Peter King: Malaysia Plane Likely Downed In Suicide Plot

by JASmius

Toss this theory on the burgeoning mound of Malaysia Flight 370 hypotheses:

There is a "growing consensus" that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was crashed as part of a suicide plot by either its pilot or co-pilot, says Representative Peter King, who chairs the House Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee.

U.S. authorities are coming to believe that one or the other of the pilots "wanted to get as far away and land in the farthest and deepest part of the ocean," the New York Republican told the New York Post.

The scheme, King said Sunday, could have been planned in the hopes that family members would be able to collect life insurance on the pilot or co-pilot, because if the plane isn't found, "they can't call it suicide."

Well, lessee: It's been over a week; not a trace of the aircraft has been found yet; there's been no satellite photos of it on the ground in Pakistan, unless the Obama Regime has such pics and is deliberately withholding them; in light of these factors, Congressman King's theory is as good as any.

It might help explain the serial unhelpfulness of Malaysian authorities in resolving this incident - especially in light of this:

Malaysian police are denying reports that the family of the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, moved from their home just days before the flight took off. Two different photos of surfaced of him. One shows him wearing a shirt with the words "Democracy is Dead" printed on it, while the other shows him holding a cleaver and standing with a bowl of meat.

He is also being described as an "obsessive and fanatical" follower of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, whom authorities sentenced to five years in prison for homosexuality in the hours before Flight 370 departed.

Well, THAT leaves an opening big enough to fly an airliner through for the Lavender Lobby.  If they can spare any time from kicking American Christianity to death, they'd be well advised open their foreign policy arm.  Can't let a crisis go to waste, and all that.


UPDATE: Oh, wait, I forgot, Malaysia is a Muslim country.  Never mind.