I had fairly well concluded that the most likely cause was a fire disrupting the electrical and control systems, when CNN now say the sharp left turn was pre-programmed 12 minutes before sign off from Malaysian Air Traffic control, which was followed fairly quickly by that left turn.
CNN claim to have this from an US official, from data sent back before the reporting systems went off. It is hard to know what to make of it: obviously there are large economic interests that much prefer blame to lie with the pilots rather than the aircraft. But if it is true then the move was not a response to an emergency. (CNN went on to say the pilot could have programmed in the course change as a contingency in case of an emergency. That made no sense to me at all – does it to anyone else?)
I still find it extremely unlikely that the plane landed or crashed on land I cannot believe it could evade military detection as it flew over a highly militarized region. Somewhere there is debris on the ocean. There have been previous pilot suicides that took the plane with them; but the long detour first seems very strange and I do not believe is precedented. However if the CNN information on pre-programming is correct, and given it was the co-pilot who signed off to air traffic control, it is hard to look beyond the pilots as those responsible for whatever did happen. In fact, on consideration, the most improbable thing is that information CNN are reporting from the US official.
The FRENCH could use one of their aircraft carriers, they now own three, one nuclear powered, the other pair they made for the RUSSIANS but the AMERICANS banned the FRENCH from selling them.
Why should the FRENCH have to do what the AMERICANS tell them?
Lies, lies and more lies, says a man who lost his wife and children on MH370. Worth reading for the French search area map:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/07/mh370-crash-france-new-search-plane-debris-reunion
Did MH370 pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah try to save the plane?
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/did-mh370-pilot-captain-zaharie-ahmad-shah-try-to-save-the-plane/story-fniztvnf-1227473799894?sv=fe82f031d0dd99b752ed7fc46ba6be2e
French Deepen Role in MH370 Probe
Investigating judge plans travel to Malaysia as questions persist over wing section found on Réunion Island
http://www.wsj.com/articles/french-deepen-role-in-mh370-probe-1438987656
Me
I picked up the links from the Jeff Wise blog if anyone is interested in following the discussion there.
What the MH370 Wing Flap Tells Us, And What It Doesn’t
http://jeffwise.net/2015/08/04/new-york-what-the-mh370-wing-flap-tell-us-and-what-it-doesnt/#comments
Thanks for the info on Sy Gunson and his personal connection to the captain, Pink. Seems Gunson and the captain’s family members would agree that a character assassination has taken place. It is often the case in transportation accidents, that it is easy to blame those at the helm before the facts are in. This may be done for insurance purposes or to protect future business, or an attempt to hide those who may be responsible for other causes (like neglect), or simply a human need for blaming someone when something goes wrong. With the corrupt Malaysian government and the tall tales they tell, anything they say is suspect.
Anyone know if MALAYSIA has asked the people on DIEGO GARCIA
to keep a look out for MH370?
Heres a tomnodder who is still standing by his finds simon pops up here too he gets around.
https://plus.google.com/117087125068396306388/posts
A site debunking much of what has been said about MH370 debris:
https://sites.google.com/site/mh370debris/
BTW, the author admits to getting the drift patterns wrong, hidden at the bottom of this page:
https://sites.google.com/site/mh370debris/home/debris-images
I wonder why no media have attempted to connect this to the fate of MH370:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/malaysia-panel-wants-najib-to-explain-700-million-donation-1438788718
Mystery mangosteens and the man who is the MH370 mouthpiece, and all that. Why would anyone donate $700 million, not expecting anything in return? Answer: they wouldn’t.
Is this why Malaysia’s stance was to mislead?
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/najib-ticks-of-umno-leaders-for-attacks-after-using-donation-funds
May 2013: $618 million deposited to Najib Razak’s bank account. According to other reports, the bank where the funds were held took this in stride. No report to authorities was made about this large deposit. Malaysia must not have any money-laundering laws, or the bank chose to ignore them.
Naturally, Razak isn’t revealing the magnanimous source, nor has he answered questions about any strings attached to this gift.
Just 10 months later, MH370 vanished, and Razak and his government sent the search on a wild goose chase.
Were those mysterious, out-of-season mangosteens from Malaysia’s most corrupt port actually shipped on MH370, or was a substitute material placed in the uninspected container? And did the substitute material manage to disappear before the flight?
If you cross a magnanimous donor of $700 million, surely there are consequences.
Najib Razak’s interest in controlling the MH370 story personally may, of course, be unrelated to the current challenges in his political and public life.
Long story about Najib Razak’s Middle East middleman. Abu Dhabi mentioned many times.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/nyregion/jho-low-young-malaysian-has-an-appetite-for-new-york.html?referrer=
March 8, 2014 comes up coincidentally in this story about bank corruption in Malaysia and an alleged assassination:
http://www.sarawakreport.org/2015/07/my-father-died-for-reporting-corruption-at-ambank-exclusive-interview/
STRANGER & STRANGER
Reunion Island: The search plane FRANCE deployed to look for MH370 debris off Reunion Island was grounded on Saturday,
just a day after the country launched an expanded search operation in the Indian Ocean.
