US has tested an EMP device on an airliner in 1979 if you Wanna take a guess at how far they've advanced in the technology since then? Check out the CHAMP update, a drone that fires an EMp beam knocking everything offline. What do you think the odds are that just two days after an EMP conference is held at CPAC demonizing the Iranians, we just happen to have a situation that is starting to look more and more like an EMP device used on a commercial flight from Malaysia to China? October 2012 – "Last week, defense company Boeing conducted the first successful test of a drone called the Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) that can emit a powerful burst of microwaves and fry every piece of electronics in its path — from personal computers and cameras to high-tech hospital equipment and flight control computers." " "In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy's electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive.