Bunker-buster strategic thermonuclear weapon. Most powerful weapon in the US arsenal at one time. NINE MEGATONS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B53_nuclear_bomb
He probably mean B-51. Or B-54.
Posted on 04/09/2014 5:21:28 PM PDT by Nachum
There were posts here on FR about Diego Garcia within a few days after the plane disappeared. Google probably has them.
Yep that’s what they always told us.
Two words:
medical quarantine
and one is needed on this thread as well
Same here. I’m plum full of “soon” an “if”.
Calm down noobie
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Al, your high def have a number of pixels not working?
How long does one have to be around to no longer be considered a noobie?????
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Bunker-buster strategic thermonuclear weapon. Most powerful weapon in the US arsenal at one time. NINE MEGATONS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B53_nuclear_bomb
He probably mean B-51. Or B-54.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=-7.262298&lon=72.375795&z=17&m=b
Interactive map. You can moveover areas of interest, and they will light up. You can click for more information.
They've been disassembled.
A least as plausible as some theories floated by CNN.
I believe I wrote, “at one time.”
I’ve been waiting for them to find planted wreckage but with today’s forensics, it may be that it could be determined it was faked. If that’s the case then there will never be anything to be found. Whatever has happened, the crew and passengers have long been dead. Now, to disappear the plane by repainting it, incinerating it or parting it out.
I know.
I just found the thought of taking apart a B53 a bit surreal, given the experts who built it are long since retired.
ain’t that the truth.
One of the comments at the site had an interesting theory that makes some sense. That the pilot was going to turn around and crash into the towers in Kuala Lumpur. Maybe out of protest for that politician he followed who just got sent to jail that afternoon. Maybe we or china shot the plane down when it didn’t respond. Still, I think there wouldn’t be a good reason to hide any of that.
Omg, can that be true?? Some explainin’ to do there!
If the pilot had intended to take out the Petronas Towers, or if there was a legitimate emergency at the time when the transponder quit, such as a fire, the proper action would have been a 180° turn.
In the case of an emergency, his goal would have been to land at Sultan Mahmud (TGG), which has an 11,417 foot asphalt runway perpendicular to the shore, a distance of only 111 miles. Obviously, he would have declared an emergency, and hopefully TGG would have been ready.
On the other hand, if he were bent on a suicide run, he more than likely would have made it to the towers before being shot down.
But what actually happened was, the transponder was turned off, there was no mayday, and the airplane headed west, not south.
The Malaysian reports the pilot had 5 runways programmed in his flight sim! OMG OMG OH NOES!
Microsoft FSX has over 22,000 airports all over the world. Perhaps they mean five flight plans set up?
When I was overseas and something happened, they’d shut down any ability to communicate until they were good and ready.
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