I don't know where this originated and most of you will have no doubt seen it already, but, as conspiracy theories go, this one is certainly in a class of its own. The story goes like this:
The Americans are withdrawing from Afghanistan; one of their command and control systems (used for controlling pilotless drones) was hijacked by the Taliban when an American transport convoy was moving down from one of the hill-top bases. The Taliban ambushed the convoy and killed two American Seal personnel, seized the equipment/weapons, including the command and control system which weighed about twenty tons and packed into six crates.
This happened about a month ago in February 2014. What the Taliban want is money. They want to sell the system to the Russians or the Chinese. The Russians are too busy in Ukraine but the Chinese are hungry for the system's technology. Just imagine if the Chinese master the technology behind the command and control system, all the American drones will become useless.
So the Chinese sent eight top defence scientists to check the system and agreed to pay millions for it. Sometime in early March 2014, the eight scientists and the six crates made their way to Malaysia, thinking that it was the best way to avoid detection. The cargo was then kept in the Chinese Embassy under diplomatic protection. Meanwhile, the Americans have engaged the assistance of Israeli intelligence and together they are determined to intercept and recapture the cargo.
The Chinese calculated that it would be safer to transport it via civilian aircraft so as to avoid suspicion. After all, the direct flight from KL to Beijing takes only four-and-a-half hours and the Americans will not hijack or harm a civilian airliner. So MH370 is the perfect carrier. There were five American and Israeli agents onboard who were familiar with Boeing aircraft operation. The two "Iranians" with stolen passports could be among them.
When MH370 was about to leave Malaysian air space and report in to Vietnamese air control, an American AWAC jammed their signal, disabled the pilot control system and switched over to remote control. That was when the plane lost altitude momentarily.
How can the AWAC do it? Remember 911? After 911 all Boeing aircraft (and possibly all Airbus) were installed with a remote control system to counter terrorist hijacking. Since then all Boeing aircraft can be remotely controlled by a ground control tower. It is the same remote control system that controls pilotless spy aircraft and drones.
The five American/Israeli agents soon took over the plane, switched off the transponder and other communication systems, changed course and flew westwards. They dared not fly east to Philippines or Guam because the whole South China Sea air space was covered by Chinese surveillance radar and satellites. The Malaysian, Thai and Indian military radar actually detected the unidentified aircraft but none reacted professionally.
The plane flew over North Sumatra, Anambas, South India and landed at the Maldives (some villagers saw the aircraft landing), refuelled and continued its flight to Diego Garcia, the American Air Base in the middle of the Indian Ocean where the cargo and the black box were removed.
The passengers were silenced by natural means: lack of oxygen. MH370, with its dead passengers, took off again, using remote control, and crashed into South Indian Ocean to make it look like the plane eventually ran out of fuel.
The Americans have put up a good show. First they diverted all the attention and search effort to the South China Sea while the plane made its way to the Indian Ocean. Then they came out with some conflicting statements and evidence to confuse everyone.
The amount of effort put up by China, in terms of the number of search aircraft, ships and satellites, searching first the South China Sea, then the Malacca Straits and now the Indian Ocean is unprecedented. This shows that China is very concerned, not so much for the many Chinese civilian passengers, but mainly for the high-value cargo and the eight defence scientists.
Sounds too good to be true?
