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Was Malaysia Airlines Flight #MH370 hijacked and hidden? | MyFDL

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 10:46 AM PDT

Cross posted from Frederick Leatherman Law Blog

For the following reasons, I suspect some persons unknown hijacked MH 370 with the intent of flying the aircraft to a specific destination.

(1) The 14-minute Gap.

CNN reported last night:

An ABC News report added another twist to the mystery Thursday evening. Citing two unnamed U.S. officials, the network said two separate communications systems on the missing aircraft were shut down separately, 14 minutes apart.

The officials told ABC they believe the plane's data reporting system was shut down at 1:07 a.m. Saturday, while the transponder transmitting location and altitude was shut down at 1:21 a.m.

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If the plane had disintegrated during flight or had suffered some other catastrophic failure, all signals — the pings to the satellite, the data messages and the transponder — would be expected to stop at the same time.

Now, experts are speculating that a pilot or passengers with technical expertise may have switched off the transponder in the hope of flying undetected.

/snip/

'This is beginning to come together to say that …this had to have been some sort of deliberate act,' ABC aviation analyst John Nance told CNN's Erin Burnett.

Note from the video that someone familiar with the inside of the Boeing 777-200 would have to have been involved in order to know how to turn off the data reporting system. Curiously, it was turned off before the transponder.

(2) The Emergency Locator Transmitters did not send out an emergency signal.

In the same report, CNN also said,

And there's another confusing twist. An emergency beacon that would have sent data if the plane was about to impact the ocean apparently did not go off, the official said. The beacons, known as Emergency Locator Transmitters, activate automatically upon immersion in fresh or salt water, but must remain on the surface for a distress signal to transmit.

The failure of the beacon to activate could mean that the plane didn't crash, that the transmitter malfunctioned, or that it's underwater somewhere.

(3) The route the aircraft followed.

The Independent reports this morning that two unidentified sources familiar with the investigation provided fresh details on the direction in which the unidentified aircraft was heading.

The sources said it was following aviation corridors identified on maps used by pilots as N571 and P628. These are routes taken by commercial planes flying from Southeast Asia to the Middle East or Europe.

The first two sources said MH370′s last confirmed position was at 35,000 feet about 90 miles (144 km) off the east coast of Malaysia at 1.21am, heading towards Vietnam, near a navigational waypoint called 'Igari.'

From there, the plot indicates the plane flew towards a waypoint known as 'Gival,' south of the Thai island of Phuket, and was last plotted heading northwest towards another waypoint called 'Igrex,' on route P628.

This would take it over the Andaman Islands, which carriers use to fly towards Europe.

The time was then 2.15 am – the same time given by the air force chief on Wednesday.

(4) Radar capability along the route taken by the aircraft is limited.

The Independent reports:

A fourth source familiar with the investigation told Reuters this position marks the limit of Malaysia's military radar in that region.

ABC News is reporting:

Hishammuddin said Malaysia was asking for radar data from India and other neighboring countries to see if they could trace the plane flying northwest. There was no word Friday that any other country had such details on the plane, and they may not exist.

In Thailand, secondary radar, which requires a signal from aircraft, runs 24 hours a day, but primary surveillance radar, which requires no signal, ordinarily shuts down at night at some locations, said a Royal Thai Air Force officer who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to talk to the media on the issue.

Air Marshal Vinod Patni, a retired Indian air force officer and a defense expert, said radar facilities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands area don't work around the clock, either.

(5) The Andaman Islands were not the final destination

CNN reports:

Denis Giles, editor of the Andaman Chronicle newspaper, says there's just nowhere to land such a big plane in his archipelago without attracting notice.

Indian authorities own the only four airstrips in the region, he said.

'There is no chance, no such chance, that any aircraft of this size can come towards Andaman and Nicobar islands and land,' he said.

(6) No indication that the pilot hijacked the flight

CBS News reports that the pilot and copilot are "humble and safety conscious."

Based on the story, I am not persuaded that the copilot can be ruled out as a potential hijacker.

Conclusion

The circumstantial evidence indicates that more than one person hijacked MH 370. At least one of them would have to have known how to fly the Boeing 777-200, turn off the the plane's data reporting system at 1:07 am and the transponder at 1:21 am and take advantage of regional radar vulnerabilities.

