Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Flight MH370 - After Five Days, Nothing but Questions
What do we know five days after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing early Saturday and fell off civilian radar screens at 1:30 a.m. about 35,000 feet above the Gulf of Thailand between Malaysia and southern Vietnam. **We know it sent no distress signals or any indication it was experiencing any problems. **We know, although there has been a lot of skepticism about it, that Malaysian authorities revealed on Tuesday that their air force had military radar records showing plots of what might have been the plane turning back, crossing over the country and flying to the Strait of Malacca, a busy shipping lane west of Malaysia. But on Wednesday, Malaysian authorities said that they are reviewing the "unidentifiable plot," and are not saying that they are sure the radar blips are flight MH370 : "We are still corroborating this." Military and government officials said American experts and the manufacturer of the radar systems were examining that data to confirm whether it showed the Boeing 777. Until then, they said the search would continue on both sides of the country. **We know that Malaysia said India was joining the search in waters near the Andaman Sea in the area where Flight MH370 may have gone down if it actually made that U-turn shown in the Malaysian military radar blips. **We know that the Malaysian head of civil aviation Hishammuddin Hussein said on Tuesday : "As of today, we have not found anything, but we are extending (the search) further," after the military radar blips spotted something flying west, prompting speculation that different arms of the Malaysian government might have different opinions about its location, or even that authorities were holding back information. **We know that on Wednesday, General Rodzali Daud, head of the Malaysian air force, released a statement denying remarks attributed to him in a local media report that military radar had confirmed the aircraft had made it to the Strait of Malacca. The Associated Press contacted a high-level military official who confirmed the remarks. **We know that earlier this week, Malaysia's head of civil aviation, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, was asked why the Strait of Malacca was being searched and replied, "There are things I can tell you, and things I can't," suggesting that the government wasn't being completely transparent with its information. **We know that there was initial speculation of a catastrophic incident that caused Flight MH370's rapid disintegration. The radar blips raised the possibility that it may have continued to fly without communicating with the ground, indicating that its electrical systems, including transponders which allow it to be identified by commercial radar, were either knocked out or turned off, voluntarily or otherwise. **We know that authorities have not ruled out any possible cause, including mechanical failure, pilot error, pilot suicide, sabotage and terrorism. **We know that both the Boeing 777 and Malaysia Airlines have excellent safety records. **We know that the Malaysian minister of civil aviation said his government had been transparent from the start : "Basically we have been very consistent on what we've been saying the last few days....There is only confusion if you want to see confusion," he said. **We know that if the plane went down and all aboard were killed, it would be the deadliest commercial air accident in 10 years. **And as of early Wednesday evening we know that China has released satellite image photos taken on Sunday, 9 March - 44 hours after Flight MH370 disappeared - of three large floating objects (approximately 40x70 feet). China has not said when it found the satellite images or why it waited until Wednesday to release them. Some experts say the pieces are too large to be from the airplane. Other experts say the three floating pieces may be from the plane. One expert said that he hopes the Chinese did not alter the photos. ~~~~~ Dear readers, we have only questions. No answers. Will the Chinese satellite photos lead to finding the downed plane? We have to ask why US satellite searches have not found similar images. And if the Chinese photos are not pieces of the plane, then hijacking and terrorist action re-emerge and they will have gained even more time to hide the plane. And in such a case, what has been the plight of the passengers. I have not seen a passenger manifest published. There must be one. Why has it not been made public. Nothing but questions.
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So it seems that the Chinese have again lied to the world about the plane debris. What a disgusting action over such a personal affair to some 250 families.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to have an explosive end I believe. Here we are 6 days into this tragic incidence and one could grab anyone of the scenarios that floating around about what happened to the plane and be as right as anyone else.
In the end (if there is a truthful end) I think we will find it to be Terrorist based – but to what end. If the plane did not crash and is stolen – to what end? That’s my concern … To What End?
Now reports are saying that after the last “mechanical contact” with the plane via electronic equipment on board and Air Traffic Control the plane “could” have traveled some 4 more hours in multiple directions traveling as much as 2000 miles – since we don’t now know where the plane is, I’m not sure how long or far we know the plane traveled after contact was lost.
ReplyDeleteThe glimmer of hope that the Chinese satellite pictures held late yesterday are now just it seems a montage of doctored images of fuzzy, to larger to be pieces of a plane, representations of something floating someplace . China should take a lesson from the old saying – “If you have nothing good to say, say nothing about the dead.”
In my guesstimate this is a case of either a hijacked plane, an act of terrorism, or two very lost pilots that ran out of gas at 35,000 feet. Or lastly UFO’s (which we are told do not exists by our governments) at work.
Non-emotional common sense would lead to one of these following scenarios:
ReplyDelete1. Flight MH-370 NEVER took off. But where are the passengers at?
2. The plane had hijackers on board and the pilot in an attempt to save some of the passengers ditched the plan after turning onto a different course as ordered by the hijackers.
3. The pilot & co-pilot were both terrorist hijackers and sympathizer and took the plane & passengers to some location in the Middle East someplace. But to what end.
4. Terrorist hijackers were on board, tried to take over the plane and a group of passengers fought with them (much like the 9/11 Shankesville plane) control of the plane was lost and in nosedived into the ocean, didn’t break up and sank quickly.
5. Or there are forces at work here that we have NO understanding of at all.
Planes just don’t disappear with any trace. There is a logical answer here or there is an answer that we will never be told about by the players involved. But the one thing we know there are some 250 missing people whose families are in limbo and are suffering.
While the United States sit and waits for the vote by the Crimea Parliament on Sunday we could invest some effort into this situation on behalf of the families, because the passengers and crew are probably gone.
They need to stop looking for a crashed plane and pieces floating and start looking for a parked plane that has been freshly painted and is being outfitted as a flying bomb. My guesses would be the Middle East, Yemen, Sudan, Thailand (with a couple super-secret old Vietnam War fields), Myanmar, Pakistan, and Cambodia. All riddled with airstrips big enough.
ReplyDeleteIf Flight MH-370 was hijacked or attempted to be - Why? and By who? Does this mystery revolve around those 2 Iranian that were using stolen passports and seeking political asylum - and where were they seeking it from?
ReplyDeleteWere they Nuclear Engineers or something in Iran's Nuclear Bomb building program?
So many question with NO answers. But someone out there has the answers. And 5 days down the road they probably have all the important answers.
Although it took 2 years to find the Air France plane from a few years ago, this is entirly different
There is an emptiness of responsibility being accepted in the disappearance or Flight MH-370 by the Malaysian authorities. They are running around like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off. There hasn’t been the simplest passenger manifest published. We see crying relatives and friends at airports, but there is No significant confirmation as to how many or who was on this flight.
ReplyDeleteUnder normal circumstance that would have been quickly forthcoming from the airlines. And also under normal circumstance it wouldn’t be that important – because it would have been there without any mystique.
But with Flight MH-370 there are just far too many unanswered question and too little information being supplied by Malaysian Air or the controlling bureaucratic governmental department(s).
To the experts investigating this disaster the simplest bit could lead toward to conclusiveness of what happened. We may at some point be told a story of what occurred, but right now we are headed towards never knowing the truth.
So - given that there were many Chinese on board, and the recent terrorist attack by Uighars (Wiggers?), think about this - what if the beacons were turned off, the plane flew right on the ground, and is now sitting on some strip with background negotiations going with the Chinese government? The whole thing of "it crashed, no it flew, no it went the other direction" - sounds like a lot of governments are blowing a lot of smoke to cover something.
ReplyDeleteThere is someone on the passenger list that is a key to all of this.
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