General McInerny (sp?) on Fox this morning doubled down on Pakistan hinting he had inside contacts feeding him info.
Another article on FR by a pilot says it was an intentional turn by a veteran pilot due to a mayday on board like fire in the electrical system. He would have programmed the closest, easiest airport and then gone to fight the fire, electrical meaning turning off systems one at a time to find the source, but smoke overcoming everyone, they just kept on south toward the indian ocean til they ran out of gas and crashed into the sea.
Both are plausible given that McInerny is Air Force, does have contacts, and could be getting fed info. If the military has set up a group solely focused on the threat aspect, they would be collecting and processing info based on that assumption which is too deadly to leave alone. They must operate under the assumption of threat until proven otherwise. It cannot be left to fester.
I keep reading folks saying “they’ll put a suitcase nuke on board and fly it to....”.
Why a suitcase nuke? Those are for sneaky operations trying to escape detection by folks traveling on public transit or highways. If you own the entire plane and you’re in Pakistan or Iran, you can put the real McCoy on a 777-200.
The Israelis are also nervous..the IAF has stepped up alert status.
Exactly. You could put a whole lot of crap on an otherwise empty 777. Paint it, re-program or switch out some parts, give the plane a new transponder signal, book a flight, flight plan and all and you could fly that plane about anywhere in the world you wanted to.