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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDU experts what have you heard about Ft370
There's a lot of nonsense out there but all we have are rumors.
Is any of this madness connected?
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DU experts what have you heard about Ft370 (Original Post)
malaise
Jul 2014
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Little Star
(17,055 posts)1. Haven't heard a thing in a long while. Are they....
still searching? I would think they are but who knows.
malaise
(268,987 posts)3. I don't even know if they know where to search
Can you imagine those families every day of the week wondering about their loved ones.
DinahMoeHum
(21,786 posts)2. When in doubt, "Ask The Pilot"
http://www.askthepilot.com
Patrick Smith explains aviation matters without sensationalism.
He has had clashes with the MSM in the past - back in March, CNN invited him to interview on matters regarding the disappearance of MH370 and the interview never aired - left on the cutting room floor.
Patrick Smith explains aviation matters without sensationalism.
He has had clashes with the MSM in the past - back in March, CNN invited him to interview on matters regarding the disappearance of MH370 and the interview never aired - left on the cutting room floor.
malaise
(268,987 posts)4. We had some great airline folks here when the Air France went down in the
Atlantic
mn9driver
(4,425 posts)5. Believe more searches will begin in August.
The weather in that part of the world is not good right now.
Until they find the wreckage, they have only guesses.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)6. I had to think about it, while rereading Northwoods again
It is possible to create an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner en route from the United States to Jamaica, Guatemala, Panama, or Venezuela. The destination would be chosen only to cause the flight plan route to cross Cuba. The passengers could be a group of college students off on a holiday or any grouping of persons with a common interest to support chartering a non-scheduled flight.
An aircraft at Eglin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the Miami area. At a designated time the duplicate would be substituted for the actual civil aircraft and would be loaded with the selected passengers, all boarded under carefully prepared aliases. The actual registered aircraft would be converted to a drone.
Take off times of the drone aircraft and the actual aircraft will be scheduled to allow a rendezvous south of Florida. From the rendezvous point the passenger-carrying aircraft will descend to minimum altitude and go directly into an auxiliary field at Eglin AFB where arrangements will have been made to evacuate the passengers and return the aircraft to its original status. The drone aircraft meanwhile will continue to fly the filed flight plan. When over Cuba the drone will begin transmitting on the international distress frequency a "MAY DAY" message stating he is under attack by Cuban MIG aircraft. The transmission will be interrupted by destruction of the aircraft which will be triggered by radio signal. This will allow ICAO radio[14] stations in the Western Hemisphere to tell the United States what has happened to the aircraft instead of the United States trying to "sell" the incident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
An aircraft at Eglin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the Miami area. At a designated time the duplicate would be substituted for the actual civil aircraft and would be loaded with the selected passengers, all boarded under carefully prepared aliases. The actual registered aircraft would be converted to a drone.
Take off times of the drone aircraft and the actual aircraft will be scheduled to allow a rendezvous south of Florida. From the rendezvous point the passenger-carrying aircraft will descend to minimum altitude and go directly into an auxiliary field at Eglin AFB where arrangements will have been made to evacuate the passengers and return the aircraft to its original status. The drone aircraft meanwhile will continue to fly the filed flight plan. When over Cuba the drone will begin transmitting on the international distress frequency a "MAY DAY" message stating he is under attack by Cuban MIG aircraft. The transmission will be interrupted by destruction of the aircraft which will be triggered by radio signal. This will allow ICAO radio[14] stations in the Western Hemisphere to tell the United States what has happened to the aircraft instead of the United States trying to "sell" the incident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
malaise
(268,987 posts)7. Ft MH370 - the missing aircraft from Malaysia?
You lost me.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)8. MH17 and MH370 are both Boeing 777-200 ER from Malaysian Airlines
I was just reading it for the "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." , but they mentioned creating a duplicate and rigging it with explosives. I had forgotten that part.
see - thanks