* Still missing *Malaysian Airlines plane with 239 on board

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Hijacked? Why? I mean.. That still leaves the possibility that passengers are alive. Families must be living in torture at the moment.

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Hijacked? Why? I mean.. That still leaves the possibility that passengers are alive. Families must be living in torture at the moment.

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If it was Hijacked and the passengers are still alive, why no ransom demands? It seems odd unless the passengers aren't the thing they were after.
 

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If it was Hijacked and the passengers are still alive, why no ransom demands? It seems odd unless the passengers aren't the thing they were after.
what if they're after the plane. Or a group of passengers on the plane, say the 20 people from the Texas semiconductor company?

Not saying they're are, but you could hijack a plane fro a number of reasons. Not just to hold the people for ransom, which is the usual thing. You might want the cargo, which could be people. Or you might want the plane, or something on the plane. Or you might want to create a situation for whatever reason. Next steps are dependent on their objective and whether they did exactly what they intended to.

And even then, if hijack is the scenario, we're presupposing they reached their intended destination - they might not have. The plane might have been hijacked, by either a pilot(s) and or some third party, then, for whatever reasons crashed into the ocean, not fulfilling the 'mission'.
 

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Makes you wonder now if ACA were onto something with the co-pilot inviting people into the cockpit.
If they were its by coincidence / accident rather than great journalistic work.

And it's an unnamed official thats reportedly admitted to a hijacking so I'm not so quick to necessarily believe it even if it strangely seems the most plausible explanation given the complete lack of any debris after days of searching
 

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If they were its by coincidence / accident rather than great journalistic work.

And it's an unnamed official thats reportedly admitted to a hijacking so I'm not so quick to necessarily believe it even if it strangely seems the most plausible explanation given the complete lack of any debris after days of searching
I have a feeling we'll know more (a long shot I know) after the Malaysian PM speaks.
 
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Makes you wonder now if ACA were onto something with the co-pilot inviting people into the cockpit.
Being a regular overseas and domestic plane traveller pre 9/11 it was no issue at all to ask the flight attendant if you could go up to the cockpit and have a look , had the chance to do it a few times. Even on 1hr Melb Adel , Bris Syd , Syd Mel flights.

But now with the strict flight regulations as they are what the ACA story shows how easy it is.

Any good looking woman or women could be the key to getting into the cockpit , but the guy sitting in aisle seat 2c or 2d getting up to go to the toilet at the same time as the good looking girl , could be the force that cannot be overpowered.
 

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In regards to passengers being in the cockpit. As a child on some flights my dad would take me into the cockpit to take a photo with the pilots or just look at the rows and rows of switches. Social engineering can be easily used to get into a cockpit
 

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In regards to passengers being in the cockpit. As a child on some flights my dad would take me into the cockpit to take a photo with the pilots or just look at the rows and rows of switches. Social engineering can be easily used to get into a cockpit
Times have changed (how long ago was this).
 

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I'm thinking no better than Malaysia
maybe. If Malaysia dont have a military shield/radar for off the radar attacks - they did not know that the plane flew bck across the country to the Western side - does India have one?

I am not expert in defense shields, but if India cant detect then what would stop the plane being in the Middle East right now? Fuel?
 
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