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<p>When Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing on {{Day 001}} the airline was unable to provide information about its' location, the cause of the incident, the reason for no communication, and no distress call.</p> | <p>When Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing on {{Day 001}} the airline was unable to provide information about its' location, the cause of the incident, the reason for no communication, and no distress call.</p> | ||
<p>When the Malaysian, Vietnamese and Singapore governments initiated a search of the South China Sea in the vicinity of MH370's last known location, but failed to find any evidence of a crashed aircraft the scale of an information void increased.</p> | <p>When the Malaysian, Vietnamese and Singapore governments initiated a search of the South China Sea in the vicinity of MH370's last known location, but failed to find any evidence of a crashed aircraft the scale of an information void increased.</p> | ||
<p>When the Malaysian Air traffic controllers explained that the aircraft disappeared from secondary radar, meaning that the 'blip' on their screens disappeared, and the media interpreted that as the entire aircraft disappeared, the expanding information void started to be | <p>When the Malaysian Air traffic controllers explained that the aircraft disappeared from secondary radar, meaning that the 'blip' on their screens disappeared, and the media interpreted that as the entire aircraft disappeared, the expanding information void started to be filled by speculation and 'conspiracy theories'.</p> | ||
<p>For example, since there were employees from the Freescale company onboard it was suggested that they used technology to hide the plane from radar. It was suggested that the pilot flew low to avoid tracking by radar.</p> | |||
<p>As it became known that the aircraft continued to fly for about six hours after contact was lost, and could have flown on either a northern or southern route termed corridors, there was speculation that it landed in Afghanistan, or that it landed at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.</p> | |||
<p>After residents of an atoll in the Maldives reported seeing a low-flying jet aircraft with Malaysian colours various reporters, authors, blog writers and others propagated the idea that these people saw MH370, so the aircraft either crashed or was ditched somewhere near the Maldives, or was flown to the military base at Diego Garcia where it was either shot down, or landed and was hidden.</p> | |||
Revision as of 08:52, 12 March 2024
False News
When Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing on Saturday, 8 March 2014 the airline was unable to provide information about its' location, the cause of the incident, the reason for no communication, and no distress call.
When the Malaysian, Vietnamese and Singapore governments initiated a search of the South China Sea in the vicinity of MH370's last known location, but failed to find any evidence of a crashed aircraft the scale of an information void increased.
When the Malaysian Air traffic controllers explained that the aircraft disappeared from secondary radar, meaning that the 'blip' on their screens disappeared, and the media interpreted that as the entire aircraft disappeared, the expanding information void started to be filled by speculation and 'conspiracy theories'.
For example, since there were employees from the Freescale company onboard it was suggested that they used technology to hide the plane from radar. It was suggested that the pilot flew low to avoid tracking by radar.
As it became known that the aircraft continued to fly for about six hours after contact was lost, and could have flown on either a northern or southern route termed corridors, there was speculation that it landed in Afghanistan, or that it landed at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
After residents of an atoll in the Maldives reported seeing a low-flying jet aircraft with Malaysian colours various reporters, authors, blog writers and others propagated the idea that these people saw MH370, so the aircraft either crashed or was ditched somewhere near the Maldives, or was flown to the military base at Diego Garcia where it was either shot down, or landed and was hidden.