Mystery Malaysia flight may have been hundreds of miles off course (CNN Breaking)

CNN ^ | 3-11-2014 | Michael Pearson and Jethro Mullen

[Blood of Tyrants]

Cell phones don’t when you are 100 miles away from the nearest tower. Just as an experiment, I turned my phone on recently while at cruising altitude over Georgia and got no signal at all. Cell tower antennas are configured to radiate outward and not upward.

[Red in Blue PA]

There are thousands of flights with muslim pilots which go off without a hitch each day.

[Lazamataz]

There is no confirmed tragedy (if you define tragedy as loss of life). In fact, at this point, it looks like a hijacking. One imaginative fellow had them land the plane somewhere remote, repaint it, get a new transponder, then load it with an Iranian nuke, and send it to LAX.

[frnewsjunkie]

With all the technology of today, I figure there must be a way to communicate even over the ocean.

I wouldn’t know... I’ve never flown over the ocean and don’t plan to.

[nuconvert]

gets weirder all the time. have to wonder about a member of the crew (copilot?) and/or possibly if it failed to respond, someone’s military shooting it down.
If it really was hundreds of miles off course, it sounds more like a member of the crew.

[FAA]

“the one I think of.
2003 Boeing 727-223 disappearance...”

I do not recall hearing of this before.

[CivilWarBrewing]

We already have satellites that can detect a hemorrhoid on a flea’s butt, but heavy cloud cover is a problem.

[the OlLine Rebel]

But problems with electrical, mechanical, and/or human systems do.

[Blood of Tyrants]

No spoofing if you simply turn it off.

[freedomlover]

“... Burma”

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Why did you say Burma?

[Black Agnes]

May have been the jet itself flying very low. The noise in downtown NYC the day of 9/11 when the first passenger plane flew over (right down 5th Avenue) at building top height was deafening.

[harwood]

I must admit I find these posts pretty damn funny....

[lodi90]

I knew a guy from Malaysia. He was ethnic Chinese and desperate to get out of there. The muzzies running Malaysia are not the warm fuzzy types if you are not muslim.

[gunsequalfreedom]

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

I find it hard to believe they don't know. I find it plausible they can't tell because it would reveal their spy capabilities. Maybe I've just watched too many Hollywood movies.

[Darksheare]

That being the case, they would have notified someone of that as it would have been obvious within the cockpit.

[MarMema]

Aha. I knew it had not crashed.

So now freepers, the most brilliant minds in the country, need to figure out why they took it ( not so important where) and what they are doing with it/the passengers.

If am wrong about the Freescale employees, so be it. But who or what was on the plane that they wanted?

[RayChuang88]

One scary possiibility is some terrorist group was able to jury rig a launch system for the Soviet-era 3M33 (SA-8 Gecko) surface-to-air missile, including the guidance radar system. Unlike a MANPAD missile, the 3M33 missile can hit a target up to 39,000 feet in height by radar guidance--well within the flight envelope of the 777-200ER at cruising altitude.

Indeed, one wonders was TWA Flight 800 shot down with such a jury-rigged missile launch system?

[MarMema]

Another good theory!

[gunsequalfreedom]

I don’t believe a word CNN says. About anything.

Now that's a good point. What was it that they had to back track on recently.

[LyinLibs]

Was Ron Brown on board?

Somebody with intel on Soebarkah (aka Obama) might have been fleeing Indonesia via Malaysia on that plane, before getting ‘interrupted’ in the style of Ron Brown and Loretta Fuddy.

If I were an indonesian holding dirt on Obamatollah I wouldn’t fly out of Jakarta, I’d make my way across the water to Malaysia then try flying from there to lessen my chance of detection.