General Chat

On Yahoo News this evening:

John Lindsay, former head of air safety at British Airways, told Sky News: "It would be a possibility and perhaps a probability that the aircraft is on the ground transmitting those signals (signals have been picked up).

"If this has been a very carefully orchestrated, pre-planned event then the aircraft and its passengers are the asset of the people who perpetrated this activity.

"It would be bizarre to destroy your asset by running out of fuel and crashing it anonymously into one of the oceans or a land mass without declaring what the point of the exercise is.

"The auxiliary power unit would have enough fuel to keep running for days and keep the plane powered up for some considerably longer period."

One theory is that plane is in the Philippines and is being prepared for some type of 9/11 attack. What western cities are within attack range from that area? USA would be main target surely.

Edit. Noticed there is an International Airport on Christmas Island, which is half way between Far East and USA. And loads of islands in that area where there might be abandoned airstrips.

He may have been a bit insensitive, but "humour" is also the way people cope in such situations.

Suprise is what made the 9/11 attack possible, That theory is not a very good one on this occasion

All military radar will be working overtime untill this situation is resolved,

If that plain has landed and takes off again it will not have long before it's picked up and intercepted

I think that in the light of new info at least on country knows more than they are saying, Who knows they may have even had a ransom demand.

Roy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26603830

It is like a James Bond film, isn't it. If it was a planned attack on Kuala Lumpur, it seems to have failed. But I do hope someone has some idea where this plane and all its passengers actually are at the moment.

They may simply be at bottom of sea. But so many strange things, like no signal from black box which would have gone off on impact with land or sea.

Whilst it is a serious issue - I did wonder if someone was trying to recreate 'Lost'.

But I could be wrong as I never found out the end of that one either.

This morning : "Satellite data suggests the Boeing 777, which had 239 people on board, flew for at least seven hours - more than six hours after it lost contact with air traffic control.

It has been claimed it could have landed at one of more than 600 runways spread across at least a dozen countries."

The two pilots and one passenger had knowledge of plane computer systems, as far as investigators are aware.

It took an investigator to realise that the pilots had knowledge of plane computer systems?

No doubt there will be hypotheses aplenty as the armchair compiracy theorists get their inexpert heads together.

The captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah is under suspicion They are examining a flight simulator he owned . It also said when the last words spoken by him saying Good night he was calm no other noise. By this time the key signalling system was manually disabled

They are investigating the theory the jet flew under the radar to a Taliban-controlled area

It said in the NZ Herald he was flying in 2012 between Kuala Lumpur and Auckland

There is a photo of him at the water front
I flew to Britain on Malaysian Airlines in 2012 and stopped over at Kuala Lumpar

Scarey now I think about it If you want to read it

nzherald.co.nz

This thread (which asks for any armchair compiracy theories) has been absolutely fascinating. It is still a huge mystery.

"A senior police official with knowledge of the investigation said: "The focus is on anyone who might have had aviation skills on that plane."

At a news conference this morning Malaysia's Transport Minister said: "All ground staff who worked on the plane are being investigated as well as the pilot and co-pilot.""

The passenger named today who has proven knowledge of computers is 29 year old Mohd Khairul Amri Selamat. A flight engineer working for a Swiss-based company.

I would be looking into how much luggage
the pilot and co pilot had with them

nobody leaves there full life behind without good reason :-D

It has just been on BBC World news that it was the co-pilots voice that said the last words that were heard which was """ Right and Goodnight .

and the plot thickens I wonder how it will all end :-D :-D

I cannot begin to imagine what those poor families are going through.

good I hope

Pilots only tend to take minimal luggage with them which proves nothing.

Flight bags play an invaluable role for pilots and aviators. With pilot bags, aviators can have quick access to navigation charts, flight plans, fuel testers, headsets, airport directories, portable GPS receivers and much more.

It can be challenging to manage all the equipment one needs for a safe and enjoyable flight. For example, airline pilots are often required to carry up to 35 pounds of VFR and IFR aviation charts. While some pilots use electronic flight bags (EFB) with digital maps, many aviators still rely on paper aviation charts.

When choosing a flight bag, it's important to make sure that it allows for easy access to the equipment one needs in flight. Flight bags should have several different compartments that can be accessed while in the air.

It's also important for commercial aviators to have access to the right type of pilot luggage. Since many commercial pilots will spend part of their downtime away from home, it's essential to make sure that pilot luggage is durable and spacious.

I don't class this as minimal :-P

me neither

I would believe anything could of happened to the plane and the passagers I just pray they are still alive and whatever is happening they come out of all this alive. If someone told us 20 yrs ago about 9/11 we would of passed them off as cranks so no nothing would suprise me however it isnt that grand a plan on the whole because the whole world knows that plane is missing surely it would of been easier to bulid one!

I am so pleased you havent pulled this Ann even though you was advised too from Miss Crankypants :-P sat ever so high on that big 'orse they should walk a mile in others shoes before they judge them....