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 ...
This is all WAAY to confusing.
I don’t believe a word CNN says. About anything.
I’ll bet it is on land - crash landed or otherwise. See this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3131873/posts?page=89#89
... Burma
-I am still smelling the “Religion of Peace”,regardles of Interpols’ assertion to the contrary.-
Has any group claimed it though?
Then why didn’t anyone take responsibility?
During the flights of 911, conversations were going on from the planes to the ground.
It didn’t have a full load of fuel, just enough for the flight plus a margin. (It costs fuel to haul fuel). I think the max range was shorter than that.
tcrlaf, many thanks for this info!
Hoosiermama, maggief, LucyT, null and void
Pinging all y’all to this post!
Also see comments!
Cell phones won’t work over the open ocean, or remote jungle islands. No cell towers.
If you lost
Your airliner
It might be
In southern China
BURMA SHAVE
Those planes were all relatively low to the ground, thus close to cell towers.
In the middle of the ocean? Unlikely.
Recently, I watched an interview with a Terrorism expert and he noted that the percentage of actions which are claimed by any group is actually small.
Now I’m thinking the Malaysian Air Force shot it down, worried about a potential suicide hijacking attack on Kuala Lumpur. It would explain the silence so far.
yes- but you can now connect to the internet from 35K feet for $3/half hour so surely one of the 200 people could’ve sent an email...
Your premise is flawed to start with.
Airliners do not always fill the tanks - they take on just enough fuel to have enough to reach their destination plus safety reserves.
It is eerily similar to UA Flight 93. The plane was diverted, perhaps to crash into some skyscraper, and some passengers thwarted the terrorists plans, taking the aircraft down.
This would also account for the lack of anyone claiming responsibility because the attempt failed and they would want to try it again.
So what was the point?
That is with assistance from the airplanes electronics. That could easily be shut of with a switch.
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