Op-ed:  

The missing plane...a mystery of a different kind

By: Diane Sori

"This is beginning to come together to say that...this had to have been some sort of deliberate act and not a catastrophic failure."         - ABC News aviation analyst John Nance
 

As the search area now encompasses the Gulf of Thailand, the South China Sea, the Strait of Malacca, the Andaman Sea, and the Indian Ocean...the game of who knows what...who's hiding what...and why was it done (if indeed the plane was hijacked) continues on. But in play are 239 human lives...lives I believe are still with us and will be used as bargaining chips at some later time....minus the three NOT quite 'kosher' passengers two of whom were Iranians with stolen passports and one-way tickets, and a Chinese Uighur muslim man with flight simulation training.

The mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370...a Boeing 777-200... grows stranger with each passing hour, but it now seems more and more likely that this plane is NOT missing per se, but is on the ground in some foreign country...in some muslim country...possibly to be used to mimic the events of September 11, 2001.

Taking the plane to Pakistan or Iran to be used against the U.S. or more likely Tel-Aviv at some later date (it's closer and plays into Iran's nefarious wish for Israel quite well) now seems to be gaining credence as just released military radar data "suggests" the missing plane was "deliberately" flown off course. And with this plane needing only 3600 feet to land, it could land just about anywhere as leftover landing strips from WWII are all over the general area being searched, as are the airstrips of rouge nations.

Deliberately flown off course, for while the transponders (basically a radio transmitter working with ground radar to communicate with air traffic controllers to identify the aircraft's speed, altitude, and position) stopped working during the flight...and it's been confirmed that they were manually shut off in sequence as the plane veered off course while continuing to travel on for four to five hours on a flight path that's normally used for Middle East destinations. And according to experts, the so-called 'pings' that we've all been hearing about came from the plane's Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), and were transmitted to satellites after the transponders stopped sending signals by connecting to satellites via 'handshake' links...sort of like a cell phone network searching for its customer.

Now the pieces of the puzzle are starting to take shape...the transponders were shutdown manually one by one as opposed to suddenly which would be the case with a crash...two Iranians with stolen passports and one-way tickets, and a Chinese Uighur muslim who had flight simulation training were on board...the plane was deliberately taken off course and we know traveled on for said four to five hours based on the 'pings' picked-up...and the plane still has NOT been located even though if it had lost power and crashed investigators would have been able to calculate its location within about 100 miles based on its trajectory.

Now add in the fact that even after the plane lost contact with ground control it made sharp changes in altitude climbing up to 45,000 feet (roughly a mile higher than the approved altitude limit for this type of plane) then abruptly descended to 23,000 feet (which is below normal cruising levels) as it approached the Malaysian island of Penang (based upon signals recorded by two radar stations, one at the Royal Malaysian Air Force’s Butterworth base on the peninsula’s west coast and the other at Kota Bharu on the northeast coast)...then turned from a southwest- bound course to a northwest bound course over the Strait of Malacca and out towards the Indian Ocean.

And with this changing in altitude and course it most likely means that the plane was still under the command and control of the pilot or that someone was turning the autopilot on and off.

 

But then the plane descended, and the question becomes descended to what...and of course to where.

So did someone try to hijack the plane but found it too difficult... that would also account for the altitude changes...but did they finally succeed and gain control of the plane and take it 'under the radar' to some (un)friendly country...or did the plane plunge into the sea way off course from where it should be, possibly landing whole, but then as days went by did it sink to the bottom of the ocean.
 

So why can't we or the Chinese find the plane...or has it already been found with that information being deliberately kept from the public for obvious yet nefarious purposes. Quite possibly, as yesterday afternoon out of the blue Obama mouthpiece Jay Carney goes on TV and announces that the NTSB and the White House will NOT issue any more statements concerning the US made missing plane.

And that in and of itself brings us back to the strong possibility of this being a hijacking...the conclusion I have held since day one. Remember also that there were 20 highly skilled electrical engineers on the plane (something NOT being reported on by the media)...engineers who were experts in the very weaponry that allows planes and ships to 'disappear'...as in NOT being visible on radar.

And could one or more of the engineers have been in cahoots with a hijacker(s) and helped take the plane to Iran or Pakistan under the radar. Now think about this...two Iranians on board...Iranians who hate Israel enough to hijack a plane and use it against them in the NOT too far future...a definite possibility.