Other individuals would have to have controlled the passengers or executed them to prevent someone from using their cell phone.

I do not believe the airplane was hijacked just to crash it because there would be no point to continue flying it for four hours.

CNN reports:

James Kallstrom, a former FBI assistant director, said it's possible the plane could have landed, though he added that more information is needed to reach a definitive conclusion. He referred to the vast search area.

'You draw that arc and you look at countries like Pakistan, you know, and you get into your Superman novels and you see the plane landing somewhere and (people) repurposing it for some dastardly deed down the road,' he told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday.

'I mean, that's not beyond the realm of realism. I mean, that could happen.'

I fear the worst for the passengers.

My conclusion is just a theory, of course, and we will have to wait and see what happens.

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Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:02 AM PDT

By AATTP Guest Contributor Jim Wright,

Those of you who are familiar with my military background know that I have experience in looking for downed aircraft, and other things, lost at sea. Which is likely why some of you keep asking me for an opinion on the missing jetliner. Here you go:

For those of you not familiar with this, five days ago Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 with 239 passengers and crew onboard disappeared somewhere between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing. So far no wreckage, no debris, no trace of the aircraft or the people have been found.

Weird, man, weird. I mean, it's totally GOT to be alien space pirates or Langoliers or Dirty Dick Vadar, right?

I mean, right?

Yeah, look, Folks, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that based on my experience with this sort of thing, we can safely rule out alien abductions and inter-dimensional rifts in the space time continuum. And I have it on good authority that Cheney was home all night, nursing an acid stomach over Obama's reluctance to invade Russia.

Now, I suppose it's just, just, vaguely possible that the missing aircraft is parked on a secret jungle runway in Sumatra or Cambodia (or Bangor, Maine), hidden under camouflage netting, with the passengers and crew secured in an underground prison and its mysterious cargo now in the hands of a heretofore unknown shadowy cabal of international criminals with a really cool and evil acronym for a name. But until the Queen gets a coded message demanding 36 Billion British Pounds in gold bullion to be hand delivered by Sean Connery himself, let's just go ahead and label that Alternate Theory #1.

Most likely, and by "most likely" I mean the probability is approximately 99.999999999999%, the plane and its unfortunate passengers are scattered across a large portion of the seafloor under the Gulf of Thailand.

Yeah, okay, but why can't they find the wreckage?

Because the ocean is a damned big place, vaster than you can imagine unless you've sailed across it (and, because I know you people, yes, I HAVE indeed sailed this part of the world, it's vast, and complicated and dangerous). And even when you know exactly, and I mean EXACTLY, where to look, it's still extremely difficult to find scattered bits of airplane or, to be blunt, scattered bits of people in the water. As a navy sailor, I've spent days searching for lost aircraft and airmen, and even if you think you know where the bird went down, the winds and the currents can spread the debris across hundreds or even thousands of miles of ocean in fairly short order. No machine, no computer, can search this volume, you have to put human eyeballs on every inch of the search area. You have to inspect every item you come across – and the oceans of the world are FULL of flotsam, jetsam, debris, junk, trash, crap, bits, and pieces. Often neither the sea nor the weather cooperates, it is INCREDIBLY difficult to spot a item the size of a human being in the water, among the swells and the spray, even if you know exactly where to look – and the sea conditions in this part of the world are some of the worst, especially this time of year.

Yeah, but what about a fuel slick, we should be able to see that, right?

Again, you just don't understand how big the ocean is. A fuel slick from an airplane this size (assuming the fuel hit the sea in one mass and wasn't vaporized into an aerosol by break-up of the aircraft at 30,000 feet) might cover, what? a square mile? Probably much less. A standard search area, a rectangle 50 miles wide by 200 miles say, along the airplane's flight path might encompass TEN THOUSAND square miles – every inch of which has to be searched by the Mark 1 MOD 0 human eyeball. Starting to get the picture? We're not talking thick heavy bunker oil. High grade light fuel, like the kind burned in commercial jet turbines, evaporates quickly. Slicks are broken up by wave action and wind. And in heavy seas the sheen of oil on water is nearly impossible to spot. There's a very finite amount of time for finding a fuel slick on the surface of the ocean, assuming that one even exists, that time is past for Flight 370.

