[Red Badger]

Did the aircraft have enough fuel to fly to Iran, Pakistan or Afghanistan?.......................

[hamboy]

From Kuala Lumpur to Beijing is 2,700 miles, Lahore 2,600 miles, Tehran 3,907. They'd not max fuel 47,890USG to fly max 7,825 miles range, airlines will allocate weight for cargo instead.

[CivilWarBrewing]

The aircraft had just enough fuel to make it to Pakistan. We didn't seem to have too much trouble sneaking into Pakistan via helicopter to get OBL (if that even happened).

The missing Malaysian jet is just like dumping OBL at sea. A mystery with no video or photos of it. All comm and transponders apparently were turned off. Aircraft expert software hacker aboard? How could other countries' RADAR not intercept this aircraft???

I can imagine Muslim gov't officials saying "If they don't find the wreckage, we can pretend we don't know what happened" even though they KNOW it was shot down over deep waters... Makes perfect sense to lie or deceive in that culture. But I think the aircraft was shot down over the Indian Ocean, possibly by Malaysian F/A-18's. A pilot could've been given orders to shoot it down but gov't officials dispute order was given and by whom, so Malaysian gov't is.. Stalling.