Sources in Paris speculated that U.S. Intelligence must be jittery, or even paranoid
with the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlanes Flight 370 plane.
Talking to METransparent, French analyst Roland Jacquard said “lump together the terms ‘Kuala Lumpur’ and ‘plane hijacking’ and you would immediately think of the 2000 Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda Summit and of the so-called Bojinka plot drawn by Khaled Sheikh Mohammad”. The plot included nor only the assassination of Pope John Paul II, but also an air bombing of 11 airliners flying from Asia to the United States[1] and their approximately 4,000 passengers, and a proposal to crash a plane into the CIA’s headquarters in Fairfax County, Virginia.
What happened to the Malaysian plane?
(Citing a WSJ report): In the first definitive comments from the nation’s government on how the jet came to vanish March 8, Najib Razak said at a news conference Saturday that data relayed by the plane to a satellite has confirmed it turned from its original course. He added that the last satellite communication from the plane was at 8:11 a.m. Malaysia time, well past the scheduled arrival time in Beijing. It had taken off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 a.m.
The prime minister’s comments appear to corroborate the analysis of U.S. investigators, which determined that one or more people on the plane deliberately changed its course and tried to mask its location.
The routine messages sent by the aircraft show that Flight 370 was still airborne nearly six hours after it disappeared from Malaysian military radar. The Boeing 777-200 plane with 239 people on board was carrying enough fuel to fly for eight hours, Malaysia Airlines confirmed on Saturday.