Vanished

[red baron]

 

Yeah, how  did it not make its own runway. Maybe it was , heisted by a team of balloonists.

[Skybarney]

Lol,  It is not parked there, the satellite caught a pic as it was flying quite low over the trees.  Probably nothing but the FAA and NTSB has been made aware of the picture.

I feel so badly for the families of those missing.

[the_Journeyman]

For those of you familiar with aviation - How low could you feasibly fly a plane of that size over the water?

JM

[kopfjäger]

For those of you familiar with aviation - How low could you feasibly fly a plane of that size over the water?

JM

All the way till it crashed. 

[kopfjäger]

[Scoober1103]

I'll add to the tin foil hat theory's.......if the engines are transmitting telemetry back for analysis every hour is it a two way street? Can Rolls Royce switch off the engines remotely? Good (but dangerous) feature to have in the event of someone flying a fully fueled jet intended for a terrorist act! Sacrifice the few to save many? Horrible for everyone involved but as a final fail-safe! 

Wouldn't like to be the make the beast with two backser who has that job!

[the_Journeyman]

All the way till it crashed. 

Lol, yea, I was more thinking get it low over the water in a isolated area to try to avoid radar until they were close to land and a quick pull up and over a ridge and down again into remote desert areas.  I realize it's not a fighter jet, but with some practice (flight simulator like one of the pilots had) you could pull it off.  I would have to be pretty unpopulated areas you're low over simply because a 777 flying close to the ground anywhere but near an airport would cause quite the alarm to those on the ground.

[Speeddog]

It's possible to fly it very low, but over the water isn't necessarily 'off the radar'.

There are ships who would likely pick up the radio and start shouting if they saw an airliner cruising along at 50 feet.

Range is drastically reduced in low altitude flight.

[ungeheuer]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/22043105/us-military-base-south-asian-airports-in-mh370-pilot-s-simulator-reports/

[the_Journeyman]

Interesting that one of the airports is US one in Diego Garcia.

I thought this story I posted earlier was far fetched, but it's sounding a bit more plausible now.
http://www.pisau.net/russia-puzzled-over-malaysia-airlines-mh370-capture-by-us-navy-prayformh370/

JM

[ungeheuer]

^^ Far fetched is an understatement IMO.

[Speeddog]

A bit of clear thinking on transponders:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/opinion/out-of-control.html

And it seems the search are is narrowing:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/17/world/asia/search-for-flight-370.html#arc

[Autostrada Pilot]

I was going to blame "Spector".  Gotta love James Bond movies.

[ungeheuer]

I was going to blame "Spector".

Phil?  Can't be.  He's in jail for Death of a Lady's Man.

I'm beginning to think The Mysterons are to blame.  

Its happened before http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Black_%28Captain_Scarlet%29#Captain_Scarlet_and_the_Mysterons

[ungeheuer]

Have we found it?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aviation/objects-may-be-from-missing-malaysia-airlines-jet-tony-abbott/story-e6frg95x-1226860205396