"That missing airplane is generating tens of millions of dollars in search costs and... since governments are involved in its disappearance and certainly, other governments know about what happened, it's a pretty grand, calculated farce what I wonder about is what happened to The Black Box; that is a location transmitter. It is to be supposed that the same thing happened to it as happened to 9/11 aircraft but... why is there no mention of the black box that I have seen? Ah well...
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Related: Globe Loses Malaysian Airliner Stories
Yeah, that is kind of a mystery that is difficult to discern, 'eh?
So what are they saying around Boston anyway?
"Theories abound....
“The craziest that I heard was it could be aliens,” Allan Kigen said as he prepared to board a bus to Springfield from South Station. “The most possible . . . was terrorists.”
I'm actually leaning towards government involvement given what is being unsaid at this point. This is all cover story diversion (pun intended).
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Attorney Greg Noonan, an almost regular Charlie’s customer, compared the disappearance to “something out of a bad movie.”
Or television show(!). Is that where they got the idea for this?
In 2014, he said, people do not expect an event to be in the news for such a long time while remaining a mystery.
It very well may be exactly that, nothing but a staged and scripted event that never even happened. You can take it to the house because the proper authorities did the investigation.
“Since nobody really knows what happened, it’s one of the few things you can talk about these days where everyone’s opinion is equally valid,” the 38-year-old said. “There’s no Google-able answer.”
As if Joogle's search engine were God, huh?
I see JouTube thinks they are.
UPDATE: Google apologizes for RT's YouTube channel 'suspension' due to tech bug
PFFFFT!
Chip Huhta, a Charlie’s regular for more than two decades, said the disappearance called to mind the 1999 plane crash death of pro golfer Payne Stewart and five others, apparently caused by a loss of cabin pressure that left pilots and passengers unconscious.
That's interesting, because what is not mentioned is that US fighter jets were on him within minutes and followed and tracked the plane until it crashed into the earth -- something that didn't happen on 9/11 if you buy into the planes dropped the towers bit.
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And the terror angle:
"Chinese say no domestic terror ties in plane mystery" by Chris Buckley and Keith Bradsher | New York Times March 19, 2014
SEPANG, Malaysia — China’s public effort to narrow the range of possible suspects in the plane’s disappearance included a specific look at one Chinese citizen who belongs to the Uighur ethnic minority, a Turkic people living mostly in Xinjiang, a restive region in far western China....
Huang Huikang’s remarks were all the more striking because the Chinese government has often claimed that Uighur groups seeking autonomy or an independent homeland in Xinjiang have orchestrated acts of terrorism, including attempted attacks aboard domestic flights.
Huang’s announcement seemed likely to increase the pressure on investigators to determine whether the pilot or copilot of the missing jet, both Malaysians, or anyone else onboard was involved in its disappearance. Officials have said that the plane’s abrupt deviation from its normal flight path on March 8 most likely involved deliberate intervention by an experienced aviator, making the two men assigned to the cockpit — Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, and his junior officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27 — focal points of attention.
UPDATE: Malaysia, FBI probing data from pilot’s simulator
Huang, the Chinese ambassador to Malaysia, explicitly ruled out suspicions about Maimaitijiang Abula, an artist of Uighur ethnicity who was part of a Chinese government-approved delegation of artists who visited Malaysia. “Currently, there is no evidence to prove that he engaged in any terrorist or destructive activities,” Huang said, according to Chinese television news. “And nor has any organization or individual made political demands to the government concerning this incident.”
The Chinese government maintains extensive records and surveillance on its citizens, especially anyone with a reputation for discontent, and it would have used that information as the starting point for police inquiries into any potential suspects on the plane, according to Pan Zhiping, a professor at Xinjiang University who studies unrest in the region. Pan said he saw “no signs of Uighur involvement.”
Sound familiar, Amerikans?
“These background checks are relatively easy in China,” he said. “I think that the government felt that this search is already so large and so complicated that it would be helpful to publicly exclude at least one aspect, especially when there have been many rumors and media speculation about a connection to Xinjiang.”
