Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My boyfriend seems to think that terrorists have stolen and hidden the plane from satellite (under tent cover or something) and will try and use it like 9/11 style.

But where could they have landed something that large undetected? And furthermore, how will they refuel such a large aircraft in this hidden place?

And how would you explain the cell phones just ringing and then going dead? I mean if the people were still alive, someone would have found a way to call out, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guys, how do you think a very large plane would safely land or take off without a runway? Planes don't land straight up and down like a UFO - they need rather long runways. You guys have been watching too much 24, Scandal, Homeland, or whatever.

I know a 777 pilot and he says that the plane is able to land a dirt "runway" if need be. Essentially, find a big opening in some trees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Policy Committee, Hossein Naghavi, says that the U.S. hijacked Flight 370 in a plot to "sabotage the relationship between Iran and China and South East Asia".

Which does tend to raise suspicions about Iran's involvement. After all, there were Iranians aboard the plane who were using stolen passports. That said, given how ridiculous this accusation is, it probably doesn't suggest anything meaningful about Iran's role in this disappearance. It's probably just a kneejerk, defensive reaction to the understandable suspicions about Iran in response to the much-publicized passport issue.

Very typical. When I lived for a while in Turkey, the high incidence of flu was attributed to the U.S. No logical explanation, and certainly no factual connection, just the need to blame someone, and the U.S. is who's usually blamed for just about everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am thinking this was just another Payne Stewart type incident.

Something caused sudden decompression in the plane and everyone passed out within a few seconds, followed by death from lack of oxygen and hypothermia a few minutes later.

Modern planes have safety features that would allow this plane to keep going even if all the corpses on board were no longer at the controls.

This sounds the most plausible to me, too.

I agree with this, too.

The only problem with this story is that the transponder was turned off, then the plane changed course, went off its flight path and flew, intact, to the west, for up to 4 more hours. It's hard to come up with a scenario where all of these things happen without active human involvement.

Copied and pasted from another post on this theory (page 20 of this thread).

"Summary: It’s plausible that a fuselage section near the SATCOM antenna adapter failed, disabling satellite based - GPS, ACARS, and ADS-B/C - communications, and leading to a slow decompression that left all occupants unconscious. If such decompression left the aircraft intact, then the autopilot would have flown the planned route or otherwise maintained its heading/altitude until fuel exhaustion.
A slow decompression (e.g. from a golfball-sized hole) would have gradually impaired and confused the pilots before cabin altitude (pressure) warnings sounded."

[Anonymous]

The altitude and direction/route changed though ^.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am thinking this was just another Payne Stewart type incident.

Something caused sudden decompression in the plane and everyone passed out within a few seconds, followed by death from lack of oxygen and hypothermia a few minutes later.

Modern planes have safety features that would allow this plane to keep going even if all the corpses on board were no longer at the controls.

This sounds the most plausible to me, too.

I agree with this, too.

The only problem with this story is that the transponder was turned off, then the plane changed course, went off its flight path and flew, intact, to the west, for up to 4 more hours. It's hard to come up with a scenario where all of these things happen without active human involvement.

Copied and pasted from another post on this theory (page 20 of this thread).

"Summary: It’s plausible that a fuselage section near the SATCOM antenna adapter failed, disabling satellite based - GPS, ACARS, and ADS-B/C - communications, and leading to a slow decompression that left all occupants unconscious. If such decompression left the aircraft intact, then the autopilot would have flown the planned route or otherwise maintained its heading/altitude until fuel exhaustion.
A slow decompression (e.g. from a golfball-sized hole) would have gradually impaired and confused the pilots before cabin altitude (pressure) warnings sounded."

But we now know that the plane was still able to communicate with satellites so this theory no longer works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Policy Committee, Hossein Naghavi, says that the U.S. hijacked Flight 370 in a plot to "sabotage the relationship between Iran and China and South East Asia".

