Diego Garcia...largest US base in the indian sub continent.

[Sir X]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979–1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the United States received permission for a $400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel 12,000-foot-long (3,700 m) runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the American or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a 1,340,000 barrels (213,000 m3) fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.[27]

Naval support facility established[edit]
On 1 October 1977, Naval Support Facility, Diego Garcia, was established as the senior United States Navy command on the island. At the time the NAVCOMMSTA was the primary tenant, but as the new major facilities were completed, most notably the expanded anchorage and mooring area and the extended airfield, other tenants were commissioned.[28]

In 1980, the United States Navy established the Near-Term Prepositioned Force of 16 ships. Then NTPF became the Afloat Prepositioning Force (AFP) and eventually Maritime Prepositioning ship Squadron Two (MPSRON 2) consisting of 20 deep-water pre-positioned logistics ships anchored in the lagoon.[2

Largest US base in the indian ocean, and they didnt track this flight,no mention by the media of this possibility.The indians has a naval base in the south of india,same question....something nuh right.

[Islandman]

This is getting more suspicious by the day. Somebody know something and not talking.

[Sir X]

Thats what i am thinking,the media is leading the B.S , they havent asked commonsense questions,that area is a geo political time bomb,where the indians chinese and of course americans compete.That base sits in the middle of it, and anuh likkle base.

[Sir X]

Some questions about Malaysia Air Flight 370
3/13/2014 5:56pm by John Aravosis 13 Comments



Now that there’s a growing theory that the missing Malaysia Air Flight 370 continued to fly for four hours after it was last spotted an hour northeast of Kuala Lumpur, there are still questions that I think need to be asked.

One of the earlier questions I had: Why was everyone so sure the plane went down near where that last radar ping was, the one that suggested the plane had done a u-turn? Why couldn’t the plane have kept flying, transponderless, to the west, northwest, southwest? Now it seems that question is more relevant.

But there are a few more questions some journalist should ask:

1. Has anyone checked the Internet records of the plane and its passengers?

I checked Malaysia Airlines, and they do have planes that offer a variety of minimal Internet services (at the very least). This is from the Malaysia Airlines Web site:

Your in-flight entertainment controller doubles as an air-to-ground phone. Make calls or send text messages to anywhere using your credit card. You can also call your friends on the same flight.

Did anyone make calls, send text messages, surf the Web while in flight? When was the last moment in time that any of this occurred? That would at least let us know whether the plane was still viable.



2. Credit card records of the passengers?

If passengers continued to use the Internet while the plane was flying, their credit cards might indicate that, since they’d have to buy the Internet access. And if the plane had Web access, someone could have bought something on Amazon while in flight. Again, this gives us a sense of up until what hour the plane was operating normally.

3. Could the transponderless plane have flown over land?

How difficult would it be for the plane to fly north over Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh or India? Would the plane have been intercepted, or could it have flown through other countries’ airspace? If not, then that means it must be over the sea. Though they’ve searched over land in Malaysia, suggesting radar coverage is spotty or they’d have seen it.

4. What about Diego Garcia?

diego-garcia

As I’d noted earlier, there’s “nothing” west of Kuala Lumpur and Indonesia except the huge US naval base at Diego Garcia, in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

Diego Garcia appears to fall near, but inside, the limits of the plane’s maximum travel distance. That raise a few questions:

a. Could Diego Garcia have been the target of a terrorist plot using this plane? Could you imagine a US naval base having to choose whether to shoot down a fully-loaded civilian airliner out of the sky? There was a lot of discussion about how there were no “rich targets” in that area. Diego Garcia is one such rich target.

b. What radar coverage does Diego Garcia have, and has it been checked?

c. What about our ships and subs in the area, would their radar and sonar potentially have picked up a plane heading in their direction or crashing in the seas?

d. Satellite coverage. I just saw an expert on CNN say there’s no reason for there to have been satellite coverage over the Indian Ocean, except that Diego Garcia is there. So are we sure there’s no satellite coverage?

http://americablog.com/2014/03/unans...light-370.html

[Sir X]

Its possible the yanks blew it up, and the chinese will lead the accusations soon....it would make sense if terrorist hijack the plane to try and start ww3, between the chinese and the yanks.The us saying that they are based in kampular and heading to the indian ocean makes no sense,they are already there in the indian ocean

No mention of Diego Garcia....it nuh look good.

[Sir X]

UPDATE: Engine data, additional radar data, suggests Malaysia Air plane in air 4-5 hours
3/13/2014 3:08pm by John Aravosis 29 Comments



US investigators are saying that lost Malaysia Air Flight 370 may have flown an additional four hours after its last confirmed location, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal.

The information is based on data sent to Boeing by the plane’s engines.

UPDATE: CNN reported at 3:06PM Eastern on 3/13/14 that the Malaysians may in fact have additional data points suggesting the plane WAS in the air 4 to 5 hours (this may or may not confirm the earlier report from the WSJ – it’s not clear if this is the same data, or something different). CNN got this information from the Obama administration. If the plane turned around, and headed towards the Indian Ocean, if you flew four to five hours you’d reach the huge US naval base at Diego Garcia once you traveled a little over 2,000 miles. Diego Garcia is a rich target.

And let me just add, I’ve been asking for days why everyone just assumed the plane went down and didn’t continue flying.

diego-garcia

Now, the plane is a Boeing 777-200ER. According to Boeing, that plane has a cruising speed of .84 Mach at 35,000 feet.

