Editing MH370 Theories/Disappeared

<h2>MH370 Theories: Causes for Aircraft 'Disappearance'</h2>
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<p>When Malaysia Airlines announced to the world that <i>flight MH370 has lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control</i> in the first [[MH370News:2014/Day 001#MAS-MS1-001-ZH|Media Statement at 7.24am]] on {{Day 001}}, the words were carefully selected. Malaysia Airlines did not say that the aircraft had gone missing, had disappeared, or crashed - these words were used by journalists later. However, the obvious course of action was to search for wreckage in the south China Sea in the vicinity of MH370's last known position. And as that search failed to provide any evidence of a crash, (an oil slick was not from an aircraft and neither was various debris), it was as though the aircraft had literally 'disappeared' or 'vanished', and the word 'mystery' was used often, illustrated by the examples below:-</p>
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<h3>Vanished or Disappeared</h3>
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<h5>10 March 2014</h5>
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<h5>Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: Other mysterious cases of people, planes and boats VANISHING into thin air</h5>
<p>As the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 remains a mystery, here are 10 more unexplained disappearances</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><u>Source</u>: The Mirror (UK) {{RefID:MIRUK-003}}</p>
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<p>From this headline the article from the <i>Mirror</i> (UK) continues with a list of mysteries, most of which are missing persons cases.</p>
<p>Three maritime mysteries are listed:-</p>
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   <li>Crew of Mary Celeste. See Wikipedia Article <html><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste" target=_blank"><i>Mary Celeste</i></a></html></li>
   <li>The Crew of the Sarah Joe (A small fishing boat from Hana Bay, Maui, with five persons on-board lost in 1979). </li>
   <li>USS Cyclops. See Wikipedia Article <html><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyclops" target=_blank"><i>USS Cyclops</i></a></html></li>
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<p>And several aviation mysteries:-</p>
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   <li>Amelia Earhart. See article for missing aircraft [[Lockheed Electra 10E (1937)]]</li>
   <li>Planes in Bermuda Triangle (Focussed on Flight 19 which went missing in 1945.) See Wikipedia Article <html><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19" target=_blank"><i>Flight 19</i></a></html></li>
   <li>B-47 Disappearance. See Wikipedia Article <html><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_B-47_disappearance" target=_blank"><i>1956 B-47 disappearance</i> </a></html></li>
   <li>D B Cooper. See article for [[Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 (1971)]] which was hijacked by D. B. Cooper.</li>
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<h5>10 March 2014</h5>
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<h5>Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: Jet's disappearance remains a mystery as passport security questioned</h5>
<p>Authorities remain confounded by the mysterious <b>disappearance</b> of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with 239 people on board, as questions mount over possible security lapses.</p>
<p>Dozens of ships and aircraft from 10 countries have scoured the seas around Malaysia and south of Vietnam since flight MH370 <b>vanished</b> on Saturday en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><u>Source</u>: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) {{RefID:ABCAU-003}}</p>
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<p>The next question became <i>how did the aircraft disappear?</i> Two options were proposed:- </p>
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   <li><h5>Invisibility Cloak</h5> <!-- Invisibility Cloak -->
<p>13 March 2014</p>
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<p>On board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were employees from Freescale Semiconductor, a Texas-based technology firm.</p>
<p>They were based in several manufacturing sites in Kuala Lumpur and Tianjin, China; 12 of the employees were from Malaysia and eight were from China, a spokeswoman for the company confirmed.</p>
<p>Links between the plane's mysterious disappearance and the radar-blocking capabilities of some of the aeronautical hardware technology produced by Freescale have been pushed by citizens news site <i>Beforeitsnews</i>.</p>
<p style="margin-left:1em;">"It is conceivable that the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 plane is 'cloaked', hiding with high-tech electronic warfare weaponry that exists and is used," according to the site.<br />
"In fact, this type of technology is precisely the expertise of Freescale, that has 20 employees on board the missing flight," it said.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><u>Source</u>: International Business Times {{RefID:IBTUK-006}}<br />
Note: The original article published by <i>Beforeitsnews</i> could not be located.</p>
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<p><b>Reality Check</b>: The Boeing 777 on flight MH370 was never invisible. The aircraft was observed by both civilian and military radar, the sharp turn westward was captured by radar, and the aircraft remained observable by radar until out of range towards the Andaman Sea. Therefore, the presence of Freescale employees on flight MH370 is simply coincidental and not relevant to the diversion from the [[MH370 Flight Plan|Filed Flight Plan]].</p>
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<li><h5>Swallowed by a Black Hole</h5>
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<h5>CNN anchorman asks: Could a 'black hole' explain MH370 mystery?</h5>
<p>Dylan Stableford, Yahoo News</p>
<p>Updated 21 March 2014</p>

<p>Near the end of CNN's special primetime report on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, anchor Don Lemon read a pair of tweets he received from viewers suggesting the plane's disappearance could be the result of a "black hole," Bermuda Triangle or an occurrence akin to the television series "Lost."</p>

<p>Lemon then turned to Mary Schiavo, former inspector general of the US Department of Transportation, and said, "I know it's preposterous, but is it preposterous, do you think, Mary?"</p>

<p>"It is," Schiavo replied. "A small black hole would suck in our entire universe. So we know it's not that. The Bermuda Triangle is often weather, and 'Lost' is a TV show."</p>

<p>"Right," Lemon said.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><u>Source</u>: Yahoo! News {{RefID:Yahoo-014}}</p>
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<p><b>Reality Check</b>: The astronomy term <i>black hole</i> refers to a region of space (and time) which is so dense that gravity prevents even electromagnetic energy (light for example) from escaping.<br />
Since the loss of MH370, the boundary between Malaysian and Vietnamese airspace has been (incorrectly) described as an <i>aeronautical black hole</i>, or in Tabloid articles just a <i>black hole</i>. This has nothing to do with any gravitational anomaly, time-warp or 'Bermuda-Triangle' phenomenon - it is sensational journalism. As the world now knows, however, the handover from Malaysian Air Traffic Controllers should have been acknowledged by both MH370 and then Vietnamese Air Traffic Controllers after being contacted by MH370 as instructed.</p>
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