I dont think they would have flown the plane for hours just to crash it into the Indian Ocean..I think that by bringing it to 45,000 feet, the passengers died(And I hope they did NOT suffer, I just hope that God was waiting for them as the entered heaven and that there was no pain) which was the hijackers intention all along, then they take the plane to Pakistan or Iran, refuel it, do a nice paint job on it, rename it American Airlines or whatever, and in a few months, bring it here and blow it up, my guess if I were a betting person, Wall Street..big impact, deaths in the thousands
You’re probably right, that they had other intentions for the ac, but I’m guessing they thought they would have a plane with full fuel tanks, and they could easily make it to one of those places. It turned out they only had 7 hours worth of fuel. Where they gonna go now? On the charts that I’ve seen, that would just barely get them to the Pakistan frontier. I’d like to know, if the plane was on Malaysian military radar, why didn’t they scramble some aircraft of their own and investigate?