This would never have happened on an Israeli plane, says Yeffet. An El Al aircraft was hijacked for the first and last time in 1968. Since then, there has not been a single flight where security did not check every single name.
However, it would have taken more than just a pair of Iranians with forged documents, Yeffet said, to pull off such an astonishing crime. I cant believe for a second that if these people planned to hijack the aircraft, it was just them, he said. But based upon the tried-and-true Israeli intelligence strategy of profiling, the pilots, he said, are unlikely suspects.
We are talking about a captain who is 53 years old, who has worked for Malaysia Airlines for 30 years, and suddenly he became a terrorist? He wanted to commit suicide? If he committed suicide, where is the debris?
Adding that the captain in question, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, was known to be happily married and comfortably well-off, Yeffet said the profile simply does not fit. From the United States to China to Japan, everybody is searching for this aircraft or piece of it. And there is no sign. So in my opinion, the aircraft was hijacked. And it was an excellent plan from the terrorists, to land in a place where they can hide the plane and no one can find it.
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I have all the confidence in the world when it comes to Israeli security. Most certainly they DO profile & IMO that is as it should be. I have been to Israel & it is literally easier for me to get into Israel than it is to get back into the United States. They recognized me for the harmless little'ol lady tourist that I was. They looked at me & my passport & said "Welcome to Israel". When I left, it was the same thing............I was actually treated like a human being. I have the utmost respect for them! They actually use their common sense.