Philip Wood, Diego Garcia Update: His Girlfriend Says She Got Death Threats After Malaysia Airlines Plane Disappeared

Philip Wood, Diego Garcia Update: His Girlfriend Says She Got Death Threats After Malaysia Airlines Plane Disappeared
Ground crew check the Malaysia Airlines flight MH192 bound for Bangalore that turned back towards and parked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Monday, April 21, 2014, after its right landing gear malfunctioned upon takeoff. The airline says Flight 192 carrying 166 people landed safely at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport early Monday, four hours after it departed. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Jack Phillips
5/11/2014
Updated:
7/18/2015

The girlfriend of Philip Wood, a passenger who went missing along with 238 other people on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, reportedly got a death threat.

According to NBC News, Sarah Bajc said she’s been the victim of two break-ins, subjected to death threats, and received numerous menacing phone calls.

Bajc told the broadcaster she got a instant message that reads, “I’m going to come and kill you next.” The message came in about two weeks after Wood went missing along with the rest of the passengers on board the airplane.

She also got pornographic images and creepy phone calls from the number, which is based in China. Bajc said she was planning to move from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur with Wood, an IBM employee.

“It was just another straw on the camel’s back, very upsetting,” Bajc told NBC this week.

The messages started shortly after her apartment was broken into.

“Whoever came wasn’t very careful because I’m a real neat freak, so it was immediately apparent to me that some things had been moved,” she told NBC. “My housekeeper was out of town so it couldn’t have been her and I got home before my son got back. The password on my safe had been reset which happens when you try the wrong code three times.”

Bajc continued: “The second time was a couple weeks later and my neighbor saw two people leaving my apartment. I have no illusions of privacy here [in Beijing].”

Last month, conspiracy theories emerged saying that Wood and the missing plane were taken to Diego Garcia, a remote island base operated by the United States. However, U.S. officials said that they’re just “conspiracy theories.” Malaysian officials have said the plane went missing in the southern Indian Ocean.

Last week, a Reuters report said that the cost pressure are mounting in the search for the plane.

“We’re already at tens of millions. Is it worth hundreds of millions?” a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters in April. “I don’t know. That’s for them to decide.”

Australia, China, Malaysia, and the United States are taking part in the search for the plane.

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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