[Mr. K]

My Guess: (hey it’s as good as all the others)

One or both of the pilots are in some sort of plot to hijak the plane and turn southwest at the moment a handoff from towers usually occurs.

The passengers catch on to it, and try to regain control of the plane, resulting in some sore of fire that kills everyone on board through smoke or flames or something.

Plane integrity is not breached, so it continues flying straight until it crashes int he ocean.

[grania]

Nice plausible theory.

It doesn't answer the question that will never be answered, even if you're correct. How the heck in an era when someone is probably surveilling this post and a drone can probably know what I eat for lunch can a huge plane with hundreds of passengers on a regularly scheduled flight be lost or stolen and then not found in this amount of time?

[irish guard]

OK...this might be a bit whacky, but here goes. I think someone was able to hack into the plane's flight capabilities and shut the pilots' ability to fly the plane down, along with any ability to communicate. They then were able to fly the plane remotely. Not sure the result is any different, it's probably at the bottom of the ocean......but that's my guess.

The reason there isn't more out there about this is it would scare the sh*t out of everyone who flies, so China and the US settled on this way out of the way part of the Indian Ocean to search, while they figure out who did this cyber hijacking.