Lots of reasons this is looking better as a theory:
USS Kidd is leaving the Indian Ocean search (what does US know? Definitely more than they are saying.).
Catherine Herridge reporting tonight that for the first time, a source told her directly that there is NO evidence that the plane crashed.
ELTs have not gone off.
Obviously, there was intent from the beginning of the flight to make this turn and take it off course.
Efforts were made to ‘go dark’ by shutting off transponder & ACARS ... indicating the plane was being taken somewhere & the pilot(s), whoever was at the controls, didn’t want it tracked.
Not buying pilot suicide - believe that would have happened sooner and probably on the original route.
Not buying the ‘hostage’ situation ... after 11 days, somebody would have been making ransom demands or saying something - plus, 230+ people are a lot to deal with.
Not buying major airplane malfunction with the new info on the lat/long change programmed into the airplane’s FMS.
Now the General pops up with this - curioser & curioser. Would love for a last unreported “ping” as mentioned in this article to show up from a reliable source.
Qiviut, your logical progression makes sense. Given the facts known, the idea of pilot suicide is not logical. I highly suspect that the plane is in the hands of bad guys and the passengers are dead.