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Old 04-01-2014, 09:48 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Now what would possess an alien to want to abduct an earthly airplane? Obviously if they got over here and had the technology to snatch a plane out of the sky, they are doing way better than we are, technology wise.
There could be two reasons behind an abduction.
The aircraft has already been mentioned as one of them, and the humans aboard could also be a reason for an abduction.
Perhaps an alien species wanted to study this human species.
At this point, with not one piece of evidence as to the aircraft's demise, my theory is just as probable as anything out there.
Bob.
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Old 04-01-2014, 10:52 PM
 
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Maybe we are looking at this all wrong. Theoretically speaking, pilot suicide would get Malaysia off the hook, so the airline is not responsible for unjustly actions. Maybe the pilot (s) didn't follow protocol and flew it out to the Indian ocean to protect the airline and their families
So, in this theory, the suicidal pilot would protect the airline (how thoughtful) but murder the 200+ other people on the plane?
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Old 04-02-2014, 12:09 AM
 
Location: Vernon, British Columbia
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It's somewhere deep in the ocean. Bodies should have floated to the surface but if they have, they haven't been found yet. Maybe the plane landed softly and just sank, then maybe no bodies would have come out of it. Nothing makes sense as to how or why it happened but it's somewhere in the ocean.
Chances are that the pilot told everyone to strap in as they were in for some turbulence. Then, just for good measure, he took the sucker up for a bumpy ride to both ensure everyone would be strapped to the wreckage, and also to kill the passengers with their seat-belts on.
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Old 04-02-2014, 12:20 AM
 
Location: near bears but at least no snakes
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Chances are that the pilot told everyone to strap in as they were in for some turbulence. Then, just for good measure, he took the sucker up for a bumpy ride to both ensure everyone would be strapped to the wreckage, and also to kill the passengers with their seat-belts on.
Yeh, that's a vote for pilot suicide or hijacking. Would be a good thing for Malaysian airlines, absolves them of blame. It could explain a few things.
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Old 04-02-2014, 12:59 AM
 
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My new theory of the day//

A military plane accidentally shot the plane wrecking much of it and killing all souls aboard, plane flew on with limited avionics till it ran out of gas,The country that caused the accident is remaining silent hoping the plane is never found.
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Old 04-02-2014, 01:08 AM
 
Location: where you sip the tea of the breasts of the spinsters of Utica
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A few years ago, the crew of a Japan Airlines 747 flying over Alaska gave a very detailed report of an object following them at about 35,000 feet. They described the object as at least three times the size of an aircraft carrier, and, observed the craft for an extended period of time as it maintained a parallel flight-path to the Boeing airliner. During ground de-briefing, the 2 pilots gave no conflicting testimony. They were entirely in agreement about what was observed.. *A good reason for abducting an airliner such as a Boeing 777 in mid-flight, would be to make a detailed examination of the level of aeronautical, technical, mechanical, and scientific development on Earth, as an airliner such as a 777 would provide clues to all.* About 20 years ago, a British astrophysicist postulated an equation based on the process of elimination as to how many advanced civilizations could possibly exist in the Milky Way Galaxy. He arrived at a figure that at the very least there has to be at least 200,000 technologically advanced civilizations that share the galaxy with us And, we are only ONE of a now-estimated half-trillion galaxies in the universe; each containing a minimum of a quarter-million solar-masses.. *Although it is possible that the Earth has been visitied by intelligent beings for thousands of years, this activity has DEFINITELY increased ever since our “cosmic signature†was released in the New Mexico desert in July of 1945, the first atmospheric detonation of a nuclear device at Alamogordo by J. Robert Oppenheimer and his development team. It could have easily been detected in other star-systems with highly advanced sensing capability. *As for the Malaysian Airliner, too much time has passed. It is gone, and, never to be found here on Earth. A tragedy for the families involved.
Any civilization that could solve the faster-than-light problem would be advanced enough to find a less heavy-handed method of studying us.
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Old 04-02-2014, 05:46 AM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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I think they do want to find it. I agree about pilot suicide allowed the Malaysians to be innocent--just blame it on the pilot.

We know it flew west and it flew low. Why it wasn't detected on Malaysian radar when it flew back?

Why did the Malaysians dismiss all eyewitness reports of it being anywhere in the vicinity? They never explained WHY those reports were discredited. This is where it gets all fuzzy to me. Not on Malaysian radar, not believing any of the eyewitnesses. It seems to me that the Malaysians are hiding something--or of course it could be just that they are incompetent, which they are. Or are they just trying to cover up the fact that they are incompetent! Or did they see it and shoot it down by mistake and that's what they are trying to cover up.

Beyond that I am lost because the experts say they are sure it went this way and then they say it didn't go there. I hope we can be sure it went southward on that arc but I'm not 100% certain of that because of all the changes and anyway I'm not a techie airplane person at all.
Evverything you said, plus...flew up to 45,000 FEET!

John Nance said he thought it was to kill the passengers...he said that on
air...their ABC aviation expert...it can also be googled, he only said it that once.
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Old 04-02-2014, 05:54 AM
 
Location: NW AR
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CNN is now saying this-

Officials have always said they were looking at four possibilities: hijacking, sabotage, personal problems and psychological issues.
A Malaysian government source told CNN on Monday that the airliner's turn off course is being considered a "criminal act," either by one of the pilots or someone else.
But a senior Malaysian government official told CNN last week that authorities have found nothing in days of investigating the two pilots that leads them to any motive, be it political, suicidal or extremist.
On Wednesday, CNN learned that Malaysia Airlines pilots have received a handout on increased cockpit security, according to two sources familiar with the airlines' operations.
The measures include a rule saying no pilot or first officer will be allowed to sit alone in the cockpit. If one or the other leaves the cockpit, a senior cabin steward must remain inside the cockpit until the pilot or first officer returns.
"These changes are positive in nature and directly relate to the MH 370 incident," one of the sources told CNN.


The search for MH370: High-tech meets old-fashioned policing - CNN.com
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Old 04-02-2014, 07:56 AM
 
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Well, there may have been more important things. Again, the last words aren't really that important except to the imagination of the media. The media isn't leading the investigation so it really doesn't matter. I'm not saying that's what happened, I'm just saying that however the words got mixed up, it really isn't that big a deal.
You don't know that, if you don't know what the last words really were. They would be vitally important if they were "mayday, mayday, we're on fire, going down!" or "allah ahkbar! this is for my brother falsely imprisoned!".
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Old 04-02-2014, 08:03 AM
 
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What is the big deal wanting the recording released? While there is the valid concerns over what was said, this isn't a trial and the general public isn't the jury or judge.

The words said are the last someone made in their life, yet for some reason, some seem to think there is a right to hear them. There is not. If anything, the only people entitled to hear the recording are the investigators and then by some extension the relatives of the passengers and crew, but not the general public.
That would be just fine. My understanding is that no one other than Malaysian investigators have heard the actual tape. They aren't just keeping it from the public but from other investigating authorities. The big deal is that there is no credibility as to what the actual conversations were and the course of the search could depend dramatically on those words.
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