turnin: Certain rhetoric used in that interview tells me it's going to be a very busy year for the Us military.

Technofreak:

Fred99:

Technofreak: Interesting interview here with some very interesting observations.  Though you do have to temper the conclusions with the fact this has come out of the US where they can be a little one eyed about their ability and importance.  However he makes a plausible case.

He says Boeing/Rolls Royce know the aircraft is in Pakistan.

He asks; Why has the US Navy pulled back their efforts in the India Ocean? Why has Israel stepped up security? He says because they know something.

He claims the the HF and VHF radios were never turned off. How does he know that, were there other transmissions?  He talks about the "great US vacuum cleaner" sucking up all sorts of information. 

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/03/18/lt-gen-mcinerney-flight-370-could-have-landed-pakistan

It won't be in Pakistan.  Fox news are abject dolts - and I won't bother to read that article because it will be nonsense.  China (most of the passengers were Chinese) is a strategic ally of Pakistan in that region.  The chance that Pakistan would have allowed an unidentified airliner enter and land in it's territory after it had been in Indian airspace is zero.  The chance that it could have got that far undetected is zero.

Perhaps you might like to watch the video first.   No one said it went through Indian airspace.  I don't think the nationality of the passengers will make any difference.

Fred99:

Technofreak: Interesting interview here with some very interesting observations.  Though you do have to temper the conclusions with the fact this has come out of the US where they can be a little one eyed about their ability and importance.  However he makes a plausible case.

He says Boeing/Rolls Royce know the aircraft is in Pakistan.

He asks; Why has the US Navy pulled back their efforts in the India Ocean? Why has Israel stepped up security? He says because they know something.

He claims the the HF and VHF radios were never turned off. How does he know that, were there other transmissions?  He talks about the "great US vacuum cleaner" sucking up all sorts of information. 

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/03/18/lt-gen-mcinerney-flight-370-could-have-landed-pakistan

It won't be in Pakistan.  Fox news are abject dolts - and I won't bother to read that article because it will be nonsense.  China (most of the passengers were Chinese) is a strategic ally of Pakistan in that region.  The chance that Pakistan would have allowed an unidentified airliner enter and land in it's territory after it had been in Indian airspace is zero.  The chance that it could have got that far undetected is zero.

While I'm sure that the US may not be telling us "everything" - his suggestion that Rolls Royce "know" something is BS - this isn't a James Bond movie, and the WSJ have retracted their comment that RR was monitoring MH370 pings/engine data anyway.  The WSJ clearly had a good "source", but didn't have their original report correct.

Technofreak:

turnin: Certain rhetoric used in that interview tells me it's going to be a very busy year for the Us military.

Now why would you say that? 

Technofreak: 
She also says flight MH370 had 5 hours 50 min of fuel, when in fact the actual fuel load hasn't been disclosed other than saying the normal fuel load. A lot of airlnes tanker fuel to Beijing so it could have had over 12 hours of fuel.

Dingbatt: Watched the TVNZ coverage of this event on breakfast this morning. What credence can we put in the accuracy of their reporting when they can't even get the name of our own air force correct. Calling it the NZRAF in both the commentary and the ticker under the RNZAF Squadron Leader being interviewed.

I guess it is understandable the name was only changed in 1937.

Technofreak:

Fred99:

Technofreak: Interesting interview here with some very interesting observations.  Though you do have to temper the conclusions with the fact this has come out of the US where they can be a little one eyed about their ability and importance.  However he makes a plausible case.

He says Boeing/Rolls Royce know the aircraft is in Pakistan.

He asks; Why has the US Navy pulled back their efforts in the India Ocean? Why has Israel stepped up security? He says because they know something.

He claims the the HF and VHF radios were never turned off. How does he know that, were there other transmissions?  He talks about the "great US vacuum cleaner" sucking up all sorts of information. 

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/03/18/lt-gen-mcinerney-flight-370-could-have-landed-pakistan

It won't be in Pakistan.  Fox news are abject dolts - and I won't bother to read that article because it will be nonsense.  China (most of the passengers were Chinese) is a strategic ally of Pakistan in that region.  The chance that Pakistan would have allowed an unidentified airliner enter and land in it's territory after it had been in Indian airspace is zero.  The chance that it could have got that far undetected is zero.

While I'm sure that the US may not be telling us "everything" - his suggestion that Rolls Royce "know" something is BS - this isn't a James Bond movie, and the WSJ have retracted their comment that RR was monitoring MH370 pings/engine data anyway.  The WSJ clearly had a good "source", but didn't have their original report correct.

That's right I forgot, isn't Pakistan an ally of the US in the war against terror? Also they didn't know Osama Bin Laden was just down the road from one of their military barracks? Yeah right. If it's in Pakistan there's a better than even chance someone of importance knew it was coming

turnin:
If he is saying things like that, the only thing I can be certain of is it certainly hasn't crashed into the ocean!

Fred99: 
There is a huge difference between apparently not helping the US find OBL and an orchestrated plot to hijack an airliner to use as a WMD.

Pakistan has nuclear weapons.  They could just go an buy a cheap old 747 or DC10 etc freighter near the end of it's use-by date and fill it with explosives if they wanted to launch a crude attack somewhere. Pakistan is very titchy about intrusions to it's air space - and they have a massive air force.  Pakistan has all kinds of issues in it's border regions.  I'd expect that Pakistan has more US satellite surveillance per square mile than anywhere else on the planet.  To land a 777 somewhere is one thing, to load it up with 100 tonnes of fuel and take off again from some "unknown airport" is quite another. OBL's 9/11 attacks were extremely effective, because they hijacked more than one plane, because they didn't have to cross borders, because the targets were close to where the planes were hijacked.  One B777 "WMD" hidden in Pakistan is a waste of time.
If you're implying that Pakistan might do anything to facilitate a hi-jacking by Uighurs, then it's also nuts.  They'd lose their strongest ally.

trig42: The Russians have it.

While we are all looking for the plane, they are taking the Crimea.

/tin foil hat,

joker97: Just watched that video above.

My question is,

Why is a us general revealing things that his government aren't?

Ok let's say he is authorised to say whatever his government's secret services know, then surely it's a matter of hours before Pakistan owns up to seeing it on their radar?

Finally how do they know that the plane had their radio live and working?