Six Important Facts You’re Not Being Told About Lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370:
There are some astonishing things
you’re not being told about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the flight that
simply vanished over the Gulf of
Thailand with 239 people on board.
The mystery of the flight’s sudden
and complete disappearance has even the world’s top air safety authorities
baffled. “Air-safety and anti-terror authorities on two continents appeared
equally stumped about what direction the probe should take,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
While investigators are baffled, the mainstream media isn’t
telling you the whole story, either. So I’ve assembled this collection of facts
that should raise serious questions in the minds of anyone following this
situation.
• Fact #1: All Boeing 777
commercial jets are equipped with black box recorders that can survive any
on-board explosion
No explosion from the plane itself can destroy the black box
recorders. They are bomb-proof structures that hold digital recordings of
cockpit conversations as well as detailed flight data and control surface data.
• Fact #2: All black box recorders transmit
locator signals for at least 30 days after falling into the ocean
Yet the black box from this
particular incident hasn’t been detected at all. That’s why investigators are
having such trouble finding it. Normally, they only need to “home in” on the
black box transmitter signal. But in this case, the absence of a signal means
the black box itself — an object designed to survive powerful explosions — has
either vanished, malfunctioned or
been obliterated by some powerful force beyond the worst fears of aircraft
design engineers.
• Fact #3: Many parts of destroyed aircraft are naturally bouyant
and will float in water
In past cases of aircraft destroyed
over the ocean or crashing into the ocean, debris has
always been spotted floating on the surface of the water. That’s because — as
you may recall from the safety briefing you’ve learned to ignore — “your seat
cushion may be used as a flotation device.”
Yes, seat cushions float. So do many
other non-metallic aircraft parts. If Flight 370 was
brought down by an explosion of some sort, there would be massive debris
floating on the ocean, and that debris would not be difficult to spot. The fact
that it has not yet been spotted only adds to the mystery of how Flight 370
appears to have literally vanished from the face of the Earth.
• Fact #4: If a missile
destroyed Flight 370, the missile would have left a radar signature
One theory currently circulating on
the ‘net is that a missile brought down the airliner, somehow blasting the aircraft and
all its contents to “smithereens” — which means very tiny pieces of matter that
are undetectable as debris.
The problem with this theory is that
there exists no known ground-to-air or air-to-air missile with such a
capability. All known missiles generate tremendous debris when they explode on
target. Both the missile and the debris produce very large radar signatures which would be easily visible to
both military vessels and air traffic authorities.
• Fact #5: The location of the
aircraft when it vanished is not a mystery
Air traffic controllers have full details of almost exactly
where the aircraft was at the moment it vanished. They know the location,
elevation and airspeed — three pieces of information which can readily be used
to estimate the likely location of debris.
Remember: air safety investigators
are not stupid people. They’ve seen mid-air explosions before, and they know
how debris falls. There is already a substantial data set of airline explosions
and crashes from which investigators can make well-educated guesses about where
debris should be found. And yet, even armed with all this experience and
information, they remain totally baffled on
what happened to Flight 370.
• Fact #6: If Flight 370 was
hijacked, it would not have vanished from radar
Hijacking an airplane does not cause it to simply vanish from
radar. Even if transponders are disabled on the aircraft, ground radar can
still readily track the location of the aircraft using so-called “passive”
radar (classic ground-based radar systems that emit a signal and monitor its
reflection).
Thus, the theory that the flight was hijacked makes no sense
whatsoever. When planes are hijacked, they do not magically vanish from radar.
by MIKE ADAMS
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