Malaysia Flight 370 Pilot Received Untraceable Call Before Flight

by JASmius

But first, a semi-serious update on where the wreckage of Malaysia Flight 370 might reside:

New French satellite images show possible debris from a missing Malaysian airliner deep in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysia said on Sunday, adding to growing signs that the plane may have gone down in remote seas off Australia.

The latest lead comes as the international search for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 entered its third week, with still no confirmed trace of the Boeing 777 that vanished with 239 people on board.....

The statement gave no details as to whether the objects were in the same vicinity as the other possible finds in a vast swathe of some of the most inhospitable sea territory on Earth.

I don't claim to be an expert on aeronautical forensics, but I have to wonder if debris from the crash of a Boeing 777 airliner would still be on the ocean surface over two weeks later, to say nothing of in the highly inhospitable southern Indian Ocean.  Wouldn't all such wreckage have either sunk to the bottom or dispersed by now?  In which case, isn't the persistence of Malaysian authorities increasingly suspect, even in an ass-covering sense?

And now, back to your regularly scheduled soap opera:

Meanwhile, investigators in Kuala Lumpur are trying to ascertain the identity of a caller who spoke with the pilot not long before the ill-fated plane took off, the Sunday Daily Mail reported.

The call— two minutes in duration— was placed to Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's mobile phone from a cell phone with a pay-as-you-go SIM card. Authorities traced the card to a shop in Kuala Lumpur.

Investigators say that the ID provided for the purchase, as required by law, turned out to be bogus. All that is known is that the purchaser gave a woman's name.

While the development raises the possibility of a terrorist connection, such clandestine methods are also habitually used by political opponents of the government who don't want their conversations traced, the Mail reported.

This would be consistent with Captain Shah's domestic difficulties and perhaps his political affiliation with Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.  It would also bolster Representative Peter King's suicide theory, although not why Shah would be willing to take 239 innocent lives down with him.  Lastly, it would help explain the skittishness of the Malaysian government regarding this incident.

Personally I would be willing to settle on the above explanation and move the hell on.  Because it seems increasingly clear that the families of the passengers of Malaysia Flight 370 are unlikely to ever receive any cloture on this tragedy.  Why continue to torture them by keeping dubious hope, even for answers, alive?