Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sure hope the US "intelligence" community knows a lot more than the little that's being reported.

They surely do. Have to admit that the report of an earthquake in the Andaman Islands area has me nervous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

If the plane was hijacked, they had many hours with no one really looking far away from the last transponder signal to plot a course and land the plane. The circle shown by the CNN maps covers many "lawless" states -- and Malaysia is not a super power. So while it might be impossible to land without "anyone" seeing it, if it landed in a remote place under a regime, the few people who saw it/knew about it may know it would be wiser to keep their thoughts to themselves. ie, the military/ criminal locals would take revenge. Then the plane could be stored in a hangar indefinitely. Only 3 days ago, no one wanted to sound like a fool saying that the air plane was not crashed near Malaysia. By next week, when it has still not been found, will people say "that plane is in a hangar far, far away" from Malaysia. Pakistan or Burma?
Terrorists have little concern about collateral damage -- the passengers.

What the fuck? Really? What size of a hangar would you need? There are not many hangars that size in the world. Terrorist did not steal the plane. Just stop. It is more likely an alien could the plane.

Really? No jet plane ever goes into a hangar.... they all live outside. No it won't fit into your cubicle. There is a big world out there. Where do you think the plane goes when it needs to be serviced?

[Anonymous]

If they landed, how could they keep more than 200 people quiet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they landed, how could they keep more than 200 people quiet?

They can't. So if this unlikely scenario were to occur, they'd kill the passengers. The passengers are dead, regardless of what's going on.

[Anonymous]

It's possible it was a hijacking, but even so, the hijackers are now dead, as are all the passengers and crew. We all wish those people were still alive, but after six days, the chances are close to nil. No debris, no crash site, no reports on radar (at least none we're hearing about), a remote area, lots of deep water, no satellite photos = the plane is at the bottom of the ocean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:especially a hijacked plane that's been missing for a WEEK.

why wouldn't this happen? because it's not the 70s and after 9/11 people act differently when faced with hijacking. Instead of "do what they say and we may live," people immediately learned that day to fight back and stop hijackers even at the expense of their own lives.

If the pilots were in on it, passengers wouldn't know what was going until the plane landed.....in Somalia as suggested by an earlier posting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:especially a hijacked plane that's been missing for a WEEK.

why wouldn't this happen? because it's not the 70s and after 9/11 people act differently when faced with hijacking. Instead of "do what they say and we may live," people immediately learned that day to fight back and stop hijackers even at the expense of their own lives.

If the pilots were in on it, passengers wouldn't know what was going until the plane landed.....in Somalia as suggested by an earlier posting.

Lots of people watch that tracking thing on the plane - they would have known. I felt a large jet plane turn around once before the pilot explained why we were going back. No way they could hide that marked turn from the passengers.

[Anonymous]

I just don't want to consider that possibility; it's just too aweful. How could someone do that?

Really I want the Payne Stewart- type scenario to be the leading theory.

Btw is the Indian Ocean very deep?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:especially a hijacked plane that's been missing for a WEEK.

why wouldn't this happen? because it's not the 70s and after 9/11 people act differently when faced with hijacking. Instead of "do what they say and we may live," people immediately learned that day to fight back and stop hijackers even at the expense of their own lives.

If the pilots were in on it, passengers wouldn't know what was going until the plane landed.....in Somalia as suggested by an earlier posting.

Lots of people watch that tracking thing on the plane - they would have known. I felt a large jet plane turn around once before the pilot explained why we were going back. No way they could hide that marked turn from the passengers.

What a silly post.

1) not all planes have this feature
2) if I were hijacking a plane and I had turned off radar, I would damn sure turn off tv monitors
3) it was the middle of the night

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:especially a hijacked plane that's been missing for a WEEK.

why wouldn't this happen? because it's not the 70s and after 9/11 people act differently when faced with hijacking. Instead of "do what they say and we may live," people immediately learned that day to fight back and stop hijackers even at the expense of their own lives.

If the pilots were in on it, passengers wouldn't know what was going until the plane landed.....in Somalia as suggested by an earlier posting.

Lots of people watch that tracking thing on the plane - they would have known. I felt a large jet plane turn around once before the pilot explained why we were going back. No way they could hide that marked turn from the passengers.

Agree....unless that tracking thing was turned off and the plane took very gradual turn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just don't want to consider that possibility; it's just too aweful. How could someone do that?

Really I want the Payne Stewart- type scenario to be the leading theory.

Btw is the Indian Ocean very deep?

33,000 - 37,000 +++

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:especially a hijacked plane that's been missing for a WEEK.

why wouldn't this happen? because it's not the 70s and after 9/11 people act differently when faced with hijacking. Instead of "do what they say and we may live," people immediately learned that day to fight back and stop hijackers even at the expense of their own lives.

If the pilots were in on it, passengers wouldn't know what was going until the plane landed.....in Somalia as suggested by an earlier posting.

I think the passengers were neutralized in a permanent way. Terrorists do not care. It is possible that terrorists wanted to fly the plane into Bangkok, 9-11 style and the pilots somehow put it on auto pilot towards the Indian ocean after a struggle that the pilots did not survive. ie, last thing before the end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just don't want to consider that possibility; it's just too aweful. How could someone do that?

Really I want the Payne Stewart- type scenario to be the leading theory.

Btw is the Indian Ocean very deep?

33,000 - 37,000 +++

No. The average depth of the Indian Ocean is just under 13K feet. The deepest part of the Indian Ocean is only 26K feet, so I am not sure where you got these 33-37K numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean

[Anonymous]

Could the "significant seismic activity" detected in the area on the day 370 went missing, have affected navigation/power/etc on the aircraft?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could the "significant seismic activity" detected in the area on the day 370 went missing, have affected navigation/power/etc on the aircraft?

No idea, but I thought the theory was that the earth quake was actually the plane coming down.