I am going to go out on a limb (everybody does it here, including you, but not so serious as you...), and say it was not the crew. Not the pilot or the co-pilot anyway.
Maybe it was the Iranians illegally on the flight, or someone else undiscovered on the flight with piloting experience.
I think both the pilot and the co-pilot were living the life they loved. I doubt they’d compromise it. They do not appear like the other pilots who have dropped their own planes in the drink on purpose. At least from what we know, these guys were pretty happy in the pilot lifestyle. And relatively young too.
One had female companionship in his cockpit during a flight 2 years ago! I don’t call that a setup for making him appear normal. Nothing like MAtta and his ilk. The key point, the guy seemed to have a history as a player, not a temporary holy warrior trying to make appearances as something he wasn’t.
I do agree, the government needs to get the warrants (or ever how it works in Malaysia), and search the flight crew’s personal effects, to be sure. But I am standing confidently on my limb of this tree, and saying they won’t find anything.
I agree with everything you said.
Imus says it every day, ‘where’s the Plane?!’
As likely as anything from my pov, is a scenario like the one you described, and any scenario that the authorities don’t allow is negligent.
To search their stuff gets them off that scenario and on to another
Investigators don’t make the facts fit the theory, not teams of international investigators. But they have to look at the pilots
That they have t says there’s a lot more they have t looked at. They were just as likely put out of play by fliers Then again, why them? Chance? Incompetent record? Bribable? We’re they investigated by perpetrators? Well, of course they would’ve been My neighborhood juvenile drug addict is going to case my domicile Is there a mark on their computer?