Flight MH370 Is Now a Criminal Investigation, but No Passengers Are Suspects

The Wire ^ | 04/02/2014 | BRIAN FELDMAN

[pfflier]

A large portion of the planet surface is desolate and unpopulated.

All the people in the world would fit in part of Texas if stood shoulder to shoulder.

If not an answer at least it is a perspective.

[irish guard]

OK...this might be a bit whacky, but here goes. I think someone was able to hack into the plane's flight capabilities and shut the pilots' ability to fly the plane down, along with any ability to communicate. They then were able to fly the plane remotely. Not sure the result is any different, it's probably at the bottom of the ocean......but that's my guess.

The reason there isn't more out there about this is it would scare the sh*t out of everyone who flies, so China and the US settled on this way out of the way part of the Indian Ocean to search, while they figure out who did this cyber hijacking.

[The Sons of Liberty]

For the short attention span public, this has pretty much dropped out of the news.

Is the theory that it was hijacked to a raghead country waiting to be used as a weapon against us, still considered valid?

[Mr. K]

i think the radio would still work, wouldnt it?

and manual controls always override electric ones don’t they?

[Spitzensparkin1]

"i think the radio would still work, wouldnt it?"

They have several frequency agile voice radios on board for trans oceanic flights including some very expensive SSB HF radios for long range comms. Of course any or all of them become inoperable when the circuit supplying them with power is turned off.

That being said, I still wonder if there wasn't some radio contact with this plane after it turned that we are not being told about by Malaysian officials. If the pilot was in such a disturbed mental state and suicidal, wouldn't he have wanted to vent about it, make some demands, etc.? That could have been most embarrassing to the officials in the gov't there.

I still believe they know more than they are letting on.

SS1

[DoodleDawg]

They should take the same type of plane, outfit it with drone control and equivalent weight, fly it to it’s last location, turn off the engines, and see where it goes and what’s left.

Kind of an expensive proposition considering these things cost about a quarter billion dollars each.

[Jaded]

No ransom demand? No ransom demand the Malaysian government publicized?

[ilovesarah2012]

Yeah - messing with China isn’t like messing with the USA.

[irish guard]

Not sure. Like I said, I’m guessing at this. But with all the geeks that try to hack their way into financial services companies every day, or government intelligence agencies, or power plants, I’m pretty sure there’s someone out there who could figure out how to take over a jet.

[dforest]

Probably as valid as anything else we have heard, in fact, that is even more likely.

[Star Traveler]

This story is almost done and over with. The next step is “legend status”.

It’s getting into “DB Cooper” territory now, with all the crazy speculation. This will join DB Cooper in the mystery hall of fame.

For a list of Freeper articles on it ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mh370/index

[Star Traveler]

Well ... because in spite of the perception by many that mankind is infinitely powerful and capable, it’s not - but is puny and incapable, compared to our Creator God and the world that He has made, that we live in.

That’s one of mankind’s infinite failings - thinking that it is bigger than it really is.