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So...

The theories have already begun. On this one, definitely something not quite right. The chain of events makes no sense.

- Malaysian Government announces the flight has been lost due to a mechanical/human failure.
- Malaysian Airlines who are in financial struggles are so dismayed by the official line, since it just about leads them into bankruptcy, leaks information to show that the plane diverted from its route to assuage claims of mechanical/human failure.
- Conclusive evidence shows the plane flew for 5 hours in completely the wrong direction, and its communications devices were switched off by professionals - it didn't go dark due to an impact.
- No-one can find any concrete evidence of wreckage, bodies etc.
- American intelligence confirms the plane was hijacked.
- After 17 days Malaysia's government simply states, to paraphrase, "British data experts have confirmed the plane disappeared at a specific point over the Indian Ocean, all lives have been lost," without attempting to explain the diversions in flight path (the first of which was a U-Turn back to Malaysia, the second heading into the Indian Ocean far away from any landing sites.)

What the fuck is missing from this picture?

A plane.

Some bodies.

An explanation for the flight path deviation.

The hijackers?

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The media hyping it up constantly, giving it first priority. Perhaps to distract their viewers from the Crimea situation and how embarassing that is for Western governments.
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Almost certainly, yeah.
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Blinge wrote:The media hyping it up constantly, giving it first priority. Perhaps to distract their viewers from the Crimea situation and how embarassing that is for Western governments.
did you notice how the lamestream media kept talking about flight mh370 instead of benghazi? (actual fox news talking point from bill o'reilly)

it's actually possible to cover more than one news story at a time. and unfortunately, most americans (and i'm sure other countrymen as well, but i can only speak for the cretins i know) would rather hear about the missing plane than try to wrap their heads around the intricacies of the crimean situation. suffice to say most people here didn't need to be distracted from crimea, as they weren't all that interested anyway. well, with the exception of the fox news crowd, who basically came away with "why can't that community organizer Oblunder be a strong leader like Putin?"
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is the american right pissed yet that they didn't get crimea?
probably for the better though; i hear it's full of foreigners.


on the news here most days it's crimea before HM370.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_ ... sumed_lost

I feel bad for the families that were notified via text message...

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It is safe to assume that the communications were shut down by the pilots. Whether they did so of their own free will is the question. They may have been coerced by hijackers, who would have dictated their change of course and their actions following the communications shut down. Another possibility is a murder-suicide carried out by the pilot(s). Perhaps the pilots were forced to follow the instructions of hijackers who intended to use the plane as a weapon in a way similar to the attacks on 9/11, or to hold the passengers hostage. If it were the former, and if the hijackers did not understand how to operate the plane or understand the logistics of finding a specific target, the pilots may have deceived them by taking the flight on a course away from the hijackers target and sacrifice themselves to protect the intended target.

One thing for sure, is that not enough information is available to do any more than speculate, and it seems to me like the Malaysian airline and government are trying to minimize damage that could tarnish their reputation.
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I stopped even trying to follow this story. Too frustrating. It's like trying to figure out which carnival game is the least rigged by asking the carnies running the booths. None of the sources seem trustworthy or unbiased.
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The real question is why Malaysia refused to release the full flight manifest. The fact that they put on a search for so long probably means they assumed it was hijacked and landed on an island somewhere in the middle of the Indian ocean. Around where Deigo Garcia is. Maybe it got shot down on the approach there and its too embarrassing for the US military to say so? We will probably never know what happened.

As sad as it is for the families though, Blinge is on the money. This story distracted people long enough not to focus on what is really happening in Ukraine, so when the focus is switched back they have a completely disconnected narrative, just like the aggression by Georgia on Ossetia and the Chinese olympics. By the time the olympics ended, coverage switched back and every Economist-BBC-CNN watcher/reader/consumer believed that Russia attacked Georgia unprovoked and that Georgia actually put up a good fight. By the time focus is adjusted back from this hyped up situation, focus will switch back to Crimea where it will be presented as a second Sudetenland.
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austere wrote:As sad as it is for the families though, Blinge is on the money. This story distracted people long enough not to focus on what is really happening in Ukraine, so when the focus is switched back they have a completely disconnected narrative, just like the aggression by Georgia on Ossetia and the Chinese olympics. By the time the olympics ended, coverage switched back and every Economist-BBC-CNN watcher/reader/consumer believed that Russia attacked Georgia unprovoked and that Georgia actually put up a good fight. By the time focus is adjusted back from this hyped up situation, focus will switch back to Crimea where it will be presented as a second Sudetenland.
you guys don't seem to realize that the "economist-bbc-cnn" crowd don't really care anyway. if that plane didn't disappear, they probably would be posting bullshit on facebook, still not paying attention to ukraine. anybody actually interested had a slew of independent sources to check out to find out whats going on. expecting mainstream news to properly tackle a complex story in this day and age is just foolishness. the old news adage of "if it bleeds it leads" has been taken to the extreme. 250 potentially dead people is a lot closer to blood than protestors/unmarked soldiers/secession. no distraction necessary. people are mostly uninterested.
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glitch wrote:is the american right pissed yet that they didn't get crimea?
probably for the better though; i hear it's full of foreigners.


