Right now, at this moment, we are witness to the greatest puzzle in the history of aviation. Greater than Amelia. Greater than Flight 19 (which was pretty much solved by Larry Kusche some time ago). Greater than the disappearances of Joe Kennedy, Glenn Miller or Frederick Valentich.
This tops 'em all.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says that the aircraft was deliberately diverted by someone on board.
Mr. Najib also said that search efforts in the South China Sea had been ended, and that technical experts now believed the aircraft could have ended up anywhere in one of two zones — one as far north as Kazakhstan in Central Asia, the other crossing the southern Indian Ocean.
By noting that investigators had not yet concluded that the incident was a hijacking, Mr. Najib seemed to leave open the possibility that the cockpit crew might have chosen to take the aircraft to an unknown destination.And then there's the sub-mystery of the great fall...
Investigators have also examined data transmitted from the plane’s Rolls-Royce engines that showed it descended 40,000 feet in the span of a minute, according to a senior American official briefed on the investigation. But investigators do not believe the readings are accurate because the aircraft would most likely have taken longer to fall such a distance.CNN is seriously playing with the notion that the airliner landed safely...
“A lot of stock cannot be put in the altitude data” sent from the engines, one official said. “A lot of this doesn’t make sense.”
That theory is buoyed by word from a senior U.S. official familiar with the investigation that the Malaysia Airlines plane made several significant altitude changes and altered its course more than once after losing contact with flight towers.
The jetliner was flying "a strange path," the official said on condition of anonymity. The details of the radar readings were first reported by The New York Times on Friday.
Malaysian military radar showed the plane climbing to 45,000 feet soon after disappearing from civilian radar screens and then dropping to 23,000 feet before climbing again, the official said.
Then there's the theory that maybe Flight 370 landed in a remote Indian Ocean island chain.And then there's this intriguing detail...
The suggestion -- and it's only that at this point -- is based on analysis of radar data revealed Friday by Reuters suggesting that the plane wasn't just blindly flying northwest from Malaysia. Reuters, citing unidentified sources familiar with the investigation, reported that whoever was piloting the vanished jet was following navigational waypoints that would have taken the plane over the Andaman Islands.
The radar data don't show the plane over the Andaman Islands, but only on a known route that would take it there, Reuters cited its sources as saying.
Two sources said an unidentified aircraft that investigators believe was Flight MH370 was following a route between navigational waypoints when it was last plotted on military radar off the country's northwest coast.That's a viable line of investigation, I should say.
This indicates that it was either being flown by the pilots or someone with knowledge of those waypoints, the sources said.
CNN has nothing but kind things to say about the pilot and co-pilot. Nevertheless, Malaysian investigators have inspected the home of pilot .
Born in northern Penang state, the bald-headed captain and grandfather is also an enthusiastic handyman and proud home cook. As part of what he called "community service," he had posted several YouTube videos including how to make air conditioners more efficient to cut electricity bills, how to waterproof window panes and how to repair a fridge icemaker.He also had a flight simulator in his home.
Of course, there is also the discomforting fact that two Iranians allegedly boarded the plane using forged or stolen passports. Iran has no earthly reason to "tickle the tiger" by committing an act of terror. If the downing of this jet is blamed on Iran, then you can be sure that something else is going on.
(The preceding sentence is one of the few things I can say with certainty about this affair.)
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If this was a criminal act of some kind, someone would have said something by now. Either a demand for money or a threat to do it again. What about the Payne Stewart theory?
Look up Freescale Semiconductor passengers and patents. Quite interesting.
Joseph; Have you thought this event might have a purpose?
Taking our eyes off the Ukrainian football.
With all our surveillance and geosat tech, we lost a plane?
Take the prestidigitation to the People.
Ben
You wrote:
"home of pilot ."
You did not write the name of the pilot.
There really is no mystery here. Despite speculation from Malaysian officials that this was a "hijacking," it is becoming more and more clear this was a tragic malfunction in the plane, and the crew and passengers were incapacitated through decompression ala the Payne Stewart tragedy. A retired pilot was on CNN this morning, and he pretty much concluded that the longer this has gone on and more evidence has surfaced, that this really was a mechanical/decompression situation. A plane just doesn't fly for hours and hours and hours and not land unless it was literally not being piloted. There is no evidence any of the passengers or crew "hijacked" the plane or that any of them would have a motive despite wishful thinking on the part of the media and politicians. As I said before, a tragedy like this has happened before with commercial aircraft, though thankfully it is extremely rare.
OTE -- the "incapacitated through decompression" theory does not explain the consistent reports that the transponders were deliberately turned off.
Following what anonymous said, Freescale Semiconductor is interesting. See here
@Garth thanks for the additional information.
@Joseph I saw John Negroponte on CNN talking about this earlier. The monsters are back with an agenda.
Wsrae-zL
@Garth thanks for the additional info.
Btw...John Negroponte emerged from the bowels of hell to give his opinion on this.
OH HELL! Now someone from the Chertoff Group is on CNN blaming terrorism and comparing this to 9-11.
The problem with the ghost plane scenario is that according to news reports, the last ACARS message indicates that the active heading was changed in the Flight Management System, leading to the left-hand turn. That has to be programmed in by someone in the cockpit.
This alone, in addition to the altitude data, the transponders being manually shut down, the sequenced order that various data streams from the plane were lost, makes concluding a decompression scenario difficult at this point.
I don't know how anyone could say there is " no mystery here" so conclusively when there are many unanswered questions, and troubling yet inconclusive evidence of all kinds and in many different directions. Decompression, pilot suicide, pilot-aided hijacking, or third-party hijacking are all live theories that can't be ruled out yet.
Check this out guys another one from the same site. This is a new site to me, looks very promising. MH370 Mystery – Suspicious Cargo & Death of 2 Ex-Navy Seals aboard MV Maersk Alabama
http://greatgameindia.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/mh370-mystery-suspicious-cargo-death-of-2-ex-navy-seals-aboard-mv-maersk-alabama/
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