Missing from radar screen - One Boeing 777

[Smurfy]

I woul think this has been known for a few days, I can bet Boeing have turned on the engine management so if they do start an engine the location will be sent

Too much news and detail can be a bad thing. Criminals read news reports too. Years ago terrorists used to use satellite phones, then it was revealed in a few court cases that the authorities had been evesdropping, so they stopped using them and the authorities had to find a new way of spying.

 

[Fab Foodie]

[QUOTE 2979666, member: 9609"]

.... Interesting that one of the suspected flight paths would take it towards Diego Garcia.[/QUOTE]
Bring me the heading of Diego Garcia ....

 

[asterix]

My original theory (posted in another place) was that this is crime copied from the Adventures of Tintin - Flight 714.

Aboard the aircraft, the hijackers were qualified pilots in disguise

who took over the plane and immediately put the plane into a steep dive to get below the radar.

They then headed for a deserted island on which their accomplices had constructed a temporary air strip fitted with arrester gear. It was only just long enough.

The plane was then hidden. Unfortunately for the villains they were abducted by space aliens before they could complete their evil scheme, Tintin & co were released with no memory of the incident.

It all happened in the same region, too:

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Yellow card

Overruled.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Really? Who by?

Moi.

 

[MontyVeda]

So now.........who has them, it has just been announced that the last signals were sent after it landed, good news for all the families, but who has them and where are they.

I really do hope this information is correct.

As far as i can tell, the last signals 'may' have been sent after it landed... which is still speculation and nothing conclusive.

 

[classic33]

Yellow card

 

[GrumpyGregry]

My baseless theories

Either hijacked using nefarious electronic means which it then turns out the hijackers couldn't control so it flew on until it ran out of fuel and crashed
-or-
Shot down en route to taking out the Petronas Tower in which case the truth will never come out before I turn 70.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

My fave theory HERE
sorry if it was posted earlier

 

[DaveReading]

I woul think this has been known for a few days

If you're referring to the hypothesis referred to above, that "the last signals were sent after it landed", I'm afraid that isn't "known" at all.

I can bet Boeing have turned on the engine management so if they do start an engine the location will be sent

The engine data transmissions don't contain any information on the aircraft's location. If they did, and if the above report of a transmission after the aircraft had landed was correct, then the aircraft's location would already be known.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Is there a double handed beckoning "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough" smiley?

No.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Might 3BM be capable of imagining such a thing?

Somehow I doubt it ... But his 'overulling' shows rare signs of intelligence ....

 

[Cycling Dan]

I don't think this advertisement is going to takeoff

 

[classic33]

"Spoofing/faking another flight
I'm sorry if this has been touched upon before, but a search in this thread for "fake flight plan " doesn't return any hits. So:

Could whoever piloted MH370 have filed a "fake" IFR flight plan for "Whatever flight XXX/Private XXX" in advance and then, when the aircraft had been disappeared over the ocean in an area without ATC and radar coverage, simply present himself as "Whatever flight XXX/Private XXX" in accordance with the filed flight plan to ATC when entering controlled airspace, set the ACs transponder to the designated squawk and then all of a sudden be a legit flight being able to travel in controlled airspace without anyone including military types noticing (for the time being at least)?

Or would ATC know in advance that "Whatever flight XXX/Private XXX" had in fact never taken off from it's filed origin and therefore flag it as trouble? Does - or rather must - the ATC handing the aircraft off into uncontrolled airspace advise the ATC in the other end that "Whatever flight XXX/Private XXX" is approaching in accordance with filed flight plan?

(With a Mode S XPDR I guess you really can't unless ATC doesn't couple the transponders ID with the ICAO database or doesn't notice the discrepancy, but can the pilot of a 777 toggle the transponders mode and run in ie mode A/C?)"

 

[hoopdriver]

"Spoofing/faking another flight
I'm sorry if this has been touched upon before, but a search in this thread for "fake flight plan " doesn't return any hits. So:

Could whoever piloted MH370 have filed a "fake" IFR flight plan for "Whatever flight XXX/Private XXX" in advance and then, when the aircraft had been disappeared over the ocean in an area without ATC and radar coverage, simply present himself as "Whatever flight XXX/Private XXX" in accordance with the filed flight plan to ATC when entering controlled airspace, set the ACs transponder to the designated squawk and then all of a sudden be a legit flight being able to travel in controlled airspace without anyone including military types noticing (for the time being at least)?

Or would ATC know in advance that "Whatever flight XXX/Private XXX" had in fact never taken off from it's filed origin and therefore flag it as trouble? Does - or rather must - the ATC handing the aircraft off into uncontrolled airspace advise the ATC in the other end that "Whatever flight XXX/Private XXX" is approaching in accordance with filed flight plan?

(With a Mode S XPDR I guess you really can't unless ATC doesn't couple the transponders ID with the ICAO database or doesn't notice the discrepancy, but can the pilot of a 777 toggle the transponders mode and run in ie mode A/C?)"

I don't know but it sounds like at the very least a great plot premise for a thriller...