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10. That makes as much (or maybe more) sense than any other theory right now

Wed Mar 19, 2014, 11:29 PM

Mar 2014

At least when it happened on the chartered jet Payne Stewart was on it was over land and military planes were able to see what was going on while the plane was still in the air.

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Search for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Drastically Narrows [View all] groundloop Mar 2014 OP

Hijacking a plane to Antarctica makes zero sense. n/t lumberjack_jeff Mar 2014 #1

Strong chance it wasn't hijacked. tinrobot Mar 2014 #7

A southern route can only be equipment failure or suicidal pilot BlueStreak Mar 2014 #15

Unless.... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2014 #24

This message was self-deleted by its author Th1onein Mar 2014 #33

Heh. +1 n/t lumberjack_jeff Mar 2014 #37

Penghazi !!! Nt pkdu Mar 2014 #52

And the "weirder and weirder" continues. SoapBox Mar 2014 #2

Perhaps he was purposefully guiding the plane away from any population centers bigworld Mar 2014 #3

Perhaps nobody was driving the bus tinrobot Mar 2014 #8

That makes as much (or maybe more) sense than any other theory right now groundloop Mar 2014 #10

If this was the southern route, that gives creat creibility to the oil rig worker's report BlueStreak Mar 2014 #16

No, the rig worker saw something about 300 miles NE of where the last broadcast was muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #32

Those were visual observations and estimates. Not at all inconsistent BlueStreak Mar 2014 #36

There's a lot of difference between 50-70km west, and 500km west-south-west muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #38

It couldn't have been very "high up" if he estimated 75 KM away BlueStreak Mar 2014 #41

For a plane 60km away from a man on a 20m high oil rig platform, muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #42

It is ambiguous and you should admit that. It was a momentary observation documented 3 days later BlueStreak Mar 2014 #43

No, it's not ambiguous; he gave pretty specific details muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #44

That flight path claim was retracted the next day. BlueStreak Mar 2014 #45

That was 12th March, this is the 15th: muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #46

But if it turned northwest, it would not have enough fuel to end up off Perth BlueStreak Mar 2014 #49

If the Austrailian search is the actual wreckage, then there probably was no turn to the west BlueStreak Mar 2014 #47

There's nothing on those pictures that give "the farthest location reachable with the fuel on board" muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #51

Not to be pedantic, but that chart doesn't say anything about fuel BlueStreak Mar 2014 #53

I'm not 'glossing over the fuel issue'; we can see that the expected flight to Beijing muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #54

I don't follow your claim about the horizon. BlueStreak Mar 2014 #48

Those figures do show it would have been below his horizon muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #50

Indian Ocean: depth contours and undersea features jtuck004 Mar 2014 #4

I watched Bill O'really tonight for the first time in doc03 Mar 2014 #5

SCHEDULING DOC03 FOR ASS KICKING Skittles Mar 2014 #9

Once in a while I go over to the dark side to see doc03 Mar 2014 #13

HALF AN ASS KICKING Skittles Mar 2014 #17

how does that work? TorchTheWitch Mar 2014 #27

well, I start in on him Skittles Mar 2014 #29

so both cheeks equally and just not as much TorchTheWitch Mar 2014 #30

I WILL KICK HAIRY DOG-BEAR-LION ASS Skittles Mar 2014 #31

LOL! n/t complain jane Mar 2014 #28

They'll invent a media conspiracy of silence when it serves their purposes. LeftyMom Mar 2014 #12

Now the size of Arizona, they say, about 114,000 sq miles. n/t jtuck004 Mar 2014 #6

A new update posted in LBN. SoapBox Mar 2014 #11

Interesting. If it landed in the 'outback' it could be why it's hard to find. That was one of the freshwest Mar 2014 #14

You can't land a 777 on just any airstrip. caseymoz Mar 2014 #20

How about a L-O-N-G stretch of sand? Not tidy. I'm not talking about an airstrip at all. Just slide. freshwest Mar 2014 #23

I'm sure there's smooth spots in the outback caseymoz Mar 2014 #40

Sound like the pilot that said it could have been on unmonitored autopilot could be right. Kablooie Mar 2014 #18

There's not too many places a 777 can land. caseymoz Mar 2014 #19

It is a strange situation Aerows Mar 2014 #22

This whole story Aerows Mar 2014 #21

K&R...Thanks for posting red dog 1 Mar 2014 #25

MSNBC just went live with the news Rhiannon12866 Mar 2014 #26

The route had been pre-programmed. WinkyDink Mar 2014 #34

Pilot murder/suicide has been the most probable scenario from the start, imo PorridgeGun Mar 2014 #35

For either scenario, you could add that the hijacker could have been injured muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #39

UPDATE FRIDAY AM: AU couldn't find the debris; may have sunk or drifted(pics 5 d old) librechik Mar 2014 #55

Countries say that their radar could have detected the plane but Rosa Luxemburg Mar 2014 #56