Malaysia Flight 370 missing

[Chardon]

Malaysia Airliner Communications Shut Down Separately
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=22894802&sid=76&ts=true
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BREAKING: Engine monitoring data shows missing 777 was airborne for FIVE hours
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579434653903086282
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[The Oi]

I have a friend that used to fly 777s and is currently flying 787s.

Here's what he told me early today when I asked what his thoughts were:

The whole story is very strange. I am amazed that the airline lost the airplane on their computers. The radar services in many of these foreign countries (both civil and military) can be poor and it seems like nobody tracked the primary target (the radar return when an airplane loses its Mode C transponder either because it breaks or gets turned off). I know nothing more than what the news is reporting, but am truly amazed it hasn't been found. A 777 would leave a huge debris field in the ocean or pretty much anywhere it crashes. If not terrorism or foul play of some kind, maybe a catastrophic electrical failure (very rare with all our redundant systems) and a crash into the jungle somewhere where the debris is hidden by the trees? This is so strange and I'd like to think I could be found a lot sooner than this if I went down somewhere. I know our dispatch center has a huge map with all our flights on it in real time.

Then a little bit ago:

I have a new WAG (wild assed gues). An inflight fire that started in the avionics bay and destroyed all the transponders and radios. The fire continues to burn and kills all on board with toxic fumes. The crew (on oxygen) starts to divert, but is overcome by the fire and the airplane continues to fly on autopilot for hours and hours until it runs out of fuel and crashes thousands of miles from where people are looking.

I asked him how long the flight could go based on the amount of fuel it would have had and he said:

Well, however long the leg was to get to Beijing plus probably two hours or so. I think it was still near the beginning of the flight when it disappeared. In other words, really frickin far and maybe they never find it??? Like I said, it's a WAG.

 

[Deezus]

FOUND IT!!!!

http://vietnam.craigslist.org/for/4372477162.html

 

[Chardon]

FOUND IT!!!!

http://vietnam.craigslist.org/for/4372477162.html

Please leave this discussion.

 

[Deezus]

Please leave this discussion.

No.

 

[The Oi]

From a very fucked up human being...that is FUCKED up.



What the fuck is that in the search bar?

 

[Maximus]

What the fuck is that in the search bar?

:chuckles:

 

[Chardon]

This is latest and most accurate flight path of missing MH370 and the reason why the search is now where it is

 

[The Oi]

Link you fruity fuck.

 

[Chardon]

Malaysian official says plane was hijacked

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/wor...t-expanding/1go6A6IeGpudZF6eiC2ISN/story.html

 

[CornerThree]

They've basically been hinting it was hijacked for the past 2-3 days, figures that they would dump the story on Friday night in order to try to control the news cycle on it. There's actually a commercial airline pilot on one of my other forums and he's pretty much agreed with this for several days due to the evidence(transponder turned off,etc.

 

[Chardon]

They've basically been hinting it was hijacked for the past 2-3 days, figures that they would dump the story on Friday night in order to try to control the news cycle on it. There's actually a commercial airline pilot on one of my other forums and he's pretty much agreed with this for several days due to the evidence(transponder turned off,etc.

I'm going to bet the pilots/hijackers killed everyone on board within minutes of going off radar. Sources say they climbed to 45,000 feet which is enough to kill everyone on board. The pilots of the plane probably had pressurized masks.

http://www.boston.com/news/source/2...suggests_planes_radar_deliberately_turne.html

 

[Deezus]

Here's what I don't understand: If the plane were hijacked, what was the motivation behind doing so? Normally, hijackers take control of a plane with a clear goal/motivation in mind... crash it into a building, release a list of demands, etc.

So, with no apparent communication with air traffic control, no list of demands, no clear motive... What were/are they doing?




I'm just pulling this out of my ass here, but as far as I know, there is no precedent for someone stealing a commercial airliner, landing it, then attempting to use it as a weapon in a separate terror attack on a separate date. What I'm getting at is: who's to say that hijackers couldn't steal the plane, switch off its transponders, deliberately avoid radar, land the sucker, refuel, outfit it with a bomb (or just a full tank of fuel), then crash it into the Petronas Towers?

The only question then is what happened/happens to the passengers? They could be deliberately killed in-flight by a flight maneuver, taken hostage after landing, etc.





I know the above scenario is 100% conjecture on my part, but I'm trying to figure out why someone would hijack a plane, then completely disappear. It is a thought I'd never really contemplated before... What if the plane was stolen, refueled, possibly weaponized (loaded with explosives), and re-deployed? Scary stuff. The scenario gets even scarier if a terrorist organization ever gets their hands on a nuclear weapon.

 

[BlueSeats626]

I also don't get that if somebody hijacked the plane with the intent of a suicide, why would they bother to disable ACARS, the transponder etc. Are you really going to care if they recover the wreckage if you're dead?

 

[Nicky]

My thought is:

Could the pilot of the plane just have had a mental break/depression? What if it wasn't hijacked and it was just the pilot deciding that he was going to go on some sort of suicide mission.