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5 Apr, 2014

MH370: Who has means & motive to take a plane full of people? — RT Op-Edge

The Malaysian government does not have the most sophisticated satellite and radar surveillance systems and it took several days for them to admit that they had indeed tracked MH370 back in a westerly direction across the Malay Peninsula.

From that last point of contact on, the Malaysian authorities have been entirely reliant on ‘help’ from countries with powerful military radar systems and, more importantly, the top of the technocratic food chain, satellites.

And there we are faced with a dilemma. Does the military alliance that controls these systems see Malaysia as an ally? Are they willing to reveal the peacetime capabilities of their systems to a foreign power? Ultimately do they have the technical capability to ‘hack’ an airliner’s controls and disable avionics, even steer the plane rendering the pilot? If they can do that do they want to release that information to the world?

Read the rest: Malaysia MH370: Who has means & motive to take a plane full of people? — RT Op-Edge.