From the US military did it, to being abducted by aliens, the lack
of evidence as to what really happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines
Flight MH370 is what breeds conspiracy theories.
While authorities are stumped over the fate of the missing Malaysia
Airlines Flight MH370, the lack of evidence as to what happened hasn’t
stopped wild speculation as to the fate of the missing jet and its 239
passengers and crew members. From being shot down by the US military, to
being hijacked by terrorists, to being abducted by aliens, there are
literally dozens of “conspiracy theories” as well as dozens of memes
about the missing Malaysian Airliner going viral online.
The memes circulating on Facebook, Twitter and other social sites are
using rather dark humor about what is really a tragedy, but most leave
room for a happy ending. One of the more popular ones shows Malaysia
Airlines Flight MH370 on Gilligans Island.
Anyway, bellow are what I believe are the most popular and/or most believable conspiracy theories about Flight MH370
1. US military conspiracy
There are actually several different conspiracy theories ab out the
US military being involved. They range from the US military shooting
down the airliner, whether on purpose or accidentally, to secretly
landing the plane on a military base on the remote island of Diego
Garcia.
The United States government flatly denies claims of any US involvement regarding the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
Conspiracy theory and scientific site Natural News, run by Mike Adams, has another US military theory.
Adams said: “If we never find the debris, it means some entirely new,
mysterious and powerful force is at work on our planet, which can pluck
airplanes out of the sky without leaving behind even a shred of
evidence.”
If there does exist a weapon with such capabilities, whoever controls
it already has the ability to dominate all of Earth’s nations with a
fearsome military weapon of unimaginable power,” he added.
He believes the plane fell into an area “outside the search zone” and could lead to a very dark end for Earth.
2. Terrorists crashed it into the sea
This is perhaps the second most popular and plausible theory.
Though no terrorist groups have claimed responsibility for the
missing flight, that hasn’t stopped theorists claiming it’s the only
explanation. There are some terrorist groups that have claimed
responsibility over the last few days, including an unknown Chinese
group.
What really triggered this possibility, were the two
passengers who boarded the plane with stolen passports , with many believing they must be part of a huge cover up to sink the plane.
3. Afghan hijacking
A military source reportedly told the Moskovsky
Komsomolets newspaper: “Flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines missing on March 8
with 239 passengers was hijacked.
“Pilots are not guilty; the plane was hijacked by
unknown terrorists. We know that the name of the terrorist who gave
instructions to pilots is “Hitch.
“The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near the border with Pakistan.”
Others have since gone on to indicate that the
passengers have been divided into seven groups and are living in mud
huts with almost no food.
4. A life insurance scam
Khalid Abu Bakar addressed the world last month to
provide an update on the investigation and revealed authorities were
exploring every single avenue – no matter how remote.
“Maybe somebody on the flight has bought a huge sum of
insurance, who wants family to gain from it or somebody who has owed
somebody so much money, you know, we are looking at all possibilities,”
he said.
The authorities’ investigations extend to examining every detail of the passengers for any clues as to what may have happened.
“We are looking very closely at the video footage taken
at the KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport), we are studying the
behavioural pattern of all the passengers,” he added.
5. The Illuminati
“Was looking at the
Wikipedia page for
the missing Malaysia Airlines, and noticed that it’s was [sic] the
404th 777 Boeing produced,” Redditor i-am-SHER-locked wrote.
Reddit users have seemingly taken a keen interest in the
disappearance. One, known only as i-am-SHER-locked apparently uncovered
that the Boeing 777 in question was the 404th such aircraft to be
produced.
“An HTTP 404 error means not found,” they wrote. “Which
in this case is oddly appropriate for the status of the aircraft, or
just a coincidence.
“Coincidence, I think not.”
“An HTTP 404 error mean [sic] not found, which in this
case is oddly approiate [sic] for the status of the aircraft, or just a
concidence [sic]. Coincidence, i think not!”
Maybe, most likely, probably.
6. Edward Snowden
Some believe whistleblower Edward Snowden could be central to the disappearance.
There were early suggestions 20 employees from the Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor were on board the flight.
So Reddit user Dark_Spectre has put two and two together and come up with, well, you decide.
“So we have the American IBM Technical Storage Executive
for Malaysia, a man working in mass storage aggregation for the company
implicated by the Snowden papers for providing their services to assist
the National Security Agency in surveilling the Chinese,” he wrote.
“And now this bunch of US chip guys working for a global
leader in embedded processing solutions (embedded smart phone tech and
defense contracting) all together..on a plane..And disappeared..
Coincidence??”
He goes on to that the plane itself was kidnapped by Chinese authorities to uncover more about Snowden’s revelations.
7. North Korea has the Plane
A theory suggesting the plane was hidden as part of an experiment has circulated.
Citizens news site Beforeitsnews.com reported: “It is conceivable
that the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 plane is ‘cloaked’, hiding with
hi-tech electronic warfare weaponry that exists and is used.
“In fact, this type of technology is precisely the expertise of Freescale, that has 20 employees on board the missing flight.”
It also sparked theories the plane could have been taken by North Korea for similarly unknown purposes.
A reddit user wrote: “There’s no telling what crazy logic they [North
Korea] might have for taking a plane. They literally have no grasp of
reality and have been caught red handed kidnapping foreigners, making
s**t up and generally being d****es.”
