BALTIMORE, Maryland March 13, 2014 (9:13 am) - Information and mis-information is flying around the internet and air waves. Since my last post last evening, there have been a myriad of information and lots of new theories. Let me list them:
1. ABC news reports that the United States believes that the reports of the Missing Jet staying aloft for up to five additional hours is worthy of belief. To that end, the United States is beginning a search for the missing plane in the Indian Ocean, and is diverting the USS Kidd to the area to spearhead the search. It may take the Kidd up to 24 hours to arrive in the designated area. A senior USA official who did not want to be identified said that intelligence believes the plane stayed aloft for four or five additional hours and that the "plane went down in the water."
2. China provided satellite pictures which showed what the nation's experts believed were large portions of an airliner like the missing Malaysian Jet. When western experts studies the pictures they agreed that it could be a portion of a Jet. But when boats and planes responded to the coordinates of the place which the satellite photo depicted, there was nothing there. There is some chance that the debris seen was carried away by marine currents. There is some chance that the debris sunk. For whatever reason, authorities do not think this is what happened. A reader of the Scottish Daily Mail says the photo was somewhat obscured by a cloud. He says another photo of the same place, but without the cloud, showed that what was depicted were two large ships very close to each other. See their web page at: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-live-3236617. A late report on Fox said that the Chinese Government now says that the satellite pictures were provided "in error."
3. American intelligence folk say that they believe the Jet stayed aloft for four to five hours longer than Malaysian Authorities have suggested. According to Fox, and their outstanding National Security Reporter Catherine Herridge, the Jet actually has three data streams operating when it takes off. One, from the transponders, were deactivated immediately after the Jet made its last contact with civilian air traffic controllers at 1:20 am. A second, allowed the military to track the plane until 2:15 am. But there is a third lesser known data stream which allows those on the ground to determine if the Jet engines were operating. That stream indicates the Jet continued flying for four to five additional hours. Using the speed of the plane that they are aware of, USA experts now say the plane could be thousands of miles away. Places where the plane could be include Pakistan and Austrailia. However, Malaysian Government Officials involved in the investigation say simply that this report of a much longer time aloft are simply not true.
4. The mental condition of the passengers and crew of the Jet is, more and more, a topic being discussed by those involved in the investigation, and those who are closely watching it. A major reason for the close interest is the statement made two days ago by Malaysia's Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar. Without a prompt, Mr. Bakar blurted out that the mental condition of the passengers and crew are being looked into. It was the "and crew" part that raised all of the eyebrows. New reports that Malaysian Authorities have raided the homes of the captain and co-pilot of the missing jet were denied late yesterday by those same authorities, the Scottish Daily Mail reported. But Malaysian authorities have promised to investigate a report that two Austrailian Women were allowed to sit in the cockpit and smoke with the co-pilot and a different captain on a flight in 2011.
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