@McTag,
McTag wrote:Rumour Mill:
A friend was talking to a French lady recently, and this story is apparently getting some traction there.
The missing Indonesian plane Flight 370 was, so the rumour goes, diverted by one or more of the crew and was on its way to be crashed into the American air base on Diego Garcia, in the southern Indian Ocean. The authorities knew this, the Americans were alerted, and the plane was brought down by the USAF before it reached its target.
No chance. We would never have kept it a secret. Plus, that is hardly a high value target for such an attack.
However, al-Qa'ida has always wanted to simultaneously blow up a dozen planes over the ocean.
If they modified their plans from "blow up" to "sink the plane where it will never be found" and this was a practice run, that would be distressing news.
