Malaysian Mystery Flight
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Mr. Ford said:
But Hobo, China and Iran are cozy with each other?
That would put a dent in their relationship if they took them hostage
and really give Russia a headache too.
Just LOOK at how this missing plane has all but "overshadowed" the events in Crimea! Now.... this is NOT my "theory." It's just ONE of the many I have been considering. Which is MORE than I can say for the media! lol.
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Mr. Ford said:
Well, Hobo did you hear the Chinese report of a supposed seismic event in the area of last contact off Vietnam? Could a nuke have caused that even at 15 to 35K feet?
As for ruling out lack of spatial awareness, go back to the Navy flight that was lost off the coast of Florida, Flight 19. A group of them had no idea where they were and to this day we have no idea where they went down.
Flight 19 had no spatial awareness because they were flying over open ocean. NO land in sight. IIRC... it even happened during daylight, so.... NO star "reckoning." THAT is when you lose all spatial awareness. Without the sophisticated systems we have Today... THEY were overmatched, and simply followed the leader of their "flock."
Cellphones don't have to be placed in airplane mode. I have never set mine to that or turned it off when I fly. Mind you I have zero signal while in the air BUT,
supposedly a relative claims to have talked with a passenger on board. Nobody has said if it was before or after the disappearance or if it was before the plane took off.......another hypothetical that has been unanswered.
Maybe if it was terrorism, did they take all cellphones and destroy them? Anyone who doesn't prove they have no cellphone or refuses to give it up is then killed?
As for the depth of the Indian Ocean, yes it is just as deep but for where we are looking the water isn't as deep the Air France landing. Now we have expanded it though so now it moves into deeper water. I'm not understanding as to why we didn't move the search area's sooner.
We knew we weren't picking up any black box signal. It was said by experts we should be hearing them within at least 500 miles. If that is the case, we should have been moving our search area quickly.
The difference with Air France was that as it was falling(it was in a stall and falling) real-time data was being sent to Air France and Airbus, so we had a very good idea of where it was. Even so, it took 2 years to locate the boxes laying in water nearly 13K feet deep.
With this one, if it went down, nobody has a clue as to where to begin looking. We have been looking in the waters west of Malaysia along the coast there, no dice so they started expanding more west when it came out that some intel showed something headed west for up to another 4-7 hours. Remember, they were at least 1 hour into the 4 hour flight with a reserve of 3 hours to give them a total of about 6 hours of fuel left depending on how fast it was going and any head/tail winds.
But.... I have a REAL problem with that "arc" that everyone on T.V. is "promoting." It's as if they thought the plane actually FLEW in that arc! Take the last known (or even suspected) position of the plane, calculate the range in hours and convert to miles at both high AND low altitude, and then.... take a string and a pencil and create another "arc" that will intercept the arc they are showing! THAT will show you where they crossed the ARC (and then add another hour of flight) unless.... they circled a bit to waste time and frustrate our best investigators! WERE they that smart? They've certainly had TIME to learn from OUR mistakes and weaknesses. You think they'd try to hijack another plane from Boston? No... I think the sleepy little country of malaysia is JUST about right!
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As for the NSA? Sorry. They only spy on phone records BY Americans IN America.... or on vacation. Seriously though... you'd be surprised how involved the NSA IS in this investigation. What? You don't WANT them to help? Okay. Enjoy your next 9-11!! I guess some people think our spy satellites can see everything ALL the time. It don't work that way. Here's your "word for the day," BORESIGHT. Look it up. It's how our satellites hone in on areas of interest. It's like a "spotlight" above a Broadway stage. Without changing the position of the satellite, we can change the "area" we are collecting data from. The U.P. is HARDLY on our list! lol. Here's a clue. Unless the Soviets move an entire battle group out into the Indian Ocean, we are NOT going to have a "footprint" over a bunch of water! However.... there are GOES satellites that are doing JUST that! Has anyone mentioned searching THEIR data? I wonder if there were any A.F. Recon flights in the area when this happened? Cuz... there's a position on those planes dedicated "mostly" to monitoring International "Civilian" flights. I know, cuz I had to DO it for awhile. There would be no reason to pay much attention to this flight, searching for more important flights of "heads of states." But.... at the MOMENT this flight deviated from its flight plan.... I would have gotten an alert to "record" all data associated with it if I could find it. At least.... after 9-11.... I sure SHOULD have!
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I get the heebie jeebies just reading your posts! Makes me want to buy a gun.
#29
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Heck, I can't figure it out. I had considered pilot suicide as a possibility, although that wouldn't explain why certain navigational and communications systems were disabled. Not all of those systems could be completely shut off within the confines of the cockpit, so a suicidal pilot would have to have someone else working in cooperation with him. Seems rather unlikely.
Hijackers would have to be able to assume control of the aircraft and disable those same communication and navigational systems. That wouldn't explain why they would keep the plane airborne for several hours. Seems to me that hijackers seeking martyrdom would want others to take notice, or would have deliberately crashed it into some populated area. That indicates to me that there might well be covert involvement on the part of some government, some where. In that case, the 777 might well have landed safely somewhere. But, in what country?? And why?? Go figure. The only other possibility that I can think of would be some type of massive, cascading failure of the plane's electrical systems, but given the system redundancies the 777, something massive would have had to go terribly wrong in an instant. Highly unlikely, but not impossible. Last edited by Useless; 03-16-2014 at 05:57 AM.
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Back to China-Iran, they are cozy with each other. While under sanctions, Iran has been shipping cheap oil to China for their massive consumption of gasoline. China only cares about themselves, they will toss Iran under the bus in a second. We already know this in dealing with them ourselves. They claim to like you but will stab you in the back in a heartbeat if it benefits them.
By "them" yes, I mean the Iranians involved and on-board. You are aware a 3rd Iranian was involved right? A 3rd one bought the tickets for the other 2............if this turns out to be the Iranians involved from the start, China-Iran friendliness is gone. Their relationship will have a big dent in it. As for Russia having a headache here, you betcha. China abstained from voting at the UN meeting yesterday over the Ukraine mess. China and Russia have voted together against Iranian and Syrian sanctions or military action. They have both also been against anything on North Korea. They have a relationship, China-Russia. Russia-Iran also have a good relationship. Russia has been helping them with their nuke program and working to keep sanctions or military action from happening against Iran as best they can. Iran and China look up to Russia, last thing Russia wants right now is to have China pissed at Iran and ready to launch a few missiles at Tehran. Russia has it's own problem with Ukraine/Crimea, you know Putin is sitting there going "awwww shiite" while rubbing his temples. This would be like England and France getting into it with each other, who do we side with since both are allies of us. There was also 1 known Russian on board. Thinking more about it, I don't believe just 2 "terrorists" can take over a plane these days without some passengers fighting back. 2 against 200 and some? Sudden altitude changes will help keep passengers from fighting back some. Even if you kill them all, dumping the bodies and luggage is inherently dangerous. You do know that Flight 19 wasn't just over open ocean. There was a report that they were passing over land. They assumed it was the Keys they were over and relayed that info to ground control. It is believed they were actually flying over the Grand Bahama Island area and ground control informed them to put the sun on the port wing and fly north. This Malaysian flight was middle of the night.............easier to become disoriented of just where you are, isn't the first time it has happened in commercial flight that has led to a plane going down due to fuel starvation. |

