Posted on 03/13/2014 1:52:00 PM PDT by blam
US Investigators Think Missing Plane Might Have Been Stolen To Use Later For Another Purpose
Michael Kelley
March. 13, 2014, 11:06 AM
U.S. investigators suspect that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stayed in the air for about four hours after it reached its last confirmed location, according to Andy Pasztor of The Wall Street Journal.
The Journal originally reported that they obtained data from the aircraft's engines, but then issued a correction saying that U.S. investigators based their position on "an analysis of signals sent through the plane’s satellite-communication link designed to automatically transmit the status of some onboard systems."
Satellites picked up 'electronic pings' from the flight after it lost contact, Reuters reports.
Malaysian authorities immediately rebutted the initial report, but have not provided any new information about the fate of the flight. Today, the country's minister of defense and acting minister of transport said the plane simply "vanished."
CNN Chief International correspondent Jim Sciutto reports that the "pings" of engine data, radar data, and fuel range have led the U.S. to alter their search to the Indian Ocean.
The primary scenarios of what happened remain a possible hijacking, action by rogue crew, or some sort of catastrophic mechanical failure.
One person tracking the probe told The Journal that U.S. counterterrorism officials are actively pursuing the notion that the plane was diverted "with the intention of using it later for another purpose."
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and some get paid by the body.
Oh my! My buddy Mr. hydrocortisone was right on. I am very impressed, Hydrox, my friend!
This is scary. And probably not for the USA as we would be on high alert, but for these places where no one really appears to care what planes come in.
Smoke a Banana obots ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cfTMdjkYM
If anyone is capable of putting it all together, it is D Company.
Take a map and draw a circle 4-5 hours travel and see what airports are big enough to handle a 777.
Info ping.
Sorry, didn’t see you before I pinged you further down.
Hubby and I were talking about that very thing just last night when we heard about the engine data being transmitted for several hours after the plane itself ‘disappeared’.
Y’know...I re-read again last night. And I’m thinking the same as you....
EMP
If it were an ordinary hijacking, there would already be demands from the hostage takers. If they stole the plane for re-purposing (flying bomb?, resale to a turd world airline who won’t ask many questions?) then the fate of the passengers is in doubt.
passing mushrooms
If someone took it for this purpose, there is a state actor involved. Would be interesting to see if the engine monitoring system CAN be turned off. That should ID this aircraft if it gets airborne again. Shoot it down on sight.
10-4 ... Love!!!
Then that means, if somebody has the plane and has plans for it, they will do it sooner rather later as the systems start breaking down.
If it were stolen, what about the passengers? They had to be dealt with.
I never worked anything on the outside of a 777 but those engines are huge up close.
” . . It’s not like other planes - it’s in the top 1% of complexity and size in the entire world. It has multiple levels of failsafe computerized monitoring systems that send signals to all sorts of stakeholders all over the world for ever second it’s operational. . . “
Would that make the *pilot* be on an ego-trip ...
What with his home-practice-machine and all ~
Ahem, no, sadly, it isn't.
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