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Malaysian Airlines Flight 370

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#1 · (Edited)
So this Boeing 777 with 239 souls aboard disappeared Saturday somewhere over the Gulf of Thailand, between Malaysia and Vietnam while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. What do you think happened to the aircraft?

Hijacking resulting in a crash?

Hijacking resulting in the plane landing in an undisclosed location?

Mechanical failure resulting in a crash?

Pilot error/suicide resulting in a crash?
 
#5 ·
Just weird that they have not been able to locate any debris. Had it been blown out of the air (bomb or otherwise) that certainly wouldn't be the case. One scenario I heard was a "Miracle on the Hudson" type landing after a mechanical failure forced the pilots to put it down on water and it sank. But in that situation there would have been ample time to let folks on the ground know what was going on and some passengers and/or crew should have been able to escape the fuselage.
 
#9 ·
Word is the flight had the whole engineering team of some revolutionary electric vehicle company on board. Take that for what you want

Also read something about the cell phones of the passengers still ringing when called...hmmmmm.

Either way, one of my best friends was supposed to be on that flight but he and his wife missed it and had to stay over. Lucky for them.
 
#10 ·
INTERPOL is now saying that the disappearance is most likely NOT related to terrorism. I suppose the two Iranian men aboard on stolen passports were not linked to any terror organization.
 
#14 ·
Word is the flight had the whole engineering team of some revolutionary electric vehicle company on board. Take that for what you want

Also read something about the cell phones of the passengers still ringing when called...hmmmmm.

Either way, one of my best friends was supposed to be on that flight but he and his wife missed it and had to stay over. Lucky for them.
Just FYI, not all phone ringing is actually the end phone ringing these days. It's just to make the caller feel better. Long story about how call setup and tear-down happens that I'll spare you the details of.
Glad your friend wasn't on the flight.
 
#15 · (Edited)
If this had been a terror attack, I'd think someone would have taken responsibility. It's also probably worth noting that southeast asia is a BIG place. Not only that, but not all the counties there have as advanced an infrastructure as we do. (Remember, after all that the last radar to 'see' it was apparently in Kuala Lumpur yet the plane headed over the east coast of Vietnam, you'd think they'd have had it on the radar too, right...)

Anyway, it's just too early to know. And it's too early to rule out pilot error, which can and does still happen on occasion.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...ow-can-we-track-a-smartphone-anywhere-on-earth-but-a-giant-plane-can-go-missing
 
#16 ·
Yeah, apparently some smallish group out of China claimed responsibility for it but they were basically ignored. Pilot error is certainly a possibility and the announced cause of the 2009 Air France A330 Rio to Paris crash over the Atlantic.
 
#17 ·
sucks that they didn't have live telemetry on that 777, apparently its not 'required' everywhere at this point. It is hard to fathom that an airplane that high in the air didn't have time to make a call for help if something was going wrong.
 
#18 ·
On nbc news last night they said it had 7 hours of fuel and could have had a situation where the crew and passengers lost cabin pressure. If so it could have stayed on it's intended course on auto pilot and that is why they have doubled the search zone. They also said if they wrecked in the jungle it could already be covered up by the jungle.


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#19 ·
Some alternative theories:
1. Alien abduction via tractor beam
2. TWA Flight 800 sino-redux

On a more serious note, I feel for those families. It has to be terrible not knowing what's happened to their loved ones for so many days now.
 
#20 ·
Word is the flight had the whole engineering team of some revolutionary electric vehicle company on board. Take that for what you want

Also read something about the cell phones of the passengers still ringing when called...hmmmmm.

Either way, one of my best friends was supposed to be on that flight but he and his wife missed it and had to stay over. Lucky for them.
This is kind of my way of thinking. Someone needed somebody(s) dead, took out the whole plane to get it done. That would be why no one is speaking up.

Now, where were the Clintons when this happened?
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#22 ·
This is what really happened:

Plane was hijacked and the transponder was de-activated so as not to give away the plane's location, altitude, speed and direction. Plane was safely landed either in the jungle somewhere or on a ship at sea (I know...big ship). Every passenger was injected with a highly contagious disease that goes active 10 days after injection. They were then given a neurodrug that wiped all traces of this from their memory. these folks will begin reappearing in the next 3-4 days with no memory of what happened. By then, the disease in their body with become active and the infection will spread. Most efficient terrorist attack ever.

Just think....I though all of that up by myself with no cough syrup.
 
#23 ·
This is what really happened:

Plane was hijacked and the transponder was de-activated so as not to give away the plane's location, altitude, speed and direction. Plane was safely landed either in the jungle somewhere or on a ship at sea (I know...big ship). Every passenger was injected with a highly contagious disease that goes active 10 days after injection. They were then given a neurodrug that wiped all traces of this from their memory. these folks will begin reappearing in the next 3-4 days with no memory of what happened. By then, the disease in their body with become active and the infection will spread. Most efficient terrorist attack ever.
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