Looks like someone is up late .. yongjin.
Uyghurs on an ill-fated plane ride. I wonder what would happen if a pirated plane tried to enter Chinese airspace. By the sounds of all those Malaysian names, it appears there is a very large Muslim population base in their country.
To me at least, a plane making it all the way to where the wreckage might be bobbing around in the South Indian Sea just does not seem logical, if not improbable. Especially with Australian radar capabilities, or even the naval boats that is out in force patrolling the waters North of Australia.
Yes indeed, nearly the entire population of Malays and Indonesia are Muslim--though they re probably the most "mellow" muslims around
The 200 or so Han chinese on board would be a juicy target for the uygurs-also muslims. If they did it, they would be criticized but then say that the dead Muslims on board are now "martyrs"
As was stated in the article I linked to, the Chinese Martyrs Brigade (the Uyghur militants) did claim responsibility for this event--however the Malays say the claim is not believable--apparently since it came via email. That together with the Chinese saying there was a Uyghur on board- who they suspect of having been abroad to attend flight school- that the Malays also deny
And then there is the known fact that a couple of yrs ago the CMB did attempt to hijack a domestic chinese flight-they were overcome by the passengers.
As they showed with their attack on the train station-their only goal is to effect mass casualties on Chinese.
Where the plane wrecked really doesn't matter-what matters is why/how it got where it did--if it was an attack-did the hijacker deliberately take the plane so remote to ensure that no possible survivor would be rescued?
Of course we may never know