange artifacts
 Pilot dealing with window leakage on his youtube channel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAxgsL_evec&list=UUm6f3-wcpgLhxUR_ONPfoJA |
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http://www.x-sim.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20&start=110%3Ca%20href= his post on x-sim Elo guys, zaharie here.... pls to join x-sim. About a month ago I finish assembly of FSX and FS9 with 6 monitors .... with the latest graphic card ( 2 pieces of asus 7970) on one cpu awesome view on 3 panasonic 32 in. LCD HDMI and 3 touchscreen Dell 21 inches for main (MCP) , center pedestal, overhead panel. time to take to the next level of simulation.Motion! looking for buddies to share this passion. Capt Zaharie Ahmad Shah BOEING 777 MALAYSIA AIRLINES  |
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 . https://twitter.com/sunshinesulin/status/444763082254868482/photo/1 Uyghurs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Uyghur_Autonomous_Region |
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Would the passengers know if the plane changed direction?
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depends,east west no
up,down yes |
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You would imagine that if the plane was hijacked that somebody out of 239 people on board would have managed to send amessage to say the plane is under threat
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Thanks. My mate's just observet that the hijackers, if that is what's happened, would have to switch the on-flight monitor as the passengers can observe the flight path.
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Shocking experience, whatever's happened. Poor souls.
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I think it's a inside job,pilot
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pilot was mad, authorities knew it but he was related to someone important so nothing was done [nap]
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Its either a remake of LOST or a sequel to The taking a Pelham 1 2 3
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Pilot suicide into the Indian Ocean. If it went anywhere near land, India, Burma, Sri Lanka - it would have been picked up by radar.
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"The latest evidence suggests the plane didn't experience a catastrophic incident over the South China Sea as was initially suspected. Some experts theorize that one of the pilots, or someone else with flying experience, hijacked the plane or committed suicide by plunging the jet into the sea."
On the news this morning said they are now searching the pilot's home. For a hijacker to switch off all the communications equipment, and to divert the plane in the vital 15 mins it was off radar from Malaysia and before it would have been picked up on radar from Vietnam, must have been a very skilled hijacker who knew exactly what he was doing ! If it was pilot suicide you would think he deliberately flew the plane into the Indian Ocean, a massive expanse of water space, and very hard to ever find it. If it was a terrorist act, would they have done that or maybe they wanted to crash land on some uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean (?) The whole thing is very strange, and now Uri Gellar claims he has been asked by a "significant figure" to use his psychic powers to help. If that is true they must be really stuck !!!!! |
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If it was hijackers (which did not include the pilots) - then you would think in storming the cockpit, the pilots would have got mayday messages off.
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If the pilot wished to commit suicide why change direction instead of just crashing the plane into the sea ?
Why did no phone call take place and why are no phone signal records available(not everyone turns them off) ? Why do planes have transponders you can turn off , for what possible benefit would you not want to know the location of your plane? It is very morbid but fascinating. |
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Why did he change direction to the Indian Ocean - because he never wants the plane to be found.
How do mobile phones work on a plane at 35000 feet flying over the Indian Ocean? Everything on plane has to have the ability to be turned off incase there is a malfunction in it, which could cause more problems if left turned on. |
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Be patient and Geller will tell us what happened shortly.
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yes if you leave you phone on in a plane, you will get the "welcome to new carrier" messages as you land. You are quite low before you get a signal
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and if you are landing in the middle of the Indian Ocean? do you still get that signal?
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Must have crashed into the sea unless the US, China and India are all keeping quiet for some reason.
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the most likely reason is to conceal the effectiveness of their respective surveillance capabilities.
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i don't want to start a debate on telecoms, but a few years ago i left my phone switched on in the overhead between dubai & london, on arrival the phone had picked up at least half a dozen networks on the journey back, many over eastern europe when we were at 30 odd thousand feet, i never realised that they were capable of doing that but i assume if you are passing over a mast (or close ) then the signal will be strong enough to reach a plane
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Exactly, and there no masts over the Indian Ocean. (Or are there?)
By the time passengers/other flight crew figured out what was going on, there would be no way of communicating with the outside world. |
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China hinting that the US knows more than it is letting on:
"With time ticking away and the fate of Flight MH370 still shrouded in mystery, it is vital and imperative that the Malaysian side work more thoroughly and efficiently and other major information holders -- not least the Unites States -- be more open and forthcoming." .http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2014-03/15/c_133188614.htm |
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US must know whats going on around Diego Garcia, that the whole point of having it there.
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bearing in mind 9/11, their colossal surveillance capabilities and their fondness for sticking their nose in everywhere the USA seems curiously detached
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These days GPS location is just REALLY cheap, even cheap modern phones have it, you can even buy cheap and cheerful GPS anti-theft locators to stick on a push bike. You can use satellites to speak to base.
They should be fitting a GPS locator + some basic telemetry that checks in over a satellite coms link, that can't be switched off. Then we wouldn't have this fuss with this plane or the Air France flight etc. How much would it cost? 0.0001% of the price of the plane? |
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They should search the pilots houses. For goodness sakes, there might be a suicide message there.
I dont want to offend anyone, but that to me is the only thing that makes sense. The cockpit is locked. Any attempt to take it over, would result in some kind of message of help from the flight. |
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imagine being a passenger, they were under radar height, maybe less than 500 ft for 4-5 hours heading out over the ocean
they must have been scared senseless even before the fuel went |
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They should search the pilots houses.
they have |
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I am going for it not being terrorism. What kind of terror plan is to hijack a flight. Take it off course into the Indian Ocean. Not send any messages saying what you are doing. Then crash the plane, in a location where there is a good chance the flight would never be found.
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