Missing from radar screen - One Boeing 777

[Smurfy]

[QUOTE 2977696, member: 9609"]best way to snap something off (particularly metal) is to bend it up and down as fast as you can. Just pushing in one direction is never going to do the trick.[/quote]
Yes, but huge amounts of money has been spent determining the fatigue response of aerospace materials, and the time intervals at which inspection for cracks must occur.

 

[CopperBrompton]

[QUOTE 2977696, member: 9609"]best way to snap something off (particularly metal) is to bend it up and down as fast as you can. Just pushing in one direction is never going to do the trick.[/quote]
I think you didn't watch the video ...

You could watch this one too:

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i'm amazed no theories i've seen anywhere have mentioned north korea. my theories:

1) plane veers marginally off course, ends up in nk airspace and gets shot down (as in ka007, when the soviets shot down a south korean airliner that strayed into their airspace)
2) as above, but plane crashes in nk, possibly after running out of fuel
3) plane hijacked by nk agents who fly the plane to nk to steal its technology, which might explain why the plane's transponders were not switched on

If the plane crashed or was shot down over nk, it's unlikely the regime would admit to the shooting down, or welcome a large foreign delegation of crash detectives etc in the event the plane just crashed.

none of the above theories bodes well for the passengers and crew…

 

[CopperBrompton]

i'm amazed no theories i've seen anywhere have mentioned north korea. my theories:
1) plane veers marginally off course, ends up in nk airspace

I'm going to take a wild shot in the dark here and guess that your degree isn't in geography ...

 

[babytiger]

Channel 5 now- "the plane that vanished" for anyone that wants to watch

 

[MontyVeda]

i'm amazed no theories i've seen anywhere have mentioned north korea. my theories:

1) plane veers marginally off course, ends up in nk airspace and gets shot down (as in ka007, when the soviets shot down a south korean airliner that strayed into their airspace)
2) as above, but plane crashes in nk, possibly after running out of fuel
3) plane hijacked by nk agents who fly the plane to nk to steal its technology, which might explain why the plane's transponders were not switched on

If the plane crashed or was shot down over nk, it's unlikely the regime would admit to the shooting down, or welcome a large foreign delegation of crash detectives etc in the event the plane just crashed.

none of the above theories bodes well for the passengers and crew…

North Korea might have been a few hundred miles out of the plane's range... but i like your thinking

 

[MontyVeda]

Channel 5 now- "the plane that vanished" for anyone that wants to watch

I'm going to wait for the Horizon special... Channel 5 is too technical for me

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I'm going to take a wild shot in the dark here and guess that your degree isn't in geography ...

ahem… seems the australians are talking about north korea, why not the brits?

 

[hoopdriver]

"I wouldn't be nervous about flying if the wings didn't wag. Solid steel. Thick as a bank safe. Flexing like tree branches. It's not natural"

It's very natural gven the stresses involved.

Breaking and falling off is unnatural. That just doesn't happen

 

[hoopdriver]

I'm going to take a wild shot in the dark here and guess that your degree isn't in geography ...

Well compass reading and navigation sure isn't his long suit. All indications have the plane travelling west, out over the Andaman Sea, exactly the wrong direction if you wanted to go to North Korea (or South Korea either, for that matter). That's probably why nobody has suggested it as a possibility.

 

[CopperBrompton]

ahem… seems the australians are talking about north korea, why not the brits?

People in more than one country are talking gibberish on the web? My flabber is well and truly ghasted, I can tell you.

 

[Crankarm]

what a load of bollox... sorry, but it's just rambling inane BS... not a surprise that Classic has 'liked' it though... he thinks Kubrick faked the moon landings.

No need to be quite so rude and unpleasant.

 

[TVC]

People in more than one country are talking gibberish on the web? My flabber is well and truly ghasted, I can tell you.

Lack of facts multiplied by time leaves so much space for inane prats to put forward their ill informed ideas, or crack ball belief in the supernatural as possible explanations.
If I could swap everybody with a baseless opinion on what happened with those people on that flight I would.

 

[MontyVeda]

No need to be quite so rude and unpleasant.

faced with such inane BS... I felt i was merely stating a fact... i apologise if my tone offended.

 

[Dangermouse]

Well, it looks like the posts I made at the beginning of this thread, which were simply torn apart as" couldn't possibly happen" may just have happened, this plane couldn't fly that far, well it appears it has, or its definitely not been hijacked.............some people need to read the news and put things into perspective before posting.

I stand by what I said in earlier posts, the aircraft had its transponder turned off, it then was flown towards the Middle east, possibly under a hijack situation, but until more is known, no one knows if it landed or crashed 7 yes 7 flying hours later, personally I hope it landed and 239 people are still alive as hostages.

Iran..............lets see what the news comes out with next