Maybe, like me, you are tired of the vague headlines pertaining to the EgyptAir crash. It has become a whodunnit case as there are suspicions of terrorist acts at play, yet without any claims of officials responsibility – which would surely happen by now.
It’s a bit strange.
CNBC spoke to the vice president of tactical analysis at research firm Stratfor about what’s really going on with the EgyptAir Flight 804 crash in which 66 people died:
The most obvious explanation for the silence from jihadists and other terror groups is that they didn’t do it. “The big possibility is that it was just an accident, and something happened that took the plane down quickly, probably incapacitating the pilots and making it impossible for them to call in a mayday.”
But there’s a possibility — and historical precedent for the idea — that no terror group has claimed the destruction of the flight from Paris to Cairo because it either wants to protect operatives it has established inside transportation networks, or it has developed new techniques that it wants to replicate to more devastating effect later.
It’s happened before, many times actually. Read them all HERE.
“The bombing of Philippines Airlines Flight 434 in December 1994 was not claimed because the planners hoped to use an improved version of the same device in a larger attack targeting 10 trans-Pacific airliners.”
While it is important to note that the investigations into the crash could take years to uncover – think Malayasia Airlines Flight 370 as one example – at least they found some debris which may lead to a further insight eventually.
In the mean time, we will just have to deal with all the vague headlines.
[source: cnbc]
