Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - Missing Plane

[Inquorate]

I've been wondering why someone would want to take a passenger aircraft. It seems there might have been valuable cargo on board. It could easily have been taken a la the 9/11 flight..
-www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1753.htm

"What first aroused GRU suspicions regarding the MV Maersk Alabama, this report continues, was that within 24-hours of off-loading this “highly suspicious” cargo load bound for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the two highly-trained US Navy Seals assigned to protect it, Mark Daniel Kennedy, 43, and Jeffrey Keith Reynolds, 44, were found dead under “suspicious circumstances.”

Both Kennedy and Reynolds, this report says, were employed by the Virginia Beach, Virginia-based maritime security firm The Trident Group which was founded by US Navy Special Operations Personnel (SEAL’s) and Senior US Naval Surface Warfare Officers and has long been known by the GRU to protect vital transfers of both atomic and biological materials throughout the world."

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"What remains “perplexing” about this incident, GRU analysts in this report say, are why the American mainstream media outlets have yet to demand from the Obama regime the radar plots and satellite images of the Indian Ocean and South China Sea regions as the US military covers this entire area from Diego Garcia like no other seas in the world due to its vital shipping and air lanes.

Most sadly, this report concludes, the US is actually able to conceal the reason(s) for the “disappearance” of Flight 370 as they have already done so after the events of 11 September 2001 when the then Bush regime “disappeared” American Airlines Flight 77 and its 64 passengers and crew after falsely claiming it hit the Pentagon, but which was confirmed by the CNN News Service [see video HERE] not to have happened."

 

[stellar]

Quote from: Stellar

"One really important question I do have though, is who was on board the flight or what was in the cargo that would be worth this effort.Just my take on this so far.

Since they're investigating all possibilities as to what caused MH370 to deviate from its original flight path, could there be any connection to the Report of "Ukrainian Gold reserves" being loaded on a transport plane, March 7th - the day before the Malaysian Airline incident? Secretly loaded on Flight 370, then the plane hijacked and flown to Diego Garcia - unloaded and the plane sent in the opposite direction as a cover up?

_http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraines-gold-reserves-secretely-flown-out-and-confiscated-by-the-new-york-federal-reserve/5373446

A Russian Internet news site Iskra (“Spark”) based in Zaporozhye, eastern Ukraine, reported on March 7, that “Ukraine’s gold reserves had been hastily airlifted to the United States from Borispol Airport east of Kiev”.


Of significance in this interview with William Kaye is the analogy between Ukraine, Iraq and Libya. Lest we forget, both Iraq and Libya had their gold reserves confiscated by the US:

Kaye: “There are now reports coming from Ukraine that all of the Ukrainian gold has been airlifted, … and is being flown to New York — the presumable destination being the New York Fed….

Now that’s 33 tons of gold which is worth somewhere between $1.5 billion – $2 billion.

Although I would find it plausible that the passengers could easily become expendable for this purpose in the eyes of the psychopaths, I doubt that there was no other way to smuggle the gold or have it disappear without trace just like nuclear war heads.

One thing that has played on my mind is the guy from Australia who gave his wife his watch and wedding ring to give to their kids in case something happened to him. He has flown before, why the action to do that this time? He too, I think, was an engineer of some sort that was onboard that plane. I think there were also several others specialised in such fields...curious.

 

[luke wilson]

This guy has got an interesting theory of how the plane could have flown into Asia undetected (go to the original to see images):

_http://keithledgerwood.tumblr.com/post/79838944823/did-malaysian-airlines-370-disappear-using-sia68-sq68

Keith Ledgerwood
Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?

Monday, March 17, 2014 - 12:01 AM EST

UPDATED: Monday, March 17, 2014 - 9:00 AM EST
Typo was made during the conversion of UTC times. Meeting of SIA68 and MH320 occurred at 18:00UTC - 18:15UTC. MH320 dropped off of civilian radar at 17:22UTC.

UPDATE - Monday, March 17, 2014 - 12:15 PM EST
Some have raised the statement that TCAS doesn’t work if the transponder is disabled… this is only partially correct. Other planes TCAS would NOT see MH370 at all. MH370 would not actively query other planes as it’s transponder is off HOWEVER it could still listen to any transponder output from other planes that are actively transmitting. SQ68 would have been actively transmitting while in-range of Subang ATC center.

