Could missing Malaysian Airlines flight be a case of terrorism?

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Grandluxe

2 hours 45 minutes ago

Authorities have yet to confirm the identities of two more European passengers on flight MH370, adding to two others using stolen passports in the Malaysia Airlines plane which vanished over the Malaysia-Vietnam maritime border yesterday.

The Malaysian Insider understands that all four had bought their flight tickets from China Southern Airlines, the Malaysia Airlines codeshare partner for the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route.

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12.41am on Saturday and was expected to land in Beijing at 6.30am, a 3,700km journey but it never arrived.

The Daily Telegraph's Beijing correspondent Malcolm Moore wrote in his Twitter microblog that the Chinese airline had sold seven tickets for the redeye flight, which carried 239 people, including 12 crew members, when it vanished.

At the time of its disappearance, the Malaysia Airlines plane was carrying about 7½ hours of fuel, an airline official said.

The flag carrier, rated as one of the safest in the world, was piloted by a veteran, 53-year-old Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah who has 18,365 flying hours and joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981.

http://my.news.yahoo.com/two-more-e...ect-identities-onboard-missing-005206266.html

Now discovered 4 of them traveled on stolen passports. A case of terrorists hijacking gone awry?
 
WASHINGTON — The FBI is deploying agents and technical experts to assist in investigating the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet, based on the American citizenship of three of the passengers aboard the lost flight, a top federal law enforcement official in Washington said Saturday.

He said that a fourth passenger, whom he described as an infant flying with the three Americans, also may be a U.S citizen.

"This gives us entree" to the case, the official said, speaking confidentially because the FBI investigation is just beginning. "But so far what happened is a mystery."

U.S. officials said they are looking at whether this could be terrorism, as they would with any plane crash until proved otherwise

http://www.latimes.com/world/worldn...es-jet-20140308,0,5571373.story#ixzz2vQwVdpBL
 
It was terrorism but Obama is on vacation so the official announcement won't come till Obama finishes his Sunday round of golf.


Then again, maybe it isn't terrorism at all and someone blew up the airplane because of a video depicting Islam in a negative light. I think this is the most reasonable explanation.
 
"Vietnamese officials claim to have seen a door floating in the water, as well as two large oil slicks." Very sad.
 
LEAPup said:
Probably was some terror lunacy. Sad to hear about.
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Disintegrated at 35,000 ft?:eek: Wouldn't debris be easily found if it got destroyed that high?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/09/us-exclusive-probe-plane-idUSBREA280FF20140309
Sun Mar 9, 2014 12:20pm EDT

(Reuters) - Officials investigating the disappearance of a Malaysian airliner with 239 people on board are narrowing the focus of their inquiries on the possibility that it disintegrated mid-flight, a senior source said on Sunday.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished after climbing to a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing in the early hours of Saturday. Search teams have not been able to make any confirmed discovery of wreckage in seas beneath the plane's flight path almost 48 hours after it took off.

"The fact that we are unable to find any debris so far appears to indicate that the aircraft is likely to have disintegrated at around 35,000 feet," said the source, who is involved in the preliminary investigations in Malaysia.
 
It's out there somewhere. I'd say once they can pinpoint where the plane vanished from radar, that's still probably going to have ships, and spotter planes searching several hundred square miles of ocean. Probably not an easy task. Our resident pilot here would be the one to chime in about this. I do find it quite odd that the two with stolen passports happened to check in at the same time together.
 
Lucrum said:
Me too.
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Damn! They've still not found a single piece of debris yet. I'm wondering if air traffic control even has an idea where the plane went missing.:confused:
Something doesn't come close to passing the smell test...
 
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