Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight - Hijacking...but...

[sp1814]

According to the latest reports, investigators are theorising that the airline was hijacked, and flew for another seven hours after communications were disabled.*

Okay, if that's the case, surely someone out of all the plane's passengers could have called or texted someone at home?

(*I assume by 'communications' they mean the plane's communications lines).

Thoughts?

[emmie]

i suggested before that it could be a hijacking, to much derision. someone said that they can't get through to the cockpit, which is obviously not true if passengers lives are at stake. I am not saying it is that, but it's certainly something the authorities are now looking at.

[LazyGun]

Well that ridiculous charlatan Uri Geller has already jumped on the psychic bandwagon, offering his "abilities" to "remote sense" the location of the plane.

There are few things viler to witness than shameless self-promoters using a human tragedy in an effort to bolster their flagging "fame".

[emmie]

divebuddy, that would be defamatory, one must be careful...

[anneasquith]

uri geller. im sure he will be of great assistance, plonker.!

[Gromit]

Geller was a well known bender in the 70s.

[trt]

## Depending on the number of hi-jackers, they could have immobilised the passengers (plastic tie wraps used as hand-cuffs)

I doubt they would have over 300 plastic tie wraps on board!

[sp1814]

Some very well reasoned answers here.

I think my problem is I like mysteries to be explained (years of watching Poirot) and I have a feeling with this, we might have to do with theories for quite some time to come.

[emmie]

i thought it was a likely hijacking when it first happened. Two men, one an Iranian, with stolen passports, the plane massively off course, like hijackings before you would only have to threaten to kill a passenger, the pilots are not going to let that happen. If they find debris, then that possibly throws that idea out.

[mikey4444]

This is still not making much sense. When you consider how many countries this plane could have flown over, its a wonder that the individual defence radars didn't notice it. I thought we were all looking over our shoulders these days, just in case an enemy mounts an air attack. Wouldn't fighter planes have been scrambled ?

I presume it couldn't happen over British airspace ? ( gulp ! )

[jomifl]

Mikey, the plane only has to do a loop out over the ocean to 'vanish', ground based radars don't have a huge range.

[emmie]

they seem to believe that it was hijacked

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/15/missing-malaysia-airlines_n_4969193.html?ncid=webmail1

[New Judge]

The Malaysian authorities have announced that they have searched the homes of the pilot and co-pilot. All of the aircraft's communication systems were switched off which required expert knowledge or duress applied to somebody with that knowledge.

[SonnyCrockett]

I think the plane is hijacked and has landed on an island - Andaman Islands. Maybe the techie hijackers are in the process of setting up communications on the island to make their demands ?

[Gromit]

// All of the aircraft's communication systems were switched off which required expert knowledge //

I have read that to the communication system is turned off by one button. A pilot would know how to do that. But it could probably be easily taught.

[Gromit]

SonnyCrochet,

A Boeing 777 costs $300million. It is worth stealing?

[SonnyCrockett]

Or we can go all "X-files" and say that airliner is taken on an island as instructed by the government to perform a top secret mind control experiment on the passengers as part of a new world order ?

[puddle-duck]

@ emmie The cockpit door would have been opened for flight attendants to take food, coffee to the pilots. They could have just waited until the time was right.

It does look more like it was hijacked. Some of the theories out there are wild. One suggested that the plane was took over remotely and flew to some unknown destination. But my faviourite one was where someone suggested that the plane just climbed too high and ended up in space. :o

[jomifl]

How did we overlook that possibility?