Missing Plane Landed: Flight MH370 Was Hijacked, Malaysian Officials Confirm by Tina Burgess | San Diego Examiner | March 15, 2014 Excerpts: "If the missing plane Flight MH370 landed after being hijacked is unknown. However, Malaysian official have told AP that Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was hijacked. Malaysian authorities have concluded that a passenger jet missing was hijacked and deliberately steered off course, a government official involved in the investigation told The Associated Press, reported the Washington Post on March 14, 2014. Its conclusive, the Malaysian official said. Fridays information provided by Malaysian authorities that the plane was hijacked is also being reiterated by U.S. officials. Its looking less and less like an accident, said one U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly. Its looking more like a criminal event. One week after the disappearance of Flight MH370, Malaysian as well as U.S. officials said that the airplane did continue to fly after the transponder had stopped transmitting. A second U.S. official commented that the path of the Malaysian Airlines plane was unusual after it disappeared from radar. The senior official said that the plane reached an altitude of about 45,000 feet and jumped around a lot. The Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) is a two-way onboard computer system which sends and receives data to a satellite. Even though the stream of data from the plane to the satellite stops, the satellite can still send data to the plane. If a plane crashes, all communication between the plane and the satellite ceases instantly, which does not apply to MH370. It is very possible for you as a pilot in the cockpit to turn off the ACARS system, said a third U.S. official under the condition of anonymity. If you knew what you were doing in the cockpit, you could shut off ACARS transmission. What cannot be controlled from the cockpit is the satellites ability to detect that the plane is still there. The detection of the plane but the refusal to receive a response indicates that someone was manually in control of the flight. According to Mikael Robertsson of FlightRadar24, a Stockholm-based flight service that sells its tracking data to airports and airlines, the signal to the transponder of the plane was lost at 1:21 a.m. when it was flying at 35,000 feet. Robertsson assumes that even though the B777-200ER can fly up to about 16 to 18 hours, since the flight was supposed to be just for six hours, the plane was probably fueled for only seven to eight hours of flying time. The flight departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 a.m. local time and went off the radar in less than an hour, which would have given it potentially six hours of fuel. That gave it the capacity to have landed or crashed anywhere between Mongolia in the north to Australia to the south, or from the west coast of India to hundreds of miles east of the Philippines. The question of whether the missing plane Flight MH370 was able to land or not is unknown or not being made public since this is a politically sensitive investigation. The New York Times reported on Friday that the plane continued to maneuver as if under control from the cockpit and changed altitude several times. Malaysian military radar showed it climbing to 45,000 feet and then dropping to 23,000 feet as it approached the Malaysian island of Penang. The investigation into the background of the 227 passengers and 12 crew members continues." read: http://www.examiner.com/article/fli...lane-was-hijacked-malaysian-officials-confirm ...... IMO: The mystery of the lost Flight MH370 gets even more strange as we leave it at 35,000 feet, then climbing to 45,000 feet then descending to 23,000 feet as it approached the Malaysian island of Penang - a full hour after going off radar and with six more hours of fuel. Relatives of the passengers are certain that they are not being given all the information which has been designated as classified on what has happened to Flight MH 370. Logically, when something like this happens, the remnants of a crash are sighted, closure is given to the relatives of the passengers aboard, and people go on with their lives. This is not the case with Flight MH370. There is no obvious ending to this mystery as the plane and it's passengers are in a strange limbo between mystery and possibility that the passengers may still be alive and held as prisoners somewhere in Malaysian Islands.
..... And are you in the habit of posting old, old news? Doesn't my article make you think of the passengers who may still be alive, and giving the relatives of these passengers any sense of closure or hope in this growing mystery? Lastly, do you have anything constructive to say about the whole mystery of where Flight MH370 and it's passengers may be? I thought not....
..... There appears to be much classified knowledge and/or speculation and we will not know until the plane is found. btw: what exactly does "mystery" mean to you?
I've always considered the possibility that governments have made secret agreements to cover up terrorist attacks. Of course you always have the problem of people wanting to claim responsibility.
Conspiracy theories section? Really? Wow. I can't think of many other current events with as many implications as this one. Moderator fail, big time.
I am simply saying that I posted this very same thread several weeks ago. Many believe the aircraft was flown to Pakistan where is hidden while being loaded with explosives.
How many to the nearest million? - - - Updated - - - Why would terrorists look for the most complicated way to carry out their plan?
Ultimately one of their worst enemies is globalization. Air travel makes globalization more attainable, thus a great target and, if made an object of fear, may have an impact on globalization in no small measure.
No I am talking about finding the most complicated and dangerous way to procure an aircraft for the plans. There are bone yards all over the world with working aircraft ready to steel. But no they go the James Bond route. Even by terrorist standards thats dumb
The passengers are worth more than the plane. I don't think stealing the plan was the objective. Terrorists terrorize. They don't steal. Ok, maybe they steal, but so what?
Weel feel free to let me know which terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the act as a blow against what ever evil they believe they are fighting against
Surely they couldn't have anticipated that they'd have gotten away with it. Seems like a lot of risk for something they could essentially get with a Cessna. Load up a small plane with ANFO and it's a force to be reckoned with, you don't need an airliner. People really underestimate just how powerful explosives are.
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Brought down by US military somewhere near Diego Garcia ... according to latest 'expert opinion', for reasons unknown. possibly because plane was headed directly for the installation?
What expert opinion? I only ask because I just farted an want to make sure you didn't mistake that for an aviation expert.
No idea ... heads of a couple of large airlines and a boffin or two from memory. Apparently two of these 'experts' are quite credible heavyweights, so it raised a few eyebrows when postulated recently. I don't do conspiracies, but thought this was mildly entertaining. And what with that inconvenient satellite pic of a plane matching 370 flying low over maldives ... along with the villagers there asserting it happened ... you know ... SPOOKY!
Search for missing MH370 ends... After 3 Years, MH370 Search Ends With no Plane, Few Answers January 17, 2017 — After nearly three years, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ended in futility and frustration Tuesday, as crews completed their deep-sea search of a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean without finding a trace of the plane.