MH 370: Missing Malaysian Airliner

[Peter Lemkin]

If true, then that means the hijackers were knowledgeable enough to realize the sat pings would restrict the search area, and technically adept enough to remove the black boxes from the plane before they sank it, and resourceful enough to arrange to drop them off the coast of Australia. I wonder if anyone has correlated the movements of the search ships and planes with the timing of the detection of the pings.

I don't think one would have to use that planes recorders to lay a false trail elsewhere....just have any plane's 'black box' or one that never was in a plane, or similar electronics that can take the pressure at that depth. From day one I have suspected that whoever did this were very professional and NOT just your ordinary hijackers. I don't see the motive of the crew to do this...so that leaves state actors and intelligence agencies, I think......motive is not clear at all.....but some government[s] are likely being blackmailed or threatened behind the scenes. As for the passengers, I don't think whoever did this cared - they were just people - collateral damage in a bigger game.

I concur. Personally, I have concluded that the whole southern arc thing to probably be a deception, or rather a deflection, aimed at turning the world's eye away from the likely resting place of the aircraft and passengers. And yes, I agree too on the state actors being the likely culprits.

But if some sort of blackmail or influence has been used to muddy the waters - and it does look possible - then who has the pull to do that?

then who has the pull to do that?

Would be a very short list - one that you could count on one hand, I think......based on the sophistication of the operation, not the blackmail.