Malaysia Airlines Articles — Page 2

The pilot suicide theory is starting to gain traction as hearing it mentioned more and more.

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The suicide idea is a non-starter. The pilot was 53 years old, happily married, successful and respected in his career. There is no indication at all of suicide. Also, if a pilot were committing suicide with a plane, there would a crash and debris.

Israeli intelligence sources suspect Iran of hijacking the plane and landing it outside of any other country's radar and planning on loading it up with nuclear material and using it for a terror attack on Israel.

(Of course, Iran probably thinks the same about Israel...)

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Those "ties" were reported in a British tabloid. It has not been verified or reported by any major news outlets.

By the way, one thing I love about CNN: they use their resources. Have taken residence at a 777 flight training center in Canada to test out many of the speculated theories each day. The latest report is that the airplane descended from 23,000 ft to under 5,000 ft (to avoid radars) and then it quietly leveled off. Only problem with that when recreated in a 777 simulator? The plane begins to fall apart as it's not built for that kind of rapid decent or altitude and cabin pressure completely bottoms out.

...And now I'm seeing the airline is suggesting that an assertion from the Malaysian government about its communication system (the ACAR) being shut off "may not" be true. This is a cluster f*ck.

The flight simulator indicates nothing.

The Islamic "radical" he supports is not a radical at all--he's the opposition leader in Malaysia and his comments as reported in the Wikipedia page go back and forth the way politicians often do to cover their tracks. Bottom line: He supports the security of the State of Israel as well as the rights of the Palestinian people to a two-state solution, identical positions to the ruling party in Indonesia and the United Nations.

But those are the positions of the politician he supports, not necessarily the pilot himself.

Suicide is a red herring. It's equipment failure or terrorism.

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Updated On: 3/17/14 at 01:02 PM

"Suicide is a red herring. It's equipment failure or terrorism."

This seems correct.

Furthermore--if it's terrorism, it's some kind of crazy/brilliant, Time-Release, Slow-Motion Terrorism.

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Let's pretend [hope] that the plane has landed somewhere-what is happening with all the passengers, feeding them, individual medical problems,the young[babies?]?. It's one thing to hi-jack a plane but then is everyone just killed when landed?

From the New Yorker:

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—CNN apologized to its viewers today for briefly airing a story on Sunday that had nothing to do with the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.

The story, which caused thousands of viewers to contact the network in anger, had something to do with Crimea, Ukraine, and Russia.

In the official apology, CNN chief Jeff Zucker wrote, “On Sunday, we briefly cut away from our nonstop coverage of Flight 370 to talk about something else. We’re not going to sugarcoat it: we messed up. CNN regrets the error and promises our viewers that it won’t happen again.”

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Also refrain from reading that if you don't want to feed the wildly absurd speculation without any hard evidence to back it up. It's quite easy to conjecture and speculate doom-and-gloom theories to simply garner clicks. But it's just as possible the plane did crash in the Indian Ocean. He's far too confident ruling out other possibilities that it discredits his entire blog post.

I think the scenario he's envisioning is that the plane reappears and a message is sent saying "The passengers are alive and well on board this plane."

He's asking if the US military would shoot the plane down on sight and ask questions later.

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Commenters Herman and Peter develop that point about 2/3 of the way down the Comments.

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...and then, of course, there is the Courtney Love Facebook post. She claims to have found the plane.

Courtney Love posts on Facebook

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Updated On: 3/18/14 at 01:13 AM

^^^ Seriously?

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