Interestingly, on Wednesday it was reported on CNN.com, of all places, that investigators searching for Malaysia Flight 370 have finally determined that the "pings" believed to have been coming from black boxes spread about 329 miles in the south Indian Ocean, are not.
According to the CNN article, when asked by CNN if this conclusion was reached by other nation’s investigators, the U.S. Navy's spokesman, Michael Dean said, "Yes. Our best theory at this point is that the pings were likely some sound produced by the ship or within the electronics of the Towed Pinger Locator."
According to the CNN article, when asked by CNN if this conclusion was reached by other nation’s investigators, the U.S. Navy's spokesman, Michael Dean said, "Yes. Our best theory at this point is that the pings were likely some sound produced by the ship or within the electronics of the Towed Pinger Locator."
You know what? I think he is right. In fact, back on March 24, I wrote that they would not find the plane anywhere in the Indian Ocean because I believe it didn't crash.
Instead, in my commentary "What Happened To Flight 370?”, I proposed that this flight was hijacked by the pilot and the co-pilot, along with the two Iranian passengers with the stolen passports. I outlined my scenario with cogent and equally logical reasoning for why I felt the plane was flown to Somalia and taken apart.
Understand that I am not one who rushes into conspiracy theories to justify a hypothesis. It took me over two weeks to reach my conclusion, after listening to hours of news stories and reading many articles on this subject.
Now, we are just about 10 days shy of three months and where are we? Still listening to the Malaysian Prime Minister, who has nothing in hand except a diplomatic crisis with China he is trying, unsuccessfully, to quell. So, he is of no use to the investigation.
We have several countries who have partnered with the United States, who have all spent millions of dollars in treasure searching fruitlessly for nothing that will be found. The U.S. and its partners have tactfully not voiced, at least in public, "hijack conspiracy" because the rest of the world would think us crazy.
Who would want to use a plane as a terrorist tool, right? We have been told, after all, that bin Laden is dead, al-Qaeda is on the run, and the "War on Terror" is over. If you believe that, I have a bridge I can sell you. So, a hijacking is out of the question.
Instead, we have spent millions of dollars chasing phantom plane crashes because that makes more sense. Yeah, right! (Note the sarcasm)
As we approach the three-month mark in this futile exercise, perhaps finally, our efforts should be used to explore the possibility that Flight 370 was hijacked and the plane was not destroyed. At least, it is more plausible than chasing debris that does not exist.
When this plane is used in the future as a weapon of mass destruction in some horrible attack on Israel or worse, the United States, just remember all the time that was wasted looking for something that didn't exist; and the next time someone mentions "terrorism" and "hijack" in the same conversation, in the same sentence, believe it is possible.
Because it just may come to pass.
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