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Planning could hold key to disappearance of Flight MH370
Reuters ^
| 3/17/2014
| Siva Govindasamy and Tim Hepher
Posted on 03/17/2014 9:58:08 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
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To: Caribou
"Whoever did this must have had lots of aircraft knowledge, would have deliberately planned this, had nerves of steel to be confident enough to get through primary radar without being detected and been confident enough to control an aircraft full of people," a veteran airline captain told Reuters. Almost sounds like a military operation... waaaaay past the 'Atta' level of competence.
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posted on
03/17/2014 11:26:31 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(From a bellwether to an "oh-whateverrrr" in less than a single news cycle. -freeper Fightin Whitey)
To: Robe
Turkmenistan ranks second to last in the world for press freedom, second only to North Korea. And, it’s 89% Muslim and formerly under the boot of the Soviets. It would probably be a good place to hide a plane and hatch a terror plot.
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posted on
03/17/2014 11:27:09 AM PDT
by
Fitzy_888
("ownership society")
To: GOPJ
On the other hand, he didn’t have to have nerves of steel if he had reconciled himself to dying for jihad and claiming his 72 virgins.
If he manages to complete whatever his mission was, fine, then he advanced the cause of Allah, but if he was shot down or had to crash the plane on the way, then that’s also fine, as he gets his 72 virgins and kills a lot of infidel Chinese and some squish muslims.
To: Robe
That is exactly why you steal a 777 and than use it days later to sneak a 10 Megaton device into friendly airspace in the same manner you used to take the plane.
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posted on
03/17/2014 11:42:00 AM PDT
by
Mat_Helm
To: Rio
You may recall that is what the israelis did when they bombed the osirak power plant outside bag and back in the Early 80’s
To: Robe
Most excellent link, Robe.
Writer mentions Xinjiang Province as a possible landing zone. Wikipedia describes it:
Xinjiang (Uyghur: شىنجاڭ, ULY: Shinjang; Mandarin pronunciation: [ɕíntɕjɑ́ŋ]; Chinese: 新疆; pinyin: Xīnjiāng), officially Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,[3] is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China in the northwest of the country.
This really thickens the plot, as just a day or two after the plane went missing, Uyghur terrorist group claimed that they were responsible. That particular piece of news came and went with no followup. Uyghurs are the unruly Chinese muslims who are at odds with the People's REpublic gubmint.
Just exactly who were the Chinese passengers on that plane?
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posted on
03/17/2014 11:52:18 AM PDT
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
To: Meet the New Boss
I would imagine the pilot was probably dead by then.
I’ve thought it was the copilot all along, but I think he would have needed help from outside of the cockpit. I wonder where that came from.
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posted on
03/17/2014 11:52:22 AM PDT
by
livius
To: BuckeyeTexan
Planning could hold key to disappearance of Flight MH370 'Planning' - no wonder the 0bama regime has no clue where the plane went.
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posted on
03/17/2014 11:54:11 AM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Who but a TYRANT shoves down another man's throat what he has exempted himself from?)
To: technically right
Wow! This theory makes a lot of sense! Thanks for adding to the info of the original post.
Scary stuff!!!
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posted on
03/17/2014 11:54:45 AM PDT
by
milagro
(There is no peace in appeasement!)
To: Robe
To: blam
Having flown cargo for most of my flying career, most of my flying has been a night. I can attest that late at night controllers a sleepy, nodding off, or new guys being trained. This masking technique is and has been used to sneak around other that friendly airspace. There was not significant weather in the area and it would have been easy to slip up behind the Singapore flight and maintain visual separation. I would bet, that simulator was used to practice the intercept, and masking technique. He was knowegleble of the comings and goings of the usual boring day to day operation of the aviation community. The pilot had this in mind for a long long time
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posted on
03/17/2014 11:59:36 AM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: Robe
"I'm a 14,000 hr pilot,from J-3's to DC-10 and this is the most plausible explanation I have read. I think this guy broke the code !!! HERE" I believe your link on this is correct! That plane piggybacked to another planes shadow ID and that 777 better be found fast because the plans of whoever high-jacked it could more than likely be devastating!
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posted on
03/17/2014 12:03:04 PM PDT
by
Old Badger
(Don't bother me! I still like Palin because she will tell like it is!)
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posted on
03/17/2014 12:06:24 PM PDT
by
ponygirl
(Be Breitbart.)
To: Robe
If the pilot followed this plan in this flight traffic corridor, wouldn’t the two planes, one closely following the other, be in the sight line of other air traffic?
Even if the second plane was flying dark, if sunrise over the Bay of Bengal was about 6 am local, wouldn’t the two planes be visible from, say 5:30 am local time onward, by other aircraft flying in that corridor?
What are the chances of not being seen from 5:30 to 8:10 am when the last satellite ping occurred?
To: Old Badger
If we here on FR can make sense of this , I damn sure hope someone in the alphabet community is on this, and tasking every asset we have to have a look at that area.
I've never been near the place but I seem to remember that it's mostly flat desert, almost like a dry lake.
You could land that 777 anywhere
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posted on
03/17/2014 12:10:30 PM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: Mat_Helm
I think it was a practice run.
The new WTC opens this year.
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posted on
03/17/2014 12:13:40 PM PDT
by
jonose
To: Robe
Ooh, that is plausible! What a smart thinker he is.
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posted on
03/17/2014 12:25:20 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: Robe
Very interesting theory. Thanks!
To: Old Badger
Yes, actually, the sooner the terrorists use the plane following another commercial airline the less chance the experts are onto this system — watch out.
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posted on
03/17/2014 12:30:02 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: AmusedBystander
Could be....Obama is out to destroy the USA!!!
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posted on
03/17/2014 12:36:42 PM PDT
by
JLAGRAYFOX
( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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