re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

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It's plausible

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If us officials think its in the Indian ocean I am going to go with that...I don't really care what Malaysia or the dumbass reporters that can't interpret a press release properly say.

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If us officials think its in the Indian ocean I am going to go with that

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That's a reasonable position. but to laugh at an alternative, plausible theory is pretty ridiculous.

Anything new today?

It's 1am there. Any news typically comes out between 9pm EST and 8am EST. Daytime here is filled with speculation and new theories.

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good tyler cowen post here: LINK

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I read this but don't understand it or who this is. Any insight?

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Or there was no brilliant terrorist plot and the plane simply turned south avoiding all radars and crashed in the ocean.

But but but why haven't we found the plane yet...that is a big fricking ocean

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I'm still in this camp. I feel like as more time passes the media and public are more likely to jump on wilder theories because, in 2014, the world couldn't possibly lose a plane for 10 days unless there was an orchestrated plot. Obviously there was foul play, but I think the plane crashing is more plausible than some of these theories floating around.

The argument "if it was a suicide mission, why fly the plane for hours just to crash it into nothing?" makes some sense, but it's also relying on the assumption that a pilot willing to kill 200+ people is operating under any sort of logical parameters. If you're going to take over a plane and shut off all of its communication, there's no "logical" finish to the mission, because stealing a fricking plane and killing hundreds of people is completely illogical in the first place. We just assume the plane would be plowed into a building or something because it's what we've seen previously, but that plane crashing into the mountains or ocean is just as likely IMO.

ETA: Obviously not an apples to apples comparison, but I think this plays out similar to the accountant that jumped off the roof a couple of years back during exams. No one could find him leaving the building or on the grounds, so people started theorizing all these different ways the guy could have been abducted or murdered. Ultimately, the guy was dead in the bushes right next to building due to jumping. My point is that our society tends to jump on the more intriguing possibilities (i.e. accountant abduction, plane terrorist plot) than the more realistic scenarios (accountant jumped, plane crashed and can't be found)

I hope I live long enough to get the answers to this equation.

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.it would have been PLAUSIBLE to follow the original flight track (not having to evade radar) and THEN diverting off course when needed.

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So fly across China? You do know to enter China they would be talking to ATC.

again you are letting your preconceived opinions get in the way of factual possibilities.

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One pilot killed the other pilot, locked the door, killed himself.
Plane flew until it ran out of fuel and then crashed into ocean/jungle.

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Very plausible. This can be accomplished without much, if any, outside help. Landing a plane anywhere, repainting it, hiding the crew and then using them to execute a terrorist plot at a later time? Not so much.