News Update: The Malaysian Triangle Missing Plane And Other Mysteries BY ARTHUR HU – MARCH 14, 2014 POSTED IN: CHINA, HUS ON FIRST, TERRORISM The latest word on the missing Malaysia airliner a week after it vanished is that there are radar tracks and “pings” from the airplane systems that indicate it was flying for up to 4 hours after it was lost, and it appeared to be flying along known “waypoints” before Malaysian radar caught it briefly before it was headed into the Indian ocean. As of friday, there are questions if a stash of laptop batteries could have brought down the flight. If you take a really long timeline of previous incidents, we can go back to Air India 182 in 1985 when dynamite hidden in a Sanyo stereo receiver blew up a 747 over water with nobody taking credit. Parts from an identical bomb on another plane blew up in a luggage area and was tracked to Sikh separatists based in Vancouver Canada. In 187, a disgruntled former employee shot his way into the cockpit of a Pacific Southwest Airlines BAe-146 and made it crash into a hillside. In 1988, Pan Am 103 was the first American 747 to be brought down by a bomb after Americans largely ignored the deaths of Indians and Canadians in 1985. The parts were traced to Libya, but an ex-Iranian spy backs up the idea that the attack was commissioned by Iran in retaliation for a US Navy ship mistakenly shooting down an Iranian airliner. Some people wonder if the 777 could have landed in the water, which is what a 1996 Ethiopian Airlines plane did when it ran out of fuel and crashed off a beach, killing 125 of the 175 on board. Like the stolen passport Iranians who Iran has reliably told us are not known terrorists, they weren’t trying to hurt anybody, they were just seeking a asylum and better life in Australia. In 1999, Egyptians played down the American conclusion that an Egyptian co-pilot flew the plane filled with Egyptian government officials into the water in what some thought looked like a jihad-inspired suicide attack, though US officials thought “Allah” was used to ask for help from God rather than as a battle cry. Of course there is the 9/11 attacks in which 4 teams of men of mostly Saudi Arabian origin broke into cockpits and flew or tired to fly their planes into targets in New York City and DC. They disconnected their transponders which gave altitude readings, and did not respond to controllers, though in the Malaysia case, there was nothing heard from the pilots or passengers who had access to in-flight telephones in 2001. More interesting was in a flight out of Xinjiang in 2012. Six ethnic Uyghur men screaming about jihad were quickly subdued before they could use a crutch and explosives to break into the cockpit, and two of the attackers died of their injuries in the hospital. But rather than claiming credit, the Uyghur World congress protested that the men were simply upset about their seat assignments. If there was a bomb aboard, usually the idea is to NOT have attackers with bogus passports aboard, and one scenario would be that two Iranians and perhaps an extra Uyghur artist aboard might be able to get into the cockpit. In November of last year, after a boy who his dad assured us was “not a terrorist” managed to sneak on board a flight to Las Vegas after hijacking cars and hitting a police car, a group of four Iranians and an Afghan were kicked off a flight into Canada when they were discovered using fake tickets. I’m sure they were just trying to visit their sick mothers or children because they could not afford full fare. Then we have the February Ethiopian airlines flight where the co-pilot locked out the pilot and also either really was or used a cover story of asylum. We now have some sort of a timeline: 1:07 – Somebody turned off the data transmissions or it cut out by itself. The pilots would be in control, so it would be very bad if they turned it off before the bad guys supposedly took over. 1:25- Shortly before losing contact, the pilots report “All Right, Good Night” which is slightly odd since nobody was supposed to be signing off on the long flight to Beijing. 1:30- The plane vanishes from secondary radar as the transponder either fails or is turned off. Only the pilots have the code needed to turn the system off. If the plane exploded or flew into the water, this would be consistent with Chinese reports of parts photographed in the water and a seismic event. But nothing has come of that scenario, as other evidence was that the plane kept flying. The other idea is perhaps there was a power loss and the pilots headed back rather than cross another country without radio contact. Based on pings to satellites and unconfirmed reports of radar hits, the plane apparently flew between known waypoints on its way to Europe or middle east routes. This is consistent with the 2:15 am report of a radar hit of a plane to the west instead of north of Malaysia over the strait. The plane is unidentified, but what other jet could there be? Plus there are reports of people hearing a large plane flying over Malaysia at that time, which