“You can’t be serious. If China air traffic controllers had ANY indication the flight has been hijacked for the purpose of crashing into their iconic landmarks, skyscrapers or population centers you can bet the farm they’d shoot it down without hesitation.”
The guys running the show have no love for the populace. Being as we’re from a completely different culture it would be almost impossible to predict how they’d react. Plus, they’d have to know it had been hijacked. I believe American plans have a switch they can pull to signal a hijacking. Did they do that? Certainly, nobody would just shoot a civilian plane down without justification. The potential repercussions are too large and unknowable. And, if they did, why wouldn’t they own up to it, as hiding it given the way everybody is watching them electronically would be much worse than admitting it?
Nope, I don’t believe anybody shot this one down. It’s either a failed hijacking, a spectacular mistake, or a mechanical problem.
Or it was successfully STOLEN and landed somewhere.
Stay tuned..
“I believe American plans have a switch they can pull to signal a hijacking.”
It’s a transponder code.
“Certainly, nobody would just shoot a civilian plane down without justification”
Soviets did when they shot down the Korean Airliner.
“I don’t believe anybody shot this one down. It’s either a failed hijacking, a spectacular mistake, or a mechanical problem.”
Agree with you 100%.