Even if TCAS on MH370 wasn’t working for some reason, an in-expensive portable ADS-B receiver paired with an iPad and Foreflight app would allow a pilot to receive the ADS-B output being transmitted by SQ68 at that time.

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By: Keith Ledgerwood

As the search for missing flight Malaysian Airlines flight 370 drags on into the 10th day, so many questions continue to remain unanswered about how and why the airliner could have disappeared while seemingly under the control of a skilled pilot intent on making it invisible. With satellite pings showing where the plane could be after more than seven hours of flight, speculation has arisen that the plane could be on the ground anywhere along a path from northern Thailand to the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

The major roadblock to this theory has been the insistence from India and Pakistan that their radar network showed no such unidentified aircraft entering or traversing their airspace. It would seem highly unlikely given such information that a Boeing 777 could indeed slip through undetected.

As a hobby pilot and aviation enthusiast, a theory began to form in my own mind on this 10th day as all of the latest information began to trickle in slowly through media outlets globally. After being unable to escape the idea that it may have happened, I began to do some analysis and research and what I discovered was very troubling to me!

Starting with a set of facts that have been made available publically and verified over the past few days, I first plotted MH370’s course onto an aviation IFR map which shows the airways and waypoints used to navigate the skies. I plotted the point where it stopped transmitting ADS-B information at 1721UTC. I then plotted the Malaysian military radar track from that point towards “VAMPI”, “GIVAL”, and then onward toward “IGREX” on P628 ending with where the plane should be at 1815UTC when military radar lost contact.

That chart looks like this:

image
Source: SkyVector.com

Nothing profound there… but then I looked to see what other planes were in the air at 1815UTC and I looked to see exactly where they were positioned in the sky and where they were flying. The picture started to develop when I discovered that another Boeing 777 was en-route from Singapore over the Andaman Sea.

imageSource: FlightRadar24.com

I investigated further and plotted the exact coordinates of Singapore Airlines flight number 68’s location at 1815UTC onto the aviation map. I quickly realized that SIA68 was in the immediate vicinity as the missing MH370 flight at precisely the same time. Moreover, SIA68 was en-route on a heading towards the same IGREX waypoint on airway P628 that the Malaysian military radar had shown MH370 headed towards at precisely the same time.

image

Source: SkyVector.com

It became apparent as I inspected SIA68’s flight path history that MH370 had maneuvered itself directly behind SIA68 at approximately 18:00UTC and over the next 15 minutes had been following SIA68. All the pieces of my theory had been fitting together with the facts that have been publically released and I began to feel a little uneasy.

Singapore Airlines Flight 68 proceeded across the Andaman Sea into the Bay of Bengal and finally into India’s airspace. From there it appears to have proceeded across India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and finally Turkmenistan before proceeding onward across Europe to its final destination of Barcelona, Spain.

This map depicts the approximate flight path of SIA flight 68 on that particular day. Additional detail will be required from each countries aviation authorities to establish exact particulars of the route.

image
Source: SkyVector.com

So by now, you may have caught on or you may be scratching your head and wondering if I’ve gone insane! How does SIA68 have anything to do with MH370 disappearing? Remember the one challenge that is currently making everyone doubt that MH370 actually flew to Turkmenistan, Iran, China, or Kyrgyzstan? That challenge is the thought that MH370 couldn’t make it through several key airspaces such as India or Afghanistan without being detected by the military.

It is my belief that MH370 likely flew in the shadow of SIA68 through India and Afghanistan airspace. As MH370 was flying “dark” without transponder / ADS-B output, SIA68 would have had no knowledge that MH370 was anywhere around and as it entered Indian airspace, it would have shown up as one single blip on the radar with only the transponder information of SIA68 lighting up ATC and military radar screens.

Wouldn’t the SIA68 flight have detected MH370? NO! The Boeing 777 utilizes a TCAS system for traffic avoidance; the system would ordinarily provide alerts and visualization to pilots if another airplane was too close. However that system only operates by receiving the transponder information from other planes and displaying it for the pilot. If MH370 was flying without the transponder, it would have been invisible to SIA68.

