'Contact lost' with Malaysia Airlines plane

[MikeTheNative]

Yup, Assuming Diego Garcia has anything to do with it then it means either;
1 - Terrorist attack on Diego Garcia but some reason the plane didn't make it so it ditched into the sea.
2 - Americans spotted it and either couldn't raise comms or didn't get a satifactory response and shot it down
3 - It landed with American approval meaning the Americans wanted something or someone that was on the plane.

Number one and two I could believe (though think unlikely) and number 3 I would need my TFH to believe.

I would say 1. is possible but I very much doubt that the other two. There is no way they could keep that a secret. Plus if 3. was true then they would have owned up to it by now and released the passengers that the didn't want.

 

[balky12]

Instead of manually operating the plane’s controls, whoever altered Flight 370’s path typed seven or eight keystrokes into a computer on a knee-high pedestal between the captain and the first officer, according to officials

What, knee high pedestal? How do they know this?!

 

[TehBluebear]

<tinfoilhat>
Could it have flown to NK? And basically had the semiconductor guys offloaded and now forced to work for a weapons program?
</tinfoilhat>

I'm not normally like this, honest!

 

[nick.lidgett]

I'd speculate that someone, somewhere knows more than they are telling, indeed.

Isn't this always the case with these things, the men in grey suits, puppet masters working in the shadows!!!!

 

[Life's a bath]

What, knee high pedestal? How do they know this?!

They're tyring to say it was Oscar Pistorius.

 

[nick.lidgett]

They're tyring to say it was Oscar Pistorius.

too soon newbie, too soon

 

[Cosimo]

<tinfoilhat>
Could it have flown to NK? And basically had the semiconductor guys offloaded and now forced to work for a weapons program?
</tinfoilhat>

I'm not normally like this, honest!

It's a good start. Keep them coming....

 

[Dugganator]

Come on people with the crazy ideas!!!!

Clearly the plane was a transformer that forgot it was full of humans and transformed into something else crushing all the people inside.. simple

#nutcasemoderemoved.

I feel for the families and wonder if we will ever find out what has happened.

 

[TheGamingGeneral]

What, knee high pedestal? How do they know this?!

I think thats just where you would enter the info. As in the pannel is located on a knee high pedestal.

 

[FuriousGeorge]

I think thats just where you would enter the info. As in the pannel is located on a knee high pedestal.

Maybe they meant pedal stool.

 

[Glaucus]

Edit wrong thread

 

[Woden]

Obviously 3rd generation Phillidelphia experiment.

 

[PapaLazaru]

Clearly the twenty or so Chinese engineers onboard have defected to the USA by taking control of the plane and landing it at Diego Garcia.

 

[Woden]

I don't even know who Diego Garcia is.

 

[robgmun]

excectly!

 

[teenwolf]

was he in the oceans eleven movies ?

 

[Cosimo]

A little food for thought as we wait for more outlandish theories:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26609687

I do like number seven.

 

[Lysander]

Malaysian Disappearance Joins Longest in Modern Aviation

Malaysian Air [FONT=241e2ef49cd9ff84068ea5e0#5ca700]Flight 370[/FONT]’s [FONT=241e2ef49cd9ff84068ea5e0#5ca700]disappearance[/FONT] became the longest in modern commercial aviation as investigators lacking new information to back other theories explored the possibility of pilot suicide.

Whoever was operating the plane went to great lengths to avoid being detected, shutting off the plane’s transponder beacon and a text-to-ground messaging system before turning the [FONT=241e2ef49cd9ff84068ea5e0#5ca700]Boeing[/FONT] Co. 777-200 off its course to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. While not ruling out hijacking or sabotage, Malaysian officials said they had to investigate the pilots.

The engineers designed back up plans for every conceivable mechanical failure, though not for a scenario when someone intentionally turns off.
The actions on the flight deck indicate a high level of training in aviation and the 777 specifically, Patrick Veillette, a Park City, Utah, commercial pilot who has taught aviation safety, said in an interview.

“We’re not talking about sitting in a simulator or reading a book for an hour,” he said. “This would have required substantial training.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...ad-hunt-for-jet-in-southern-indian-ocean.html

 

[Domo]

RE the BBC Top 10 - They were quite tame - I was expecting to see things like aliens or the plane becoming self aware

 

[Cosimo]

RE the BBC Top 10 - They were quite tame - I was expecting to see things like aliens or the plane becoming self aware

That's the difference between the GD world and the real one outside.