The Possible Role of the Passengers in MH370's Disappearance

Are the Freescale Semiconductor employees on MH370 a clue or coincidence?

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Read the first article in this series, The Truth About MH370 Could Change the World, for a summary of the research and analysis of possible theories. A companion piece, Proof the MH370 Videos are Real, validates the veracity of the leaked videos. What the Cargo Can (and Can’t Tell Us About the Fate of MH370 reviews the potential role of the cargo in the plane’s disappearance.

This article is not meant to be disrespectful to families of the missing and those affected by this event. My goal is to honor them by uncovering the truth.

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The last article, What the Cargo Can (and Can’t) Tell Us About the Fate of MH370, discussed what was stowed in cargo. It showed that the evidence supports multiple theories covering planned and unplanned events. For example, evidence of a possible battery fire supports the unplanned emergency rescue scenario. However, if there was something in the cargo that justified such a dramatic rescue, it was hidden and undisclosed. Similarly, if there was technology on board as part of a teleportation test or mission, there is no documentation to know what it was.

Perhaps it wasn’t WHAT was on board that is significant but WHO.

Investigators took a close look at the pilot, first officer, and crew and found “no evidence of irregularities” in any airplane personnel (SIR, p.437). Nor are there any crew actions that point to terrorism or suicide. The media initially questioned whether two Iranians who were traveling on stolen passports could be responsible. However, they were quickly exonerated as authorities found no link to terrorist groups or activities. Seems they were just two young men headed to Europe for a chance at a better life. While that doesn’t exclude the possibility of bad actors or hidden operatives, there is nothing in the report that suggests the plane was hijacked or sabotaged by the known crew or passengers. Of course, there is reason not to trust the official report.

The other clue at this point is the presence of 20 “very important” employees of the US-based technology company, Freescale Semiconductor (now part of NXP Semiconductor).

For a company that spent $14 million a year on corporate travel, did they not have a risk management policy prohibiting so many employees from flying together?

Is there something about these employees and this company that would make them a target or perhaps part of a secret operation?

Are the Freescale employees a clue or coincidence?

Who was on board?

According to the official Safety Investigation Report, “a total of 227 passengers (including 3 children and 2 infants) were on board with the majority of them from China [153 people], followed by Malaysia and other citizens from different countries” (SIR, p.264). The plane was at 80 percent capacity.

Following the disappearance, there were a number of articles highlighting the lives of the people on board. Among the missing are two dozen Chinese artists returning from an exhibition in Kuala Lampur, a Malaysian couple on a honeymoon, an Indian social activist, and an executive at Boston Consulting Group traveling with his wife, young son, and the wife’s parents, among many others. There were reportedly three Americans on board, of which two were children.

A few articles mentioned that there were 20 employees of the US-based, multinational technology company, Freescale Semiconductor, now part of NXP Semiconductors. Reuters reported that none of the most senior executives were on board. The passengers were primarily engineers and other technical experts. Twelve were from Malaysia and eight were from China.

According to the vice president of global communications and investor relations, Mitch Haws, the team on board was “working to improve the efficiency of the company’s chip facilities in Kuala Lampur and Tianjin, China.”

Haws said, “These were people with a lot of experience and technical background, and they were very important people.”

This was echoed by Chris of the Not So Deep podcast who worked for Freescale Semiconductor at the time, which was in the process of being sold to a competitor. Chris reported that the incident affected the sale, as would be expected if key members of the company and their intellectual capital were lost.

This group of passengers caught the attention of researchers for three primary reasons: (1) Most companies have risk management policies that limit the number of key personnel or critical teams on the same flight, raising suspicion of why so many were traveling together, (2) Freescale’s technology was used in many military electronics applications, such as “avionics, radar, and electronic warfare,” and may have been integral to top secret projects, and (3) the company was sold a year after the plane disappeared, which could speak to possible motives, should the disappearance have been planned.

Freescale Semiconductors

Some of the theories revolve around espionage, particularly some variation of the US intercepting secrets and/or unauthorized cargo headed to China. The Freescale employees are at the center of those theories.

Freescale Semiconductors became an independent company in 2004 after 50 years of being part of Motorola, which founded its Semiconductor Products Sector in 1953. According to ChatGPT, Motorola “played a significant role in the development of early semiconductor technology.” It also partnered with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), whose mission is “to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security.” It makes sense as all major U.S. defense systems and platforms rely on semiconductors for their performance. According to ChatGPT:

In the case of Motorola, DARPA did provide seed funding for the development of some of the company's early research projects and initiatives, particularly in the field of telecommunications and mobile technology. This support played a role in the advancement of key technologies and innovations that contributed to the growth and success of Motorola in the early stages of its development.

