Sometimes, one needs to keep everything within perspective as well as keeping it simple. To borrow Einstein's word of wisdom, 'everything must be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler'.
I was in my EMBA class today when the good professor asked his students, 'Where is exactly flight MH370?' He didn't asked this question directly to me. Else, I would have answered him like this:
The MH370, or to be more specific the MAS Boeing 777-200ER ('ER' for Extended Range) is somewhere in a huge Faraday cage where the 63.7m long aircraft is shielded from any external electromagnetic radiation and will be almost free from any electromagnetic interference, or simply means the aircraft cannot be detected by radar or any reconnaissance satellite.
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| Can this huge Faraday cage fit a Boeing 777-200ER ? |
If you watch the Scott brothers (Tony and Ridley) spy-thriller movies like 'Enemy of the State' and 'Body of Lies', the deployment of continuous and recorded satellite imagery or live feed from remotely controlled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will basically enable the US National Security Agency (NSA) or CIA to have almost full access in global monitoring, collection, decoding, translation and analysis of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, including surveillance of targeted individuals. Therefore, tracking a huge aircraft like the 777 would be simply a piece of cake.
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| A CIA operative was tracked via UAV imagery miles above the ground, seen here in the movie 'Body of Lies' |
As the saying goes, 'the truth is stranger than fiction' which basically means the real world is stranger than fiction. Fiction is made
up stories and all imaginations like novels, movies etc. Whereas the truth is in fact sometimes can be out of this world,
so strange that it is even stranger than fiction.
The disclosure by Edward Snowden by whistle-blowing the NSA secret intelligence documents amply testify to their capabilities such as collection of internet
browsing, email and telephone data of not only every American, but
citizens of the world as well. In short, our spending
habits, our location, our every movement and conversation, are visible
to others whose motives we cannot know. The free apps like Waze which is a GPS-based geographical navigation developed by the Israeli start-up Waze Mobile, now in most of our mobile phone, including my own iPhone.
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| Waze, the harmless looking free apps is indeed outsmarting the traffic, and all of us. |
So back to the question again, where exactly is flight MH370, my assumption would be that it was tracked by a reconnaissance satellite, then deliberately hijacked via remotely (like remote UAV), landed in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, refueled, and now in a Faraday cage somewhere in Israel.
There will be a lot of activities with regard to the management information system (MIS) to ensure adequate provision of information that NSA/CIA/Israel require to manage themselves efficiently and effectively. There will be a lot of hardware, software, data, procedures and spies (people) will be involved and used to analyse and facilitate this strategic and operational activities to ensure MH370 to keep on missing until today.
Allah knows best.
