The World Wonders

When you want to get away from the heat, go where it’s cold, very cold, and perhaps nobody will think to look for you there.

This was the on-screen scenario depicted by Hollywood in the motion picture “The Empire Strikes Back” with a guerilla force endeavoring to evade discovery and direct combat against a superior, established force while buying time to prepare for a calculated military strike.

Only the portrayed sixth sense of Darth Vader gaining insight through a perverted use of “the force” led to the discovery by unmanned drones of a secret base on the frozen ice planet Hoth and subsequent attack by the Empire in retaliation for the destruction of their weapon of mass destruction, a.k.a – the death star in Star Wars: A New Hope.

Sometimes the truth is far stranger than fiction to the degree that human reason tends to ignore certain possibilities while reviewing the facts.

A dilemma facing U.S. Navy Intelligence is to locate missing Malaysia Air Flight 370.

In the absence of the discovery of any wreckage presumed by virtually all media reports to be lost at sea other possibilities should be examined.

Since the dawning of the millennium, the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and attack on the U.S. Embassy at Benghazi, Libya display increasingly sophisticated and elaborate terrorist schemes.

An article posted by Joel Pollak on Mar. 16 on breitbart. com states Israeli authorities are preparing for the possibility there might be an attempt to use the Boeing 777 of Flight 370 to attack Israel possibly with a nuclear device.

Where would they obtain such a weapon of mass destruction?

Andrew Hersh discusses one possibility in an article titled, “Iran’s Threat To The World,” posted on The Times of Israel, which also reported on Mar. 10 that an Iranian man booked tickets on missing flight 370 for two passengers with stolen passports.

On Mar. 16, the Times of Israel quoted Isaac Yeffet, a former security chief for Israel’s airlines, El Al, who said the disappearance of Malay- sia Airlines Flight 370 points directly to Iran based on the investigation revealing two fake-passport carrying Iranian passengers on board.

When considering the seriousness of all possible threats, American Intelligence shouldn’t rule out anything regardless of improbability. Perhaps they should search in an area that hasn’t been given widespread consideration as to a possible diverted destination of Flight 370, on the frozen continent of Antarctica.

According to the National Science Foundation website a permanent, hard-ice runway for wheeled planes, the Pegasus site on the Ross Ice Shelf, in Antarctica, was completed in 1992 and can be used in all but the warmest months.

On Sept. 24, Fox News reported Air New Zealand plans to use one of its regular passenger jets for air service between New Zealand and Antarctica, a Boeing 767-300.

According to Boeing.com, the Boeing 777 can carry 365 passengers up to 7,930 nautical miles. With fewer passengers (235 booked on Flight 370), the range would be even greater.

A Google search turned up a flight distance between Malaysia to Antarctica of 6693 miles with a flying time of about 13 hours and 23 minutes assuming an average flight speed for a commercial airliner of 500 m.p.h.

While Antarctica appears the least likely place terrorists would fly a hi-jacked commercial jet, the frozen continent also is the last place on earth searchers would look for them and the passengers they have taken hostage.

It’s time to utilize thinking outside of the box to get inside the mind of those behind the plot involved in the disappearance of Flight 370, solve the mystery.