Which does tend to raise suspicions about Iran's involvement. After all, there were Iranians aboard the plane who were using stolen passports. That said, given how ridiculous this accusation is, it probably doesn't suggest anything meaningful about Iran's role in this disappearance. It's probably just a kneejerk, defensive reaction to the understandable suspicions about Iran in response to the much-publicized passport issue.

Very typical. When I lived for a while in Turkey, the high incidence of flu was attributed to the U.S. No logical explanation, and certainly no factual connection, just the need to blame someone, and the U.S. is who's usually blamed for just about everything.

I don't know why I find this anecdote so terribly entertaining, but I do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My boyfriend seems to think that terrorists have stolen and hidden the plane from satellite (under tent cover or something) and will try and use it like 9/11 style.

But where could they have landed something that large undetected? And furthermore, how will they refuel such a large aircraft in this hidden place?

And how would you explain the cell phones just ringing and then going dead? I mean if the people were still alive, someone would have found a way to call out, right?

I'm the original quoted PP here - I never said I agreed with my boyfriend

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Policy Committee, Hossein Naghavi, says that the U.S. hijacked Flight 370 in a plot to "sabotage the relationship between Iran and China and South East Asia".

Which does tend to raise suspicions about Iran's involvement. After all, there were Iranians aboard the plane who were using stolen passports. That said, given how ridiculous this accusation is, it probably doesn't suggest anything meaningful about Iran's role in this disappearance. It's probably just a kneejerk, defensive reaction to the understandable suspicions about Iran in response to the much-publicized passport issue.

Very typical. When I lived for a while in Turkey, the high incidence of flu was attributed to the U.S. No logical explanation, and certainly no factual connection, just the need to blame someone, and the U.S. is who's usually blamed for just about everything.

I don't know why I find this anecdote so terribly entertaining, but I do.

People in the middle east (especially Iran) are generally REALLY big into believing any conspiracy theory that puts the U.S. or Israel into a bad light, or blames an ill on them.

Seriously, have you ever read the comments on news articles over at Press.tv.ir ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am thinking this was just another Payne Stewart type incident.

Something caused sudden decompression in the plane and everyone passed out within a few seconds, followed by death from lack of oxygen and hypothermia a few minutes later.

Modern planes have safety features that would allow this plane to keep going even if all the corpses on board were no longer at the controls.

So who turned the transponder off? And why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am thinking this was just another Payne Stewart type incident.

Something caused sudden decompression in the plane and everyone passed out within a few seconds, followed by death from lack of oxygen and hypothermia a few minutes later.

Modern planes have safety features that would allow this plane to keep going even if all the corpses on board were no longer at the controls.

+1 My guess is this happened. This would explain why the plane flew on for four hours, although I'm not sure if it explains why contact was cut off -- does the pilot have to maintain contact from the plane, or does that happen automatically? Would the pilot have had to turn the transponders (whatever those are) off manually in order for the plane to lose contact? Would decompression have caused contact to be cut off?

It's also possible that a bomb caused decompression in the plane, followed by the scenario outlined above.

I doubt very much all those passengers are alive and well and being held hostage somewhere! It's a hopeful thought, but not a very likely one.

Why did it turn left over the ocean?

[Anonymous]

Hijackers collected all the phones, forced the pilots to turn around, head towards someplace like Pakistan, but plan ran out of fuel and ditched into the ocean.

This explains the fact that it turned around and the transponder being turned off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hijackers collected all the phones, forced the pilots to turn around, head towards someplace like Pakistan, but plan ran out of fuel and ditched into the ocean.

This explains the fact that it turned around and the transponder being turned off.

What evidence is this based on?

People are really just making wild crap up out of their imagination.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hijackers collected all the phones, forced the pilots to turn around, head towards someplace like Pakistan, but plan ran out of fuel and ditched into the ocean.

This explains the fact that it turned around and the transponder being turned off.

+1 I feel sorry for the passengers.

[Anonymous]

Goddamnit. I'm so frustrated. Can we find the plane already?