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duckmaster posted:What? Deadheading crew? It's happened before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Express_Flight_705
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) but if it's a secret radar station the Indians have been observing it and noted that it has never actually been turned on.
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The aircraft was transporting 4 tons of mangosteens to China
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Sources say it was hijacked by an ad linking to the appstore.
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Warrahooyaargh posted:Deadheading crew? It's happened before: Well that's the worst thing I've read all week, cheers.
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aeternum posted:New theory - the plane is still on the treadmill.
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Warrahooyaargh posted:Deadheading crew? It's happened before: Well that relies on the terrorists working for the same company and all of them managing to get on the same plane at the same time. I don't see how that's easier than just buying a plane ticket?
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duckmaster posted:Well that relies on the terrorists working for the same company and all of them managing to get on the same plane at the same time. I don't see how that's easier than just buying a plane ticket? It only needs one hijacker though. And the pilots might have bent the rules to let a fellow pilot who was along for the ride into the cockpit. The Guardian has put up some interesting stuff about mobile phones: quote:IT expert Paul Thompson has responded to the continuing speculation that mobile phone signals on board the missing plane could have been picked up.
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LastCaress posted:The aircraft was transporting 4 tons of mangosteens to China Plane spotted flying over Missouri
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ukle posted:There has to be a flaw in this, as that seems plausible. Normally would be really unlikely but the fact MH370 did seem to follow the plane combined with everything else does make it a plausible theory, even if it seems like its straight out of a James Bond film. Also wouldn't be the difficult for the pilot to do as the other plane would be flying to known way points on autopilot. The biggest flaw is that it's trying to create a solution for a problem whilst ignoring the obvious solutions. If you wanted to get a plane from Malaysia to north of India why go through all the trouble of "piggybacking" another plane? It would make far more sense to go through a poor country which only has three (3!) radar stations covering an area of 676,578 km² (about the size of Texas) - Burma. This country has a relatively impoverished population, none of which are going to bother walking down the road the next day to tell a policeman they saw a Boeing 777 flying a bit low the previous night. This is a country where only 15% of people in rural areas have access to electricity, and even then for only a few hours a day - their air force has said their radar stations didn't pick anything up, but can they afford to turn them on?. Once you're out of Burma in the north you're into the Himalayas and a skilled pilot, taking some risks, can stay low enough to be undetectable. And even if he was detected, would it matter? Radar wouldn't be expecting a jumbo to be flying over the Himalayas at that altitude so it would just be considered a false negative. If it's gone overland it's gone over Burma, not piggybacking another plane with Steven Seagal holding onto the roof.
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So ok malaysian officials just revised their statement about the timing of the "good night" call, apparently it came before the transponder was switched off. Jesus gently caress get your poo poo together.
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So what are the Vegas odds on the plane being used later to carry explosives/hostages and slamming that poo poo into a major city?
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Philosopher King posted:So what are the Vegas odds on the plane being used later to carry explosives/hostages and slamming that poo poo into a major city? Wouldn't they would have just done that right away though? If you've hijacked a plane, you've already got a flying bomb. There's no need to land it, deal with the passengers (presumably by killing them), re-load it with explosives and take off again with everybody looking out for a rogue airliner. I suppose it's possible, but it seems like an awful lot of trouble for something that could have been done with the airliner full of fuel not long after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur.
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Daimo posted:Well that's the worst thing I've read all week, cheers. The black box transcript is something else.  Why did the idiot keep trying to kill them long after he knew his Clever Plan was blown?http://www.tailstrike.com/070494.htm
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Warrahooyaargh posted:Wouldn't they would have just done that right away though? If you've hijacked a plane, you've already got a flying bomb. There's no need to land it, deal with the passengers (presumably by killing them), re-load it with explosives and take off again with everybody looking out for a rogue airliner. I suppose it's possible, but it seems like an awful lot of trouble for something that could have been done with the airliner full of fuel not long after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur. Well if you want to load it up with a nuke and detonate it over a city wouldn't that be more effective than taking out a single building?
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Maybe the pilots just loved reading those weird unexplained wikipedia articles and wanted to add one to the list.
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There can't be many stores in the world that sell nuclear bombs. Maybe they just took a detour to pick one up.
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LastCaress posted:The aircraft was transporting 4 tons of mangosteens to China did Mods know?
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bonestructure posted:The black box transcript is something else. JT: Get him, get him, get him, get him, get him, get him! AW: bank angle, bank angle... JT: Get him, get him, get him! AC: I'm gonna kill you! AC: Hey, hey! I'll kill ya! AW: bank angle, bank angle DS: Get him, get him, get him! AW: bank angle, bank angle DS: Yeah, get him! AW: bank angle, bank angle JT: Get him, get him, get him, Andy, I got the airplane! AW: bank angle, bank angle JT: Get him, Andy, get him! AW: bank angle, bank angle (struggling in background) (overseed warning -- series of clicks in background) (sound of hammers being thrown into cockpit) DS to rear: Kill the son of a bitch! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!
