* Still missing *Malaysian Airlines plane with 239 on board

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As far as I'm concerned I will not rule out 'pilot suicide' and even then it should still be a hijacking because it would be a plane who was hijacked by a greedy as **** pilot who rather kill himself and end the lives of his passengers and crew compared to just offing himself like a selfish Syd at his own house.
I dont believe the Malaysian government would come out and say that. But I could be wrong!
 
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As far as I'm concerned I will not rule out 'pilot suicide' and even then it should still be a hijacking because it would be a plane who was hijacked by a greedy as **** pilot who rather kill himself and end the lives of his passengers and crew compared to just offing himself like a selfish Syd at his own house.
Yeah, my thinking was why would a pilot divert a plane, turn off systems, the change course just to ditch the plane in the drink. Seemed improbable to me. Open up the possibility of someone stopping you too. Possibly.

But just read a pilot guy in one of the papers who expressed the opinion that he believed it was pilot suicide because he wanted to ditch it in a place where it might never be found. The much deeper waters of the Indian ocean etc. I guess to hide his shame.
 
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Meanwhile a source cited by Bloomberg news agency has said the last satellite transmission from the airliner has been traced to the Indian Ocean off Australia, somewhere to the west of Perth.

The extraordincary suggestion that there may be an Australian connection has not been confirmed by officials here and Bloomberg quoted a Civil Aviation Safety Authority spokesman , as saying he wasn’t aware of the new information putting Flight 370 near Perth.

http://www.news.com.au/world/malays...370-was-hijacked/story-fndir2ev-1226855315871
 

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The black box pinging for 30 days is gonna make it a race against the clock. Surely they will look at multiple month long pingers from now on
 

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What a bunch of Syds. I don't even care about the ban. I reckon they have known this, or suspected all along and haven't known how to deal with the situation.

I hope for the sake of the people on board, that the Malaysians haven't been sitting on information that could have led to the passengers safe return early on, nor whether they stuffed up an initial attempt to track the aircraft or negotiate for their release
 
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People in this thread suggesting it was hijacked were doing that on the basis of absolutely no evidence.

IF someone who has access to all the information comes out and officially says the plane was hijacked, it doesn't turn all the nutso conspiracy theorists into visionaries.
evidence was there from the beginning.
plane goes missing just out of radar range,
within 2 days no wreckage found in such a relative small area with last known contact point
malaysia initially searching to the west,
initial fisherman eyewitness reports seeing it too the west,
initially there were twitter and facebook reports from normal people seeing it land in china

what are you waiting for? someone to yell it at you with a bullhorn?
 

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what are you waiting for? someone to yell it at you with a bullhorn?
Yeah I kept mentioning this early in the thread as a way out there possibility. There were initial claims that it landed in China, in Chongquing I think?

Nothing official, mind so I paid no attention. Likewise the phones.

The ol man has been adamant all along that it was hijacked and mechanical failure couldn't explain loss of contact, only manual shut down of communications.

I was sceptical and thought incompetence on the ground, combined with catastrophic decompression, human caused or otherwise would be the inevitable explanation.
 

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Meanwhile a source cited by Bloomberg news agency has said the last satellite transmission from the airliner has been traced to the Indian Ocean off Australia, somewhere to the west of Perth.

The extraordincary suggestion that there may be an Australian connection has not been confirmed by officials here and Bloomberg quoted a Civil Aviation Safety Authority spokesman , as saying he wasn’t aware of the new information putting Flight 370 near Perth.

http://www.news.com.au/world/malays...370-was-hijacked/story-fndir2ev-1226855315871
An currently on a boat moored off Garden Island, I'll keep an eye out!
 

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many people here wrote it. They knew all along. I still very much worry about a future attack on Australia if this plane isn't found.
I reckon this is why Vietnam pulled out, they have or had intelligence that Malaysia knew and were dicking everyone about, because they didn't know how to manage the situation or fallout.
 

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evidence was there from the beginning.
plane goes missing just out of radar range,
within 2 days no wreckage found in such a relative small area with last known contact point
malaysia initially searching to the west,
initial fisherman eyewitness reports seeing it too the west,
initially there were twitter and facebook reports from normal people seeing it land in china
None of that is "evidence" of anything. And as well as those points there were plenty of other reports/"evidence" that don't fit.

what are you waiting for? someone to yell it at you with a bullhorn?
Someone who can say "this is what happened, and this is how we know", not people saying "I saw a post on a forum from a former pilot who says he thinks..."

It is looking like a hijack might be the case - although it's been a week of "official reports" closely followed by press conferences denying those reports. All I'm saying is that if it does turn out to be a hijack, the people who were saying that five days ago weren't saying it on the basis of any special knowledge or insight, they were just guessing like the rest of us.
 

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If the jet did crash into the Indian Ocean - whatever the cause - life will become dramatically more difficult for those searching for the plane.

The sea has depths of more than 7,000 metres (23,000 feet). Winds and currents could shift any surface debris tens of nautical miles within hours.

"Ships alone are not going to get you that coverage, helicopters are barely going to make a dent in it and only a few countries fly P-3s (long-range search aircraft)," William Marks, spokesman for the U.S. Seventh Fleet, said.
 
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