Did Missing Flight MH370 Land In The Maldives Or Diego Garcia: The Full Updated Summary | Zero Hedge

Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 7 months ago to News
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Ah yes, Foxtrot Delta Juliet Golf ~ the ICAO designator for paradise; Diego Garcia. Good choice. Now: why the media silence? Where's the people?
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  • Posted by jimslag 11 years, 7 months ago
    I spent more than a few years of my Navy career in the Indian Ocean (IO) and can tell you it almost impossible to track things out there, even with modern technology. Unless you are close to land, of which there is not a lot out there, radar is almost useless. That is one of the reasons, all Navy ships have their own radar and sensors. It allows us to track not only our own aircraft but any others that come within range. So, as long as it stayed over open water with it's transponder and communications turned off, it could really disappear for sure. If it is not in someplace like Somalia or Yemen or parts of the desert in Oman, close to Yemen, then it is in the ocean.
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  • Posted by Edswim 11 years, 7 months ago


    Sent from my iPad

    VERY SERIOUS MALFEASANCE]

    Do you remember the recent incident about two former SEALs being found dead at the port in Richmond??  There job was to protect sensitive material in an out of the port.  I just wonder if that sensitive material was not on the Malaysian jet and it's now in Diego Garcia.!!!

    Catastrophic failure would NOT be silent.  Not one passenger called on their cell phone to anyone????  And phones ringing from the other end--------------don't think that would happen at the bottom of the sea!!

    Ukraine---------we are picking a fight we don't need to.  Crimea has spoken, let them go.  Protect and help the Ukraine and don't allow any more movement by the Ruskies.  Weak leadership created it, now time to back off.  This stupid DSIC (Dip Shit In Charge) is just about ready to get us into a war. But, I can also see where he could have a planned catastrophe in order to declare "Marshall Law" which would allow him to suspend election & thereby remain in power. Hopefully, at that point we would have commanders with stones that would defy his orders & a Congress to impeach him - but I wouldn't hold my breath.

    If any of this is true, why haven't we heard about it on FOX?  They are very good at pointing out the antics of the knucklehead in the White House.
    scroll down to picture:

    BY ANY FIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION DOES THIS GIVE YOU  REASON FOR CONCERN ?????

    What is wrong with this picture? 
    The picture is of the five first line US nuclear carriers docked together in one place. Just like Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor , December 7, 1941. 
    This picture was taken the February 2014 in Norfolk , Virginia … Obama ordered 5 nuclear carriers into harbor for "routine" (?) inspections. Heads of the Navy were flabbergasted by the directive but had to comply as it was a direct order from their Commander-in-Chief.

    The carriers were all pulled out from the MIDDLE EAST and the Afghanistan support role leaving our land forces naked and exposed!

    NORFOLK, VA. (February 8, 2014). This is the first time since WWII that five nuclear powered aircraft carriers were docked together. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are all in port at Naval Station Norfolk , Va. , the world’s largest naval station.

    Knowledgeable Sources stated that this breached a long standing military protocol in the Navy meant to avoid a massive enemy strike on major US forces.
    (U..S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Ryan J. Courtade/Released).

    Obama is ‘Commander in chief’.
    This ordering of most of the Navy's capitol ships into one place is unprecedented since Pearl Harbor !  This could be the creation of a false flag atomic incident too stupid for any enemy to pass up. 
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  • Posted by Abaco 11 years, 7 months ago
    I have been thinking all along that this was the result of a rapid decompression. I have a few reasons to think this including the fact that of all those people onboard, nobody got on their cell phone to let somebody know that the flight had taken a suspicious turn or that they were being hijacked. But, who knows at this point? Interesting story, for sure.
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  • Posted by $ TimCutler 11 years, 7 months ago
    Personally, I don't believe that a big piece of machinery could fly a quarter of the way around the earth without being detected by people whose job it is to detect potential threats. Either they are incompetent and useless, or there is a lot more to this story.

    Unless this aircraft is at the bottom of the ocean within a few miles of the last confirmed location, this will be the most elegant act of skullduggery in human history. Worthy of Lex Luthor or Dr. Evil.
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    • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 7 months ago
      There are technological limitations to various tracking technologies. The problem identified is that the pilots had the ability to seemingly turn off all such tracking. That should have been identified via a risk assessment. They should have identified a scenario where a rouge pilot or two would hijack a plane and included a tracking mechanism that they couldn't defeat. I think it's also very stupid that the cockpit voice recorder loops every 30 mins. Hell, a one ounce thumbdrive can hold hundreds of hours of songs, so it's not a technological or weight constraint. This goes back to when they used actual magnetic tape and didn't want to increase the weight burden. Just stupid.
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      • Posted by $ jlc 11 years, 7 months ago
        I agree with your analysis of the pilot's ability to turn off the tracking device; I can't imagine a legit reason for doing so. Also, the optional maintenance tracking device was 'pinging' (a satellite?) but not conveying data because the airline had not signed up for the service. In light of this occurrence, it might be better for the maintenance company to record the data whether or not the airline paid, but only give access to it if the payments had been made. Data is cheap.

