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16. If this was the southern route, that gives creat creibility to the oil rig worker's report

Thu Mar 20, 2014, 12:34 AM

Mar 2014

and he said ir saw what looked like a plane on fire. The pilots tried to turn it around to land back in Malaysia and they were overcome. I guess there could be a little comfort knowing that the passengers were probably all killed by the smoke early on and didn't have to sit through 6 horrific hours knowing they were going to crash into the sea.

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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That flight path claim was retracted the next day.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