So about that plane…

I wonder what it is that makes us want to believe in conspiracy theories. Is it an inherent longing to make things more exciting than they actually are, or do we just enjoy distrusting authority?

I've been holding off blogging about that plane. I wanted to see if it turned up. Today the Chinese have reported signals from the black box recorder in the Indian Ocean. Another false lead, I wonder? 

Diego Garcia is a tropical, footprint-shaped coral atoll located south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean. It is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory and rented by Britain to the United States. The US Navy operates their Naval Support Facility, a large naval ship and submarine support base, from the island. The remote island has a runway long enough to land a Boeing 777. Interestingly, the runway descent was programmed into the home flight simulator of the pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, although the data was subsequently erased.

Philip Wood, a passenger on the lost flight, supposedly pinpointed the island when he allegedly uploaded a black photo with a message claiming he was being held prisoner by unknown military. Flight MH370 was under 'suspicious cargo' surveillance by the Russian Main Intelligence, 20 of the passengers work for a company which specializes in futuristic warfare and technology, Island residents of the Maldives (647 miles north of Diego Garcia) reported seeing a huge low flying aircraft heading South at 6.15am the morning after it 'disappeared' from radar.

Of course Glen Miller was shot down by his own side, Marilyn Monroe was taken out by the CIA, Area 51 is choc full of alien spacecraft, and Elvis, Shergar, Lucky Lucan, and Ritchie from the Manic Street Preachers are sharing an apartment somewhere in Rio. As all of us conspiracy theorists know, all governments are corrupt, they possess weapons of mass destruction given to them by aliens and if you remove their masks they are all lizard men underneath. Even so, a lot of conspiracy theories have turned out to be true despite attempted cover-ups.

The CIA really did have a mind control project and they did run drugs in LA, the asbestos industry managed to cover-up the substances link with cancer for decades, The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which led to the escalation of the Vietnam War, never happened, and let’s not forget Watergate or Karen Silkwood.

Only a few decades ago we all trusted the banks. After recent banking revelations it’s easy to believe that The New World Order, a group of the world’s elite who have caused all the major wars for the last 200 years, is actually true. Some of these bankers will go along to Bohemian Grove where strange meetings, attended by the richest and most powerful men in the world including former US presidents, take place. These meetings happen in the Californian woods and a giant stone owl is worshipped by the all male congregation. It doesn’t ring true does it? Well, unlikely though it seems the Bohemian Grove meetings have been investigated by CBS and NBC and all of it is true.

For my part here’s my very own conspiracy theory on Flight 370, try this one to hang your hat on.

Perhaps, as originally reported, the pilot really was a terrorist and perhaps he was taking the plane on a suicide mission to Diego Garcia, intending to crash it into the naval base which houses nuclear submarines and stealth bombers. Perhaps, somewhere between the low flying and switched off navigation equipment, he got lost and had to carefully ditch the plane into the sea. Perhaps the rest of the passengers and crew were already dead when the plane glided into the calm sea, killed by the pilot with a lethal gas. Perhaps, after it was down, he found a way to sink it without leaving any floating debris. Maybe he simply opened a hatch or two.

Perhaps.

It’s been almost a month since Flight 370 went missing and nothing has been found. I don’t know what the truth is, but it seems odd that a Jumbo Jet can disappear without trace in this age of satellite technology where we can track a single shark, metre by metre, as it makes its way across the Atlantic.  If nothing changes soon I guess Flight 370 will become just another episode of Mysteries of the Unexplained and then forgotten. Who knows, maybe the people on that plane are still alive somewhere. Personally I hope that they find something. I’d like to know if those people are alive or dead. But in terms of what happened, beyond it being something very strange, I think it very unlikely that we’ll ever know for sure.