Boeing MH370 disappears in flight with 239 passengers

[Cidersomerset]

This article adds to the importance of Diego Garcia in the 'Game of terror '....
and confirms it is set up for these type of operations, known as the
CIA “extraordinary rendition” programme. A Indian ocean Guantanamo
a base not on US soil where they can bend the law.

This shows the base is perfectly capable of being used for nefarious
operations and with the recent suspension of holiday tours little pieces
of the puzzle are coming together. Whether its part of the flight 370
picture is still speculation , but the importance of this little base has
become more clear. It is far from a backwater station.

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THE TELEGRAPH.....


British gave 'full co-operation' for CIA black jail on Diego Garcia, report claims

Fresh claims emerge of high-level British government involvement in the programme






The Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance facility at Detachment
2, in Diego Garcia, British Indian OceanTerritory Photo: ALAMY

By Peter Foster, Washington

7:17PM BST 10 Apr 2014


The British government allowed the CIA to run a “black” jail for Al-Qaeda suspects
on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, it was claimed last night.


The report, based on leaked accounts of a US Senate investigation into the CIA’s
kidnap and torture programme after 9/11, contradicts years of British government
denials that it allowed the US to use Diego Garcia for its “extraordinary rendition”
programme.


The alleged Diego Garcia black site was used to hold some “high-value” detainees
and was made with the “full co-operation” of the British government, according to
Al Jazeera America, quoting US officials familiar with the Senate report.


Last night William Hague was facing demands from international and British lawyers
representing victims of the CIA “extraordinary rendition” programme to urgently
clarify the new allegations in a letter from Reprieve, the legal charity that
represents several rendition victims.


“We need to know immediately whether ministers misled Parliament over CIA
torture on British soil,” said Cori Crider, Reprieve’s strategic director

“If the CIA operated a black site on Diego Garcia, then a string of official
statements, from both this and the last government, were totally false. Were
ministers asleep at the wheel? Or, as the report suggests, have we been lied to for
years?” The new details could be confirmed within weeks after the US Senate voted
last week to declassify a 500-page summary of its three-year investigation in the
CIA kidnap and torture programme that examined some six million classified documents.

A summary of the report is now with the White House which has said it is
determined to release it to the public, subject to national security considerations. It
remains unclear how far the CIA, which has fought bitterly against publication, will
succeed in having it redacted.

The claims that the British were fully aware of a Diego Garcia black site chimes with
claims by a security source to The Daily Telegraph last weekend that Tony Blair and
senior government ministers, including Jack Straw, were briefed in detail
and “every step of the way” on the CIA rendition programme.

Amrit Singh, senior lawyer with the New York-based Open Society Justice Initiative
and the author of Administration of Torture, a book detailing the Bush
administration’s torture policy, said the Al Jazeera report clearly suggested UK
involvement with the CIA programme went far beyond tacit complicity.

“The fact that this says it was being done with full co-operation’ of the British
government suggests that the British government knew exactly what was
happening on its territory and is therefore liable for the secret detention,” she said.

The role of Diego Garcia in the CIA programme has been under scrutiny since 2006
and came back into the headlines after top secret documents found in Libya in 2011
showed Diego Garcia being listed on a CIA rendition flight plan for a Libyan Islamist
Abdel-Hakim Belhadj and his wife Fatima Boudchar in March 2004.

Scotland Yard is currently investigating whether criminal charges should be laid
against MI6 officers or anyone else who was complicit in the rendition of Mr Belhadj
and another Libyan Islamist Sami al-Saadi who was paid a £2.2m “no fault”
settlement by the British government in 2012.

After the Tripoli documents were made public by Human Rights Watch the Foreign
Office issued a statement again denying that Diego Garcia had been used as a
rendition stop.

“No flights with a detainee on board landed on Diego Garcia in March 2004,” said
David Lidington, a minister of state at the Foreign Office, in a written parliamentary
answer of December 2012 in response to a question about the Tripoli documents.

