Did Missing Malaysia flight DISINTEGRATE at 35,000 feet?

Abraxas said:
A landing strip at least 7000 ft long and and 300 ft wide?
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Its hard to imagine that's possible. But is there another rational reason to take over a 777 mid flight, turn off the transponders and keep flying it for four hours?
 
Jarod said:
Its hard to imagine that's possible. But is there another rational reason to take over a 777 mid flight, turn off the transponders and keep flying it for four hours?
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Maybe it was hijacked by the pilot(s)? Looks like I was on the something when I mentioned the Nicobar Islands and the Andaman Sea.

India today began searching hundreds of uninhabited islands in the Andaman Sea, using heat-seeking devices, officials said. Two Indian air force reconnaissance planes began flying over the islands as a precaution, after they and two naval ships scoured the seas surrounding the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, according to spokesman Col. Harmit Singh of India's Tri-Services Command on the territory. The archipelago that stretches south of Myanmar contains 572 islands covering an area of 720-by-52 kilometers. Only 37 are inhabited, with the rest covered in dense forests. The Indian navy is also considering expanding its search west into the Bay of Bengal. 'We are awaiting permission from the Navy,' he said, but declined to give details about the rest of the search operation, including the use of technologies such as the heat sensors aboard the Dornier planes.

Coast Guard official V.S.R. Murthy said India would turn its focus toward western waters between the islands and the Indian coast. On Friday, two navy ships were still sailing east of Great Nicobar Island. The White House said the U.S. may be drawn into a new phase of the search in the vast Indian Ocean but did not offer details. The U.S. Navy 7th Fleet said it was moving one of its ships, the USS Kidd, into the Strait of Malacca. 'It's my understanding that based on some new information that's not necessarily conclusive - but new information - an additional search area may be opened in the Indian Ocean,' White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters in Washington. Carney did not specify the nature of the new information.
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Darla said:
They link to the Wall St Journal which used to be a paper you could trust on straight news stuff, but since Murdoch took over, I don't know. I will wait till I see this in the NY Times, which has not published this theory as of this morning. That I can find. This is very sensational. I am very sad for the families who are going through a hell we can't imagine.
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:facepalm:
 
Abraxas said:
A landing strip at least 7000 ft long and and 300 ft wide?
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Not to mention capable of holding up to 875,000 lb this means about 4 feet of concrete and subgrade. I am laughing at the idea that they would build a runway of this size in a secret location.

LMAO
 
Jarod said:
Its hard to imagine that's possible. But is there another rational reason to take over a 777 mid flight, turn off the transponders and keep flying it for four hours?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...issing-plane-malaysia-airlines_n_4964895.html

Jarod it looks like a theory that is gaining traction with US officials. WTF did they do with 239 people though? I would like to believe the plane didn't crash and they are alive, but I still think the most likely scenario is that the pilot took it down in the Indian Ocean. But the idea that it landed someplace apparently is being considered. I wonder if that's why there is such conflicting and confusing information coming out. Can't think of too many good things a terrorist would want to do with a 727.
 
Darla said:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...issing-plane-malaysia-airlines_n_4964895.html

Jarod it looks like a theory that is gaining traction with US officials. WTF did they do with 239 people though? I would like to believe the plane didn't crash and they are alive, but I still think the most likely scenario is that the pilot took it down in the Indian Ocean. But the idea that it landed someplace apparently is being considered. I wonder if that's why there is such conflicting and confusing information coming out. Can't think of too many good things a terrorist would want to do with a 727.
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What an amazing story if those people are alive and can be rescued.
 
I heard a pilot on television today say that the runway could be as short as 500 feet and did not have to be paved, but only tightly packed dirt.
 
I'm beginning to think that this sequence of events sounds very familiar to the incident in the plane crash in which the golfer Payne Stewart died. In that crash the plane was on autopilot when it lost cabin pressure. All persons on the plane very shortly succumbed to hypoxia. I'm wondering if something similiar may have occurred here. We all know about the oxygen masks that autmatically descent if such an event were to occur but if the cabin doors were locked and such an even occurred and the pilots were overcome by hypoxia it would be very difficult for anyone to gain access to the cabin.

Stewarts plane flew off course for hours before it ran out of fuel and crashed.
 
Darla said:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...issing-plane-malaysia-airlines_n_4964895.html

Jarod it looks like a theory that is gaining traction with US officials. WTF did they do with 239 people though? I would like to believe the plane didn't crash and they are alive, but I still think the most likely scenario is that the pilot took it down in the Indian Ocean. But the idea that it landed someplace apparently is being considered. I wonder if that's why there is such conflicting and confusing information coming out. Can't think of too many good things a terrorist would want to do with a 727.
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http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/jan/10/jumbo-stay-stockholm-hostel-sweden
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I'm beginning to think that this sequence of events sounds very familiar to the incident in the plane crash in which the golfer Payne Stewart died. In that crash the plane was on autopilot when it lost cabin pressure. All persons on the plane very shortly succumbed to hypoxia. I'm wondering if something similiar may have occurred here. We all know about the oxygen masks that autmatically descent if such an event were to occur but if the cabin doors were locked and such an even occurred and the pilots were overcome by hypoxia it would be very difficult for anyone to gain access to the cabin.

Stewarts plane flew off course for hours before it ran out of fuel and crashed.
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No, well I don't think so anyway, because US Officials say that the two transponders were shut off at different times, indicating a deliberate act.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I'm beginning to think that this sequence of events sounds very familiar to the incident in the plane crash in which the golfer Payne Stewart died. In that crash the plane was on autopilot when it lost cabin pressure. All persons on the plane very shortly succumbed to hypoxia. I'm wondering if something similiar may have occurred here. We all know about the oxygen masks that autmatically descent if such an event were to occur but if the cabin doors were locked and such an even occurred and the pilots were overcome by hypoxia it would be very difficult for anyone to gain access to the cabin.

Stewarts plane flew off course for hours before it ran out of fuel and crashed.
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If that were true and it was still on autopilot then why did it do a 180 turn and come back on itself?
 
Darla said:
Well i have to admit i had not considered that some entrepreneurial terrorist might have hijacked a plane to steal it and open a plane hotel.
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Well, those things cost a lot of money, way easier to just steal one. ;)

and you have built in workers that way
 
Superfreak said:
Well, those things cost a lot of money, way easier to just steal one. ;)

and you have built in workers that way
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Superfreak, don't wink at me, Jarod thinks I want to sleep with you. Which was the most humiliating thing to happen to me this week. Well, if you don't count the networking happy hour from last night.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I'm beginning to think that this sequence of events sounds very familiar to the incident in the plane crash in which the golfer Payne Stewart died. In that crash the plane was on autopilot when it lost cabin pressure. All persons on the plane very shortly succumbed to hypoxia. I'm wondering if something similiar may have occurred here. We all know about the oxygen masks that autmatically descent if such an event were to occur but if the cabin doors were locked and such an even occurred and the pilots were overcome by hypoxia it would be very difficult for anyone to gain access to the cabin.

Stewarts plane flew off course for hours before it ran out of fuel and crashed.
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Then what caused the transponders to turn off?
 
Darla said:
Superfreak, don't wink at me, Jarod thinks I want to sleep with you. Which was the most humiliating thing to happen to me this week. Well, if you don't count the networking happy hour from last night.
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You have to limit yourself to one drink at those things. Once you hammer down a fifth of tequila... bad things happen.
 
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