Dunno if man can put a lancaster bomber on the moon, a modernish jet should be a doddle.

Most credible theory I've heard is that there's been a heist of something very valuable amongst the cargo.

The pilots, in on it, turned off the transponders, turned the plane around, climbed to 45,000 ft (as has been reported per the tracked telemetry), de-pressurised the cabin to kill the passengers. Then either landed the plane at a pre-agreed remote airstrip rendezvous to unload the target cargo, or parachute the target cargo into the [Andaman?] sea at pre-agreed co-ordinates. The pilots then programme the auto-pilot to fly the plane in the wrong direction at low level (to avoid radar) until it runs out of fuel & ditches, so as to make finding the wreckage (and therefore evidence) near impossible, and bail out themselves.

Th'ump wrote:Most credible theory I've heard is that there's been a heist of something very valuable amongst the cargo. The pilots, in on it, turned off the transponders, turned the plane around, climbed to 45,000 ft (as has been reported per the tracked telemetry), de-pressurised the cabin to kill the passengers. Then either landed the plane at a pre-agreed remote airstrip rendezvous to unload the target cargo, or parachute the target cargo into the [Andaman?] sea at pre-agreed co-ordinates. The pilots then programme the auto-pilot to fly the plane in the wrong direction at low level (to avoid radar) until it runs out of fuel & ditches, so as to make finding the wreckage (and therefore evidence) near impossible, and bail out themselves. That's bonkers rather than credible! The most credible thing I've read is this

Th'ump wrote:Most credible theory I've heard is that there's been a heist of something very valuable amongst the cargo. The pilots, in on it, turned off the transponders, turned the plane around, climbed to 45,000 ft (as has been reported per the tracked telemetry), de-pressurised the cabin to kill the passengers. Then either landed the plane at a pre-agreed remote airstrip rendezvous to unload the target cargo, or parachute the target cargo into the [Andaman?] sea at pre-agreed co-ordinates. The pilots then programme the auto-pilot to fly the plane in the wrong direction at low level (to avoid radar) until it runs out of fuel & ditches, so as to make finding the wreckage (and therefore evidence) near impossible, and bail out themselves. That's bonkers rather than credible! The most credible thing I've read is this

That would make one hell of a movie, I'd watch it.

Another theory was that it could have possibly been shot down, as the aircraft does not respond on any frequency and it cannot be contacted.

Lawrie L wrote:That's bonkers rather than credible! The most credible thing I've read is this That does sound more plausible. But then the BBC are now reporting that the last communication with the plane, where the co-pilot confirms everything's OK, came after the transponders were switched off. And that doesn't fit that guy's theory.

Lawrie L wrote:That's bonkers rather than credible! The most credible thing I've read is this That does sound more plausible. But then the BBC are now reporting that the last communication with the plane, where the co-pilot confirms everything's OK, came after the transponders were switched off. And that doesn't fit that guy's theory.

I'm not sure that's true, yesterday the Malaysians said that the last communication from the co-pilot came after the last transmission from the ACARS system but that system only sends a signal every 30 minutes. So they don't know when that system was switched off other than a 30 minute window.

cutting through media crap, there seems to be a plausible explanation, but that wouldn't be much of a story would it? http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh ... ical-fire/

cutting through media crap, there seems to be a plausible explanation, but that wouldn't be much of a story would it? http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh ... ical-fire/

Only that plausible explanation is a load of tripe with the known facts

I suspect certain people have been in cahoots....