I never, and I heard no one else say it on this site, said anything about a small deserted island. There are many landing strips in the Pacific left over from World War II. We built them everywhere and never took them out. They won't be in the best shape but they could be cleared for an operation like this and concealed again with potted trees and cargo netting.If the island isn't deserted, then there are witnesses. Or hasn't that occurred to you?
I will answer your question for the third time. If this is an ongoing operation then you don't tip your hand by taking credit.
If this is a real crash then some terrorist organization COULD take credit for something they didn't do.
If this is some kind of quasi government op out of say...Pakistan, then Obama becomes very dangerous. Not because he is but because he really needs to change the subject from Russia, Benghazi, Syria. and the ACA. He just orders some guys to attack a compound, try to get back some hostages and he becomes a hero. I am sure that the Chinese would throw in with him as well. We supply the tech (ships, drones, missiles, infor) and China supplies the troops.
Considering how well Iran has hidden some of the sites, you can hide a 777 in the world today. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
None of the theories makes sense. This is a very fucked up situation.Has the famous pilot from Asiana Airlines, Captain Sum Ting Wong, been accounted for yet?
But the worst sounding theory is that the plane was flown to some small deserted island in the Indian Ocean. Really?
A 777 needs a runway about 8,000 feet long for maximum landing weight:
http://planes.findthebest.com/q/291/...ed-to-take-off
Even if it was NOT at maximum landing weight, it would probably still need about 6,500-7,000 feet. And it has to be reinforced concrete, not a dirt landing strip.
How many remote islands in the Indian Ocean have a runway like that? None?
If if landed at a populated island, there would be witnesses, of course.
And our satellites would have found it on land by now. You just can't hide a 777 and the 239 people on it. Here is more:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/14/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1
I think the best of all the bad theories is that one or both of the pilots took the plane on a suicide mission. They shut down all of the tracking equipment and flew out into the middle of the ocean and ditched.
But, if that is true, why hasn't some jihadist organization taken credit for it? Originally Posted by ExNYer
If the island isn't deserted, then there are witnesses. Or hasn't that occurred to you?So you think it is absolutely impossible for find a runway?
The people living on the island will know the plane is there. Especially the ones working at the airport. Don't you think Fiji Islanders will say something if, you know, a lost 777 is sitting on their runway?
Cargo netting? Potted plants? LOL. What a fucking idiot. Are you serious? Who do you think that is going to fool? People living on the island would kind of notice a big blob of cargo netting at the end of a runway, don't you think? What makes you think that the people on the island are not in on it?
And, no, actually, we didn't build airstrips "everywhere" in the Pacific. Figure of speech but we did build hundreds of them.
We invaded or occupied a finite number of islands. Duh!
We built airstrips on an even smaller number of them. All you need is one.
Most of the ones we did build were much shorter than the 8,000 feet needed to land a Boeing 777 and were much thinner because they only needed to handle the weight of a B-29 - at most.
And, finally, those airfields haven't been maintained for SEVENTY years. So they are crumbling.
So, NO, you are wrong again.
You need a DESERTED island with an 8000 foot runway with THICK concrete in good condition.
Go find one, jackass. Originally Posted by ExNYer
maybe the plane had a pressurization failure....pro golfer payne stewart and a few others died when their jet....a small personal plane when the cabin had a pressurization failure....all on board died well before the eventual crash....Now you're starting to think. We now have the information (though we don't know the reliabllity of it) that the plane climbed to 40,000 feet before dropping. If the cabin was depressurized then everyone on board would die pretty quick except for someone on oxygen. That would take care of the passengers.
or pilot suicide....
air piracy and other events have not been ruled out....actually nothing can be ruled out at this point.... Originally Posted by stevepar
Now you're starting to think. We now have the information (though we don't know the reliabllity of it) that the plane climbed to 40,000 feet before dropping. If the cabin was depressurized then everyone on board would die pretty quick except for someone on oxygen. That would take care of the passengers. Originally Posted by JD BarleycornReported it went to around 45,000 ... the 777 has a 42,000 operating ceiling.
News agency's take statements from a source who isn't authorized to speak and run with it. Originally Posted by i'va biggenYes. We learned that in the ramp up to the passage of the ACA.