BE NOT AFRAID OF YOUR DESTINATION

Since this blog is about travel, and mostly done by airplane, let me first pray for those 239 souls on board MH370 that went missing on March 7 2014.

Conspiracy theories abound when a flight goes missing with not a trace.   From hijacking to catastrophic explosions, to pilot error even alien abduction, the jittery feeling when today thousands of people board their flight, however long or short, must give enough angst on an already set of jumpy nerves.

The predominant thought of countless sorrow of extended families members of each passenger is incalculable.   Even as a spectator, reading the latest updates, leaves the pain of sorrow that reverberates and plays on the mind.  Exhausting theories gone through and causes get untangled like a fine tooth-comb. 

There is the thought that each 239 passengers, mostly strangers to each other, come simultaneously to the same fate together.  How cosmically do we explain this phenomenon.  For instance the Indian politician was killed in the 1973 air disaster, his grandson seemingly called to the same fate on the missing Malaysian 777.   Is there a connection?   Is there more to than meets the eye?  Or this is a random act that may have a reason.

The passengers were mainly Chinese, at least 30 employees were from a US microchip company.  Perhaps a theory that someone not wanting the Chinese to have 20 Freescale Semiconductor experts,  a US company producing embedded microchips that cloak the high-tech electronic warfare weaponry. The Malaysian Prime Minister has now come out to say the action on board the plane was deliberate by someone well versed in flying.   It doesn’t take much reasoning for the possibility of hijacking for this type of technological expertise, which is in existence.

The fact that the employees were on board has sparked one of the many conspiracy theories associated with the plane vanishing, that there was electronic weaponry on board.   Whoever deliberately maneuvered the plane had intimate knowledge of military radar, corridor coverage, satellite pass and all military and civilian airspace.

The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), also known as the Turkestan Islamic Party, released  a video of one of its clerics threatening attacks on Chinese Buddhists. The group is linked to Al-Qaeda and wants China’s largely-Muslim Xinjiang Province to gain independence. The Turkic population there is called Uighurs.

An Uighurian passenger on board MH370, Mr Maimaitijiang Abula, now being scrutinized for his background. He is from Kashgar in Xinjiang Province, a town near the borders of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. An online resume states he was an assistant professor at a university in Turkey. From 2004-2005, he was a researcher for a training and simulation center in Sweden. One report says he received flight simulation training there.  According to his CV online, a Ph.d holder he “designed an integrated future soldier training system based on sensors, communication subsystems and integrated-helmet subsystems and performed simulations for real-time.”

Two flight corridors are now being looked into.  Northbound all the way to the Caspian sea or southbound, from Indonesia to the West of Perth, Australia.  The theory of Aliens abducting the whole aircraft maybe a little way off but at this point anything is possible.

It leaves the authorities now to check into every facet and detail of those 239 souls on board to come up with any answers.   

This is when we bow our heads to what is greater than mankind and ask for help.   My heart goes to all the immediate and extended families of the missing MH370