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Good. Another plausible. I am a little tired of the arm chair experts and their constant yapping about things they know nothing about. It's almost comical how everyone has a theory (even some plausible ones), but almost everyone's theory is based upon bad information on flying airplanes.

Oooo, the pilots turned off the transponder. There are plausible reasons, only one of which is nefarious.

Oooo, the aircraft climbed to 45000, above the service ceiling. There are plausible reasons, one of which is not nefarious: they actually didn't. One of the reason for a transponder is to display altitude. No transponder, no known altitude because radar cannot estimate not altitude well.

Oooo, no distress call. Several plausible reasons, and only one indicates that someone was doing something wrong with the aircraft.

Personally, I favor the flight deck fire theory, or the crew theft theory, but at least I know what I am talking about even if I don't know what actually happened to MH 370.

Personally, I favor the flight deck fire theory, or the crew theft theory, but at least I know what I am talking about even if I don't know what actually happened to MH 370.

I just can't accept the idea that an onboard fire disabled everyone to the point they never made another radio call, yet the airplane flew for another 7 hours or so with a fire (that should have eventually melted the cockpit like with Swissair 111 or UPS 6). So that leaves the jihadist operator theory.

Personally, I favor the flight deck fire theory,

The captain shot that one down by pointing out they didn't head for the nearest airport, which would have been Sultan Mahmud (TGG), on the north coast of the Malaysian Island. Reportedly, that was where the co-pilot did his 777 training. Pulau Langkawi (LGK), the airport Rush cited and nearer to where they actually went according to the military radar, is significantly further from the point of their last communication.