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US investigators are pursuing the possibility that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and its 239 passengers and crew are being held against their will at an unknown location.
The Wall Street Journal has this afternoon published sensational claims that counterterrorism officials now believe somebody on board deliberately turned off the plane’s transponders to avoid radar detection.
The report said data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the Boeing 777’s engines indicated the plane remained in the air for a total of five hours – a further four hours after contact was lost.
MrInquisitive
reply to post by Agit8dChop
Yeah, this conspiracy makes a whole lot of sense. The Chinese somehow hijack a plane bound for China, loaded with 229 passengers, to kidnap some stealth technology technicians and/or experts rather than let them fly directly to China to do business or work there. Not!
And if their computer hacking is working so well, why do they need to kidnap people for industrial espionage?
zandra
reply to post by Agit8dChop
Chinese have enough money to attract any engineer they want. Engineers are mostly falling for a lot of money no matter where it comes from. My opinion is that they know what happened with the plane: China and America know it, and maybe a lot of other rulers. I think it was simply a bomb. A terrorist attack. What you better never do is saying it was a terrorist attack. That is simply no good idea. You give the terrorist what they want: publicity. You scare people. You hurt the country and the economy. You’re safety reputation is sinking and so on. Now they are playing the game of not knowing what happened. Waiting and investigating and gaining time. And at the end everything will be investigated again … it will be a technical problem … officially …
I want remember you but you seem to be a smart guy. But maybe you’re searching it too far.
And still one thing: don’t think superpowers like America, China, Russia … are enemies. Only the sub rulers are. The real rulers of this planet are friends. But that’s a long story …
MRuss
reply to post by Agit8dChop
I love the theory---good stuff.
But could the Chinese really pull this off? Do they have the resources, the psychopathic tendency, the balls, and the wherewithal to defend themselves if discovered?
Would they really want to upset their relationship with the US---and other countries for this technology? Would there have been an easier way to do this then killing 250 people?
Rezlooper
Great thread OP. I've only read the first page so far so hopefully nobody brought this up yet, but I just have one question on the idea of a hijacking. It was mentioned in another thread that there was probably at least 200 cell phones on board with there being 239 persons and everyone has a phone these days, so how would they take it over without at least one person getting off a quick text or call? Could they disable all the phones on the plane at the same instant without damaging the plane's electronics to keep flying? I know something like an EMP could take out all electronics, but then the plane would crash as well, and in this situation, it appears that the plane kept flying. Also, if all the phones were destroyed at the same instant it might explain how the phones kept ringing to. They'd have to have some technology that zaps all the phones without destroying any other electronics.
BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have detected a "seafloor event" near the waters between Malaysia and Vietnam, an area suspected to be linked with the missing Malaysian jetliner MH370, a university announced on Friday.
The event occurred at about 2:55 a.m. local time on Saturday, about one and a half hours after the plane's last definitive sighting on civilian radar.
The area, 116 km northeast from where the last contact with the Boeing plane was recorded, used to be a non-seismic region, according to a research group on seismology and physics of the earth's interior under the University of Science and Technology of China.