Posted on 03/09/2014 11:11:54 AM PDT by mojito
SEPANG: A BOEING 777 pilot, who was flying 30 minutes ahead of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft, said he established contact with MH370 minutes after he was asked to do so by Vietnamese air traffic control.
The captain, who asked to not be named, said his plane, which was bound for Narita, Japan, was far into Vietnamese airspace when he was asked to relay, using his plane's emergency frequency, to MH370 for the latter to establish its position, as the authorities could not contact the aircraft.
"We managed to establish contact with MH370 just after 1.30am and asked them if they have transferred into Vietnamese airspace.
"The voice on the other side could have been either Captain Zaharie (Ahmad Shah, 53,) or Fariq (Abdul Hamid, 27), but I was sure it was the co-pilot.
"There were a lot of interference... static... but I heard mumbling from the other end.
"That was the last time we heard from them, as we lost the connection," he told the New Sunday Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at nst.com.my ...
Me thinks the Malaysian govt knows exactly what happened to that plane as well as it’s whereabouts-what’s left of it that is.
Their problem is how do they report it to the families and the world that it was terrorism and how the responsible parties got onto that airliner when they should have been detected.
But to land the craft safely... implies hostages.
First, you would make sure the plane has a mohammaden pilot and copilot...
Actually, the scene you’re referring to is from the Clancy novel, ‘Debt of Honor”.
The novel centers around a Japanese government that is taken over by war-mongering industrialists. They incite a war...yes, a shooting war...with the US. The bulk of the novel is the story of how we cleaned their clocks both militarily and through cloak-and-dagger stuff.
In the novel, a pilot for Japan Air Lines named Sato loses both a brother and his only son in the war. As a result, he goes a little bonkers and hatches a plan. He gins up a way to fly a 747 to Washington D.C. to exact an ‘honorable’ revenge. He manages to crash the plane into a joint session of Congress, killing everyone, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the entire Supreme Court, and the President and First Lady. The only survivor (because he was on his way to another part of the building) was the newly-sworn-in Vice President, Jack Ryan.
In the novel, a Secret Service person on the roof of the Capitol does manage to fire a Stinger at the aircraft at near point-blank range, and it does take out an engine, but it was too little, too late.
IIRC, it was off the NE seaboard, the pilot left the cockpit for a moment, the co-pilot took the controls and pitched the plane violently up and down, the pilot made it back and asked "What are you doing?!" and the co-pilot was praying.
Again, IIRC, the plane was deliberately plunged nose-first in the Atlantic.
I'm thinking it might be something similar here, or a bomb.
Bojinka also comes to mind.
The Air France jetliner off the Brazilian coast comes to mind.
There was a plot to use an airliner to strike the Eiffel Tower, which the French averted. Again, a common thread (or "threat") is that Muslim actors were involved.
I'm about ready to advocate that we just isolate these cavemen for 500 years. Hell, after the first fifty they wouldn't be able to produce radio, TV, aircraft, and would just sink back down to the level of stone knives and bearskins.
I must have read that book like around 2000 or so, it came out before 9/11 correct?
You know actually the worst fear I could think of isn’t a bomb on a plane, even a nuke, no its a large jet that has been covertly turned into a massive crop duster and it ain’t spraying bug juice.
Comes into America, makes a couple stops at major hubs, drops a bit here, there and there, and also infects the passengers.
Who knows, maybe it was shot down because intel suggested it was too grave of a threat to enter any populated airspace, better to just do it secretly and let everyone guess.
What's the big secret? How many Boeing 777s over Viet Nam were headed for Narita at the time?
Would be Zulu if they were directly quoting the pilot.
One. Not a very good hiding place.
Starting to look like an episode of “lost”
With that airline, virtually all the pilots are liable to be Muslim.
I read that novel. The airliner kills the crappy president and practically all the members of Congress and the US gets the chance for a fresh start without all the entrenched politicians.
I think the previously shattered wingtip will prove to be the answer. Shoddy repairs have been the cause of many accidents.
It’s true. It’s false. It’s true. It’s false. Who knows. The authorities will tell the msm what they want the story to be.
Wall Street Journal with a live feed but as said, it seems we are still unsure of this situation.
http://stream.wsj.com/story/malaysia-airlines-flight-370/SS-2-475558/SS-2-476125/
Have you ever heard of Malaysia? Can you locate it on a map? My guess is no, otherwise it would be pointless to note that Malaysian pilots and copilots just might be Muslim. Next thing you'll be noting that many residents of Vatican City are Catholic...
Couple of muslims at the controls...what could possibly go wrong?
Shout Allah akbar and push the yoke forward...
thought they found a door floating.
I wonder if they lost all power and had to ‘land’ in the sea, sinking intact quickly after that. No debris?
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