Hijacked! Malaysian Gov't Official Says Conclusive

A Malaysian official says investigators have concluded that the missing Malaysian Airlines flight was hijacked, according to an Associated Press report late Saturday evening.

“A Malaysian government official says investigators have concluded that one of the pilots or someone else with flying experience hijacked the missing Malaysia Airlines jet,” AP reports.

“The official, who is involved in the investigation, says no motive has been established, and it is not yet clear where the plane was taken”

The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to not being authorized to brief the media. 

The official said that hijacking was no longer a theory. “It is conclusive.”

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is to address a press conference on the fate of the now hijacked Boeing.

Thursday, Deborah Dupré reported that the plane had been hijacked, based on several reports:

Some hijacking-type scenario of Malaysian Airlines 370 is the only thing that possibly explains the mystery, according to a Naval War College Professor in Newport, RI on Thursday. The missing plane, believed by many independent researchers to be at a miltary base, is weighted with at least 26 high-value U.S. and Chinese passengers linked to military intelligence, spies.

“At this point, some hijacking-type scenario is the only thing that might possibly explain the weird aspects here,” tweeted Dr. John R. Schindler of the Naval War College where he’s serves as professor of National Security Affairs as a specialist on intelligence, terrorism, and European security issues. 

“[R]ight now I suspect some sort of hijacking gone wrong…but who knows for sure?” Dr. Schindler tweeted.

ABC’s Bob Woodruff said Thursday morning in a tweet, “A possibility which U.S. counterterrorism officials are considering is that someone may have flown plane to an undisclosed place. @ABC”

That would explain passengers’ cell phone GPS’s not dislosed. [Malaysia Plane CoverUp: Passengers’ Cell Phones Ringing, GPS Information Kept Secret] 

The Navy Times reported on hijacking Thursday morning.

“Suggestions that the plane veered off course and its transponder was not working raise questions about a hijacking, but a catastrophic power failure or other problem might also explain the anomalies, analysts said,” the Navy Times says.

“Search efforts have been confounded by confusion about whether the plane was last spotted over the Gulf of Thailand or to the west of Malaysia in the Strait of Malacca, creating a large search area. The Chinese government announced Wednesday that one of its satellites detected what could be aircraft debris in the South China Sea, but a search of the area Thursday did not turn up any signs of the plane, Malaysia’s civil aviation chief told The Associated Press.”

Schindler is a Senior Fellow of the International History Institute at Boston University and spent nearly a decade with the National Security Agency as an intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer as a specialist in counterespionage and counterterrorism with operational experience in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

“I’m a lifelong aviation buff, got friends who are real experts; none of us can come up w remotely plausible technical reasons 4 #MH370 loss,” Schindler had tweeted earlier Thursday.

“In coordination with the government of Malaysia, we have decided to send USS Pinckney to Singapore for planned maintenance and routine voyage repairs,” said the Navy’s 7th Fleet spokesman Cmdr. William Marks on Thursday. “With the search area expanding into the Strait of Malacca, Pinckney is not currently needed until follow-on information is available and planning occurs. She will continue searching during her transit south today.”