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Missing Plane......
Missing Plane......
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Never been much of an aviation expert, but I was a bit disturbed to find out that in this day and age a plane could fly about for 7 hours with no radar fix on it's position. If this is pilot suicide it's a very convoluted one. The Iranian link is worrying, but it looks like in that direction it could even have made Somalia without crossing land, and it looks like from the range of the plane if it refueled somewhere undetected it could then make the US Eastern seaboard. But presumably (hopefully) given the amount of flight over land required it would be picked up by something?
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Perhaps the passenger who was insured was NOT on the plane
I very good Reggie Perrin scenario !!! Get COLOUMBO  |
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have they checked the moon?
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/15/mh370-malaysian-police-search-pilot-new-theory
Only just started searching their homes |
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Beam me down scottie !!
Just read in the irish website that the plane flew upto 50k altitude at I point, 20k above its normal altitude Is that the reasoning of a hijacker? More like one trying to obliterate the plane |
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There has been interviews with pilots, flying at 45000ft would have no adverse problems for the plane and passengers.
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If they were trying to get to somewhere (Iran, Somalia) on the outer edge of their range I guess flying higher altitude would conserve fuel. That or nutjob pilot on one final joyride.
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If it was hijacked surely some group would have come forward by now to say why the plane was hijacked.
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If it was a hijack, how would they get into the cockpit without the pilots sending out a message? Very unlikely.
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The young second pilot is the PRIME suspect ( I suspect )
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"Experts have said that whoever disabled the plane's communication systems and then flew the jet must have had a high degree of technical knowledge and flying experience. So one possibility they have now raised was that one of the pilots wanted to commit suicide."
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Its one switch to turn transponder OFF
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If it was hijacked it would have been to serve a purpose, which has either failed (if it crashed) or may still be in progress (if it somehow landed). It seems unlikely that anyone hijacking a plane just to kill everyone as a terrorist act would have kept flying it so long and crashed it in anonymity. It seems like either a very elaborate suicide or an elaborate (probably failed) plot to achieve something else.
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some airlines still keep a key in first class which will open the cockpit in an emergency, was a standard fit on boeings and is still there on some after 911
codes are used on some doors, codes are easily available and with the exception of one airline which has a double door system the cockpit door is opened numerous times by crew going in and out and is anything but secure re the searching it was reported ages ago that the capts house had been searched, just reporting what is on the net |
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the Malaysian authorities probably already know a lot more than they have released so far.
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I'm beginning to think it's been shot down because it was off-course and not responding. It's not like a government would come out and say that, particularly if it wasn't a local one.
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Possible one of the passengers with a high degree of Aviation knowledge sought to seek asylum thinking he could reach Eastern edges of Europe but instead fuel ran out quicker than expected and the plane has crash landed in a remote region of Asia or crashed into Mountains
Although the transponder was switched off not long after the last known radio contact with the pilot, which would mean he is the most likely suspect and it is suicide, why change path? God knows. |
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rolls royce shut up pretty quickly after initially mentioning the engine management transponder and not going through the malaysian government
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it could have been carrying something valuable, bullion has been transported on commercial flights unknown
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Has Simon Cowell been spotted recently?
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his waistline is still pinging if that means anythig
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Posted yesterday:
'Just as a point of geography, the place within range that the plane could land with perhaps the least chance of being spotted, other than by the folks at the place where it landed that is, is Diego Garcia - mid Indian Ocean, labelled 'British Indian Ocean Territory' on goo-goo maps. Brits don't use it anymore, but the USA does. Zoom in and count the B52s.' Alternatively, it could (possibly would) have been shot down (or forced down) by US Airforce if approaching unexpectedly. Goo-goo maps search: Diego Garcia. |
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Here's your Diego Garcia conspiracy theory:
http://www.cabaltimes.com/2014/03/12/ma370-redirected-to-diego-garcia/ |
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TB
I see no need for a conspiracy theory. |
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Surely the suicide pilot theory would be difficult when you have a co pilot in the cockpit.
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^ that Diego Garcia theory is an interesting one; never entered Vietnam controlled airspace; for whatever reason every sign that it was trying to hide it's whereabouts; transponders immediately switched off after leaving Malaysia air traffic control and supposedly done a U-turn.
"Turning off the transponder isn’t just a toggle or push-button, the switch is a rotary and you’d have to move it two positions to get it into the standby condition. This could only have been done by a compromised crew, or by hijackers. If it was a hi-jack (transponder turned off, no Mayday), and the plane was not under the control of the pilots. It flew to wherever was demanded, and something happened thereafter causing it to crash, probably from an effort to regain control (as with United 93 during events of 9/11). So it could be anywhere." |
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If it has crashed, somewhere in the sea, then surely it will be found eventually, or atleast some debris will on the water either washed up to shore or by fishermen or something, perhaps not by search crews.
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Helissio 15 Mar 14 13:44 Joined: 06 Jan 02 | Topic/replies: 2,139 | Blogger: Helissio's blog
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/15/mh370-malaysian-police-search-pilot-new-theory Only just started searching their homes must have bloody big homes if they think they've hidden it there |
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Maybe Atlantis is in de Indian Ocean?
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I am most surprised that, unless I am mistaken, no-one on this thread has mentioned that the new alleged flight path as shown on the BBC news page would have taken the plane very close to Khao Phing Kan.... otherwise known as James Bond Island where Scaramanga used to hang out in The Man with the Golden Gun.
More importantly,I am not sure the Malaysian authorities have considered this sinister development. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khao_Phing_Kan |
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the BBC lol ...this CNN clip takes a bit of beating
 http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/14/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/ |
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I haven't heard anyone rule out the North Koreans
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They have a long history of international terrorism?
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hijack aside, this is tremendously well planned if it has been taken to kaz / iran etc
could have had a pilot in on it and those two dodgy passport guys as the thugs to control the cabin, it's quite possibly up there with 911 as a plot especially as they still don't even know what the end goal is |
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Some operation Elise if it has been taken. I would think though some help was required on the ground and even in air traffic control centres if it has landed somewhere.
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