What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

The Atlantic ^ | June 17, 2019 | WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE

[Mount Athos]

The discussion of the motive is unsatisfying, as clinical depression and a bad marriage doesn't seem to be an adequate motive for the mass murder of hundreds of people.

But otherwise has some interesting discussion, explains why many alternate theories are unlikely.

[DoodleDawg]

The discussion of the motive is unsatisfying, as clinical depression and a bad marriage doesn't seem to be an adequate motive for the mass murder of hundreds of people.

People have committed mass murder for a number of reasons. Depression or a failed marriage is as good a motivation as any.

[PIF]

The discussion of the motive is unsatisfying, as clinical depression and a bad marriage doesn’t seem to be an adequate motive for the mass murder of hundreds of people.

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He was a muslim and might have seen it as jihad and a way to enter paradise. Possible.

[Yo-Yo]

The discussion of the motive is unsatisfying, as clinical depression and a bad marriage doesn't seem to be an adequate motive for the mass murder of hundreds of people

Who says that crazy people need a good reason to do bad things?

[okie 54]

Muzzies love to die and take as many infidels with them as they can

[ifinnegan]

I figure our intelligence agencies know.

[Vaquero]

Sounds plausible. But I generally don’t take anything the Atlantic publishes seriously. Marxists.

[ThunderSleeps]

It is quite possible someone does know...but revealing that knowledge would expose a capability that is classified. Say some sources or methodology. There may be no clean way to drop any credible hint to steer the investigation so...they sit by and watch the world fumble along. Just a theory. It could be the pilot was a whack job and actually did pull off a murder suicide that baffles investigators.

[BBQToadRibs]

When mental illness moves in, reason moves out.

[cymbeline]

“It is quite possible someone does know...but revealing that knowledge would expose a capability that is classified.”

What sort of capability related to the crash would be classified?

[V V Camp Enari 67-68]

That is so true. The ends justify the means as we have witnessed many times.

[gasport]

Does CNN still care?
This explanation doesn’t fit its agenda.

[Wuli]

I kinda sorta understand suicide.

What I do not understand in the least is suicide that includes the intentional taking of many other lives.

[ml/nj]

But I generally don’t take anything the Atlantic publishes seriously. Marxists.

The guy who wrote this is the son of Wolfgang Langwieshce who wrote probably the best book ever written about flying an airplane, Stick and Rudder.

ML/NJ

[ThunderSleeps]

Space based radar that tracks all flights... A staring or scanning IR satellite with high enough resolution and real-time capability to track aircraft in flight... A sonar net sensitive enough to pinpoint a crash site... A HUMINT source inside another intel agency in a Country in the area that knows something... Signals intelligence that tracked the flight via unpublished means - even though pilots/operators/maintainers think there's only X, Y, and Z systems on commercial aircraft, perhaps there's one more black box very few people know about. Something to prevent another surprise 9/11...

There are lots of possibilities - heck that's just what I came up with off the top of my head before coffee. ;-) Obviously none are very likely, bordering on sci-fi, techno-thriller, mystery novel stuff.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#9: "When mental illness moves in, reason moves out."

Islam is a mental illness.
 

[gbunch]

This wouldn’t be the first time. Remember Egypt Air 990?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990

[Seruzawa]

Depression? On the same psych drugs as that German pilot?

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Interesting.

[Theoria]

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