Mackdog
Senior Member.
I don't think anyone has started a thread about this yet, so I wanted to go ahead and start one. I have not heard too many theories from the likes of Alex Jones or any other major CTers yet, but today I read several times about how the families of those missing on flight 370 have come out and said that their cell phones are still ringing on the other end and that social networking sites show that they are still online via their smartphones. This is something that intrigues me because it seems like it's possible that the plane has been diverted to some unknown location due to a hijacking if this is true. If not, is it possible that phones could still ring even if they are at the bottom of the ocean?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...b78642-a862-11e3-b61e-8051b8b52d06_story.html
This is from the article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...b78642-a862-11e3-b61e-8051b8b52d06_story.html
This is from the article:
There were conspiracy theories and morbid calculation of survival odds, which grew ever darker as the days dragged on.
One of the most eerie rumors came after a few relatives said they were able to call the cellphones of their loved ones or find them on a Chinese instant messenger service called QQ that indicated that their phones were still somehow online.
A migrant worker in the room said that several other workers from his company were on the plane, including his brother-in-law. Among them, the QQ accounts of three still showed that they were online, he said Sunday afternoon.
Adding to the mystery, other relatives in the room said that when they dialed some passengers’ numbers, they seemed to get ringing tones on the other side even though the calls were not picked up.
The phantom calls triggered a new level of desperation and anger for some. They tried repeatedly Sunday and Monday to ask airline and police officials about the ringing calls and QQ accounts. However unlikely it was, many thought the phones might still be on, and that if authorities just tracked them down, their relatives might be found. But they were largely ignored.
According to Singapore’s Strait Times, a Malaysia Airlines official, Hugh Dunleavy, told families that the company had tried calling mobile phones of crew members as well and that they had also rang. The company turned over those phone numbers to Chinese authorities.