The answer added that aside from two acknowledged cases of rendition through
Diego Garcia in 2002 there were “no other instances in which US intelligence flights
landed in the UK, our Overseas Territories, or the Crown Dependencies, with a
detainee, on board since 11 September 2001.”

In a letter to Mr Hague seen by The Daily Telegraph lawyers at Reprieve asking the
foreign office both to confirm the truth of its early statements and clarify whether –
if rendition flights were not allowed to land at Diego Garcia in March 2004 – it was
because of concerns over earlier detentions.

Responding to the letter, an Foreign Office spokesman declined to elaborate, saying
only: “I refer you to statements we’ve made in the past on this issue.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...rt-claims.html
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/

[Cidersomerset]

12 April 2014 Last updated at 10:37

Missing plane MH370: Abbott says signal 'rapidly fading'

vid on link ..."Numerous signals"..http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27000576


Signals in remote seas thought to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight
MH370 are "rapidly fading" and finding the jet will be a "massive, massive task",
Australia's PM says.

Tony Abbott said he was confident "pings" detected by search teams were from the
aircraft's black boxes.

But no new signals have been confirmed in the search area since Tuesday.

"No one should underestimate the difficulties of the task still ahead of us," Mr
Abbott warned.



Up to 10 planes and 14 ships were searching the area in the Indian Ocean on Saturday




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27000576

[Hervé]

Just re-inserting a reality check:

Even if that plane were there, off the west coast of Australia, that is still a distraction from:

How the hell did it get there with no-one noticing?

The latter implies a lot of red faces all around!

The first of those red-face is Boeing with security flaws in its Fly-by-Wire software and hardware (see post # 721) which can turn that big bird into a remote-controlled drone with pilots unable to do anything.

[ponda]

Amzer Zo said

Even if that plane were there, off the west coast of Australia, that is still a distraction from:

How the hell did it get there with no-one noticing?

Exactly.Assuming that that was the direction that it headed.

The latter implies a lot of red faces all around!

The first of those red-face is Boeing with security flaws in its Fly-by-Wire software and hardware (see post # 721) which can turn that big bird into a remote-controlled drone with pilots unable to do anything.

I don't know about anyone else but i haven't heard any mention on the msm about the Boeing Uninterruptible Auto Pilot Technology.Now i wonder why that would be...?


This breaking news... (edited)


Co-pilot of missing plane made mid-air phone call


Apologies.Already posted by buares in an earlier post.

cheers

[Atlas]

Posted by ponda (here)
This breaking news...

I posted this 5 posts ago:

Posted by buares (here)
Airborne Contact: Telco tower in Penang picked up phone signal

KUALA LUMPUR: Co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid made a call from his mobile phone as the plane was flying low near Penang. It is understood that the aircraft was flying at an altitude low enough for the nearest telecommunications tower to pick up his phone's signal.

"The telco's (telecommunications company's) tower established the call that he was trying to make. On why the call was cut off, it was likely because the aircraft was fast moving away from the tower and had not come under the coverage of the next one," the sources said.

A different set of sources close to the investigations told the NST that checks on Fariq's phone showed that connection to the phone had been "detached" before the plane took off.

"This is usually the result of the phone being switched off. At one point, however, when the airplane was airborne, between waypoint Igari and the spot near Penang (just before it went missing from radar), the line was 'reattached'. A 'reattachment' does not necessarily mean that a call was made. It can also be the result of the phone being switched on again," the sources said.

[Operator]

Posted by buares (here)
Airborne Contact: Telco tower in Penang picked up phone signal



KUALA LUMPUR: Co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid made a call from his mobile phone as the plane was flying low near Penang. It is understood that the aircraft was flying at an altitude low enough for the nearest telecommunications tower to pick up his phone's signal.

"The telco's (telecommunications company's) tower established the call that he was trying to make. On why the call was cut off, it was likely because the aircraft was fast moving away from the tower and had not come under the coverage of the next one," the sources said.

