Posted on 03/14/2014 2:39:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A classified analysis of electronic and satellite data, conducted by the United States and Malaysian governments, calculates Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 likely crashed into the Indian Ocean on one of two possible flight paths, CNN has learned.
One flight path suggests the plane crashed into the Bay of Bengal off the coast of India, and the other has it traveling southeast and crashing in the Indian Ocean, according to the analysis.
Yet another theory is taking shape about what might have happened to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Maybe it landed in a remote Indian Ocean island chain.
The suggestion -- and it's only that at this point -- is based on analysis of radar data revealed Friday by Reuters suggesting that the plane wasn't just blindly flying northwest from Malaysia. And it's just one of untold theories floating around about what might have happened to the airliner, which disappeared a week ago without leaving much of a trace of where it had gone or why.
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The entire thing is senseless. If it was a pilot suicide, you take it down during the flight route. If it is a terrorist attack to kill all on board they would announce it to the world. Either scenario, there is no reason to turn communications and systems off.
LOL! I used to fly from there when I played FS long ago!
Science!
I agree..and if it was pilot suicide why continue to fly it into the Indian Ocean..does it really make a difference to a suicidal person where they off themselves..the China Sea was right there, could have been done, no need to fly an additional four to five hours for no reason..for what, to think about it? And if some hijacker from the plane decided to get into the cockpit and hijack the plane the pilots would have put in the hijacking code, and how the heck does a person get into a cockpit nowadays anyway, especially after 9/11 its impossible
Also another question, I know that sometimes you have air marshals on planes..not for every plane but I always hear from people “You never know if the person sitting next to you is an air marshal” I wonder what the likelihood was of an air marshal being on board this plane
Why is it senseless for muslim terrorists to take control of an aircraft and head for a target in India to pull off an Indian 9/11?
A lot of Americans may not realize it, but muslim terrorists have been basically at war with the Indian government for many years.
Over 1000 years.
It could have been headed either for Burj Khalifa or Bombay
Perhaps the hijackers had no better sense of directions than a CNN reporter.
Not sure I approve of the way they make a living, but their wardrobe is great!
Yes, your theory makes sense. I don’t know whether mechanical or electronic glitch would produce the up/down syndrome as pilot fought to control the plane. But then, he would have contacted flight control, one would think. And would not have turned off transponder.
I don’t know why I’m reluctant to believe the plane was hijacked.
One thing we can all agree on is that Malaysia looks increasingly like a 3rd world banana-republic.
I read that flying low takes up much more fuel, which would mean they'd crash into the sea wherever they ran out.
The strange thing is their clothes and accessories didn’t raise any suspicion in the boarding area. Although a few other passengers did complain about the smell.
According to the news reports (yeah I know) the last satellite ping over the Indian ocean had the aircraft at normal cruising altitude.
I would expect the terrorists pilot would not try to fly low to the water until it was necessary to do so when were close to Indian coast and within range of any Indian air traffic radar.
An ELT on the aircraft should have automatically switched on in the event of a crash whether on land or water. That didn’t happen so a crash most likely didn’t happen.
They could have landed at any airport within Iran and most likely it would have been a military one or one with very little activity able to support that size aircraft.
Flash! Ah, ah..
Things were bad at home with one of the two pilots --he was losing his spouse and his kids. Maybe he also has some professional problems with the airline --impending job loss?
He kills the other pilot, then depressurizes the plane to knock out all the passengers. He briefly hears a banging on the cockpit door, but it subsides after 1 minute, then stops totally: the widely-imagined battle royal for survival by the passengers is a non-event. He shuts down both transponders and all comms.
He flies on, on oxygen, contemplating his life, the passengers meanwhile dying from oxygen deprivation. He turns the plane dramatically, beginning a suicidal dive, plunging 40,000 feet in just one minute, only to chicken out.
He flies on for hours, silently trying to summon up the courage to end it all. His indecision is overtaken by his fuel situation, and on vapors he finally slams into the ocean, knocking himself out and dying.
Scenario 2: Hijack
The two Lothario pilots invite the 2 most attractive women on the plane into the cockpit, the better to impress them with their studly technical skill. This habit of theirs had been previously noted by other more radical passengers and quietly passed up the command chain, who dispatched comely young women to "coincidentally" fly in their plane.
During their cockpit party the pilots are overcome by a sedative secreted into their drinks. The women unlock the cockpit door, later accessed by a completely calm and properly trained hijack pilot clicking a pen and holding a clip-board --as with the previous scenario there is no life-or-death fight with the passengers.
He throws aside his silly name-tage and clip-board and immediately depressurizes the plane --the passengers are knocked out and later die. The transponders are turned off, they dive for the deck and turn to their destination four hours away --a 4,000 foot airstrip controlled by their fellow believers.
Immediately upon touching down the spoilers are activated, they apply maximum brake pressure and hit the thrust reversers on the pair of massive engines --the plane lurches, strains and jostles, but rolls to a halt at the very edge of their makeshift runway.
Dented technicals --pickups packed with angry-looking armed men-- stream onto the strip, guiding the behemoth aircraft packed with suffocated passengers to a rocky crag, with burly, bearded men camouflaging the aircraft even as the engines spool down.
Non-minaturized nukes are heavy, and a re-painted civvy a/c like the 777 will make a perfect delivery platform at 3,000 feet on a clear day at 10:00 am over a major city, the better to teach the non-believers with Allah's blinding white flash.
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