At 35,000 feet, Mach 1 is 660.7mph.

Assuming that’s the definition of Mach 1 they’re using, that’s a cruising speed of around 554mph. Wikipedia seems to back that up, they say 560mph is the cruising speed at 35,000 feet of the 777.

But, Wikipedia notes the maximum speed is 590mph. So that means it may have traveled an additional 2,240 miles at cruising speed, or an additional 2,360 miles at maximum speed.

(Of course, that’s assuming the plane was at 35,000 feet. At lower elevations, Mach 1 is faster. At ground level, for example, .84 Mach would be 639mph – making the cruising speed distance 2,557 miles.)

But let’s assume around 2,250 miles traveled from the last location plotted, which is the x in the center of the map below.



That means the red circle on the map below is the distance the plane could have traveled if it traveled 2,250 miles. If it traveled more like 2,500 miles, it would extend the circle out a bit – if you look at India, for example, the circle would extend out to New Delhi. It’s not a great difference.

But that’s a heck of a lot of area to search. And it again raises the question of whether the plane was hijacked and landed somewhere. Why else would it stay aloft for four hours, not contacting anyone, and not trying to land. Unless the equipment was so damaged, the plane just flew on and on trying to identity some landmarks in an effort to land. And failed.

malaysia-air-2250-big

In fact, that map matches closely to the map I made the other day, showing the distance to Beijing, the original destination of the plane, and then drawing a circle based on it.

range-of-malaysia-air-flight (1)

And here’s the map of Diego Garcia’s location side-by-side with the maximum range of the plane at cruising altitude (assuming the usual cruising speed):

diego-garcia-vs-max-range


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http://americablog.com/2014/03/engin...nder-lost.html

[Jangle]

things that makes you go hmmmmmmm. Somebody is lying and has been lying from day 1.

[Hortical]

Watched a Boeing pilot trainer on CNN and the said the plane has numerous redundancies for electrical power, hydraulics etc, and he mentioned something like 5 backups each. Even after those have failed, there is a propeller that pops out under the plane that will provide electrical power to stabilize the aircraft. These are very sophisticated machines.

[Sir X]

I really cant buy this no info/data thing , the indians are one of the leading I.T nations they do business world wide ,I.T cables run from india linking the USA , EUROPE and AFRICA , THE US has a 400million US naval station in the indian ocean, the Indian navy is based on the southern tip of India ,no one was tracking an unindentified aircraft headed into their territory ? The B.S that the technology isnt there is not credible.

It was hijacked no doubt in my mind ,what happened next be it landed in some unknown airstip or blew out of the sky.It will come out.

Keep in mind India and China have issues

[Time]

The Malaysian Air Force Chief was quoted as letting the cat out of the bag early in the game by saying the plane turned back was tracked for hours. He later said that he did not say it. Now be are back to theory that the plane was flying for hours. That plane was hijacked and was tracked and somebody probably took it out.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mis...0s-path-n50521

[Sir X]

So the question is,if dem likkle airforce can track it , what about the Indian and American security forces , its in their sphere of military influence ,the indian Ocean ?....ahhh mean Diego was set up to monitor the straits of Homotz (Iran) and thats even farther from this incident ?

[Willi]

Hahahahaha

The plane likely was forced down /escorted to Diego Garcia.

The real interesting question is what was onboard dat plane???

[Sir X]

A deputy Chinese foreign minister demanded "more thorough and accurate information" about the new search area. A stinging commentary by China's official Xinhua News Agency accused Malaysia and the United States of dragging their feet.

"Given today's technology, the delay smacks of either dereliction of duty or reluctance to share information in a full and timely manner," Xinhua said. It said Malaysia "bears inescapable responsibility."

Xinhua said the plane's manufacturer, Boeing Co., and the maker of its engines, Britain's Rolls Royce plc, as well as "intelligence superpower the United States," with access to valuable information, "should also have done a better job."

China's unusually vehement public reaction has "gone beyond the diplomatic," said Carlyle Thayer, professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia...ng-jet-search/

[Sir X]

Questions Over Absence of Cellphone Calls From Missing Passengers
By KEITH BRADSHERMARCH 17, 2014
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SEPANG, Malaysia — When hijackers took control of four airplanes on Sept. 11, 2001, and sent them hurtling low across the countryside toward New York and Washington, anxious passengers and flight attendants turned on their cellphones and began making calls to loved ones, airline managers and the authorities.

But when Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 did a wide U-turn in the middle of the night over the Gulf of Thailand and then spent nearly half an hour swooping over two large Malaysian cities and various towns and villages, there was apparently silence. As far as investigators have been able to determine, there have been no phone calls, Twitter or Weibo postings, Instagram photos or any other communication from anyone aboard the aircraft since it was diverted.

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A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, flight 318 to Beijing, sat on the tarmac Monday at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Flight 318 replaces 370, retired out of respect to the passengers and crew of the missing plane.Malaysia Backtracks on When Airliner’s Communications Were DisabledMARCH 17, 2014
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There has been no evidence “of any number they’re trying to contact, but anyway they are still checking and there are millions of records for them to process,” said Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, the chief executive of Malaysia Airlines, at a news conference on Monday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/wo...gers.html?_r=0

[Willi]

What a poor coverup?

My sorry fi di victim dem. If alive, how can it be explained later?

Pure wikidniss at werk!