Didn’t say where they are. Hope they’re not dead. We don’t know if the pilot is the hijacker, or if the passengers are dead, but anybody who would kill 239 people isn’t above wife-o-cide.
I'm suspicious of the US insisting that the plane went south into the Indian Ocean. That makes no sense. A pilot does everything to avoid radar and cause confusion to buy time and then flies south to a watery grave? I am convinced that it's intact and on land somewhere, at least for now. One thing that keeps nagging me is what if the US took the plane because of the high tech electronics cloaking and stealth exports on board to take them out of China's hands. We may feel that we need to keep our edge in that technology and if China is gaining ground well...
Some highly trained and skilled covert CIA ops on board? Who knows? Maybe Deigo Garcia was the destination. It just seems like there are too many suggestions by the US that the plane went south. If this scenario is true it's still possible the passengers are alive and will be released.