Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

[TK22867]

Come on in, put on your tinfoil hats.

My theory: Thunderball.

What's everybody's thoughts/theories on what happened?

[Bozemaniac]

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I'm not sure what other conspiracies fit. Maybe organ harvesting?

[witness]

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Come on in, put on your tinfoil hats.

My theory: Thunderball.

What's everybody's thoughts/theories on what happened?

It clearly means that LOST is real!

[jackdaniel]

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Mass alien abduction.

[Hammersmith]

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Come on in, put on your tinfoil hats.

My theory: Thunderball.

What's everybody's thoughts/theories on what happened?

An apparently knowledgeable individual in the comments section of a CNN article wondered if this might be a Payne Stewart incident. If you recall, back in 1999 Stewart's Lear was up at cruising altitude when they lost cabin pressure. All aboard were incapacitated within seconds and dead within a minute or two. Because the plane was on autopilot at the time, it continued to hold course and speed until it ran out of fuel around the North/South Dakota border line and crashed in ND.

This individual wonders if they had a catastrophic loss of pressure aboard the aircraft. The pilots may have been in the process of changing their transponder code from its regular setting to an emergency setting. If they passed out in the middle of the process, it could have left the transponder inactive. Assuming the plane was trimmed for cruising, it would have recovered on its own and could have flown on for a significant length of time before crashing. It would make things even worse if the pilot started turning the plane to a new heading before passing out.

Not saying that's what happened, but it does seem logical. The Chinese say one of their satellites is showing something that might be wreckage, so maybe we'll know more in 24 hours. They've got about another 25 days of battery in the flight data recorder, so that's the deadline. (the data will be intact after that, but it won't be able to announce its location through pings and will be nearly impossible to find somewhere on the ocean floor)




But in the spirit of tinfoil hats, I'll say it wandered into Atlantean* airspace and the plane was impounded pending diplomatic contact in about 500 years.


*Atlantis used to be in the Med, but it got too busy and they moved the underwater island city to the South Pacific where they could get away from it all.

[slosho]

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But in the spirit of tinfoil hats, I'll say it wandered into Atlantean* airspace and the plane was impounded pending diplomatic contact in about 500 years.


*Atlantis used to be in the Med, but it got too busy and they moved the underwater island city to the South Pacific where they could get away from it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUEjzVQwKo

[Hammersmith]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUEjzVQwKo

Hey, now I finally get that Futurama episode. Thanks.

[MontanaRabbit]

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An apparently knowledgeable individual in the comments section of a CNN article wondered if this might be a Payne Stewart incident. If you recall, back in 1999 Stewart's Lear was up at cruising altitude when they lost cabin pressure. All aboard were incapacitated within seconds and dead within a minute or two. Because the plane was on autopilot at the time, it continued to hold course and speed until it ran out of fuel around the North/South Dakota border line and crashed in ND.

This individual wonders if they had a catastrophic loss of pressure aboard the aircraft. The pilots may have been in the process of changing their transponder code from its regular setting to an emergency setting. If they passed out in the middle of the process, it could have left the transponder inactive. Assuming the plane was trimmed for cruising, it would have recovered on its own and could have flown on for a significant length of time before crashing. It would make things even worse if the pilot started turning the plane to a new heading before passing out.

Not saying that's what happened, but it does seem logical. The Chinese say one of their satellites is showing something that might be wreckage, so maybe we'll know more in 24 hours. They've got about another 25 days of battery in the flight data recorder, so that's the deadline. (the data will be intact after that, but it won't be able to announce its location through pings and will be nearly impossible to find somewhere on the ocean floor)




But in the spirit of tinfoil hats, I'll say it wandered into Atlantean* airspace and the plane was impounded pending diplomatic contact in about 500 years.


*Atlantis used to be in the Med, but it got too busy and they moved the underwater island city to the South Pacific where they could get away from it all.

Thats immediately what I thought of when I heard about this. Barring some sort of terrorist attack I dont know what else could have happened to cause this.

Payne Stewarts plane crashed near Mina SD if I recall correctly.

[RabbitObsessed]

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An apparently knowledgeable individual in the comments section of a CNN article

I don't even think that's possible...

[Hammersmith]

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Thats immediately what I thought of when I heard about this. Barring some sort of terrorist attack I dont know what else could have happened to cause this.

Payne Stewarts plane crashed near Mina SD if I recall correctly.

That's what I get for not fact checking. I was thinking SD, but the guy who brought it up said ND*. So I assumed it ran out of fuel over SD and made it across the border before crashing. Looks like that wasn't too far off, though(35mi).


*which plays directly into RO's post



As for RO, I could argue that you're probably going to find evidence of higher intelligence(and lower) in the comments section of a CNN article than in the article itself.