In addition, the TCAS system onboard MH370 would have enabled the pilot(s) to easily locate and approach SIA68 over the Straits of Malacca as they appeared to have done. The system would have shown them the flight’s direction of travel and the altitude it was traveling which would have enabled them to perfectly time an intercept right behind the other Boeing 777. Here is a picture of a TCAS system onboard a 777.

image

How does this solve the mystery??? We know MH370 didn’t fly to Spain! Once MH370 had cleared the volatile airspaces and was safe from being detected by military radar sites in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan it would have been free to break off from the shadow of SIA68 and could have then flown a path to it’s final landing site. There are several locations along the flight path of SIA68 where it could have easily broken contact and flown and landed in Xingjian province, Kyrgyzstan, or Turkmenistan. Each of these final locations would match up almost perfectly with the 7.5 hours of total flight time and trailing SIA68. In addition, these locations are all possibilities that are on the “ARC” and fit with the data provided by Inmarsat from the SATCOM’s last known ping at 01:11UTC.

There are too many oddities in this whole story that don’t make sense if this theory isn’t the answer in my opinion. Why did MH370 fly a seemingly haphazard route and suddenly start heading northwest towards the Andaman Islands on P628? If not for this reason, it seems like a rather odd maneuver. The timing and evasive actions seem deliberate. Someone went through great lengths to attempt to become stealthy and disable ACARS, transponder/ADS-B (even though SATCOM to Inmarsat was left powered).

After looking at all the details, it is my opinion that MH370 snuck out of the Bay of Bengal using SIA68 as the perfect cover. It entered radar coverage already in the radar shadow of the other 777, stayed there throughout coverage, and then exited SIA68’s shadow and then most likely landed in one of several land locations north of India and Afghanistan.

Sources: SkyVector.com, FlightRadar24.com, FlightAware.com, CNN.com, Reuters.com.

-Keith L.

Nowadays, with the amount of air travel the world over, is it unusual that 2 planes could be near each other on the same flight path/route? So the author is saying all it would take for a plane to go dark and disappear as if to thin air is for it to turn off some instruments, get in position and piggy back behind another plane...

Interesting theory and if true, hasn't he just pointed out a huge flaw in aviation security? I don't know the ins and outs of modern technology but you'd think a plane piggy backing on another planes shadow is something that won't evade most modern military technology? Not sure but hey...

In the interim whilst MH370 was busy following SIA168, wouldn't any of the passengers figure something was up if not by the unusual path the plane was taking, the actual journey time? Maybe they were knocked out by some gas or something?

Also, what about good old photographic evidence like from a satellite? Couldn't like a spy satellite looking down just see one plane following another and all it will take is for someone to look through some archives?

Theory sounds good on paper but not sure how it would stand up in reality or if it actually sounds plausible to anyone who would know this sort of stuff.

What about the phones? The phones are also an anomaly...

Disclaimer: Just my assumption! The only way to rebuff most of this stuff is to understand in/out the technology in most modern planes plus what is used to keep track of them whilst in flight plus what the governments of the world have come up with to keep track of anything their potential enemies might try to sneak past them...

 

[Nević Nenad]

If the phones were ringing, it would be easiest thing on the world for any mobile phone company to locate them geographically. Was there some info on that?

 

[Voyageur]

Quote from: Stellar

"One really important question I do have though, is who was on board the flight or what was in the cargo that would be worth this effort.Just my take on this so far.

Since they're investigating all possibilities as to what caused MH370 to deviate from its original flight path, could there be any connection to the Report of "Ukrainian Gold reserves" being loaded on a transport plane, March 7th - the day before the Malaysian Airline incident? Secretly loaded on Flight 370, then the plane hijacked and flown to Diego Garcia - unloaded and the plane sent in the opposite direction as a cover up?

_http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraines-gold-reserves-secretely-flown-out-and-confiscated-by-the-new-york-federal-reserve/5373446

A Russian Internet news site Iskra (“Spark”) based in Zaporozhye, eastern Ukraine, reported on March 7, that “Ukraine’s gold reserves had been hastily airlifted to the United States from Borispol Airport east of Kiev”.


Of significance in this interview with William Kaye is the analogy between Ukraine, Iraq and Libya. Lest we forget, both Iraq and Libya had their gold reserves confiscated by the US:

Kaye: “There are now reports coming from Ukraine that all of the Ukrainian gold has been airlifted, … and is being flown to New York — the presumable destination being the New York Fed….

Now that’s 33 tons of gold which is worth somewhere between $1.5 billion – $2 billion.

I remember reading your post from the 15th. Just to see, tried to navigate these flight tracking websites, looking briefly for a flight lifting off (they said it was "unmarked" leaving Boispol at around 2:00 am.) around the same time +/-, and what flight path it was on - just could not locate anything; along with the difficulty I was having without a tail sign number. Someone with better skills, even as a matter of interest for that particular possible event, might find something missed.

