I've got no clue??

If I had any loved ones on that plane I'd be loosing my mind. At first I wrote it off as crashed at sea but the longer this goes on who the hell knows.

There are only three things I feel to be certain.

1) It took off and didn't land as scheduled.

2) Governments are corrupt and incompetent.

3) The media is damn near as incompetent as Gov.

Other than that everything else is up for speculation.....

Hijack? Bomb? Stolen? Asteroid? Alien's?

Almost a week into it and mechanical failure seems to be the lowest probability. Unbelievable!

So go ahead and speculate away. Even if we tried we couldn't sound as dumb as the Gov officials and media

fox says Obama did it

I figure the likelihood is it crashed.

Part of me wonders if its on a remote airstrip getting repainted and loaded with fertilizer

[quote=larryb]fox says Obama did it
[/quoMSNBC says it's Bush's fault. or some gun carrying right wing fundamentalist Christian.

It was Bush's fault.

I know exactly what happened. Kris Kristopherson happened.

Millennium - A horrible 80's crapfest

Gravity is an unforgiving harsh mistress.

Catastrophic mechanical malfunction of some sort which lead to the pilots not having the time or ability to react accordingly.

That would be my best guess.

The ocean is big. Even a 777 is little - by comparison.

It will be found eventually. Besides Amelia Earhart, they always are.

depressurization, just like payne stewarts plane, that would explain being in the air for the extra couple of hours. that or ET.

I found it!

http://vietnam.craigslist.org/for/4372477162.html

Fish on...

Todd

Not sure how accurate this is, but it is probably close enough to give you a sense of the scale of the search for the 777 in the Indian Ocean.

http://www.cockeyed.com/science/flight_370/flight_370.html

I wonder if Fariq takes Pay Pal?

Now "they" are saying that 2 - 3 transponders were manually shut-off and that the flight may have flown for another 5 hours. So much for that came-apart-in-mid-air theory. I never bought that crap to begin with. A 777 coming apart in the air, regardless of how it came apart - would garage sale parts and pieces for miles (see S.S. Columbia disaster). Seat cushions, Oil and Gas float and something would have been found by now. I guarantee that we have satellites trained on the entire area by now.

If indeed the plane was hijacked and this turns out to be a terrorist event who will be doing what? Will China invade the suspects country or will America invade the country for China yet borrow money from China in order to do it? It would seem fair to keep as many people employed while doing this so I am voting for the latter.

wtf do they let the transponders be disabled? That's just f'n stupid.

no more black boxes, all flight information should be uploaded to some sort of 'cloud' platform to be deleted after a set time period.

Agree.

Uploading location and other information to a "cloud" service is not physically possible. It would take an array of commercial satellites that cover the skies and work in unison to provide coverage (you can forget land based comms). There are simply too many commercial flights around the world on a daily basis (too many data points) and too many gaps in coverage to make that feasible today. Remember, our oceans are HUGE.

If we decided we need to know where every commercial flight is at all times, it could be done using existing datalink and lf radio technology. As it stands, I don't see it happening unless more than one flight in decades goes missing, because it costs money to do so.

Airlines hate additional regulations that require you to spend $$$$ as much as the next guy.

Dan - they already have datalink and LF radio & radar tech on the ground and in the planes. It only works when in range and it can be manually circumvented. There are no towers in the middle of pacific. Secure, job specific arrayed satellites covering the sky or floating radar / data towers covering the oceans are the only way to "see" certain parts of Earth.

I just listened to a Government NSA / CIA / NASA data expert dude explain just how "dark" some of the earth really is. He did a much better job at explaining it than I am regurgitating it.

My guess is that the flight landed somewhere bad, all passengers were executed and the 777 is currently being retrofitted into an ICBM. Yeah - that...

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