Malaysia Airlines loses contact with plane carrying 239 people

[BlueStateSaint]

Here's something interesting . . .

Oil rig worker says he saw missing plane go down: report

By Jessica Chasmar

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The Washington Times

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff has obtained a letter that an oil rig worker in Vietnam wrote to his employer claiming he saw Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 go down in flames.

Mr. Woodruff tweeted an image of the letter saying, “Oil rig worker claims in employer confirmed letter-he saw the plane go down. Vietnamese say they found nothing.”

The letter, by Michael Jerome McKay, alleges that he observed the plane “burning at a high altitude” while he was aboard the oil rig “Songa Mercur” off Vung Tau.

He notes that the plane appeared to be in one piece.

“From when I first saw the burning (plane) until the flames went out (still at high altitude) was 10-15 seconds,” he wrote. “There was no lateral movement, so it was either coming toward our location, stationary (falling), or going away from our location.”

There's only two more paragraphs.  It would seem that the Vietnamese might think that this is a hoax.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/12/oil-rig-worker-says-he-saw-missing-plane-go-down-r/#.UyCk150m6gw.twitter

[dixierose]

Fox News has photos from a Chinese satellite that shows large objects in the water near the plane's last known position....

[Mr Mannn]

Alternate theory, plane flown to nation state known for sponsoring terrorism that is well within the flight range for that plane. 

My Guess. Al Queda controlled Somalia.

[Dori]

Fox News has photos from a Chinese satellite that shows large objects in the water near the plane's last known position....

The Chinese agency gave coordinates of 105.63 east longitude, 6.7 north latitude, which would put it in waters northeast of where it took off in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and south of Vietnam, near where the South China Sea meets the Gulf of Thailand.
http://www.ktbs.com/story/24958805/satellite-looking-into-missing-malaysia-flight-detects-suspected-crash-area

Here's something interesting . . .

There's only two more paragraphs.  It would seem that the Vietnamese might think that this is a hoax.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/12/oil-rig-worker-says-he-saw-missing-plane-go-down-r/#.UyCk150m6gw.twitter

“The surface location of the observation is: Lat 08” 22’ 30.23” N; Long 108” 42’ 22.26” E,” he said.

^from the OP's link


From the oil rig observation coordinates to the Chinese radar coordinates, looks like this probably wasn't a hoax.  

[EagleKeeper]

Dori, if you use other peoples work you should give attribution and not make it look like your own work.

[Ptarmigan]

Was missing flight MH370 jet brought down by a shoe bomber? British terrorist convicted of plotting similar attack says he gave explosive to Malaysian terror cell which included a pilot
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2579162/Was-missing-flight-MH370-jet-brought-shoe-bomber.html

A British man convicted of plotting an Al-Qaeda plane bombing told a New York court yesterday about a separate 2001 plan for a Malaysian pilot to blast his way into a jet's cockpit.

Saajid Badat, who was sentenced in 2005 to 13 years in jail as a co-conspirator in a notorious December 2001 plot to bomb US airliners, has testified about the Malaysian plan before.

But his description of the apparently abandoned plot has a new resonance as investigators probe the fate of a Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared on Saturday with 239 people on board.

Could a shoe bomb have brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

[thundley4]

This story is getting more and more muddled.  Boeing is now saying that the engines themselves transmitted data for approximately 4 hours after other contact was lost.  Malaysian officials are denying that.

[DefiantSix]

This story is getting more and more muddled.  Boeing is now saying that the engines themselves transmitted data for approximately 4 hours after other contact was lost.  Malaysian officials are denying that.

Lending credence to the theory gaining momentum that some of Allah's Acolytes for Peace may be trying to disappear the plane, to convert it to a Qu'ran delivery vehicle (because Acolytes of the Religion of Peace^® would NEVER use an airplane to harm another human soul, unlike those eee-vil Amish bastards).

[thundley4]

U.S. officials lean toward 'those in the cockpit' behind missing flight
The U.S. intelligence community is leaning toward a theory that "those in the cockpit" -- the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 -- were deliberately responsible for whatever happened to the commercial jetliner that vanished, a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the latest thinking told CNN on Saturday.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, says the Malaysian government had wanted a reason to search the homes of the pilot and co-pilot for several days, but it was only in the last 24 to 36 hours the technical analysis of the collected radar and satellite data gave Malaysian officials sufficient reason to inspect those residences.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/15/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html

[GOBUCKS]

So, who hijacked the plane?

Who was in the cockpit? Sullenberger?

Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid

Enough said. Investigation over.

[thundley4]

Satellite data shows hijacked MH370 was last seen flying towards Pakistan OR Indian Ocean as investigators search pilots' luxury homes and reveal one had home-made flight simulator


Investigators say the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was hijacked, steered off-course and could have reached Pakistan.
A Malaysian government official said people with significant flying experience could have turned off the flight's communication devices.

The representative said that hijacking theory was now 'conclusive', and, as a result, police have raided the luxury homes of both the captain and the co-pilot

While Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak refused to confirm that flight MH370 was taken over, he admitted 'deliberate action' on board the plane resulted in it changing course and losing connection with ground crews.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581488/It-WAS-hijacked-Malaysian-official-says-CONCLUSIVE-jet-carrying-239-hijacked-35-000-ft-individual-group-significant-flying-experience.html


One thing really bothers me about this whole mess.  The Malaysian government has been very quick to shoot down every possible sighting of wreckage that was developed.  It's almost like they knew from the start it was hijacked.  Have they had some communication from the hijackers?

[thundley4]

*snip out the first 4 paragraphs.*

“The fact that it flew straight over Malaysia, without the Malaysian military identifying it, is just plain weird, not just weird, but also very damning and tragic,” said David Learmount, the operations and safety editor for Flightglobal, a news and data service for the aviation sector.

