You have to be pretty naive to think the US doesn’t have the capability to track airspace in the Eastern Hemisphere
The largest airline in the world in terms of fleet size is American Airlines with like 1500 planes. Overall we are talking about 20k airplanes. You are telling me we don’t ‘monitor’ them 24/7? Especially POST 9/11? Yea sure…
Well, the reality of US government operations is also budget cuts, bureuacracy, and lack of incentives to perform at every level. Consider the extreme unbelievable incompetence that is evident in some high publicity projects like the ACA website. My recent air travel experiences are illustrated by 10 (expensive) body scanners at JFK airport, but only 2 of them being staffed and working. The SEC probably could investigate twice as many fraud cases if their employees weren’t sitting around watching potn. I’m sure the US *could* monitor all flights in all regions of the world if it was really their #1 priority, but I just don’t think this is the case.
I wouldn’t expect the US to be constantly monitoring that area, but I would think that China and India do. At the time, I wouldn’t expect the Chinese military to pay much attention to a plane that turned away, but I find it hard to believe that they don’t have their radar records from that night showing every plane that entered or left the South China Sea or the Gulf of Thailand. Likewise, I would expect India to have a record of every plane that entered or exited the Bay of Bengal and the northern portion of the Indian Ocean. Perhaps I’m overestimating capabilities, but I’d like to think that the US monitors everything that gets within a few hundred miles of the US coast.
How do you explain NSA monitoring everyone in the US? I am sure that isn’t their #1 priority either but resources are being spent on it.
I think they are ‘monitoring’ everything just not actively analyzing it. But I am sure it is being recorded and stored somewhere… specifically for events like this. They can just go back and review
Ok, China being secrety is much more plausible, particularly since this plane was going to China and the Chinese always do stuff like this. It’s still possible that the Chinese don’t know anything, of course. If a plane from Bolivia going to Texas got lost in the ocean between Guatemala and Nicaragua, I’m sure the US will realize the plane did not show up. However, will the US know at one point the plane turned off course, and will they realize this without any significant delay? That’s a bigger question.
If some random plane showed up 100 miles off the US coast, then yes, I am sure they will do something. Half way around the world in what US security considers some backwater region… eh…
My point is just that the US is constrained by budget issues and there is a hole in any coverage network. It is cheaper, more internationally defensible, and higher priority for the NSA to monitor data that is relevant to domestic terrorism (cellular data, for instance). Overseas, they might monitor the lines of some important people (Angela Merkel), but they are probably not tracking every German phone call. It’s certainly possible that the US tracks planes in South East Asia. However, it is also possible that this fell into a coverage gap. There are potentially more coverage gaps in US monitoring of air traffic in South East Asia, since this region is far away from domestic terrorism, and there are political and cost issues with operating US surveillance ships and planes in other countries.
My theory based on nothing.
Someone aboard was compromised and either paid, threatened, or both by a very evil group who wanted the plane. Per their command, the person took hold of the plane and flew it as instructed to a specific location. As they diverted their path, they depressurized the cabin to kill all witnesses aboard. Yes, the oxygen masks drop, but they only last for so long.
Now the evil group has the plane and are in the process of turning it into a dirty bomb. Once the smoke from the search begins to settle. They plane will take off once again and hit a major landmark equal to 9/11 proportions.
It makes zero sense that crash debris has not been located in the ocean, land, and so forth. This evil terrorist group has the plane and they are keeping it hidden until they fly it away for an attack.
This shit just got real!
American detection systems while probably the most sophisticated in the world do not ‘track’ each and every plane flying in the eastern hemisphere.
They recive data in blips not in a continuous picture and they would not know the paths of each and every commercial airliner so a random flight changing paths need not have raised a red flag because they’re not crosschecking whats happening with each and every thing. They’re just concerned if its entering sensitive territory or not.
Depending on the duration of time between which they recieve the data and the point at which people realized the plane was missing the volume of data generated would have been massive and the plane could have been anywhere so it’s not that hard to figure that the location of the plane has been narrowed to certain reigons not an exact point.
There is no way that the plane has landed somewhere because we have already identified the runways that this plane could have landed on and we’ve backchecked their records.
Really, it isn’t that long ago that India exploded a fusion bomb and 4 fission ones without raising flags of detection systems around the world.
The planes at the bottom of the ocean, nothing more nothing less and there is no cover up or the USA not letting on what they know or any such garbage
^ yea? all the runways have been checked? is a terrorist runway going to hand over exactly what landed and when?
A ‘terrorist’ runway? What’s that?
Unless you mean a terrorist group have built a runway in the middle of nowhere large enough to land a 777 without drawing attention of the authorities that yeah sure.
Maybe the plane’s on its way to los angeles after developing super stealth tech that far surpasses anything that the world has ever seen. In fact maybe its already crashed into hollywood and it’s so super stealth that no one knows about it yet.
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s military said Tuesday that its radar detected a plane that may have been Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 just minutes after the jetliner’s communications went down, and that it didn’t share the information with Malaysia earlier because it wasn’t specifically asked for it.
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Thanks Thailand.
why would a terriorist hijack a plane and not define their target? are they trying to plot a sherlock holmes mystery for us to solve?
Terriorism is looking a bit unlikely at this point, as there is no definite victim or target we can see, it’s just a random plane with random people on it.
and to say that a cover-up is not possible because no one gives a damn about Malyasia… well i think this is involving everyone BUT malyasia possibly. Think about it, if this is NOT a big cover up, why would so many countries be involved? if this is just a normal plane crash, would you find 25 countries seaching for it?
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Dudette, what cover up? By whom?
If it’s by Malaysia then they would have kept it as wrapped up as possible. The other countries would have picked up on something and stopped wasting their time.
If you believe there is a cover up by 25 countries involving one commercial airliner then well i don’t know what to say. Actually i do, but you’re too nice so i won’t say it.
^ well clearly they HAD BEEN covering up and holdign information from the public since day 1!
this is not a consipracy like “oh perhaps they know more information but unwilling to release it!” but they are confirming now that they had information contrary to what they said but they had been leading us to believe the plane was POSSIBLY exploded or deteriorated in mid air, and it the signal was dropped midway through their normal course around vietnam… NONE of this turned out to be correct.
So yes, they have already covered up part of the true story!
^ well clearly they HAD BEEN covering up and holdign information from the public since day 1!
this is not a consipracy like “oh perhaps they know more information but unwilling to release it!” but they are confirming now that they had information contrary to what they said but they had been leading us to believe the plane was POSSIBLY exploded or deteriorated in mid air, and it the signal was dropped midway through their normal course around vietnam… NONE of this turned out to be correct.
So yes, they have already covered up part of the true story!
I suspect the plane is going to be loaded with some very toxic stuff, take off, and crash into it’s target.
Sounds like the movie: executive decision.
maybe they plan to load a huge bomb on the plane, using the cover of hostages to force their landing somewhere… say san francisco? and the US govt would have to shoot down the commercial airliner, or risk a big kaboom. Both of which look pretty dang bad. It’s the ultmate evil. doing harm to your enemy by making your enemy harm himself.
it’s evil. but brilliant.
I think the issue is that they get a bunch of radar signals that can be interpreted several ways, and it takes them a while to conclusively determine what the signals mean. So, it might not be that the Malaysian military or others are intentionally witholding information. They just don’t know what to say until a while later. Probably also because the Malaysian military sucks at radar, and doing military stuff in general.