An excerpt from Ted Jeory’s 3-19-14 Express article entitled “Malaysian Plane: 20 Passengers Worked for Electronic Warfare and Military Firm":
A US technology company which had 20
senior staff on board Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 had just launched a new
electronic warfare gadget for military radar systems in the days before the
Boeing 777 went missing.
Freescale Semiconductor, which makes powerful
microchips for industries including defence, released the powerful new products
to the American market on March 3.
Five days later, Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing
with 239 people on board including 20 working for Freescale.
Twelve were from Malaysia, while eight were Chinese
nationals.
Freescale’s spokesman Mitch Haws has said: “These
were all people with a lot of experience and technical background and they were
very important people.
“It’s definitely a loss for the company.”
Freescale’s shareholders include the Carlyle Group
of private equity investors whose past advisers have included ex-US president
George Bush Sr and former British Prime Minister John Major.
Carlyle’s previous heavyweight clients include the
Saudi Binladin Group, the construction firm owned by the family of Osama bin
Laden.
The fact that Freescale had so many highly
qualified staff on board the Boeing 777 had already prompted wild conspiracy
theories about what might have happened.
The company says they were flying to China
to improve its consumer products operations, but Freescale’s fresh links to
electronic warfare technology is likely to trigger more speculation and deepen
the mystery....
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