A different set of sources close to the investigations told the NST that checks on Fariq's phone showed that connection to the phone had been "detached" before the plane took off.

"This is usually the result of the phone being switched off. At one point, however, when the airplane was airborne, between waypoint Igari and the spot near Penang (just before it went missing from radar), the line was 'reattached'. A 'reattachment' does not necessarily mean that a call was made. It can also be the result of the phone being switched on again," the sources said.

Why is this info popping up (inserted?) so late in the unfolding drama?
A pilot should know he's moving way too fast, they would need to be at low altitude and besides wouldn't a plane
be the same as being in a Faraday cage (although I admit a car would be too but apparently not sufficiently for UHF) ?

What would be his (urgent) reason to make a call in mid-flight?

[Atlas]

Co-pilot did not attempt mid-air phone call, says Hisham

KLUANG: Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein has refuted a report which claimed that Fariq Abdul Hamid, the co-pilot of the MH370 aircraft, had made a telephone call when it was flying low near Penang.

He said by right, he should have been aware of it (the phone call) earlier, if the claim was true.

"I cannot comment because if it is true, we would have known about it much earlier," Hishammuddin, who is also Defence Minister, said after performing prayers at the Taman Sri Lambak Mosque here Saturday.

He said he had adopted the approach not to confirm anything without any corroboration or verification since the beginning when flight MH370 was reported missing.

He said it was irresponsible for any quarters to take the opportunity to make a baseless report.

He hoped the public understood what he was going through because such baseless information not only affected operations but also the families of the passengers and the crew of the aircraft.

[sheme]

One gets the feeling that 'someone' dumped a defunct blackbox into the deepest part of the ocean (no plane attached) the other stuff just meant to complicate and add to distractions. I am not buying any of this garbage.

I object most strongly to the abuse of humanity by the ptw, and I ask for help from friends -let the apocalypse happen now .

(Apocalypse (Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apocálypsis, from ἀπό and καλύπτω meaning 'un-covering'), translated literally from Greek, is a disclosure of knowledge, i.e., a lifting of the veil or revelation, although this sense did not enter English until the 14th century.[1] In religious contexts it is usually a disclosure of something hidden. In the Book of Revelation (Greek Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰωάννου, Apocalypsis Ioannou), the last book of the New Testament, the revelation which John receives is that of the ultimate victory of good over evil and the end of the present age.)

[Operator]

I sometimes ask myself:
Suppose the plane was taken over (remotely) ... what would you do to get control back?
Or what would an expert/pilot do? And what could he still do if there is no more access to the cockpit?

E.g. would it be possible to force the computer to fly lower if the cabin pressure drops etc. ?
I know it is speculation, you could call it brainstorming, but could we think of a scenario that fits the facts
(if reports are correct) ?

[Atlas]

Posted by Roisin (here)
US military eyes Cocos Islands as a future Indian Ocean spy base
[...] Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...#ixzz2yK8I4C79

Published March 26, 2012

Secret spy station on Cocos Islands - Published October 31, 2013

Australia's electronic spy agency is intercepting Indonesian naval and military communications through a secret radio listening post on the remote Cocos Islands. According to former defence officials, the Defence Signals Directorate operates the signals interception and monitoring facility – known locally as "the house with no windows" – on Australia's Indian Ocean territory, 1100 kilometres south-west of Java.

The station has never been publicly acknowledged despite being in operation for more than two decades. The facility includes radio-monitoring and direction-finding equipment, and a satellite ground station.

The Defence Department would not comment on the facility and said only that the Cocos Islands host "a communications station" that "forms part of the wider Defence communications network." However, former Defence officers have confirmed the station is a Defence Signals Directorate facility devoted to maritime and military surveillance, especially Indonesian naval, air force and military communications.

Australian National University intelligence expert Professor Des Ball said the facility was operated remotely from DSD headquarters at Russell Hill in Canberra. Intercepted signals are encrypted and relayed to Canberra. He said preparations to establish the Cocos facility began in the late 1980s, and involved a highly secretive signals intelligence group, the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 3 Telecommunications Unit.

