* Still missing *Malaysian Airlines plane with 239 on board

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How about this for a theory.

Back when Iraq had WMD's, Bush decided to fly out to Baghdad for Thanksgiving. The US flew two 747's out to the Middle East disguised on radar as something else. Is it possible from the cockpit to fool radar, so that you leave one "radar area" as MH370 and enter another as some run-of-the-mill freighter on a run-of-the-mill flight to ...wherever?
 

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Hussein was particularly defensive in the face of often hostile questioning from the press.

He said: “Unless we get the aircraft and the black box it is unlikely that we will be able to answer a lot of speculative issues that have been raised out there.
“We are focusing both on the South China Sea and the on the Straits of Malacca.”

Challenged about the criticism of the information released by the authorities, he said: “This is unprecedented what we are going through – coordinating so many countries together is not something that is easy. We are looking at so many vessels, so many countries to coordinate and a vast area for us to search ... but we will never give up hope.”
 

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I dont believe there's anything sinister here, as in cover ups from the Malaysians. Look who they are dealing with, the Chinese wouldn't take any lies very lightly, also the Americans are involved. Why would they risk trade sanctions or the like, even military action. I mean what have the Malaysians got that a wet lettuce leaf hasn't.

They truly have no idea where this plane is, or what happened, and if they do, so do the the other parties involved.
 

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I dont believe there's anything sinister here, as in cover ups from the Malaysians. Look who they are dealing with, the Chinese wouldn't take any lies very lightly, also the Americans are involved. Why would they risk trade sanctions or the like, even military action. I mean what have the Malaysians got that a wet lettuce leaf hasn't.

They truly have no idea where this plane is, or what happened, and if they do, so do the the other parties involved.
I'm starting to think this way also, as in from a Malaysian cover up POV. The Malaysian Airlines brand would already be hurting massively, and if it were to come out that a cover up was involved they'd just about have to close up shop overnight.

There was a map posted a few days back that had a 7hr radius around KL. Its starting to seem that it really could be anywhere within there.
 

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Does anyone think a scenario like Aeroflot 593 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593 is possible?

On that flight the pilot let his 15 year old son take the controls which led to the plane crashing. We've seen the photos of the co-pilot with nice looking females - any chance he let a blonde bombshell take control and she ended up crashing the airplane? Would explain the lack of comms as the aircraft went down and the pilot probably turned the transpoder off out of embarrassment.

Alternatively the co-pilot has previously smoked on the flightdeck but I find it highly unlikely that 2 pilots would allow a fire from a cigarette butt to develop into something that would compromise the plane.
 
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The most confusing and heated part of the press conference concerned the last known sighting of the aircraft. Hussein confirmed that it was last picked up by military rather than civilian radar.

The authorities initially stated that the plane lost contact with air traffic control at 1.20am, 40 minutes after take off from Kuala Lumpa.

On Tuesday air force chief Tan Sir Rodzali Daud wasd reported as saying the plane was later detected at 2.40am over the Malacca Strait. He has since denied saying this.

Today a military chief said the flight was last picked up at 2.15am local time.

Civil aviation chief Rahman said analysis of the defence radar showed an “indication of an air come back, hence that’s the reason why a search was conducted in Malacca and the Andaman Sea.”

An official gave the position of the last radar signal at 2.15am as 200 miles north west of the mainland. But he said this needed to be corroborated.

Hussein pointed out that this was not a definite contact with the missing plane. “The primary data does not tell you about the aricraft per se. It requires corroboration and detailed analysis by experts.”

Challenged on the conflicted data, he added: “It is only confusing if you want it to be seen to be confusion. We have been very consistent.”
 

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Maybe he had her bent over in the.............









cockpit..
Could be. Was it sherlock holmes who said that once you have eliminated everything else whatever remains must be the truth even if it is improbable but still possible?

That could apply in this situation here. Mid air explosion pretty much ruled out - hundreds of boats in the area would have seen something and none of the numerous flights nearby saw anything.. If there was anythihg in the cargo manifest that could have caused a fire we'd know about it by now so that's pretty much dismissed. Depressurerisation - no, because ACARS would immediately report it, the pilots would get plenty of warning that it is happening and would have at least 60 seconds to put their masks on. Desisgn Flaw - nearly impossible after 10 million flights and 20 years if service. Mechanical Failure / poor maintenance - Malaysian one of the best carriers in the world in regards to maintenance and safety levels so most likely no. Terrorism - by now every single passenger would have been looked at for any possible connection to terrorism and none found. Highly unlikely.

We're really only left with either pilot error, pilot suicide or a fire caused by a passenger (remember we had the ey461 incident a few weeks ago) that incapacitated everyone onboard as realistic possibilities. Looking at things logically of course.
 
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