
There is ZERO percent chance that an international flight could enter our airspace undetected. Please, don't stress. |
I don't think it's a question of it being detected. It's a question of whether it could be detected early enough for us to react in a meaningful way. |
I just read thd document. Im surprised at the composure most of the flight crew maintained. I particularly enjoyed reading about captain sullys last words. The captain who landed his plane on the hudson river. All souls aboard survived. |
You have a lot of confidence in our air traffic control system. How many flights come into the US per day? You don't think one could appear to be routine - not sneak in, but just come in with all the others, with false identifying information - and our air traffic control would immediately know that its suspicious? We'd scramble jets in time to intercept and take it down? Over the ocean and not a populated area? I sure hope so but I am not so sanguine about our capabilities. |
Per CNN, "The search now involves 14 countries, 43 ships and 58 aircraft, Najib said." This seems to me a rather paltry response, if you compare it to what you would expect for a terrorist threat in the US. No expense would be spared. There should be much more surveillance of the vast areas involved. |
Well, that's what CNN and other news orgs are being told. We can't know how worried our leaders really are - and they certainly aren't going to invite panic by telling us. |
According to CNN, what happened (let's call it "the incident") started BEFORE the pilot radioed "all right, good night." Him saying that is not unusual at the end of some kind of communication in the middle of the night. But "the incident" seemed to have started BEFORE this statement.
I'm thinking the pilot just lost his marbles, unfortunately. |
A hijacking is not the same as terrorism.
You can attempt to hijack the plane without being a terrorist or having any terrorist-like agenda or organization. |
Could they have brought pretty girls in the cockpit again, and "let them fly" in an attempt to flirt with them, and perhaps all been drunk out of their minds? |
Captain Sully hasn't said his last words. He's alive and well. |
Yes. And there is also the possibility that it was hijacked for a reason. And also a possibility it is at the bottom of the ocean, But as far as worrying or preparing, we need to be on the look out for planes that look like commercial passenger flights but aren't. |
No I know you can not just sneak a commercial jet into the US. Every jet is accounted and watched. Just because you have know idea how the system works does not mean one can fly a jet in to US air space and do what you want. Terrorists do not need to import anything into this country to cause damage. There are very lethal chemicals and other things being transported in the US every day with no security. It takes like 30,0000 gallon of jet fuel to fly that plane where are the terrorist going to get that? |
Are there still idiots on DCUM that can't believe that the plane is hijacked? Even the Malaysian Prime Minister admitted to it. |
Sadly, at this point the "best case scenario" would be the plane crashed into the ocean. Bleak when that's the best outcome.
Every available resource (military satellites) has been deployed to figure this out not out of fear that the plane crashed…but fear that it didn't. As more info comes out, this story gets scarier and scarier. Those worried about terrorism have every reason to be. Based on what we know, the "incident" started before the last-known-contact: someone disconnected the text-style communication system b/f someone said "alright, good night" to Malaysian air traffic. So, whoever told air traffic that things were fine, was lying. The timing of this lie is very significant: it was the "goodbye" to Malaysia and it was before the "hello" to Vietnam air space. Almost directly after that communication, the transponder was turned off (making it impossible to track the plane by normal means). That gave the plane time and opportunity to "hide" b/c Malaysia was done monitoring the plane and Vietnam hadn't started to monitor it. The logical reason to do that is so that you can fly undetected and get that plane to your planned location. The fact that we know if continued to fly for many hours bolsters that theory. At a minimum, ti sounds like a very well-planned thought-out plan. That ought to have the hairs on the back of your head standing up. It does mine. |
"deliberate" isn't the same as hijacking. Someone really skilled needed to fly the plane, given all the maneuverings. All things considered, I think it was one of the pilots. |