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Mystery Malaysia flight may have been hundreds of miles off course (CNN Breaking)
CNN ^ | 3-11-2014 | Michael Pearson and Jethro Mullen

Posted on 03/11/2014 11:13:53 AM PDT by tcrlaf

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was hundreds of miles off course, traveling in the opposite direction from its original destination and had stopped sending identifying transponder codes before it disappeared, a senior Malaysian Air Force official told CNN Tuesday.

If correct, these are ominous signs that could call into question whether someone in the cockpit might have deliberately steered the plane away from its intended destination, a former U.S. aviation investigator said.

"This kind of deviation in course is simply inexplicable," said Paul Goelz, former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board.

(snip) The Malaysian Air Force lost track of the plane over Pulau Perak, a tiny island in the Straits of Malacca -- many hundreds of miles from the usual flight path for aircraft traveling between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, the official said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; iran; jet; malaysia; mh370; terrorism; waronterror
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This keeps getting weirder and weirder. If true, they were heading for the radical muzzie area of Indinesia, most likely.

If it is terrorism, will China regard it as an act of war?

1 posted on 03/11/2014 11:13:53 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

So the, based on a plane full of gas, it could’ve flown 8-10 hours off course and end up crashing at the Southern part of the Indian Ocean, near Antarctica....


2 posted on 03/11/2014 11:15:09 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: txhurl; MarMema

Ping.


3 posted on 03/11/2014 11:15:09 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: tcrlaf

Someone here mentioned the theory that it was hijacked, taken to a lower altitude, and flown to a landing strip somewhere. Then it could be re-painted, re-fueled, and a nuclear bomb could be placed aboard.

Then on to America.

Sounds like something from Homeland, but then so does this story.


4 posted on 03/11/2014 11:16:16 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: tcrlaf

Getting stranger...


5 posted on 03/11/2014 11:16:39 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams" - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: tcrlaf

Nav systems these days tend not to allow that to be accidental.


6 posted on 03/11/2014 11:17:03 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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Getting stranger... Too bad “homeland’ is busy turning the war on drugs into an excuse for a police state...


7 posted on 03/11/2014 11:17:25 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams" - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Darksheare

Yep. It isn’t like trying to fly with a stopwatch and a compass.


8 posted on 03/11/2014 11:17:54 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Would it be possible to hide a large airplane at an airport, surrounded by lots of large airplanes? Is it possible that it is known what happened to the plane, but no one is showing their hand?

The longer this goes on, the more possible it becomes that something really crazy happened to that plane.

9 posted on 03/11/2014 11:17:55 AM PDT by grania
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To: Red in Blue PA

That plane could be anywhere in the world — 8 to 10 hours worth of gasoline could place it going south of India, across Antarctica, and into southern South America somewhere...


10 posted on 03/11/2014 11:18:15 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: tcrlaf

I am still smelling the “Religion of Peace”,regardles of Interpols’ assertion to the contrary.


11 posted on 03/11/2014 11:18:20 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: Revolting cat!

But lets look ova here because the light’s better!


12 posted on 03/11/2014 11:18:40 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: tcrlaf

Not a pilot, but pretty sure either you cannot turn off the transponder, or at the very least, it requires a deliberate manual act. The fact that the transponder was off is most concerning.


13 posted on 03/11/2014 11:19:02 AM PDT by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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To: tcrlaf

Two muslims entered the cockpit and killed everyone there, then steered the plane into the ocean, imho.


14 posted on 03/11/2014 11:19:57 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Minutemen

Me too, like the brothers involved in Boston bombing,
the two Iranians boarded together, and they are not related!


15 posted on 03/11/2014 11:20:59 AM PDT by entropy12 (If you did not vote, you helped elect the community organizer from south side of Chicago.)
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To: tcrlaf

It’s a possibility someone hijacked the plane ... but how did they keep over 200 persons from using their phones?... surely someone could have notified a family member.


16 posted on 03/11/2014 11:20:59 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: frnewsjunkie

There are no cell towers at 35,000 feet.....nor at 25,000 feet.


17 posted on 03/11/2014 11:21:40 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

... Burma


18 posted on 03/11/2014 11:21:42 AM PDT by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: Obadiah

You would think there would have been radio contact. Unless a pilot was in on the scam.


19 posted on 03/11/2014 11:22:02 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: tcrlaf

I started thinking that the public is being prepared for something.. I started thinking yesterday that the authorities pretty much know what happened.


20 posted on 03/11/2014 11:22:21 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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