They have the decency to say that they have already urged the fisherman to look out for debris and evidence… that’s just to show how much effort they are putting into this.
I’m still going with the idea that the plane never deviated off the flight path and it’s just a matter of time before they find it in the ocean.
Nana: As our resident expert on Asian culture, is it like Malayasians to be such disorganized folk? Perhaps this just requires greater cultural understanding.
nani would never date a malayasian…
So the current theory in the media is that at least pilots were in on it (or possibly were subdued quickly enough that whoever took over disabled plane communications seamlessly).
I’m wondering if they’ll ever locate the plane. If in fact it landed somewhere, it is difficult to imagine that the perpetrators could hide a 777 from a satellite. Even if they could have landed somewhere and hid it in a hangar, there would also have to be a private airfield with a long enough runway to handle the plane. Those airfields, if they exist, are easily identified.
To me, the airplane must have crashed in the water somewhere. I cannot imagine any other scenario.
Malaysia’s prime minister said today that the plane’s communications systems were deliberately disabled and it was then diverted.
pretty scary stuff, you can search passengers all day long for weapons and bomb making equipment but 5 people can still board an international flight using stolen passports and make it disappear.
…or the pilots.
Still surprised that there is basically no word on the missing plane. I wonder if this is some kind of government cover-up. Or, maybe it could be on Dagobah by now and everyone is having drinks at the Mos Eisley Cantina.
Man if I had some cash to trade on mangosteens right now I would be all over that
If the plane is intact, then it flew over India at some point and India has sophisticated enough radar to have detected it. I’m not buying this hijacking story. It just doesn’t make sense:
(a) If it was stolen, then that’s really bizarre, but there are so few places it could have went. And like I said, India would have picked it up on radar. This is part of the world where unidentified aircraft approaching your borders aren’t exactly trusted openly.
(b) If it was hijacked for crashing purposes, then why not just crash it immediately? Why fly it half way around the world?
^
There are actually 634 runways in total that the aircraft could have used to land based on its last known co-ordinates
Nice read, just found it.
Better than all the conspiracy shit out there
https://plus.google.com/106271056358366282907/posts/GoeVjHJaGBz
This makes too much sense.
Except if the plane was flying west, then it’s just the India/Pakistan airports… and the plane would cross India into Pakistan if it was flying to Pakistan. Remember the border of that circle is range in a straight line from loss of comms. That’s not the last position the aircraft was detected.
Not sure this guy knows what he’s talking about. The Air Canada fire in the 80’s wasn’t a situation where the passengers died because the plane took too long to land. The passengers (23 died, not 30) that died were killed upon attempted evacuation, when opening the doors caused the fire to flash over.
Swiss Air 111 didn’t have a transponder or comms failure at all. The pilots were aware of the fire and reported it to controllers as they made their emergency approach.
Of this 634, how many uncontrolled airfields without any kind of radar but with runways that can land a 777?
It’s much less than the ~600, if you look only at airports to the west of the centre line of the aircraft range. And of that, I’m sure very few are completely abandoned and I’m sure these have already been checked, at least the ones in western friendly countries. I’m sure the US can check these airfields in about 20 minutes with their technology.
I would find it hard to believe a 777 flying low to avoid radar wouldn’t have demanded one eye witness sighting on the ground, if in fact it flew into Pakistan or other points north over some of the most densely populated areas in the world.
Now that the Malaysian has backed away from its claim that the ACARS system was disabled prior to the last verbal communication, we are left with the possibility that the plane had some kind of catastophic electrical failure.
^ Or the possibility that the Malaysians don’t know anything about what happened and that it’s time to turn this over to competent aviation authorities, like the Americans. I think every statement in this investigation so far has needed correction or retraction. What a joke. If it weren’t people’s lives we’re talking about, the incompetence with which this investigation has taken place would be laughable.