Fox News Trying to Sell Boeing P-8 Poseidon on missing flight MH370

24 March 2014

Watching the BBC news last night I saw that the Malaysian Prime minister had gone on TV to report that the UKs AAIB (Air accident investigation branch) in conjunction with British satellite Inmarsat had provided some new data based on calculations they'd performed. The data puts the missing aircraft MH370 in the middle of the Indian ocean, too far from land to have done anything but crashed into the sea. This news was reported widely and was included in the prime ministers speech below: “This evening I was briefed by representatives from the U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch, or AAIB. They informed me that Inmarsat, the U.K. company that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern and southern corridors, has been performing further calculations on the data. Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort, they have been able to shed more light on MH370’s flight path. “Based on the new analysis, Inmarsat and the AAIB have concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth. This is a remote location far from any possible landing sites. I was curious as to how Fox News decided to report this, and was a little surprised to see 'Bill O'Reilly' on the 'O'Reilly Factor' play back the video from the prime minister, with the front chopped off so that it just left his statement that the plane was in the ocean without any evidence. Fox then went on to attack the Malaysian prime minister and Malaysia using words like unreliable, botched, premature, conflicting, lack credibility, incompetent, slow on analysis, conjecture and 'obscure facts'. Later in the day on the Sean Hannity show on Fox - the same thing, they had cropped it even more this time - and then ripped into the Malaysians, and mentioned that a Boeing P-8 Poseidon was on its way out. Strange I thought, why mention that aircraft that's not even there. Next thing they've got an aircraft expert up and put three different planes up behind him and he mentions the superb Boeing P-8. Later on a question to him from Hannity, "Which of these 3 planes do you think will be best used in this case"!!!!!!!! WTF. Alarm bells are ringing and I'm wondering - why on earth is a Boeing P-8 being mentioned more than the Inmarsat and British Air accident investigation board which has just been pushed down in the conversation. The British expert gets very close to saying the Chinese aircraft is better and gets shut down by Hannity. Has Fox got shares in Boeing I wonder - do a quick google and no, so what about if I google 'Rupert Murdoch' and Boeing. BINGO. Twice. Two weeks ago apparently Murdoch got into trouble for claiming that it was probably terrorists that took out the plane. Here's some of his tweets: "777crash confirms jihadists turning to make trouble for China. Chance for US to make common cause, befriend China while Russia bullies" "World seems transfixed by 777 disappearance. Maybe no crash but stolen, effectively hidden, perhaps in Northern Pakistan, like Bin Laden." "777. Still think this a reminder that US and China should be working more closely on Muslim extremist threat." Then I discover that Rupert Murdoch is close friends with the CEO of Boeing and run an organization together with 6 other capitalists called the 'Partnership for a New American Economy'. Can it be that Murdochs and Foxes desperate attempts to make sure this is terrorists on no evidence, and preferring to talk about the Boeing rescue aircraft in a good light rather than the satellite data that's just determined the aircrafts probable location - has anything to do with this?

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Robin Sayer

Back in February FoxNews Allison Barrie reported on this plane that they were plugging last night. "Looks like your average jumbo jet. Acts like a state-of-the-art war machine". Under a heading "Poseidons Power" she waxes: "Maritime patrol aircraft act as the eyes of the fleet; the Poseidon will fly farther and cover greater distances, scouring the world’s oceans for any potential threat and able to respond very quickly if spotted." I love the closing bit that states the article was written by "Ballet dancer turned defense specialist Allison Barrie" http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/02/27/jumbo-jets-to-join-navy-24-billion-in-poseidon-aircraft-ordered-from-boeing/