Sooner or later some poor government or small group of government was going to have to make the call to shoot down an airliner. Nobody wants to be the first. It’s bad news for every government and the world economy. Did you really think this wouldn’t happen sooner or later...really?
So...10 countries searching for a plane nobody wants to find. Why? It was high jacked and then shot down probably with the consensus of multiple governments.
To be clear, shooting it down may well have been the right decision.
The longer the misdirection is going on the longer the evidence soaks and key components that would display the cause are covertly recovered. Note that the entire Sea of Thailand is at most 200-300 feet deep. It’s not a moon shot to recover this debris. Make no mistake, this serves the greater good and this is how communist governments think...including our own.
Russia and the USN already downed civilian airliners.
Interesting. One story I read is that the US Navy only dispatched one ship to the area because maybe they picked up the signals from the black boxes at the bottom of the ocean. My initial reaction was that the Malaysians would never mount a salvage operation. Maybe I was correct in a way that I didn’t even imagine. It is true that the muzzies are obsessed with hijacking airlines. Sooner or later they were bound to be successful!
A problem with the hijack argument is the pilots made no effort to communicate after the transponders were shut down. If hijackers are trying to force their way into the cockpit, I would think someone would have gotten off a mayday.
The only viable scenario I can see is that either the pilot and/or co-pilot was directly involved here, or a crew member was and killed the captain and co-pilot after being let into the cabin. They then took action to incapacitate the passengers (probably through forced decompression of the cabin) and then flew westwards - no cell phone calls were made by passengers with the plane back over land. I do think it is quite possible some air force shot down the plane when it went off course. I have a hard time believing it was spotted on Malaysian military radar and not intercepted.