The Obvious Motive on Flight 370 - The Co-pilot was a DEVOUT MUSLIM!

 By Mike Shoesmith

In Feb of this year Swiss authorities arrested the co-pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that was forced to land at Geneva's international airport, airport officials told the Reuters news agency.

Via muslimvillage.com

Geneva airport chief executive Robert Deillon told reporters on Monday that an Ethiopian man took control of the plane when the pilot ventured outside the cockpit.

"The pilot went to the toilet and he (the co-pilot) locked himself in the cockpit," Deillon said.

The man "wanted asylum in Switzerland," he said. "That's the motivation of the hijacking."

Scrambled jets

The hijacking began over Italy and two Italian fighter jets were scrambled to accompany the plane, Deillon said.

The co-pilot himself alerted authorities to the plane's hijacking, officials added – though passengers on the plane were unaware it had been hijacked.

After landing in Geneva, the co-pilot exited the cockpit using a rope and turned himself in to authorities.

Police escorted passengers one by one, their hands over their heads, from the taxied plane to waiting vehicles.

Passengers safe

Officials said there was no risk to passengers or crew at any point.

Ethiopian Airlines flight 702 bound for Rome from Addis Ababa was reportedly denied permission to land and circled Geneva for several minutes before it was "forced to proceed" to the airport, which had been temporarily closed by authorities.

An Ethiopian government spokesman, Redwan Hussein, told Reuters that the flight had made a scheduled stop in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, where it was originally thought the hijacker or hijackers may have boarded the flight.

"We don't know where they are from or how many they are but it looks like the hijacker or hijackers boarded the flight in Khartoum," Redwan added shortly before police announced they had detained the assailant.

Reports on social media said Ethiopian Airlines flight was flying over Sudan when it issued a distress signal, Squawk 7500, which is code indicating a hijacking.

So there is a precedent here of co-pilots taking over the plane and doing whatever they want with it. There is evidence that the pilot of flight 370 was an atheist. But the co-pilot was anything but.

Jihad Watch is reporting Malaysia plane's "religious" Muslim co-pilot spoke mysterious last words just before signalling systems were shut off.

Via Jihad Watch:

Mainstream media stories are all reporting that Fariq Abdul Hamid was "religious" as if that were an indication that he couldn't have been involved in the plane's disappearance. The fact that Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki and Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and Feisal Shahzad and Abdulhakim Mujaid Muhammad and John Walker Lindh and Adam Gadahn and a host of other Islamic jihadists living and dead were or are "religious" never seems to occur to these "journalists" — or maybe they just don't want it to occur to you.

"Missing flight's co-pilot was religious, not reckless: family," by Niluksi Koswanage for Reuters, March 14:

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Friends and family of the co-pilot who flew the missing Malaysia Airlines jet said the 27-year-old was religious and serious about his career, countering news reports suggesting he was a cockpit Romeo who was reckless on the job.

Fariq Abdul Hamid, who joined the national flag carrier in 2007, was helping to fly the Boeing 777 whose disappearance on Saturday has turned into one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.

There has been no trace of the plane carrying 239 people nor any sign of wreckage as the navies and military aircraft of more than a dozen countries scour the seas across Southeast Asia.

Australian media reported that Fariq and a pilot invited two women to join them in the cockpit on a flight from Thailand to Malaysia in 2011, where he smoked and flirted with them.

Jonti Roos, a South African living in Melbourne, confirmed to Reuters that the incident took place but said she did not feel that Fariq behaved irresponsibly.

Malaysia Airlines said it was shocked by the allegations in the report, which was based on photos of the apparent cockpit meeting and an interview with Roos.

Smoking has been banned on almost all commercial flights since the late 1990s. Cockpit doors have been reinforced since the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington and passengers have largely been barred from entering the cockpit during the flight since then.

The report also angered some of Fariq's friends, some of whom took to social media to rebut the report first aired by Australian Channel Nine's A Current Affair program.

Fariq, first officer of Flight MH370, had clocked a relatively few 2,700 hours of flying.

He had wanted to become a pilot from his school days, said a relative who asked not to be identified.

"He is a good student. He worked very hard to get where he was. His parents are so proud of him," said the relative, who had visited Fariq's family home for prayers in the outskirts of the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.

Fariq and his family are Muslims, like a majority of people in the Southeast Asian nation….

"Malaysian jet mystery: Last words from Malaysia plane believed from co-pilot: airline," from Gulf News, March 17:

KUALA LUMPUR: The last words spoken from the cockpit of the Malaysian passenger jet that went missing 10 days ago were believed to have been spoken by the co-pilot, the airline's top executive said Monday.

"Initial investigations indicate it was the co-pilot who basically spoke," Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told a news briefing.

The last message from the cockpit – "All right, good night" – came around the time that two of the missing plane's crucial signalling systems were switched off.

Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and his first officer Fariq Abdul Hamid have become a primary focus of the investigation into the fate of Flight 370, with one of the key questions being who was controlling the aircraft when the communications systems were disabled.

The last signal from the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) was received 12 minutes before the co-pilot's seemingly nonchalant final words.

ACARS transmits key information on a plane's condition to the ground.

The plane's transponder – which relays radar information on the plane's location – was switched off just two minutes after the voice message….

I have to ask: did the co-pilot have a "come to Allah" moment when all of his religious convictions converged in a moment of ultimate sacrifice for his "god" per the admonition to "slay the infidel wherever you find them?"

Worse yet - did the pilot, whom some have speculated was an atheist, have a recent conversion to Islam and felt he had some catching up to do?