MH 370: Missing Malaysian Airliner

[Steve Franklin]

Steve,

I didn't get how a 777 could be unnoticed at a major airport. The logic seems to be, 'What's another 777?'

I quickly looked at the website. Maybe you could spell it out a little bit? I'm probably missing something.

What I meant was that it would go unnoticed by the casual observer. Though I see no Central Asian destinations listed at their website, I can't imagine that anyone wandering around in the terminal would wonder about a Malaysian jetliner. How long did it take for the Malaysians to even tell the world there was a plane missing? So there would have been no one at that time of night who would even know about the disappearance. Of course, this doesn't go for the ground crew and the tower. There seems to be a general assumption abroad that the plane must have been hijacked by private individuals or the pilots acting alone. If there are state actors involved, it's not difficult to imagine them diverting the plane upon landing to a hanger far from the main terminal, as some have suggested happened with at least one of the 9/11 planes.

Of the two websites I linked to, the one from Duncan Steel attempts to demonstrate that the southern route is far from proved. Steel is an internationally known space scientist, astrobiologist, and astronomer, for what that is worth. I tend not to take authorities terribly seriously, but at least we can assume that his mathematics are solid.

Ledgerwood early on presented a hypothesis (I hesitate to call it a theory) that the Malaysian plane hid above and behind a Singaporean plane headed across India toward Europe and thus avoided radar detection. Again, this assumes the lack of state actors. Ledgerwood has dropped off of the radar, so to speak, since March 25, when he was waiting for data on the intervening satellite pings from the aircraft. Since then the general distances of these pings have become known, and Ledgerwood has failed to respond. But again, if there are state actors involved, I can imagine someone camouflaging the plane electronically so it looked like some other flight.

The problem I have with the southern route is that it seems awfully convenient for making the plane disappear, and not really useful for anything else. It doesn't fit any hijacking agenda I can think of, and no one has claimed responsibility, not even someone looking for exposure who wasn't actually involved. There are no ransom notes, no demands, no flights into tall buildings.

As for suicide, flying for hours into the south Indian Ocean seems rather pretentious to me. Why not just fly into the Vietnam jungle? I guess one could postulate that the Moslem religious proscription against suicide might cause someone to hide the crime in the deep ocean, but I just don't buy that.

I can just barely see a scenario where everyone died and the autopilot went through some really peculiar changes, but again, that sounds awfully convenient to me.

Until I see some really solid evidence, I have to assume that this event has something to do with the technical folks on board and/or something technologically significant in the cargo hold. I don't even rule out the possibility that the Chinese themselves diverted the plane and then flew it on to some secret location in China. The guy who gave his wedding ring to his wife could just as easily have known he was going to end up working on some long term secret project rather than having been planning to hijack the plane.