Not to nitpick but the latest report I’ve seen regarding the engines reporting their status, is that they are supposed to report every hour and in this case the engines did not transmit any data but rather they continued to ping the satellites to get the ok to transmit, which apparently never happened. The investigators have no actual telemetric data reflecting how the engines were operating.
Also I would think to pull off something like this the pilots would have to be involved. Landing a fully loaded 777 at a remote location in secret and at night without transmitting landing aides would be far to difficult for some one not a fully qualified 777 pilot.
“Also I would think to pull off something like this the pilots would have to be involved. Landing a fully loaded 777 at a remote location in secret and at night without transmitting landing aides would be far to difficult for some one not a fully qualified 777 pilot.”
Exactly. This isn’t going to land on some small dirt airstrip in the jungle. And why choose a 777 to steal, when a smaller plane, even a 737, would do the trick and be a lot easier to handle.