So Malaysian investigators say that one possibility is that flight 370 may have traveled as far north as Kazakhstan. Some analysts say this is unlikely because the northern projected route would require the plane to have traveled across US-occupied Afghanistan, but to me, it is not inconceivable that the US military might not have noticed it. The truth is, only the airspace of eastern Afghanistan is of real interest to US military radar as it is used as a staging area for drone strikes and other airstrikes against targets in western Pakistan.
Let me be clear: in the betting pool, I vote that flight 370 is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
That said, is it possible that it landed in Kazakhstan? Yes it is. Kazakhstan is a nation of just over 12 million people that covers one-third of the continental United States. The population is very scarce. Most people live in a few cities.
It is hard, even for people who live in remote parts of the United States like Nevada or Montana, to imagine a place where a Boeing 777 could touch down without being noticed, but Kazakhstan is exactly the kind of place. Big parts of it are very flat. There are many areas where people either would not have seen it, or would be unable to tell anyone that they had. Cell phone service is nonexistent in most of the country. And many nomads don’t have cell phones to begin with. Not to mention, this is a dictatorship where any contact with the authorities or the police is carefully avoided.
One time I went to visit a friend and noticed the body of a man who had been struck by a car several days earlier in front of his apartment building. Nobody had called the militsia police because everybody knew that it would just provoke a pretext to be robbed or worse.
Again, I don’t think the plane made it to Kazakhstan. But is it possible? Yes.
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Being Sunday thought I would catch up on the news .. what a week! .. of all the ‘theories’ I didn’t see anyone suggest that the 20 radar experts were kidnapped and taken to China via Myanmar, or taken to Iran. Though that quickly begs the question, why were 20 western radar experts going to Beijing in the first place?
My questions:
1. How much of the “confusion” is actually the media misreporting?
2. How much of the “confusion” would not have occurred in the first place if the media’s reports were linked to actual people rather than “an official”?
3. There wasn’t time to send out a distress message? It takes something like 7 minutes to hit the ocean from 33,000 feet. You can send one hell of a long message in that amount of time.
Whatever happened was either absolutely and instantly catastrophic (like a massive explosion-depressurization in the cockpit), which isn’t supported by the media reports so far, or whatever happened prevented anyone from communicating, which would point to terrorism.
My personal suspicion? 90% likelihood the plane’s in the ocean. 9% chance it crashed on land. 1% suspicion the plane was flown to North Korea. Why? Because it’s the sort of insane James Bond-villain bullshit Kim Jong-un would pull.
Oh yeah, like the secrecy-addicted U.S. military is an open window. It’s all about compartmentalization.
Just as easily, these large passenger aircraft can indeed also be taken over remotely. Just Google it, “gaining remote control over passenger aircraft.”
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gaining+remote+control+over+passenger+aircraft
MEANWHILE, there’s that giant, super-secret military base right in the middle of this entire drama called Diego Garcia. We should especially be careful when this base and its island chain go missing on any search maps being displayed to the general public.
http://www.amazon.com/Island-Shame-Secret-History-Military/dp/0691149836
I mean, do you really think that the super-powerful radars deployed at this black-op location wasn’t precisely tracking Malaysia’s errant aircraft? Or perhaps even that it wasn’t electronically hijacked and then flown there for reasons which we haven’t “conspiracy-theorized” yet?
DanD
DanD
http://twitchy.com/2014/03/15/mh370-watchers-asking-questions-about-diego-garcia/
I though I was the only one mentioning Diego Garcia.
Don’t believe anything until it’s been officially denied.
What happens when the pilot spills coffee on the flight computer?
I just saw a video of someone flying a 777. It is fly by wire. The flight computer is at the level of the pilots laps and located between them taking up the entire space. It is the obvious place to set a cup .. and there appeared to be gaps around levers and knobs, i.e. it didn’t look to be hermetically sealed.
This is the same computer they said was ‘reprogrammed’ .. and the ACARs system doesn’t have an off switch, maybe it doesn’t like caffeine …
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/03/all-eyes-on-diego-garcia-2920270.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=beforeitsnews
Something is rotten in Diego Garcia.
DanD