HypothesisOpen
Interstate politics — China, Russia, Iran
Manifest geography is not a state-act finding
Destination Beijing, Chinese majority, Iranian stolen-passport travellers, one Russian national. Facts of who was on board. Not a finding of PLA, FSB, or IRGC action.
Geopolitical readings of MH370 recycle the passenger list and the delayed sharing of military radar. Those are real. African debris and the southern 7th arc are also real, and they are a poor fit for a capture in the South China Sea. Keep China, Russia and Iran as labelled branches so they can be scored, not as a substitute for wreckage.
Sources
- Passenger manifest summaries; Malaysian 2018 report
Related
EvidenceConfirmed8 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC
Two stolen European passports
Italian and Austrian documents · two Iranian travellers
TimelineConfirmed8 Mar 2014 02:00 UTC
Surface search begins in the South China Sea
8 March 2014
EvidenceOfficial finding8 Mar 2014 00:19 UTC
The 7th arc
00:19:29 UTC aircraft-initiated log-on