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

[Jangle]

I don't believe the plane was crashed. If the pilot wanted to commit suicide or if the plane was hijacked, then they wouldn't need to be flying for hours and doing all sorts of dangerous maneuvers to keep under radar. The Malaysian authorities have been lying to the world from day one. Them too damn lie.

[Islandman]

That is my thinking as well.

The Malaysians have been dishonest but it is also difficult to believe that other nations don't have more information than we are getting. We talking bout a big ****** commericial plane!

This story just hasn't passed the smell test from about Day 2.

[Jangle]

Sump'n inna Sump'n

[Sir X]

Thailand finally releases radar data 10 days after MH370 lost
Published: 5:16AM Wednesday March 19, 2014 Source: AP
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Investigators trying to solve the mystery of a missing Malaysian jetliner have received some belated help from Thailand, whose military said it took 10 days to report radar blips that might have been the plane "because we did not pay attention to it".

A coalition of 26 countries, including Thailand, is looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished March 8 with 239 people aboard on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Search crews are scouring two giant arcs of territory amounting to the size of Australia - half of it in the remote seas of the southern Indian Ocean.

Cmdr William Marks, a spokesman for the US 7th Fleet, said finding the plane was like trying to locate a few people somewhere between New York and California.

Malaysian officials said early in the search that they suspected the plane backtracked and flew toward the Strait of Malacca, just west of Malaysia. But it took a week for them to confirm Malaysian military radar data that suggested that route. Thai military officials now say their own radar showed an unidentified plane, possibly Flight 370, flying toward the strait beginning minutes after the Malaysian jet's transponder signal was lost.

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/thailan...0-lost-5867932

[Willi]

So how do we reintroduce the passengers back into the world after all of this? Is it easier to just erase the "problem". YUZIMMI fear now?

[Sir X]

Diego finally get mentioned and the white house said a flat no as to it landing there not that it could not.

[Willi]

Upon Flight 370’s departure from Malaysia on 8 March, this report continues, the GRU was notified by the MSS that they were going to divert it from its scheduled destination of Beijing to Haikou Meilan International Airport (HAK) located in Hainan Province (aka Hainan Island).

Prior to this planes entering into People Liberation Army (PLA) protected zones of the South China Sea known as the Spratly Islands, however, this report continues, Flight 370 “significantly deviated” from its flight course and was tracked by VKO satellites and radar flying into the Indian Ocean region and completing its nearly 3,447 kilometer (2,142 miles) flight to Diego Garcia.

In a confirmation of the GRU’s assertion that Flight 370 was, indeed, flown to Diego Garcia, this report says, satellite transmission data analyzed by US investigators showed that this planes most likely last-known position was in a zone about 1,609 kilometers (1,000 miles) west of Perth, Australia in the Indian Ocean..

Most troubling to the GRU about Flight 370’s “diversion” to Diego Garcia, this report says, was that it was “nearly immediately” followed by some of the top disease scientists and experts from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDCP) embarking to Diego Garcia on at least four flights.

As to why both American and Chinese disease experts were taken to Diego Garcia where Flight 370 is now known to be, this report says, has as yet not been answered by either of these governments after repeated Foreign Ministry requests for “explanations and clarification.”

What is to be known, this report says, is that as Malaysia has been forced to admit Flight 370 was, indeed, “diverted” from its flight path as the GRU had previously reported, and as at least 25 nations are now involved in searching for it, it remains a mystery as to what is actually occurring.

Also known, this report concludes, is that Diego Garcia as a designated ETOPS emergency landing site for flight planning purposes of commercial airliners transversing the Indian Ocean, and as one of 33 emergency landing sites worldwide for the NASA Space Shuttle, it is “inconceivable” that any type of aircraft, let alone Flight 370, can fly anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere without being tracked, monitored and recorded in totality.

[Jangle]

Yuhseeit deh!!!! Me know she sump'n inna sump'n long time. Courtney Love put up pon her Instagram and FB page from about a week ago seh she see sump'n weh look like the plane inna the Indian Ocean. From me hear seh so much scientist de pon board the plane, me know seh sump'n sinister a gwaan. The Malaysian government a lie from day 1 and have big people a run up and down like fool. Who is going to pay for all those searches?

[Willi]

Still unconfirmed. Just a rumour site, but then normally have to put in some grains of truth.

Like you, I fell the full is far from told and this is as plausible as anything I have seen.

[Mosiah]

Meanwhile, Portia has not flown since March 8!

[Willi]

She ketch her fraid? LoL

[Karl]

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

So what if the US or other super power has already developed 'blackout technology' ...i.e. there is equipment that can make anything within an area 'invisible' and the aircraft was forced to land/seized...'temporarily seized'...for reasons so far not revealed?

...what if the aircraft was shot out of the sky over the seas and naval vessels have sieved the waters and transported away tell-tale fragments of the 'debris field'?

...or it is a simple - the aircraft traveled on its strange path and crashed for reasons so far unknown? (wry sad smile).

[MdmeX]

Well - I believe it was CNN that asked the question last week -- what was on board the plane - as Malyasia has all kinds of richness.

I posted here too, that from some blogs I read -- people say the plane is in the Spratly Islands.

All kinds of theories abound! Jeezas -- help us make a discovery.

[MdmeX]

Well Portia is about to fly. Because she is attending a wedding in the US this weekend.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...-wedding-in-US