Malaysian Airlines MH370 contact lost
Thanks to all contributing in a meaningful way to this incredible situation!
It would seem to me inconceivable, after 911, with all the money thrown at trying to mitigate risks etc, that NRO/NSA etc don't have programmes to monitor aircraft movements around the world (and I don't mean through fr23!) - they mandated secure cockpit doors against threats of hijacking but didn't have policies on place to know the whereabouts of an aircraft with it's comms switched off?
I suspect we are now in a phase of the US and others quietly leaking/pushing the Malaysians and others into finding this thing with hints , clues etc as they replay and analyse their satellite swoops (hint the indications today). Completely agree that the likes of china and the us won't be in a rush to reveal their abilities but you get to a point that this starts looking so bad it's unreal!
If this plane did somehow land all in tact what in earth could be the point? To fly it somewhere into something? In which case you could just do that in the first plane on a scheduled route.
If the plane was intended to crash, why turn off comms? Surely a terrorist attack is only "effective" if it's publicised. Or is this the ultimate riddle to show how things aren't in control?
Is this a hijacking gone wrong? They turned off stuff then the pilots created hypoxia to trh and incapacitate the jackers, but then crash into the sea (North) 4 hours later?
First change that will happen after this calms down: live, "tamper proof" blackbox feedback. And I suspect those passport databases will be getting checked a bit more too (even if in his case they they turn out to be irrelevant)