First, I don’t think the Malaysians have been forthcoming at all.
- If they are telling the truth, they are worse than the Three Stooges. The information they have given out has been consistently late, long after it should have been revealed to assist in a search.
- If they are telling the truth, NOTHING about this makes sense.
1. Everything was normal.
2. The ACARS System was shut off. This wasn’t accidental, this was deliberate.
3. The pilots said goodnight.
4. The transponder was shut off, this wasn’t accidental, this was deliberate.
5. The plane turned South and climbed to 45,000.
6. The plane dropped precipitously.
7. The plane leveled off an turned WNW, tracking a known airline route.
8. Radar contact was lost.
9. The plane flew for roughly 5 more hours, maybe more.
A. That doesn’t fit mechanical difficulties.
B. That doesn’t fit a suicide pilot.
If the Malaysians have NOT been forthcoming, then they are somehow involved in what happened. That makes me think pilot went rogue and tried to blackmail the Malaysian government over his political hero being jailed the previous day. Malaysians might have shot it down and are covering their tracks by distraction and ineptness.
The captain had family and political issues; he dumped the plane where it wouldn’t be found.
But it does fit a criminal mind that can murder 238 people, make his getaway without being seen, dump the evidence of his crime in a place where it may never be found.
>3. The pilots said goodnight.<
Have we determined positively that it was the pilot’s voice? Could it have been a hacker?
6. The plane dropped precipitously.
Maybe, maybe not. I wouldn't put too much credence in military radar altitude readings.
That makes me think pilot went rogue and tried to blackmail the Malaysian government over his political hero being jailed the previous day. Malaysians might have shot it down and are covering their tracks by distraction and ineptness.
That doesn't account for why the airplane was still alive at 0811 Malaysian time.
Maybe it was indeed hijacked at the time the transponder stopped working, either by one or both of the pilots or by as yet unidentified passenger(s). The hijackers diverted the plane westward, intending to fly it to somewhere in the 'stans or maybe Somalia. At some point they turned south, perhaps to put more distance between the plane and military radar. But then a struggle broke out to regain control of the plane, in the course of which something happened (decompression?) that incapacitated everyone on board. Then the plane continued flying on autopilot until it ran out of fuel.
Something like Payne Stewart or Helios Airways 522.