re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

- A plane was dispatched to the area where the Chinese satellite image was located.

- Reports started to funnel in that the Vietnamese had been over that area numerous times in the last few days with no results.

- The Malaysians revealed that they had found no trace of Flight 370 after flying over the area where the Chinese satellite image was taken.

- The Wall Street Journal released an article online with a source claiming that engine data downloaded to Boeing revealed that Flight 370 had continued to fly for an additional 5 hours after it had disappeared.

- The Malaysians held a press conference disputing this information.

- Now no one knows what to do next.

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I'm sorry but I am going to have to go with the Wall Street Journal on this one. I believe a reputable American news publication over the defense minister for the Malaysian government. The WSJ more than likely wouldn't find some cook on the street to get a quote from. I think their source, whoever it is, is legitimate.

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This and the fact that Rolls Royce themselves in the same article, would noether confirm nor deny the WSJ article.

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We continue to monitor the situation and to offer Malaysia Airlines our support," a Rolls-Royce representative said Wednesday, declining further comment.

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As part of its maintenance agreements, Malaysia Airlines transmits its engine data live to Rolls-Royce for analysis. The system compiles data from inside the 777's two Trent 800 engines and transmits snapshots of performance, as well as the altitude and speed of the jet.Those snippets are compiled and transmitted in 30-minute increments, said one person familiar with the system. According to Rolls-Royce's website, the data is processed automatically "so that subtle changes in condition from one flight to another can be detected."

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Something a terrorist or hijacker probably would not have known.

If the plane was hijacked, then it would have taken more than 2 individuals to take over cockpit, confiscate cell phones and control that many people on one plane. Thats a lot of work to do for just 2 or 3 people.

This whole situation is terribly mystifying

Something just doesn't feel right about this entire situation at all. I understand there's a huge amount of factors that can play into no wreckage being found yet. However, there been have numerous reports and then retractions, extremely scarce information in general, no mention of at all of emergency/crash beacons, contradictions between officials by the day, etc. It seems like everyone is playing a game of CYA in this thing.

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would neither confirm nor deny the WSJ article.

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which means it's true

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But it would have to be able to take back off at some point with fuel. That has to be considered unless someone hijacked it to start an aviation museum on an island.

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Without luggage and 240 people, i would think it's possible. Plus they could strip out whatever else they don't need to crash a plane into a building.

How hard is it, really, to obtain jet fuel? I know it's not like you just go to the Shell on the corner, but it's not uranium, guys. Private civilian jet aircraft, business jets, etc all have to have it. Someone dedicated enough to hijack a 777 could also obtain enough fuel to fill it up. I'm sure it's regulated to some extent, but mafia types the world over are able to make off with stuff like this, if that's even necessary. Chances are that in a 3rd work country with lax regs, you could form a dummy company and just buy a tanker truck of it.

At this point I don't think it will ever be found. They are no closer to finding it now than they were when it first disappeared. It is crazy something like that could happen in 2014 but I think that's were we are at.

I get that there is a possibility that it flew for four more hours due to the engine data but wouldn't it have shown up on radar somewhere if that was the case? I just don't buy that.

This will be the new great mystery that the tin foil tribe will spend the next 100 years obsessing over.

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If that was the goal, they would have flew it into a building that night! They would NEVER make it to anywhere of significance now without being shot down.

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It's possible the plane flew undetected for 4 hours and 20 minutes a few days ago. What makes you think that can't happen again?

Eventually it would fly into a radar monitored air space right?

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No real news. Every potential lead gets shot down by the Malaysians. Malaysians are going to hold a news conference later today demonstrating all the efforts they have made and the resources they have devoted to this. I think that is the prelude to them calling off or severely reducing the search. Basically saying we have done all we can and were done. Back to business as usual.

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They will hold a press conference and say "Plane? What Plane. There is no missing plane. Don't know what all the other governments are talking about." And walk away.