Missing Plane Confirmed Crashed

[chrissa1]

Just heard this on Sky News. Those poor people.

[emmie]

awful for the families, but at least now they know what happened.

[Zeuhl]

Well someone at Freescale must be pleased.

From the Express online:

///Four days after the missing flight MH370, a patent is approved by the Patent Office, four of the five Patent holders are Chinese employees of Freescale Semiconductor of Austin TX.

Patent is divided up on 20 per cent increments to five holders.

Peidong Wang, Suzhou, China, (20 per cent); Zhijun Chen, Suzhou, China, (20 per cent); Zhihong Cheng, Suzhou, China, (20 per cent); Li Ying, Suzhou, China, (20 per cent); Freescale Semiconductor (20 per cent).

If a patent holder dies, then the remaining holders equally share the dividends of the deceased if not disputed in a will.

If four of the five dies, then the remaining one Patent holder gets 100 per cent of the wealth of the patent.

That remaining live Patent holder is Freescale Semiconductor.

It adds: “Here is your motive for the missing Beijing plane. As all four Chinese members of the Patent were passengers on the missing plane.

Patent holders can alter the proceeds legally by passing wealth to their heirs. However, they cannot do so until the Patent is approved. So when the plane went missing, the patent had not been approved.

Freescale’s shareholders include the Carlyle Group of private equity investors whose past advisers have included ex-US president George Bush Sr and former British Prime Minister John Major.

Carlyle’s previous heavyweight clients include the Saudi Binladin Group, the construction firm owned by the family of Osama bin Laden./

[sandyRoe]

I suppose the families of the passengers and crew can begin to start grieving now. It's very sad.

[heathfield]

In the Malaysian PM's speech this afternoon he said that "..it must be assumed that it crashed...". The slow speed of updates on the last position of the plane is due to having to carry out lengthy and previously untried analysis of the ping data from the plane, and making sure the results were correct before making any announcement.

[Prudie]

My thoughts are with all those lost and their families, too terrifying to imagine. However I don't understand, no wreckage has yet been reached or identified so why is this new satellite data so convincing that the announcement has been made?

[emmie]

they still haven't found any kind of wreckage, debris.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// AOG - but some people 'did' think it had been abducted by aliens.///

Thanks for that I was unaware that some did, so therefore apologies to Gromit are in order.

Sorry Gromit.

[jno]

they're on their way to look at debris, aren't they?

The plane was thousands of miles off course; no wonder it's all taken a while.

[lady-janine]

only hope grieving relatives find some sort of closure in this news.

[LazyGun]

Patents are not Tontines. Sounds like more conspiracy theorising to me.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/malaysiapatent.asp

[albaqwerty]

exactly jno, and they're not searching a 20 mile square area, it's 20,000 miles square.

It's a large area to search, even with satellites etc etc. I'd imagine.

[sandyRoe]

Tontines, is that where it all goes to the last man, or woman, standing?

[emmie]

i was referring to the fact they claim all the passengers have been lost, that it has crashed without the necessary evidence of confirmed flight MH wreckage, debris. Terrible thing to say but i hope it is that, and the families at least know for sure.

[LazyGun]

@Sandy, yes, that is what tontines are. I was responding to Zeuhls link to the express online story, theorising that the plane was brought down as, presumably, an act of murder to financially benefit the company Freescale Semiconductor.

[emmie]

some of the relatives have apparently been informed by text, how
unbelievably insensitive

[heathfield]

There may have been no other way to get in touch, Emmie, other than perhaps by letter post.

[emmie]

they have mobiles, otherwise they wouldn't have got the text, couldn't the powers that be have phoned them on said mobiles, they could have been informed that way, or perhaps have been asked to come to go along to a place where they could have been informed by the police, or someone in authority if not in the vicinity, it struck me as extremely wrong.

[emmie]

from BBC link

The BBC has seen a text message sent to families by the airline saying it had to be assumed "beyond reasonable doubt" that the plane was lost and there were no survivors.

[jno]

the Express taking its stories straight from Snopes's "False" pages now, is it? Nothing surprises me these days.