[spiritguide]

Diago Garcia and Cocos/Keeling Islands are a diversion to missing A/C mystery. SEATO like NATO is a military self defense pact for the member countries. Why have we not heard of reports from this organization? After all it is their neighborhood. Where is waldo? Are we even on the right page? Many questions, few answers. What a mind scramble, if allowed. IMHO

Peace!

[sigma6]

Posted by buares (here)
The depth of the problem:

Here's the question, is there any evidence to show it is down there? What if it's not down there? Just spending millions of dollars doesn't prove anything, (unless your making a Hollywood movie production.)

[Operator]

Posted by sigma6 (here)
Here's the question, is there any evidence to show it is down there? What if it's not down there? Just spending millions of dollars doesn't prove anything, (unless your making a Hollywood movie production.)

No there isn't ... my predictions are still correct that they will find the pinger at the very last moment taking that as identification of the plane.
Two more remarks they made that support my gut feeling:

- the pinger is already fading (which means it doesn't stay much longer there for any one else to verify)
- they already stated that it took years to find the French Boeing in the Atlantic

So when the attention dies off and less eyes are focused on this area there is better opportunity to put any
kind of evidence on the spot that they need to prove the case.

[Agape]

They will be found somewhere else , you can bang on that . They're way off roads with the search now , it's the technologies that befooled their clear sight rather than otherwise .

[araucaria]

MH370 and the black box of the mind
Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen on the flight recorder as a potent image of our helpless relationship to the world and to ourselves

The black box is a potently concentrated image of this helpless relationship to the world and to ourselves. We are at the mercy of what it says and does, yet we have almost no understanding of its internal workings, and no means of influencing or modifying it.

It may be that our culture of surveillance – by which I mean not only the persecutory monitoring of the totalitarian state envisioned by Orwell, but the more tacitly imposed, pseudo-benign mutual monitoring of social media culture, as well as tabloid media intrusion – can only be understood in relation to this feeling of helplessness.

For the likes of Paul McMullan, the tabloid journalist who told the Leveson inquiry that "privacy is for paedos", every closed room, and every life lived inside it, is an invitation to break into them with a telephoto lens or a hacking device. And perhaps the willing surrender of our own private lives to the eyes of Facebook "friends", Twitter followers and webcams can be read as a more tacit protest against the black boxes of the self and the world, a fantasy of making ourselves and everyone around us fully transparent. "SECRETS ARE LIES / SHARING IS CARING / PRIVACY IS THEFT" run the slogans of the corporate behemoth imagined in Dave Eggers's recent satirical novel, The Circle. Flood the world with light, and the darkness will be magically eliminated.

The suffering of the MH370 families reminds us of the very real terrors ignorance can induce in us. And yet if the darkness of the self induces feelings of helplessness and dispossession, psychoanalysis reminds us that it is also the basis of our creativity. Without the black box of the unconscious, we would have nothing – neither terrors nor pleasures – to imagine.

Full article here:


http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...psychoanalysis

[Atlas]

Hishammuddin dismisses Utusan’s CIA-link theory in flight MH370’s disappearance



On April 7, Utusan had said that it was time "to think outside the box" over the incident, saying it could be a ploy to tarnish the good relations between Malaysia and China. "If the CIA could arrange for the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, it is not improbable to link MH370 with the intelligence agency," wrote Utusan's assistant editor Ku Seman Ku Hussein.

Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein compared the paper's claim to speculative reports in the Western media, saying it was their freedom to do so. "At the end of the day, if their report is false, they will lose credibility,” he said.

Hishammuddin, however, pointed to the US's strong participation in the Defence Services Asia exhibition, which opens tomorrow. “If there is (CIA involvement), I don’t think we would see such a strong presence of the US here,” he added. Hishammuddin's denial today was the second in two days related to flight MH370.

