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"...new satellite evidence shows ‘with a high degree of certainty’ that the one of the Jet’s communications devices – the Aircraft and Communications Addressing and Reporting System was disabled just before it had reached the east coast of Malaysia. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581817/Doomed-airliner-pilot-political-fanatic-Hours-taking-control-flight-MH370-attended-trial-jailed-opposition-leader-sodomite.html#ixzz2w6iAjlTS (www.dailymail.co.uk) More...
A few more puzzle pieces,but are they from the same puzzle? Not too impressed with the 'Democracy is Dead' T-shirt after a google search on the election last May.
The news article timeline seems to link arrest of the opposition leader with the plane disappearance as if the second was a reaction to the first. Tabloid journalism at it's finest, and coincidence does not mean causality.
IMHO, the sequence of events argues against a spur-of-the-moment protest. You just don't do a hijack, getaway skirting radar sites, and find a landing spot in a snit.
The news article timeline seems to link arrest of the opposition leader with the plane disappearance as if the second was a reaction to the first. Tabloid journalism at it's finest, and coincidence does not mean causality.
IMHO, the sequence of events argues against a spur-of-the-moment protest. You just don't do a hijack, getaway skirting radar sites, and find a landing spot in a snit.
Preacher zeroed in on pilot suicide early. There have been plenty of signs of either rogue pilot or kidnapper/terrorist control of the plane from the beginning.
I resist indicting with a claim of pilot suicide without corroboration. I don't want to torpedo a pilot's reputation, not even of his memory, on a hunch alone. I'd like to see a smoking gun --- some conclusive evidence left behind that helps piece together the conclusion.
A t-shirt won't do it for me. Nor a prison sentence on trumpeted-up charges against an opposition leader.
If anything, I see a bunch of incompetent gov't officials who tried to blame the plane initially. But when the evidence was overwhelming that it wasn't the plane, they looked elsewhere. It seems they may want to lay the whole mess at the feet of an experienced pilot, who just happens to be an opposition supporter. How convenient for them.
I would resist such an easy answer without evidence or substantial corroboration of some kind.
I resist indicting with a claim of pilot suicide without corroboration. I don't want to torpedo a pilot's reputation, not even of his memory, on a hunch alone. I'd like to see a smoking gun --- some conclusive evidence left behind that helps piece together the conclusion.
A t-shirt won't do it for me. Nor a prison sentence on trumpeted-up charges against an opposition leader.
If anything, I see a bunch of incompetent gov't officials who tried to blame the plane initially. But when the evidence was overwhelming that it wasn't the plane, they looked elsewhere. It seems they may want to lay the whole mess at the feet of an experienced pilot, who just happens to be an opposition supporter. How convenient for them.
I would resist such an easy answer without evidence or substantial corroboration of some kind.
It would not surprise me to ultimately discover that there is some Malaysian government involvement in the planning and execution of this incident.
Anything is possible but that's too much of a conspiracy for my taste.
Someone has to choose to end their life and this of the other 238. That takes some real motivation.
Outside the fundamentalist extremist terrorist profile, the only real possibility for someone to motivated enough to go along with something like that, to me, is a threat on the lives of someone's entire family.
Possible. But I'm still trying to wrap my brain around pilot suicide. which is much more likely. Hope you're wrong.
Someone has to choose to end their life and this of the other 238. That takes some real motivation.
Outside the fundamentalist extremist terrorist profile, the only real possibility for someone to motivated enough to go along with something like that, to me, is a threat on the lives of someone's entire family.
Possible. But I'm still trying to wrap my brain around pilot suicide. which is much more likely. Hope you're wrong.
I don't necessarily include the top level of government (but not ruling it out either). It seems too well organized to be a single individual, which implies a conspiracy of some level of complexity.
I wonder where the pilot's family is now?
I wonder where the pilot's family is now?
Pilot suicide is not at all likely. Pilots that have done this in the past don't make elaborate maneuvers, they simply down the plane. Elaborate maneuvers such as this vastly increase the chance that something goes wrong - say you are overcome by a passenger or the crew - then go to prison instead of dying. You don't go through all these elaborate steps, then fly known waypoints that would take you to the Middle East, to only turn the plane around, head to the Indian Ocean, run out of fuel and die. It just doesn't make any sense. If he wanted to run out of fuel before dying for some reason, he could have taken an easier route over the Pacific to accomplish the same ends without having to fly back over Malaysian radar. Pilot suicide, knowing the facts, is just nonsensical. Which means that the southern corridor is nonsensical. This plane continued to fly in the direction it was heading when it disappeared - northwest, along known navigational waypoints that would take it to the Middle East.
The only objection to this theory is the idea that the plane would have to travel over many radar systems to get to its destination. But is this an objection at all? After all, it got across Malaysia, even overflying a major city at lower altitude, with no problem. The Indian Navy has admitted that their radar system is used on "an as-needed basis". If that is the case with those two countries, you can bet it's a snap to overfly Burma and Bangladesh, too. The simple fact is, that' the way the plane was heading, and we now know that getting through the radar systems of these countries is actually not as difficult as we might have imagined before. Whoever did this obviously knew how to do so, which spells state planning.
The only objection to this theory is the idea that the plane would have to travel over many radar systems to get to its destination. But is this an objection at all? After all, it got across Malaysia, even overflying a major city at lower altitude, with no problem. The Indian Navy has admitted that their radar system is used on "an as-needed basis". If that is the case with those two countries, you can bet it's a snap to overfly Burma and Bangladesh, too. The simple fact is, that' the way the plane was heading, and we now know that getting through the radar systems of these countries is actually not as difficult as we might have imagined before. Whoever did this obviously knew how to do so, which spells state planning.
Makes sense.
But why?
But why?
No idea... and this is the million dollar (and very frightening) question. This was a pretty spectacular operation - one could safely infer the reason was also spectacular.
The Daily Mail reports the pilot's home in Shah Alam is near the airport. Sorry, I drive that route often, it is 28 miles. Hardly near his home.
There is other nonsense in the article about attending a trial in Putra Jaya and the capabilities and abilities of Radar and VHF communications.