As a stand-alone company, Freescale “became a prominent player in the global semiconductor industry, specializing in the development of embedded processors, microcontrollers, and other semiconductor solutions for various industries.” Semiconductors perform a wide range of electronics functions, including processing data, sensing, storing information and converting or controlling electronic signals. (2013 10-K) 

In 2013, Freescale announced a further commitment to support the US military sector, identifying the defense industry as a preferred growth area. As such, Freescale was actively developing electronic warfare products for military applications. The Express reported:

Avoiding radar via ‘cloaking technology’ has long been one of the objectives of the defence industry and Freescale has been active developing chips for military radar…Last June it announced it was creating a team of specialists dedicated to producing ‘radio frequency power products’ for the defence industry. And on March 3, it announced it was releasing 11 of these new gadgets for use in ‘high frequency, VHF and low-band UHF radar and radio communications’.

Freescale’s March 3, 2014 press release stated, “Freescale now offers the level of support provided in other markets to U.S. defense systems customers, enabling them to optimize the performance of these RF devices for radar, military communications and electronic warfare applications.”

When we consider that the flight was untracked by radar for a critical portion of its flight, it raises the question of whether a form of cloaking technology or interference was being used on the plane and to what end. We’ll pick that back up below.

Given the highly competitive nature of the semiconductor industry, Freescale heavily invested in R&D (18% of sales or ~$750 million), with 5,700 employees across R&D facilities in Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Romania, Russia, United Kingdom and the United States. Freescale stated their R&D is focused on “embedded processing, system-level solutions engineering and software solutions.” Of course, Freescale, which had relationships with DARPA and the US military, could have been engaged in more advanced R&D, perhaps even as a contractor for black budget projects like the reverse engineering of non-human technologies. Given that Freescale was a supplier to the military, highly advanced technology would likely be developed with the cooperation or at the direction of the US government.

As stated by the Center for Strategic and International Studies:

Ensuring U.S. leadership in semiconductor technology and securing the integrity of the value chains that design, manufacture, package, and distribute these chips are perhaps the preeminent economic and national security concerns of the modern era.

President Ronald Reagan said the same in the 1980s and took steps to protect its technology from its biggest technology rival at the time—Japan. These unpopular tariffs and restrictions were gone by the 1990s. However, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) established in 1976 maintained strict restrictions on Chinese foreign nationals’ access to a range of military technologies, including military electronics, due to national security risks. Nonetheless, in the quest for profit and market share, companies like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon likely found ways around such rules in order to sell to the Chinese market. Like all companies, they are bound by law but responsible to their shareholders, who primarily care about one thing—returns.

In October 2022, a comprehensive US Bureau of Industry and Security rule banned the sale of semiconductor equipment to China and restricted “US persons” from supporting the development or production of semiconductor and related technologies that could be used by China for weapons of mass destruction and advanced military applications. It closed loopholes allowing export for civilian purposes, recognizing that China has a military-civil fusion that could easily divert technology for military uses.

Additionally, there have been several cases of Chinese nationals stealing sensitive information from US companies. One example is Yu Long, who “admitted to stealing and exploiting highly sensitive military technology and documents, knowing his theft would benefit China’s defense industry.” The US has stated that, “The CCP acquires others’ research by co-opting Chinese nationals, secretly paying foreign scientists to recreate research in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and sending military officers abroad disguised as civilians to steal technology and information to advance the PRC’s military and economic development goals.” Clearly, the Chinese want what we have and are willing to pay dearly for it.

Thus, this 2022 rule is a reaction to a known problem, representing an “urgent need” to protect America’s semiconductor and supercomputer leadership. Currently, the best chips in China are considered to be several generations behind American and Taiwanese chips.

Clearly, semiconductor technology has long been regarded as highly sensitive and essential to competitiveness and security. That technology alone might have been enough to warrant an extreme measure of protection. But what if there was something even more valuable than that?

Freescale Superconductors?

As Ashton Forbes has said, “Perhaps Freescale Semiconductor was Freescale Superconductor.” His research found “strong evidence that they [Freescale employees] are in fact related to the technology we see in the videos, connected by the discovery of Superconductivity.” Aside from likely ongoing collaboration with DARPA, Ashton found a 2005 National Security Agency report that proves Freescale’s involvement in the commercial emergence of superconductivity. This corroborates the theory that the employees on board may have possessed valuable knowledge and skills related to superconductivity.

Superconductivity is “a unique material characteristic that has the potential to revolutionize electrical transmission, transportation, and physics as we know it.” Superconductors completely eliminate electrical resistance when cooled below their critical temperature, allowing for the efficient transmission of electrical current without loss. The applications are far-reaching—levitating trains and more efficient power grids are just the tip of the iceberg.

It is hard to make sense of the espionage theory absent top secret technology like superconductivity. What else would be worth the risk? What exactly did these employees know? And who would want to know it?

