So What Happened To The Plane?

[GirlyMan]

My theory is that the plane probably explosively decompressed due to some error or material fatigue (or some other kind of instant tragedy that kept the crew from calling an SOS) and was lost in the depths of the ocean.

Occam's Razor anyone?

Looks like it kept flying on autopilot for quite some time after the last communication. So explosive decompression is likely ruled out. All I can think is depressurization like in Payne Stewart's death. How that could possibly happen on a bigass Boeing 777 I got no clue.

[Minimalist]

Who would program the autopilot to fly to the middle of the ocean?

[GirlyMan]

Who would program the autopilot to fly to the middle of the ocean?

Someone who could also instantly depressurize the cabin?

[truthBtold]

Some one ripped ass and it stunk soo much that they rolled down the windows and all shit broke loose...

[My imaginary friend is GOD]

Scroll all the way down.

Do you see a series of thumbnails?

Click on the one that says "The Curious Case of Flight 370"


If it is not there, clear your cache.

Okay, basically, now, just...

Nevermind.

I have decided that it is no longer worth it to try to find this video. Do you realize that EVERYTHING ON THE PAGE is a thumbnail? And I keep scrolling and there's more thumbnails, and I'm pretty sure this show has been on for a long time and there are a lot of fucking thumbnails and I don't know when I will ever stop SCROLLING.

Much less possibly find the video I want to see right now.

*Shrugs* Oh well, then.

[Minimalist]

LOL.

I don't know what the problem is. All I see are the thumbnails from yesterday. Can't explain the difference.

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I found it on yahoo, darlin'. Scroll down...if you can't play this one there is something wrong with your machine.


http://news.yahoo.com/daily-show-catches...R2dGlkAw--

[Raeven]

My pet theory from the beginning has been a pilot suicide, one where that pilot took the whole plane with him. I probably came to that conclusion more readily because of a similar incident that occurred near where I used to live, back before airline personnel were made to go through the regular security procedures as passengers: Wikipedia Article

So far as I can tell, it's the only scenario that fits with the facts we do know.

[JuliaL]

The best speculation I read, though I forget the exact source, was one of a cockpit electrical fire which took out communications first. Then, while the pilots were pulling breakers to remove the ignition source energy and accidentally shutting down the transponder, they succumbed to toxic combustion gasses. The passengers were lost to the toxic atmosphere next. The autopilot ran the plane out of fuel and it crashed.
The two minute turn back toward the originating airport could have been executed by the pilots before they succumbed.

[Raeven]

But that doesn't explain why the plane was flown -- by pilot and not autopilot -- to an altitude of 45,000 feet, which exceeds this aircraft's "safe" altitude and likely resulted in the deaths of all passengers and/or crew (except those who had sufficient oxygen), and it doesn't explain why the plane then flew at an altitude of 12,000 feet for a time, which appears to have been a maneuver intended to elude radar. The plane then had to have climbed back to an altitude of around 35,000 feet in order to have gone as far as it did with available fuel to crash in the Indian Ocean. All that indicates -- to me, anyway -- a knowledgeable pilot at the controls.

[Minimalist]