Breaking from its usual reluctance to criticize friendly neighbors, the Chinese government has chided the Malaysian authorities and demanded more prompt and more accurate information about the investigation. “Currently, there’s no lack of information,” Huang, the ambassador, said Tuesday. “The main problem we confront is chaotic information, with all manner of speculation, even rumors, filling the heavens. It makes it impossible to think.”
Maybe that is the point of all this?
US officials had said Monday that the sharp turn to the west that took the plane from its planned northeastward flight path was achieved using a computer system on the plane, and that the turn was most likely programmed into it by someone in the cockpit who was knowledgeable about airplane systems.
Or the plane was taken over by remote control.
Malaysian officials have not publicly confirmed that information, but they have revised their account of events around the time the plane vanished from air traffic control communications....
They are in one this thing. That's why there was no alarm or alert when it happened.
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Also see: Are the Israelis Planning Another 9-11 Using the Missing Boeing 777?
So what hangar is it in?
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
Was greeted with this garbage as I logged in this morning:
Objects adrift may be related to missing Malaysia jet
I guess that gets this fraud of an FBI look off the hook:
"Malaysia turns to FBI for help in plane inquiry" by Chris Buckley and Michael S. Schmidt | New York Times March 20, 2014
SEPANG, Malaysia — The Malaysian authorities have asked the FBI to help....
and then the rewrite begins.
retrieve deleted computer data from a homemade flight simulator belonging to the captain of the Malaysia Airlines jet that vanished nearly two weeks ago, their first request for high-level US assistance in solving the mystery of the missing plane.
As that part of the inquiry unfolded, the authorities in Australia said Thursday that satellites had spotted an object, or objects, that might be connected to the plane.
Malaysian and US investigators are homing in on the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, and his first officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, although they have not excluded different possibilities.
“It’s all focused on the pilots,” said a senior US law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid jeopardizing his access to information about the investigation. “We, and they, have done everything we could on the passengers and haven’t found a thing.”
The FBI will relay the contents of the simulator’s hard drive to agents and analysts in the United States who specialize in retrieving deleted computer files.
“Right now, it’s the best chance we have of finding something,” the senior law enforcement official said.
Unless the pilot used very sophisticated technology to erase files, he added, the FBI will most likely be able to recover them.
Those three paragraphs are verbatim print, and now we have the building of some type of cover story.
More than two dozen nations are searching for any trace of the missing airliner, a challenge that has seemed to grow more complicated and more contentious with each passing day.
But early Thursday, Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia told his country’s Parliament that satellites had detected something in the south Indian Ocean that might be related to the missing plane. Four military search planes were dispatched.
Might? And it's "news?"
One of the objects spotted by satellite imagery had a dimension of 82 feet and the other one was smaller. There could be other objects in waters nearby in the area that’s a four-hour flight from Australia’s southwestern coast, said John Young, manager of Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s emergency response division.
‘‘This is a lead, it’s probably the best lead we have right now,’’ said Young, while cautioning that the objects could also be seaborne debris along a key shipping route where containers periodically fall off cargo vessels.
He said that satellite images ‘‘do not always turn out to be related to the search even if they look good, so we will hold our views on that until they are sighted close-up.’’
Commander William J. Marks, the spokesman for the US Navy Seventh Fleet, which has helped oversee the US military contribution to the search, said in an e-mail Thursday that he had not heard word of finding any objects possibly from the aircraft.
“If suspect debris were spotted, the aircraft would more than likely use the EO/IR camera,” he said Wednesday. He was referring to a camera with electro-optical and infrared functions that can discern objects much more sharply than can a naked human eye.
As the geographic scope of the search has widened, Australia, as well as China, India, France, the United States, and other nations have offered ships, surveillance planes, satellites, and experts to Malaysia, which is leading the effort. The investigators face a formidable set of mechanical, avionic, and satellite communication puzzles.
Uh-huh.
Flight 370 was about 40 minutes into a six-hour trip to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, early March 8 when it suddenly stopped communicating with air traffic controllers and turned far off course, cutting back across peninsular Malaysia, over the Strait of Malacca and toward the Indian Ocean. Military radar tracked it for a while, but the operators did not seek to identify the plane or alert anyone. A satellite over the ocean picked up automated signals for several more hours — facts not released publicly for days after the plane vanished.
