Friday, March 21, 2014

This is easily the most compelling explanation I've seen so far for the strange behavior of missing Malaysia Airlines airliner flight 370.  Note that the suggested path flies very close to Iran, which suggests in turn that perhaps the two Iranian "smugglers" on the passenger list deserve some additional attention.  The remaining question, of course, is what (or more likely who) on the plane was so amazingly valuable as to be worth grabbing in such an elaborate and risky operation...

(UPDATE March 25, 2014:  The company that operates the satellite-based tracking system that received automated signals from the aircraft's engines during its flight has apparently performed a sophisticated analysis on those signals, and concluded that it actually flew south towards the Indian Ocean, rather than north towards Central Asia.  We are thus pointedly reminded--once again--that human behavior doesn't always have the most compelling explanation.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Very interesting speculation. The one aspect that he did not address is that if MH 370 indeed landed in one of those countries beyond India and Pakistan, it had to do so in a large airport, either civilian or military, and not in one of those jungle airstrips. It is inconceivable to me that such a landing with several hundred people on board could be kept a secret (unless those people were actually DOA). Even then, an unscheduled jumbo jet landing in a large airport must have been observed by a multitude of personnel, all of which cannot be trusted to keep their mouths shut.