Malaysia Airliner Communications Shut Down Separately: US Officials Say

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38. You didn't explain why a hijacker or terrorist would do it this way

If you want to claim this sequential shutdown supports a terrorist theory, they you will have to explain why a terrorist/hijacker would do it that way and why he would want to keep the plane flying 4 hours without communication and without a plan to land it. Terrorists tend to go to Allah quickly. Why drag it out?

If it was a hijacking, he would have kept the communication channels open to negotiate a landing.

If it was a terror act, he would have tried to crash the plane as quickly as possible doing the maximum damage. He sure wouldn't just fly out into the Indian Ocean. He's either crash into the ocean straightaway or else he'd head for a population center to smash some buildings.

A plane flying 4 hours without apparent direction or communication is most likely a massive equipment failure. And as I pointed out later in the thread, it is normal for equipment failures to unravel progressively -- like the Space Shuttle Columbia. There isn't a shred of evidence of a terror act here at this point and we shouldn't be so paranoid as to jump to conclusions like that.

There is no evidence of a bombing. There could have been a bomb, but we have no evidence of that.
There are no groups claiming credit for it.
It isn't a particularly likely target for terrorism.
The manner of the flight (as well as we know it) isn't at all consistent with how terrorists have acted in the past.
And if it was terrorism, who was terrorized? At this point, only the victims on board. That isn't the goal of terrorism.