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2014-03-17 Southeast Asia

Here Are Some Runways Where Missing Malaysia Jet Could Have Landed

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-03-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

Was Diego Garcia a destination? A target? Did Jindalee pick up anything ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-17 12:20|| 2014-03-17 12:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Bear in mind, these runways are only if you want to use the airplane again.
If you're snatching a person, thing, or just disappearing, 3-4000 ft would do.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-03-17 13:07|| 2014-03-17 13:07|| Front Page Top

#3 ..imho, someone at the Pentagon knows exactly where this a/c is..

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-03-17 13:41|| 2014-03-17 13:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, the plane has landed at a "secret airfield" where it is being converted into a fleet of 1960 Chevy lowriders, which will be used to invade Los Angeles, California by Uighurs loyal to Al-Qaeda.

(Just a theory, about as good as this article)

Posted by Albemarle Jeamble9962 2014-03-17 14:06|| 2014-03-17 14:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Certainly better than your graphics...

Posted by Pappy 2014-03-17 14:36|| 2014-03-17 14:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I had a '61 El Camino many moons ago. Loved it.

Faster than blazes, but real 'squirrelly' to control when empty. Handled better with a couple 60# bags of sand (tied down) in the box.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-03-17 14:39|| 2014-03-17 14:39|| Front Page Top

#7 if mh 370 had landed somewhere with a runway, the odds are that it would have been spotted by someone nearby or by satellite or aviation

even if it had landed on a straitaway w/o a runway, the odds are only slightly less of it being spotted

Posted by lord garth 2014-03-17 15:22|| 2014-03-17 15:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Did Jindalee pick up anything?

That is exactly why I don't believe the plane took the "southern arc." I suspect it is somewhere in Burma.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2014-03-17 16:47|| 2014-03-17 16:47|| Front Page Top

#9 SMH: Missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370 had choice of 634 runways to land on

Posted by mossomo 2014-03-17 17:00|| 2014-03-17 17:00|| Front Page Top

#10 it's not 634 if you takeout the ones where people would notice an errant plane.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-03-17 18:22|| 2014-03-17 18:22|| Front Page Top

#11 @Albemarle Jeamble9962: OK, I'll go back to my original thesis: Space Aliens..

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-03-17 19:07|| 2014-03-17 19:07|| Front Page Top

#12 I wonder how many it could have landed, refueled, and taken off again from before anyone knew they were supposed to be looking for a hijacked plane instead of a crashed one in the Gulf of Thailand.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-03-17 19:07|| 2014-03-17 19:07|| Front Page Top

#13 My guess is they got into Chinese airspace (why? Maybe thinking they could get to Pakistan or Iran?) and got shot down - before anyone even knew anything was wrong. Then China covered it up to avoid bad PR.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-03-17 19:31|| 2014-03-17 19:31|| Front Page Top

#14 #13. Same discussion in American Thinker.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-17 19:44|| 2014-03-17 19:44|| Front Page Top

#15 Too much BS from non-aviators. Stop it.

Its in Xinjiang waiting for the 12th iman to bless it on its mission to land in Tiammen Square with a cargo full of MSG.

Posted by Throlung Angaitle9194 2014-03-17 20:40|| 2014-03-17 20:40|| Front Page Top

#16 Y'all need to stop slandering the Chinese! Why would rational, practical people, like the folks running China today, stumble all over themselves shooting that plane down a week ago, when they can take it out of ghost city cold storage and dispose of it later, wherever and whenever they like?

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-03-17 21:06|| 2014-03-17 21:06|| Front Page Top

#17 If you're snatching a person, thing, or just disappearing, 3-4000 ft would do.

Maybe less if you didn't give a darn. Throw a tarp over the plane after it skids to a stop in a field and you're good to go.

Posted by gorb 2014-03-17 22:04|| 2014-03-17 22:04|| Front Page Top

#18 Woah! PLANE FOUND???

Posted by tu3031 2014-03-17 22:21|| 2014-03-17 22:21|| Front Page Top

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