Here are my thoughts

[harrydawg.sixpack]

I am afraid this plane and location were carefully picked out by a group of serious radicals.

It has been landed (all passengers are dead of course) and the plane is being prepared for a destination that will make 911 look like a pizza party.....packed with some serious explosives.

Not good.

 

[Palos verdes]

I don't think they landed.

 

[harrydawg.sixpack]

Sorry

This post was intended to be under the plane post

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

How do you think they could cross the Pacific, or Atlantic

without being detected, etc. ?


They disappeared in an area that had no radar.

 

[harrydawg.sixpack]

I sure don't know but I had lunch today with a couple of pilots (amateur) and they both thought this same thing......that plane can navigate half the globe on a tank of fuel.......

 

[CadaverDawg]

If that's the theory, then as soon as that plane re-enters the radar in the US, we need to blow it away. As soon as they don't respond to radio, shoot the bastard down over the water.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

It's a stretch

Small plane, vs a Jumbo Airliner... in this situation.

I'll wait for the rerun of the movie.

Show me!

 

[rebflow]

The problem is it could fly under the radar threshold undetected, I think 5,000 feet?

 

[thatsbaseball]

Fed Ex 777`s leave Memphis loaded with 200,000 lbs of cargo and fly to China. The plane is a stud.

 

[Palos verdes]

The problem is it could fly under the radar threshold undetected, I think 5,000 feet?

You have to get A LOT lower than that to avoid primary radar.

 

[Dawgpile]

(all passengers are dead of course)

My concern is that those passengers won't be dead, and the either/or ultimatum will be given...

Not good.

.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

This. I have a friend who loads them.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Plus having to fly that low for an extended period of time will cause tremendous stress to the plane.

 

[dorndawg]

What are the odds of a plane being hijacked then having an electrical fire & going down? Cause at this point for me, that's about the only thing making logical sense.

Otherwise, I'm damn near ready to be in the "aliens" crowd.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Occam's Razor. They're now looking for debris in the Indian Ocean.

 

[rebflow]

Ok, so let's say that the debris near Australia turn out to be unrelated. If the plane was hijacked and landed in Pakistan, would it be that big of a stretch to load it with a nuke and fly it under the radar long enough to detonate in Israel? I assume to avoid radar, you could fly under 1,000 ft and I don't think it would be that far.

 

[Philly Dawg]

^^This^^ I have no way to weigh the various technical and quasi-technical arguments about the details of what happened, but the most likely outcome here is that some sort of accident occurred and the plane was lost at sea.

 

[Dawgbite]

Radar is essentially line of sight. The plane would have to stay below the horizon of the specific radar array. The closer to it, the lower it would need to be. Flying over land it would have ground clutter to help mask it's signature down low but over water it would be more vulnerable. Military systems are designed to fly nap of the earth, commercial airliners are not. It would take a good pilot to fly that long range. I think that the pilot and copilot disabled the oxygen and eliminated the passengers and crew. They then flew into the South Indian Ocean until they ran out of fuel or just decided to dive into the ocean. But if this was a murder/ suicide, looks like they would have left some kind of note or manifesto. Doesn't recognition figure into the martyr , 72 virgins idea someway?

 

[johnson86-1]

What are the odds of a plane being hijacked then having an electrical fire & going down? Cause at this point for me, that's about the only thing making logical sense.

Otherwise, I'm damn near ready to be in the "aliens" crowd.

Probably not as good as the plane being hijacked and then people fighting with the pilots. That's assuming that it's not the pilot hijacking the plane in a fortified cockpit, but even then I guess he'd have to worry about the co-pilot if he wasn't in on it.

 

[thf24]

Ok, so let's say that the debris near Australia turn out to be unrelated. If the plane was hijacked and landed in Pakistan, would it be that big of a stretch to load it with a nuke and fly it under the radar long enough to detonate in Israel? I assume to avoid radar, you could fly under 1,000 ft and I don't think it would be that far.

That's what the pilots I eat lunch with on Monday were thinking, except they said it would be awfully hard to fly a plane that big under the radar the whole way. They said they wouldn't need to though as long as they weren't extremely picky about their target.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Wouldn`t this be cheaper and more discreet

Aircraft Type Boeing B737-500
Quantity 1 (one) unit aircraft
Manufacture 1992
Year
Price US$ 3,500,000.00
Delivery Condition The Aircraft will be delivered "As is". and subject to the following requirements:
At Delivery, the Aircraft shall:
1. Have in existence a valid Certificate of Airworthiness, issued by the Aviation Authority.
2. Have installed the full complement of engines and other equipment, parts, accessories and loose equipment and shall be in a condition suitable for immediate operation in commercial airline service.
3. Be clean by international airline standards.
4. Comply with the manufacturer's original type specification and be airworthy with all systems, components and equipment, serviceable and operating in accordance with their intended use and within the approved limits of the relevant manufacturer and the applicable Aeronautical Authority.

I mean you can buy used airliners all day relatively cheap and not make such a scene. Like a lot about this deal...this doesn`t make sense to me.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Yep.

 

[dorndawg]

Couldn't you also put a nuclear bomb in, say, a Cessna?

 

[dawgoneyall]

And requires much more fuel.

 

[WrapItDog]

 

[mount lefroy]

Well done

 

[RocketDawg]

Except the Flight 370 777 was free, assuming it was hijacked for that purpose. They save $3.5M.

If you were someone in Iran or a similar place, and bought a used airliner, it'd probably make more of a scene ... behind the scenes. And a greater chance of getting caught.