Dan Bongino, former Secret Service agent and now radio talk show host (mostly on WMAL), said today that his theory is that MH370 was trying to find another jumbo jet on an international flight in order to have a ‘mid-air collision’ with that airliner.
I thought about Dan’s scenario, and it could be possible, IMO, that they could have been looking for a Singapore Airlines, AirIndia or Qantas flight leaving that area (or that corridor) towards the US West Coast - or London - in order to ‘take it out’ in mid-flight.
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1. Given the obviously high degree of precision in planning the operation. one would think they would have been at least able to come within proximity of another plane, if not carry it out successfully.
2. If that was there intent, unless they were targeting a specific flight to intercept, why head into the Indian Ocean? Far less traffic there, than over the South China Sea.
3. All airliners gave the automatic collision avoidance system..which warns if another plane is on a collision course. I think it only functions the forward 180 degrees, so to achieve surprise they'd have to overtake the plane from the rear...much harder to do, as speeds are pretty much the same, making closure far more difficult.
Of course...it’s possible!!! Ramming another jet that is airborne or on the ground, carrying regular bombs or explosives, carrying nuclear weapons, carrying poison gas cannisters or bio chemicals, flying into buildings, crashing into the ocean, crashing into land, holding passengers for ransom, etc., etc. Anything is possible.
IMHO, both Obama & his administration were asleep at the wheel on this one. The world is not safe these days...no matter where you are!!! The USA....thanks to Obama has no big stick anymore....Obama is the laughing stock of the world....and the folks that hate us are at will to do whatever they please.
Entirely possible.
Unlikely to the greatest extent. The best place to carry this out is near a large airport, where airplanes are plentiful and slow. The terrorist only had to continue to Bejing and pick a target there. What had happened is exactly the opposite. Presuming that the action was unopposed, it's most logical to believe that the perpetrators have achieved their goal.
Initially, upon reading the claim, i first wondered, how do they know since they claim the transponder was turned off. No one has been able to answer that, yet.
But if report is true, and now learning what we have, the attempt climb to 45,000 makes sense, albeit unsuccessful. Similar reports claim the airplane then dropped to 20,000 within a minute. Indicates they stalled the airplane.
It makes sense to climb to a higher altitude if your goal is fuel economy and to drive the airplane a long(er) distance. The problem with all that, is the flight crew would have known better to attempt to climb to 45,000 feet due to lack of performance.
With only 3 or 4 keystrokes on the FMC (flight management computer), data will inform the optimum and highest altitude available given the current weight and outside temperature.
Also, if in fact 45,000 feet exceeded the performance of the airplane, which several 777 drivers have said it certainly was, the autoflight system will not allow. To do so would require disconnecting pitch mode of the autopilot, leave roll mode engaged and climb using vertical speed command.
In other words, if this report is correct, a whole lot of crap going on in the cockpit in a very short period of time. It really does appear to be fully thought out and planned.
Get in behind it and “tail” it to the destination? Destination being someplace within the fuel (or refueled) range?
No reason to take out another international flight.
The reason is to trail the other jet and look like one blip on the radar screen.
The plane has run out of gas by now...a week later, so why don’t we have a crash site?
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If I were going to ram another airliner, I think I'd fly towards congested airspace rather than to one of the most remote places on the globe.