Posted on 03/14/2014 5:49:30 PM PDT by gandalftb
The investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 sharpened its focus on sabotage, according to aviation and industry officials, amid strong indications that one or more people on the plane deliberately changed its course and tried to mask its location.
In the ensuing minutes, a second system sent a routine aircraft-monitoring message to a satellite indicating that someone made a manual change in the plane's heading, veering sharply to the west.
Such a turn wouldn't have been part of the original authorized route programmed in the flight-management computer. Those system-monitoring messages are suspected to have been disabled shortly afterward.
A physical disconnection of the satellite communications system would require extremely detailed knowledge of the aircraft, its internal structure and its systems.
The satellite pings stopped roughly five hours after the other systems stopped working, cutting off all identifying signals from the plane. Aviation investigators are trying to determine whether someone would have had to climb into an electronics bay located on the plane's lower deck to disable that equipment.
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Well, damn. As an FAA air traffic controller for 35 years, I was lied to all that time, and before that as a Navy radar tech. How could I have been so gullible as to believe the equipment I used every day was for military use only? They shoulda put labels or something on it.
Oh, "incoming threats" would not be using IFF, not wishing to be seen. At least anyone other than kamikazes.
Oh, by the way....it's Identification Friend or Foe, not Identity. It is also called "secondary radar", and in fact is only radar used by most ATC facilities.
Do you get good cell reception up there at 35,000 feet over the ocean?
I’m leaving on a jet plane. Don’t know when I’ll be back again!
There were dozens of Muslims on board the flight including the pilots, cabin crew and a heck of a lot of passengers. There would be much fewer Muslims in a plane flying from Sri Lanka or Southern India and those places are one heck of a bit closer to, you know, India than Malaysia is.
As bad as 9/11 was, I don’t think they had nearly the success they really intended. First plane hit relatively high on the tower - probably thought they were going to knock it into the other - perhaps into the other tower so as to take both out. Think they had backup plans - so when 2nd came on the scene it hit the other tower lower - fire did cause the 2nd tower to fall first as much more weight bearing as structural integrity started to fail. 3rd plane appeared to try to hit the White House but couldn’t see it in time so circled around and did damage to the Pentagon - again the backup plan. 4th plane - passengers sacrificed themselves in keeping the terrorist totally unsuccessful at getting to a target.
911 was a horrible day, disaster - but it could have been 10x worse.
If this does turn out to be terrorist, I would agree they didn’t achieve their planned result, but once again did kill innocents.
“Seems to me that loading the plane with passengers and getting as close to a target with innocents to add ‘cover’ for visual contact from fighter protection might be a very real ploy.”
There was a novel many years back with a plot line where the ChiComs flew a passenger plane carrying a nuclear weapon into the US with Korean War prisoners seated at the windows so intercepting fighters would see white faces and think it was a normal airliner out of comms.
Anything is possible. Would Obama have the nads to order the USAF to shoot down a planeload of civilians on the possibility it was a Trojan Horse?
I can’t argue with a single thing you wrote.
That said, there is one thing they have down to a fine art. Justifying whatever they do. As long as they kill in the name of Allah’ they ‘win’.
Eventually modern man will get to the place in his collective mind that they did in the past. Say...about right before the crusades started. Ultimately we fight an us or them war. Because that’s the war they have repeatedly told us they are fighting. It doesn’t really matter how libs bitch and cry. Because their bitching and crying will bot stop anything. It only makes the final outcome all the worse.
It’s certainly a demonic twist on the kind of self sacrificing devotion that used to be characteristic of Christendom. But Christendom always wanted to use it to further the work of a God who really was beneficent. This Allah wants to make and keep men mad.
Buildings in the flight path prevented any lower hits on the towers. They also didn’t know that a steel framed building would basically shred an aluminum airplane.
interesting thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3133430/posts?page=35#35
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3133430/posts?page=41#41
Either bad at math, can't change pounds into kilos, or both.
Does anyone know if there is any crowd-sourcing of satellite image searches of ocean photos going on? It would seem if the right software was implemented to spread the effort evenly and prevent repetition, this might be useful, given the number of people online willing to check 10-50 photos for any sort of debris field.
Prayers for the innocent lives lost.....
No, I don’t think he would. They would sooner have a 911 than take responsibility for downing 250 innocents because the clear blame could be layed at the terrorists feet in a mass destruction event. Explaining the real world necessity of taking out a plane full of civilians because of real intelligence would be a image negative thing and too hard to spin.
If the truth ever comes out, nobody will recognize or trust it because of all the crap coming out as “possible theories”.
Woah, Drudge now has on that the plane flew for 7 hours. Just up.
Civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman declined to confirm this, but said they were of "non-Asian" appearance, adding that authorities were looking at the possibility the men were connected to a stolen passport syndicate. Advertisement
Asked by a reporter what they looked like "roughly," he said: "Do you know of a footballer by the name of [Mario] Balotelli? He is an Italian. Do you know how he looks like?"
A reporter then asked, "Is he black?" and the aviation chief replied, "Yes."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/missing-malaysia-airlines-jet-passenger-with-stolen-passport-nonasian-who-looks-like-mario-balotelli-20140311-hvh6t.html#ixzz2w2VEj71r
“We have the best radar in the world, especially at sea. The eastern Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal has not been a theater offering threats beyond what Diego Garcia can monitor.”
What is the maximum operating range with our current Radar and the units on Diego Garcia?
Thanks
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