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IM FROM THE FUTURE posted:Maybe the pilots just loved reading those weird unexplained wikipedia articles and wanted to add one to the list. How in the holy gently caress can the government find me and put thoughts into my brain, but yet they can't find all these people... I think 'they' might already know where the plane is but they don't want to tell us or maybe the people on board discovered the secret formula for working tinfoil helmets to block out the signal... /tinfoil
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Daimo posted:JT: Get him, get him, get him, get him, get him, get him! 
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Philosopher King posted:Well if you want to load it up with a nuke and detonate it over a city wouldn't that be more effective than taking out a single building? I don't know if terrorists would be able to get hold of or build an actual nuclear weapon. A "dirty bomb", on the other hand, is more of a possibility.
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LastCaress posted:The aircraft was transporting 4 tons of mangosteens to China I assumed this was a joke, but it's on PPRUNE. This is perfect.
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Has anyone considered that the person at the controls managed to pull off a Sullenberger-style water landing? Then the plane just eased itself into the ocean depths like an old man into a nice warm bath. This would be disastrous because it means we'll never find anything. But a ditching is very hard to do well, even harder in a Boeing (from what I understand about the levels of automation between Boeing/Airbus).
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I'm going to sleep. Can someone text me if they find the plane? tia
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Plane spotted flying over Missouri I live in Missouri and I saw a plane this morning. Should I call someone to report it?
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Are there any cool conspiracy theories around? Not the boring jew stuff, more like "it's an ARG for a new LOST movie".
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Welp, pack it in airline people, this missing plane proves that we shouldn't be flying around up there in the air
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gnarlyhotep posted:Welp, pack it in airline people, this missing plane proves that we shouldn't be flying around up there in the air Works for me, I'm going by boat next time, and I loving hate the ocean, with its freak waves and blue whales and poo poo.
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:Works for me, I'm going by boat next time, and I loving hate the ocean, with its freak waves and blue whales and poo poo. Maybe it was a blue whale that jizzed all over the controls when they reached a radar-evading altitude. 
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How loving metal would it be if they hijacked the plane to a secret terrorist base and summarily executed all the passengers
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Rick Rickshaw posted:Maybe it was a blue whale that jizzed all over the controls when they reached a radar-evading altitude. How far-fetched. bathroom sounds posted:How loving metal would it be if they hijacked the plane to a secret terrorist base and summarily executed all the passengers I think it's likely that they landed at a secret hidden airbase, but the optimist in me would like to believe that the passengers are being held in a sort of jungle complex, but otherwise safe. Also, some kind of Asian Liam Neeson is amongst them and waiting for the right moment to activate his "special skillset".
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So I just thought of something really obvious. If some terrorists hijack a plane and does nothing with it for a week or two, you know what they're probably going to do with it? Nothing. Just hide it really well so people keep looking for it. Then while everyone's on the lookout for a plane, you derail some trains, set off carbombs, kill some politicians, just anything like that that has nothing to do with planes because everyone will be busy and focused on trying to find the plane and mostly putting other security matters on the back burner.
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toe knee hand posted:no one other than malaysia has admitted to detecting the plane, have they? is there anything to suggest that it even left malaysian airspace? that arc from the satellite ping included malaysia too, they just didn't have that bit of it highlighted in red.  Also radar blips can happen, so it may never have done that sharp turn.
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Wasn't this an episode of Battlestar Galictica?
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If it's never found, this thing is going to become a legend passed down from generation to generation. Papa pilots will scare their young'ins into brushing their teeth every night, or else Ghost Plane will snatch you away forever. Camp counsellors will tell tall tales around the fire about how if you listen closely there's still a faint rumble of Ghost Plane flying overhead, always watching us.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:So I just thought of something really obvious. If some terrorists hijack a plane and does nothing with it for a week or two, you know what they're probably going to do with it? Nothing. Just hide it really well so people keep looking for it. Then while everyone's on the lookout for a plane, you derail some trains, set off carbombs, kill some politicians, just anything like that that has nothing to do with planes because everyone will be busy and focused on trying to find the plane and mostly putting other security matters on the back burner.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:So I just thought of something really obvious. If some terrorists hijack a plane and does nothing with it for a week or two, you know what they're probably going to do with it? Nothing. Just hide it really well so people keep looking for it. Then while everyone's on the lookout for a plane, you derail some trains, set off carbombs, kill some politicians, just anything like that that has nothing to do with planes because everyone will be busy and focused on trying to find the plane and mostly putting other security matters on the back burner. Not literally everyone is looking for the plane. Posted from my search and rescue ship in the south china seas
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Rick Rickshaw posted:Maybe it was a blue whale that jizzed all over the controls when they reached a radar-evading altitude. slam whale holy grail
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Some US experts are strongly pointing to pilot suicide, but from everything I hear about the captain, he does not sound like the "type". They say he was going into the deepest part if the ocean so the plane would never be found and it could never definitively be ruled suicide, and his family would get insurance. Unfortunately this does kind of passes Occam's razor compared with everything else. But if a guy like this is capable of this kind if calculated evil, help us all.
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