re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Considering that the 777 has zero history of crashing due to mechanical failure, and this particular aircraft was inspected just 10 days ago, and that airliners mostly crash during takeoff or landing and almost never at cruise altitude, and the pilot had 18,000 hours and a HUGE flight sim rig in his own house, and was a fan of Richard Dawkins and not a Muslim despite his name, and the flight had two persons on it using stolen passports/identities... I say terrorism. The two with the stolen passports tried to hijack it and fly it into a building in a Chinese city but the other passengers fought them and the plane crashed in the process.

You have maybe the world's best aircraft, in certified perfect condition, with an ace pilot, at an altitude where it's practically invulnerable and the only weird variable is two people aboard hiding their true identities... this isn't hard.

Hahaha funny coincidence!

Good point... perhaps they were swift and had a knife to his throat before he could place a distress call.

Were the pilots of any of the 9/11 jets able to make a distress call? I honestly don't know.

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I was thinking mechanical or pilot error, but two unrelated people who aren't on the flight when they were on the manifest? Terrorism right? But one would think a terrorist would make a bigger statement. Maybe hijack the plane and crash into a populated area. Unless the plane crashed during them being fought off.

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It's nearly impossible to get into a cockpit these days, and even if you try, you will get your arse kicked by the 15 passengers nearest to you.

Well luckily the NTSB will be involved due to it being an American made plane. The bomb theory should come out pretty quickly too due to the typical distribution of debris (or lack thereof) associated with an inflight breakup

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Well luckily the NTSB will be involved due to it being an American made plane.

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Under the ICAO, they will. Boeing also most likely had a team there immediately.

reminds me of The langoliers.

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If I was a frequent traveler I'd prefer terrorism over a plane malfunction.

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No kidding. The thought of a plane coming apart at 35,000 feet freaks me out.

The wreckage found in the South China sea was a false rumor per senior official. They have found an oil sheen off the Vietnam coast but still no sign of wreckage. Were they dumping fuel??

Don't planes have tracking devices on them or something? [Genuine question.] How does a plane simply disappear? Even if it blew up or crashed, wouldn't they know the last known location before explosion/crash/terrorist/whatever?