The CASA search plane also only flew one four-hour spotting sortie on Friday,
according to information published on the French government website, Etat-Major des Armées.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/mh370-debris-search-french-search-plane-grounded-despite-launch-of-expanded-operation-20150808-giusrc.html
A spokesperson for the FAZSOI, the military forces operating the search plane said the CASA was grounded Saturday because there had been no order to fly from the Island’s Prefect.
Reunion Island’s top state official, Prefect Dominique Sorain, has been designated in charge of the search operation by the French government.
The Prefect’s office could not be reached for comment.
That sounds like they have been asked to look no further, afraid of what my be uncovered?
So a petty prefectural bureaucrat can stop the search for MH370?
What does the international search team think of this, and do they have any influence?
Is this the work of Malaysia’s Najib Razak?
Has anyone asked the surviving family members of the passengers what they think?
Not looking good on Réunion Island, which is hungry for tourist dollars.
Have it your way, Dominique Sorain. Never mind Réunion. The Maldives have their own plane wreckage.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3191134/Has-MH370-debris-washed-Maldives-Investigators-examine-items-isles-locals-saw-low-flying-jet-day-plane-vanished.html
Reddit is having a field day with the Maldives wreckage.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MH370/comments/3g33vs/debris_found_at_vabbinfaru_resort_island_maldives/
Note strange reference on Reddit to allegations of Reunion Islanders selling plane debris online. Kijiji for mementos of 239 lives lost?
@Pink: Simon “Sy” Gunson certainly has pursued MH370 with dogged determination since this saga began. Some might even argue that the dog is rabid.
http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.ca/2014/12/simon-gunsons-failed-forray-into-court.html?m=1
South China Morning Post on Najib Razak’s challenges in the corruption scandal and MH370 issues:
http://m.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/1847983/how-missing-plane-and-graft-scandal-are-testing-malaysias-pm
Meanwhile, Forbes calls Razak a “dead man walking” and alludes to dangerousness and unpredictability.
Maybe Najib Razak will try to shut down Forbes and the South China Morning Post. Is $700 million enough to do that?
“Preposterous” in Malaysian media:
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/highlight/2015/07/09/wsj-not-the-best-example-of-honesty-and-virtue/
“Preposterous” in Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greglopez/2015/08/08/malaysias-prime-minister-a-dead-man-walking/
There is salt in the ocean, but is the ocean salted?
http://www.ibtimes.com/flight-mh370-malay-quran-found-during-reunion-island-plane-debris-search-2043780
Getting back to the Sarawak Report on the Ambank executive murder, take a look at the construction industry in Malaysia:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab554c.html
Was the murder/
assassination of Hussain Ahmad Najadi the real reason for Najib Razak censuring the Sarawak Report?
Which middle eastern person or entity donated a preposterous amount of money to Razak’s personal bank account, and did MH370 disappear as a result of that donation?
Explained less succinctly:
https://m.facebook.com/notes/anak-muda-benci-umno/bin-ladens-are-behind-a-lot-of-malaysian-projects/287454630684
How come with all the listening gear on DIEGO GARCIA
the AMERICANS/BRITISH don’t know nuthin?
http://www.asianewsnet.net/Riyadh-to-chip-in-for-Rohingya-76266.html
In June 2015, Rajib Nazak met with King Salman in Saudi Arabia and secured funding in principle for the Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrant issue. The migrants were abandoned by traffickers in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. The UAE has also decided to donate to this cause.
Coincidentally, the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea were strenuously avoided by the government of Malaysia in the search for MH370.
For more on King Salman, here’s one view:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/new-saudi-king-tied-to-al-qaeda-bin-laden-and-islamic-terrorism/5429307
It’s really too bad there was no inspection of the crate of out-of-season mangosteens loaded onto MH370. Most international airports shipping dubious crates of impossible fruit from ports of origin known to be corrupt would X-ray said cargo.
What is the rate of respiration for ripe fruit that cannot exist?
Aceh figures in this story, too:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32686328
Telegraph
Authorities in the Maldives are examining items washed up on four of their beaches, as the hunt for wreckage from MH370 continues.
“An object similar to the two-metre long “flaperon” wing fragment was discovered on the pristine beaches of honeymoon resort Banyan Tree Vabbinfaru, according to a local newspaper. The item was reportedly found in May, and is being analysed.
An official from the Maldives Police Service told Chinese news agency Xinhua that a police team, along with aviation experts, has begun investigating the piece of suspected plane debris, which was found on the beach of the private resort. According to local media reports, the piece is probably a plane part and measures five to seven inches long. It was not clear whether the part was from a Boeing 777 – the plane of MH370. “