Could missing Malaysian Airlines flight be a case of terrorism?

Yeah, I know all too well just how "peaceful" those Muslims are. I may have done wrong in dealing with them in the eyes of God, but He WILL deal with them in His way.

 

It was in an area of overlapping radar coverage. They know the flight track up until it disappeared.

 

Understood. I guess, all I can deduct would be a sudden explosion, or major structural fail? i.e., losing an engine which takes out a wing, part of the fuselage coming apart, etc., baffling stuff.

I don't know much about planes, so forgive my ignorance if way off.

 

Generally speaking a breakup or explosion at altitude would result in a widely dispersed debris field. Which would usually make it easier to locate some wreckage.

As opposed to the plane impacting intact at a steep angle which would yield a very compact debris field.

My immediate question is did they lose radar contact because of a catastrophic event in flight or because the transponder was switched off?
If the former they should find wreckage fairly soon. If the latter the crash site may be no where near where they're currently looking. It might even be in sparsely populated jungle instead of the water.

 

I am thinking it was a hijack attempt gone bad and the plane ended up getting dunked. The pilot might has lost it and dunked the plane just for the hell of it. That happened back in the 90s.

Either way, at the end of the day, the religion of peace will be involved. You can take that to the bank.

 

I didn't think of that. Btw, why is there even a transponder switch on commercial aircraft? Probably a dumb question on my part.

 

I'm not familiar with the 777, but I'm not aware of any transponder that cannot be turned off.

 

According to the latest reports, some investigators are no longer just suspecting that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was hijacked, they’re convinced of it.

http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/79633283098/it-is-conclusive-investigator-says-missing-plane-was

 

Malaysia Airline MH370: 9/11-style terror allegations resurface in case of lost plane

Evidence of a plot by Malaysian Islamists to hijack a passenger jet in a 9/11-style attack is being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Flight MH370

An al-Qaeda supergrass told a court last week that four to five Malaysian men had been planning to take control of a plane, using a bomb hidden in a shoe to blow open the cockpit door.

Security experts said the evidence from a convicted British terrorist was “credible”. The supergrass said that he had met the Malaysian jihadists – one of whom was a pilot – in Afghanistan and given them a shoe bomb to use to take control of an aircraft.

A British security source said: “These spectaculars take a long time in the planning.”

The possibility of such a plot, hatched by the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, was bolstered by an admission by Najib Razak, Malaysia’s prime minister, that the Boeing 777’s communications systems had been deliberately switched off “by someone on the plane”.

In a series of dramatic developments yesterday, it emerged that:

– Flight MH370 had changed direction and altitude after communications devices had been deliberately disabled;

– The plane flew for up to seven hours after civilian radar lost touch with it;

– An unnamed official briefed that the plane had been hijacked although Mr Najib refused to confirm that was the case;

– The plane flew towards either Indonesia or to Kazakhstan after the transponder and messaging systems were disabled;

– Police searched the homes of both pilots for two hours over concerns one may have switched off the communications systems in a suicide bid;

– Chinese officials accused Malaysia of withholding information in a ratcheting up of diplomatic tensions between the two countries.

In evidence in a court case last Tuesday, Saajid Badat, a British-born Muslim from Gloucester, said that he had been instructed at a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan to give a shoe bomb to the Malaysians.

Giving evidence at the trial in New York of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Badat said: “I gave one of my shoes to the Malaysians. I think it was to access the cockpit.”

Badat, who spoke via video link and is in hiding in the UK, said the Malaysian plot was being masterminded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the principal architect of 9/11.

According to Badat, Mohammed kept a list of the world’s tallest buildings and crossed out New York’s Twin Towers after the September 11, 2001 attacks with hijacked airliners as “a joke to make us laugh”.

Badat told the court last week that he believed the Malaysians, including the pilot, were “ready to perform an act.”

During the meeting, the possibility was raised that the cockpit door might be locked. Badat told the court: “So I said, 'How about I give you one of my bombs to open a cockpit door?’ ”

The disclosure that Malaysians were plotting a 9/11-style attack raises the prospect that both pilots were overpowered and the plane intended for use as a fuel-filled bomb. One possible target, if the scenario is correct, will have been the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, a symbol of Malaysia’s modernity and the world’s tallest buildings from 1998 until 2004.

Flight MH370 had been heading away from Kuala Lumpur over the South China Sea when it disappeared off civilian radar screens.

Satellites have tracked it returning towards land.

Badat, who was jailed for 13 years in 2005 for his part in a conspiracy with the “shoe bomber” Richard Reid to blow up a transatlantic jet, had given similar evidence in 2012.

In other words, his claims were first made long before the disappearance of Flight MH370.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...egations-resurface-in-case-of-lost-plane.html

 

I heard on the news that this fight was a well traveled route for drug trafficking, wouldn't surprise me to find out that it was a hit or plot to steal from one of the passengers ........ plane probably didn't crash but was flown somewhere off radar.