        The problem with the voice recorder loop is that of regulatory and company impediments, not technology per se (which is what you imply, but I wanted to say it out loud). Back when we were all using pentium-level computers, the passenger phones in planes were based on 386 technology...because of the same time lag phenomenon. The solution to that is to remove some of the impediments.

        Insofar as a sudden decompression incident is concerned, even exposure to outer space for a short time is apparently recoverable (except your eardrums). I would think that given that the automatic dispersal of the O2 masks there would be some percentage of passengers who would have made use of the masks and avoided hypoxia.

        Jan
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  • Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 7 months ago
    If the intent is to use the plane in a terrorist act it would have to happen soon. These folks have to know how many people are looking for this plane.
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    • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 7 months ago
      Well, since we are all in the conspiracy theory mood, I think it was a dry run to see if the plane could be controlled remotely.
      I think it is risky to let the First Lady, and her children leave for China not knowing what is going on with this plane. They are suppose to leave today.
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      • Posted by iroseland 11 years, 7 months ago
        They should probably enjoy some quality tome at camp David for a bit. If anything bad happened the congress and senate would finally get together to pass some truly nightmare stuff.
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    • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 7 months ago
      Easily camouflaged under netting, or in a hangar.
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      • Posted by Bobhummel 11 years, 7 months ago
        it would take a LOT of netting. It is a big plane. And that would be useless against SAR, Synthetic aperture radar, which would be the most effective way to search large areas electronically and can see through visual obscurations such as clouds, smoke or haze. clouds . hangers big enough to house one of these jets are REALLY big too.
        Agree with Robbie, Moochelle et.al. are parasites of the highest order.
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  • Posted by saucerdesigner 11 years, 7 months ago
    As a pilot who has served is scheduled air carrier service, I agree with Chris Goodfellow on what happened to MH370:
    http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh3...
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    • Posted by Zero 11 years, 7 months ago
      As a proper skeptic I have no opinion when there is no evidence. but I like simple explanations.
      Error and accident is more common than evil.

      But as for the flight simulator found at the pilot's house... it'd be interesting to know more about that.

      As a pilot yourself, do you find that unusual?
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      • Posted by iroseland 11 years, 7 months ago
        What I would find unusual would be a pilot that does not spend some time flight simming. I know a number of air line pilots and I have met all of them on-line flying. Sims are the cheapest way to get used to the approaches for the various fields. Considering how weird things can get in south east Asia, and how far apart places to land are I would hope that he was using the sim to practice landing all over the place. That way if they get in trouble part of the solution has already been practiced.
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        • Posted by Zero 11 years, 7 months ago
          Good point, I wondered about that.
          How about it SAUCERDESIGNER and other pilots?
          Is it common for old vets to still sim in their off time or is it kinda rare?
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          • Posted by saucerdesigner 11 years, 7 months ago
            Not rare, rather common, I'd say. Some folks are into FPS games, some are into golf. I like to set up the simulator for a short but legal, narrow runway; bring the visibility and ceiling (cloud bases) down to legal minimums and practice the approaches.
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  • Posted by scubadude 11 years, 7 months ago
    Why couldn't any of the high-tech spy satellites out there have been able to track the heat signature trailing off an airliner this size??? It's not like MH370 could mask the exhaust heat pouring out of those engines as can be done in some stealth jets. At 35,000 feet, the temperature difference should be pretty dramatic.
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  • Posted by JBW 11 years, 7 months ago
    This plane blew up and went into the sea just south of Viet Nam where it alledgetly "disappeared". Consider the evidence.

    There were two Iranians, whose habit is to commit suicide to accomplish their Jihad, traveling together on stollen passports on that plane.

    There were 227 passengers who stopped using their pocket phones, etc., from the time of plane disappearence.

    The first plane radio transmission happened just before the explosion. The second transmission happened upon entry into the sea, some minutes later.

    All the rest of the "evidence" were responses from other planes flying routine routes over the area during the night.

    Jim Wright
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