Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BREAKING: US officials investigate whether lithium batteries in the cargo hold could have brought the plane down. At this point, no terrorism suspected, and the batters were not believed to be there illegally or maliciously.

But wait. How can lithium batteries change a plane's course, manually turn off two forms of communications at two different times, and fly the plane four to five hours…?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BREAKING: US officials investigate whether lithium batteries in the cargo hold could have brought the plane down. At this point, no terrorism suspected, and the batters were not believed to be there illegally or maliciously.

But wait. How can lithium batteries change a plane's course, manually turn off two forms of communications at two different times, and fly the plane four to five hours…?

I imagine fire and heat can affect those things, and perhaps smoke filled the cockpit incapacitating the pilots, but still allowed the plane to fly on autopilot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BREAKING: US officials investigate whether lithium batteries in the cargo hold could have brought the plane down. At this point, no terrorism suspected, and the batters were not believed to be there illegally or maliciously.

But wait. How can lithium batteries change a plane's course, manually turn off two forms of communications at two different times, and fly the plane four to five hours…?

I imagine fire and heat can affect those things, and perhaps smoke filled the cockpit incapacitating the pilots, but still allowed the plane to fly on autopilot.

Do you think we're stupid? You made up that headline. It's been said over and over again, THAT CAN NOT HAPPEN!!! These planes have failsafe upon failsafe built in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BREAKING: US officials investigate whether lithium batteries in the cargo hold could have brought the plane down. At this point, no terrorism suspected, and the batters were not believed to be there illegally or maliciously.

But wait. How can lithium batteries change a plane's course, manually turn off two forms of communications at two different times, and fly the plane four to five hours…?

I imagine fire and heat can affect those things, and perhaps smoke filled the cockpit incapacitating the pilots, but still allowed the plane to fly on autopilot.

Do you think we're stupid? You made up that headline. It's been said over and over again, THAT CAN NOT HAPPEN!!! These planes have failsafe upon failsafe built in.

Sorry everything isn't going according to you "The Muslims did it" theory, pp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BREAKING: US officials investigate whether lithium batteries in the cargo hold could have brought the plane down. At this point, no terrorism suspected, and the batters were not believed to be there illegally or maliciously.

But wait. How can lithium batteries change a plane's course, manually turn off two forms of communications at two different times, and fly the plane four to five hours…?

I imagine fire and heat can affect those things, and perhaps smoke filled the cockpit incapacitating the pilots, but still allowed the plane to fly on autopilot.

Do you think we're stupid? You made up that headline. It's been said over and over again, THAT CAN NOT HAPPEN!!! These planes have failsafe upon failsafe built in.

From the expert reports I've watched - 777 have five backups. If they all, they all fail. They've never had that happen before.

[Anonymous]

They can't even find the plane; how are they to know that lithium batteries exploded and somehow forced the pilot to turn off all communications and also plot a new course for the plane?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They can't even find the plane; how are they to know that lithium batteries exploded and somehow forced the pilot to turn off all communications and also plot a new course for the plane?

I imagine perhaps in luggage screenings? Luggage screeners have probably been questioned. Or perhaps there was mail/package cargo on the plane, and all of that is often documented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone posted this comment on the Washington post--can someone please tell me there is no way this could happen, pretty please?

"It is within the realm of possibility that al Qaeda has acquired a nuclear device, considering that scores of warheads that are unaccounted for among nuclear powers: Pakistan, former Soviet bloc countries, NK. It might not even be theft, as many foreign agencies with nuclear warhead access are rife with corruption.

Given this to be a plausible scenario, the one thing lacking in order to detonate a device in an American or European urban center is a foolproof delivery system – effectively slipping it through the dragnet of nuclear detection devices and border security. And the best way to accomplish this would be to exploit the humanitarian urge to aid innocents: a hijacked airline full of passengers requesting permission to land.

Flight 370 had 7.5 hours of fuel remaining when it turned west. That would translate into 4,200 miles at standard cruising speed, which would place it as far as central Somalia (3,800 miles) The vector reported by the Malaysia military radar over Malaysia/Thailand puts the aircraft on a direct path to Somalia.

Scenario: Al Qaeda in Somalia coordinated the hijacking (or pilot complicity) of Flight 370, to have it go "dark" and turn to Somalia at the point where it leaves Malaysia air traffic control. It turns due west and crosses the peninsula at low altitude: once over the Andaman Sea, it resumes a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet with sufficient fuel to reach central Somalia at standard cruising speed of 490 knots (560 mph).

