CHEATING DEATH TWICE

This dude is pissing the Grim Reaper off. He should keep looking over his shoulder.

Cycling – Dutch cyclist cheats death twice after changing Malaysia flights

Professional cyclist Maarten de Jonge has revealed how, quite extraordinarily, he twice cheated death after changing his plans to fly on both Malaysia Airlines passenger jets involved in disasters.

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Cycling - Dutch cyclist cheats death twice after changing Malaysia flights
Maarten de Jonge (Imago)

Over the past four months, De Jonge has avoided two international aviation tragedies in what amount to a couple of extraordinary near misses for the 29-year-old.

The Dutchman has to travel around the world to compete for Malaysia’s Terengganu cycling team, but, incredibly, he managed to avoid being on either of the two flights which ended so badly.

De Jonge told Dutch public broadcaster RTV Oost that he had been due to travel on flight MH17, the Boeing 777 that was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday killing all of the almost 300 passengers on board.

However, he elaborated that he decided to swap flights at the last minute after discovering that travelling via Frankfurt in Germany would prove to be a cheaper alternative.

He tweeted a link to a Dutch article about the MH17 disaster, which has been translated as, “Had I departed today, then…”

Remarkably, De Jonge had also been planning to join flight MH370, the Malaysia jet which vanished on March 8 and which remains missing, presumed in the Indian Ocean, as he went on to reveal in the interview with the local broadcaster.He had been due to compete in a race in Taiwan, according to Spanish newspaper Marca, but decided to take a different flight an hour earlier, without the stopover in Beijing, China.

“I could have taken that one just as easily,” De Jonge said in his interview with RTV Oost, in which he said he actually spoke to other passengers waiting to board MH370 before changing his plans.

Maarten de Jonge (Imago)

 

“It’s inconceivable. I am very sorry for the passengers and their families, yet I am very pleased I’m unharmed.”

The professional cyclist said he has been “overwhelmed” by the international response to his story after he hinted at his close calls on social media.

“What has happened is terrible, so many victims, that’s a horrible thing,” he said. “I have my story and I would like to leave it at that… my story is ultimately nothing compared to the misery so many people have suffered.”

In a statement on his website, De Jonge said he would not be giving any further interviews out of respect for those who died in both tragedies and said that he still plans to fly despite his experiences.

“You should try not to worry too much because then you won’t get anywhere,” he told RTV Oost.

“I have been lucky twice, this will be the third time as well.”

Did Malaysian Flight MH370 Land Safely in Afghanistan?

You all know how I feel about Conspiracy Theories. I discard most of them.

But, this is kind of interesting.

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Was Malaysian Flight MH370 Landed Safely in Afghanistan?

By Scott Baker

Reporter and monetary reformer, Bill Still, has been compiling reports that flight MH370, which took off on March 8, may have been diverted to Pakistan, or, more recently, to Afghanistan.   Still cites retired Lt. General Mcinerney in his video report here on March 23, 2014, appearing on Fox News.   Normally, one can question Fox News and even CNN speculatrons as efforts to fill the airwaves with rating-grabbing headlines, but with such painfully slow, and perhaps even incompetent ocean-scouring searches, such as Chinese discoveries that turn out not to be, submersibles that can’t adequately submerge, and just general multiple false leads, it’s not just the relatives of the missing 239 people aboard flight MH370 who are right to protest.

It’s been over a month, long enough for the black boxes to give out their last ping — they are only guaranteed to work underwater for a month.   Despite this being the most expensive search in history, and counting, it’s been nothing but false leads to garbage patches and oil slicks in one of the world’s deepest oceans.   The oceans, of course, long ago ceased being pristine, and these findings are hardly surprising.   The Conversation reports on “The difficulty of searching for MH370 in a giant rubbish patch:”

Frustratingly, the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has turned up many floating objects, but none of them are from the plane.

That’s largely because the latest search area is likely to be in one of the world’s hotspots for accumulated debris — an area nicknamed the Indian Ocean garbage patch”. The problem is that there are already vast amounts of debris floating in the world’s oceans. The presence of this debris in the search region means that crews are wasting resources and time trying to identify floating objects unrelated to MH370.

 

Yesterday, a new lead surfaced, from Russia.   Supposedly, says Still in a short video:

According to a Moscow newspaper, MH 370 was flown to a Taliban-controlled area a(t) the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. All passengers are alive.

Today, the story is being picked up by many major news sources, including Yahoo News, which reports:

A Russian newspaper has claimed that flight MH370 was hijacked and landed in Afghanistan where passengers were being held hostage.

The bizarre theory has been attributed to an alleged source within the country’s FSB secret service, according to newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets.

The source stated: “Flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines missing on March 8 with 239 passengers was hijacked.

“Pilots are not guilty; the plane was hijacked by unknown terrorists.

“We know that the name of the terrorist who gave instructions to pilots is ‘Hitch’.

“The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near the border with Pakistan.”

According to the Daily Star, Moskovsky Komsomolets, claims all the passengers are alive and have been divided into seven groups and are living in mud huts with almost no food.

It also alleges 20 Asian ‘specialists’ on board the flight have been smuggled into a bunker in Pakistan and that terrorists were possibly seeking to negiotiate with America or China.

The Russian newspaper said one of its correspondents was tipped off anonymously about the allegations.

Bill Still has opined from the beginning that the U.S. knows where the plane is, and that it is trying to negotiate the release of the hostages, while diverting attention away from the actual circumstances.   The search may last up to 2 months, say Americans.

Of course, if the plane has been hijacked to Afghanistan or Pakistan, and is still flyable, it represents a major terrorist threat.    This plane is a 777ER, where ‘ER’ stands for Extended Range, meaning it is theoretically capable of flying 5,235 to 9,380 nautical miles.    If American authorities do know where the plane is, and are not telling in order to negotiate the release of the hostages first, some very serious backpedaling from the official story will have to take place before they can retrieve the plane.   Or, they might just decide to use one of the many drones in the area already, and blow the $320 million plane up, without telling the world anything.

 

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Was-Malaysian-Flight-MH370-by-Scott-Baker-Mh370-Flight_Russia-140416-972.html