Jeff Wise, a US science writer, a pilot and an aviation expert, has stunned the world with his claim that the Russian President Vladimir Putin had indeed planned the hijacking of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 8, 2014. On Putin’s order, Russian forces spoofed the flight data to steal the aircraft and secretly landed it in Kazakhstan.
But why would Putin order such a ghastly act? Wise, who believes that Russia was a “paranoid fantasist’s dream”, speculates there could be four reasons:
- Maybe he wanted to demonstrate to the United States, which had imposed the first punitive sanctions on Russia the day before, that he could hurt the West and its allies anywhere in the world.
- Maybe what he was really after were the secrets of one of the plane’s passengers.
- Maybe there was something strategically crucial in the hold.
- Maybe he wanted the plane to show up unexpectedly somewhere someday, packed with explosives.
Wise believes the plane was landed at Yubileyniy Aerodrome within the Baikonur Cosmodrome – “a terrible place to hide a 210-foot long, 60-foot-high airplane”. “Nothing happens at Yubileyniy for decades; then, four months before MH370 disappears, the Russians start building a 777-sized something-or-other a mile and a half from a giant disused airstrip. Then, a month after the plane disappears, the area looks like it’s been erased. What had happened in the meantime?” questions Wise.
“While Kazakhstan lacks the means and technical savvy to carry out a sophisticated hijack, the same is not true of Russia. Russia is (arguably) the only country that stands apart from the West and yet is as technically advanced in the aerospace industry as the United States,” Wise reveals on his website. “If Russia has the savvy to plan an insanely complex special operation, they also have a track record of implementing such schemes. A week before MH370 vanished Russia began infiltrating Special Forces into the Ukrainian territory of Crimea, eventually annexing it. The operation was designed to look like an internal uprising, but the personnel and equipment belonged to elite Russian military units”.
Wise’s ‘theory’ has been ridiculed by Russian blogger Nebojsa Malic who called it an anti-Russia propaganda. “Baikonur isn’t some sort of secret Area 51 facility; all manned space flights to the International Space Station (ISS) take off from there. In fact, the first part of Expedition 40 to the ISS took off from Baikonur on March 25, 2014. Judging by his observations about MH17 and Russia, Wise has clearly fallen victim to what psychologists call confirmation bias – a tendency to see and interpret information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions,” she writes.
And this is how Twitter reacted to the new theory:
CNN loony claims Putin hijacked MH370 & flew it to Baikonur Cosmodrome. (Western lies are on the verge of dementia.) http://t.co/8clhcIeRe2
— Novorossiya News (@AltairSound) February 25, 2015
Apparently pumping out NATO-friendly conspiracy theory ‘Putin Stole #MH370‘ is legitimate news. And MSM wonders why people don’t trust them?
— The Daily Rupert (@TheMurdochTimes) February 25, 2015
More proof presented of Putin hijacking #MH370? Is this him parachuting out of plane? pic.twitter.com/3uUKiQmFme
— Stacy Herbert (@stacyherbert) February 25, 2015
This guy thinks MH370 was hijacked by Putin. I like the cut of his jib. http://t.co/jyruHsjLLQ
— Fake John Schindler (@5150committee) February 25, 2015
Daily Mail: “#Putin with the help of a nordic alien race shot down the Flight MH370 and provoked Ebola” It’s the truth, you must believe it!
— Enrico Ivanov (@VonHenrick1) February 24, 2015
If @yurybarmin Doubts The Free Press @NYMag @DailyMailUK #Amazon Has A Book On How #Putin Was Behind #MH370 Hijack http://t.co/rF18zQlUg3
— St. PT Barnum (@StPTBarnum) February 25, 2015
Putin also abducted american people (sometimes even cattle) and they were foolish enough to blame aliens for that.