of Diego Garcia...

But then, I had a decent public school education, before the GOP ruined our schools and started teaching to for-profit tests.

But then, I had a decent internet connection and Google.
(Looked it up for some reason about 2 years ago)

In 1980 in transit to my ship...It was tiny and had donkey burgers.

Of Diego Garcia?

Great Britain and the US's role in their expulsion to build a strategic air base should exposed and shamed. Here's a link there are many. Just google Chaggosian people.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-vine/forty-years-of-heartbreak_b_3344190.html

I've not heard of it so much it was where all the RJ crews at Offutt wanted to deploy to.

Maybe we should not be talking about it on DU, as it might leak the conspiracy!

Oops, maybe I shouldn't have posted that.

Why would the American military hold a Malaysian plane? I just returned from two months in Vietnam and was there when the search for MH370 was first focused on the sea near Vietnam. I also watched the international CNN while in Vietnam and I never heard the story of the plane's being held in Diego Garcia. That being said, I would be very happy if the plane did land somewhere and all the people are alive and well and will be returned home soon.

It's not exactly a burning secret. Diego Garcia is routinely mentioned in the media.

it's a classic!

this from day one put me on alert that there was more to it than a crashed plane. Not saying I believe this particular story but what is sad is that I don't doubt it too much either. Our America is not the America we were told of as children.

"20 of the passengers work for a company which specializes in futuristic warfare and technology"

Ok, so 20 Chinese passengers are working on what they thought was a secret Chinese warfare and technology project that would threaten Western security. Spooks find out about it and decide that those 20 passengers cannot get back to China. So, they manipulate the plane to Diego Garcia and either imprison all the passengers or execute them.

At this point, any scenario could be the right one.

they are still voting for Eisenhower type republicans.

one I think there's a lot yet to learn. I'm not a CT person, but the general public sure gets fed a lot of disinformation each day.

Francis Gary Powers and all. And Ike responding by going on TV to show the spy transmitter hidden in the Great Seal that the Russians gave the US Ambassador to hang in the embassy…

the rest of them were low-level techs...

It wasn't exactly the full board of directors on that flight

but get back to me in a couple of years and I'll tell you what *really* happened.

conspiracy theories since day one.

encourages paranoia. Mysteries surround this flight. As long as that's true, there will be speculation. A lot of questions remain to be answered.

That being said, although it could have made it to Diego Garcia, I think it's in the sea.

(but I don't actually know anything).

US heavy bombers use it for attacks on the Indian Ocean rim.

Google maps satellite view shows 6 B-52s parked there, along with a number of smaller planes (tankers?).

...actually that's a giant fake photo stretched over the entire island, hiding the secret equipment underneath...

Macho Grande

how he came unglued.

Zorro's arch enemy?

Also a launch pad for B-52 bombers during Bush 2's unethical incursion into Iraq, in revenge for Saddam's attempt on daddy Bush's life.

Let us know where you beam up.

Diego Garcia is the major US strategic base in the Indian Ocean. There are around a dozen warships stationed in the harbor there.

I don't know about now, but in the past, Diego Garcia has had a significant nuclear storage facility there.

There are usually around 4000 troops / sailors there at any given time.

This plane did not land there without our knowing about it and our consent.

a little something in them that gives of a hint of authenticity....yes, I know, "It takes so little to entertain some people."

Maybe good for a TV movie some day.

I read, had a pending patent shared by all of them. If one or more met with their demise, their share went to the others. If all met, their company got the patent and their information

...it's Microsoft, which sells Windows and MS Office applications for Government PCs.

At least, that's what they SAY they're doing.

they would have planted evidence for the searchers to easily find so that nobody would pay much attention. The news would have reported this as Malaysian plane crashes in ocean, no survivors.

That's the only explanation for that level of paranoid disconnect.

I didn't think it needed the smiley.

People write a lot of weird stuff on the intertubes and are perfectly sincere about what they say.

Original thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024660365

DUzy thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024701200

"They" (whoever they is) managed to basically make a massive plane disappear without anyone noticing until much later, essentially committing one of the biggest hijacks and mysteries ever, yet they forgot to make sure a high level IBM employee didn't have his cell phone? Right.

Errr... no, it's pretty famous, actually.

Diego Garcia has never been mentioned to the public in the context of MH370 and possible places it could have landed. I'm pretty sure that was the gist. Not that an entire USAF base was somehow secret and "never" mentioned to the public. I mean...we're paying for it. It's on the books somewhere.

not Air Force.

The point was that it was "never mentioned." It could be a Mr. Peanut fsctory. Clearly it has been "mentioned" for years.

The fact that you put it in the thread title is fitting.

Is all the credibility that deserves.

Gonzo Station is a Naval Support Facility NOT run by the USAF. You talk about unreported facts that are in wikipedia. Were the pilots under the influence of that notorious Obama mind control ray?

Where did I state this was fact?

You clearly said at a USAF base on Diego Garcia.That's obviously not a fact. How is that different from everything else on the OP that isn't a fact? If you didn't want to be associated with the theory (and I use the term loosely) why post it?

No airliner is undetectable by radar.

Other than that, I like the loss to a black hole better. It is just as silly, but a more interesting way to make an airliner disappear.

but it might as well be..

I thought this thread would go away on its own. I guess not. The "post" from "Phillip Wood" was posted on 4chan in the political forum. 4chan. 4chan. 4chan. And some nut blogged it and it was reblogged again and again.

[link:http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/27834494/#q27834494|

Trolling at its finest.

Not aimed at you Atman.

Fun reading. I've known about Diego Garcia for years.

"Almost every member of the public had no idea there was an island in the Indian Ocean housing a US Military base and Airport before the above post was shared"

and

"Diego Garcia has never been mentioned to the public"

These statements are made out of complete ignorance. I first became aware of the U.S. Naval base on Diego Garcia during Operation Desert Storm when long-range bombers operated from that base. If people have been unaware of this facility it is because they have not been paying attention. The idea that the Mayla aircraft landed there is ludicrous. If anyone here has a differing opinion, I would be pleased to read it.

pride of place in that the installation is a USN Support Facility.

It's also not a "secret," it's called the Footprint of Freedom, and a tour there is not the thing for people who need a lot of stimulation. We pre-position a LOT of shit there; it's useful for a lot of reasons because of its handy location; a great place to launch from/refuel.

It's so public it even has a wikipedia page.

There are PEOPLE on that island; civilian and contract workers who email their families regularly. If anything so "X Files" happened on DGAR those people would have spilled the beans by now. Apparently some 4Chan jerks have photoshopped a picture which has distressed some of the family members--a cruel thing to do. Such asshattery:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/599910-diego-garcia-source-for-alleged-philip-wood-photo-revealed-to-be-4chan-likely-hoax/

at the secret Diego Garcia chiefs club back in the '90's.