Singapore and JAL take care of their birds. Not sure about the rest. I flew Beeman, Bangladesh Airlines, and that was scary, they were late and the flight attendants started praying on the PA system as we started our take off roll.
I think we should start a ship's pool for the ultimately-correct guess.
Or maybe it should be called a "plane's pool".
I'm pretty much with you in a way or two....I think the plane was hi-jacked, the passengers held as hostages....and though I don't know where the plane landed, if I had to take a shot at guessing, I'd say Pakistan as you did.
Leni
After the first two days I figured all the “news” was just being made up on the spot. Yet it is *still* rolling on, egads. Might as well go the alien abduction bamboo triangle route. :)
Been on JAL and ANA.. always good experiences.. international flights.. but who knows what’s going on in any cockpit. At least the Japanese have many decades of history clear of kamakazi incidents.
Theory i) The two Iranians were actually Quds Brigade goons doing the hijacking.
Theory ii) The two Iranians were wanted by the Iranians' goonocracy, who sent a Quds team to 'jack the airliner and return the twosome to Tehran, to be dragged on their faces, backwards, up the main drag of the city to the Quds Hilton.
Theory iii) The actors were Salafis instead, the Iranian "mystery duo" had nothing to do with it except as victims trying to emigrate to Europe and sanity, and the Salafis have some further use for the a/c (such as lugging a 50-kt device to New York or Paris and detonating it about 4000 feet above the target while orbiting for a normal landing at some mostly-freight airfield, like Teterboro).
Think that dog'll hunt?
I have to agree. Those pilots don’t appear suicidal in any pics Onyx.
If Mr. Zaharie (pilot) was involved in anything. Why now? Why this particular flight and destination? No obvious statements or notes left behind from him either... (As far as we know of.) If the pilot wasn’t suicidal. It would have been a hijacking by someone else. If someone else took control of the plane, the pilot might have been kept alive to fly while the passengers were expendable. Thus the quick up in elevation to depressurize. It is even possible that one of the pilots could have flown it into the ocean after that rather then cooperate further with someone’s demands
You have to wonder about the contact and communication with that plane and Malaysian ground control. With all those poor families awaiting news, it would be infuriating if information was being withheld that may already be known.
There is NO WAY I would want to be flying on one of those airlines. Certainly not after this.