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applegrove

(118,501 posts)
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 11:05 PM Mar 2014

Malaysians are letting the USA help organize the search for missing airliner.

Thanks to the USA. (CTV News)

"SNIP...................

Two U.S. Federal Aviation Administration technical experts and a regional representative are in Kuala Lumpur as part of a National Transportation Safety Board team supporting the investigation. Experts in air traffic control and radar are providing technical help, the board said.

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Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/chinese-satellite-images-show-suspected-debris-of-missing-flight-mh370-report-1.1725200#ixzz2voBsiiXG

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Malaysians are letting the USA help organize the search for missing airliner. (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2014 OP
Huh? treestar Mar 2014 #1
Were the Malaysians saying that? I have not heard any conspiracy theories on this tragic event. applegrove Mar 2014 #2
OK, I thought thanks to the USA treestar Mar 2014 #8
Okay we are cool. I was very excited to see the experience of the USA come into play. applegrove Mar 2014 #10
rt.com: US dispatches team to cover up CIA's involvement nt geek tragedy Mar 2014 #3
. applegrove Mar 2014 #4
sorry, the crazy ct talk about the US being behind every bad thing has a few of us on edge geek tragedy Mar 2014 #6
Impossible BeyondGeography Mar 2014 #5
Lol. DU and hyperbole. A match made in heaven. functioning_cog Mar 2014 #7
lol treestar Mar 2014 #9
They do need people with firsthand experience in managing this kind of stuff jsr Mar 2014 #11
When Swiss Air 111 crashed off the waters of Nova Scotia they sent out a former applegrove Mar 2014 #12

treestar

(82,383 posts)
1. Huh?
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 11:06 PM
Mar 2014

Does this mean the whole thing is a CIA operation designed to let the US take over the government of Malaysia?

Why not put our considerable resources to good use to help someone else?

treestar

(82,383 posts)
8. OK, I thought thanks to the USA
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 11:28 PM
Mar 2014

might be something along the lines of the USA was behind getting in on it. Too much of that around here, I guess.

applegrove

(118,501 posts)
10. Okay we are cool. I was very excited to see the experience of the USA come into play.
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 11:35 PM
Mar 2014

I lived in Nova Scotia a few years after the crash of Swiss Air 111 there and I know there were American officials living and working there years after the jet's crash into the ocean.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
6. sorry, the crazy ct talk about the US being behind every bad thing has a few of us on edge
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 11:18 PM
Mar 2014

and sadly, some people will take this that way

applegrove

(118,501 posts)
12. When Swiss Air 111 crashed off the waters of Nova Scotia they sent out a former
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 12:13 AM
Mar 2014

transportation minister (a politician) to speak to the press. Turns out, Vic Gerden, the investigator-in-charge (IIC) of the TSB investigation, provided superb management and dissemination of information on the crash. The politician was not needed. Gerden was masterful. And that helps in a situation such as this Malaysian crash.

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