Very, very suspicious and an indication of collusion.
The satellite “pings” led investigators to conclude that the plane had made its way to some point along one of two long, arcing corridors that together embrace 2.24 million square nautical miles of sea and land.
Investigators said the plane’s extraordinary diversion from its intended course was probably carried out by someone who had aviation experience. The Malaysian police, who found that Zaharie had built a flight simulator in his home, said Wednesday that some data had been erased from the simulator Feb. 3, more than a month before the ill-fated flight.
Found another one(?), and PROBABLY?
Evidence suggests that whoever diverted the plane knew how to disable its communications systems and program course changes, and the data recorded in the pilot’s flight simulator may shed light on whether he was involved. But building and using flight simulators at home is a popular hobby among aviation enthusiasts, and the deletion of data from Zaharie’s simulator may have been routine housekeeping.
That was all stuff I was going to cut because I either found it not pertinent or repetitive.
Clearing cookies is now a sign of nefariousness, huh? Alert the NSA to they can retrieve!
And why the reference to the YouTube videos removed, NYT?
Zaharie appears to have completed the first stage of building in fall 2012, when he joined an online forum for simulator enthusiasts and described his newly completed setup, which included six high-definition video monitors, a center pedestal and an overhead panel, all running on a popular Microsoft program called FSX.
He said he was looking to take his system to “the next level of simulation: Motion!” Installing a motion platform to enhance the physical realism of the cockpit simulator could have added thousands of dollars to an already sophisticated amateur project, according to hobbyists.
The computer search could reveal impulses or plans linked to the plane’s disappearance. But the investigators could also conclude that Zaharie deleted files just as the average person does to clean out a computer.
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Of course, the web pings are all too familiar to me.
The lead description in my printed paper is "The Malaysian authorities have asked the FBI FOR {to and for subtle difference, but?} help.... in the hope that it will provide some clue to what happened to the plane. The expansion of the U.S. role in the investigation came as governments struggled [to explain].... the plane’s extraordinary diversion."
"The plane vanished....
Like certain versions of certain articles(??)!
Rumors yesterday they were trying to push had the plane landing in Pakistan, yet I get nothing in my Globe about it. Must have flopped with that one.
Despite this, U.S. law enforcement officials and intelligence analysts in Washington checked the names of the passengers on the plane to determine whether any of them had known links to terrorists, but that yielded no connections.
Not like they have ever "missed" anyone before, right?
As part of the U.S. efforts, FBI agents interviewed family members of the passengers in the United States and Europe, and conducted link analysis - a computer-based investigative technique that tries to discern connections between individuals based on extensive government and airline databases - on the pilots and on two Iranian passengers who were traveling on stolen passports.
Still trying to link this to Iran? Are they the ones to be framed for the next false flag? What is USrael going to do, fit it with a nuclear bomb and fly it into Chicago?
The 12 days since the plane, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, disappeared from air controllers’ screens have been troubled by confusion that has compounded the anguish of family members waiting for news.
That was totally excised from the web version!
The frustrations felt by family members and friends of the missing Chinese passengers erupted before a briefing by Malaysian officials Wednesday in a hotel conference room in Sepang. As reporters waited for the briefing to start, several protesters who said they represented families of the passengers unfurled a banner that read: “We oppose the Malaysian government concealing the truth. Delaying time for saving lives.”
“All our feelings are the same: We demand to know the truth,” said Xu Dengwang, one of the protesters. “It’s not about compensation, it’s about the truth.”
I can see why the NYT would want that rewritten, yeah.
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After a scuffle, the police eventually pulled down the banner and forced the protesters out of the room.
About two-thirds of the 227 passengers on the plane were Chinese citizens. Some of their family members have come to Malaysia, hoping for word that the plane has been found. Those hopes appear increasingly bleak, and the protesters said that until now they had been prevented from telling reporters about their mounting frustration with the Malaysian government’s erratic response.
“We need to know the truth,” said one member of the group, a middle-aged woman who declined to give her name....
That is where my print copy ended it.
