What's your Flight 370 conspiracy theory?

**AnyDream** · March 12th, 2014, 09:55 AM

Yeah. Pony show. With wings.

**trishalishous** · March 15th, 2014, 12:15 AM

I want to believe that they landed safely and are awaiting rescue.

Second choice is that it was a massive explosion and an instant, painless death.

Pretty sad that those are the best two outcomes :/

**thirdtimelucky77** · March 22nd, 2014, 10:58 PM

Alright I am very academically interested in this, I fly monthly but I am terrified of flying....

I think the plane is on the ground. Sadly I believe all passengers are dead. There were a number of US airline engineers on that flight, allegedly by coincidence. Think they hit 45,000 feet to knockout the passengers, then headed for the andaman sea. Why did they turnoff all communications transmissions? Why didnt they contact Vietnamese air traffic control?

Any why did 5 people check in for the flight and never board? Their luggage was removed prior to take off. What did or do they know that we don't?

Someone knows something probably the NSA in the states....

Xx

**Trillian** · March 23rd, 2014, 01:36 PM

Thirtimelucky, I'd imagine that there would be people not board flights all the time - extreme anxiety or stress at flying, unforseen circumstances, even being too drunk to board the flight. Or it could have been a passport/ticketing/customs issue too.

**Phteven** · March 23rd, 2014, 08:58 PM

Any why did 5 people check in for the flight and never board? Their luggage was removed prior to take off. What did or do they know that we don't?

Someone knows something probably the NSA in the states....

Xx

It's absolutely normal for people not to board flights, connecting flights are delayed, people hit traffic on the way to the airport.... I nearly missed a connection after 3 hours in an airport because I got bored and wandered to the other end then misjudged how long it would take to get back to my end of the terminal. Me and my family were rushed over the airbridge with about 3 minutes to spare before they would have taken off without us.

**Jaycee** · March 15th, 2014, 08:04 AM

News is now reporting that officials believe the communications were manually switched off, which brings me to believe it's been stolen... Hopefully landed but not likely

**~me~** · March 15th, 2014, 09:24 AM

I was talking about this yesterday at school pick up with another Mum. It's fascinating and scary to think a whole plane can just disappear.

We were discussing that perhaps the plane has been hijacked and taken to a country where sooner or later, ransom requests will be made for the safe return of the passengers.

Pretty far fetched I know, the other theory is the same as Wysiwigs (methane bubbles)

**AnyDream** · March 15th, 2014, 12:24 PM

The kidnapping theory is a very interesting one. Especially when you look at how far away Beijing is, and then draw a circle with the same size radius and look at the countries that are inside of that circle (as places that would use a similar amount of fuel to get to). Very interesting.

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But I also feel very frustrated as I'm certain there must be other (possibly much further away) countries with accurate (but secret) radar & satellite data who can't share it because (*ahem*) that would be admitting they are watching parts of the world that are none of their business. (A bit like China made a huge show of "announcing" that they were "deploying" satellites several days after the disappearance, like there was some big red switch that had to be turned on, & then nearly immediately reported something of interest). Tragic that the lives of a couple of hundred people could be hanging in the balance.

**Doing my best** · March 15th, 2014, 12:40 PM

The kidnapping theory is a very interesting one. Especially when you look at how far away Beijing is, and then draw a circle with the same size radius and look at the countries that are inside of that circle (as places that would use a similar amount of fuel to get to). Very interesting.

I was thinking the same when I read this earlier, but had an appointment we had to get to..

With knowing how corrupt some of the officials are in some of those countries, it wouldn't be too surprising.. (I am talking about some personal dealings with some customs officials in some of these nations through work).

**AnyDream** · March 15th, 2014, 05:01 PM

OK, so latest is that Malaysia PM has held a press release indicating they have looked at "more sensitive data" (ie, musta been someone else's) and have confirmed the plane's movements are consistent with someone on board taking deliberate action. ie, pointing more & more toward criminal activity.