[jack power]

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Obviously this story is tragic,it's also really bizarre. Now,It's reported that the airline had a maintenance agreement with Boeing and data was being sent to them from the planes 2 engines for 4 hrs after the last know position of the plane.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/67dfu8q97wj2y8a/WSJ.pdf

[TK22867]

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Obviously this story is tragic,it's also really bizarre. Now,It's reported that the airline had a maintenance agreement with Boeing and data was being sent to them from the planes 2 engines for 4 hrs after the last know position of the plane.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/67dfu8q97wj2y8a/WSJ.pdf

If not bizarre enough already, here's a tidbit from a Foxnews.com article:

"The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that investigators think the plane flew on for between four and five hours, based on data automatically downloaded and sent from the plane's engine to its manufacturer as part of a routine maintenance agreement. If true, the plane could have flown hundreds of miles away from where it was last seen over the Gulf of Thailand, where the multinational search effort has been concentrated.

Malaysia's acting Defense Minister denied the report Thursday, claiming that both engine maker Rolls Royce and airplane manufacturer Boeing had said that the Journal report was incorrect.

U.S. counterterrorism officials are exploring the possibility that a pilot or someone else on board the plane may have diverted it toward an undisclosed location after turning off the plane's transponders to avoid radar detection, a person tracking the investigation told The Journal.

The paper reported that investigators have not definitely decided whether they believe terrorism was at the root of the plane's disappearance, but are pursuing theories that would rule out mechanical problems or pilot error. Once such theory, according to the Journal, holds that the plane may have been diverted "with the intention of using it later for a different purpose.""

I was under the impression that even though a plane goes off civilian radar, it is still always tracked by military radar, regardless of altitude. If that's the case, where the heck is this thing?!?!

So here's another tinfoil theory for you: What if this plane was hijacked by terrorists and they landed it at some remote airport that is capable of handling this big of plane. They immediately put netting over it or put it in a hangar to camouflage it. They are currently re-painting it and plan to load it with a nuke and detonate it in, or above a City. That could be an awfully tough call for some nation's leader to have to shoot down an incoming civilian plane, especially if it has a nuke on it.

I could also buy the Payne Stewart theory, but I'm just at a loss as to how any military loses tracking of this plane.

[jack power]

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Our military spent a couple of billion dollars on stealth technology and somebody turns off the transponder on a 777 and nobody can find it. Who knew?

[MontanaRabbit]

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If not bizarre enough already, here's a tidbit from a Foxnews.com article:

"The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that investigators think the plane flew on for between four and five hours, based on data automatically downloaded and sent from the plane's engine to its manufacturer as part of a routine maintenance agreement. If true, the plane could have flown hundreds of miles away from where it was last seen over the Gulf of Thailand, where the multinational search effort has been concentrated.

Malaysia's acting Defense Minister denied the report Thursday, claiming that both engine maker Rolls Royce and airplane manufacturer Boeing had said that the Journal report was incorrect.

U.S. counterterrorism officials are exploring the possibility that a pilot or someone else on board the plane may have diverted it toward an undisclosed location after turning off the plane's transponders to avoid radar detection, a person tracking the investigation told The Journal.

The paper reported that investigators have not definitely decided whether they believe terrorism was at the root of the plane's disappearance, but are pursuing theories that would rule out mechanical problems or pilot error. Once such theory, according to the Journal, holds that the plane may have been diverted "with the intention of using it later for a different purpose.""

I was under the impression that even though a plane goes off civilian radar, it is still always tracked by military radar, regardless of altitude. If that's the case, where the heck is this thing?!?!

So here's another tinfoil theory for you: What if this plane was hijacked by terrorists and they landed it at some remote airport that is capable of handling this big of plane. They immediately put netting over it or put it in a hangar to camouflage it. They are currently re-painting it and plan to load it with a nuke and detonate it in, or above a City. That could be an awfully tough call for some nation's leader to have to shoot down an incoming civilian plane, especially if it has a nuke on it.

I could also buy the Payne Stewart theory, but I'm just at a loss as to how any military loses tracking of this plane.

I can also somewhat believe that terrorism theory. If you think about it likely the only way to re-do a 9-11 type scenario would be to get control of the plane outside of the US. You get a pilot that is willing to help you. He shuts on the transponder, and lands at an airport different than the scheduled one. All the passengers are likely killed and a terrorist organization has itself a jet to do whatever they feel like doing.

It would be difficult to get control of a plane that takes off from the US because of all the security measures in place and the fact that passengers likely attack and kill anyone trying to hijack a plane because of 9-11.

[Hammersmith]

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Anyone still following this story? What's it been, 11 or 12 days and still nothing but conjecture and inconclusive facts that don't fit together? I've gone from thinking mechanical failure to deliberate action and back to mechanical failure again. I wonder how long it's going to take; days, weeks, years? I'm starting to think they're not going to find the plane before the flight data recorder stops broadcasting(something like 20-30 more days).