Thread: Air Malaysia missing.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

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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Without poo-pooing that theory, if it were the case there would be no need for a highly skilled pilot to to take the flight off course, undetected; just crash it into the China Sea once control had been gained.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Maybe, instead of turning north, they foxed everyone by heading south, slipped over Indo and landed inland from Broome, where they're currently parked and sitting under a few trees, emptying the onboard bar and kitchen while laughing about how they fooled everyone, and writing their applications for refugee asylum. After all, half our asylum seekers already come by plane, although not all together on one plane. Silly I know, but who would know at the moment? Ha!

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From my experience inland from Broome, there is nowhere that I would expect any survivors from a 777 putting down. And there is not much in the way of trees either. (This experience includes a return flight from Melbourne via Uluru to a strip in the Edgar Range as PIC in a Beech A36)

John