Jeff Wise: northern hijack to Kazakhstan, BFO spoofed
2015 New York Magazine thesis, restated in Netflix episode 2 and in Finding MH370 “Landing MH370.” Keep BTO, discard or spoof BFO, fly borders, land on a long Central Asian runway. Requires the African debris field to be explained away.
Wise’s mechanical hinge is that Burst Frequency Offset — the north/south discriminator — can be spoofed if the SDU is under hostile control, while Burst Timing Offset still draws range rings. Three ethnically Russian passengers and E/E-bay access from first class are the onboard story. Against it: Inmarsat’s published BFO method, serial-confirmed debris on Réunion, Mauritius and Tanzania, and CSIRO reverse-drift from a southern 7th-arc origin. A 777 flaperon does not drift from Kazakhstan to Réunion. File as the most complete northern-corridor hypothesis in print, currently inconsistent with the debris tables.
Sources
- Wise, New York Magazine, 23 Feb 2015
- Netflix, The Hijack, 2023
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