Fmr. Director of National Intelligence: Theory Malaysia Flight Landed Somewhere ‘Pretty Wild’

On CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning, Former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte poured some cold water over the new theory that missing flight MH 370 had been landed somewhere to be used in a later terrorist action, calling the idea “pretty wild.”

“Somebody said to me last night, ‘Well, I would have thought it was pretty wild for people to learn how to fly a plane into buildings in New York,” host Candy Crowley replied, “so you can’t totally rule it out. Does that sound improbable?”

“That means they would have had to land on an air strip that’s capable of accommodating that size of aircraft,” Negroponte said. “Or, even more importantly, be able to take off from it. I suppose you can land on a relatively imperfect field, but then how do you take off again? I mean, there are a lot of questions that would occur to me that I would ask the intelligence analysts to take a look at.”

Watch the clip below, via CNN:

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