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CNN Exclusive: Analysis shows 2nd possible Indian Ocean path for Malaysia airliner (Likely crash)
CNN ^ | 03/14/2014 | By Barbara Starr. Michael Pearson and Jethro Mullen

Posted on 03/14/2014 2:39:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A classified analysis of electronic and satellite data, conducted by the United States and Malaysian governments, calculates Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 likely crashed into the Indian Ocean on one of two possible flight paths, CNN has learned.

One flight path suggests the plane crashed into the Bay of Bengal off the coast of India, and the other has it traveling southeast and crashing in the Indian Ocean, according to the analysis.

Yet another theory is taking shape about what might have happened to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Maybe it landed in a remote Indian Ocean island chain.

The suggestion -- and it's only that at this point -- is based on analysis of radar data revealed Friday by Reuters suggesting that the plane wasn't just blindly flying northwest from Malaysia. And it's just one of untold theories floating around about what might have happened to the airliner, which disappeared a week ago without leaving much of a trace of where it had gone or why.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
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To: wonkowasright

I am waiting for Jerry Rivers to announce ...


41 posted on 03/14/2014 4:26:30 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Jack Hydrazine
It's my speculation that their intent is to use that aircraft in an attack against the United States, first, or Israel, second.
The cost in time and money for planning, training for, and implementing this theft, is extremely expensive.
These Muslim extremest, for them, numbers carry meaning, and a 777 aircraft will have special religious significance in thier attack.
42 posted on 03/14/2014 4:29:32 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“I think, with the crazy ways the plane was flying, different altitudes, that whoever had control over the plane was a decent flyer but not an expert..it would have been like me controlling plane, would have looked like someone drunk was doing it since I have no idea how to fly an aircraft, one second its 45,000 feet(For what purpose it was that high I have NO idea) then down to 30,000, then down to 25,000 and back up again..”

Where did you see this?


43 posted on 03/14/2014 4:29:49 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“I think, with the crazy ways the plane was flying, different altitudes, that whoever had control over the plane was a decent flyer but not an expert..it would have been like me controlling plane, would have looked like someone drunk was doing it since I have no idea how to fly an aircraft, one second its 45,000 feet(For what purpose it was that high I have NO idea) then down to 30,000, then down to 25,000 and back up again..”

Where did you see this?


44 posted on 03/14/2014 4:29:49 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: SeekAndFind

Check this out:

http://vietnam.craigslist.org/for/4372477162.html


45 posted on 03/14/2014 4:32:19 PM PDT by gandalftb (Go OK State Cowboys!!)
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To: TexasGator
From an experienced air traffic controller of more than 30 years.

The changing altitudes was to avoid being identified by other traffic, and since he's turned off his transponders (not the same as ELTs, which can not be turned off) he does NOT want to be noticed, and a descending or a climbing aircraft isn't seen as unusual.
After he passes the traffic he's concerned about, then he changes his altitude again, in a different direction from what his aircraft was headed to before passing the traffic he was concerned about.
46 posted on 03/14/2014 4:37:31 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Muzzies are smart by half. Reality always bites them.


47 posted on 03/14/2014 4:44:39 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: TexasGator

Heard it on CNN a few times already, it was in the New York Slimes, they are the ones that reported it, and if true, people in the cabin could not have been able to breathe at that high an altitude, the plane wasn’t designed for that purpose, they could not breathe, meanwhile those in the cockpit would have been able to breathe for as long as they needed..after hearing John Nance I Believe his name is on CNN, its beginning to make sense, kill off the passengers bringing up the plane to that crazy altitude, then continue on your way, it was the plane they wanted from the start


48 posted on 03/14/2014 4:47:34 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Yosemitest

At 45,000 feet, could the passengers still breathe or would it have made it impossible for them to breathe, even with the oxygen masks


49 posted on 03/14/2014 4:48:22 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

The 777 is certified to 43,200 cruise altitude. I don’t think another couple of thousand feet would kill off the passengers.


50 posted on 03/14/2014 4:56:53 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“and if true, people in the cabin could not have been able to breathe at that high an altitude, the plane wasn’t designed for that purpose, they could not breathe,”

I read the Times article. From an unidentified Asian pilot. However he stated “if the cabin were depressurized” ...


51 posted on 03/14/2014 5:11:01 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Yosemitest
Okay, I think the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has landed and refueled and is headed for Iran.

This general scenario is most likely correct.

