Missing 777

[jmurray01]

Read today where the pilots wife and kids moved out the day before "the" flight.

Moved out as in moved away from the area in which they were living? That is interesting. Suppose the pilot was part of the plot and he was in an agreement to fly the plane somewhere then leave it, fleeing with his family and some money perhaps?

I am just throwing ideas around, pure speculation, but who knows - could be true.

I will be keeping my eyes peeled on the news, that's for sure.

 

[farmgirl19]

Maybe pilot was distraught because wife moved out and left him the day before?

 

[EddieWalker]

Israel is claiming that Iran is behind this and that they have increased air security and the range they are requiring aircraft to identify themselves coming into their airspace.

Australia is claiming that the plane was flying at 5,000 feet to avoid radar detection. Which brings me back to why nobody noticed it. Who thinks twice about a plane flying overhead almost a mile up in the sky? Especially when it's very early in the morning and dark outside?

The longer nobody finds anything in the ocean, the more likely it becomes that the plane landed somewhere.

Eddie

 

[Soundguy]

i agree. why go silent and then fly 4-6 hours before crashing?

Anything is possible, but why go through the trouble of turning everything off that records what's happening and that tracks their location if you are going to crash it into the ocean?

Here is a map of runways big enough to land the 777

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I never thought about the possibility that the goal was to steal something being carried on the plane. Wonder if that's the real reason the Chinese are so upset?

Eddie

 

[JRobyn]

Has anyone checked to see if any of the postulated flight paths intersect with any known pallet formations?

(Sorry)

- Jay

 

[k0ua]

Has anyone checked to see if any of the postulated flight paths intersect with any known pallet formations?

(Sorry)

- Jay

Bad Dog!.. bad bad dog!

 

[smstonypoint]

Additional speculation about how the missing 777 could have avoided radar detection and landed north of India and Afghanistan: Keith Ledgerwood.

Steve

 

[Egon]

Additional speculation about how the missing 777 could have avoided radar detection and landed north of India and Afghanistan: Keith Ledgerwood.

Steve

that sounds very reasonable. ( not being knowledgable about the systems or flying)

this type of Scenario was used in fiction about forty years ago.

The home flight simulator may have aided in preparing routes through the various mountain regions and their valleys. I was able to watch one such simulation on the flight simulator approach to An airport in Tibet.

Supposedly there are some Chinese technical people aboard??

 

[Soundguy]

anyof them nuke scientists?

 

[Egon]

All I recall is one mention of technicians? True/false : I duknow.

 

[Western]

All I recall is one mention of technicians? True/false : I duknow.

Yeah one is a flight maintenance tech, they just said on the news

 

[Western]

Now they are focusing on the pilot, saying he was a "political fanatic"? I find that hard to believe being the reason. No manifesto, no note and no "statement", so what would be the "fanatical, political" point?? Unless he didn't make his destination and still, there would be no evidence it was more than an accident at that point.??

I have little faith in the Malaysian's in this investigation, the way they have done in this case.

 

[LJH]

Scapegoat, much? Apparently the man had some strong opinions about the local PTB and wasn't afraid to state them. So what? I've got some pretty strong opinions about my own state and federal governments but that does not a fanatic make. We may never know, but I'm thinking he's one of the victims, not one of the perps.

 

[dave1949]

Scapegoat, much? Apparently the man had some strong opinions about the local PTB and wasn't afraid to state them. So what? I've got some pretty strong opinions about my own state and federal governments but that does not a fanatic make. We may never know, but I'm thinking he's one of the victims, not one of the perps.

Hmmm... I don't know. Fanatics are notoriously incapable of recognizing their own fanaticism. :laughing:

 

[LJH]

Well, I'm a machinery fanatic, I'll give you that.

 

[Western]

Hmmm... I don't know. Fanatics are notoriously incapable of recognizing their own fanaticism. :laughing:

Also notorious for making their fanaticism known, like at a monk with a can of gas! It is a good jigsaw puzzle anyhooo.

 

[k0ua]

Additional speculation about how the missing 777 could have avoided radar detection and landed north of India and Afghanistan: Keith Ledgerwood.

Steve

Steve that is right out of a Clancy novel. But it sounds plausible.

 

[joemd11]

Steve that is right out of a Clancy novel. But it sounds plausible.

I'm not saying Mr Ledgerwood's scenario is impossible, but it is highly unlikely. The airways that planes use are like 2-way streets but with separation vertically instead of horizontally. Thats 1000 feet altitude separation. Most all planes are navigating with GPS so they are spot on the airway centerline. One airplane shadowing another would have to stack up or down about 500 feet to avoid the lead planes wake turbulence. Now if these two planes passed any opposite direction traffic the separation would be minimal and the passing pilots would be alerting ATC. These airways are heavily used and someone would see whats going on. I suppose it could happen but don't think so.
What did happen I no clue. Lots of ocean out there and lots of double/triple canopy jungle that would swallow up an aircraft with very little clue.