Well here's a summary of some interesting tweets from FlyingWithFish courtesy of airliners again
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Rereading the FlyingwithFish tweets, a few stand out, such as:
"A Terrorist wants to spread terror and get credit. A cartel wants whatever it wants & leaves no evidence behind"
"Because it is not terrorism , it is theft or abduction with collateral damage"
"They want a who or what on that plane"
"I thought someone seated in the pointed end of #MH370 is fully complicit in whatever happened"
" Also addressed the zero cargo being screened"
"On Tuesday I started tweeting about cargo x-ray being down at KUL, now it seems only #MH370 pushed without its cargo screened"
He has been very consistent in saying it's not the plane that is wanted, but something on board, and that the plane is on the ground but unlikely to fly again.
Only repeating this because some of his information has subsequently been corroborated, such as flying for 3,675 miles (or seven hours) from the last known point ... however he may be sniffing glue!
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If it's true that the planes cargo was not screened then who knows what was in there. And if that is the case I'd be looking for signs of intentional tampering with the x-ray machines, and looking into anybody who had access to them. Same deal with fuel, if the x ray was intentionally damaged then just as easily could the plane not have been filled with extra fuel by paid off ground staff? Do the trucks log fuel flow for billing purposes?
Apparently smuggling US weapons tech to Iran from Malaysia is quite common, at least it was back in 2009
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aK4daf8MD.Bw
Someone also posted up a very plausible way in which someone with a bit of research and social skill could have conceivably convinced the pilot to let them into the cockpit, the amount of time it would have taken to find a pilot that this would work on might ruin the possibility though
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Figure out if one of the passenger(s) "befriended" the pilot by becoming a close flight simulator pal of his, and I think you will have found your Trojan horse. What better way to get access to the flight deck, than to be flight sim buds with the captain for months/years, sharing the same passion? After gaining his confidence, you casually mention how neat it would be to be able to see a real flight deck in action, and not just on the computer simulator, and the captain agrees. He tells you when he is flying, you buy a ticket, and after takeoff, during a quite period of the flight, he invites you- as his close flight sim "buddy"- on up to check out the action. After all, it was reported on TV that he previously let some Australian girls onto the flight deck, so why not his flight sim pal?
Said person(s) has now Trojan-horsed himself onto the flight deck, takes out the captain/co-pilot,....struggles with the controls at first (it's a little different than sitting in front of the computer), shuts off all the tracking devices that he is aware of, gets the plane back under control, and takes off for who knows were, for who knows what.
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It sounds a lot more likely to have been either the pilot or co-pilot though.
edit: the TL;DR is that the cargo allegedly wasn't x ray'd and that US military tech smuggling from Malaysia to Iran used to be quite common. Combine that with the possibility of the flight landing in Iran near a nuclear facility as posted above, and I'm pretty sure you can figure out the rest on your own.