The disappearance has, unsurprisingly, been the number one topic of conversation at the International Society of Transport Air Trading conference in San Diego this week. The annual gathering has drawn around 1,600 people connected with the industry. What do they think happened to flight MH370? The people that I deal with are looking at this with great concern - it appears considerable efforts may have gone into cloaking the aircraft, said Robert Agnew, chief executive of aviation consultant Morten Beyer & Agnew, referring to reports that the planes primary means of communicating with air traffic control were intentionally disabled. We are speculating on what was actually done in the cockpit. If this is a planned terrorist activity, could others know the process and copy it?, he asked. Philip Baggaley, an analyst at Standard & Poors, said: The disappearance of MH370 has been a topic of private conversation here. Baggaley said the consensus is that someone in the crew or among the passengers with close knowledge of how to disable communications systems took the plane over. They mostly guess that it crashed in the Indian Ocean, rather than landed safely at a new destination, because the plane probably would have been picked up by military or other radars if it flew over land, he said. There are some holdouts. One aviation consultant, who asked not to be named, was adamant that Asian militaries know more about the missing plane than they have acknowledged. I find it hard to believe the military intelligence in the region doesnt know where that plane is, the consultant said. Those countries all spy on each other.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 05:31:42 +0000
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