If they indeed 370 followed another flight, this was a very well planned operation.
Heard the rumor a few days ago that it might have been “shadowing” Singapore Airlines Flight 68
This was the flight path
http://pt.flightaware.com/live/flight/SIA68/history/20140307/1640Z/WSSS/LEBL
I can understand that a politician of some sort can be behind the missing of this plane or some government official who might be mad, but I sure hope they didn't sell out to Iran or China.
Kinda makes sense seeing they showed the plane doing some short course corrections once it got over the straight. I would have to determine the average speed of the aircraft and then do a time motion study of the departure times and the distances traveled being one started off in Singapore at 1:00 a.m.
Just out of curiosity, I’ll play that game later today to see if from all the known data if it was even probable.