Theories abound, so what the heck. Here’s mine.
The two people boarding with false passports that we know about were not Asian, unless the ticket sellers and the people checking boarding were complete morons. Travelers with names like Luigi Maraldi, the Italian and and an Austrian with the last name Kozel would not be Asiatic in appearance. Some people have dismissed the stolen passports as ‘a possibility’ given that stolen passports are supposedly common. This news of two other passengers being checked out is making the ‘everybody’ has stolen passports theory more unlikely.
So the group who did board this plane were internationally connected, making the use of sophisticated materials more likely. A plastic gun, or some explosive device was smuggled aboard and there were two attackers, and maybe four. The stewardesses would be the first people they approached and held hostage and they may have forced the stewardesses to contact the cabin and tell them to maintain silence. The next command would be for the pilots to return to Malaysia (reports of the plane turning back are already out there). The passengers probably noticed some sort of commotion ensuing and as has been the case many times since 911, they revolted. This lead to one of the hijacker’s setting off a bomb or possibly shooting a hole through the fuselage with some sort of weapon. Thus catastrophic failure. The actual circumstances will never be known, but terrorism is the obvious cause.
Why has there been no group claiming responsibility? The operation was obviously a failure, because they were returning to Malaysia for some reason. The hijacking may have only been one component in a wider attack and because it failed the other shoes didn’t drop. The remaining terrorist are now in a state of confusion and probably dispersing or regrouping for plan ‘B’, unless they have no plan ‘B’. Then again... Who knows?
That’s my theory.
Failed plot makes sense.
As you say, why not have a theory? People criticize Freepers for speculation, but it’s pretty harmless as long as it doesn’t go into full-blown nutty conspiracies ... you know, where the eeevil George Bush did it all from his ranch in Texas or something.
It is very possible that for one reason or another, they never got to carry out their entire plan. Perhaps something they were carrying detonated too soon and they never really got to take control of the plane.
I assume the plane was destroyed rather than hijacked to another destination, since there seem to be no electronic signals of any kind coming from it.
Is there no way of getting a passive communication out of a modern plane? It’s hard to believe that there’s not some electronic way of at least “pinging” them to find out if they still exist, even if full communications aren’t possible. Or would it be possible for terrorists to disable such a passive system? Again, I don’t know a thing about planes, so I’m probably asking a stupid question.
You should write books.
Because what they were after was on the plane.
Possible?