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?
Maybe Malaysia shot it down but won’t admit it, that is possible as well..so they are going to do this dog and pony show, putting the families through hell, already knowing where the plane is? Not sure anything is possible at this point. If I had to bet on which pilot would be the likely one to be involved in this, Id say the co-pilot..local news here was talking about his family, saying how the co-pilot is a “Good Muslim” who is recently engaged..Good Muslim, gee, a good Muslim who is engaged to be married but has girls in the cockpit and is a “Ladies man” sounds like those Muslims you hear about, all about being clean and pure yet they go to strip clubs and get hookers every night