Did Al-Qaeda In China Blow Up Malaysian Airliner?

The disappearance in the Gulf of Thailand of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to Beijing, China after 2 hours 5 minutes of normal flight may have the trademarks of a terrorist attack against China by Al Qaeda.  China’s Ministry of Defense on November 30thbegan militarily enforcing an expanded Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) covering the oil rich Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea and was about to claim a new ADIZ covering the oil rich Spratly/Nansha  Islands in the South China Sea.  These ADIZs are highly contested by Japan, Vietnam, Philippines and South Korea.  The loss of Flight 370 follows terrorist attacks by Uighur Muslims on October 28^th near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and the March 1^st attack that killed 33 and wounded 143 at the Kunming railways station in southern China.  Both assaults appear to have Al Qaeda’s terrorist trademark of attacking symbolic public venues to inflict media-visible casualties.

Los Angeles Times reported “Mikael Robertsson, cofounder of FlightRadar24, which tracks about 120,000 flights per day with 3,000 receivers around the world, said the last transmission it recorded from the flight was at 35,000 feet.” FlightRadar believes MH 370 “lost radar contact about 40 minutes into the flight, not two hours as the airline said.”  He added, “I don’t want to speculate, but something very sudden happened.”

Thai Meteorological Department reported the cool and sunny weather with Southerly winds 10-20 km/hr.  I estimate the age of the Boeing 777-200 was about 11 years old.  The plane disappeared carrying 225 passengers, two infants and 12 crew members.  The only fatal accident of any Boeing 777 after 18 years of revenue service was Asiana Airlines Flight 214, where pilot error caused the plane to miss the runway in San Francisco.  I has been confirmed that 152 of Flight 370’s passengers, or 67%, were Chinese citizens  on a regularly scheduled 5 hour and 55 minute flight.

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