Strange details emerge about missing Malaysia Airlines plane

Next News Network | Mar 11, 2014 | CHANNEL

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Mystery and questions surround the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. All we really know is that the plane, a Boeing 777, took off from Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, at 12:41 a.m, on Saturday, March 8th. The flight was scheduled to arrive in Beijing, at 6:30 a.m., a distance of approximately 2,700 miles. There were 12 crew members and 227 passengers. Two of the passengers, using stolen European passports, were two Iranian men, one of which was known to be seeking asylum in Germany.

Air Traffic Control lost contact with the plane as it was flying over the Gulf of Thailand between Malaysia and Vietnam.

Malaysian military said that the plane changed course from heading northeast to heading west, after Air Traffic Control lost contact. The military had tracked the plane in the Malacca Straits, flying at a lower altitude, close to Pulau Perak, at 2:40 a.m., before the signal was lost. This is more than 100 miles off the western shore of the Malaysian peninsula.

Officials have no idea what happened to the plane and can only speculate about what happened based on the lack of current evidence, while the internet is buzzing with theories that include the use of electronic weaponry that is keeping the plane hidden from radar or detection, and that the plane is being held in an abandoned hangar in Vietnam to be used for a possible future 9/11 style attack.

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Other interesting facts and questions include:

Why the search for the plane was also taking place in the Andaman Sea, which was not anywhere near the location of where the plane had disappeared.

There was no distress signal or indication as to why the plane lost contact and reportedly disappeared from radar.

There is little being reported about the absence of the black box recorder which all Boeing 777 commercial jets are equipped with, and can survive any on-board explosion. They also transmit a locator signal for at least 30 days after falling into the ocean. The fact that the black box has not been detected at all means that the box has either vanished, malfunctioned or was obliterated by a very powerful source.

Many parts of a plane naturally float, and if the plane disintegrated, exploded, or was shot by a missile, it should not be difficult to find floating debris from the plane.

Based on the radar information we currently have, it is safe to assume that the plane was not shot down by a missile, or hijacked.

Family members of missing passengers are furious at officials. It has been reported by Chinese media that family members have been able to call the cellphones of missing passengers, the phones connect, but no one picks-up. If the phones are connecting it should be possible to track the location of the phone.

All that is really known about the fate of the plane and the people aboard, is that they vanished, no part of the plane or it's contents has yet been found, and family members eagerly await any actual news or evidence of what happened.