Watch the MH370 thing. CNN is poo-pooing all theories EXCEPT...

[Junkdrawer]

"The plane was diverted on purpose by the pilots. Kidnapping Freescale employees? Iran? Hmmmm possible..."

For those who've noted the extreme media given this event and have been waiting for the other shoe to drop.

[ellisonz]

1. The other shoe is that this is a result of Malaysian politics.

You'll notice CNN is not covering this on air:

(CNN) -- Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim says the captain of MH 370 is a card-carrying member of his party -- and an extremely distant relative -- but he dismissed suggestions the pilot may have diverted the plane as a political act in his support.

Hours before the Malaysia Airlines flight vanished en route to Beijing on March 8, Anwar, de facto leader of the People's Justice Party, was sentenced to five years in jail after a court overturned his 2012 acquittal on a sodomy charge.

Some media outlets have reported that the plane's pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, had attended the court hearing, and speculated that the flight's disappearance may have been a political act in response to the verdict. As authorities increasingly focused their attentions on events in the cockpit, the homes of Zaharie and First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid were searched, and a homemade flight simulator found in Zaharie's home, Malaysian officials revealed.

Anwar, who is free pending appeal, told CNN his party had been unable to establish whether Zaharie had been in attendance at court, although a number of his friends had reported he had been "upset and disgusted" by the outcome.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/18/world/asia/malaysia-flight-anwar-pilot/

Wouldn't want to piss off the Malaysian government and lose access.

Don't need a conspiracy theory when there's pretty apparent motivation.

BTW - I'd say the goal was to embarrass and potentially destabilize the Malaysian regime, it's worked.

[Junkdrawer]

2. There's what happened and then there's how it will be sold/used....

The Iran/Freescale thing has been out for days and labeled quickly "a conspiracy theory".

I find it odd that CNN is giving it air.....

[undeterred]

3. They are destroying their last little shreds of credibility.

24 hour a day gibberish

[Junkdrawer]

4. And now "Flight 370 puts Israel on high alert"....

"Israel has close to zero margin for error in countering and protecting itself against a hijacked airplane"

A dozen days into the investigation surrounding missing Flight 370, there are far more questions than there are answers.

However, among the possible theories exists the notion that the aircraft may have been hijacked, with a plan to be used in a terrorist attack.

Among the many nations that could be potential targets within such a scheme, it is perhaps Israel that finds itself most vulnerable, thanks in part to its size and location.

"Israel's a tiny country. It's situated along the coast. A jet that's been hijacked flying at 600 miles an hour will take about a minute and half to cross the entire country of Israel. It's where Israel's most populated cities are right along that coast. So Israel has close to zero margin for error in countering and protecting itself against a hijacked airplane," explained Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States. "If this Malaysian jet has been hijacked, and there's a sense among Israeli intelligence officials that that is a possibility, then Israel feels that it has to take the necessary precautions. The government met with security officials this week and decided on a number of emergency measures."

http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/19/flight-370-puts-israel-on-high-alert-israel-has-close-to-zero-margin-for-error-in-countering-and-protecting-itself-against-a-hijacked-airplane/

[Warpy]

5. The problem is that the maximum range fell a bit short of Iran

and would have put the plane down in mountainous country. The last safe landing was probably Kazakhstan, even Uzbekistan would have been kind of a stretch.

If that's where the plane went and that's a very big "if."

[Junkdrawer]

7. The one comment spoken by a CNN "expert" worth spitting at was...

if a plane were to be hijacked to use as a weapon, why not one of the many Cargo jets that fly the world?

[HipChick]

6. I am begining to think CNN stole the plane

the way they are pushing this outlandish theories..