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Post by Moose on Mar 13, 2014 19:44:36 GMT
How awful for the families of the victims, knowing that their loved ones must be dead but not even having the closure of having in confirmed .. clinging to hopes of a miracle. I do hope that they find the plane soon and establish what on earth happened to it.
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Post by Moose on Mar 15, 2014 20:00:08 GMT
The most recent updates suggest that the plane may have been hijacked - in which case could the passengers potentially still be alive? But - if it was hijacked, why has there been no message from the hijackers? What's the point in hijacking a plane and then not saying what you want?
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Post by Mari on Mar 15, 2014 21:09:13 GMT
Unless what they wanted was on the plane.
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Post by tangent on Mar 15, 2014 21:21:31 GMT
Perhaps the country to which it has been sent wants the plane.
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Post by JoeP on Mar 15, 2014 21:59:46 GMT
The Russians hijacked it - to divert media attention away from Crimea and the Ukraine.
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Post by Moose on Mar 15, 2014 23:44:55 GMT
I am presuming that that is not a serious suggestion .. is it?
Why would the country want the plane? If they've got the technology to cut off a plane's comm systems and hijack then divert it, why not just build or buy their own planes? Surely every country in the world has its own airfleet anyway
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Post by tangent on Mar 16, 2014 15:10:09 GMT
The Russians hijacked it - to divert media attention away from Crimea and the Ukraine. I like your comment. Sorry, I have liked your comment. Hijacking a plane to keep the plane would be of no use unless you wanted to use it as spare parts for one you already own.
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Post by Mari on Mar 16, 2014 22:03:47 GMT
If I were part of the CIA, I'd speculate that there was a person of interest on board, flying undercover, but somehow North Korea found out and kidnapped the plane to get their hands on this man/woman. Probably a scientist.
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Post by tangent on Mar 16, 2014 23:27:04 GMT
I did wonder if North Korea was the target. It's suspicious that the plane switched off it's transmitter over land and turned left while still subject to military radar. To get to North Korea, the plane would have continued north for several hours and diverted at the last minute before it reached China's radar.
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Post by Moose on Mar 19, 2014 20:34:00 GMT
I dunno .. kidnapping a scientist is not that good an idea. For one thing, you can't make a person work for you if they don't want to. You can try, of course, but there are always ways of fucking things up. And the North Koreans must know that if they did such a thing and were discovered, as they certainly would be, it would lead to a large scale war which they could not possibly win
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Post by tangent on Mar 20, 2014 1:20:09 GMT
Do we know if the plane had any eminent people on board?
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Post by Moose on Mar 20, 2014 1:24:09 GMT
Not that I've heard of
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Post by Mari on Mar 20, 2014 17:46:53 GMT
Perhaps they've found it.
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