Originally Posted by
LordBored
Anyway, to me I think it was a terrorist attack, as 2 people were using stolen passports (something like that) and the plane just disappearing off the radar makes it even more convincing because of a bomb going off.
Any thoughts about this?
Well, without going to dar into details, most, if not everything, speaks against this theory. They were simply trying to travel to europe is the simple summary.
ontopic: Without going into any tin-foil-hat theories it seems likely that something malfunctioned with the nav. systems, and thus autopilot kicked out and manual flight mode were engaged, and the pilots made the decision that turning back were the best alternative. However, if the compass kicked ut of function it could explain why they navigated backwards the way they did, or as radars have picked up. They flew low to avoid other aircrafts, as noted by eye-witnesses, however something must have gone awfully wrong, perhaps due to lack of judgement as a side-effect of breathing too pure oxygen for a while, as the plane is yet to be located.
The most sound theory as of now, if you ask me, is that they flew off* path whilst at sea failing to navigate back to land whilst not risking gaining altitude due some kind of damage to the craft, resulting in the pilots taking a route west having missed that they had already covered distance into the indian ocean, hoping to reach land they had already passed by. And out of fuel they can/could have gone down anywhere in the midst of that huge chuck of water.
EDIT: As of now, midday the 14th of march, with the new sources on when communication were cut, it seems likely that the plane were hijacked, as the correlation between the timings on the loss of channels of communication falls within the boundaries of what time it would take to manually override them.
Last edited by Smogard49; Mar 14, 2014 at 11:01 AM.
Reason: *My spelling is horrid. + New sources.