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June 1985: Air India 182 explodes as a bomb hidden in a Sanyo stereo receiver blows up. It is solved from parts from a 2nd bomb explode in a luggage area in Tokyo intended to blow up another 747 that are tracked to Sikh separatists in Vancouver BC who never claimed credit. Although the bomb maker did jail time, the alleged masterminds were acquitted because the woman who was romantically involved was not deemed to be a reliable witness.
7 December 1987: a Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 BAe 146-200 (registration N350PS) crashed after a disgruntled former USAir employee aimed a .44 Magnum pistol and fired several shots in and near the cockpit area, killing the flight crew and causing the aircraft to enter a steep nosedive, and pick up speed to 770 mph (1,239 km/h). The aircraft slammed into a hillside, killing the 43 passengers and crew. It was not deemed related to terrorism.
1988: jpost Pan Am 103 explodes over Lockerbie was thought to have been executed by Libyans, but an Iranian ex-spy confirms it was ordered by Iran in retaliation for USS Vincennes shooting down an Iranian airliner by accident. British newspaper The Telegraph cites documents obtained by the Qatar-based pan-Arab satellite network that claim Iran recruited a Palestinian terrorist organization based in Syria to carry out the bombing that killed 270 people, including 11 on the ground. The paper quotes the former agent, Abolghassem Mesbahi, who defected to Germany from Iran, saying that flight 103 was downed in retaliation for a US Navy strike on an Iranian civilian airliner six months earlier that killed 290 passengers and crew. No terrorist organization took credit.
23 November 1996 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, a Boeing 767-200ER, was hijacked en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia.(Malaysian Iran passengers also appeared to be seeking asylum) [4] The plane ditched / crash-landed in the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore,Comoros Islands, due to fuel starvation; 125 of the 175 passengers and crew on board died, along with the hijackers; the rest of the people on board survived with injuries. No terrorist organization took credit.
EgyptAir Flight 990 On 31 October 1999, the Boeing 767-300ER operating the route crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 60 miles (97 km) south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, killing all 217 people on board.[1] NTSB's primary theory is that he committed suicide. Western media speculated Islamist terrorism as a motive but senior American officials said the "Allah" speculation arose from a mistranslation of an Egyptian Arabic phrase (Tawkalt ala Allah) meaning "I rely on God." London's Sunday Times, quoting unnamed sources, speculated that the Relief First Officer had been "traumatized by war," and was depressed because many members of his fighter squadron in the 1973 war had been killed. The unprecedented presence of 33 members of the Egyptian General Staff on the flight fed a number of conspiracy theories. There were those who opined that it was an action (and potentially a conspiracy) of Muslim extremists against Egypt.
the Islamist Al Shaab, which speculated that a Mossad/CIA conspiracy was to blame Al Shaab also accused U.S. officials of secretly recovering the FDR, reprogramming it, and throwing it back into the water to be publicly recovered.
September 11, 2001 - Four airlines are hijacked by teams of Islamist terrorists who killed the pilots, disabled transponders and flew or tried to fly them into targets in New York City and Washington DC. A large disinformation campaign continues to this day to make people believe there were no airplanes, no muslims, or that the attack was directed or on behalf of Americans or Israel to justify war against Muslim nations, or was the predictable result of US foreign policy.
June 29, 2012 Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554 an Embraer ERJ-190, took off from Hotan at 12:25pm; within ten minutes, six ethnic Uyghur men, one of whom allegedly professed his motivation as jihad, announced their intent to hijack the aircraft, according to multiple witnesses. In response, passengers and crew resisted and successfully restrained the hijackers, who were armed with aluminum crutches and explosives. Two attackers were beaten so badly they died from their injuries. No terrorist organization took credit, the Uyghur world congress claimed it was only an argument about seating.
November 1, 2013 four Iranians and one Afghan without valid visas to enter Canada managed to board a Toronto-bound Air Canada flight from Venezuela using fake tickets. The crew detected they had five too many passengers before they were to take off from Simon Bolivar International Airport, outside Caracas. bare
17 February 2014. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 The aircraft, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767-300ER, was hijacked by the unarmed co-pilot en route from Addis Ababa to Rome, and landed at Geneva. All 202 passengers and crew were unharmed.
Day before: Pilot was at the trial of opposition party leader Anwar Ibrahim as he was sentenced to jail for sodomy.
Takeoff: 12:41 a.m. All tracking systems are working
1:07 Data transmission is shut off. Since the pilots are in control, that's a bad sign. Cutting the datalink would not have been easy. Instructions are not in the Flight Crew Operating Manual, one pilot said. Circuit-breakers used to disable the system are in a bay reached through a hatch in the floor next to the lefthand front exit, close to a galley used to prepare meals. Most pilots said it would be impossible to turn off ACARS from inside the cockpit, although two people did not rule it out.
