re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

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i have a friend who still thinks this is all an accident due to equipment failure.

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Yet a country like America with the top technology on the planet is gathering info and NOT EVEN SEARCHING the area where it would have gone down due to catastrophic failures.

If you buy into that theory, then KNOW WAY the same electronic devises keep the plane on a straight course. Wouldn't ALL the electronics fail if it was so bad all communications were cut off and all transponders. How in the F can you think the auto pilot would continue working?

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KNOW WAY

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Close

Imagine that the plane is on a runway somewhere in an inhospitable location.

The country is violent, are not a real ally. Say we, the US knows this. We are uncertain if anyone is alive, but they may be hostages in a nearby hanger.

Do we, the US have an obligation to risk our guys to get it? It might end with the death of US soldiers, and or hostages. It may be booby-trapped. There is no upside to our involvement.

So, who goes to the rescue? Malaysia can't. China doesn't want to get involved in the Middle-East. So, everyone plays see no evil, hear no evil and can't find the plane,

Former pilot put this together:

Former pilot put this together:

https://www.businessinsider.com/malaysia-plane-fire-2014-3

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Over the past 10 days, investigators and observers have come up with ever more elaborate theories for what might have happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

What was originally assumed to have been a tragic midair explosion or mechanical problem soon bloomed into a criminal investigation of a meticulously planned hijacking, commandeering, or otherwise stealing of a fully loaded commercial 777 in midair.

The perpetrator(s) knew the plane so well, one of the latest theories goes, that they climbed through a trap door outside the cockpit to reach circuit breakers necessary to shut down one of the communications systems. They shut down the transponder. They made the plane disappear and fooled the world into thinking it had crashed. They flew one of two "arcs" for seven hours — a "southern route" over the Indian Ocean on which, eventually, they crashed the plane in the ocean in a complicated suicide, and a "northern route" in which, perhaps, they slipped past land-based radar, flew to a destination in central Asia, and landed, perhaps preparing to use the plane again soon for a terrorist attack or other mission. This latter plan was executed so flawlessly, one observer theorized, that Flight 370 slipped in behind another commercial airliner for much of the route so as not to be noticed on radar.

The pilots' houses have been searched. Terrorist connections have been investigated. Passenger backgrounds and possible motives have been scrutinized. And still, 10 days after the plane disappeared, we know nothing.

Perhaps that's because we're overthinking it.

A few days ago, a former pilot named Chris Goodfellow articulated an entirely different theory on Google+.

This theory fits the facts.

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We send in delta force

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For one American on the plane? Why is it our responsibility?

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Because he's American

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Korea has an American hostage. I don't see us banging down the door for him.

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Do we, the US have an obligation to risk our guys to get it? It might end with the death of US soldiers, and or hostages. It may be booby-trapped. There is no upside to our involvement.

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If this really happened we would blow it up at first chance and not tell anyone.

I don't disagree that we may go after the plane.

But the reason would be to take it away as a terrorist asset, so it can't be used against US assets or allies.

But isn't this the real reason we are in this 'search' anyway? If there were no chance of it still being 'out there' there may be less US involvement.

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I don't disagree that we may go after the plane.

But the reason would be to take it away as a terrorist asset, so it can't be used against US assets or allies.

But isn't this the real reason we are in this 'search' anyway? If there were no chance of it still being 'out there' there may be less US involvement.

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IF we knew for sure that the plane crashed, the only thing we'd send is 2 guys in a canoe with a case of beer and a GPS. No terrorist involvement, no care.