**Dansta** · March 17th, 2014, 01:59 PM

Its scary that they have lost a whole plane. Scarier still they cant work together to find it or its remains... How these officals cant just join the dots already

**AnyDream** · March 17th, 2014, 02:27 PM

ERMA. GERD.

In breaking news, someone in the ****pit was heard casually saying "all right, good night" AFTER the comms tracking systems were disabled.

Flippin' flip. This just makes my blood boil, all this data must have been available from the time the plane disappeared - why has it taken this long for this info to be shared? A whole week of searching time has been wasted because some bozo(s) couldn't or wouldn't connect the dots any earlier.

My fear now (because it's gone well beyond the conspiracy theory zone) is that attempts were made to hijack it for terrorist purposes, and that someone on board (ie pilot, copilot) went through the motions of appearing to cooperate but flew as far out into the ocean as possible to take the plane out, Flight 73-style, to prevent a much greater tragedy elsewhere.

**Jaycee** · March 17th, 2014, 02:30 PM

Wow, this is all just crazy! I really hope the poor families affected get some sort of closure, one way or another, soon.

**Floweryfields** · March 17th, 2014, 06:09 PM

ERMA. GERD.

In breaking news, someone in the ****pit was heard casually saying "all right, good night" AFTER the comms tracking systems were disabled.

Flippin' flip. This just makes my blood boil, all this data must have been available from the time the plane disappeared - why has it taken this long for this info to be shared? A whole week of searching time has been wasted because some bozo(s) couldn't or wouldn't connect the dots any earlier.

My fear now (because it's gone well beyond the conspiracy theory zone) is that attempts were made to hijack it for terrorist purposes, and that someone on board (ie pilot, copilot) went through the motions of appearing to cooperate but flew as far out into the ocean as possible to take the plane out, Flight 73-style, to prevent a much greater tragedy elsewhere.

The 'alright goodnight' comment was discussed last week on one news program that I saw. It was written off as the pilot saying goodnight to the one airtraffic control as the plane was handed over to the next.....

**Miss.September** · March 17th, 2014, 06:16 PM

My theory is that another country has shot it down. A low flying, non responsive commercial plane in airspace it shouldn't be in? It would scream danger. I agree that the government knows more than they'll release but it's coming across really messy.

**Teeki** · March 17th, 2014, 02:23 PM

So everything I'm reading/seeing/hearing now pretty much says hijacking is confirmed, unless the pilot had something to do with it - they're looking into his political background or something.

They're saying the flight communications were switched off within half an hour after take off, and they actually had contact with the plane, or it turned up on a radar or something, at 8:11am - seven hours after originally thought.

I actually 'like' the kidnapping/hijacking idea because then they're alive. I hope they're all being treated ok.

**Teeki** · March 17th, 2014, 02:33 PM

What the hell? I don't see that as an inability to connect any dots, because surely they've had info like that all along? More and more I'm thinking it's that the officials, government, whoever thought "Oh ****. This is not good. What the heck do we tell people? Um, we lost it. That'll do, we know nothing." And then we get drip-fed more and more info that I can't really believe is only just coming to light.

**AnyDream** · March 17th, 2014, 09:41 PM

What the hell? I don't see that as an inability to connect any dots, because surely they've had info like that all along? More and more I'm thinking it's that the officials, government, whoever thought "Oh ****. This is not good. What the heck do we tell people? Um, we lost it. That'll do, we know nothing." And then we get drip-fed more and more info that I can't really believe is only just coming to light.

I too think it's a case of some of the less er... "flattering" info being suppressed, probably by different parties (bearing in mind there are civilian organisations, military, and governments involved across several countries in the region). BUT - someone in Malaysia was getting info from all those sources but fluffed it when it came to drawing conclusions about the several ways in which those chunks of info fit together into a bigger picture. Had those various scenarios been properly communicated, the search could have been widened much earlier.