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12 Mar 2014, 3:48 pm

I don't know anything about technology, but if it is possible to make this plane appear to have vanished, is it not technologically possible that it has been taken to a location to alter the instrumentation that identifies the airplane digitally, repaint the plane, and turn it into a missle, or bomb, and redirect it to a target?



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12 Mar 2014, 4:08 pm

everybody involved sure is keeping mum.



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12 Mar 2014, 4:13 pm

The oceans are vast and the plane a speck of dust in comparison. If it crashed and sank while off course the mystery may go unsolved a long time.


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12 Mar 2014, 4:23 pm

why was the transponder thingie turned off?



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12 Mar 2014, 4:30 pm

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why was the transponder thingie turned off?


That's the $20,000 question. Likely explanation is that the pilots were forced to turn it off. That implies terrorism or crazy (armed) passenger or hijacking. Hijacking would be a distinct possibility as they might not want the plane to be tracked while on route to its new destination.


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12 Mar 2014, 4:36 pm

TallyMan wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
why was the transponder thingie turned off?


That's the $20,000 question. Likely explanation is that the pilots were forced to turn it off. That implies terrorism or crazy (armed) passenger or hijacking. Hijacking would be a distinct possibility as they might not want the plane to be tracked while on route to its new destination.

do you think they made it?



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12 Mar 2014, 4:43 pm

auntblabby wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
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why was the transponder thingie turned off?


That's the $20,000 question. Likely explanation is that the pilots were forced to turn it off. That implies terrorism or crazy (armed) passenger or hijacking. Hijacking would be a distinct possibility as they might not want the plane to be tracked while on route to its new destination.

do you think they made it?


No. You can't land a plane that size unnoticed... except into the sea. My guess is a hijacking gone wrong (maybe gunfire damaging the controls) and the plane ditched/crashed then sank.


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12 Mar 2014, 4:53 pm

TallyMan wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
why was the transponder thingie turned off?


That's the $20,000 question. Likely explanation is that the pilots were forced to turn it off. That implies terrorism or crazy (armed) passenger or hijacking. Hijacking would be a distinct possibility as they might not want the plane to be tracked while on route to its new destination.

do you think they made it?


No. You can't land a plane that size unnoticed... except into the sea. My guess is a hijacking gone wrong (maybe gunfire damaging the controls) and the plane ditched/crashed then sank.

I wonder if this sort of thing happened before in this particular way?



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12 Mar 2014, 4:59 pm

auntblabby wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
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why was the transponder thingie turned off?


That's the $20,000 question. Likely explanation is that the pilots were forced to turn it off. That implies terrorism or crazy (armed) passenger or hijacking. Hijacking would be a distinct possibility as they might not want the plane to be tracked while on route to its new destination.

do you think they made it?


No. You can't land a plane that size unnoticed... except into the sea. My guess is a hijacking gone wrong (maybe gunfire damaging the controls) and the plane ditched/crashed then sank.

I wonder if this sort of thing happened before in this particular way?


Don't know; though there was a French plane lost a while back as I recall; it stalled and ditched somewhere in the southern Atlantic. Took several months to find it. Black box said faulty speedometer - apparently a well known problem with them icing up and giving false speed readings and the pilots tend to fly too fast or too slow then stall.


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12 Mar 2014, 5:13 pm

I wonder if those pitot tubes on the airplanes have been fixed or if they are still liable for that kind of icing up and speed detection mischief?



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12 Mar 2014, 7:10 pm

auntblabby wrote:
I wonder if those pitot tubes on the airplanes have been fixed or if they are still liable for that kind of icing up and speed detection mischief?


I believe the tubes were on an Airbus, not a 777.


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13 Mar 2014, 1:00 pm

Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 could have flown for hours after last contact, officials say


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13 Mar 2014, 1:18 pm

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Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 could have flown for hours after last contact, officials say


Also : http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1 ... TopStories

It seems those Rolls Royce engines send bursts of data, and thus there is a bit of a trail.


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13 Mar 2014, 6:37 pm

I think it's going to be like Donnie Darko ;-)


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13 Mar 2014, 9:29 pm

Communication satellites received intermittent data "pings" from a missing Malaysia Airlines 3786.KU +2.13% jet, giving the plane's location, speed and altitude for at least five hours after it disappeared from civilian radar screens, people briefed on the investigation said Thursday.


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13 Mar 2014, 9:30 pm

maybe this will be another unsolved mystery for the ages.