Originally Posted by Tim Brown reporting for Freedom Outpost
[Kent] Thelen currently flies the Boeing 767ER category airplanes and has flown around the world, including the specific area that Flight 370 disappeared in. He has also lived on Diego Garcia (affectionately called 'Dodge' by military personnel), a small island that many have speculated was used to either house or refuel Flight 370 for transportation to a more secure location. He knows the area well.
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"The fact of the matter is I have no idea," Thelen told Freedom Outpost. "This is the biggest mystery in aviation history, in my opinion. There's no evidence of this thing being ditched, and if this thing landed somewhere, how can you hide something the massive size of a triple seven?" "Scientifically, we can rule out nearly every thinkable scenario and yet we still have a missing 777."
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However, as a hypothetical, when we posted the question that Diego Garcia was used as a landing spot for refueling in order to fly to another location, Thelen told us, "It's not impossible, but unlikely because for a triple seven to be refueled would require scaffolding… because the wing is so high…I want to emphasize, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but if this thing is all planned out, then they would have to have scaffolding or a pump truck with a hydraulic lift, then maybe it would be possible… but logistically to refuel this plane would be very challenging to pull off unless it was planned by a large group of people in advance… moreover, if something the size of a triple 7 landed & took off from Diego Garcia, you'd think the island residents would have noticed."
Witnesses have said that they saw a jumbo jet with similar markings to the Malaysia [Airlines] flight headed towards Diego Garcia on March 8.
Having lived on Diego Garcia, Thelen is convinced that a Boeing 777 cannot be hidden there. "It doesn't seem likely that it landed there," said Thelen. "But it is possible it did land somewhere…. you can't rule anything out."
In a report on Philip Wood, in which he allegedly sent a photo from his phone from Diego Garcia, some speculated that there was no cell service available. According to Malaysia Airlines, they do provide cell service and wi-fi aboard their aircraft. However, Thelen told Freedom Outpost that his airline (which he asked us not to name, though they are a major air service provide in the US) is a pioneer of wi-fi services. The difference in the services is Malaysia Airlines' services are limited to using land technology, not satellite technology. This would rule out using the plane itself for sending via cell or wi-fi the transmission attributed to Wood.
However, though it has been years since Thelen has lived on Diego Garcia, he believes there would be internet service on the island. "The area of Diego Garcia is called BIOT (British Indian Ocean Territory)," he told us. "The British are the ones that run it, but the Americans are the ones that put the runway there, and for the most part run it."
"It's a military base," he continued. "It's co-op[p]ed by the British and the Americans…and they very obviously do have internet there."
Thelen went on to tell us that one of his sons, who served in the Iraq war, had internet at a more isolated location, though he did have to pay for it. "It just seems very unlikely that any base where you have military personnel that you wouldn't have internet," he said.
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