The report I saw stated that the number of travelers with false documents is near a billion -- that seems super high to me, but many millions annually by most estimates. It appears that only the U.S., U.K. and Israel actually match passports against the Interpol "stolen" database

Flights departing from other nations are on their own...

I've been to Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia (which has the world's largest Muslim population, including many folks that have no use for westerners), but I'm not pointing fingers, I'm just about possibilities and capabilities.

Dollars to donuts everything is being looked at, including how feasible an Entebbe style raid on GITMO would be, if you just had a big enough plane -- of course, folks with the financing for something like that could just buy an aircraft without making all this public fuss...

On the Alaska example, TheSquealer is quite correct in that landing an aircraft on a short runway is a very different challenge than taking off again -- but I've been to Saba as well, and when it's a choice of "fly or die" wishful thinking has a certain anti-gravity effect :1orglaugh

The worst experience i ever had actually was being in a twin engine Navajo and as we climbed over a mountain range, there were these very loud bangs. really loud. Like muffled gun shots. Boom!..... Boom!...... Boom!... then nothing..... then 10 minutes later Boom!.

Pretty scary to be in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of winter in a plane with a poor glide ratio, in the mountains feeling like at any moment, its going to have some sort of catastrophic failure.

Turned out, we had a few 1000.00 of groceries and bags of potato chips were exploding as the cabin pressure decreased.


I would also add that if someone wanted a commercial jet for nefarious purposes as people suggest, its far easier to just steal one from a defunct airline, a company/private party or one that was repossessed and parked at some airport in some country no one cares about and so on. The world is littered with them.. Then its just a missing plane that another creditor might have taken possession of. It's not a practical solution to steal and hide a loaded commercial passenger plane and make it a world news story and attract every governments attention, endless searches, have military's searching, satellites searching etc.

Good point - unless you wanted the passengers to boost the carnage and body count.

There was an interesting comment posted to this news story:


http://nationalreport.net/aliens-abd...-flight-mh370/
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What I believed to have happened to flight MH370, was that it collided with a thin layer of volcanic ash near the upper atmosphere at the altitude of 35000ft that drifted across from Mount Sinabung Indonesia Volcano that erupted 2 days prior killing 16 people and injuring many others. During the first day of the eruptions the winds carried the Mt Sinabung Volcanic ash to the West / North West of the island at an altitude of 12000ft or more, but then during the 7th of March the winds shifted 050 degrees (or similar) and was carried east across to the Gulf of Thailand as it drifted higher in the atmosphere.
As the pressure dropped that night above the Gulf of Thailand the thin layer must have dropped into the flight path of flight MH370, which would explain the mystery ‘static mumbling’ noise the ‘no-named’ pilot heard coming from the First Officer of MH370 before shortly losing contact.
At this moment I believe some form of electrostatic charge from the ash particles colliding with the aircraft disabled the communications of the 777, and in the meantime, the volcanic ash built up in the two Rolls Royce engines causing multiple engine fires and failures.
The electrostatic charge could of made it hard for the communications to emit a signal or rendered the hardware in the cockpit disabled.
As for the no wreckage of the 777 there could be only one explanation…
I believe the Senior Captain with his 19000 flight hours of experience, did his best to make an emergency water landing with no engines thrusting at all in pitch black darkness above the Gulf, which I believe he was successful at attempting with his decades of captaining, but, unfortunately and disastrously, the 777 sunk or the hull was breached upon impact, causing a torrent of water to flood the cabin at such a rate that it was pulled down by the weight of the ocean water, before the flight crew could open the doors perform evacuation procedures.
It is so sad what has happened, but when the wreckage is found, the authorities will have most of the victims of that flight accounted for so that the families can find resolution .
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The Chinese have found large pieces of something in the water, they think it may be the crashed plane. It's in line with the flight path.

Just watching that now - I'm almost disappointed - There was a 0.001% chance that the people were still alive and would have an amazing story to tell...

I expect this is it - Leave it to the Chinese to ruin a good conspiracy.....

So what about that thing of plane changing its course?

hijackers will blame the programmer.

shut the fuck up :upsidedow

Check out this link to get a better idea of what the search area:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...ian-air-scale/

The Chinese were wrong as well - Back to square one...

strange thing of course

Turns out they were wrong. :Oh crap

The Malaysian military now says they didn't say they tracked it further.

This is turning into a bit of a cluster fuck.

http://worldtruth.tv/missing-malaysi...-not-answered/

several people are reporting being able to get through to cell phones

News that's a few days old again but I haven't seen this it answered yet, what would normally happen to each of the 19 phones in that part of the world, with the respective carriers if someone phoned them? Should you get a ringing tone or a message or what?

the days old news was just one family, that article is now reporting several

it says 'getting through'.. so vm? ringing?

Does not sound like reputable source judging from other news they have.

Over here they reported 19 families, 60 hours or so ago. Different carriers and roaming services no doubt handle the calls differently.

I know that when I am in the UK and my phone is out of battery the caller doesn't get a ring tone but if I am in Europe it will ring, which is only the roaming service or carrier trying to connect.

Nothing happens. The ringing is the network searching for the phone. It doesn't mean the phone itself is ringing. This has been discussed extensively in the news, yet people who want to believe in retarded conspiracy theories continue to attempt to add some meaning to it.

does 'ringing' mean 'getting through'?

US officials now believe the plane may have been stolen "with the intention of using it later for another purpose." They also say an engine communications system on the plane was pinging a satellite for 4-5 hours after it went missing, which pretty much rules out a crash at sea.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...34653903086282



But Malaysia says the engine did not continue communicating with the satellite....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...formation.html

Hoping this isn't the case...

i saw on the front page of one of the national newspapers here all the id card pictures of the passengers - i think they published all the passengers faces. i just was thinking how the media got that information so fast from the airline or customs office or whatever, i would have thought they wouldn't have released that and not for a price.