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A simple bungled hijacking is very much a possibility.

• einhverfr 13y ago
  Flying into the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night with no transponder never to be seen again? If it is a bungled hijacking it is still not a simple "take me to this airport or I will start killing people" case.
  • alexeisadeski3 13y ago
    "Take me to an airport in Australia, fly low over Malaysia and circumnavigate Indonesia to avoid radar. Disable all tracking tools so that the authorities don't shoot us down. I'm wearing a suicide vest so you must follow my orders." Then the plane runs out of fuel in the ocean.
    • ekianjo 13y ago
      We can't rule this out completely, but I don't know, it kind of seems unlikely since there would have been attempts at communication from passengers in the plane once they would notice the plane flying very low.
      • alexeisadeski3 13y ago
        Even if everyone on the plane were deceased, the phones which were left on should have picked up the network at 5,000ft over the Malaysian Peninsula. The fact that they evidently did not connect to their networks is... yet another mystery. It's possible that phone jammers were used. Either way, mechanical failure theories can't explain the lack of phone-network connections (fire disables all aircraft communications AND all cell phones AND doesn't destroy the plane? Bizarro). Hijacking theories technically can, but only tenuously (jammers? seriously?).