Certainly if someone has 200+ hostages and a airplane held in Pakistan it will make for an interesting recovery operation. :(
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Certainly if someone has 200+ hostages and a airplane held in Pakistan it will make for an interesting recovery operation. :(
Myth then and still wishful thinking now.Quote:
Originally Posted by juddy
No demands have been made so I doubt it is a hostage situation; and no organization has claimed responsibility. Unless the plane has crashed it would appear to be theft the plane, cargo or passengers' intellect. If it is theft of the plane, one shudders to think why, it's not like a 777 is easily rebirthed. Cargo...what would be worth the complex exercise? It would have to be an inside job. Did any of the Freescale Semiconductor employees have enough information or ability to make such an event viable? Were any of the other passengers politically significant?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yorkie
Could it be a new Series of LOST......;)
Evidence of controlled interference mounts.
Official says 'MH370 hijacking confirmed'
As I type, Malaysian officials have conceded that the flight has been hijacked.
It might turn up on Fleabay.........
Seriously though,the friends and family of the crew and passengers must be doing it incredibly tough not knowing what is going on:(
This from the BBC, Bob
Jet's Movements Indicate 'Deliberate Action,' Search Areas Refocused - NBC News
Malaysian authorities are now admitting the jet hung a left and skillfully avoided civilian radar. Had the pilot who changed course, be he an MA employee or otherwise, wanted to crash the plane he could have done so over the the China Sea. As the plane was dexterously navigated to avoid detection, one could reasonably assume that the pilot was intending to make a safe landing. Where in the range of the fuel load could it land without raising the ire of officialdom, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran?
If it has landed in Iran, there will be two slightly peed off passengers travelling on stolen passports. :D
Apparently India has very good radar air defence but it didn't pick up the plane. Thailand would also have good radar. If it had enough fuel to reach Beijing it would have had enough to fly over Burma, which wouldn't have much radar, but its a long way from there across Bangladesh or western China to Afghanistan. However, a story I read said the 777 had a range of 14,000km, but they didn't know how much fuel was actually on board. To give a comparison, Brisbane to Bangkok is about 6000km, I think, so from KL if fully fuelled it could have flown more than twice that distance.
If it was fully fuelled it could have gone 14,000km, so if it went over Burma and disappeared, who knows where it went? Afghanistan becomes possible. Another possibility is that, because most of the passengers were Chinese, it could have been related to the Uighur (sp.) rebellion, which has seen several bomb attacks in China recently. Maybe the hijackers were suiciders and just flew it until it crashed to hit back at the Chinese authorities.
At this point, it seems there are many possibilities.
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The hijack theory was always the Elephant In The Room, but I'm not surprised that the Malaysian authorities took so long.
Truth is always the first casualty, initially ignored, hidden, then 'economically' released in sanitised dribbles to spice up the speculation. Add business, political and, dare I say it, cultural imperitives and the recipe gets both interesting and predictable.
Watch this space for more ingredients!
-What the heck, I like a good guess too.... Mine is human intervention, pilots either co-erced or the villains. I'd say this is a new hijacking method being trialled. Flying low would take it off (simple) land-based radar, though with greatly reduced range. Would suggest estimating max fuel load, calculate useage at sea level...and take the radius from last position. Search this circle.
But Occam's Razor would go for the (proven) unreliability of the engines and computer systems, like the Qantas one... - Major collateral damage from disintergrating disc, a relatively small but incorrect 'management' decision early in the disaster-coping could cascade and turn the pilots into passengers.