So the transponder turning off and the turn back so quickly after the final radio communication "goodnight Malaysian 370". Given your theory, was the timing of that just pure coincidence? Or were the Russians listening to the radio, expected that transmission, and used that transmission to time when they took over the plane ?
By the location of the plane. But not by the final radio communication? So it was more coincidence the final radio communication from the captain timed so close to the turn back? If so that's pretty fortunate for the hijackers for that to line up so perfectly with the theory that it was murder suicide by the captain.
Possibly they could have been monitoring both, as well as other aspects of the situation. I don't think it would be a coincidence that a spoof hijack would look a lot like a Zaharie hijack -- the point I was trying to make in the "Magic" and "Ripley" episodes is that a good deceiver has an idea of the "A" narrative that his pursuers will probably come to believe.
Also I think the 2 Russian passengers in coach could have acted out a conflict at their seats drawing flight crew to them and away from the hatch.
I lived in Shanghai at the time and flew to KL and Bangkok on red eyes. After take off and for the next next hour cabin lights are on and passengers are active. It’s not a dark quiet place!for most of the flight. Chinese learn at a very early age to sleep through it all.
Hi Jeff, you have done a great job in explaining the disappearance of the plane. Russia is obviously one of the very few states able to pull off such a thing. However one aspect continues to trouble me. I would assume that global intelligence services have the resources and are clever enough to know what happened. So why have they kept quiet about mh370? Kind of like your example of the dog not barking. Also if the goal was just to steal a plane and kill all the passengers why fly all the way to the end point? It would seem the passengers would be great bargaining chips. Motive is the key. Why is everyone from East and West hiding what really happened? My only thought was to follow the money and that takes us to 1MDB.
Thank you, Trip! As I speculate in the video, I think that if Russia did manage to cyber-hijack MH370 their feat would be so hard to explain that a lot of people would refuse to accept it. Also, I think it's unclear just how much intelligence agencies really understand, and whether or not they do understand, they tend not to explain what they know without a strategic purporse. For instance, it was Bellingcat that revealed to the world that a regular Russian Army unit shot down MH17, not any intelligence agency. On the other hand, the Biden administration publicly warned that Russia was about to attack Ukraine in February 2022.
I would especially include Bellingcat as one of the global intelligence services. I think it would be very interesting for you to interview someone from Bellingcat. Since they did such great work with MH17, did they ever comment on a connection to MH370.
I talked to Aric Toler about it, to my surprise he did not think that Russia deliberately shot down MH17, he thought it was an accident. So I didn't even bother to get into MH370 with him.
So the transponder turning off and the turn back so quickly after the final radio communication "goodnight Malaysian 370". Given your theory, was the timing of that just pure coincidence? Or were the Russians listening to the radio, expected that transmission, and used that transmission to time when they took over the plane ?
Yes, I think the timing of the turnback and the shutdown of electronics must have been timed, presumably by monitoring the location of the airplane.
By the location of the plane. But not by the final radio communication? So it was more coincidence the final radio communication from the captain timed so close to the turn back? If so that's pretty fortunate for the hijackers for that to line up so perfectly with the theory that it was murder suicide by the captain.
Possibly they could have been monitoring both, as well as other aspects of the situation. I don't think it would be a coincidence that a spoof hijack would look a lot like a Zaharie hijack -- the point I was trying to make in the "Magic" and "Ripley" episodes is that a good deceiver has an idea of the "A" narrative that his pursuers will probably come to believe.
Also I think the 2 Russian passengers in coach could have acted out a conflict at their seats drawing flight crew to them and away from the hatch.
I lived in Shanghai at the time and flew to KL and Bangkok on red eyes. After take off and for the next next hour cabin lights are on and passengers are active. It’s not a dark quiet place!for most of the flight. Chinese learn at a very early age to sleep through it all.
Hi Jeff, you have done a great job in explaining the disappearance of the plane. Russia is obviously one of the very few states able to pull off such a thing. However one aspect continues to trouble me. I would assume that global intelligence services have the resources and are clever enough to know what happened. So why have they kept quiet about mh370? Kind of like your example of the dog not barking. Also if the goal was just to steal a plane and kill all the passengers why fly all the way to the end point? It would seem the passengers would be great bargaining chips. Motive is the key. Why is everyone from East and West hiding what really happened? My only thought was to follow the money and that takes us to 1MDB.
Thank you, Trip! As I speculate in the video, I think that if Russia did manage to cyber-hijack MH370 their feat would be so hard to explain that a lot of people would refuse to accept it. Also, I think it's unclear just how much intelligence agencies really understand, and whether or not they do understand, they tend not to explain what they know without a strategic purporse. For instance, it was Bellingcat that revealed to the world that a regular Russian Army unit shot down MH17, not any intelligence agency. On the other hand, the Biden administration publicly warned that Russia was about to attack Ukraine in February 2022.
I would especially include Bellingcat as one of the global intelligence services. I think it would be very interesting for you to interview someone from Bellingcat. Since they did such great work with MH17, did they ever comment on a connection to MH370.
I talked to Aric Toler about it, to my surprise he did not think that Russia deliberately shot down MH17, he thought it was an accident. So I didn't even bother to get into MH370 with him.