Ever since the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared last weekend, there is general confusion about what really happened. Stories of this, that, and the other. Stolen passports. An Iranian asylum-seeker as one of the passengers with one of the stolen passports. Plane fares paid by cash. No radar contact for 90 minutes. Cell phones that still ring and people on the QQ messenger still showing thier status online. Families asking that the cells be located, and no one official wants to follow up on those requests. No debris field. No black box pings. The plane veering off course by hundreds of miles. No Mayday calls. A copilot who in the past had allowed women "friends" into the cockpit while in flight. No known terrorist groups sending messages out "We did it! Look at us!" Malaysian civil and military authorities not on the same page.
Governments all over the region from Thailand to Malaysia to Vietnam to China dispatching resources to investigate, finding nothing. Now, today, Malaysia has asked India for help, and Vietnam is figuring to close further investigation for lack of information.
Sorry, it ain't working for me.
I've been listening to news reports and talk shows with pilots who are intimately familiar with the Boeing 777s, as well as being intimately familiar with routes flying in Southeast Asia. The questions hosts and callers asked were the same as I'd be asking. The answers were quite interesting.
First, the Triple 7 has multiple redundancies. Fail-safes on top of fail-safes. One system goes kaput, another keeps going. But yet... Transponders, black boxes, radio contact, debris field... nothing.
What about the transponders? Can they be turned off by the pilot or copilot? Yes, there's a switch. No problem at all to turn them off. But, why would a pilot want to turn them off. They wouldn't. The transponders help maintain safe distances between aircraft as well as continue to allow air traffic controllers to monitor positions and see if anything's wrong.
Could the transponder be turned off without the consent of the pilot or copilot? Not likely, unless the cockpit had been taken over and the flight crew was no longer in control.
If the plane had crashed into the Straits of Malacca, its last known location (now disputed by the Malaysian Air Force), the black boxes would have sent a signal indicating that salt water had gotten to them. If it had crashed on land, the boxes would also emit a signal. Not only that, try getting a cell phone just a little bit wet. Stops working real quick, doesn't it? How could they still be online?
One can reasonably rule out a mid-air explosion as well. If a hole were to be made in the fuselage somewhere, it wouldn't necessarily cause an explosion. The most likely occurrence would be an "explosive decompression," meaning all the air would be sucked out and unsecured objects (or people) might be sucked out into the atmosphere through the opening. Oxygen masks would drop, and some member of the flight crew would undoubtedly sound a "Mayday" distress call while others of the crew attempted to maintain some kind of control over the craft.
Quite simply, no explosion, no debris field. No oil or fuel slick. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
This is just a hunch. If the truth turns out to be something else, then, it's along the same lines of whatever else is being disseminated.
I'll come out and say it. I'm thinking it's either a terrorist action or a false flag. And the fact that no known or unknown terror group has claimed it...
Don't ask me who, what, or why. I don't have a clue, but there are enough nutburgers running around the world to pull off a stunt like this.
I'm guessing somehow whoever the bad actors were gained access to the cockpit and either replaced or coerced the flight crew to serve their purposes. A fisherman had reported seeing a jumbo jet flying low over the Straits. If that's the case, they could be invisible to radar, literally, "flying under it." The transponder, the radio, shut off. Some airstrip, somewhere, could accommodate its safe landing, and the plane has an over 9,000 mile range. The black boxes would not have signaled any problem resulting from a crash.
Probably when the plane landed, all passengers on board were still alive and well. What purpose do they serve? Hostages? Innocent by-standers? Are they still alive and kicking? I pray for their safety.
It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. IF we ever find out the truth. I don't trust the media to do that.
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