Yeah, but how come they don't know exactly where it is? Don't we track all airplanes via radar?

No. And certainly not over the oceans between countries. Commercial Air Traffic Control radar systems don't work the way you think they do, at least not exactly, and not all of the time. Why? Money mostly. Practicality as well. International cooperation. The limits and wide mix of technology. And etc. Note also that this isn't North America, things are a bit different in Asian airspace. The plane was (probably) over water, between national air control regions.

Yeah, but what about military radars?

Most military radar isn't concerned with commercial air traffic on standard routes flying at 30,000+ feet. The skies are full of jetliners. Most just appear as a contact on a tracking scope, watched briefly as they trundle along in a straight line across the sky, and are then ignored. Military people are concerned with threats. Threats typically move in a ballistic trajectory, or a flat fast powered arc, or much closer to the surface. Military radar records might be helpful in figuring out what happened, but unless Flight 370 was behaving like a threat while passing through somebody's radar envelope, it's unlikely that anybody would notice or bother to identify it. Also military people charged with defending their airspace don't like showing people from other countries their radar systems, and for damned GOOD reasons, so it's going to take some time to get those records. It's going to be a while before a complete search those recordings can be done.

Yeah, but what about the ringing phones?

You ever call a cell phone that was turned off? Sometimes it goes straight to voicemail, sometimes it rings. You ever call somebody, their phone rings and rings and rings and RINGS and then they FINALLY answer and you're like, WTF Dude? And they're like, What's your problem, Bro, it only rang one time! You hear rings because the cellular network is looking for the phone and if the phone doesn't respond immediately the network doesn't know if the device is active, in an area of weak signal or limited connectivity or heavy congestion, roaming out of network, or turned off. Some networks send you a ringtone while they look for the phone you're calling so you don't hang up. Other times you just get dead air. There's no standard, even in heavily regulated North America, and sure as hell not across the various countries of Asia. Again, this isn't some big conspiracy, this is how the various evolving patchwork cell phone systems work. The information is widely available and you can test it yourself. Claiming that "ringing" cell phones mean the plane is or was still intact just means that you're ignorant of how the technology works.

Note: I read a couple of comments speculating that GPS and Cell Phone signals might penetrate water, at least a little bit, indicating the plane might be intact on the bottom of the sea. No. Hell no. Wrong wrong wrong. Take some science classes, wave physics for starters. GPS and cell phones operate above the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) portion of the Radio Frequency spectrum, those wavelengths do NOT, repeat do NOT, penetrate water. Period. Yes, Very Low (VLF) and Extremely Low (ELF) radio waves CAN penetrate water to a significant degree, but you'd need a cell phone the size of large refrigerator/freezer and an antenna MILES in length to use those freqs.

Yeah, but what about reports that the plane turned before losing contact?

That's what experts are for. That's what's taking so long. Maybe the plane turned around, maybe it didn't. Every single person on the planet in this information saturated age should damned well know by now that initial reports are going to be conflicting, contradictory, confused, and just plain wrong. This ISN'T some big conspiracy, it is unfortunately the nature of the situation, it's perfectly normal and it happens all of the time and it always has and you know it. EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING who lives in the Information Age should understand in their bones that every Joe Shit The Ragman who comes along just might not know what the fuck he's talking about, but that doesn't stop him from getting on the TV or the Internet and speculating away. Conspiracy theories aren't about the truth, they're about the conspiracy theorist. Wait for the official word and for the sake of Dread Cthulhu, stop listening to TV pundits and World News Daily. News media HAS to fill up bandwidth, and they will with whatever drooling idiocy that comes along, that doesn't mean any of it is true. Adjust your skepticism level accordingly.

Yeah, but a plane can't just vanish, man, isn't it WEIRD?

