Malaysia Flight 370 has been missing for 41 days. Best deductions from all data indicates that Flight 370’s Boeing 777 aircraft is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean about 1,200 nautical miles west of Perth, Down Under. It’s black-box is dead—no longer transmitting locating pings. Experts in the field speculate that it may years […]
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Malaysia Flight #370: People’s Republic of China’s Search Activities
We’re now in the 40th day of the disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370. There were 228 passengers onboard—152 were Chinese citizens. Accordingly, the People’s Republic of China has an extraordinary interest in locating the missing aircraft—to maintain national prestige and to assuage the families of the missing. Daily, over 200 family members are pressing Malaysian […]
Malaysia Flight 370 New Information?
Perhaps, maybe, possibly, if the “kreek don’t rise,” the searchers might have enough apocryphal evidence to conclude tentatively that Flight 370 is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Searchers estimate is position is located within 16,000 square nautical miles. This center of this area is about 1,500 nautical miles west of Perth “down under.” […]
Malaysian Flight #370…What Next?
This is the 38th day of the search Malaysia Flight 370. Yesterday, eleven aircraft and “about” as many ships were searching in an area about 24,000 square-miles: In an area located about 1,400 miles northwest of Perth. (The search area seems to change almost daily.) Here’s the update: the searchers have not heard any pings […]
Flight 370 Tracker Update
We’re now 32-days in the continuing odyssey of the misusing Malaysia Flight 370 with 239 souls onboard. Last Friday, 4 April, while searching the Indian Ocean about 900 nautical miles west of Perth, the Chinese patrol ship, Haixum 01, reportedlyheard electronic pings that resemble those that might be transmitted by the aircraft’s “black box.” The […]
Malaysia Flight 370: Have they found it?
Review: Malaysian Flight 370 departed Kala Lumpur at 41 minutes after midnight on 8 March 2014 bound for Beijing. The aircraft was a Boeing model 777-200 ER (Extended Range). Approximately 60 minutes later, electronic transmission from Flight 370 ceased. Several hours later Malaysian Airlines declared Flight 370 missing. Over this past month, aircraft and ships […]
Malaysian Flight 370, Number Two
Twenty-three days ago, Malaysian Flight 370 disappeared. At first, aircraft and ships from several neighborhood countries and the United States searched for the Boeing 777 in the area northeast of Malaysia in the South China Sea—the proposed track for this flight—to no avail. Based on technical date, the searchers changed directions to the west and […]
Malaysian Flight # 370 Disappearance: What Happened to Flight 370?
Malaysian Flight # 370 Disappearance S. Martin Shelton Today’s date 23 March 2014 Let’s review the hard facts about the mysterious disappearance of Flight # 370. Malaysia Flight # 370 originated at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and its destination was Beijing, People’s Republic of China—about 2,700 miles to the northeast. On board were 228 passenger and […]
Putin, Chamberlain, and Hitler
On 2 March 2014, President of Russia, Vladimir Putin ordered Russian motorized infantry to invade the Ukraine’s CrimeanPeninsula. Such a military incursion violates international treaties and specifically the Soviet Union’s/Ukraine’s treaty of 1954. The Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, deeded the Crimea to the Ukraine as a gesture […]
Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics by Charles Krauthammer Book Review
Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics Book Review S. Martin Shelton Charles Krauthammer, Crown Forum, New York, 2013, 388 pp. Table of Contents. Acknowledgements, and an Index. Krauthammer includes ninety plus columns, quips, and screeds on topics that matter to him and ought to matter to us. His comments were previously […]