re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

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A 777 could easily fly on one engine.

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And I'm not doubting that - I'm just wargaming. If anything "within" the ordinary happened - bird strike, lightning strike, single engine failure - the redundant systems allow the crew to respond and report.

So, short of one of them powering the entire plane down - what happened had to be "extraordinary" - don't you agree? Bird strikes the cockpit, disabling both crewmembers? Possible, but crazy unlikely at cruising altitude.

Meteorite? Big sky, little bullet suggests no - but the force of that could explain it. Nobody reported seeing a giant flaming airplane fall out of the sky - which brings a lot of these into question. Even the hijacking (which I say is most likely - assuming the Malaysian military tracking is correct) would seem strange, as they are normally on the box, quickly, telling the people on the ground their demands, their flight plan, their intent to kill passengers - etc.

So, a hijacking gone awry - again - Occam's Razor - but that doesn't explain why we have no reports, no sightings of the plane in distress and, as of yet, no debris. The oil slicks were promising, but now they've walked back from those as unrelated.

It is somewhat difficult to hide a 777 and 222 people - if the plane were still intact and everyone still alive.