777 down

[Gogar]

Originally Posted by daepp

Why would a terrorist need such a large plane - such a high profile plane - when they could get any private jet to do the job without all the attention?

For terrorism, the talk about the event is as important as the event itself.

[onewhippedpuppy]

As always, The Onion is on the case.

Malaysia Airlines Expands Investigation To Include General Scope Of Space, Time | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

[mreid]

Here's some interesting reading:

Six Important Facts You

[lowyder993s]

Originally Posted by mreid

Here's some interesting reading:

Six Important Facts You

And I'll raise you...

Keith Ledgerwood

[porwolf]

Originally Posted by mreid

Here's some interesting reading:

Six Important Facts You

A couple of things should be added: The Air France 447 plane itself was only located about two years after it crashed into the Atlantic. And the black boxes pings never reached ships trying to locate them. They were never close enough to the crash site.

[enzo1]

[cashflyer]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Malaysia Airlines Expands Investigation To Include General Scope Of Space, Time

Although I had considered the possibility that the Iranians want to nuke Israel and maintain plausible deniability, I had not considered the possibility that the jet had entered a rogue singularity. Now I'm really worried....

[cockerpunk]

Originally Posted by enzo1

interesting info-graphic

[cashflyer]

In line with The Onion's report....
I ran across one website that claims this is a viral marketing effort that went too far.
Another claiming that this is a stunt to get a "Lost" sequel going.


Apparently the plane has been found now.

[M.D. Holloway]

People normally do things for money, sex or God...if this turns out to be something more than an accident it will be traced back to money, sex or God...

[onewhippedpuppy]

Airplane on the moon looks more like a 747, are we missing one of those too?

[red-beard]

B52

[red-beard]

[red-beard]

Or maybe

[Head416]

I'll be on a 777 to Hong Kong in a couple weeks... sure hope this wasn't a practice run! I'll admit, I did consider booking a flight that used a different plane.

[aap1966]

Originally Posted by lowyder993s

And I'll raise you...

Keith Ledgerwood

Actually, there is a precedent (sort of...)

When the Israeli's were infiltrating Ugandan airspace for the Entebbe raid, the IDF Hercules shadowed a scheduled commercial flight to avoid detection by Ugandan radar

[Racerbvd]

[Chuck Moreland]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Which could also explain the ringing cell phone reports. Though that would require that the airplane would be somewhere with cell service, which means somewhere near civilization. I can't imagine that he managed to land a 777 somewhere near civilization without being noticed.

If the cell phones had registered with a cell site, then the location would be known - At least down to the cell level.

[stuartj]

One thing that's not open to wild speculation in all this.....Malaysia's agencies have not covered themselves in glory.

[jyl]

A different theory. Fire, possibly electrical; attempted diversion to a different airfield to west; comm systems rapidly fail due to fire or are shut down during suppression efforts; pilots soon succumb to smoke; passengers too; plane continues on westerly course until fuel expended.

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13cv1gohsmbv5jmy221vrfyiz3vdhbop04

My immediate impression is that this person (ex-pilot) is trying to find a scenario in which the pilots were innocent. It doesn't explain no cellphone calls or some reported course information. The hypothesized fire is required to extinguish itself?