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The thing I can never get past with the Malaysia 370 incident was the super weird flight path the plane took - like it was trying to evade tracking systems. Wh

The thing I can never get past with the Malaysia 370 incident was the super weird flight path the plane took - like it was trying to evade tracking systems. What a tradgedy.

cletus 11y ago
I think the change in flight path, the disabling of the transponder and the timing (right after leaving Malaysian airspace) all point to human intervention. The question is what kind. I honestly think at this point it was deliberately crashed into the ocean by a pilot with mental problems. We of course tragically saw another example of this with the Germanwings flight. The flight at this point has been declared an accident in the absence of any evidence to the contrary. That probably means, among other things, a payout to the pilot's family right? I imagine such a thing might not happen if an investigation determined it was a deliberate act. I also think the engine "ping" may probably have been a surprise to whoever planned this. I mean imagine where we'd be if we didn't have it? We'd have no idea where to look for it. Even with having a strong theory suggesting a ~10,000km^2 area we haven't found it in a year. What if we were looking for it anywhere in the Indian Ocean? We'd never find it if it was deep enough. I think I read somewhere that the lack of debris is also surprising and is consistent with the plane hitting the ocean in a dive.
Steko 11y ago
I think this is just BS rationalizing by talking heads because evil suicide muslim pilot makes for good tv ratings. The path the plane took is known because of tracking systems it was supposedly avoiding. It flew right over one of the largest/busiest airports in Malaysia. If you were trying to avoid radar would you have done that? Would you have flown into Indonesian airspace or gone farther out before turning south? If you wanted to crash the airplane wouldn't you just crash the airplane? The entire suicide pilot theory [1] has unfortunately jumped the rails and become largely unfalsifiable and indistinguishable from CT, whatever the plane is observed to do is instantly ascribed to the suicide pilots master plan which there is zero real evidence for. Can't find the plane? All part of his master plan. [1] which is a perfectly good theory and one of the two most likely scenarios.

The thing I can never get past with the Malaysia 370 incident was the super weird flight path the plane took - like it was trying to evade tracking systems. What a tradgedy.

cletus 11y ago

I think the change in flight path, the disabling of the transponder and the timing (right after leaving Malaysian airspace) all point to human intervention. The question is what kind. I honestly think at this point it was deliberately crashed into the ocean by a pilot with mental problems. We of course tragically saw another example of this with the Germanwings flight. The flight at this point has been declared an accident in the absence of any evidence to the contrary. That probably means, among other things, a payout to the pilot's family right? I imagine such a thing might not happen if an investigation determined it was a deliberate act. I also think the engine "ping" may probably have been a surprise to whoever planned this. I mean imagine where we'd be if we didn't have it? We'd have no idea where to look for it. Even with having a strong theory suggesting a ~10,000km^2 area we haven't found it in a year. What if we were looking for it anywhere in the Indian Ocean? We'd never find it if it was deep enough. I think I read somewhere that the lack of debris is also surprising and is consistent with the plane hitting the ocean in a dive.

Steko 11y ago

I think this is just BS rationalizing by talking heads because evil suicide muslim pilot makes for good tv ratings. The path the plane took is known because of tracking systems it was supposedly avoiding. It flew right over one of the largest/busiest airports in Malaysia. If you were trying to avoid radar would you have done that? Would you have flown into Indonesian airspace or gone farther out before turning south? If you wanted to crash the airplane wouldn't you just crash the airplane? The entire suicide pilot theory [1] has unfortunately jumped the rails and become largely unfalsifiable and indistinguishable from CT, whatever the plane is observed to do is instantly ascribed to the suicide pilots master plan which there is zero real evidence for. Can't find the plane? All part of his master plan. [1] which is a perfectly good theory and one of the two most likely scenarios.