8. There’s a new Bermuda Triangle
The idea there could be a second Bermuda Triangle seems a popular one on social media.
Its sudden and unexplained disappearance from radar could have
several explanations, whether it be a sudden explosion or mid-air
disintegration, or even a mechanical failure.
But some theorists believe it simply means the plane has entered another Devil’s Triangle.
Boats and planes have been known to disappear in the patch of sea in
the North Atlantic Ocean, known as the Bermuda Triangle, including
Flight 19 in 1945, when five torpedo bombers mysteriously vanished.
But could there really be another one?
One Twitter user wrote: “So…what is up with this Malaysian airplane thing? Is there an Asian version of the Bermuda Triangle?”
Another added: “Maybe there’s such thing as Asian bermuda triangle. #Malaysia #MalaysiaAirlines.”
Just look at this. coincidence? “@genosarkies: after 3days and stll no sign of MH370? did the bermuda triangle move?”pic.twitter.com/5ab2ZFR0In
— Bow to the king! (@KingLionsXII) March 10, 2014
9. Pilot suicide
One explanation for the sudden disappearance, according to some, could be pilot suicide.
But so far no evidence has come to light to suggest
either captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah or co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid had such
intentions.
John Brennan, head of the US Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), told the Daily Mail, when asked if it was a possibility: “I
think you cannot discount any theory.”
Malaysian police have attempted to investigate whether
any passengers or crew on the plane had personal or psychological
problems that might shed light on the mystery.
Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said at a news conference: “We are looking at all possibilities.”
Other theorists have claimed the pilot or crew could have hijacked the plane themselves.
“There have been absolutely no implications that we are
aware of that there was anything untoward in either his behaviour or
attitude,” Dunleavy told Reuters in an interview.
“We have no reason to believe that there was anything,
any actions, internally by the crew that caused the disappearance of
this aircraft.”
10. Alien Abduction
Social media users have jumped on the possibility of extraterrestrial life having something to do with the missing plane.
One user wrote: “After an extensive conversation with my father &
his partner, we have come to the conclusion that the only explanation
is #aliens mh370.”
Another added: “I secretly believe that plane is abducted by aliens.. I know I’m not the only one..”
And one user even said there were only two possibilities for its disappearance, aliens or a DB Cooper-style heist.
He wrote: “This Malaysian airlines flight has the potential to be
either the greatest heist since DB Cooper, or alien abduction. I vote
aliens.”
after an extensive
conversation with my father & his partner, we have come to the
conclusion that the only explanation is aliens #mh370
— Jordan (@wittsjw) March 12, 2014
I secretly believe that plane is abducted by aliens.. I know i’m not the only one..
— CHUCKIE | DIRTYDUTCH (@djchuckie) March 12, 2014
This malaysian
airline flight has the potential to be either the greatest heist since
DB Cooper, or alien abduction. I vote aliens
— cameron bush (@cameronthebush) March 10, 2014
Other Popular Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Conspiracy Theories
Six months before the plane went down, the U.S. aviation
watchdog warned airlines of a problem with cracks in Boeing 777s that
could lead to a mid-air break up or a catastrophic drop in pressure. The
Federal Aviation Administration issued an alert in September last year
giving airlines until April 9 to detect and correct cracking in the
fuselage skin on Boeing 777s.
The FAA warned that failure to do so would leave the
aircraft vulnerable to ‘a rapid decompression and loss of structural
integrity’.
The organisation issued a final directive just two days
before the Malaysia Airlines plane took off and said one airline had
found a 16-in crack in the fuselage skin of a 14-year-old plane.
However, Boeing said that the FAA alert did not apply to
the missing jet because it did not have the same antenna as the rest of
the Boeing 777s.
There are all sorts of technical problems or mechanical
failures that could have caused the plane to crash. And though this
wouldn’t explain the lack of a distress call, something sudden could
have happened, maybe not giving the crew enough time to respond.
One other theory is that there was a fire on board that
killed all on board but burned out before damaging the exterior of the
plane.
This would explain why the aircraft, on auto-pilot, would fly such a long distance off course.
An aviation source said that if this was the case, it
would have hit the water at around 600mph after gliding down from
35,000ft.
The source said: “The plane would not have dropped like a
stone, it would have glided down from 35,000ft for around 10-12 minutes
after it had exhausted its fuel.
“It would have hit the water with a massive impact – as
though the plane had landed on concrete. Nobody could have survived
that.
“There would have been a huge explosion with the wings ripped off and the fuselage would probably have plummeted straight down.”
Conclusion
The truth is, no one really knows what happened to the missing
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, or they aren’t telling, so the
conspiracy theories will continue, multiply and grow.
We, most likely, will never find out what really happened to the plane, or the fate of its passengers.
What is your theory about what happened to the missing airliner? Tell
us your theories, ideas and beliefs about Malaysia Airlines Flight
MH370 in a comment, bellow.
By Tom Retterbush
SOURCES & RESOURCES
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 conspiracy theories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370_conspiracy_theories
12 weird conspiracy theories on Flight MH370
http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-10-weird-conspiracy-theories-on-flight-mh370/20140314.htm
Disappearance of MH 370 flight: The trillion dollar question to the US and its intelligence services
http://rt.com/op-edge/disappearance-malaysian-airlines-flight-373/