Posted in another discssion:

Boeing 777 showing off . . . radical touch downs ^

Boeing 777 landing on short runway 30 at KMIA (Miami)

Looks like a Tom Clancy-type plot is unfolding--a script could be written where MA370 is flown to a remote island in the Indian Ocean; lands on an old WWII airstrip; unloads and quarters passengers in old decaying barracks; tops off the B777 fuel tank and flies over open water to any Muslim point of the compass.

Two possible endings: World fascination and outrage as ransom demands are made and friendly forces try to figure out how to save the hostages; or, some of the 239 passengers finally overwhelm the cockpit and the big bird plunges into the Indian Ocean.

52 posted on 03/14/2014 5:23:37 PM PDT by henbane
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To: TexasGator

Would that be after a 1 or 2 hour special ?


53 posted on 03/14/2014 5:25:52 PM PDT by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
If the cabin pressure was still maintained by the flight crew, they could breath.
If the flight crew (the pilot and copilot stealing the aircraft wanted the passengers asleep or less of a threat, then they would "foul the air".
But I don't know the capabilities of the Boeing 777 in that respect, that IF they "foul the air", But to solve this mystery we need to focus more on the pilot and copilot.

I would want to know more about the computer history of the personal 777 flight simulator that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah self-built.


What was the most practiced route he flew with his simulator?

What was his most common practiced landing destination?

Does the government have that simulator to gleam all the history it can off of it ?
54 posted on 03/14/2014 10:54:44 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: henbane
Please address what you think about the questions I put forth in comment #54
and HOW the answers to those questions might help us find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

I noticed that on the links you provided, the 777 has a really outstanding crab capability to land with main gear down and turn before the nose gear is down, to overcome crosswinds.
But the last two landings we of a 747 and not a 777.
The short landing was also outstanding in that last link.
55 posted on 03/14/2014 11:05:51 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: TexasGator; Jack Hydrazine; Sarah Barracuda

In April 1997 a Malaysia Airlines 777 ER set a then great circle airliner record by flying from Seattle to Kuala Lampur 10823 nautical miles nonstop. 21+ hours so more than two pilots and likely some company and Boeing reps.

Kinda curious who the crew was and if it as the same a/c.

Looks like normal max range for that model is about 7700.


56 posted on 03/14/2014 11:21:35 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: henbane
Third possibility.
World fascination of how an Electro Magnetic Pulse was activated from 60,000 feet with no incoming missile track.
Months latter, melted aluminum pellets will be found extending outbound from the center of the of the EMP explosion point.
57 posted on 03/14/2014 11:37:23 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest
Please address what you think about the questions I put forth in comment #54 and HOW the answers to those questions might help us find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
What was the most practiced route he flew with his simulator?
What was his most common practiced landing destination?
Does the government have that simulator to gleam all the history it can off of it ?

Those are exactly the questions on the minds of the Malaysian police as they--finally-- scrutinize the desktop computers (his laptop went with him to the cockpit) and the simulator in Captain Zaharie's house.

Perhaps we will never know what they found--but U.S. authorities involved in this search must demand these details.

Seems like a combination of three things may have caused him to snap:
1; One day before Flight 370, Zaharie was in the courtroom and witnessed the overturn of a succesful Appeal by his political hero for(allegedly trumped-up)charges of sodomy. Zaharie was outraged when he witnessed the Malaysian government-controlled High Court sentence said hero to 5 years in prison.
2; domestic problems coming to a boil with wife leaving Zaharie's house with his 3 kids
3; the approaching bankruptcy and closing down of Malaysian Airlines already brewing in his head.

Difficult to say just what Captain Zaharie had in mind when he took that outbound left turn, but suicide was not his intention--he rages to humiliate the present Government of Malaysia for ripping his beloved leader off the political chessboard.

And, By God, it's working!

58 posted on 03/15/2014 10:50:15 PM PDT by henbane
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To: henbane
Interesting details.
Do you have a source to link?
59 posted on 03/16/2014 2:57:42 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest
Interesting details.
Do you have a source to link?

Here's some details re disturbed pilot.

Doomed airliner-pilot political-fanatic-attended trial of jailed opposition leader^

Details on his domestic problems and the airline's looming bankruptcy easily available thru multiple sources(Google, Bing).

What are your thoughts re these details? Have you anything to add to points developed so far in this tragic situation of MA370?

60 posted on 03/16/2014 12:58:05 PM PDT by henbane
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