[Jack Hydrazine]

It wouldn’t explain why the GSM cellphones and smartphones that passengers had on board were able to be dialed to by their relatives or were online up to three days after the aircraft supposedly crashed.

[fatman6502002]

the tech guru’s have explained that what those families heard was not the phones but the system trying to locate the phones, or some such thing. Either way according to the techies the phones ringing is a dead end lead.

[smokingfrog]

Terrorists could have killed everyone onboard with some kind of poison gas. Not sure how they could sneak gas masks onto the plane for themselves without raising some red flags though. I suppose they could use the oxygen masks that the flight crew might normally use in the event of a depressurization?

[gunsequalfreedom]

It wouldn’t explain why the GSM cellphones and smartphones that passengers had on board were able to be dialed to by their relatives or were online up to three days after the aircraft supposedly crashed.

You gotta a good point there. If the plane was under water, I doubt those smart phones would have done any better than mine did when I dropped it in the Jacuzzi. It shut off within a few seconds, not days later.

On qq, it shows when your phone is on.

[cynwoody]

It wouldn’t explain why the GSM cellphones and smartphones that passengers had on board were able to be dialed to by their relatives or were online up to three days after the aircraft supposedly crashed.

They're confused.

If those phones were really still online, they would have had to have been checking into cell towers, and finding them would have been a cinch. Just simple triangulation. No need to fly around and gaze at blue water.