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Doh!

CVille Dem — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:12:06 +0000

In reply to You know his take. Its his

Doh!

You know his take. Its his

ocean-kat — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 06:04:39 +0000

In reply to I'd actually really like to

You know his take. Its his solution for everything. If everyone on the plane was packing a gun it wouldn't have happened.

You'all haven't seen this on

Anonymous ncd — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:30:49 +0000

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You'all haven't seen this on the missing plane at Wired?

The pilot theorizes the plane had smoke, fire, possibly from tire well, changed heading directly to the largest and closest runway in Malaysia, and for whatever reason they were unable to radio the situation. And didn't survive the smoke to land the plane. Yet the fire didn't bring down the aircraft until it ran out of fuel. Mentioned are other instances of fires on planes that developed quickly and became deadly.

I don't know the math or the science behind those satellite 'ping' generated curving loops but this article says the search should be straight out to the east on the heading the plane was on over when last racked over Malaysia. Not in Kazakstan etc.

It just so happens the Maldive islands are on that eastern heading, and it just so happens residents reported a low flying jet matching the Malaysian jet flying over that morning.

I'd actually really like to

CVille Dem — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 02:48:50 +0000

In reply to Got to admit this came to

I'd actually really like to hear Resistance's take on this. Resistance? Speak now, please!

Got to admit this came to

artappraiser — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:22:33 +0000

In reply to Makes sense to me. God won't

Got to admit this came to mind.

Got a mystery? Go to Revelations!

Indeed...and this penetrating

jollyroger — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:22:05 +0000

In reply to Makes sense to me. God won't

Indeed...and this penetrating analysis was given precious air time on a major cable news outlet...Be afraid. Be very afraid...

Makes sense to me. God won't

Verified Atheist — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:13:10 +0000

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Makes sense to me. God won't stop a hurricane or earthquake from killing innocent people, but he takes time out of his busy schedule to play hide-and-seek with an airplane. Why not?

Hasn't anyone noticed that

jollyroger — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 03:55:32 +0000

In reply to More speculation on possible

Hasn't anyone noticed that Resistance hasn't been around since just about when the plane went missing? We all know for whom he works...

More speculation on possible

artappraiser — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:09:13 +0000

In reply to re: the Malaysian "Mystery Flight" A Very Curious New York Times Article that Everyone is Ignoring

More speculation on possible Al Qaeda influence in today's New York Times. Though the first half of the article is mostly discounting terrorist possibilities (including Uighurs), the end of it has this:

As U.S. Looks for Terror Links in Plane Case, Malaysia Rejects Extensive Help
By Michael S. Schmidt and Scott Shane, March 16/17, 2014

[....] Investigators are keeping in mind the long history of Qaeda connections and terrorist plots in Southeast Asia, including the double bombing of nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia, in 2002, which killed more than 200 people. That attack was carried out by members of Jemaah Islamiyah, a regional militant group with close ties to Al Qaeda.

As investigators focus on the pilots and study possible motives for a hijacking, certain tactics that Al Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah considered years ago may be newly relevant. In 2001, leaders of the two groups discussed recruiting a Malaysian or Indonesian commercial pilot for a terrorist mission, according to a 2006 book by Kenneth J. Conboy, an American author who specializes in militant groups in Southeast Asia.

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the chief planner of the Sept. 11 attacks, considered using such pilots for a second wave of attacks on buildings or landmarks in the United States. Yazid Sufaat, a Malaysian who studied biochemistry at California State University and experimented with biological weapons for Al Qaeda before Sept. 11, proposed crashing a commercial airliner into a passing American warship, the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, according to a local intelligence report cited in Mr. Conboy’s book on Jemaah Islamiyah, “The Second Front.”

Mr. Yazid was free from 2008 until last year, when he was detained in Malaysia and charged with helping to recruit fighters to send to Syria. He remains in custody.

I'd be remiss if I didn't note this one for tomorrow's New York Times as well. It is interesting along the same lines (as well as introducing yet another revision of what actually happened while it was still in flight), as it adds some intrigue about the pilot and his at-home flight simulator:

Change in Plane’s Path Was Entered via Computer
By Matthew L. Wald and Michael S. Schmdit, March 17/18, 2014

My takeaway from the

artappraiser — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 19:31:25 +0000

In reply to re: the Malaysian "Mystery Flight" A Very Curious New York Times Article that Everyone is Ignoring

My takeaway from the following article. The Malaysian air force is either guilty of negligence and cover up of it, in such extreme as to boggle the mind, or (and I am usually loathe to say this) part of a conspiracy involving that flight.

Series of Errors by Malaysia Mounts, Complicating the Task of Finding Flight 370

By Keith Bradsher and Michael Forsythe, New York Times, March 15, 2014

The article certainly explains why countries like the U.S. are inside the investigation now. Sending a bunch of other countries who have offered help on a wild goose chase, where they should know from their own records that the plane cannot possibly be, is a pretty egregious thing for a country to do. Higher ups who didn't know about any cover up have to admit the failure or be implicated in a possible coverup, hence the Prime Minister's speech, and now, the Defense Minister's additions.