[avid]

http://www.rense.com/general96/mh370rv.html

MH370 Revisited Part 1:
Malaysians Defy Zionist Disinformation

By Yoichi Shimatsu
World Exclusive to Rense
4-13-14

KUALA LUMPUR - At a closed-door seminar on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, veteran police commanders and retired military officers said that erroneous media reports and bizarre blogger theories are aimed at debunking the logical conclusion that the jetliner was hijacked. Trivialized speculation and futile searching have presented a mid-sea crash as the only possible scenario and a given fact without a shred of evidence.
Meanwhile the country's largest ad agency is pushing a cynical publicity campaign to persuade families and friends to give up the search for their loved ones. Across the capital Kuala Lumpur, gigantic billboards and electronic signs are posted with "condolences" and "mourning" for those aboard MH370, asserting without an iota of proof that the passengers are dead. The shadowy ad firm Ganad behind this cruel hoax is hardly a moral standard bearer, after admitting to unreported business contracts and bribery in a court of law last year.
Who could be behind this campaign to demoralize the Malaysian public? A veteran Malaysian police detective at the seminar said that psychological-warfare tactics are being orchestrated from the Mossad station in neighboring Singapore, a stronghold of Zionist influence since the colonial era. The SingaIsraeli cover-up has backfired, however, as millions of skeptical Malaysians filter fact from corporate media lies and hold on to the possibility that someday, somehow the hostages will be freed from captivity.

Emerging Consensus Points to Israel as Perpetrator
The consensus among the gathering, which included veteran police and military officers who have insider access to government information, includes:
- The last radar detection of MH370, picked up by an airport at Surathani, Thailand, showed the jetliner moving due west between Penang and Lankawi island, past 2 a.m. when radar at the local international airports had already closed. The plane was not following a southerly arc toward Australia as erroneously suggested by European aircraft experts cited in the mass media.
- Eyewitness accounts of a low-flying jetliner over the Maldives are bona fide and consistent with other evidence showing the jetliner was forced to land on nearby Diego Garcia island, a US military facility in the British-controlled Chagos Islands group, where a large contingent of Israeli Defense Force personnel are stationed.
- The early-on claim that two Iranian terrorists were aboard was a red herring planted by the Mossad. The European passports in their possession were stolen in Thailand and their air tickets were purchased over the phone, suggesting a frame-up by Israeli spies, who operate out of the Chabad Houses in Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. The false terror scare was a ruse to convince the US military to permit MH370 to land at Diego Garcia.
- Before departure from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) the pilot ordered extra aircraft fuel, indicating a plan to fly the jetliner after transiting at Diego Garcia. With full fuel tanks, a Boeing 777 can easily reach Israel.

Much more on link!

[avid]

http://news.asiaone.com/news/malaysi...autopilot-tech

Boeing has patent for remote control of its airlines

PETALING JAYA - When it was first speculated that Flight MH370 could have been hijacked via remote control access, many dismissed it as far-fetched science fiction.

But the technology to navigate planes, ships, trains, buses and other vehicles by remote control has been around for about a decade.

The Boeing Company, the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft, has the technology.

It owns a patent for a system that enables remote controlling of its aircraft to counter hijacking attempts.

Boeing applied for the patent for an "uninterruptible autopilot control system" about 11 years ago, and was awarded it in 2006.

The system can be activated when the security of onboard controls are jeopardised.

"The method and systems of the present invention provide techniques for automatically navigating, flying and landing an air vehicle," states the report for the US patent number US7142971B2.

Once activated, an aircraft could be automatically navigated, flown and made to land without input from anyone on board.

"Any onboard capability to supercede the automatic control system may be disabled by disconnecting the onboard controls," states the report.

Power is provided to the automatic control system "from an alternative power control element that is inaccessible (to anyone on board the vehicle)".

According to the patent report, control commands could be received from a remote location and/or from predetermined control commands stored on board the plane.

Boeing applied for the patent on Feb 19, 2003, barely two years after the Sept 11 attack in which hijacked planes rammed into the World Trade Centre, reducing the gigantic buildings into rubble.