Say the US had harnessed superconductivity…

Why would the US trust its most important secrets to Chinese and Malaysian employees on a passenger flight into China? Technically, under ITAR, this wouldn’t be allowed, at least for the Chinese nationals.

With R&D facilities across the globe, including in the US, why would something or someone of such strategic value be within its adversary’s borders? Again, US trade law restricts this.

But perhaps it wasn’t the US government or Freescale management that put a prize on board. Maybe one or more of the employees went rogue or were vulnerable to being captured by the Chinese.

If the US became aware that someone(s) on board planned to sell or leak top secret information or materials or was otherwise a national security risk, it might take extraordinary action to protect it, even if it meant exposing the tech it was trying to hide. Perhaps teleportation was a last desperate attempt by the US government or even Freescale to avoid handing precious people and property to the Chinese. Maybe the US wanted those employees for its own intelligence and purposes. For teleportation to be deemed necessary, who or what was on board must have been that important. More important than just money.

Superconductivity and advanced physics would be that important. As retired Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast in 2019 said in a speech about the power of advanced energy technologies to change the world, “The technology, if optimized, can change world power, and there’s nothing you can do if you don’t have that power.” You either lead or you submit.

Teleportation technology and the ability to open a wormhole or portal is an incredibly powerful tool. We tend to focus on the positive aspects of what that technology and understanding could unlock for us, like free energy, instant travel, and space exploration. It can also be dangerous if used by bad actors, such as in times of war. Think of scenes in Star Wars when a fleet of enemy ships pops out of warp speed. Talk about a surprise attack. A military that masters teleportation can dominate the world. How’s your Mandarin?

Part of what research into this mystery has uncovered is how extensive the surveillance apparatus is on our planet. Given that China has a robust space program and is known to have a fleet of reconnaissance satellites and balloons, it is fair to assume that whatever the US can see, China can too. And probably Russia.

Teleportation technology allows you to be hidden in a world with nowhere to hide.

It also makes it likely that we are not the only ones who know this technology exists. Fortunately, knowing it exists is not the same as knowing how to make and use it. This might have been the gamble the US was willing to take.

The espionage theories are difficult to reconcile because it seems unlikely that Freescale would trust foreign nationals with technology critical to US interests. It suggests that the US (and potentially others) had foreknowledge of who or what was on board, such that it would be watching and ready to act. In that case, unless there was no time, the US must have had a reason not to foil an espionage plot before the plane took off. Maybe the US was the spy, seeking to capture the passengers for its own purposes. In the fierce struggle with China over semiconductor (and superconductor) dominance, maybe the US played its trump card.

It is hard to believe. But sometimes truth hides in absurdity. Whether we ascribe to the espionage or emergency scenario, it is reasonable to assume that people in power knew there was something highly critical on board. They either knew beforehand or were summoned by emergency. Or they knew and then an emergency changed the plan a bit. As discussed in the cargo article, the only other explanation seems to be a planned operation or test.

Who was on the Board?

Clearly, the truth about MH370 is being covered up. Keeping something like this secret requires close coordination and heavy hands of control, not to mention money.

Who might be hiding in the shadows of Freescale and NXP Semiconductors? Do they offer a clue?

Freescale was an independent public company for just two years before it was acquired for more than $17.6 billion by a consortium of private equity firms led by and including The Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, Permira Funds, and TPG Funds. It was reportedly the largest private buyout of a tech company and one of the largest ever buyouts at the time. It is also regarded as one of the “least successful” leveraged buyouts, as Freescale shares sold at a 36 percent discount in the 2011 IPO compared to what the private equity firms paid in 2006. At the time of the plane’s disappearance, these private equity firms owned approximately 76% of the company. As is typical, they had stacked the board with their people.

Was the discount a product of mounting debt or mismanagement by a private equity board, or a consequence of something very valuable gone missing or otherwise compromised?

The Blackstone Group was co-founded in 1985 by Stephen A. Schwarzman, who still serves as the Chairman and CEO. His bio reads like the Rockefellers and Rothschilds of old. His firm manages over $1 trillion in assets, is the largest owner of commercial property in the world, the largest discretionary hedge fund investor, and he personally committed to giving the majority of his wealth to philanthropy, including giving “the single largest philanthropic effort in China’s history” to Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations, The Business Council, The Business Roundtable, and The International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. He is also a Yale alum, former professor, and reported member of Yale’s Skull and Bones secret society. He may be one of the most powerful people most of us have never heard of.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Stephen Schwarzman is joined by Carlyle Group co-founder and co-chairman of the board, David M. Rubenstein, in the elite halls of the Council on Foreign Relations, World Economic Forum, and the advisory board of Tsinghua University, where Schwarzman set up Schwarzman’s Scholars. As reported by the Express, “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.”

