Whilst it is inadvisable to
speculate about the causes of any air crash prior to the wreckage being
recovered and a proper investigation is conducted, certain of the facts which
have come to light scream that a deliberate unlawful act occurred.
Most likely, this involved one of the pilots, perhaps both. Others may also have been involved.
Most likely, this involved one of the pilots, perhaps both. Others may also have been involved.
We are informed by the Malaysian
authorities that the aircraft may, according to Military radar, have turned to
return to Kuala Lampur.
If the crew experienced a
sudden emergency, their failure to communicate with ATC would not be strange.
However, it is difficult to conceive of an emergency which would have prevented
one of the crew from using one of the on-board systems to communicate for an
entire forty five minutes.
If indeed the pilots felt
it necessary to return to Kuala Lampur, communicating their intentions prior to
doing so is standard protocol. Perhaps an emergency prevented this from occurring
immediately. But failing to communicate
the change in intentions for forty-five minutes is almost unprecedented.
I refuse to accept that the
pilots were unable to use one of the many means of contacting ATC to advise of
the emergency during this period. The aircraft’s transponder code can be
changed to indicate cockpit intrusion or some other emergency such as failed
radios. We know that the transponder was probably working since this is how the
flight was tracked and identified.
Apart from various radios,
an on board “texting” system also exists.
I can only conclude that
if neither pilot was involved, other parties, must have prevented the pilots from using any of these
methods to communicate during the controversial last forty five minutes of the
flight. Alternatively, it seems one or more pilots chose not to use these methods to communicate.
The fact of the matter is, if one or both pilots wished to make an aircraft disappear, the moment to do so in this flight would be after hand-off from Kuala Lampur but before communicating with Vietnamese ATC.
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