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I suspect it will remain that way, like many missing flights over the past 100 years. At least for the next 25 years until it is found by an autonomous underwater ‘bot’ that solves part of the mystery."Still unable to locate".
I suspect it will remain that way, like many missing flights over the past 100 years....
According to press reports, the aircraft began taxiing with no communication between the crew and the tower; maneuvering erratically, it entered a runway without clearance. With its lights off and its transponder not transmitting, 844AA took off to the southwest, and headed out over the Atlantic Ocean. The 727 and the two men have not been seen since.
Who was flying 844AA? Had something happened to make Padilla take that desperate chance? Or was someone waiting inside the airplane? Leased to deliver diesel fuel to diamond mines, the 727 carried 10 500-gallon fuel tanks and a few passenger seats in its cabin. Less than two years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 727’s freakish departure triggered a frantic search by U.S. security organizations for what intelligence sources said could have been a flying bomb.
“It was never [clear] whether it was stolen for insurance purposes…by the owners, or whether it was stolen with the intent to make it available to unsavory characters, or whether it was a deliberate concerted terrorist attempt. There was speculation of all three.”
Speculation that the theft of 844AA posed a terrorist threat ended, though it’s unclear why. Perhaps National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency technicians saw signs of a crash in satellite imagery—debris or an oil slick in the Atlantic, for example—or evidence that a large aircraft had landed on one of a half-dozen unpaved, 8,000-foot runways in the Congo, north of Angola. Agency spokesperson Susan Meisner would not comment, saying that the NGIA was not the lead agency in the case. (A CIA spokesperson also declined comment, as did a spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security. FBI agents also refused comment, citing national security concerns.)
Do you have a link?There was a wonderful presentation made by the ATSB hi the senate estimates yesterday. Articulated very well a lot of the assumptions made and the reasons why.
Do you have a link?
Thank you managed it was very interestingIt’s in several parts. If you google ‘senate inquiry youtube MH370’ it brings up all the videos, you just gotta select them in order.
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Ouuuhw, so at least one of them (or, more likely, both) are simply photoshopped. I really love funny internet memes- but the ones that are just fake, they suckThis is also doing the rounds.
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Probably both. I got mine from a friend and he confirms that he got it from someone else.Ouuuhw, so at least one of them (or, more likely, both) are simply photoshopped. I really love funny internet memes- but the ones that are just fake, they suck