on the news here most days it's crimea before HM370.
nah. they are more pissed off that we haven't declared war on russia. the talking point is that obama is a weak leader who can't even stand up to putin. and putin is such a manly man, what with not owning any shirts and having all kinds of cool guns. secretly, i think they are all jacking off about how white putins' skin is as well. that darky we got is destroying 'murika.
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I actually completely agree with you, I don't expect the Sesame street media to tackle really pressing issues with any kind of depth. The Australian media will only run something if it has a human story. Nothing beats weeping families at an airport from an airline a lot of us frequent...
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I for one am certainly finding the business with Crimea difficult to follow thanks to the focus on MH370. It's dropped off all the TV stations except for sometimes SBS from what I can see here, and when I look up what's the fuss with Crimea I get this:

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I'm also a little troubled Poklonskaya has a disturbingly uncanny resemblance to one of my former personal worst enemies despite having no relation at all whatsoever and a 12+ year age gap, but let's not get sidetracked here. This MH370 stuff reeks of conspiracy-making material, I'm already seeing tabloid articles on TV about the ship getting taken by aliens. :roll:
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Mystery solved.

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^ Well that explains it.

The rumour mill in China is buzzing with several hypotheses and theories. One of the ones focusing more on the hijacking is that the pilot was linked to a Muslim faction demanding the release of a member (or leader?) Imprisoned by the Malaysian govt. in January.

They used the plane as a bargaining chip for his release, which apparently explains why the plane U-turned back toward Malaysia during discussions between the plane and Malay powers, and then deviated again due to an assumed disagreement. Also suggests the pilot shut down communications professionally and why the Malaysian govt. aren't interested in black box info being recovered by a third party (if indeed they allowed the plane to crash at the expense of retaining their political prisoner.)

Also the pilot took a three minute call right before taking off. Speculation says it was a farewell call from his wife, but the Malay officials aren't releasing it to the public or describing its relevance (if any).
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lol at people thinking anything happens by design (ever, not just "anymore")

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I'm trying to remember the other speculative side story. Something to do with a Russian internal report suggesting there was a cargo on the plane that was of enough value to have the US Navy 'kidnap' and redirect the plane to a landing point around Deigo Garcia.

Oh, and some other one about one of the Chinese passengers being a high level intelligence hacker or something.
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To hell with hax3rz, China needs analysts and people with engineering knowledge to reverse-engineer all those things that fall into their laps...
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the conspiracy theory i heard was that a certain number of passengers were involved with a company that deals with cloaking technology.
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I'm still with the UFO/opposite Bermuda triangle theory.
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Lots of people have no idea what they're talking about in this thread.
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There was never a plane, its all smoke and mirrors....
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latest announcement from the Malaysian Government: "plane? what plane?"
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"A Malaysian team have told relatives of Chinese passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 that there was sealed evidence that cannot be made public.... The sealed evidence included air traffic control radio transcript, radar data and airport security recordings."

http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-sto ... -made-publ

Looks like there's still info they're holding back. Probably related to a criminal investigation .. uh oh.
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It's clear that Malaysian airline's CEO is a huge fan of Lost.
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This could finally be the beginning of extraterrestrial life's first contact with us.
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oh my :shock:

before you know it we're gonna be needing some brave lone pilot to fend off the invasion.

volunteers? :lol:
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glitch wrote:oh my :shock:

before you know it we're gonna be needing some brave lone pilot to fend off the invasion.

volunteers? :lol:
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Geez.

I appreciate the mystery is thought provoking, but poor taste perhaps? Nearly three-hundred dead people and a lot of grief for families left in the dark. I didn't open an opinion thread to be a bulletin board for low-brow humour.
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