So with a catastrophic or mechanical event now being ruled out by most experts...including a breech in the plane's outer layer that would have resulted in a loss of oxygen...and because NO mayday signals were sent out...the Malaysian government has issued a statement saying this appears likely to have been a hijacking with possible corresponding sabotage. 

 

And with the last words from the flight crew being "All right, good night" the mystery of Flight 370 gets weirder with each passing day as we continue to focus on it which takes our attention off all things Obama...and you just know how happy he is about that.

Op-ed:   

Disappearing into the Twilight Zone

By: Diane Sori

Everybody loves a good mystery but some mysteries are just too eerie for words.

An unscheduled U-turn as the plane's transponder stopped sending identifying codes before it disappeared from radar, just happened to occur at the exact same time flight controllers lost contact with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

A state-of-the-art two engine jetliner holding about 85,000 pounds of jet fuel ...a jet with a wing span of nearly 200 feet, a length of more than 209 feet, and 65 feet from belly to the top that can travel 7000 miles non-stop flew low for hundreds of miles...flew below the radar for over an hour after the sudden turn and headed towards the Malacca Strait between Indonesia and Malaysia hundreds of miles off its scheduled flight path. Could all this mean that someone in the cockpit might have deliberately steered the plane away from its intended destination (Beijing) NOT to crash it but to hijack it and land it somewhere...but where and why.

And why were cell phones...according to family members...still ringing after contact with the plane was lost and still even today some show up as active...were networks 'searching' for the devices or were people trying to call out. 

 

Or is this disappearance all about mechanical failure...a crack in the skin of the plane leading to a catastrophic sudden decompression of the flight deck...well if so then where is the debris...where is the black box (the voice and data recorders). It's almost like the sky swallowed the jet whole...a Far East version of the Bermuda Triangle if you will.

Is this Amelia Earhart's ghost coming back to haunt for NO evidence this plane hit the water has been found to date, and that allows for the conspiracy theorists, the layman, and the experts free reign to run theories and guesses amok.

Was this a hijacking with echoes of 9/11 at its heart, for could the plane have been hijacked and the passengers killed for the plane itself. And really think this through...once taken and landed in a 'friendly' county could the plane have been put into 'cold storage' so to speak for later use as a targeted missile against U.S. interests overseas...against the U.S. mainland itself...or Tel-Aviv perhaps...a scary possibility that boggles the mind.

Or could there have been 'something' in the cargo hold that someone might have wanted that was worth stealing a plane for...could a meteor have hit the plane...or maybe this was a political hijacking to make a statement but then why has NO ransom monies yet been demanded or NO statement of admission been issued.

 

But when forty-two ships and 39 planes from 12 countries go searching for 227 passengers and 12 crew members who just vanished into thin air any scenario becomes a possibility.

And while this incident is somewhat reminiscent of Air France Flight 447...the flight that plunged into the Atlantic on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people on board that took four intensive searches over two years to locate deep under the ocean both the bulk of the wreckage and most of the bodies...the flight where the final 'incident report' found that the pilots failed to respond "effectively" to problems with the plane's speed sensors or to correct its trajectory when things first started to go wrong...Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 raises more than the usual questions because of the disturbing last minute addition to the flight manifest of two Iranian passengers with stolen passports and one-way tickets.

Terrorism...a word some fear to say...a word Obama dismisses every chance he gets yet a word that must be considered for on this flight in addition to the two Iranians were 20 electronic engineers who all worked for the same company...a company that designs and manufactures electronic weaponry for the U.S. Department of Defense including...are you ready for this...weaponry that allows planes and ships to 'disappear'...as in fly below the radar.

But when all is said and done, is it possible the plane continued on the veered off heading flying across the Bay of Bengal and India into Pakistan or Iran. Anything is possible in today's world...and with most of those on the flight being Chinese, 'suddenly' late yesterday afternoon the Chinese government announces...days after our government announced that U.S. spy satellites did NOT detect any air explosions when the plane disappeared...that a Chinese satellite had "observed a suspected crash area at sea." Releasing pictures taken last Sunday of three objects east of the projected flight path that might be parts of Flight 370...released after the search area was expanded to cover 27,000 square nautical miles...is just a little too coincidental for comfort.

 

And while the sea searches continue everyone is forgetting to look at dry land as the possible crash...or landing...site.

 

So with NO definitive answers five plus days after the crash maybe this is 'Lost' revisited...if you believe a plane can cross a time continuum as per the DARMA initiative that is...but hey...NO matter as your guess is as good as mine....as good as all the other 'theories' circulating in cyberspace that is.