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First, I can't imagine the US doesn't know the location of this airplane or exactly what happened during deviation from its original flight path. Understandably
by dakrisht 13y ago
First, I can't imagine the US doesn't know the location of this airplane or exactly what happened during deviation from its original flight path. Understandably, they cannot reveal the full breadth of their reconnaissance capabilities to "enemies" and the general public.
If you don't know, there is a highly sophisticated US naval air facility on the island of Diego Garcia. The Navy does deep space reconnaissance over there! among other things...
And they didn't detect a massive 777 flying north/south in and around the Indian Ocean?
That area is saturated in complex radar. Diego Garcia houses complex radar and satellite communications systems and who knows what else that is still classified.
Additionally, there are over 1,000 operational satellites in orbit!
IMO, this was a carefully and planned mission.
For all we know (tin-foil hat time) there could be behind the curtain negotiations with hijackers and/or missions being planned to recover the aircraft in case of wild extremists theories flying around on the Internet (0.1% on this) And as we all know today, nothing is that extreme anymore in the world we live in.
Disabling transponders takes three clicks of a wheel and it was most definitely done intentionally, the sharp, almost hairpin turn, this jet made and then strategically avoided radar are all signs of a sophisticated operation here. The WSJ reports that circuit breakers were accessed in order to shut down transponders, clearly requiring a high level of skill for aircraft maintenance opps. Sure, pilot can break a circuit but they will spend 20 minutes reading the flight maintenance manual AND contact ground before doing anything like this.
Finally - there were a few important people on board, including quite a few high-tech people involved with government contractions.
Whatever is happening, it might never make complete sense - or at least the general public might be out the loop and get whatever information THEY want us to hear. I don't know who THEY are but this whole situation is very strange and gets crazier by the day.
Edit: this bird was hacked
- lawl 13y ago* puts tinfoil hat on * In two months there are EU elections. Plus the hijacking in switzerland shortly before this... Sound convinient.
- peterjancelis 13y agoConvenient for what?
- coob 13y agoYou'd need something stronger than a tinfoil hat to think that EU elections are important.
- ZoF 13y agoHaha, a tinfoil hat that literally makes no sense, I love it.
- lucaspiller 13y ago> That area is saturated in complex radar. Diego Garcia houses complex radar and satellite communications systems and who knows what else that is still classified. Taiwan has a radar system that has a range of 5500km [0]. It was originally developed by the US in the 80s. Note that even though Taiwan is ~2500km from the last known position, it only provides 270 degree coverage. I'd assume they are firmly pointing at China and Korea, however from Diego Garcia the last known position and suspected locations are right in the field of view if looking towards China and Korea. [0] http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/taiwan-radar/ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/taiwan-radar/
- will_asouka 13y agoDiego Garcia is a total red herring. Having space comms/surveillance doesn't equate to a super long range terristial radar capability. The Indian Ocean is a big place and curvature of the earth puts a hard limit on radar range (hence AWACS). What does interest me is that the Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT) cannot be disabled by pulling circuit breakers and would be picked up by satellite (SARSAT).
- Dolimiter 13y agoIt depresses me a bit to see this as the top comment. Anyway: -The idea that the world is extreme, so there is an extreme explanation, is a logical fallacy -The turn it made wasn't hairpin. Nobody knows the diameter of the turn. You've got confused by reading a summary map as an actual flight path. -Transponders can be tripped easily, and pilots would know how. -A plane with 200+ people on it flying between major cities will normally have an important person on it. Statistically. -Apart from that, your post made perfect sense.