Missing MH370 thread cont...

[Pennies]

Old thread here

New thread here.

[NotDavidTennant]

"Latest is the plane could be somewhere near Kyrgyzstan or China."

Sounds like they are considering Xinjiang separtists as the most likely culprits.

[PandaFeet]

I just feel that if I was one of the family members I would be more upset at the flat denials, than being told its a possibility, we are looking into it and analysing the data takes time.

Malaysia didn't say that. They refuted all the claims and kept searching in a entirely different area.

To me it feels like the US moving USS Kidd into the Andaman Sea/Malacca Strait in order to begin searching the Indian Ocean is what has forced Malaysia into admitting they knew more than they were letting on.

[NeonMuffin]

Why has it's taken them a week to find this out? I don't think we are getting the full story here, I think the officials know EXACTLY what happened to this plane and for whatever reason are keeping quiet about it.

[GarthsUncle]

In the UK you have to have a reason to search someone's house so that there is an audit trail of evidence for any trial. If the evidence takes a lot of analysis before it is sound enough then that's the time required.

[Moonfacesmother]

Yeah I'm hoping it's a bluff. So they can catch those responsible by sneaking up on them...or something slightly more impressive and technical than that but that's the general gist.

The relatives must be on a complete rollarcoaster. First thinking for sure the plane had crashed and there was no hope their loved one was alive to thinking maybe the plane has landed somewhere with an unknown fate for their relative.
I am convinced that the plane is not in the ocean.
I think it's odd that not one passenger tried to make contact with anybody, unless they did and we haven't been told.

[DowntonTrout]

A Chinese group, Chinese Martyrs?? Did claim responsibility for this a few days ago. I think it was discounted at the time- officially anyway.

[lessonsintightropes]

I genuinely don't think that there's a big conspiracy. There are multiple regional and international tensions between the countries involved which have hampered co-operation.

[SundaySimmons]

National/international security will always be more important than a couple of hundred people's relatives.

As distressing as it is for relatives, the powers that be in Government and military must only reveal information that they feel is suitable at the time.

They may not want to reveal the extent of why the sky is or isn't monitored in order to protect security systems.

I just hope that the passengers by some small miracle are alive and will be released.

[Pennies]

"I think it's odd that not one passenger tried to make contact with anybody, unless they did and we haven't been told."

Yes, me too. It just doesn't add up.

[lessonsintightropes]

Unless they were all subdued/gassed.

[OwlCapone]

"I think it's odd that not one passenger tried to make contact with anybody, unless they did and we haven't been told."

Is mobile coverage good over the ocean in that part of the world then?

[GarthsUncle]

If a child was being held in front if you with a knife at their throat, threatened with death if you reached for your phone, other than to hand it to another hijacker, what would you do?

(Also - no mobile phone coverage over the sea)

[lessonsintightropes]

Mobiles don't work at higher altitudes than 8,000 ft in any case. All available data puts the plane at between 43,000 and 23,000 until contact was lost.

[traininthedistance]

It seems hardly believable - in the realms of movie scripts (Lost meets Bond - I must confess Lost has been on my mind a lot this week!) There are so many odd possibilities that a week ago sounded like tinfoilhattery and this week seem within the bounds of possibility (gold heist, freesat employees, China-related terrorist separatists, landing on a remote airstrip, pilot sabotage, attempt to get to Diego Garcia...it's extraordinary.)

Best case scenario - a secret hostage situation under active negotiation - still a chance of recovering some of those poor people :(

[Slh122]

I actually can't believe a plane has just gone 'missing'. It's almost as though my head can't comprehend it - it feels like I'm watching a movie.

[Pennies]

Garthsuncle - possibly, but I bet someone would try to at some point. There seems to have been no attempt at all.

Mind you if there's no signal that high...

[trixymalixy]

All this must be absolutely dreadful for the families of the passengers. I really feel for them and hope this doesn't drag on much longer.

[PublicEnemyNumeroUno]

Why wasn't a distress signal sent either, surely if a hijack situation was going on they would have time to send an sos ?

[EmmaSue]

If the hijackers were in the cabin and didn't want mobiles, they would just collect them all up. Everybody has a mobile these days, if someone claims they don't, they can be searched, or just killed on the spot. Then it relies on someone having more than one mobile and trying to use it.

[Moonfacesmother]

Yes I guess so. And maybe by the time they had landed all the mobiles had been taken by whoever hijacked the plane.

I don't know, it's all really weird. I can't help thinking the pilot must have been working with the hijackers since otherwise wouldn't he have alerted to the fact there was a problem?

[StealthPolarBear]

Just getting on this thread

[misstiredbuthappy]

Is anybody else scared of the thought that the plane is going to be used in some sort of attack ?