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Any list worth its salt must have demn0ns.
'Contact lost' with Malaysia Airlines plane
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I heard a new one today, so random. (This is a MASSIVE hearsay so take it as big a pinch of salt as alien theory)
Was walking to Birmingham city centre at lunch and 2 guys walking behind me in the same direction was talking about it. One guy said that he knows someone who is an aircraft crash investigator and apparently the Boeing 777 has a design flaw that there is a small chance CO2 can leak from the under carriage into the cockpit. Therefore the pilots were basically hallucinating and/or blacked out in the **** pit in which they did some stupid things like turning off all the comms and the plane just flew on auto pilot until it ran out of fuel.
Was walking to Birmingham city centre at lunch and 2 guys walking behind me in the same direction was talking about it. One guy said that he knows someone who is an aircraft crash investigator and apparently the Boeing 777 has a design flaw that there is a small chance CO2 can leak from the under carriage into the cockpit. Therefore the pilots were basically hallucinating and/or blacked out in the **** pit in which they did some stupid things like turning off all the comms and the plane just flew on auto pilot until it ran out of fuel.
Heavier than air co2 rising upwards into the cockpit?
Never mind the fact that co2 does not cause hallucinations.
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Hence I put it right alongside Aliens 
It's been posted several times and debunked several times...
It worked until it was shown that the plane took several course changes after aiming at the airport before finally doing a 90 degree turn and flying to the south atlantic.
Are those actual course changes though or just erratic flying?
A "course change" signifies pilot input. A plane on an erratic course does not automatically equate to "course changes" though.
It could be that if a control surface was severed, it could have caused the erratic route (eg. they could have been using asymmetrical thrust to control direction). The pilots may have tried to sustain a general heading towards an emergency landing, realised that there is not enough control available to land the plane, then finally diverted away from it.
But then again, this goes against the lack of any distress calls. But then it could be that the crew were extremely preoccupied. Taking time to make a distress call when/if a stabilizer falls off (for example) is going to do nothing to save you, rather it could kill you quicker because controlling the plane really does require 100% of your attention in a situation like that.
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Has anyone 'fessed up to shooting it down by accident yet?
Was the USS Vincennes in the area at the time?
Was the USS Vincennes in the area at the time?
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It was ~0120 local time and they were ~45mins into the flight, but I cannot believe all 200+ passengers would all be asleep and not react to a sudden, non-critical event during the flight, using their mobile to phone/text someone. The turn west just after last communication would surely have made someone wonder what the heck was going on.
Something does not add up, there was either a sudden major life-threatening event, or something sinister was going on (like phone jamming at the very least).
Something does not add up, there was either a sudden major life-threatening event, or something sinister was going on (like phone jamming at the very least).
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Would their phones have worked over that part of the ocean?
I must admit the mass suicide theory doesn't add up to me. What did he do with the other pilot, kill him?
Locked him out of the cabin
According to The Week, they only work within thirty miles or so of the nearest mast.
Would you text someone? Seeing as mobile phones should have been turned off/in flight mode for takeoff, a lot of people may not have even turned them back on as it was late and they may have been sleeping.