Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

[Fat Spanish Waiter]

He died an Hero.

[Antacular]

Well, he certainly wasn't Expendable.

[jaedmc]

I bet he beat the hell out of the hijacker's Big Boss.

 

 

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wait.

[Raziel]

Li, not Lee.

 

And he really was Born to Defend.

[jaedmc]

Li, not Lee.

Yeah. Thanks.

[Reed]

 

Malaysian official says investigators conclude missing jet was hijacked, steered off-course, @AP reports #MH370

[Burgundy LaRue]

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.

[Antacular]

Hijacked + headed to India = Should tell you everything you need to know about what happened.

[Swift]

Insourcing?

[LooseCannon]

Hijacked + headed to India = Should tell you everything you need to know about what happened.

So, you're saying Sikhs?

[Fat Spanish Waiter]

Shere Khan is finally making his big play

[Reed]

Per reports, they're looking into a 35 year-old Uighur man on the plane who had extensive flight simulation experience. He's Muslim.

[Reed]

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.

[Antacular]

 

Hijacked + headed to India = Should tell you everything you need to know about what happened.

So, you're saying Sikhs?

 

 

[Niners Fan in CT]

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?

[Jerry Hattrick]

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.

[Bustronaut]

That would be like 90% of Afghanistan, so it's very possible

[Antacular]

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.

[Niners Fan in CT]

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..

[Antacular]

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.

[Niners Fan in CT]

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..

[Reed]

The real question may be why someone is able to manually switch off the transponder. Doesn't seem like the best idea.

[Antacular]

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.

[Niners Fan in CT]

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.

[Antacular]

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.