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Maldives 'witnesses' report seeing 'low flying jet' on morning that MH370 disappeared
The Telegraph ^

Posted on 03/18/2014 9:57:14 AM PDT by bryan999

Maldives 'witnesses' report seeing 'low flying jet' on morning that MH370 disappeared - follow latest updates on missing Malaysia Airlines plane

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; malaysia; malaysianairlines; maldives; maylasianairlines; mh370; waronterror
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To: InterceptPoint
The map shows the Maldives a little further south than it should--most of the chain is north of the equator (so even with Singapore or further north, not even with southern Borneo).

Of course Obama thinks the Maldives is an alternate name for the Falkland Islands.

41 posted on 03/18/2014 10:48:50 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: DCBryan1

DC —

IT’s easy to control cabin temperature from up front. The flight deck stays comfy while the passengers are quite, um, refrigerated.

Temperature lapse rate is roughly 3 degrees per thousand feet.

IF you are cruising at say 25,000, it’s generally below freezing outside the aircraft. Easy to keep the dearly departed chilled in the back.


42 posted on 03/18/2014 10:49:45 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: rxsid
He could have been landing at GAN airfield. It is not very active, and CAN take a 777. Perhaps a couple of muzzie friends are in on it and stole a large tanker truck?

IMHO....way too sophisticated for our average death-loving muzzie terrorists.

Anyways:
View Larger Map

43 posted on 03/18/2014 10:49:59 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: bryan999

This might take us back to the Somalia theory. The Maldives are straight west of that pirate country. On fact, you could draw a line pretty much straight west from Kuala Lumpur, and it would go through the Maldives and Somalia.


44 posted on 03/18/2014 10:50:03 AM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: bigdaddy45

Kuda Huvadhoo atol is a few hundred miles north of Maldives airport. The people on this island wouldn’t have seen an airplane land on the airport.


45 posted on 03/18/2014 10:50:27 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: Blueflag

good point. I still don’t think its humanly possible to remove 200+ bodies with 2 guys without exhausting and fatiguing themselves. That would expose them to discovery.


46 posted on 03/18/2014 10:51:32 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: dfwgator; McGruff
"I don’t care how beautiful it is, I’d never travel to a Muslim country."

Speaking of Maldives & muslim countries...

"January 16, 2014
Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen has refused to ratify a bill that seeks to partially criminalize marital rape, calling it “un-Islamic.”

The parliament voted 67-2 last month to limit a husband’s right to have non-consensual sex with his wife. The bill says a husband cannot force his wife to have sex if the couple have filed for divorce, dissolution or mutual separation, and if the intent is to transmit a sexual disease. […]

The Maldives, an Indian Ocean archipelago of about 330,000 people, claims to have a 100 percent Muslim population. Its constitution states that “no law contrary to any tenet of Islam shall be enacted.” …"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3113659/posts

47 posted on 03/18/2014 10:53:03 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: DCBryan1

If you read the article the Maldivians that reported the aircraft where on the atol of Kuda Huvadhoo. A few hundred miles away from any airstrip.


48 posted on 03/18/2014 10:53:40 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: bryan999; a fool in paradise

The Maldives ‘witnesses’ (why in quote marks?) are trying for their 15 minutes of fame on Entertainment Tonight. Details at 11.


49 posted on 03/18/2014 10:53:57 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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To: outpostinmass2

http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/18/flight-mh370-residents-on-remote-island-in-maldives-saw-jet-matching-missing-malaysia-airlines-planes-description-4640688/

The actual island of the witnesses is is Kuda Huvadhoo.


50 posted on 03/18/2014 10:55:21 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: bryan999

“The news came as it emerged that investigators have discovered the runways of five airports near the Indian Ocean loaded into Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s home-made flight simulator.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/18/missing-plane-mh370_n_4986445.html


51 posted on 03/18/2014 11:01:41 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: bryan999

I didn’t think Argentina was in the range of the plane.

(/Odumbobrain)


52 posted on 03/18/2014 11:02:42 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Starstruck

If the plane was going to land at an airport in this area then it would be headed in the direction of Gan International airport which is south-east of this island.


53 posted on 03/18/2014 11:04:53 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: bryan999

Being another plane was observed near the MH370 on radar,could the Chinese be testing a new cloaking device that worked?


54 posted on 03/18/2014 11:07:14 AM PDT by jetson
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To: Uncle Chip
The engine pings put it a long way from there and engine pings are a lot more reliable than someone who claims he saw something.

I wonder if that's true. Initially we were told the information sent to the satellites had location data. Later that was corrected to say there was no location data sent in those transmissions, they were merely "handshakes" indicating availability for transmission.

If that's correct then to make a guesstimate of distance from the satellite at the time of a ping they must be doing analyses of the characteristics of the signal received to come up with distance. Wouldn't surprise me if there is a huge fudge factor in that analysis.

55 posted on 03/18/2014 11:12:53 AM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Meet the New Boss

but what about pinger being turned off? Why?


56 posted on 03/18/2014 11:15:18 AM PDT by dinoparty
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To: outpostinmass2; Starstruck
"If the plane was going to land at an airport in this area then it would be headed in the direction of Gan International airport which is south-east of this island."

Or, it could have headed to one of the "practice runways" found on the pilots simulator... the Male International Airport in Maldives

57 posted on 03/18/2014 11:15:58 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: DCBryan1

Two guys couldn’t refuel or flight prep the aircraft. Hard to get off a triple 7 without a jetway. If they deployed the chutes, that messes up a lot of checklists.

No, *IF* they landed, unloaded, refueled and took off ... they had logistical support.


58 posted on 03/18/2014 11:19:41 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: dinoparty
The pinger kept going until about 8:10 a.m. was the last info they gave on that. That's how they came up with these orange arcs on their map. I wonder how accurate these orange arcs really are. If the Maldives sighting is bona find, then not very accurate.


59 posted on 03/18/2014 11:21:24 AM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Meet the New Boss

A handshake with a little fudge is better than nothing —


60 posted on 03/18/2014 11:40:40 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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