New Evidence Suggests That Plane Disappearance Was A Deliberate Act

[applegrove]

New Evidence Suggests That Plane Disappearance Was A Deliberate Act

by Paul Szoldra at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/mh370-deliberate-act-2014-3

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Sources speaking with ABC believe the data reporting system was shut down at 1:07 a.m., while the transponder — sending out location and altitude data — was shut down at 1:21 a.m.

U.S. investigators are "convinced that there was manual intervention," one source told ABC, indicating an accident is not the reason the plane vanished.

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With an accident becoming less likely (but not entirely ruled out), the scenarios for what happened could come down to a hijacking or actions taken by rogue crew members. One person close to the investigation told The Wall Street Journal that there could be a third possibility: The plane could have been diverted "with the intention of using it later for another purpose."

"That's been a possibility right from the start," Patrick Smith, an airline pilot and author, told Business Insider's Michael Kelley. "It's very unlikely, but I suppose it's conceivable."



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[niyad]

1. why is the US investigating?

[randome]

2. We have resources Malaysia doesn't, I would assume.

Weren't there some Americans on board the flight? I think a lot of nations are investigating this.
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[applegrove]

7. Expertise the Malaysians don't have. In all areas. Including communication.

The USA was in Canada for the Swiss Air 111 plane crash off Nova Scotia helping to investigate for years.

[Lost_Count]

14. Americans on board as well...

[functioning_cog]

17. That's a pretty bizarre question. Boeing is U.S. company

There were American citizens aboard, U.S. possesses tremendous expertise around these types of investigations (NTSB) and Indonesia invited them.

[Blue_Tires]

18. Because of international agreements the U.S. is automatically entitled to be there

because we are the country of origin the airframe manufacturer (Boeing)...There were also three U.S. citizens on board...

The Brits are there because they are the country of origin for the engine manufacturer (Rolls Royce)

China is involved because a large number of passengers were Chinese citizens, and the final destination was a Chinese airport

Vietnam is involved because it is (or was) theoretically the last controlled airspace the flight was confirmed to be...

FWIW, because of their vast resources and expertise, the USA, UK, France are frequently requested by smaller countries to investigate air crashes even if they don't have an 'official' stake...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

3. The thought that someone may have commandeered that plane for use later "for another purpose"

is downright scary.

[JI7]

9. like 9-11

[Matariki]

21. Like some Doris Lessing novel...

[Iwasthere]

4. I said this yesterday but was give a lot of $%#^

I stated that the plane was on a deliberate path. The range was also far FAR greater than they are saying.

[randome]

5. This far? We may be looking on the wrong planet.

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[Iwasthere]

6. More than twice the range they are stating

[applegrove]

8. Sometimes you go with intuition and are alone for a bit. It's all good.

[Cha]

11. Sweet~

[Iwasthere]

12. Thanks for that ... helps

I do get frustrated. I am lucky (or cursed) to have a high intuition.

[applegrove]

13. Me too. I wouldn't trade it for the world. Though it doesn't make life easy.

[pscot]

10. Flight distance from Kuala Lumpur

to Beijing is about 2700 miles. Airlines are weight conscious. They wouldn't load more fuel than necessary. Gives a range of about 2400 miles from point of last report.

[moondust]

15. Probably.

Didn't anybody on the plane call home when they suspected something was up?

[Lex]

19. Would that depend on cell towers being around? nt

[moondust]

20. Don't know.

The last plane I flew on was a 777 but that was some time ago. I didn't notice if it still had those airline pay phones on board. Maybe flight attendants still have something like that for ground communication in case of hijacking or emergencies.

[wheniwasincongress]

23. Cell phone jammers

Perhaps those could have been used to prevent people using their phones?

[LiberalEsto]

16. I wonder how many large-enough runways exist within the plane's flight range?

That Boeing requires a huge runway in order to land safely, from what I've read.

It would probably be extremely difficult to conceal such a landing area from detection by satellite.

[2naSalit]

22. I'm leaning toward

the "later use" idea. Somehow I get the feeling that there's something we aren't considering going on with the whole thing. There are certainly places that aircraft could land if you consider the places it could reach from it's departure location.

Depends on how crazy one might have thought the twin towers event was before it happened and what creative imagination might devise at this point in time. I don't automatically think that anyone claiming something "very unlikely" to be the absolute in a case like this.

Something is going on and we are not going to "get it" until it's too late, I'm sensing. interesting how long this "mystery" is remaining a mystery...