Eric D. Brown, Douglas C. Cameron, Krish R. Krothapalli, Walter von Klein Jr and Todd M. William invented the system for Boeing. The patent was awarded three years later on Nov 28, 2006.

When the automatic control system is activated, no one on board the aircraft would be capable of controlling its flight.

The patent report also states that a signal might be transmitted to at least one remote location from the plane to indicate that the uninterruptible autopilot mode of the air vehicle has been engaged.

The system includes a dedicated communication link between the aircraft and a remote location, distinct from any communication link established for other types of communication.

According to an independent analyst James Corbett, the US Federal Aviation Administration had reported on the Federal Registrar last November that the Boeing 777-200, -300 and -300ER aircraft were equipped with an electronics security system to check unauthorised internal access.

Apologies if pre-posted.

[avid]

http://www.rense.com/general96/mh2.html

More on the potential fate of the flight, and 'following the money'....

MH370 Revisited Part 2:
Protecting US Defense Technology

By Yoichi Shimatsu
World Exclusive to Rense
4-13-14



KUALA LUMPUR - Several blogs are using dubious photo analysis to question the credibility of Philip Wood, the American aboard MH370 whose i-Phone message showed that the plane had been hijacked, its passengers detained by "unknown military personnel" and the detention center to be on the Diego Garcia military base. The secrecy surrounding Wood's background does not mean that he and his fiance Sarah Bajc are "crisis actors". On the contrary, the facts point to his status as a tech-security agent for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
Across Asia, the DIA has a reputation for professionalism far surpassing the CIA's armchair scholars, narcissist neophytes and diplomatic cocktail freeloaders. Wood fits the DIA profile to a tee, being computer savvy, knowledgeable about defense-related technology, careful in maintaining his cover at IBM, silent about his military record and physically tough.
The fact that the Israelis confined and likely murdered a DIA agent reveals the extreme desperation that compelled the theft of America's most advanced defense technology. The midair hijack aimed at abducting 20 computer-technology experts with Freescale Semiconductor exposes the outlaw mentality of a rogue state that holds its closest ally and benefactor in utter contempt. Simply put, Israel has emerged as America's most implacable enemy and all the more dangerous because it poses as an ally and friend.
Israel resorted to stealing the Freescale Kinetis KL02 and KL03 techology, rather than waiting to pay for licensing rights, because the micro-controller is urgently needed for the upcoming military assault on Iran. The widening divide between the State Department and Israel over Iran policy, particularly the question of a bombing campaign, put the hawkish and fanatic Netyanhu government onto a "go it alone" warpath against Tehran.
Since it is logistically impossible for the Israel Air Force to fly long-distance sorties against Iranian military sites without control over Syrian airspace, the only feasible alternative to aerial bombing is to unleash hordes of lightweight ultra-small robotic weapons that can fly and crawl into underground military facilities.
The KL series microcontroller units (MCU) are the brains for these tiny self-guided weapons, whose sensors can find pathways through air ducts, power conduits and plumbing pipes to attack electronic controls and incapacitate personnel with nerve gas or biowarfare agents. When launched from Dolphin submarines under the cover of nightfall, there is no effective defense against an army of tiny ninja robots.
The one person who stood in the way of Israel's devious plans was Philip Wood, who was not a crisis actor, as suggested in a disinformation campaign, but instead an American patriot. Without his courageous efforts to organize resistance against the hostage-takers, the Israelis would have gotten away with the perfect crime. Now, thanks to his sense of duty and personal sacrifice, the perpetrators stand naked before the world as the despicable thugs they really are. The test of American honor rides on whether the White House or Congress dares to defy Israeli treachery by acknowledging Phil Wood with a posthumous medal.

Much more on link.....

[Frank V]

I say that the plane simply broke up in three peaces above an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. For three seasons, the survivors of the tail section and the middle section will be looking for each other, but the nose section crashed in the jungle and the pilot is killed by a smoke monster after about a week. And then there are still The Others to deal with.

(For the absolutely uninitiated, check here. )