Chilling story regarding dissapearance of Malaysia flight 370

You wanna give us some insight?

I just read it prior to your posting.
It's a LONG read, but good.
The TLDR is that they believe the senior pilot did all of this on his own after depressurizing the cabin to get all the passengers to pass out and die peacefully.

bookmarked. I'll read TheAtlantic article later.

I'll throw something else out there. What if the plane never came back to ground but instead kept climbing, to the point it left earth's atmosphere? I know that a space shuttle has insane amounts of thrust/force/speed to get off the ground and into space, but could a plane, already traveling at 40,000 feet doing 500+mph pull the nose up and just keep going? What if that plane was so fricking high that it just left the gravitational pull of the earth???!?

Felt like a good 30% of this website believed the plane was sitting on a runway in Pakistan.

I heard about the pilot going up higher than 40,000 ft for a little while, during the week that the plane vanished. It was part of the reporting that went on.

That was part of the concern, at the time, that the plane was taken to be used as a terrorist weapon, and the passengers were killed right away just to get rid of them as witnesses.

Some excerpts. It really is a great article.

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The cabin occupants would have become incapacitated within a couple of minutes, lost consciousness, and gently died without any choking or gasping for air. The scene would have been dimly lit by the emergency lights, with the dead belted into their seats, their faces nestled in the worthless oxygen masks dangling on tubes from the ceiling.

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Which brings us back to the demise of MH370. It is easy to imagine Zaharie toward the end, strapped into an ultra-comfortable seat in the cockpit, inhabiting his cocoon in the glow of familiar instruments, knowing that there could be no return from what he had done, and feeling no need to hurry. He would long since have repressurized the airplane and warmed it to the right degree. There was the hum of the living machine, the beautiful abstractions on the flatscreen displays, the carefully considered backlighting of all the switches and circuit breakers. There was the gentle whoosh of the air rushing by. The cockpit is the deepest, most protective, most private sort of home.

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Either way, somewhere along the seventh arc, after the engines failed from lack of fuel, the airplane entered a vicious spiral dive with descent rates that ultimately may have exceeded 15,000 feet a minute. We know from that descent rate, as well as from Blaine Gibson’s shattered debris, that the airplane disintegrated into confetti when it hit the water.

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Isn't this old news?

It made the rounds late last year.