
Is your brain only programmed to pay attention to the past 13 years? Your historical ignorance is really sad. Short attention span, eh? |
Can we please not have this thread devolve into speculation about where terrorists come from? I think the last airline hijacking attempt occurred during Sochi and the hijacker was Ukrainian. |
Uh, the plane DID continue to send pings for hours. Signs do not point to a depressurization case. The changes in direction would indicate that at least one person was conscious and making decisions. |
I was thinking the 60s and 70s. |
Africa would be my guess. |
But it HAS happened on commercial airlines as late as 2005 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522 |
Jeeez. DIFFERENT TYPE of PLANE. |
Umm. The poster did not say it could not happen on a 777. They said it could not happen on a commerical airplane. I was only addressing that. |
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-may-deliberately-flown-west-hijacked They never name the military radar's country. I bet it is India. They have a huge military operation in the Andaman Islands and their radar would have picked it up. |
If it was India and they picked it up on radar, I have no doubt that India would have sent fighters to intercept the jet. |
That's right. India has the capability to scramble jets and check it out. Now the question becomes once the Indians noticed it wasn't a Western airliner did THEY shoot it down because they might have thought it was hijacked? The Indians are smart enough not to shoot down a Delta or United plane but Malaysian Airlines... |
Well, i think (the US anyways) does a lot befor they decide to shoot down a plane. They check to see if folks are in the cockpit, if there is a struggle, they try to signal the pilot, etc. I would like to think they did all that and determined something was wrong before shooting down. Over the ocean though, there is no reason to shoot down if it was just going to run out of fuel. I would really like to think if a gov shot down the plane that they would eventually admit it. It would be horrible but it has happened throughout history so it is not like it would destroy the government and I doubt malaysia would take india to war. |
I don't think they shot it down. They maybe have watched it for a little bit, it was flying inside the commercial air area. But the US search asset switched to that area a few days ago. Bet they find something over the weekend. It takes time for the boats to get there. |
Lots have been published about why that theory isn't a good one, so just google it for yourself. |
They will take the pings of the automatic systems and the radar return and narrow down the search area. It just takes time for the ships to get out there. |