At 2 a.m. this morning [March 7] an unmarked transport plane was on the runway at Borispol Airport (right) [east of Kiev].

Technological, it seems, as was the case with United Airlines Flight 93, it is not difficult in broad daylight over U.S. airspace to make a plane vanish; in that case, the cover story was at the ready and a weak deception (evidence based) was at hand. Nonetheless, the plane went merrily on its way somewhere - which was more precisely indicated by the C's later.

Speculation - in this present case, it can be seen as evident that the PTB are very very afraid, and have amassed the crews together is search (when do they ever do that). Diego Garcia may factor into this as a nerve center for actions, with awareness or direction of either some intended experimentation at the time; resulting in success or failure (likely the latter), or some density high strangeness. On the 3d field, perhaps a plain old hijacking (like flight 93) took place with some mischievous end use designs for the plane (seems remote). Whatever happens, a lightning fast cover story would be needed to cover any possible spatial anomalies, if hyperdimensional is the case, or if the plane suddenly pops back into being, as has been said.

Interesting times...

 

[Aithin Tusa Fein]

I was thinking of inter-agency rivalries and outright hatred such as the hypothesis here regarding why the CIA may have been out to get the NSA and have groomed Snowden for the op to discredit the NSA:

_http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/is-edward-snowden-lying/

I think with institutions that have a long history like the ONI and the CIA and FBI, there is clearly deep seated rivalry, however much these alphabet soup agencies get mixed up on the ground. The rivalries probably map on to factions among the elite. Obviously, every STS hierarchy fosters ritual combat-like brutal competition at every level, yet in other ways they are unified.

OK look at it this way:

Here is a wikipedia link to the past NSA Directors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_the_National_Security_Agency

Notice that they come from all the services except the USMC. Why not the USMC? Because the USMC is under the Department of the Navy and its primary intelligence agency is the ONI. The point is these Directors were all in intelligence either overtly, or covertly, which is why they became the Director of the NSA. They could even be sheep dipped CIA guys, who knows.

Interestingly, the NSA used to be commonly known as "No Such Agency" and, from what I have been told, there is a bit of truth in this. I have been told by a few old timers who used to be in the military back in the 50s and 60s that most of the employees and assets of the NSA, to their knowledge, did not belong to that agency at all, but instead belonged to the military services themselves. They said it was as if everything and everybody was just kind of borrowed from elsewhere. Now is the same kind of thing going on today? I don't know, but I would suspect that if it was effective back then, then it would probably still be going on today, at least to some extent.

Now here is a wikipedia link to past CIA Directors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_Central_Intelligence

And: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_the_CIA

Check out how many were still in the service and what service they were in. Now I'm not saying that these agency Directors are the major players who are in the know on all projects. I have my doubts about that because they need a certain degree of plausible deniability when answering to Congress.

Also, here is the FBI employment information from their website: http://www.fbi.gov/saltlakecity/jobs-1/employment_info

Notice paragraph 8:

The FBI is currently seeking skills and degrees in: hard sciences, such as biology, chemistry, physics, etc.; all engineering fields; computer sciences; information systems; international studies; business, finance, and accounting; and military intelligence. Those with political science, criminal justice, and psychology degrees must have another critical skill in order to be more competitive (for example, military intelligence background, a graduate degree, or a special skill).

The point is, is that the intelligence community is kind of like a revolving door between certain agencies and it is also highly compartmentalized. Agency rivalry exists in come cases and not in others depending on the perspectives of those involved. Now what is important is at the higher levels, as in all higher levels of government, the agencies themselves are no longer important, but power dynasties are. These power dynasties, whoever they are, put their people in strategic positions in order to maximize their influence. In essence, 'who's you're daddy'? The agency? or those that put you in your position? In intelligence, because of its secrecy, unofficial channels are every bit as important, if not more important, than official channels. What that means is that power structures exist as they exist in a fluid state and cross agency-department-industry lines. In these power structures, which is what I refer to as power dynasties, rivalries do exist. I suspect this is what was involved in the events that led to David Petraeus' resigning as the Directer of the CIA. By the way, I can say from experience that Generals and Admirals are selected less on their merit and more on their affiliations. It is quite political.

