re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

I've seen several pilots on CNN say it in the last few days.

You got mad b/c I didn't think your theory of going into Asia following another airplane was plausible. When you mentioned them landing near Australia I asked about radar. Then with the Maldives you kept on and on when anyone who has invested so much time googling information to post in this thread should have easily been able to debunk that theory on their own. I was trying to be nice when refuting your theories, you took it to the next level so I am going to respond the same in return.

The whole opposition leader angle is strange. I don't get why a pilot or anyone else would snap for someone going to jail. Seems like he would have aired his grievances somehow if that was his reason.

Do you all remember the dazed look on the people watching 9-11? Then they hit the pentagon?

Before, people didn't think it possible, hence the dazed look.

If this is terrorism, something's up, and it may daze us.
If it's a crash, then our fail-safes are not as safe.
If it's a theft of cargo, and cover-up, we may never know.

Has anybody seen a cargo manifest other than luggage? Seems like the plane would be worth more than cargo, unless it's something truly spectacular.

If it crashed, then that's that. But, if these people are smart enough to steal and stash the plane, we better look out. No telling what they can do.

That would suggest he did this on impulse rather than a planned out mission.

Wouldn't they say something if they were turning back?

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if these people are smart enough to steal and stash the plane, we better look out. No telling what they can do.

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If true, what's worse is not being able to nail down exactly who "these people" are. And I don't think they would be connected to Iran either. I don't buy that BS.

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You got mad b/c I didn't think your theory of going into Asia following another airplane was plausible. When you mentioned them landing near Australia I asked about radar. Then with the Maldives you kept on and on when anyone who has invested so much time googling information to post in this thread should have easily been able to debunk that theory on their own. I was trying to be nice when refuting your theories, you took it to the next level so I am going to respond the same in return.

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All my theories are based on fifth hand information as I sit 8,000 miles away. That isn't the issue. There really isn't an issue, other than you post a lot of smilies when someone posts an alternate view.

I said PLAUSIBLE I never said definite. Hell we have no idea what happened. We are playing armchair quarterback. But maybe I would have rather you used the logic you applied now to "debunk" the theories rather than just " "

I really think the pilots are in on it, maybe one is dead, but doubt a regular terrorist is going to be this smooth and tricky with such a large plane.

It is hard to gauge the plans of the insane. And you have to be some what "not there" to even take the airline off of course. But what is the endgame with crashing in the ocean?
Why plan so hard (this would have to been planned) and then just do suicidal ditch in the middle of no-where? Don't most suicides WANT to be found? Don't most extremest have a message?

There is just so many holes in EVERY theory that all you can do is take wild guesses.

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There is just so many holes in EVERY theory that all you can do is take wild guesses.

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This is what makes it interesting and maddening.

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It brought to mind a few years ago, when I was on a SW flight landing in Denver, and when we were just a few hundred feet (just a wild guess) from landing, the pilot gunned the shite out of it, we lifted back up, circled around, and then landed "again".

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LSUJuice

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That exact same thing happened to me a few years ago on a SW flight into Denver. It was an evening flight. I wonder if we were on the same flight.

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Didn't feel anything abnormal. I remember it was a record HOT day in Denver. Don't think there were any storms around, but who knows...

I don't know. I just know in my situation the plane was getting hit by lightning, lights were going out, and the plane was rocking. Evidently, the pilot was very skilled because had he not taken us back up, we would have slammed into the runway on first approach.

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Extremely high heat can produce turbulence. The sun heats up concrete hotter than the surrounding ground. Big patches of concrete on very hot days create small updrafts and turbulence.

They could have had an instrument out. ATC could have told them to go around. There may have not of been a plane clear of the runway. At BTR, I saw a small Piper take the wrong turn off and cause a Delta to do a go around, then the delta was put into pattern behind my touch and go on a Cessna(you know there were so mad..)

Truthfully there are a lot of reasons. But one thing in landing.. If you are not 100% sure...Go Around.