as a preliminary matter, let's not be hearing any nonsense about how we don't know if the iranians were in on the hijacking. yeah, sure.
it's just a coincidence that a plane disappears under very unique circumstances, to say the least, and that two guys from iran with stolen/forged passports show up and are boarded on the same flight. if you believe that, i've got some swamp land beach front property with an intimate view of alligators wildlife to show you.
we've got the pilots to fly the plane. the chief pilot is a devout muslim, who happened to visit the trial of a muslim political leader the morning he got onto the plane.
check.
and, we've got the iranians. what was their role? i doubt very much that it was to assist the pilot in flying the plane, as he seems to have been well prepared for some special flying on his own flight simulator. the pilot seems to have been more than capable.
then we have the matter of the plane ascending to 45,000 feet. not much oxygen to be had in the thin atmosphere at 45,000 feet, if the aircraft passenger cabin had lost its pressure and its oxygen supply.
my guess is that the iranians were very good ground crew mechanics, or men specially trained to handle the systems involved in getting oxygen into the passenger compartments, and, to the flight decks where they and the flight crew were kept supplied with the life-giving oxygen. in short, they were in charge of managing the systems that killed the passengers, and kept themselves and the others who were flying the airplane alive.
i would imagine that the controls to the oxygen system are pretty complicated, and that shutting off supplies to one part of the plane and getting it to another is not an easy task. and, i further suspect that it is not something routinely handled by a flight crew, in the sense of shutting it down to one part of the plane and keeping another supplied w/ oxygen and pressurized, at the same time.
all kinds of little valves, and switches, and controls to prevent loosing pressure and oxygen, to be neutralized and safeguards to be avoided: all the little things the designers would have tried to prevent such a thing from happening, these guys were there to override. not something, i suspect, that you want to try w/ inexperienced hands while you are flying at 45,000 in a commercial airliner.
so, the iranians did something that iranians are peculiarly qualified for, and that is to kill defenseless and unarmed innocents. you know, something to make they mama's proud.
that's the only purpose i see for them. none other.
they are probably back at work this morning. either that, or being buried in the same trenches as the passengers that they killed.
i don't see very many loose ends being tolerated in this operation. no posturing. no taking credit. no braggadocio. just a clean plan to take a jet, and use it for whatever purpose. nice and tidy.
pros. and, it ain't over yet. they wanted that plane for a purpose. this isn't just showing off.
john jay @ 03.18.2014
my understanding is that the two travelers on the stolen passports were teenagers...
how would they have gotten such training & experience at such a young age?
Posted by: redc1c4 | March 18, 2014 at 03:07 PM
red:
one a bit older, one a bit older than a teenager.
where would they get the training about a boeing 777.
well, one way or another, from boeing, would be my best guess. someone has to service and maintain the planes, and you cannot keep systems a secret.
somebody has to put them in the air, and keep them there.
the next most obvious answer would be iranian intelligence. and, when you work your way back from that, you get to the first most obvious answer.
if you want to sell the damn things, you cannot keep it a secret. whoever buys a 777 from boeing, gets the necessary information from boeing.
it's that simple.
john jay
Posted by: john jay | March 18, 2014 at 03:38 PM
p.s. shop manuals, service manuals, operational manuals, technical manuals and technical journals, all that sort of stuff.
if you have commerce, you have information flow. it's just that simple.
Posted by: john jay | March 18, 2014 at 03:42 PM