would have to be at a low level to be heard. If the plane indeed was still flying it would have to come down eventually somehow. Over water, there is very little radar coverage, and if it was at low level, radars can’t see over the horizon beyond 25 miles, and nobody was flying the sort of airborne AWACS radar planes that could spot low flying targets. Approaching at low level was the way US bombers trained to penetrate Soviet air defences after the put up high-level SA-2 missles in the late 1950s. So it either crashed into land or water, or ditched in the water, or landed someplace nobody knows about. Robert Baer on CNN says that the CIA used to train for the possibility of somebody doing a very sophisticated hijacking that would be done with nobody being able to track it, but he discounts the unlikely event that some terrorist state would have the motive and resources to plan and execute a hijacking operation of this extent, and have inside access to knowledge of waypoints, systems to turn off, and radar coverage holes in Malaysia. Other Unexplainable Events In Changsha China, there is another stabbing, but it has nothing to with the train station attack or politics. This was just a scuffle when employees at Uighur-style bakery started fighting each other or a customer, so Time says it’s highly unlikely it’s another Uighur terrorist strike. It’s probably more like random mall and store, school, hospital, government building, stadium, park or workplace violence we have in the US when a shooter who may or may not be from a mideast or Asian or East European origin dresses like a commando and shoots people or drives a car into a Walmart on Easter and starts hitting people, or drives into propane takes at a K-mart for no reason at all since there is never any connection to terrorism in those incidents either. It’s only in Kenya, Thailand, Philippines, Pakistan, Afghanistan or Mumbai or Nigeria when they have explosives and multiple people with guns shouting out their political and religious views that count as terrorism. Something like $600,000 was stolen from Joel Osteen’s Lakewood church over the weekend, which seems more like a politically motivated attack on a church that is much-hated by various anti-Christian groups. On some board, the majority of comments condemned the “con artist” church, not the ninja robbers who somehow broke in and got access to what should have been a well-secured safe. About the same time, the Catholic Seattle archdiocese reported that someone evidently stole numbers from a volunteer database and was filing false tax returns. In Federal Way near Seattle on February 28, a woman snuck into truck with 2 kids inside and drove it away with the kids. She stopped near a golf course where she opened her way into another car and started punching a pregnant woman before the cops took her away. On wednesday in Colorado, Ryan Stone did a more dramatic version of the same attack when he hijacked a SUV outside a gas station, ramming another car, getting out and stealing another car as he was filmed by a helicopter. For somebody that watches Fast and Furious and Batman movies, it might look like the same person had scripted both events, but of course it is impossible they could be connected. Either one looks more like somebody on a mission to commit mayhem than the usual person who forgot to take their meds that day. On March 3, one Phoenix police officer was killed and another was killed by a fugitive who crashed into several cars before engaging police in a gun battle. That same day, middle school teacher Laurie Patton was found dead after her South Carolina hotel room exploded and burned as the suspect who was a former student was arrested driving her car 30 in a 70 zone. The next day a mother vanishes going out for her baby’s medicine. On March 5, somebody evidently poured gasoline down a hallway to burn down an apartment complex in Detroit. On Sunday, two men Dalai B. Idd and Kamal E. Magadin were arrested after they attacked a man at a Minneapolis suburb health club and a randomly chosen home. 8 people are confirmed dead after a gas explosion collapsed two apartment buildings in what appears to be a smaller accidental version of the Oklahoma City federal building bombing. Large apartment buildings have also blown up in large gas explosions in France and Ukraine, also blamed on crumbling infrastructure March 13 Rashad Charjuan Owens fled from a traffic stop and mowed down a concert crowd in Texas killing two and injuring 23 in what police believe was a deliberate rampage. Police have no motive, though it is interesting that the Beijing jeep attack which involved a jihad-happy family mowing down Chinese people on the other side of the planet was completely unrelated to this “deliberate accident”, and the hacking of a British soldier in the name of jihad after he was run over also gives us no clue as to why somebody would run people over in this part of the world.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 03:46:43 +0000
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