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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/
Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.
There are a lot of technical details in the article that raise some very interesting questions.
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What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 18 2019, @05:03AM (5 children)
The plane's next destination was Beijing.
I read somewhere the suggestion that there was something being smuggled to China that the US didn't want to see delivered and so they took control of the plane and brought it down on Diego Garcia.
If I recall correctly one of the passengers seems to have managed to get off a few pictures via cellular services from his cellphone - but they were all black - and the GPS on the pictures placed the phone on Diego Garcia.
Seems to me that it would be straightforward to have a drone take off and merge itself into the flight path of the original craft while broadcasting the other plane's signal.
However, the evidence provided in the article seems to challenge this conclusion.
(Score: 3, Funny) by choose another one on Tuesday June 18 2019, @10:57AM (1 child)
Debunked - try e.g. snopes.
Image in question appears to originate in a posting to /pol/ on 4chan, which is really where you'd post to get a message out if you were held hostage vs. just making a politically incorrect joke...
PS: "GPS on the pictures" is actually EXIF data and is trivial to edit/fake, you can be wherever you want to be, been there done that but the t-shirt is... somewhere else
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Tuesday June 18 2019, @10:12PM
You can order custom t-shirts at a number of places online that will fill that gap in your story.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 18 2019, @02:49PM (1 child)
Interesting. Who is providing data service in Diego Garcia, T-Mobile?
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Tuesday June 18 2019, @10:16PM
Sure [www.sure.io], why not?
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(Score: 2) by Nuke on Tuesday June 18 2019, @07:13PM
The passengers? Can't trust them then. Funny, I thought they were mostly Chinese.