Now on its fourth day into the search and rescue missions, the
international effort to locate the missing Malaysian airline flight
MH370 seems to be heading a deadlock. And with mainstream media offering nothing more but press release from official sources we can't help but buy some pieces of theories coming from credible and brilliant individuals.
Among those is Mike Adams, blog writer, musician and founder of Natural News and Scientific Discoveries. Though Adams emphasized that he's not so keen on buying some conspiracy theories his reports are certainly worth looking into by the aviation authorities.
Adams is conclusive in saying that " There are some astonishing things you're not being told about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the flight that simply vanished over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board. "
The Wall Street Journal quoted Paul Hayes, director of safety and insurance at Ascend Worldwide, a British advisory and aviation data firm who opined that "For now, it seems simply inexplicable,"
With such a grim picture surrounding the mysterious disappearance in mid-air of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 Mike Adams, in his blog, reports the "Six important facts you're not being told about the lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370". The following are Adams reports which I quoted verbatim:
• Fact #1: All Boeing 777 commercial jets are equipped with black box recorders that can survive any on-board explosion
No
explosion from the plane itself can destroy the black box recorders.
They are bomb-proof structures that hold digital recordings of cockpit
conversations as well as detailed flight data and control surface data.
• Fact #2: All black box recorders transmit locator signals for at least 30 days after falling into the ocean
Yet
the black box from this particular incident hasn't been detected at
all. That's why investigators are having such trouble finding it.
Normally, they only need to "home in" on the black box transmitter
signal. But in this case, the absence of a signal means the black box
itself -- an object designed to survive powerful explosions -- has
either vanished, malfunctioned or been obliterated by some powerful force beyond the worst fears of aircraft design engineers.
• Fact #3: Many parts of destroyed aircraft are naturally bouyant and will float in water
In past cases of aircraft destroyed over the ocean or crashing into the ocean, debris
has always been spotted floating on the surface of the water. That's
because -- as you may recall from the safety briefing you've learned to
ignore -- "your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device."
Yes, seat cushions float. So do many other non-metallic aircraft parts. If Flight 370
was brought down by an explosion of some sort, there would be massive
debris floating on the ocean, and that debris would not be difficult to
spot. The fact that it has not yet been spotted only adds to the mystery
of how Flight 370 appears to have literally vanished from the face of
the Earth.
• Fact #4: If a missile destroyed Flight 370, the missile would have left a radar signature
One theory currently circulating on the 'net is that a missile brought down the airliner, somehow blasting the aircraft and all its contents to "smithereens" -- which means very tiny pieces of matter that are undetectable as debris.
The
problem with this theory is that there exists no known ground-to-air or
air-to-air missile with such a capability. All known missiles generate
tremendous debris when they explode on target. Both the missile and the
debris produce very large radar signatures which would be easily visible to both military vessels and air traffic authorities.
• Fact #5: The location of the aircraft when it vanished is not a mystery
Air
traffic controllers have full details of almost exactly where the
aircraft was at the moment it vanished. They know the location,
elevation and airspeed -- three pieces of information which can readily
be used to estimate the likely location of debris.
Remember: air
safety investigators are not stupid people. They've seen mid-air
explosions before, and they know how debris falls. There is already a
substantial data set of airline explosions and crashes from which
investigators can make well-educated guesses about where debris should
be found. And yet, even armed with all this experience and information, they remain totally baffled on what happened to Flight 370.
• Fact #6: If Flight 370 was hijacked, it would not have vanished from radar
Hijacking
an airplane does not cause it to simply vanish from radar. Even if
transponders are disabled on the aircraft, ground radar can still
readily track the location of the aircraft using so-called "passive"
radar (classic ground-based radar systems that emit a signal and monitor
its reflection).
Thus, the theory that the flight was hijacked
makes no sense whatsoever. When planes are hijacked, they do not
magically vanish from radar.