FACT CHECK: Viral Image Claims To Show MH370 Airplane Wreck
The image shows a plane sunk off the coast of Aqaba
Airlines are canceling and diverting flights to Ukraine as the international community increasingly dears an imminent Russian invasion.
Notably, the Dutch airline KLM a subsidiary of Air France KLM has ceased service to Ukraine. Reuters reports that the Dutch airline announced that it would no longer be chartering flights to Ukraine shortly after the government of the Netherlands told Dutch citizens to leave Ukraine as soon as they possibly can.
Germany’s largest commercial airline and the second-largest airline in Europe, Lufthansa, began rescheduling flights to Kyiv in late January, citing the ongoing “problems” preventing airline staff from staying overnight in the Ukrainian capital.
Reuters reports that the United States Federal Aviation Administration has also instituted a ban on U.S. airlines flying over specific parts of Ukraine’s eastern region.
The Associated Press reports that SkyUp, a Ukrainian charter airline, said that a flight from Madeira, Portugal to Kyiv was diverted to the capital city of Moldova after the plane’s lessor banned flights into Ukrainian airspace.
In 2014, a Malaysia Airlines flight, providing service from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down over eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian and Dutch officials accused Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine of shooting down the jet with a surface-to-air missile manufactured by the Russians.
There were no survivors.
On Saturday, President Joe Biden had an hourlong phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden allegedly told Putin that there would be “widespread human suffering” should Russia invade Ukraine.
Biden also reportedly told Putin that Western nations were committed to finding a diplomatic way to end the ongoing debacle but that they stand ready for military intervention should it become necessary. Biden said the West is “equally prepared for other scenarios” should diplomacy fail.
The United States and its allies in NATO currently have no plans to send troops to Ukraine.
Russian leadership continues to deny that it intends to invade Ukraine, but it continues to amass military forces along the Ukrainian border. Russian troops have also been sent to Belarus to conduct military exercises.
The United States believes that Russia has amassed enough firepower along the Ukrainian borders that they could invade the country on short notice.
Should armed conflict occur following a Russian invasion of Ukraine the aftermath will affect far more than just Russia and Ukraine.
Western nations in NATO and the European Union are prepared to issue sanctions on Russia which will kneecap its economy and greatly impact the distribution of energy supplies throughout the continent.
Shocking new theory about Malaysian Airlines flight 370
On March 8, 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight 370 set off from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia for China’s capital city. Thirty-nine minutes after taking off, the aircraft disappeared from air traffic control radar displays.
The plane was never found.
However, a decade after the plane's disappearance, citizen journalist Ashton Forbes believes he has the answer to what exactly happened to flight 370.
“Where did this plane end up, do you think?” Pat Gray asks Forbes.
“I think that the plane’s most likely location is Diego Garcia military base,” Forbes tells Gray. “There’s circumstantial evidence that points to that location.”
With the evidence Forbes has been dissecting, he tells Gray that the plane appears to have gotten pulled to the West, which puts it over the Maldives.
“Interesting note is that there was a B-777 fire suppression device. It washes up in the Maldives, and it was reported on as a bomb, but it’s actually just a B-777 fire suppression device. The only way this could wash ashore is if it was empty,” Forbes explains, noting that this may mean there was a fire event.
Forbes also tells Gray that there were twenty islanders on a small island just north of Diego Garcia that had seen the plane in the early morning.
“They seemed very credible, they saw the blue and red stripe of Malaysian airlines, they saw it flying so low they could make out the windows on the plane,” he says, adding that the islanders saw it flying south toward the Diego Garcia military base.
According to Forbes, the only adult American passenger on board posted to 4Chan that he “was drugged, held prisoner in a dark area and that he couldn’t think clearly.”
The passenger posted a black photo, and the metadata of the photo has coordinates that indicate Diego Garcia.
“This was us, we did this. We hid it in our advanced military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean, which is the perfect place to hide it, where no one’s going to find it,” Forbes says.
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