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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 03:49 PM Jun 2015

The Search for MH370 Unravels

Finally Sir Tim Clark, the head of Emirates Airlines, which operates the world’s largest fleet of 777s, said last week, “It will be an Amelia Earhart repetition” and compared the search to a “goose chase.”


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In an interview last year with German newsmagazine Der Spiegel he said, “All the ‘facts’ of this particular incident must be challenged and examined with full transparency. We are nowhere near that.”

This week, in an interview in Miami with a reporter from the Sydney Morning Herald, he said, “I am not going to say anything about what I think happened. It remains an unsolved mystery. Somebody knows more about this than they are prepared to say.”

In other words, Sir Tim is implying that there has been a cover-up. But of what?

Having attempted to parse Sir Tim’s frequent and deftly phrased provocations, I suspect that he believes that human action in the cockpit was responsible for what happened, either by the pilots or by intruders. He has also said that to successfully execute such an operation would require more technical knowledge than any of his own hundreds of 777 pilots possess.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/14/the-search-for-mh370-unravels.html

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The Search for MH370 Unravels (Original Post) jakeXT Jun 2015 OP
I really have to wonder if perhaps the islanders who reported seeing the plane prior to its crash hlthe2b Jun 2015 #1
They feel ignored jakeXT Jun 2015 #2
Alright, I wanna ask a serious question without being called a CT Reter Jun 2015 #3
Fudged? jakeXT Jun 2015 #4
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2015 #5

hlthe2b

(106,365 posts)
1. I really have to wonder if perhaps the islanders who reported seeing the plane prior to its crash
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 04:00 PM
Jun 2015

far far away from the search zones, should not have been discounted so (apparently) readily...

 

Reter

(2,188 posts)
3. Alright, I wanna ask a serious question without being called a CT
Sat Jun 20, 2015, 11:50 AM
Jun 2015

Why are they only looking in the ocean? Why do people think it must be in the ocean?

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
4. Fudged?
Sat Jun 20, 2015, 02:57 PM
Jun 2015

There remains only one publically available piece of evidence linking the plane to the southern Indian Ocean: a report issued by the Malaysian government on March 25 that described a new analysis carried out by the U.K.-based satellite operator Inmarsat. The report said that Inmarsat had developed an “innovative technique” to establish that the plane had most likely taken a southerly heading after vanishing. Yet independent experts who have analyzed the report say that it is riddled with inconsistencies and that the data it presents to justify its conclusion appears to have been fudged.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/04/mh370_inmarsat_the_fuzzy_math_behind_the_search_for_the_missing_airliner.html

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