A meteor? A crashing secret aircraft? An unknown object in some sort of trouble? One thing that’s clear: this is no ordinary jet contrail. Jets emit exhaust evenly. It may be blown by the wind, but it doesn’t thicken, then grow thinner like this. Most likely explanation: a meteor.
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Information just made available by China Airlines has indicated that Beijing International Airport received a terror threat just a few days before the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 went missing.
The identity of the terrorist is still unknown but he declared an affiliation with the East Turkestan Liberation Organisation.
The threat was made on 4th March by phone, and warned that a terror strike would shortly take place at the airport. The caller initially spoke in French, but then changed to Mandarin when airport staff failed to comprehend what he was saying.
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It has just been revealed at a news conference in Beijing that the last communication from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, received just minutes before it disappeared, suggested that all was normal onboard.
Malaysian authorities have released details of the last message received by Malaysian air traffic control from Flight MH370. The short response to a radio message of "All right, roger that" indicated that all was well on the plane at that point. Nothing else, no distress signals or any further messages, have been received from the airliner.
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Some relatives of survivors are reporting that their loved ones phones are ringing, then apparently being hung up. If this is correct, then the plane may be down somewhere but under the control of somebody who does not want the passengers communicating. If the plane is under water, it’s extremely unlikely that any cellphones onboard would still be working unless the water is very shallow and parts of the aircraft haven’t been flooded. It’s difficult to tell from the stories if the phones are actually being picked up but then hung up, or if they are ceasing to radio back, or if the calls are being sent once to what central switching units had recorded as active cellphones while the plane was in the air, but which it switched to inactive when they weren’t answered.
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