I declare that I am not an aviation expert. Nevertheless, over a period of a few days, prior to the Prime Minister’s recent news conference postulating that MH370 could have been hijacked, my friends and I discussed privately (not on Facebook) the disappearance of the plane. Most of my friends believed that the plane had crashed into the South China Sea off the coast of Vietnam. When news about the plane turning back and that it had flown for another four hours after that made the headlines, my friends postulated that it had crashed into the Andaman Sea after it had consumed all its fuel. Somehow, I did not think that the plane had crashed. I had been thinking that even if the plane had exploded in mid-air, its black box would not be destroyed, and could have been easily detected given the fact that the South China Sea is a continental shelf which is relatively shallow. It made me think that someone or some people had switched off the plane’s transponder so that its whereabouts could not be detected by radar. As news about the two young, possibly impressionable, Iranians travelling on stolen passports gained credence, it became apparent that security at the airport seemed lax, which could have enabled would-be hijackers to board the plane with ease. It is highly probable that the postulated hijack was planned over a period of time, which would have included observing the security procedure at the airport. I hold the hope that all the passengers and crew members are still alive somewhere….15 March 2014…
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 14:23:45 +0000
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