Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

(02-04-2014 13:04 )Will Drifter Wrote:  the plane was on that route because it was GOING SOMEWHERE.

The only plausible destination (target?) would be Diego Garcia.

(02-04-2014 16:37 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  The only 'significant' news today is that the film director Peter Jackson's private jet has joined in with the search operations.
It may be simple altruism but there's definitely a film to be had out of this.

I wouldn't hold your breath. He's been working on a remake of "The Dambusters" for about 75 years...

So many ships and planes etc partcipating in the search and yet flight MH370 remains undetected.

Has the pilot voice been analysed for signs of stress or anything untoward? Although everything appeared to be normal from the plane's radio transmissions, of course it may not have been, so I would have thought this kind of voice analysis was an obvious line of investigation.

You've got to be kidding. It took over 3 weeks to decide that it was the pilot speaking and not the co-pilot.

This is a new line of enquiry: "Police are investigating whether the food served on board the missing Malaysian airliner was poisoned. Malaysia’s top police officer Khalid Abu Bakar said the plane’s food caterers were being scrutinised". (Reuters)

(02-04-2014 16:22 )king of a lost kingdom Wrote:  If it was hijacking the terrorists would readily claim responsibility, because these organisations feed on the publicity generated

Would they claim responsibility? Perhaps you're remembering how the IRA used to act and imagining that all terrorists are the same. When did anyone claim responsibility for 9/11? Or the Bali bombings? Bin Laden mentioned 9/11 in one of his videos, but that was 3 years later, and even then he didn't say he was responsible. Al-Qaeda did claim responsibility for the 7 July London bombings, 3 months after the event, but intelligence analysts reckon the claim was false. The men convicted of the Bali bombings went to their deathbeds denying responsibility, and trying to appeal against their convictions, and although the Bali bombings eventually got a mention in one of Bin Laden's videos he didn't claim to be responsible either.

The pilot's simulator has been declared clean, since the FBI examiners have agreed with Malaysian police that there's nothing suspicious about it. Some deleted files were retrieved but contained nothing of interest.

(01-04-2014 13:15 )MacDanett Wrote:  Why were no planes deployed from Diego Garcia to intercept the unidentified plane which obviously would pose a threat to the Diego Gracia military base?

Maybe they didn't see it? But then Diego Garcia is supposed to be able to see a missile launched in North Korea, so how can it not see an unidentified plane flying towards it?

If it wasn't for Inmarsat's advice, where would searchers be looking for the plane now? You decide.