Lost plane ~ MH370

[John Pruden]

any ideas what could have gone wrong???jp

[Keith Tindell]

Hi John, On todays news they seem to point6 to some sort of hijacking, everything on the aorcraft deliberately turned off. Strange, i wonder if a pane could be landed somewhere of that size un noticed, KT

[robpage]

What is puzzling me is , the transponder can be turned off , the engine transponders I believe cannot but these only send out a pulse every few hours , but in the area you have Vietnam , Malaysia , and all these states with huge defence budgets , why is there not a track of a large unidentified flying object on Military radar . There is a lot of silence coming out of the Malays

[Keith Tindell]

I feel sorry for all the relatives, must have their hopes constantley raised and then dashed. Its amazing that a plane that size can fly for up to seven hours without raising an alert on someones security radar, KT

[cappy]

apart from the plane missing i think something else other than a accident could be afoot what a weapon for terrorists to have with those passengers still aboard

[robpage]

If it was piracy , Hijacking , terrorists , they need the fuel of publicity , and that has not happened . In trying to work this one out , the 777 has had cracking problems in the airframe , but the lack of the transponder signal is an enigma . I am just surprised no one noticed a loose plane flying around , on the radar , or do the military rely on transponders too

[Captain Kong]

Maybe a Flying Saucer has landed on top of it, lashed itself to it and then zoomed off to planet Zog.
Stranger things have happened at sea.
Brian.

[j.sabourn]

Unfortuanetly I beleive she will be found not too far from her flight path. It does seem inconceivable that with all the satellite observance in the world, the use of IPIRBS and fail safe systems she has not been found. We may in this modern world rely on all this technology but it is obviously not fool proof. It will probably be the less technological methods that will finally discover her. Probably by a massive sonar search of the total area, and what was maybe considered to be something else at the time will turn out to be the target. She will be found no doubt. To family waiting and hoping it must be purgatory.JS

[John Arton]

Latest from the Malaysians is that someone on board (pilot) has taken control of the plane. Shortly after clearing the East Coast of Malaysia the system that allows communications to/from the plane (including passenger mobiles etc.) then just after leaving Malaysian air traffic control and entering Vietnamese air traffic, the transponder was turned off, the plane turned round and flew westward out over the Malacca Straits and was last identified somewhere in the Andaman sea heading either NW to wards Turkmenistan, or SW towards the Indian Ocean. The pilots houses are being searched to see if there is anything that could implicate them in this "hijacking" as knowledge of the systems on board would be required to turn off all the tracking and communications systems on board.
My guess is that it will either turn up in some god forsaken country like Yemen or central Asia with all on board either hostage or dead and the plane possibly being used for some terror plot akin to /11 in the near future.
Sky news giving large coverage as are most news channels world wide with many so-called experts giving all sorts of views and ideas, some really outlandish ones.
rgds
JA

[Jacyn Wade]

It is, indeed, a mystery. CNN had a woman on this afternoon talking about planes that disappeared completely, citing one in 1950 disappearing into Lake Michigan, and the famous Flight 19, the US planes that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle circa 1948. The purpose of this particular CNN "interview" remains a mystery to me as well, but then that's CNN for you.

A colleague of my better half (retired Boeing aircraft designer) sent us the answer:

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All kidding aside, speculation is futile. Until they find a piece of the aircraft or the black box(es), there's really no way to know.