As far as Snowden and the NSA leaks are concerned, what was really affected? The NSA? Not really, those employees will continue to get paid and get promoted, the agency will continue to exist, and the government will continue to spy on whomever they deem necessary, either legally or illegally, as they always have. Does a leopard change his spots? Now is the Obama administration affected? It seems to be. All this happened under his watch and he seems to be getting the blame. Maybe these leaks were meant to be blow-back to his administration, or maybe something else. I don't know. And maybe it was as Snowden claims. Sometimes government agencies make mistakes.

Now I don't claim to know everything about intelligence agencies, but I do know a few things and I think I have some important insights if I can convey them properly.

 

[Laura]

Quote from: Stellar

"One really important question I do have though, is who was on board the flight or what was in the cargo that would be worth this effort.Just my take on this so far.

Since they're investigating all possibilities as to what caused MH370 to deviate from its original flight path, could there be any connection to the Report of "Ukrainian Gold reserves" being loaded on a transport plane, March 7th - the day before the Malaysian Airline incident? Secretly loaded on Flight 370, then the plane hijacked and flown to Diego Garcia - unloaded and the plane sent in the opposite direction as a cover up? <snip>

Kaye: “There are now reports coming from Ukraine that all of the Ukrainian gold has been airlifted, … and is being flown to New York — the presumable destination being the New York Fed….

Now that’s 33 tons of gold which is worth somewhere between $1.5 billion – $2 billion.

I've been wondering why someone would want to take a passenger aircraft. It seems there might have been valuable cargo on board. It could easily have been taken a la the 9/11 flight..
<snip>

The problem with both of the above approaches is this: The US gov, secret services, military, whatnot, have plenty of planes to do all that sort of thing whenever they want and they do it whenever they want. They don't need to make a splash by stealing a plane. There's no reason to fly something to Indonesia, steal an Indonesian plane and hundreds of passengers (which creates an uproar) when they can get any kind of plane they want or need, painted up to look like anything they want or need, and fly it anywhere they want or need to.

 

[Aithin Tusa Fein]

The problem with both of the above approaches is this: The US gov, secret services, military, whatnot, have plenty of planes to do all that sort of thing whenever they want and they do it whenever they want. They don't need to make a splash by stealing a plane. There's no reason to fly something to Indonesia, steal an Indonesian plane and hundreds of passengers (which creates an uproar) when they can get any kind of plane they want or need, painted up to look like anything they want or need, and fly it anywhere they want or need to.

Amen.

 

[stellar]

Quote from: Stellar

"One really important question I do have though, is who was on board the flight or what was in the cargo that would be worth this effort.Just my take on this so far.

Since they're investigating all possibilities as to what caused MH370 to deviate from its original flight path, could there be any connection to the Report of "Ukrainian Gold reserves" being loaded on a transport plane, March 7th - the day before the Malaysian Airline incident? Secretly loaded on Flight 370, then the plane hijacked and flown to Diego Garcia - unloaded and the plane sent in the opposite direction as a cover up? <snip>

Kaye: “There are now reports coming from Ukraine that all of the Ukrainian gold has been airlifted, … and is being flown to New York — the presumable destination being the New York Fed….

Now that’s 33 tons of gold which is worth somewhere between $1.5 billion – $2 billion.

I've been wondering why someone would want to take a passenger aircraft. It seems there might have been valuable cargo on board. It could easily have been taken a la the 9/11 flight..
<snip>

The problem with both of the above approaches is this: The US gov, secret services, military, whatnot, have plenty of planes to do all that sort of thing whenever they want and they do it whenever they want. They don't need to make a splash by stealing a plane. There's no reason to fly something to Indonesia, steal an Indonesian plane and hundreds of passengers (which creates an uproar) when they can get any kind of plane they want or need, painted up to look like anything they want or need, and fly it anywhere they want or need to.

I agree with that, yet they used all those 'planes' (disguised or not) on 911. I guess they could have just as easily used just detonations and laid blame on any supposed terrorist group dejour did it which is sort of what they did anyway. In the meantime a lot of other agendas were fulfilled along the way while everyone was supposed to be focusing on the burning buildings (one of which wasn't even struck).
I guess I'm just reluctant to too easily accept that it was an 'other dimensional' anomaly because there are so many insane things that the psychos would come up with and think their plan is flawless and the dumb sheep will never know. Well look at 911 and the tremendous amount of evidence that exists to expose their lies and STILL they claim terrorism. It's infuriating to me; their blatant lies as much as the idiots that believe them and carry on the propaganda.

