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Malaysian Airline Flight MH370

HuskyDeac said:
Who is reporting that?
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Looks like Fox News is posing the question.
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"A total flight time of five hours means the Boeing 777 could have travelled about 2200 nautical miles after leaving Kuala Lumpur and potentially have reached the Indian Ocean, the border of Pakistan or even the Arabian Sea, the Wall Street Journal said."
 
Malaysia saying they 100% know the plane was hijacked and flown off course

So that probably means the plane wasn't hijacked
 
Hijack is now the most likely from what I've read. The four hours of flight after the transponders were purposely turned off at separate times... No telling where this thing is, or if it even crashed.
 
This guy makes it sound like there had to be more than one person involved.
 
Wsj now saying investigators are strongly considering the plane never crashed and is somewhere. WTF is going on. Assuming this is somehow the case (yes I know it's just a theory) I can't imagine how much time and effort someone went into in an all-in effort to take that jet, let alone what/who they wanted out of it. Crazy shit.
 
MACdeac said:
Wsj now saying investigators are strongly considering the plane never crashed and is somewhere. WTF is going on. Assuming this is somehow the case (yes I know it's just a theory) I can't imagine how much time and effort someone went into in an all-in effort to take that jet, let alone what/who they wanted out of it. Crazy shit.
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Assuming they landed it somewhere safely, they could load it up with explosives and fly it at whatever target they want. Would governments be willing to shoot it down?
 
HuskyDeac said:
Assuming they landed it somewhere safely, they could load it up with explosives and fly it at whatever target they want. Would governments be willing to shoot it down?
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I think it would be shot down pretty quickly, with little hesitation. But I could think of hundreds of easier planes to get than a 777 commercial airliner to use in that manner, but who knows.

Interesting that the Malaysians are not saying what, if any, third party cargo the jet was hauling. I mean, why not just say that it was hauling cat litter, or iPhones, whatever the Fuck it is... Instead of saying nothing.
 
MACdeac said:
I think it would be shot down pretty quickly, with little hesitation. But I could think of hundreds of easier planes to get than a 777 commercial airliner to use in that manner, but who knows.

Interesting that the Malaysians are not saying what, if any, third party cargo the jet was hauling. I mean, why not just say that it was hauling cat litter, or iPhones, whatever the Fuck it is... Instead of saying nothing.
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I think the US would shoot it down without hesitation but I'm not so sure all countries would react the same way thinking there are 200+ people on board and all the world is watching.

Your second point is something I hadn't thought of or heard discussed. Could the plane have been transporting currency?
 
HuskyDeac said:
I think the US would shoot it down without hesitation but I'm not so sure all countries would react the same way thinking there are 200+ people on board and all the world is watching.

Your second point is something I hadn't thought of or heard discussed. Could the plane have been transporting currency?
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Probably a whole hell of a lot of Jordans.
 
So Malaysia declared it a hijacking. It flew for 8 hours after the last known location. Malaysian officials told a reporter they believe it most likely to be on the border of China/Kyrgyzstan, which just so happens to be where the Chinese Uyghur population lives. The separatists from that area were claimed responsible for the knife attack in Changsha, China two weeks ago that killed 29 and injured 143.

This should fuel a number of conspiracy theories.
 
I think it was one of the pilots. Most likely pilot suicide. Anyone know how long it was in the air before it made the u turn. My sense is that it was not long enough for a hijacking by a third party to occur.

ETA: listening to some of the details provided by the guy from the WSJ, I'm not so sure anymore. Seems like two people were working in tandem to methodically shut off the communication systems. Not sure why you steal the plane to fly into the ocean. If it landed, surely someone would have passed that information along. . .if not from the ground then the plane itself.
 
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Unless it landed in a completely lawless country, there would have to be some level of government cooperation (state-sponsored terrorism) involved. The most remote and deepest part of the Indian Ocean is between Australia, Africa, and Antarctica. That would be the most difficult place to find wreckage if there were a suicide plan.
 
D4L said:
I think it was one of the pilots. Most likely pilot suicide. Anyone know how long it was in the air before it made the u turn. My sense is that it was not long enough for a hijacking by a third party to occur.
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That was what I thought as well but last night someone on CNN said there had to have been at least one other person involved to turn off some of the equipment- they would've had to leave the cockpit for an extended period of time. Also, if the radar data is correct and the plane was flying at various altitudes somewhat erratically, that too would suggest someone was at the controls who was not very experienced with this particular aircraft. I don't know, so much misinfo out there. But up until last night I was thinking it was probably a pilot suicide. Now I'm wondering if this doesn't have something to do with conflict between the Chinese government and Uighur Islamists.
 
The NY Times has a graphic up showing the last known contact with the plane as being either over China or west of Australia.
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Follow @flyingwithfish to keep up to date with educated theories. Dude has DHS sources and seems to think the plane may be in Iran and the hijacking may have been state sponsored but not for use as a weapon but as technology piracy.
 
JManslow said:
Follow @flyingwithfish to keep up to date with educated theories. Dude has DHS sources and seems to think the plane may be in Iran and the hijacking may have been state sponsored but not for use as a weapon but as technology piracy.
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Wouldn't it have just been easier to commandeer one that was already on the ground at the airport in Tehran if that's the case? Technology from a 12 year old plane (or however old this one)? Wiki indicates that Iran Air has more recent Airbuses in its fleet now.
 
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