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aboutface
I'm taken by a couple of thoughts. The first thing is whether there could have been an onboard explosion that would have sent it straight to the bottom of the ocean without leaving a debris field of some sort. I'm not up to date enough on such occurrences, but the Air France flight that disappeared off Brazil sank right to the bottom, did it not?
Thinking explosion again, would the pilot have enough time to begin executing a right turn if the explosion happened at the rear of the plane?
Again about the right turn: Supposing there was a high-jacking or some other intention, where are the places he might have been heading, if he intended to land somewhere other than home base? And could he fly a plane like that low enough to escape radar detection?
AutumnWitch657
reply to post by andy1972
How about to get on the plane in the first place and not be detected as Arab at all. One passport was from an Italian. Dusky skin and dark hair on an Italian would not be questioned.
AutumnWitch657
reply to post by andy1972
How about to get on the plane in the first place and not be detected as Arab at all. One passport was from an Italian. Dusky skin and dark hair on an Italian would not be questioned.
ketsuko
No, just remembering stories about Iranian nuclear scientists at North Korean nuclear tests.
Their presence there could have nothing at all to do with what actually happened to the flight. I've been saying since the beginning that these passengers could be a red herring or in other words, not actually involved in what happened at all. They could be an anomaly and investigating them is getting in the way of actually finding out what happened.
AutumnWitch657
reply to post by andy1972
How about to get on the plane in the first place and not be detected as Arab at all. One passport was from an Italian. Dusky skin and dark hair on an Italian would not be questioned.
watchesfromwall
AutumnWitch657
reply to post by andy1972
How about to get on the plane in the first place and not be detected as Arab at all. One passport was from an Italian. Dusky skin and dark hair on an Italian would not be questioned.
Where do you get the information that an Arab boarded the plane?
AutumnWitch657
reply to post by burntheships
Who's to say...
Crakeur
reply to post by sheepslayer247
the only old plane will do concept is a bit odd for sure.
what I don't get is, if this is, indeed, an act of terror, why hasn't anyone taken credit for it? There's no terror in blowing up a plane without linking the act to a cause, a belief or an idea. Blowing up a plane full of people is mass murder with no cause. The willingness to kill many people, and yourself, for a belief is what frightens people.
999zxcv
o ye belive it if you like just like the LIbian AL MAGRACHE was guilty of bringing down a pan-am plane in 1988
Sparkymedic
reply to post by Mamatus
3) Inexplicable phenomenon. Aliens, Portals, Black Hole in our atmosphere...who knows really?
My money is on #3 until they find evidence that it actually crashed. The disappearance of an aircraft does not mean that only scenario #1 or #2 are the only possible reasons for the disappearance. Until they at least have SOME evidence that the plane went down, somewhere, there is no reason to rule out phenomenon.
ketsuko
reply to post by andy1972
Well, that sounds about right for what I remember, but the expert said it was relatively inexperienced for flying a plane of that size. So maybe pilots generally don't fly jets that large until they have a certain amount of flight hours under their belt, and this pilot had just recently crossed that threshold meaning that maybe he's wasn't inexperienced per se, but for a plane that size ... perhaps.