I speculate that the aircraft has been either hijacked by the Iranians or stolen with the cap and f.o.’s permission. They turned the aircraft around, dropped to a low altitude to avoid radar but burning fuel at a higher rate than at cruising altitude, and flew to a remote airfield in one of many numerous islands in that region of the world, disembarked the passengers, and have loaded an Iranian nuke on board. That 777 will be repainted and re-programmed to look like another legitimate civilian aircraft. Then it will be flown into US airspace and detonated over a large city either in CA or NY. It probably would not be detected until it was too late.
Bizarre: missing Malaysia Airlines passengers’ phones ring, but no one answers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3131568/posts
That’d make a good Tom Clancy movie plot.
Thank you, Amazing Criswell.
Minimum runway for take off is 5000 feet empty, 7000 half-full, and 9000+ for completely full.
http://www.boeing.com/assets/pdf/commercial/airports/acaps/777_2lr3er.pdf
Your job is to locate all airports in a reasonable radius, say 3-4 hours from last known location, that have such runways.
How long you reckon it took them to build a 9000 foot concrete landing strip on one of those islands?
I do hope they didn’t forget to build a jetty to bring in the kerosene they will need to take off again ...
And the Presidents son, his cousin, and a retired CIA operative, all working for this shadow agency with unlimited funds, will drop onto the wings of the airplane. They will crawl to the exit doors and using they spy lock picks, they will enter the craft unseen. Two of them will diffuse the bomb, while the other meets and falls in love with the flight attendant/terrorist. Eventually, while joining the mile high club, the Presidents son has to kill the flight attendant—meaning he will never find true love again.
They all parachute out of the plane. But not until they set the auto pilot to take the plane to LAX where it lands unattended, with no one knowing the mystery.
Is it like that?
Stop reading my mind - you're freaking me out.....
That is some speculation there ;)
Well either that or somebody is going to want a big ransom for the jet and each passenger. The only thing is that it takes a 12,000 ft runway to land a Boeing 777 and the concrete has to be about 3ft thick. I would think hard to land without being detected.
The cell phones still ringing is really weird.
Wow, that is quite a theory. They would have to have some significant capability to be able to pull that one off.
Without trying to sound rude, have your considered a career in fiction writing. Sounds like a really good book plot.