Malaysian passenger jet missing

[tucker6]

you mean the pilot didn't fly it 2,000 miles over hostile territory and the prying eyes of satellites without being seen so that it could be landed in Kazakhstan and turned into a missile against the USA??

[Marshall Bennett]

Originally Posted by tucker6

you mean the pilot didn't fly it 2,000 miles over hostile territory and the prying eyes of satellites without being seen so that it could be landed in Kazakhstan and turned into a missile against the USA??

Perhaps not, if this indeed turns out to belong to the missing airliner. The scenario you mention seemed the most logical one, however, considering how long it went missing.
Btw, your red-boarding the strory applies to off-topic as well, or does it?

[horses4courses]

[QUOTE=Marshall Bennett]The scenario you mention seemed the most logical one, however, considering how long it went missing.[QUOTE]



That's pretty funny.
You'd think they were searching in some river or lake, by your "logic".

[tucker6]

Originally Posted by Marshall Bennett

Perhaps not, if this indeed turns out to belong to the missing airliner. The scenario you mention seemed the most logical one, however, considering how long it went missing.
Btw, your red-boarding the strory applies to off-topic as well, or does it?

you got me on the red boarding. I hope I don't get banished lol.

[tucker6]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05...perts-say.html

The captain of doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 selected a route that would effectively render the plane invisible on radar in order to commit suicide, experts said Sunday.

The suspicion that MH370 Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was attempting suicide was agreed upon, aviation experts said in a panel discussion on 9 News Australia.

"He was killing himself; unfortunately, he was killing everybody else on board, and he did it deliberately," Larry Vance, a former senior investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said.

Shah somehow managed to cut all communication systems and then dip in and out of Malaysian and Thai airspace and eventually went over his own hometown, Penang, Boeing 777 pilot and instructor Simon Hardy said.

Now we know what we all suspected.

[Marshall Bennett]

Seems we also should know about where it went down then. Whatever parts such as engines should still be there. It may be too deep to salvage, but they did weigh 7 tons each and should be able to be identified.
I think the overall intention is to close the book once and for all and not spend another dime dealing with it. That part I would agree with.

[Parkview_Pirate]

It makes sense that from the data the investigators determined that someone was still at the controls. But it seems to be serious speculation that the pilot was evading radar to commit suicide. Not that someone who's about to kill themselves is thinking logically, but why would the pilot care if it was known that he committed suicide? Also seems a stretch that he gets nostalgic and wants to overfly his hometown one last time.

It makes just as much sense to me that there could have been an onboard fire that disabled communications and smoke in the cockpit created problems controlling the plane (see SwissAir Flight 111).

While the pilot's religion may be a factor, it smells like misdirection. I'm more inclined to consider a cover-up by Boeing.

[tucker6]

Originally Posted by Parkview_Pirate

It makes sense that from the data the investigators determined that someone was still at the controls. But it seems to be serious speculation that the pilot was evading radar to commit suicide. Not that someone who's about to kill themselves is thinking logically, but why would the pilot care if it was known that he committed suicide? Also seems a stretch that he gets nostalgic and wants to overfly his hometown one last time.

It makes just as much sense to me that there could have been an onboard fire that disabled communications and smoke in the cockpit created problems controlling the plane (see SwissAir Flight 111).

While the pilot's religion may be a factor, it smells like misdirection. I'm more inclined to consider a cover-up by Boeing.

I'll trust non partisan experts in the field who unanimously say he committed suicide.

[MONEY]

Originally Posted by Parkview_Pirate

Not that someone who's about to kill themselves is thinking logically, but why would the pilot care if it was known that he committed suicide?

Life Insurance.

[Valuist]

Originally Posted by Marshall Bennett

Seems we also should know about where it went down then. Whatever parts such as engines should still be there. It may be too deep to salvage, but they did weigh 7 tons each and should be able to be identified.
I think the overall intention is to close the book once and for all and not spend another dime dealing with it. That part I would agree with.

It likely went down far from the Australian, Indian and South African coasts. Such a huge potential crash field. They could search for years and not find anything.

[mrhorseplayer]

lol

[fast4522]

Originally Posted by tucker6

I'll trust non partisan experts in the field who unanimously say he committed suicide.

If someone wants to become maggot food either it is a solo act or they hate a particular group. I really know nothing about the passengers, I can't see any guy ending lives of young and very young people. That being said I believe they just want to close it out.

[Parkview_Pirate]

Originally Posted by tucker6

I'll trust non partisan experts in the field who unanimously say he committed suicide.

A panel of "experts" appearing on Australia's version of 60 Minutes, and you believe that they are non partisan? No conflict of interest? No suspicions over making contradictory statements like, "there's no need to keep searching for the plane" and "it's important we find out what happened for the families"?

Nah, I don't buy this feeble attempt at closure when the plane hasn't been found. The pilot may very well have committed suicide, and an argument can be made that's the most logical conclusion. But it's still speculation, and it smells to me like an effort to discontinue the search.

[Marshall Bennett]

You could easily construct a list of a hundred reasons the plane went down. A mechanical failure, human error, suicide, whatever. Without vital pieces of the crash it will never be certain. Its a news story to debate and likely always will be.

[swiss cheese]

This is all BS, if he really wanted to commit suiside why would he take that route?