Blackstone is a public company primarily owned by mutual funds and institutional investors. The top investors in Blackstone are Vanguard, Capital Research and Management, and Blackrock. The Carlyle Group’s largest shareholders are Vanguard, Capital Research and Management, and Morgan Stanley.

Looking at NXP, which acquired Freescale a year after the incident in March 2015, their top shareholders are Fidelity Management and Research Co, JP Morgan, Vanguard, and Blackrock. These are the same firms that control the planet’s wealth and, in one way or another, own just about everything you could buy, including the Freescale company.

On the one hand, that tells us nothing. On the other, it leaves open the possibility that companies like Freescale and NXP could be guided from within and beyond their boardroom walls, have access to more capital than is on the books, and possibly be used to develop and incubate secret technology. It could mean mergers and acquisitions are more about money laundering and secret alliances than corporate synergies. It could mean Freescale had the relationships and cover they needed to make problems, like the disappearance of 20 of their best staff, vanish from media headlines and public attention.

The disappearance of MH370 is still a mystery because those in control want it to be.

Many people dismiss conspiracy theories because they can’t believe any group of people would be smart and capable (and dastardly) enough to orchestrate such events and then cover up the truth. We underestimate them because of our low opinion of ourselves, the companies we work for, and the people we interact with every day. And so we believe in the false flags of incompetence and human blunder to explain the tragedies of our world. We ignore the truth hiding in plain sight so that we don’t have to confront what we, as the human race, have built and capitulated to.

I am not saying that Stephen Schwarzman and David Rubenstein or their buddies in high (and shadowy) places played a role in the plane’s disappearance. I am also not saying they didn’t. We just don’t know yet.

When you look at the powerful people in the circles in and around Freescale and NXP and follow the money, it makes sense to ask questions.

Knowing these people have the power to make things happen and make things go away, it is reasonable to ponder whether they are at least complicit in this secret. There are people who know exactly what happened that day.

What if there were no passengers?

I don’t want to give the grieving families of missing passengers false hope or be insensitive to their pain. I want to explore every avenue of finding them. And so here is another theory to explore that could be possible if powerful people were involved, as they most likely were.

What if the passengers weren’t on board when it disappeared?

As stated in The Truth About MH370 Could Change the World, “[b]etween the plane’s disappearance from radar, the unavailability of the satellite communication (SATCOM) link, and operational failures on the part of Air Traffic Control, we have a period of time where the plane is silent and invisible to those responsible for it. Additionally, due to a long delay in activating emergency protocols, for hours no one outside of the affected Air Traffic Control even knows to look for it.”

Thus, there is a window when the plane is unaccounted for and largely untracked. That means it could have secretly landed somewhere to drop off the passengers and any cargo worth saving before secretly taking off again. Perhaps Freescale’s cloaking technology is responsible for the radar anomalies and limited data, buying time for whatever needed to happen with the plane. While our current understanding of aviation technology says a 777 needs a pilot for take-off, the proof of teleportation tells us our current understanding may be decades or centuries behind what actually exists. If we can disappear a plane, we can probably put one in the sky. It could have been piloted at the time of disappearance or not.

Admittedly, there are a lot of questions. For example, if the plane landed somewhere, why wouldn’t everything of value be taken off? If everything valuable was taken off, why would you teleport the plane, as opposed to letting it crash like the official narrative said? Was something else put on the plane to be teleported and help throw everyone off track? Was it the same plane or a dummy? Might this theory explain why many of the passenger’s phones were still ringing after it disappeared?

This theory, along with the others, requires a level of secrecy, coordination, and cooperation most people can’t fathom. That doesn’t mean it isn’t possible. As you look at the web of people involved in Freescale and NXP, you see ties to familiar characters like Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, and the defense contractor Lockheed Martin, not to mention the US government.

You start to see an infrastructure that could allow a plane to vanish and then convince the entire world it is at the bottom of the South Indian Ocean, despite no conclusive proof it ever crashed.

Remember, the same companies that owned Freescale own the media.

Finding the fingerprint

Through this research we are uncovering the dots. It is not yet clear how they all connect, but that is why we keep asking questions. Like mapping a fingerprint, it is through iterating and recalibrating that we find connections and flesh out the bigger picture.

If we assume that it was necessary to teleport that plane, the 20 Freescale employees may give us a clue as to why. While the company did not divulge the names or specific expertise of the Freescale staff, it is possible that they were involved in something far more significant than improving efficiency at chip facilities. They could hold the hands-on knowledge of advanced semiconductors, superconductivity, or other world-changing tech, which would mean an end to US military dominance if it reached the wrong hands. That would give the US motive to rescue, hide, or steal them to avoid the technology falling into its adversary’s hands. It could also mean the passengers are alive.

If so, where are they?

The next article will explore that question.

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Carolyn Brouillard is a strategist, coach, and writer interested in preparing humanity for the galactic age. Follow her on X.

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