[mandaladon]

That means the U.S. team "is convinced that there was manual intervention," a source said, which means it was likely not an accident or catastrophic malfunction that took the plane out of the sky.................Keeps getting more complicated...

[tophat9000]

You know we are assuming they wanted the plane..so they would of landed it... but what if they wanted someone on the plane?..or even just wanted some cargo on the plane that could be hand carried off..lets say you release a gas of some-type while your in the restroom with some mask..then take over the aircraft
Then you fly out to a rendezvous spot in open ocean and ditch it and get out with what you want let everyone else die

The thing is..things were deliberately turned off so not a sudden accident..it the flew in a difference direction from planed so not just on auto pilot...and does not seem to have landed on land were it can be seen or take off again..so maybe the aircraft was ditches in the sea ....so the aircraft was not the point.... but something on the aircraft was

[Intolerant in NJ]

It is interesting that communications were broken at just about the time the plane left Malaysian airspace and the pilot told their ground control “all right, good night” - daughter who works for the FAA says that in this country ground control would have immediately tried to contact the plane if the transponders went off to see what happened (after cursing a bit and saying she was tired of people including me asking her why the FAA didn’t know where the plane was - “we don’t keep track of other people’s planes if they’re not in our airspace”) - I say Malaysia wouldn’t have noticed if the transponder went off if they thought they had handed the plane off to Vietnam, and Vietnam might not have noticed because they might have thought they just hadn’t received the plane yet - giving hijackers a bit more time to start a getaway before anyone got wise - either the plane is in the water due to “catastrophic failure” were communications went out, or it’s been landed somewhere at some remote site in southeast Asia - it would have hardly been hijacked and then deliberately crashed later - why not just do the job immediately if that were the purpose.....

[GOYAKLA]

Maybe we(U.S.A.) already know where the plane is. The question is do we tell how we know. The U.S.A. has had convert listening and seismic listening for years. What advancements do we want to leak?
We may just move naval forces where others suggest something is happening to not “show our cards”.

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/sound01/background/seasounds/seasounds.html

[mandaladon]

I suspect there is a cat and mouse game going on between the U.S. and China to try to not disclose how well their spying technologies actually work.

[AppyPappy]

” USS Kidd”

The older Kidd was originally destined for Iran when built but the Shah was deposed.