Malaysian Flight 370...

I don't buy that motive. He's going to presumably kill or take hostage 250 or so people over that? Getting upset over politics would describe half the airline pilots flying everyday. This guy sounded like a professional.
 
Spur of the moment decision doesn't sound right either. He would have had to murder the 1st officer, murder all the passengers or crew (presumably by decompressurization...but we'll come to that later) or take all the passenger's and crew's cell phones. (While passengers wouldn't be able to send messages while over the ocean at 30k+ feet...as soon as they were over land and at some low enough altitude, they would be txting/calling for help. But that never happened.) Doesn't sound like a one man job planned over a few hours.

It's possible the in-cabin crew and passengers at night had no idea they were off course.

RE: Depressurization, I don't know of any way that pilots can manually depressurize the cabin at altitude. And if it did, I would think the ACARS would have reported that.
 
So, does anyone have any intelligent suggestions about who might have conspired to steal this plane other than terrorists?

I am having trouble coming up with any viable alternatives.
 
I have believed from the start it was terrorists, but the only other scenario I can think of is someone who kidnapped the plane and wants to sell it to terrorists. Those 777's are worth a ton just as a plane, and the amount would go up more if you had a scenario where N. Korea, AQ, etc. wanted to buy it.

But I still think terrorists.
 
N. Korea has multi engine passenger jets already, and I don't know why N. Korea would ever have a use for it.

AQ doesn't really need a 777 of its own. Hijacking for the terror aspect and weaponizing for a psychological attack a la 9-11...sure. But if they just wanted a platform for a flying bomb, it would be a lot easier to just get a used Gulfstream...they could buy a few of them. Heck people could just donate one to them.
 
Why isn't anybody talking about doing a more thorough investigation of the 2 Iranians with STOLEN PASSPORTS (yes, I'm yelling!) on the darn plane?!!
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Intel is evidently pointing at the pilot. A congressman was on TV saying that the briefing that he was given makes him the most likely person. Im sure they have been looking into the two Iranians.
 
RE: Depressurization, I don't know of any way that pilots can manually depressurize the cabin at altitude. And if it did, I would think the ACARS would have reported that.

You could manually raise the cabin altitude, but at 10k feet the warning horn goes off and at 14k the O2 masks drop. I suppose you could pull the circuit breakers to override. Cockpit crew goes on O2 and the rest of the plane passes out.
 
I saw this over on Orangebloods. A former pilot gives a simple explanation that actually makes sense. No crazy hijacking theories or Ian Fleming scenarios. Occam's Razor.

The Link
 
It does make sense. People like a good conspiracy story though (and hell on this one there might be a conspiracy).
 
Clean's link is the first theory that seems in any way plausible to explain this mystery.
I was leaning toward the pilot somehow going loco and hijacking the plane, but since it appears pretty sure the plane flew 8 hours until it ran out of fuel and crashed in the ocean, that theory has a lot of holes. Why would he do it, and why wouldn't the other airline personnel and/or the passengers do something to thwart the plan?
The electrical fire scenario is much more logical. Everyone was dead, and the plane continued to fly until it ran out of fuel and crashed.
We may never know what really happened, though.
 
I read an article today that is no longer on CNN that claims the plane changed course THEN the pilot gave the good night (all clear). If there was a malfuntion or terrorism, why change course? If true, this would lead me to believe that the pilot took the plane somewhere, probably to one of the stans.
 
what I know and did not read anywhere: it is gone, they are all dead and it will be a while before it is determined what happened.

When it is determined it will probably be wrong in many particulars and maybe even in the conclusions.

When they make a determination about what happened based on some evidence I will read a two page article about it and then forget about it.

Until then, all this hype is just a bunch of human monkeys jumping around excitedly after finding a flashlight on the jungle floor.
 
So, they release contradictory information for two weeks and now they haven't even confirmed that it's the plane's wreckage, but they are holding a press conference stating that all lives are lost?

Something sure smells fishy and it isn't just the Indian Ocean.
 
I agree with huisache. I do like those flashlights that don't have traditional batteries, but instead require shaking for power, though.
 
I liked the Australian gov's comment; "It's not like looking for a needle in a haystack because we don't know where the haystack is yet."
 
One thing that has really struck me during this ordeal is the prolonged exploitation of the victims families. Photos and videos in the media of grieving parents, siblings and children have been pretty much a daily thing for over two weeks.

Of course typically a disaster strikes and the attentions dies down in a few days and for the most part the media moves on. The circumstances of this incident however, have kept this a sort of living death for these people and my heart goes out to them.

The media is only partly responsible, because they only attempt to produce what they believe most people want in order to improve ratings.

It's the thing that people fear most, yet are apprehensively drawn to - a glimpse of our own mortality. Like slowing down and rubbernecking as they pass a horrible car accident. The realization that for some it's not just another person's tragedy.
 
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