Thought I would add this from my search:
While investigators grapple with the minutiae of machines and people on the missing plane, searchers are confronted with sobering limits on their reach across huge areas of sea and land. The plane’s whereabouts remain little more than a matter of educated guesswork, based on satellite signals and other data gleaned by analysts.
Then why so much print and such a shell game with all this?
The United States has employed its constellation of spy satellites in the search since its earliest stages, and is now using the satellites’ ability to capture high-resolution images to help narrow down the search area, a senior U.S. military official said.
And nothing, huh? Are all the billions to spy on the planet even worth it then?
Officials are using imagery taken during the satellites’ regular orbits, and have not yet instructed the National Reconnaissance Office, which operates the satellites, to redirect any specific satellite to focus solely on the search, the U.S. official said. The satellite imagery would be most useful in detecting any debris floating on the ocean.
Okay, the questions here are why was this not down at the very beginning?
“The satellites are being used, but so far they haven’t found anything,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Then really, what good are they?
On Monday, after consultations with the Malaysian government, the United States said it would soon withdraw a Navy destroyer, the Kidd, from the search effort and rely instead on two Navy surveillance aircraft - a P-3 Orion based for now in Kuala Lumpur, and a newer, more advanced P-8 Poseidon, based in Perth, Australia.
Designed to hunt enemy submarines, the P-3 and P-8 aircraft are equipped with sophisticated electronics and advanced sensors that would be used to try and spot any debris from a possible crash. With the search now focusing on the southern Indian Ocean west of Australia, the aircraft can hunt in that area more quickly and efficiently than a surface ship, military officials said."
Wow, INTERESTING! Was this ALL COVER to MOVE MILITARY ASSETS into position for WAR?!!!
Also too familiar to me lately is stuff like this (frown, sob):
"Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and the absence of news | March 20, 2014
Two weeks into the story of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, there is still remarkably little known about the airliner’s fate. But there has been plenty of public speculation — from current airline pilots, former airline pilots, professors, consultants, analysts, Redditors, and rock stars. Many of their baseless theories have gotten airtime on cable news, or serious play on websites that pass around click-worthy rumors in the name of aggregation. Over the course of just a few minutes midday Wednesday, CNN — the most flight-obsessed of the cable news networks — aired interviews with a flight instructor, an aviation analyst, a group of Malaysian fishermen who said they once saw a low-flying aircraft, and a “survivalist” who hosts a TV show called “Naked and Afraid.”
This is the trouble with the 24-hour news cycle: It’s poorly equipped to handle situations that involve only two minutes worth of actual news. To their credit, reporters and producers are working hard to uncover new angles. Some of the details that have been discussed, about aviation, satellites, and air crashes in general, have been illuminating in themselves. But any “news” item that begins with “It’s possible that . . . ” is reason to reach for the clicker, and tune back in when real information emerges.
You mean like something may being placed on page A1, Globe?
SIGH!
How quickly THEY forget!
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Time for me to go missing for today, sorry.
UPDATE:
"Search plane fails to find possible debris from lost jet; 1,000 miles off Australia, crews hunt big objects" by Scott McDonald and Kristen Gelineau | Associated Press March 21, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The hunt has encountered other false leads. Oil slicks that were seen did not contain jet fuel. A yellow object thought to be from the plane turned out to be sea trash. Chinese satellite images showed possible debris, but nothing was found.
Malaysian authorities have not ruled out any possible explanation for what happened to the jet, but have said the evidence so far suggests it was deliberately turned back across Malaysia to the Strait of Malacca, with its communications systems disabled. They are unsure what happened next.
Police are considering the possibility of hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or anyone else on board.
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Also see:
"The “best lead” of the nearly two-week-old aviation mystery raised new hope.... Malaysian officials met with the relatives Thursday night in a hotel near Kuala Lumpur, but journalists were kept away. After the meeting, groups of people left looking distraught. Hamid Amran, who had a child on Flight 370, said questions asked made it “apparent that Malaysia’s military is incapable of protecting its own airspace.”"
Or they were in on it.
Finding my printed articles is becoming as difficult as finding that jet.
