Why switched off the signal if it’s technical problem?
Why did the government hide the fact taht the plane flew off course before the signal went out??
If it’s just a technical problem, i am sure they would’ve called “mayday” before they have time to change their course and turn off the signals.
We are assuming the ACARS system and the transponder were both intentionally switched off. It’s a reasonable assumption, but it may not be an accurate one. It’s possible that some unknown and extremely remote event caused everything to fail. I think the idea of “conspiracy” “highjacking” “terrorism” “suicide mission” are the first things that come to peoples minds.
How truly confident are we that the plane really flew way off course?
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Why switched off the signal if it’s technical problem?
Why did the government hide the fact taht the plane flew off course before the signal went out??
If it’s just a technical problem, i am sure they would’ve called “mayday” before they have time to change their course and turn off the signals.
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really? so why did he make a left turn instead of just crashing into the ocean?
some terror group hikjacked it, plans to load a nuclear device, and use it as a flying bomb disguised as a typical commercial airliner.
I’m surprised China hasn’t taken a tougher stance yet against the incompetence of the Malaysian government. 60% of the passengers were Chinese residents. I would expect my government to stand up for their people.
Crunch all you want? We’ll make more??
I am surprised that the Chinese aren’t more upset about this, too…
Yeah, no one abuses or makes Chinese citizens disappear except the Chinese government!
I completely agree on both of these points. I trust that the NSA/CIA is tracking every international airliner at any given time.
^ Not really. Detection systems don’t work like that. It hasn’t dissapeared into ‘thin air’.
Why would the chinese give a damn? They understand human life is dirt cheap and they have nothing to gain here from posturing.
Really doubt that the US is tracking all flights in the Eastern hemisphere. However, if they did and they were tracking MH370, they would not tell us either, because then we would know they were tracking planes.
unless one of the Chinese was an important party member
China is sending ships to search for the plane. What else are they supposed to do? Bomb Malaysia?
We also don’t get much news coverage on China, since their press is not free and they don’t use English, so it’s harder for Reuters or whoever to copy/paste comments and news. But it’s not like there is no internal reaction, relatives camping at the airport, public gatherings, etc.
They couldn’t. No country has the capability to do it.
There are 25+ countries looking for this plane including China, France, Australia and India. I think we can put to bed the idea of a ‘cover up’. These countries have better things to do with their time and resources especially when Malaysia plays next to no role in geopolitics.
Turn it into a giant dirty bomb and crash it into a major city.
Yeah, I agree, China has been oddly calm about this…
I suspect that - except for stealth planes - the US probably does have the capability to track flights everywhere in the eastern hemisphere. The 5th and 7th fleet hangs around there. Support operations for Afghan Operations are there. It’s important to monitor that stuff. Missiles can go off between China and Taiwan, Japan and North Korea, India and Pakistan, Iran and Israel, Russian and Ukraine. There’s a lot of stuff to be tracked, and I think the US just wants to be quiet about how much they can track.
There are fewer planes in the air than there are cell phone communications going on, and the NSA tracks that, so I’m not convinced that the capability isn’t there. It may simply be that the people who would know aren’t ready to share that knowledge or admit that they have it in the first place.
A single ship-based Aegis Weapons System, which is more than 30 years old, can simultaneously track more than 100 targets at over 100 nautical miles. I imagine an airborne Aegis radar could expand that range by several multiples and find it hard to believe that China and India don’t use similar systems (if not stolen Aegis technology) to monitor the South China Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and signficant portions of the Indian Ocean.
don’t we have a bunch air force Hawkeye planes flying around that track a lot of airborne planes?
I forgot about the Hawkeye. According to wikipedia, each plane can track 2,000 targets at a range of 400 miles and the US is not the only one who has them. Singapore and Taiwan are notable non-US owners of Hawkeyes. Again, I find it very hard to believe that China and India do not have similar technology.
But isn’t there a difference between tracking a bunch of radar blips and translating that into useful data? If 2000 data points show up on US radar, are they actually syncing that with airline schedules, including delays, cancellations, bad weather diversions, and other factors that might change the pattern of air travel? Or do they just see 2000 planes that look like “business as usual”?
Also, even if the US or other countries has Aegis cruisers or radar planes, wouldn’t those things need to be deployed at certain specific locations (like in the Straits of Malacca), to track MH 370 if it had turned west? The US probably did not have a reason to monitor the border between Malaysian and Vietnam airspace, where MH 370 supposedly changed course. Even if they did have the technology to monitor this area, maybe they just thought it was not worse the expense. Also, what about flying at 9000 feet to try to go below radar?
There is always the possibility of conspiracy or countries witholding information. However, there is also another, bigger possibility that it’s just a big shit show and no one knows what they are doing.