MH370 Hostage Crisis: Alive In Afghanistan

Terrorists hijacked Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370, flew the plane to Afghanistan, and passengers are alive but in severe condition, according to a Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets on Thursday that newspapers across the world are reporting this afternoon.  

The plane with 239 passengers has been missing since March 8th. The paper also was told that all passengers survived the hard landing but were in severe condition due to a food shortage.

The new report, albeit not confirmed by the international investigative team dictating what Malaysian officials can and cannot say publicly, concurs with Russian officials’ earlier statement, that the plane had been hijacked and flewn to a location near Pakistan.  

The report also concurs with officials’ messages that loved ones of passengers have recieved at briefings that led them to believe their loved ones are alive, as reported in this author’s article, Malaysia Airlines Passengers Alive: Official At Secret Meeting.

Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia’s transport minister, said at a secret meeting in Kuala Lumpur with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 passengers’ families that he believes all the passengers are still alive. This has been reported by Associated Press, The Guardian and CBS News.

“Malaysian transport minister said he ‘believes that my child and all the other passengers are still alive,’ said Hamid Amran, father of a child on Flight 370, speaking about transport minister Hussein after a secret meeting with him, other officials and families of passengers, according to an Associated Press report. ‘I will not give up hope.’” 

[See: Malaysia Airlines Passengers Alive: Official At Secret Meeting]

An intelligence agent reported anonymously to the Russian newspaper that the plane was in Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan. 

“Pilots are not guilty, the plane was hijacked by unknown terrorists. We know that the name of the terrorist who gave instructions to pilots is ‘Hitch’,” the report says.

“The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near the border with Pakistan,” claims the newspaper, that has a circulation of about 1.1 million.

The report added, “Plane is on the road near the mountain range, and has a broken wing. Maybe it made a hard landing. All passengers survived. They live in shacks almost without food.”

The report claims all the high-tech expert passengers on the plane were taken into a bunker in Pakistan. The intellectual value of those experts has been estimated to be many billions of U.S. dollars.

“Twenty Asian specialists were captured. There is one Japanese among them,” it said, possibly referring to Freescale Semiconductor company employees.

No ransom message pitched

The terrorists intended to kidnap experts travelling through the airline for pitching their demands. The sources added that the plane was on a road near the mountain range with a broken wing due to the emergency landing.

The sources said a militant named “Hitch” instructed the pilot throughout its journey while the world kept finding clues for the missing plane.

The Nation has reported this as has FAR News Agency.

Russian officials had already reported that the plane was in this region, but were dismissed, as were eyewitness reports on the whereabouts of the plane and one passenger’s phone calls to his sister.

The Independent had reported on March 16:

“The missing Malaysian airlines flight MH370 may have been deliberately flown under the radar to Taliban-controlled bases on the border of Afghanistan, it has emerged, as authorities said that the final message sent from the cockpit came after one of the jet’s communications systems had already been switched off,” the Independent wrote.

Also on March 16, Malaysia Transportation Minister Hishammuddin said no ransom had been demanded over the missing Flight MH370. 

That was the day the SAR mission “entered a new phase,” in the northern and southern corridors and 26 countries were involved in the search, according to Malay Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. 

Najib announced that the plane flew for hours in a manner “consistent with deliberate action” after dropping off the primary radar. He said the plane’s last communication with the satellite was in one of two possible corridors, including a northern corridor stretching approximately from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand.

“As a terrorist hijacking of Flight 370 seems more and more likely, the U.S. shows the Asian countries that terrorist attacks like 9-11 are not far removed from Asia,” writes Yang Hengjun, a Chinese independent scholar, novelist, and blogger, who once worked in the Chinese Foreign Ministry and as a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC. Yang received his Ph.D. from the University of Technology, Sydney in Australia. .

“If this incident turns out to have been caused by terrorists, it will be the largest terrorist attack that China has suffered from at the international level and would be similar to the United States’ experience of 9-11,” Hengjun says. “The U.S. has repeatedly asked Asian countries (especially in those Southeast Asia) for their understanding and support of its anti-terrorist efforts in Afghanistan, but the responses have been lukewarm. In the future, could this situation change?”