'Planes don't just disappear': Former Malaysian Prime Minister accuses CIA of covering up what really happened to flight MH370

  • CIA and Boeing may be hiding information about missing MH370
  • Former Malaysian PM Dr Mahathir says airplanes like MH370 'don't just disappear'
  • If the plane failed or have been disabled then 'Boeing must know'
  •  Mahathir said the plane may have had its MAS airline markings removed
  • The air-sea search out of Perth for debris is a 'waste of time and money'

By Candace Sutton

Published: 01:02 EST, 19 May 2014 | Updated: 07:24 EST, 19 May 2014


Missing Flight MH370 did not crash and its current whereabouts may be know to the Central Intelligence Agency and the Boeing aircraft company, Malaysia's influential former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has claimed.

Dr Mahathir said the plane could have been switched onto autopilot remotely by the CIA if it had been hijacked.

'Remotely by radio or satellite links by government agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency, if terrorists attempt to gain control of the flight deck,' he wrote in an entry entitled 'What goes up must come down' on his blog, chedet.

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Someone's hiding something: Ex Malaysian PM Dr Mahathir (above, left) said the missing plane may have had its MAS airline markings removed and the Australian co-ordinated search out of Perth for debris was 'a waste of time and money'

Someone's hiding something: Ex Malaysian PM Dr Mahathir (above, left) said the missing plane may have had its MAS airline markings removed and the Australian co-ordinated search out of Perth for debris was 'a waste of time and money'

Did not crash: Dr Mahathir says missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 (file photo) could not have crashed because modern communications systems meant that it could not simply disappear off the radar

Did not crash: Dr Mahathir says missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 (file photo) could not have crashed because modern communications systems meant that it could not simply disappear off the radar

'Airplanes don’t just disappear,' he said. 'Certainly not these days with all the powerful communication systems, radio and satellite tracking and filmless cameras which operate almost indefinitely and possess huge storage capacities.'

'The plane is somewhere, maybe without MAS [Malaysia Airlines] markings,' he said, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

'It is a waste of time and money to look for debris or oil slick or to listen for pings from the black box.

“For some reason, the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA,' he said.

Dr Mahathir, 88, who was Malaysia's prime minister between 1981 and 2003, said the missing flight's communication system 'must have been disabled'.

Waste of time and money: the former Malaysian PM Dr Mahathir says the air-sea sorties over the Indian Ocean by aircraft such as the Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion (above) to try and locate the remains of Flight MH370 are futile

Waste of time and money: the former Malaysian PM Dr Mahathir says the air-sea sorties over the Indian Ocean by aircraft such as the Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion (above) to try and locate the remains of Flight MH370 are futile

'Or else the flight of MH370 would have been tracked by satellites which normally provide data on all commercial flights, inclusive of data on location, kind of aircraft, flight number, departure airport and destination.

'But the data seems unavailable. The plane just disappeared seemingly from all screens.

'MH370 is a Boeing 777 aircraft. It was built and equipped by Boeing.

'All the communications and GPS equipment must have been installed by Boeing. If they failed or have been disabled Boeing must know how it can be done.

'Surely Boeing would ensure that they cannot be easily disabled as they are vital to the safety and operation of the plane.'

Dr Mahathir's blog posts come after the current Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak described the location by satellite of purported MH370 debris in the Indian Ocean as 'bizarre' and 'hard to believe'.

Mr Najib told CNN he did not believe it when he first heard about the critical satellite data on which the current search in the Indian Ocean is based on.

'To be honest, I found it hard to believe,' said the Prime Minister.

'It's a bizarre scenario which none of us could have contemplated so that's why when I met the team...of foremost experts in aviation industry I asked them again and again "are you sure?"'

'And their answer to me was we are as sure as we can possibly be.'

Malaysian, Australian and Chinese authorities met last weekend to discuss the latest stages of the MH370 by ships staged in the Southern Ocean.

Chinese navy survey ship Zhu Kezhen will start mapping the seabed off the west Australian coast this week as part of the latest phase in the search, Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Center said.


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Not unlike judges rivals, and other miscreants who disappeared under your regime, sir?

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I wonder who or what exactly was on the plane....clearly it has either been shot down or diverted elsewhere....he is quite right....planes...and people do not just disappear.

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MH370 was electronically commandeered using the Boeing Uninterruptible Autopilot. This tragedy would not have happened if United States Department of Justice and ALPA, Airline Pilots Association, hadn't ignored the information in Civil Case 1:08-1600 (RMC) which was a U S federal lawsuit filed in September of 2008 exposing the BUAP. It is my INFORMED opinion that the aircraft was first hijacked by Serco [ the biggest company you never heard of ] and re-commandeered by U S AWACS and flown safely to FJDG where it landed without incident. I am so confident of my opinion that I have traveled to Kuala Lumpur and Toronto Canada in an effort to get a video documentary published to release AFTER the aircraft is found safely on land or where the perps may drop it into the DEEP SEA to be discovered by the Australian SAR. Serco has inputs to both Aussie SAR and Malaysian ATC. For more information google [ MH370 + CSCL Uranus + 25 March ] abeldangerdottnett

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How can they possibly push the blame on the CIA? The Malaysians are at fault from very early on, there have been countless articles about them knowing something was wrong hours before anything was done about it.

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When Air France went down, they had a pretty good idea where it did and it still took two years to recover. No one has a clue where this plane went down. The truth is, it will probably never be recovered. That's sad for the families, but the US has nothing to do with this. This man is spouting off bs.

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Well well well we are getting closer to the truth! Not there yet however!!

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No one cares about the plane anymore.

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Listen the ocean massive and don't believe all the nonsense you see on films about you can zoom in on to a pimple on your face from space it's rubbish!!!!

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Actullay yes they can !!

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Has Hillary Clinton blamed it on a You Tube video yet?

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Is there anything in the world anybody won't blame on the CIA? Wish they were half as good as people believe.

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