Malaysian plane: 20 passengers worked for ELECTRONIC WARFARE and MILITARY RADAR firm
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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 includingdefence, 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.
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Carlyle’s previous heavyweight clients include the Saudi
Binladin Group, the construction firmowned 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 warfaretechnology is
likely to trigger more speculation and deepen the mystery. Read more >>
Source: EXPRESS
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