how old was the pilot? dont they force you to retire at a certain age? maybe he loved flying so much he could not stand life without flying? maybe he wanted to die loving what he did

Giant shark got it imo

I was talking more about a passenger highjacking the plane, I can see if the pilot himself high jacked it, but I can't see the pilot stealing the plane.

WOXOF,

I'm curious if you wanted to how much crazy **** do you think you could get passengers to do for you without ever leaving the comfort of your seat?

"Ladies and gentlemen this is your captain WOXOF. I'm afraid we're experiencing some difficulties and will have to divert to the nearest airport. These difficulties are electronic in nature, a disturbance with our controls, and something we've never encountered. Um.. this is going to sound strange I know because they never get used but we have airline issued metallic bags to isolate electronics in case of such an emergency. They were issued recently after the cell phone use change. The Copilot will be coming through the cabin in a minute. I absolutely must have every single electronic device turned off and put in the bag. I assure you they will all be returned to their proper owners upon landing."

Copilot walks down the aisle w/ a silver mylar bag w/ official looking FFA seal on the side collecting all devices.

After all it's a felony if I don't put my phone in that bag right?

Very credible imo. Afterall, whenever the pilot or crew get on that microphone i insta comply with their instructions. I imagine almost everyone would do that, though, perhaps some of the crew wouldnt fall for it or at least try to question it

A key would be a bad idea; terrorists could get their hands on it. The door can be opened using a keypad code, but this rings a chime in the cockpit and the pilot in the cockpit must then permit or deny access by turning a selector. If no choice (permit or deny) is made within 60 seconds, the door opens automatically (this is the incapacitated pilot scenario).

De Captain, maybe you don't know what "seems" means? Or ignored "I'm not saying that the passengers would be guaranteed to have contacted us". Or ignored the word "practically". Or just generally skipped all of the ways I qualified almost everything I've said.

You'd only need the captain and co-pilot. There's absolutely no way the rest of the flight crew doesn't comply with their instructions. I'm sure if WOXOF pulled out a couple of official looking bags he could get the flight attendants to do his bidding. It would be even more believable because the flight attendants would be scared and shocked rushing around to get people to comply.

I'm not saying its impossible, but the idea that both the pilot and co-pilot are in on this is pretty unlikely. It's much more likely that its only one person involved. Again, not saying its impossible.

You say this like you have some inside access to the Bush White House. Isn't this common knowledge and has been for like the last 10 years?

Good point. Your theory was something i had been thinking about ever since learning the plane flew on for 6+ hours after deliberately shutting down transponders. In this day and age surely at least one person would have got itchy feet and rang out.. So, either phones were confiscated or passengers were all dead

JJ,

All I was saying

Interesting. Any ideas on how to stop these recent cases (2 + possibly this one in the past 6 months -- Mozambique and Ethiopian being the other 2)?

Why does the scenario where the keep hostage negotiations seem unlikely?

I wonder whether it's possible that the Capt committed suicide not because of a fanatical Jihadist idea but because he lost his faith in his religion.

The previous like for an Atheist-ish video by his channel was for a video created last month. Maybe he went mad because he couldn't handle being a Muslim and appreciating Atheistic thinking?

IMO it's either a crazy religious suicide like Egyptair Flight 990 or an 'I have lost faith in my religion' suicide. The second possibility might be a little likely since Malaysia is extremely religious especially with regards to Islam.

does civilian radar detect planes without transmitters?

AFAIK the object will only appear as an unnamed aicraft on the radar. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

IF this does end up being malicious pilot, seems like there have been more of them since 9/11 than hijack attempts. Might mandate a rethink.

'South China Morning Paper' has a chronology of the actions taken by the Malaysia Airlines
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/articl...s-flight-mh370

why do people keep bringing up the cell phone issue. their was no wifi on plane how do you think anyone would get a signal unless they had a sat phone?

How much money will be spent on this search before it's over.

i was wondering that too. has to be well over a few hundred million by now

Don't really think that matters right now.

actually at least our over price defense spending is going to good use now

This is the Mozambique case:

http://www.ibtimes.com/pilot-suicide...-plane-1519756