 

[Aithin Tusa Fein]

Well look at 911 and the tremendous amount of evidence that exists to expose their lies and STILL they claim terrorism.

Ironically, the one true thing from the official version of 911 is that it was an act of terrorism. The deception in the official version was who committed the act and how it actually happened.

 

[Laura]

I agree with that, yet they used all those 'planes' (disguised or not) on 911. I guess they could have just as easily used just detonations and laid blame on any supposed terrorist group dejour did it which is sort of what they did anyway. In the meantime a lot of other agendas were fulfilled along the way while everyone was supposed to be focusing on the burning buildings (one of which wasn't even struck).

No, doesn't follow. THERE they wanted to create an illusion of terrorists who can grab airplanes and do damage with them. It was easier to do that than try to explain all the other stuff, PLUS it had a big psychological impact which was what they were after.

In the case of the gold and all that other business, those sorts of things are more easily dealt with via their usual methods in secrecy, just like all the prisoners that were subjected to "extraordinary rendition". The only reason that was revealed was because they WANTED you to know it and leaks came from airfields that serviced the planes.

I guess I'm just reluctant to too easily accept that it was an 'other dimensional' anomaly because there are so many insane things that the psychos would come up with and think their plan is flawless and the dumb sheep will never know. Well look at 911 and the tremendous amount of evidence that exists to expose their lies and STILL they claim terrorism. It's infuriating to me; their blatant lies as much as the idiots that believe them and carry on the propaganda.

Yeah, but you have to remember that they are lazy, too. And you have to keep the agenda in mind and the totally different purposes here.

I have been reluctant to think of the hyperdimensional solution as well, but the more I see them scrambling and changing their stories, the more convinced I am that they don't have a clue.

The 9-11 events were planned and executed with a story already prepared. Whatever this thing with the Malaysian flight is, they had NO STORY. They have nothing to do with it.

 

[stellar]

The 9-11 events were planned and executed with a story already prepared. Whatever this thing with the Malaysian flight is, they had NO STORY. They have nothing to do with it.

Surely. They will try, I guess.

 

[Oxajil]

Latest update:

_http://www.emirates247.com/news/missing-malaysian-flight-latest-update-diversion-programmed-into-cockpit-computer-uae-joins-search-2014-03-18-1.541573

The turn that diverted the missing Malaysian Airlines plane off its flight path was programmed into the aircraft's computer navigation system, probably by someone in the cockpit, the New York Times reported late Monday.

That reinforces the increasing belief among investigators that the aircraft was deliberately diverted, the newspaper said, quoting US officials.

Making up more info as they go it seems.

 

[Laura]

Getting better still!!!

Malaysia backtracks on when jet’s communications were disabled

_http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/malaysia-backtracks-on-when-jets-communications-were-disabled/article17538367/

The investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took another confusing turn on Monday, as authorities here reversed themselves and offered yet another version of the sequence of events in the crucial minutes before ground controllers lost contact with the jet early on March 8....

Malaysian authorities said Monday that the plane’s first officer – the co-pilot – was the last person in the cockpit to speak to ground control. But the government added to the confusion about what had happened on the plane by that time, withdrawing its assertion that a crucial communications system had already been disabled when the co-pilot spoke.

Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia’s Defence Minister and acting transportation minister, had made that assertion Sunday, saying that the jet’s Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, or ACARS, was disabled at 1:07 a.m. Saturday, well before the co-pilot’s verbal sign-off. That appeared to point to possible complicity of the pilots in the plane’s disappearance.

But Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, the chief executive of Malaysia Airlines, said at a news conference Monday evening that the ACARS system had worked normally at 1:07 but then failed to send its next regularly scheduled update at 1:37 a.m., and could have been disabled at any point between those two times. “We don’t know when the ACARS system was switched off,” he said.

The new account appeared to reopen the possibility that the aircraft was operating normally until 1:21 a.m., and that the two communications systems failed or were deactivated at the same time, not at separate points. That could raise additional questions about whether the plane was deliberately diverted.

 

[Cosmos]

I also have to say: The more I see from that story and how it is handled by the authorities, the more I am convinced they themselves have also not really much of a clue, about what happened to that plane. They probably have a lot more data then we have, but that data itself seems also to be rather puzzling to them.

So yes, at this point I also think more into the direction, that something "out of the ordinary" has happened to this plane.