Posted on 03/10/2014 10:19:25 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Indeed. Google AT&T “LIS Hybrid” for location information services hybrid. The other carriers have similar offerings.
Just using cell phone tower triangulation, ANY of the carriers’ software can regionally locate you.
From there it drops down to well under 50’ ... once you get into the good stuff.
Small point: the towers ping the connected phones as much as the phones ping the towers/network. Every phone that’s on periodically has a digital ACK/NACK of sorts with the towers.
When we drove from Seattle to our new home in KY the first time I told my friends that if need be the phone company could plot my entire course as well as when I was where I was.
And via triangulation, they were able to plot the location of my phone within a few feet. As they zoomed in, the map showed the building I was in and pinpointed me at about 20 feet from the outside wall, which was pretty much dead on.
And no gps.
Another FR article just posted speaks of two fishermen who saw a plane very low streaking toward international waters.
Malaysia Sending Ships to Check Debris Near Hong Kong
And the Presidents son, his cousin, and a retired CIA operative, all working for this shadow agency with unlimited funds, will drop onto the wings of the airplane. They will crawl to the exit doors and using they spy lock picks, they will enter the craft unseen. Two of them will diffuse the bomb, while the other meets and falls in love with the flight attendant/terrorist. Eventually, while joining the mile high club, the Presidents son has to kill the flight attendant—meaning he will never find true love again.
They all parachute out of the plane. But not until they set the auto pilot to take the plane to LAX where it lands unattended, with no one knowing the mystery.
Is it like that?
Ref post #3.
You definitely have a tin hat on. On the other hand, your theory and opinion is as good as anyone else’s right now.
Not to pick at nits, but none of those “lots of airports” are on one of the “numerous islands” in the vicinity.
I am curious, however, as to which airports you may be speaking of. Tan Son Nhut, Da Nang, maybe Cam Ranh had long strips. Were there others in Vietnam? I was not aware that any fixed wing air operations were launched out of Cambodia; did I miss something?
The reported sighting was off the coast of Kelantan, more than 1500 miles from Sulawesi.
Your plot would have put the aircraft just a few miles north of Swallow Reef, however, and well within radar range of the Royal Malaysian Air Force base there.
Stop reading my mind - you're freaking me out.....
That is some speculation there ;)
MH370 detected above Malacca Straits at 2.40am
http://my.news.yahoo.com/mh370-detected-above-malacca-straits-2-40am-062617741.html
Malaysia military tracked missing plane to west coast: source
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/11/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140311
Vanished Malaysia Airlines flight leaves relatives with anger and phantom phone calls
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/vanished-malaysia-airlines-flight-leaves-relatives-with-anger-and-phantom-phone-calls/2014/03/10/fdb78642-a862-11e3-b61e-8051b8b52d06_story.html
A migrant worker in the room said that several other workers from his company were on the plane, including his brother-in-law. Among them, the QQ accounts of three still showed that they were online, he said Sunday afternoon.
Adding to the mystery, other relatives in the room said that when they dialed some passengers’ numbers, they seemed to get ringing tones on the other side even though the calls were not picked up.
Well either that or somebody is going to want a big ransom for the jet and each passenger. The only thing is that it takes a 12,000 ft runway to land a Boeing 777 and the concrete has to be about 3ft thick. I would think hard to land without being detected.
The cell phones still ringing is really weird.
That’s the movie version...
I am available for re-writes.
I saw that article also. Interesting.
With the capabilities of government to keep track of everything it is hard to believe they don’t know exactly what happened but perhaps can’t say because it would reveal their spy capabilities.
Or maybe it is exactly as it is being presented.
I find it hard to believe a jetliner could take the kind of flight path these two people say without detection.
Who knows what to believe at this point. This long without any sign of wreckage is sure odd.
Wow, that is quite a theory. They would have to have some significant capability to be able to pull that one off.
Without trying to sound rude, have your considered a career in fiction writing. Sounds like a really good book plot.
Or they could sell the plane on the black market. How much they could get for it, I don’t know.
I read that a smart phone owned by one of the passengers on board stayed on until Monday.
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