The plane lands while it is still night in Somalia. There, it is refueled and al Qaeda secures its nuclear device in the cargo hold. At some point the 777 takes off for its intended target, which could be as far as the U.S. It once again flies “dark”: as it approaches the target, it contacts the country, stating that it has been hijacked, has passengers on board, is running out of fuel and must land. It is permitted to enter airspace, heads for the target city and detonates the bomb low over the city. "

Well. this is extremely farfetched (although a great plot for a book!) but i don't think the US would allow it to land. They were ready to shoot down additional hijacked planes on 9/11 and they've surely thought this over.

Let's be real here. I am no conspiracy theorist, but the US did indeed shoot down a plane on 9/11. Right in PA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dang, I need to go there.

Humidity is probably at 98% all year. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BREAKING: US officials investigate whether lithium batteries in the cargo hold could have brought the plane down. At this point, no terrorism suspected, and the batters were not believed to be there illegally or maliciously.

But wait. How can lithium batteries change a plane's course, manually turn off two forms of communications at two different times, and fly the plane four to five hours…?

I imagine fire and heat can affect those things, and perhaps smoke filled the cockpit incapacitating the pilots, but still allowed the plane to fly on autopilot.

Do you think we're stupid? You made up that headline. It's been said over and over again, THAT CAN NOT HAPPEN!!! These planes have failsafe upon failsafe built in.

From the expert reports I've watched - 777 have five backups. If they all, they all fail. They've never had that happen before.

Gene Kranz: EECOM, is this an instrumentation problem, or are we looking at real power loss here?
Sy Liebergot: It's, it's reading a quadruple failure - that can't happen! It's, it's got to be instrumentation.

[Anonymous]

Chinese say they detected a seismic event in the ocean an hour and a half after the plane lost contact. Could be it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they were just tired of the grind and hustle of working 9-5 in Beijing, wondering which Beijing version of JKLMM schools to live in, tired of smog and local party politics and wanted to go to these beautiful Andaman islands.

Damn, I googled them too. Was amazed by the elephants swimming and the beauty.......ohhhhhhh

[Anonymous]

WTOP interviews increasingly mention "likely criminal activity" due to transponders being turned off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BREAKING: US officials investigate whether lithium batteries in the cargo hold could have brought the plane down. At this point, no terrorism suspected, and the batters were not believed to be there illegally or maliciously.

But wait. How can lithium batteries change a plane's course, manually turn off two forms of communications at two different times, and fly the plane four to five hours…?

I imagine fire and heat can affect those things, and perhaps smoke filled the cockpit incapacitating the pilots, but still allowed the plane to fly on autopilot.

Do you think we're stupid? You made up that headline. It's been said over and over again, THAT CAN NOT HAPPEN!!! These planes have failsafe upon failsafe built in.

Ok, crazy. Batteries mentioned here (I'm not the pp):
Missing Malaysian plane: Did it land?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/14/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone posted this comment on the Washington post--can someone please tell me there is no way this could happen, pretty please?

"It is within the realm of possibility that al Qaeda has acquired a nuclear device, considering that scores of warheads that are unaccounted for among nuclear powers: Pakistan, former Soviet bloc countries, NK. It might not even be theft, as many foreign agencies with nuclear warhead access are rife with corruption.

Given this to be a plausible scenario, the one thing lacking in order to detonate a device in an American or European urban center is a foolproof delivery system – effectively slipping it through the dragnet of nuclear detection devices and border security. And the best way to accomplish this would be to exploit the humanitarian urge to aid innocents: a hijacked airline full of passengers requesting permission to land.

Flight 370 had 7.5 hours of fuel remaining when it turned west. That would translate into 4,200 miles at standard cruising speed, which would place it as far as central Somalia (3,800 miles) The vector reported by the Malaysia military radar over Malaysia/Thailand puts the aircraft on a direct path to Somalia.

Scenario: Al Qaeda in Somalia coordinated the hijacking (or pilot complicity) of Flight 370, to have it go "dark" and turn to Somalia at the point where it leaves Malaysia air traffic control. It turns due west and crosses the peninsula at low altitude: once over the Andaman Sea, it resumes a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet with sufficient fuel to reach central Somalia at standard cruising speed of 490 knots (560 mph).

The plane lands while it is still night in Somalia. There, it is refueled and al Qaeda secures its nuclear device in the cargo hold. At some point the 777 takes off for its intended target, which could be as far as the U.S. It once again flies “dark”: as it approaches the target, it contacts the country, stating that it has been hijacked, has passengers on board, is running out of fuel and must land. It is permitted to enter airspace, heads for the target city and detonates the bomb low over the city. "

I don't think the U.S. would give it permission to land here. The manifest only had 3 American citizens on board, and while we should care about the fate of those citizens, I wouldn't risk another 9/11 over 3 Americans.

Of the thousands of flights that come and go in the US every day, can't one falsify it's identity? Aooear to be a legitimate flight,, go unchallenged, and then blow up?