The plane was shot down by the Chinese government. At the time the crash happened, the Uighur activists were actively doing things in parts of China, and there were a number of Uighur activists on board the plane. IDK if they planned to hijack the plane, but they were known for conducting machete attacks. The Chinese government was actively trying to cover up the Uighur massacres they themselves were conducting, as well as the Uighur resistance. The Chinese government shot down the plane because Uighir activists tried to hijack it and the Chinese government would rather shoot down a plane than have that sort of publicity. |
The Chinese government shooting it down also explains why it's never really been found. |
If it were shot down there wouldn’t be satellite pings. |
Who specifically is “they”? |
Hmmm. This is a anew theory. They could convince (coerce) Malyasia to alter the pilot's simulator data, which would explain why the US would be reluctant to release it. That wouldn't explain Inmarsat's data. Not that I believe the data, at all, but what reason would they have to release it? Shooting down, from anyone, also explains the lack of cell phone messages. |
The theories are all too unlikely and unrepeated to be valid. All the other scenarios are the kind that lend themselves to a repeat action - being shot down, suicide, etc. If any of these were true , it would have happened before.
The most likely thing that happened is there was a known issue with the plane that they knew could cause an amazingly catastrophic incident but since it had not yet happened and they thought it was too rare to happen and it was too much trouble, they just didn't fix it or correct it. And that probably was true for many years. And then the worst happened, they realized that no one could ever find out or would know about the issue or could silence anyone who did, and that was that. |
+1. Wanting to be part of a dramatic story that would live on. Maybe he took off the mask. What would happen once fuel ran out? Drift down or spiral? |
There is no way that it was shot down in the Gulf of Thailand/South China Sea area. There would be debris everywhere and that's exactly where they were first searching. I don't understand the idea that the plane went into a pilot-induced dive at the end. Where did that come from? It seems much more likely to me that the pilot set the heading and took off his mask to end it, and then the plane flew Payne Stewart-style the rest of the way. It crashed into a deep ocean where nobody could realistically find it. |
Ok don’t have time to read all the replies but my DC is obsessed with this - some of the theories sound cray cray/ Q Anon landesque to me.
what are the most realistic explanations for this plane disappearing? The other Air Malaysia flight disaster was most likely shot down by the Russians right? M Tx for crash course in plausible explanations |
Man, I remember that time SO CLEARLY because CNN just completely jumped the shark and I had to break up with them, lol. They had models of the plane, they had a to-scale cockpit, they had pilots on every hour. It was like, "Why report on human rights in Myanmar or the civil war in Syria when we could keep repeating the same non-information over and over again?" |
This isn't what the Netflix doc says. It is neither the exact scenario in terms of route nor was it a continuous flight that was simulated. The doc explains why it wasn't identical. I don't know what happened and don't have a favored theory but the simulator data doesn't seem to be at all relevant. Rather it seems like those who favor "the pilot did it" theory have manipulated the interpretation of the simulator data to be helpful to that narrative but it doesn't really fit. |
If the plane was shot down by anyone it would have been picked up on radar. |
Why not? |
+1 And there wouldn't be the satellite pings. |
One of the few sane people posting on this thread. |