Fat Spanish Waiter Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 He died an Hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Well, he certainly wasn't Expendable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 I bet he beat the hell out of the hijacker's Big Boss. ... .... wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Li, not Lee. And he really was Born to Defend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Li, not Lee.Yeah. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Malaysian official says investigators conclude missing jet was hijacked, steered off-course, @AP reports #MH370 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Apparently, the plane went as high as 45,000 feet in altitude. That would explain why none of the passengers called for help. Even if they were in range of a cell tower, they were unconscious/possibly dead from the sudden altitude changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Hijacked + headed to India = Should tell you everything you need to know about what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Insourcing? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooseCannon Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Hijacked + headed to India = Should tell you everything you need to know about what happened. So, you're saying Sikhs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Shere Khan is finally making his big play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Per reports, they're looking into a 35 year-old Uighur man on the plane who had extensive flight simulation experience. He's Muslim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 In all seriousness if they are alive and held hostage somewhere (not as remote a possibility as it once was), it's actually really good that a martial arts expert/Hollywood stuntman is amongst the passengers. So every B action movie ever made has taught me anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Hijacked + headed to India = Should tell you everything you need to know about what happened. So, you're saying Sikhs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 I'm looking at these two possible routes. One is deep into the Indian Ocean. The other is deep into land as far up as Afghanistan. If it went over land, wouldn't someone have detected it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Hattrick Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 If it did happen to have landed in Afghanistan, and forgive me since I know very little if anything about Afghanistan. Maybe it landed in an area where very few people live much less navigate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 That would be like 90% of Afghanistan, so it's very possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 No, it's not. Afghanistan is hundreds (thousands?) of miles from the coastline, had it traveled there, it would've been picked up by one type of military radar or another. It's a 777, not some biplane you take to the Carribbean on the weekend. It's sitting somewhere at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Experts are saying radar over most of Central Asia is weak. I don't necessarily believe that the plane landed there but it's not as simple to say that it would have been detected by radar. They seem fairly confident that the plane was in the air seven hours after last contact. Why would someone go through the trouble to mask the plane and then fly it another seven hours if the end game is suicide? That doesn't make sense to me. There was a plot... maybe they failed to achieve the goal, but I believe there was a goal.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 The plane would've had to flown over both India AND Pakistan to reach Afghanistan. Not saying either of those 2 states are exactly NORAD, but neighboring nuclear powers with eachother on the hairtrigger would pick up something as big as a rogue 777. Also, considering the distance traveled before the change in direction, there probably wouldn't have been enough fuel to reach Afghanistan anyway. Some sources are saying maybe it was the pilot(s) own doing. But why intentionally crash the plane in one body of water (South China Sea) versus another (Indian Ocean)? It makes no sense. The only explanation, assuming it didn't run out of fuel while over the Indian Ocean, is that it was hijacked, diverted to India, and then brought down by the crew before it could reach the target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 If it was shot down though, where's the debris? Where are the witnesses? I guess we'll find out something soon enough but in this day and age nine days missing is crazy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 The real question may be why someone is able to manually switch off the transponder. Doesn't seem like the best idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Huh? I never said it was shot down. I said the planes own crew brought it down before the hijackers could reach whatever the intended target was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 I don't believe this was a hijacking. Looks like an inside job to me. I'd say the pilot with the simulator in his home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 But then why would he kill himself over the Indian Ocean when he could just have easily done so over the South China Sea? If anything, by changing course from crashing it in the SCS to the Indian Ocean, it gives the rest of the crew and passengers time to intervene. Doesn't compute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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