1:19 a.m. Voice check-in: 1:19 a.m. Someone in the plane's cockpit makes a voice check-in with air-traffic controllers as the airliner was apparently leaving Malaysian airspace and entering Vietnamese airspace. Initial investigations indicate it was the co-pilot, Fariq Ab Hamid. It is used by pilots when executing a handover from one airspace to another. What is unusual is that Vietnamese air traffic controllers did not pick up any contact with the plane during the handoff. the informal hand-off went against standard radio procedures, which would have called for him to read back instructions for contacting the next control center and include the aircraft's call sign, mirror2
Transponder off: 1:21 a.m. A transponder sends electronic messages from the airplane: "squawks" to radar systems about the plane's flight number, altitude, speed and heading. The transponder, apparently switched off, stropped responding at 1:21 a.m.
Air traffic controllers in Subang, outside Kuala Lumpur, say they lost contact with the plane over the Gulf of Thailand between Malaysia and Vietnam at coordinates 06 55 15 N and 103 34 43 E.
1:30 AM Sighting claim: Kota Bharu, Malaysia
In the middle of the night, two fishermen near the Malaysia-Thailand border saw a plane flying low over the South China Sea -- at the same time that air traffic controllers lost contact with Flight 370 over the same body of water, at 1:30 a.m. or almost 50 minutes after takeoff.
Fisherman Azid Ibrahim and a friend had taken people fishing that night off the coast of Kota Bharu.
"I was fishing when I saw the plane -- it looked strange. Flying low. I told my friend that's not normal. Normally, it flies at 35,000 feet. But that night it touched the clouds. I thought the pilot must be crazy," Ibrahim said.
"It was really low. I saw the lights they looked like the size of a coconut," he said.
Their fishing grounds lay under a flight path, but the predawn plane was unusual to see because of its low altitude, they said.
The fishermen filed a police report about their sighting, but Malaysian officials haven't commented.
1:37 AM Expected ACARS transmission doesn't happen. The ACARS was supposed to transmit every half-hour, but it didn't, Yahya said, So, the ACARS was shut down sometime between 1:07 and 1:37 a.m. It's a significant event: Turning off ACARS takes know-how, Quest said.
.. suggested someone on board had turned off its communication systems,
last confirmed position of MH370 was at 35,000 feet about 90 miles off the east coast of Malaysia, heading towards Vietnam, near a navigational waypoint called "Igari". The time was 1:21 a.m.. The military track suggests it then turned sharply westwards, heading towards a waypoint called "Vampi", northeast of Indonesia's Aceh province and a navigational point used for planes following route N571 to the Middle East.
From there, the plot indicates the plane flew towards a waypoint called "Gival", south of the Thai island of Phuket, and was last plotted heading northwest towards another waypoint called "Igrex", on route P628 that would take it over the Andaman Islands and which carriers use to fly towards Europe.
On a remote island in the Maldives, residents claimed they saw a "low flying jumbo jet" the same morning that the Malaysia plane disappeared, according to the website of the Maldivian news outlet Haveeru.
Residents on the isle of Kuda Huvadhoo in the Dhaalu Atoll gave a description that matched the commercial airliners: white with red stripes, according to the news outlet.
"I've never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We've seen seaplanes, but I'm sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly," an unidentified eyewitness said, according to Haveeru. "It's not just me either, several other residents have reported seeing the exact same thing. Some people got out of their houses to see what was causing the tremendous noise too."
These claims, published in a story Tuesday, were dismissed by Malaysian officials.
The Maldives coast guard told CNN it had no reports of such sightings and had not even been requested to conduct a search.
The acting Malaysian transport minister also declared the reports false.
"I can confirm that the Malaysian Chief of the Defense Force has contacted his counterpart in the Maldives, who has confirmed that these reports are not true," Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said at a press conference.
5:30 AM indications are the plane flew for another 4 hours after losing contact
8:11 a.m. Satellite 'handshakes'
A satellite got a message from the plane more than seven hours after takeoff. Najib didn't provide details on the satellite tracking, but it appears that orbiters high above the ocean detected the plane as the satellite or satellites attempted a series of "handshakes" -- or electronic connections -- with the plane below,
March 20, 2014
wsj Critical Data Was Delayed in Search for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight
Investigators Are Still Working to Recover From the Delay By ANDY PASZTOR, JON OSTROWER and JAMES HOOKWAY CONNECT Four days went by before Malaysian officials, provided satellite data showing Flight 370 flew for several hours away from the original search area, acted on the information. WSJ's Jason Bellini reports.
Four days went by before officials acted on satellite data showing Malaysia Airlines 3786.KU -2.08% Flight 370 flew for several hours away from the area being covered by a massive international search, people familiar with the matter said—a delay from which investigators are still working to recover.
The satellite's operator, Britain's Inmarsat ISAT.LN +0.14% PLC, on March 11 turned over to a partner company its data analysis and other documents indicating that the plane wasn't anywhere near the areas on either side of Malaysia where more countries and ships had been searching for three days since the plane disappeared. The documents included a map showing two divergent north and south corridors for the plane's route stretching some 3,000 miles from the plane's last previously known location, the people said.
The information was relayed to Malaysian officials by Wednesday, March 12, the people said. Inmarsat also shared the same information
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