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the_Journeyman

#75
March 16, 2014, 07:10:55 AM
Quote from: Speedbag on March 14, 2014, 07:03:53 AM
My tinfoil hat says it's on the ground somewhere being prepared for nefarious activity....  :-\

I have thought this from the beginning.  That aircraft was stolen with and is sitting in a hangar somewhere nobody would think it would have flown.  They said "too much air traffic" for it to basically fly blind over India and area, but it was a red eye.  Less traffic to worry about.  seems very calculated to me.   

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ducpainter

#76
March 16, 2014, 09:20:59 AM
Someone emailed this to me...not trying to offend anyone.

http://vietnam.craigslist.org/for/4372477162.html
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kopfjäger

#77
March 16, 2014, 09:37:27 AM
 :D
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Speedbag

#78
March 16, 2014, 11:13:56 AM
 [clap]
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Monsterlover

#79
March 16, 2014, 11:30:01 AM
[laugh]

I knew that was only a matter of time
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ducpainter

#80
March 16, 2014, 02:08:12 PM
Did anyone get a screen shot?

It's down now.
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


kopfjäger

#81
March 16, 2014, 02:59:58 PM
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ungeheuer

#82
March 17, 2014, 05:08:33 AM Last Edit: March 17, 2014, 05:13:32 AM by ungeheuer
In the ongoing absence of any real facts, I'll take a turn with the tin foil hat.

The Captain of the flight deck did it.

Turned off ACARS.  

Quote from: Timon on March 14, 2014, 02:15:15 AMOdd it happened in the middle of an ATC handoff-if one were to want to steal a plane-that would be the time to do it, along with stopping the transponder.
"Alright, goodnight".  Left Malaysian ATC, never picked up with Vietnamese ATC.....

Turned off transponder.

Did his U-turn, and headed off to North West through Malacca Strait....

And then?  

All we have is the satellite pings which tell us he either continued heading north/west over land towards Kazakhstan...

Or... banked sharply south west to head for a suicide run into the Southern Ocean.  But why that?  Why set out on a long flight to oblivion, waiting for the fuel to run out to plunge to your watery demise?  If it was pilot suicide, why not just take a nose dive into the waters between Malaysia and Vietnam right at the first opportunity?

So my tin foil hat thinks he flew north.  Over all that militarized country.  Low, under the perhaps too casually observed radar.  A flight he'd practiced many times... on that elaborate home flight simulator.  

An extremely well planned operation by a capable professional.

The destination?  Who knows.  Afghanistan?  Where ever it might be, a well prepared ground crew would be required, ready and waiting.

Why?  make the beast with two backs knows ???  

And why too during all this was there not a peep from anybody aboard?  Not a single phone call or text message?  Beats me.

Weird's the word  :-\
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Speedbag

#83
March 17, 2014, 05:12:48 AM
Yes. ^^^

Flight crew snuffed the passengers via mild depressurization, and off they went.

Hmm, an attack on Israel, perhaps? Dump the bodies, reload plane with explosives, a nuke, or dirty bomb and have at it. The possibilities make me shudder.

:-\
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the_Journeyman

#84
March 17, 2014, 07:02:32 AM
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Quote from: r_ciao on January 28, 2011, 10:30:29 AM
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10. Bad decisions make good stories.

Speeddog

#85
March 17, 2014, 07:24:48 AM
Flying ~north.....

What route to go with a large unidentified aircraft?

Fly at 10k feet on the India side of the Himalayas?
High enough to avoid being identified from the ground, but low enough to avoid China's radar?
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red baron

#86
March 17, 2014, 07:56:54 AM
10k feet near the mtns would be one bumpy ass ride. :o
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Speeddog

#87
March 17, 2014, 08:59:01 AM
Quote from: red baron on March 17, 2014, 07:56:54 AM
10k feet near the mtns would be one bumpy ass ride. :o

[laugh] Indeed!

I was thinking just a wee bit south, but still in Nepalese airspace.

But I cannot imagine running a big jet through there without showing up on India's radar.
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Grampa

#88
March 17, 2014, 12:02:33 PM
I'd look into who just bought a bunch of airplane paint.

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Skybarney

#89
March 17, 2014, 12:52:17 PM
Someone on another site found this, very interesting!

Hello Everyone,
Not sure if this exact sighting has been posted but...this was just too weird not to share. I was trolling around on reddit.com and also doing some Tomnod.com spotting of my own when I came across this...

Tomnod Map #655896

For those of you who don't have an account there, I've included a screenshot, because this is just too hard to believe without seeing:


Now, according to their data, that picture was taken at 3/12/14 4:49 AM..time zone not given, but I'm assuming local to me, which is EST. I was able to cross reference tomnod.com to come up with the actual Lat/Long, which came to:

Lat: 11.577303 Long: 92.680922

I've attempted to pull the picture off of GoogleMaps, but was only greeted with cloud cover over the exact location. Given that Lat/Long, it translates to this area:

Nayashahar RV, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India 744105

Which is located on the southern end of Smith Island, between the Bay of Bengal of the Andaman Sea, India.

I hope some of you have an idea of WTF a plane of that size could be doing there...

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