The ACAR could have been disabled. If it stopped after 4 hours, and they had 6 hours of fuel, its possible it was just disabled after a 4 hour period. From what I’ve heard, unlike the other systems, the ACAR cannot be disabled from the cockpit. You have to go down into the bowels of the plane and open the thing up to turn it off. Remember, the other two communications systems were turned off systematically, with about a ten minute gap between them, but both are accessible in the cockpit. Why the delay? Unless they planned to delay the systematic shutdown of communication systems to throw off the search.
I’m not sure why US sources are now saying they think it crashed in the Indian Ocean, unless they have info they have yet to release. That makes no sense to me. No system failure could explain the detour, and why go out that far to kill yourself? All the evidence we have points to a deliberate hijacking, and the pilots are looking increasingly suspicious.
Exactly that is what I don’t get about this “They crashed into the Indian Ocean” theory..if the hijackers whole intention was to kill everyone on board, just take the plane and nosedive it into the China Sea..why fly it around for four hours, for what, to find the perfect spot to off yourself, nosedive a plane from anywhere and they are dead
“I’m not sure why US sources are now saying they think it crashed in the Indian Ocean, unless they have info they have yet to release. That makes no sense to me.”
It is called disinformation.