What can you do with a civilian aircraft and 235 hostages? right! pack it with explosives load up the hostages and force Isreal as it heads toward them to shoot it down. Just saying
Do you really think that the Israelis will hesitate to do so?
Do you think we would if it were heading in the direction of NYC?
It wouldn't take them three weeks to do that, though.
There is no way in hell the possession of a 777 airliner is going to be kept quiet, with ears up all over the world-and above it. Even if you landed it on a dirt runway, put it in a hangar in the most remote part of some 3d world country and used a fleet of skidloaders to cover it with treelimbs and trash like a landfill, something is going to “see”.
And you would never keep that many hostages shut up and confined either-there are always those willing to risk their lives to get out, and many had cell phones, too. The passengers would have been killed before hijackers tried to land that plane. I think they screwed up-either underestimated their fuel consumption, or were set upon by passengers/crew not wanting to be hijacked-either way, they are at the bottom of the Indian Ocean...