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US officials are investigating the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet as an act of piracy. Source: AAP
INVESTIGATORS are examining the possibility the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet with 239 people on board was "an act of piracy", a US official says.
The official, who wasn't authorised to speak publicly, told AP news agency on Friday while other theories are still being looked at key evidence for "human intervention" in the plane's disappearance is that contact with its transponder stopped about a dozen minutes before a messaging system quit.
The official said it was also possible the plane may have landed somewhere.
drwill
reply to post by NoRulesAllowed
I can totally see this happening. But why no mayday? If auto pilot was disengaged, wouldn't that alert someone on the ground?
Authorities are investigating the possibility that the pilot of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370 committed suicide, the director of the CIA has revealed. John Brennan, head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), said: 'I think you cannot discount any theory', when asked if it was possible the pilot deliberately crashed the Boeing 777. His intervention came as Malaysian police say they are carrying out psychological profiles of everyone on board the plane, which vanished on Saturday carrying 239 people after taking off from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk... es-active.html#ixzz2vywXBA3d Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Commercial aviation pilots tell NPR that they would have "no idea" how to disable all the systems designed to automatically communicate with ground stations, though they could probably figure it out from checklists and other documentation available aboard the aircraft.
Turning off the radios and ACARS would be more difficult. NPR's Geoff Brumfiel spoke with commercial pilots, including two who have flown Boeing 777s similar to Flight MH370, which vanished 239 people aboard. He says the pilots tell him that those systems are "pretty hard-wired into a modern aircraft.
Mikeultra
This guy is saying the pilots were suicided. Look at his eyes, see the Getty Images logo, and the Council Foreign Relations! All are clues that he knows what happened. CIA ghoul.
Bilk22
Yeah something like this
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UKGuy1805
EVERYONE is being missled - the plane was turning right in a South South East direction, at the time it lost altitude then lost contact, so all reports of it traveling North, North West or West are false, i feel it has traveled South or possibly South East, if it isnt on the sea bed in that SE ocean.
Yeah...this is what I've been wondering for some time now. Every report says it turned left towards Malacca Strait but from the flight path taken from flightradar24, MH370 was obviously turning right before it lost communication.
smokenmirrors
So, maybe I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but heh, where's all this detailed data coming from? Altitude went up to 45k ft., then dropped, etc.? A flight data recorder perhaps?
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In April 2003, Getty Images entered into a partnership with Agence France-Presse (AFP) to market each other's images.
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AFP is a government-chartered public corporation operating under a 1957 law,[12] but is officially a commercial business independent of the French government. AFP is administered by a CEO and a board comprising 15 members: Eight representatives of the French press; Two representatives of the AFP personnel; Two representatives of the government-owned radio and television; Three representatives of the government. One is named by the prime minister, another by the minister of finance, and a third by the minister of foreign affairs. The board elects the CEO for a renewable term of three years. The AFP also has a council charged with ensuring that the agency operates according to its statutes, which mandate absolute independence and neutrality. Editorially, AFP is governed by a network of senior journalists. The primary client of AFP is the French government, which purchases subscriptions for its various services. In practice, those subscriptions are an indirect subsidy to AFP. The statutes of the agency prohibit direct government subsidies.
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The Carlyle Group is an American-based global asset management firm, specializing in private equity, based in Washington, D.C. The Carlyle Group operates in four business areas: private equity, real assets, market strategies, and fund of funds, through its AlpInvest subsidiary.
drwill
reply to post by Mikeultra
Getty plays hardball. They will also hunt down and sue anyone who uses their photos (unless they've purchased a license for a hefty price).