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It seems like the pilots turned back towards the airport after thingamajigs started off. Doesn't seem like a hijacking to me, because it looks like they attempted to return and land after things shut down. And if things shut down, maybe oxygen circulation did as well and everyone passed out while the plane kept going southwest. It's lost.
The captain HAS to have been involved. Some data was deleted from his home flight simulator.
From the article:
Authorities did not describe the significance of deleting the data, and experts said it may not reflect anything unusual. Malaysia Police Chief Khalid Abu said they were erased Feb. 3. "Forensic experts are on to retrieve the data," Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia's acting transport minister, told reporters at a news briefing.
Hishammuddin said reports that the missing Boeing 777-200 aircraft had been sighted in the Maldives, nearly 2,000 miles west of its takeoff point and far from its intended course, were found not to be true.
It's a shame how the pilots are being dragged through the mud as terrorists before there's any conclusive evidence that they are responsible or had malicious intentions. Not to mention no one even knows what happened and from what we do know, the pilots turned back towards the airport.
Yawn...how many times will Chris Goodfellow's theory be posted in this thread? It was originally written six days ago (EDIT: written on 3/13). We now are being told that the co-pilot's final verbal check-in was done after the off-course left turn. If that's true, this theory is implausible.
It is not implausible because the pilot put in his plan for an emergency way ahead of time.
Some people like to be prepared. and I am one of them.
Even if you did find it, they probably wouldn't believe you.
Six people believe they saw it but the big shots say they didn't. I guess they are liars, yeah right.
It's a shame how the pilots are being dragged through the mud as terrorists before there's any conclusive evidence that they are responsible or had malicious intentions. Not to mention no one even knows what happened and from what we do know, the pilots turned back towards the airport.
Agreed. So many lunatics on forums and twitter and whatnot. Social media is a horrible thing for society and humans as a whole.
Oh, please! There are almost as many theories out there as there are people paying attention to the case!
If the flight made it intact as far as the Maldives (which just a couple of days ago was deemed impossible or unlikely, because it was the Malacca Straight, the Andaman Sea and more recently, the Bay of Bengal that were being searched, in addition to the fact that authorities at one point early on believed in the likelihood that the plane went to Central Asia), it could still be intact and on land somewhere. They were wrong about it crashing in the China Sea, the Straight, the Andaman Sea, and the Bay of Bengal. So you think they couldn't be wrong about a sea crash at all?
My point is one of semantics, I know I am just being picky:
Theory: a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity.
I understand we are using a very lose definition of "theory". Lets' not start a topic on the definition of the word "theory" however.
My point is also that all these propositions, "theories" if you want to call it that, that involve detail planning and conspiracies, are extremely unlikely..and also have absolutely no evidence to support it. It's at the "Elvis is still alive" or "Aliens have JFK's brain" level. Amusing, but unlikely. But people love conspiracies, so I understand. It's a human trait. Again I refer to Occam's Razor - the simplest answer is the correct answer. It's in the sea...somewhere, it may indeed by in any of the bodies of water you mentioned but due to the inept investigative work of the countries involved it has not yet been found, or it may be in the millions of square miles of ocean within range not yet searched.
Why are you even discussing Maldives. There people go again - grasping at unconfirmed information no matter how irrelevant, unfactual, or trivial, and that will surely be replaced in 12 hours by some new report saying it was reporting over New Zealand.
Even if the pilots had pre-programmed the plane as an emergency scenario, and then engaged it after some sort of unprecedented mechanical problem, and then were overcome by fumes/smoke, we know the plane still flew for seven hours. So it wasn't enough to destroy the plane, and the engines kept working.
The Helios passenger jet that crashed outside Athens - because of cabin depressurization where the pilots were overcome before they could respond - still flew to Athens and then circled in a holding pattern before it ran out of fuel and crashed. Would this 777 do the same, if it they'd instructed to head toward a particular airport? We know Flight 370 didn't stay on that course, as the satellite "handshake" shows.
It is not implausible because the pilot put in his plan for an emergency way ahead of time.
Some people like to be prepared. and I am one of them.
Also, the "we are told" is not very reassuring.
And what about the subsequent turn that was made? The plane turned west from its last location at about 1:19am, went west over the Malay penninsula to somewhere around Pulau Perak Island, then made another turn (or more than one) that put it on a course to intersect the arcs at 8:01am when the satellite picked it up? That final course correction does not make sense if the plane was on fire.
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