[MarMema]

Yeah. My husband thought maybe the younger one was gay and trying to get out before Iran killed him...

Maybe the stolen passports are all a red herring.

But the WSJ had this article -

Big jets also carry sturdy emergency transmitters to identify an aircraft's location in the event of a mishap, so rescue teams can quickly reach the site. These devices, designed to be activated by impact on land or water, haven't sent any signals that were picked up by searchers, Malaysian aviation regulators said over the weekend.

So if has not crashed or made an impact, unless there is a way to turn those off, it was hijacked. In the dark.

We probably can think they have not rec'd a ransom request.

So, imo, the only thing you can conclude is that it has landed somewhere and what those who hijacked it wanted was on the plane.

That's what led me to the Freescale employees.

[xone]

The headline says: ‘haven’t sent out signals that have been picked up’. Doesn’t mean that they were turned off or that they aren’t sending signals. Just means searchers haven’t located any signals. If it is in the water, they will have to get relatively close to it to pick up the signal.