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In reply to the discussion: Maldives residents saw 'low-flying jumbo jet' on March 8: report [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)There aren't "red stripes". There is one duel colored stripe of both read and blue. They claim that they could see the plane so clearly given how close it was that they could see the outline of the doors yet didn't get the color scheme or pattern correct and somehow missed ANY blue or that giant blue "Malaysia" printed above the single stripe.
And given what has already been claimed in how low the plane flew and for how long at that low altitude there's no way that it could possibly have had enough gas to pass over the islands and keep going without their also witnessing it crashing.
Or maybe like so many other claims about this plane it's just a bunch of hooey like some volunteer searcher pulling a body in a life vest out of the ocean and so many others.
Still, the biggest point that no one has bothered to ask questions about is why is it that the Malaysian air force in discovering an unidentified aircraft on their radar that wasn't supposed to be there yet supposedly did nothing at all when it's their JOB in such a situation to get the jets off the ground and go intercept the aircraft and find out what it is, whether or not it has an emergency, what that is and determine whether or not it needs to be shot down. It's absurd to believe that they DIDN'T do there job and intercept that aircraft and know exactly what happened to it which increasingly appears given their silence on this issue was that they did shoot it down and probably for a legitimate reason.
Just yesterday this article from a person in the know appeared that answered questions concerning the plane, and this question and answer speaks volumes...
http://news.yahoo.com/could-mah730-have-been--swapped--mid-air--haynes-manual-plane-expert-offers-his-theories-135928312.html
Q: Why did the Malaysian air force not scramble their fighters?
A: I actually trained the Malaysian air Force at Kuantan Air Base on the east coast of Malaysia, and they have two MIG-29 fighter aircraft sat on alert 24/7, ready to scramble should an unknown aircraft enter their airspace...why were they not scrambled?
Most countries in this region spend billions of dollars on defense in particular, air defense protecting their international airspace and waters.
The Indian Air Force have stated they only turn on their radars on a "need-to" basis I think that's very unbelievable. I find it almost impossible that a Boeing 777 could be flying over land whether that's Vietnam, Malaysia, India or further north without anyone seeing it.
And there you have it from someone that trained the Malaysian air force... there is NO WAY that they did NOT scramble jets and intercept that plane. No way at all.