thewitt
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I believe the plane went down. There are many easier ways to steal a plane than to take over a fully loaded 777 at 35,000 feet.
When the black box is eventually located, they will discover catastrophic in flight problems. The pilot turned to try to land in Langkawi, succumbed, and the plane flew erratically until it ran out of fuel in the Indian Ocean.
The pilot was not a radical. He was a supporter of the opposition party here and that's all. Yes he was Muslim - this is a Muslim country. He was an aviation junkie and taught simulator classes. He likely had hundreds of airports on his simulator, though the press highlighted only 5 in the Indian Ocean.
The co pilot would have been talking to ATC, not the pilot. He would have also been informal and chatty, having had hundreds of pass overs with this same ATC operator leaving Malaysian air space.
The stolen passports mean nothing. It's a big business in this part of the world, and the Iranians traveled on them because they could not get visas traveling as Iranians.
The plane did not fly over Thailand or Burma, so no northern track is an option.
It did not fly low to avoid radar. That was complete speculation.
It did not shadow another plane, at night at 500mph, to hide it's radar signature. Again, total speculation. Made for TV movie stuff.
Hopefully they will find something, but the average depth in the Indian Ocean is 13,000 feet. It's not going to pop right out on a satellite photo. It may in fact never be found.
The media loves conspiracy theories.
Occam's Razor tells us the more assumptions and speculation you must provide the farther from the truth you are.... The simplest answer is most often the correct one.
When the black box is eventually located, they will discover catastrophic in flight problems. The pilot turned to try to land in Langkawi, succumbed, and the plane flew erratically until it ran out of fuel in the Indian Ocean.
The pilot was not a radical. He was a supporter of the opposition party here and that's all. Yes he was Muslim - this is a Muslim country. He was an aviation junkie and taught simulator classes. He likely had hundreds of airports on his simulator, though the press highlighted only 5 in the Indian Ocean.
The co pilot would have been talking to ATC, not the pilot. He would have also been informal and chatty, having had hundreds of pass overs with this same ATC operator leaving Malaysian air space.
The stolen passports mean nothing. It's a big business in this part of the world, and the Iranians traveled on them because they could not get visas traveling as Iranians.
The plane did not fly over Thailand or Burma, so no northern track is an option.
It did not fly low to avoid radar. That was complete speculation.
It did not shadow another plane, at night at 500mph, to hide it's radar signature. Again, total speculation. Made for TV movie stuff.
Hopefully they will find something, but the average depth in the Indian Ocean is 13,000 feet. It's not going to pop right out on a satellite photo. It may in fact never be found.
The media loves conspiracy theories.
Occam's Razor tells us the more assumptions and speculation you must provide the farther from the truth you are.... The simplest answer is most often the correct one.