Don't start in with the conspiracy theory nonsense again. It's unusual nowadays, yes, especially for a large modern aircraft. But that doesn't mean it has to be the plot of a Stephen King novel, or Ian Fleming for that matter. Planes have vanished before. It happens. It used to happen a lot. They fall into the sea or into the remote jungle and are lost. The world grows ever smaller, but it is still a vast, vast place, there's plenty of dark holes beyond the reach of technology for things to drop into and get lost.

Yeah, so, but what about the horndog co-pilot and the passports and Obama's role in all of this? Was it the CIA? NSA? Vladimir Putin? C'mon, what do you think happened, Man, what do you think HAPPENED?

I have no idea. Could be any number of things. Again, that's what experts are for, let them do their jobs. Sooner or later, the plane or its wreckage will be found, eventually we'll know the reason why. Mechanical failure, accident, weather, human error, terrorists, or even time-travelling kidnappers from a dystopian future. Sooner or later, you'll know. Yes, it's hell on the families who wait for news of the their loved ones, but hysteria, wild speculation by the media, and conspiracy theories from the internet sure as hell aren't helping.

This isn't CSI or an episode of 24, sometimes you don't get answers in 60 minutes with time out for piss breaks and a snack. Deal with it.

Jim Wright is a retired US Navy officer with an extensive background in military intelligence. Nowadays he is a military consultant and writer. You can read more of his material on his blog Stonekettle Station and be sure to follow Jim on Facebook

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Posted: 14 Mar 2014 12:18 PM PDT

New radar data suggests that the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have been hijacked and deliberately flown towards the Andaman Islands. We're sure you have a lot of questions about the Indian-owned islands where the plane may have landed, so HollywoodLife.com has rounded up five key facts about the Andaman Islands.

Investigators have expanded the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to include a remote, mostly uninhabited, Indian-owned archipelago called the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. At the request of the Malaysian government, the Indian government is conducting a huge search of the waters surrounding the island chain. Let's take a closer look at the islands.

Malaysia Airlines Flight In Andaman Islands? — Plane's Possible Landing Zone

1. The Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands form an archipelago located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 850 miles east of the mainland. There 572 islands in the group, but only 37 are inhabited, according to The Washington Post. Nearly 380,000 people live on the island chain, according to India's 2011 census.

2. In December, 2004, the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands were devastated by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that caused the deaths of more than 200,000 people across a dozen countries, according to The Straits Times.

3. The island chain was once a penal colony. British colonial rulers used to send criminals to the islands — then known as Kalapani — during the 19th century.

4. Marco Polo discovered the islands in the 13th century. He described the natives in his writings, calling them "cannibals," according to the Daily Mirror, and referred to one island as "Angamanain."

5. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about the Andaman Islands in his Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of the Four.

Malaysia Airlines: New Data Suggests Flight 370 Plunged Into The Sea

New theories are still being posited one full week after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing on March 8. Was it a hijacking? An act of terrorism? Or did the aircraft, which was carrying 239 passengers, just crash? On March 14, new data was reported that seemed to confirm the last possibility, that Flight 370 plunged into the sea after making a wayward turn towards the Indian Ocean.

The newly revealed claim that the Boeing 777 changed its course and began flying towards the Indian Ocean (after its transponders had been switched off) seems to support the theory that this is a case of hijacking.

Analysts from U.S. Intelligence, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have tracked satellite data and pings in the Indian Ocean area that they attribute to Flight 370. And without any visual confirmation of the aircraft, there is only one grim conclusion to make: "There is probably a significant likelihood" that the aircraft is now at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, an official said, according to CNN.

What do YOU think about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370′s mysterious disappearance, HollywoodLifers? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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This Week's Must Read: Malaysia Flight 370 and the World's Attention

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 12:42 PM PDT

NPR has highlighted Stewart's novel Songs for the Missing in regard to the missing Malaysia Flight 370:

What happens when the systems, institutions, technology and networks we've put into place for our protection, fail us? Consigned to speculation, how do we deal with the unresolved? What if the scant information we are able to cobble together, only deepens the mystery, and compounds our unknowing? What lengths will we go to for the answers we must have?

These are just a few of the many questions that have arisen in the wake of the unexplained disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Stewart O'Nan's brilliant 2008 novel, Songs for the Missing, though it features no ill-fated airliners, raises many of the same questions.

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