Wasn’t this the one that CNN speculated flew into a Black Hole?
I read this earlier in the week. Great article.
Oh, they’ll find it when it’s flown, loaded to the max with explosives, into some western capitol as a weapon.
Gen McInerny said years ago it was in Paki. Fox put the quietus on him for a while.
Well worth the read. Say what you want about their politics but The Atlantic does great long form pieces.
Excellent article! Naturally it says nothing about the captain being m*slim and motivated by his violent ideology.
The plane is probably sitting intact in a cave in Pakistan’s Swat Valley.
It sounds like it very likely was flown into the Indian Ocean.
The question then is why.
Last I heard several years ago, it was parked in a hangar on the ocean bed..about 400 miles SW of Kerguelen Islands.
Interesting article but note that it shifts suddenly into speculation towards the end.
On the Malaysian end, the investigation appears to have been an orgy of butt-covering. Not particularly surprising, given the nature of government bureaucracies. But disappointing, nonetheless.
Uh no, it vanished over the South China Sea.......A sea routinely patrolled by Chinese military aircraft who were constantly harassing not only merchant ships but commercial aircraft over that region..
My theory is that it was accidentally shot down by a Chinese fighter and covered up by not only the Chinese but the United States and Malaysia...........
The author never mentioned the lithium ion battery cargo.
Interesting. I viewed it as a plausible alternative theory which explained the many systems failures. With passengers & crew dead from toxic smoke, the plane could have flown on just as described after turning back toward the airport.
A pilotless plane is not unheard of: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/10/26/pilotless-jet-drifts-for-hours/f063918c-77e2-40a0-b59a-1f20b13bb080/?utm_term=.b6e624caa252
Great article.