Senior Malaysian military officers became aware within hours of the radar data once word spread that a civilian airliner had vanished. The Malaysian government nonetheless organized and oversaw an expensive and complex international search effort in the Gulf of Thailand that lasted for a full week.

Only on Saturday did Prime Minister Najib Razak shut it down after admitting what had been widely reported in the news media: Satellite data showed that the engines on the missing plane had continued to run for nearly six more hours after it left Malaysian airspace.

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2023141836_flighterrorsxml.html?syndication=rss

I still say there are people in the Malaysian government that know what s going on.  It sounds like they deliberately misdirected the search.

[SaintLouieWoman]

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2023141836_flighterrorsxml.html?syndication=rss

I still say there are people in the Malaysian government that know what s going on.  It sounds like they deliberately misdirected the search.

that wouldn't be a stretch. Malaysia has been a hotbed for terror for years. Why would we trust what they say?

[thundley4]

that wouldn't be a stretch. Malaysia has been a hotbed for terror for years. Why would we trust what they say?

Because we have Obama as President. He ceded control of the search to the Malaysian government instead of having our craft do their own work.

[bijou]

There's just been a press conference on this, looks like they are going with the theory it was deliberate.

The communication systems of missing flight MH370 were deliberately disabled, Malaysia’s prime minister Najib Razak has confirmed.

Razak said radar and satellite data showed the plane then changed course.

‘‘We can say with a high degree of certainty that the aircrafts communications addressing and reporting system or ACARS, was disabled.

These movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane,’‘ Razak said.

Razak also said new evidence placed the aircraft in one of two corridors: North from Northern Thailand to Kazakhstan, or south from Indonesia to the southern Indian ocean.  ...

link

[txradioguy]

I posted this in the DUmp thread to (hopefully) drive the lurkers nuts...but at this point it's becoming a very credible theory:

It's in Iran there and there are several 7,000' runways within the flight radius of that jet.

The scary scenario I see is this the jet gets repainted to look like this:



And then the terrorists fly it...loaded with a nuke...into this:



Instant WW III.

[BlueStateSaint]

Yeah, but the transponders that were tracked for 7 hours after contact was lost--do they come on when the plane is powered up?  And, are they plane-specific?  What I'm getting at here is this--would someone know if the plane came back up 'on the net,' as soon as it did?

[txradioguy]

Yeah, but the transponders that were tracked for 7 hours after contact was lost--do they come on when the plane is powered up?  And, are they plane-specific?  What I'm getting at here is this--would someone know if the plane came back up 'on the net,' as soon as it did?

Nope transponders were turned off right before they had their last contact with Vietnamese ATC.

Then came the left turn to the west.

The signal they were receiving was was a periodic signal burst to a satellite from sensors monitoring the engines. 

[b-ONE-b]

What was his DUmp user name? Moved family out of the house the week before and the day before the disappearance the pilot attended the trial of the governments top opposition leader who is gay and was sentenced to a prison sentence.

[thundley4]

What was his DUmp user name? Moved family out of the house the week before and the day before the disappearance the pilot attended the trial of the governments top opposition leader who is gay and was sentenced to a prison sentence.

On a related Al Gore was a supporter of the imprisoned rump ranger. http://devel.malaysiandigest.com/news/493034-al-gore-speaks-up-for-anwar-again-after-sodomy-ii-conviction.html

I always wondered about that funny lisp Al Gore has.

[JohnnyReb]

On a related Al Gore was a supporter of the imprisoned rump ranger. http://devel.malaysiandigest.com/news/493034-al-gore-speaks-up-for-anwar-again-after-sodomy-ii-conviction.html

I always wondered about that funny lisp Al Gore has.

The sooner the ice caps melt and drown all those island Muslims the better.

[Ptarmigan]

I posted this in the DUmp thread to (hopefully) drive the lurkers nuts...but at this point it's becoming a very credible theory:

It's in Iran there and there are several 7,000' runways within the flight radius of that jet.

The scary scenario I see is this the jet gets repainted to look like this:



And then the terrorists fly it...loaded with a nuke...into this:



Instant WW III.

Israel Prepares for Possible Attack by Hijacked Malaysian Plane
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/03/16/Israel-Prepares-for-Attack-by-Hijacked-Malaysian-Plane

As the possibility--however remote--grows that Malaysia Airlines flight 370 may have been hijacked and taken to a hidden location, Israeli authorities are preparing for the possibility that the hijackers might attempt to use the Boeing 777 to mount an attack.

According to the Times of Israel, Israel's Channel 2 has revealed that Israeli air defenses have been boosted, and approaching civilian aircraft will be asked to identify themselves far earlier.

Though the flight was presumed at first to have crashed, whole or in pieces, into the ocean, passive satellite transmissions from the aircraft suggest that it made a deliberate course change and may have headed north into central Asia.

Israel is on guard for for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. It could be used as a weapon.

[Chris_]

Israel Prepares for Possible Attack by Hijacked Malaysian Plane
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/03/16/Israel-Prepares-for-Attack-by-Hijacked-Malaysian-Plane

Israel is on guard for for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. It could be used as a weapon.

I think it was hijacked.  Now the hijackers have 200+ hostages and a fully-loaded plane.

[Ptarmigan]

I think it was hijacked.  Now the hijackers have 200+ hostages and a fully-loaded plane.

I think that too.

[DefiantSix]

I think it was hijacked.  Now the hijackers have 200+ hostages and a fully-loaded plane.

I kinda doubt they kept the passengers as hostages.  I'd just about bet the mortgage that there's now about 40,000 pounds of worm food buried in the desert somewhere.