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• Bellinghman commented on Circumstantial connections
  I think the idea was that a) A big mobile tube connected to the airbridge, and took away the passengers. Obviously, this tube is effectively a fully fitted out fuselage with wings visible through its windows from inside to lull the passengers, because otherwise a ruckus would be raised. Either that, or the airbridge itself was faked, and none of the passengers had ever used that gate before. b) The Bizjet sneaks out from behind a hanger to do the flight and does the whole transponder thing. It need never have gone near the airbridge. In the detective story, this...
• paws4thot commented on Circumstantial connections
  I think this requires connivence in the tower. Not onl is there my job which gives me an idea of airfield operations, but I've talked with tower controllers, and someone there would have to know about the swap. At this point I'm not wondering "What happened to the passengers?" because finding 300ish people who "want to disappear" isn't that much of a stretch compared with finding several ground staff and ATC who are sufficiently corrupt to support the airfield operations required. Once you're wheels up with the right squack and pilots who're controlling the performance to match the type they're...
• Greg. Tingey commented on A hypothesis
  Conspiracy theory time Probably, it's actually just yet another demonstration of the gross incompetence of the Malaysian "authorities". They all too claerly haven't leanrt yet about public information in the information age. Pathetic. There has also been a reminder of a similar event 37 years ago .......
• Andreas Vox commented on A hypothesis
  Conspiracy theory time When isn't? ;-) But I'm not surprised that some of the stuff is sealed: we already know that military doesn't like to give radar data away, and airport security recordings would need to be protected for privacy reasons (and/or security reasons - you don't want everyone to know exactly what is recorded by airport security when and where and how). Similar might be true for flight traffic transcripts, although I think the MH370 relevant parts should be released....
• Greg. Tingey commented on A hypothesis
  Oh dear... Anwar Ibrahim has spoken out Shit-hits-fan time methinks. ...he had personally authorised the installation of “one of the most sophisticated radar” systems in the world, based near the South China Sea and covering Malaysia’s mainland and east and west coastlines, when he was the country’s finance minister in 1994. and He knew the pilot, personally & has called for ... an international commitee to take over the Malaysian-led operation, because the "integrity of the whole nation is at stake" Should stir the pot, just a little?...