Flight 370: Greater Danger than Ever
The fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has disappeared from the news cycle, but Malaysian police have announced that the reconstruction of data from the pilot’s flight simulator suggests that he flew it into the southern Indian Ocean and may have landed it on a runway on a small island.
If this is true, then that plane is almost certainly in the hands of well financed terrorists and represents a peril of epic proportions. Given the range of a 777–especially on that has been stripped of its seats and fitted with an atomic weapon that would be much lighter than a load of passengers, luggage and cabin equipment–the plane could reach almost any American city from a runway in central Asia or Pakistan.
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