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[NewMarketSean]

Oil rig worker off SE coast of Vietnam says he saw plane in flames...

 

http://www.washingto...150m6gw.twitter

[JamesGallden]

Chinese Satellite supposedly sees wreckage. 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2...lane/index.html

[McNulty]

The Vietnamese are saying they 'checked' the area and are now going to 'recheck it'.

 

That's not how searching works.  You have to calculate how well you can see things, how large the thing you are looking for is, and how the environment is influencing your search object.

 

This search is about 4 days old.  The possible location for the plane debris, even if they knew exactly when/where it went down, its going to be very difficult to find.  

 

I've run shoreline (meaning 3 sided as opposed to open ocean) drifts before that start with 4 square NM initial search area, that are HUGE 12 hours later.  And the search object is a large boat.  Not small pieces of debris.

 

My guess is you'd need 2 dozen fixed wing assets flying full sorties to 'recheck' anything.  And it has to be done during daylight hours.

[NewMarketSean]

I think it's coming down to these borderline third world governments leading the searches and failing miserably.

[bnickle]

I think it's coming down to these borderline third world governments leading the searches and failing miserably.

 Pretty much.

[NewMarketSean]

US officials believe plane went down in Indian Ocean.

 

http://www.dailymail...nformation.html

 

I am leaning more toward this being terrorism or a pilot intentionally crashing plane. No reason for the plane to do what it did otherwise.

[McNulty]

Nothing says token BS search like a surface asset.

[bnickle]

US officials believe plane went down in Indian Ocean.

http://www.dailymail...nformation.html

I am leaning more toward this being terrorism or a pilot intentionally crashing plane. No reason for the plane to do what it did otherwise.

Exactly what I speculated yesterday.

I think one of the pilots went off the grid.

[SammyBirdland]

Malaysian officials have determined that the plane "simply vanished".  Mystery solved, case closed.

 

Malaysia Concludes: 'The Plane Vanished'

 

[JamesGallden]

Malaysian officials have determined that the plane "simply vanished".  Mystery solved, case closed.

 

Malaysia Concludes: 'The Plane Vanished'

 

Well that's that wrapped up then, the families can finally breath sighs of relief...

[bnickle]

So the Malaysian government has been watching too many Lost reruns.

[Pedro Cerrano]

This is nuts.

[NewMarketSean]

http://www.cnn.com/2....html?hpt=hp_t1

Now there is info that the flight flew to four to five hours after they lost the transponder signal. Woah.

[bnickle]

And the transponder and some other gadget didn't go off at the same time, indicating they were turned off manually and not because of a catastrophic failure.

 

 

At this point, everything points to sabotage.

[Mark Carver]

Where's Robert Stack and Unsolved Mysteries when you need him....

[NewMarketSean]

More support for hijacking or intentional diversion from flight path...

 

http://www.reuters.c...EA2D0DG20140314

[Dupin]

My theory is it's like that one episode of Sherlock with that operation he ruined.

[bnickle]

I wonder if the hijacker/ rogue pilot was trying to get it to Pakistan or Iran.

I really don't think they succeeded. The US is confident it went down in the ocean.

[Pedro Cerrano]

What a story it would be if the damn plane turned up fine in Iran or something, complete with 300 or so hostages.  Wow.

[NewMarketSean]

So now they're saying the plane flew for 7 hours after it went dark. Wow. And they're searching two corridors: one toward Kazakstan and another veering toward the South Indian Ocean.

The story just keeps getting crazier but it's all but a fact that the plane was hijacked or intentionally diverted. One interesting theory is that people have taken over planes to gain asylum in different countries, I owner if that could have been the case here somehow.