Malaysian Airline Flight MH370

[JManslow]

This whole saga becomes harder and harder to believe as each day passes. Looks like it is appears to be pilot action/suicide; not what I'm sure anyone who has loved ones involved want to hear but very likely.

Suicide is unlikely. We would have found something by now. It's likely a team hijacking with either the crew or a very experienced group of passengers taking over.

 

[CHillDeac]

All the airstrips they could've landed at.

Bottom left red dot, Diego Garcia, that's where it is.

 

[D4L]

If it's a suicide, I'm not sure why go through all the trouble of making the plane invisible. It's more complex than that.

 

[BeachBumDeac]

Bottom left red dot, Diego Garcia, that's where it is.

Doubtful

The United States Navy operates Naval Support Facility (NSF) Diego Garcia, a large naval ship and submarine support base, military air base, communications and space-tracking facility, and an anchorage for pre-positioned military supplies for regional operations aboard Military Sealift Command ships in the lagoon.[4]

 

[DDA]

Yea, doesn't seem like suicide given all the planning that seems to have gone into this, as well as turning the tracking systems off. I just wonder if these people are being held hostage somewhere. Here are some profiles on some of the people on the plane:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/15/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-passenger-vignettes/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

 

[jhmd2000]

Doubtful

Yeah, it's not at Diego. In fact, I would rule anything with IFF range of DG categorically out.

 

[vtwhat etc]

If it's a suicide, I'm not sure why go through all the trouble of making the plane invisible. It's more complex than that.

After reading through list of the wikipedia pages I linked, I agree with this.

I think the plane still being intact is very unlikely. But, as unlikely as it may be... if a group found a way to take 230+ hostages this publicly, I honestly can't begin to imagine how it would be managed from a government/foreign relations perspective. I don't know how I'd want it to be handled. I would imagine that there would be a lot that we'd never know.

 

[WFU71]

Sort of a dry run for something bigger?

 

[2&2 Slider To Leyritz]

Yea, doesn't seem like suicide given all the planning that seems to have gone into this, as well as turning the tracking systems off. I just wonder if these people are being held hostage somewhere. Here are some profiles on some of the people on the plane:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/15/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-passenger-vignettes/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

So there is/was a legit ninja on board? Have to wonder if he tried something.

 

[beatrix]

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.

This is worrisome. The apparent level of sophistication hints at state-sponsored action. And not to go all conspiracy, but what's with the Malaysians? Incompetent? Or complicit?

 

[Caturdayredux]

CNN has a toy airplane. That'll clear things up.

 

[Caturdayredux]

Fox News is disgusting. 50/50 it landed somewhere. Anything for ratings.

 

[D4L]

How about these two scenarios? Are either remotely possible to explain the bizarre data?:

Plan is hijacked. Hijackers gain access to the cock pit some how. Pilots are injured, but not killed. At some point, one of the pilots regains consciousness, there is a battle for control of the plane and everyone in the cockpit dies. Since there is no one to fly the plane, it flies out into the Indian Ocean until it runs out of gas.

OR

Plane is hijacked and the pilots are killed. The hijackers are after some cargo that is on the ship or a particular person. The plane is flown to a rendezvous point of some sort where the cargo or person and the hijackers parachute out. No one left on the plane to guide it so it flies out into the Indian Ocean until it runs out of gas.

Both scenarios require some unlikely events. The hijackers would have had to sneak weapons onto the plane and gain access to a secure cock pit. Are there parachutes on board a 777? If there are, is there a way for a person to jettison from a plane moving at 600 mph?

The only other scenario that makes sense is that the pilots commandeered the plane for some totally inexplicable reason.

 

[BeachBumDeac]

First scenario is way more plausible than the second. I don't think they'd be able to parachute themselves from the plane, let alone hooking up cargo to a parachute

 

[Say Hey Deac]

First scenario is way more plausible than the second. I don't think they'd be able to parachute themselves from the plane, let alone hooking up cargo to a parachute

Bane

 

[DeaconSig]

First scenario is way more plausible than the second. I don't think they'd be able to parachute themselves from the plane, let alone hooking up cargo to a parachute

Gary Busey got one of these guys out this way, so anything is possible.

 

[dmcheatw]

it was a freighter not a passenger plane, or was it carrying both?

fighters can force a single plane down can't they? i'm not sure they'd have to blow it up with a missile as a first resort.

 

[FuckmouthedRube]

This is worrisome. The apparent level of sophistication hints at state-sponsored action. And not to go all conspiracy, but what's with the Malaysians? Incompetent? Or complicit?

The latest claim is the search area now includes land in double-digit Asian countries?!? Still think that no country with a functioning government would let a rogue 777 land without authorization, but how many countries would let an unidentified plane cruise through their airspace unmolested?

 

[BeachBumDeac]

it was a freighter not a passenger plane, or was it carrying both?

Have you read literally any single thing about this plane?

 

[DeacinBama]

it was a freighter not a passenger plane, or was it carrying both?

fighters can force a single plane down can't they? i'm not sure they'd have to blow it up with a missile as a first resort.

hopefully someone here has a brother who is a fighter pilot and can tell us.