What do you think happened to the missing airplane?

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30 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Mechanical failure that led to crash
	0 (0%)
	Mid-Air disaster, fire, explosion, decompression (non-terror related)
	1 (3%)
	Human error and crash
	1 (3%)
	Pilot suicide
	2 (7%)
	Hijacking and crashed
	8 (27%)
	Bombing
	0 (0%)
	Other terror related incident
	0 (0%)
	Other Criminal act (plane hijacked, landed, hostages taken, etc.)
	10 (33%)
	Aliens
	5 (17%)
	Other
	3 (10%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Renew Deal]

1. lol

Aliens 100%.

[NightWatcher]

2. James Bond villain hijacked to Moon base

Our secret agents are en route

[Nevernose]

12. You realize that's fictional, right?

The moon is nothing but a hologram projected by the Queen of England and the cyborg body of Colonel Sanders. Basic mind control thing.

[former9thward]

55. Why did you spoil it for the rest of us?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

70. Bullshit

The moon was bombed, so it DID exist.

Until we bombed it.

[Iggo]

3. Disappeared.

[Autumn]

4. Aliens, they moved the Bermuda Triangle and everyone knows

what happened next.

[Earth_First]

5. Definately...

[MFM008]

66. darn it

you beat me to this..

[HereSince1628]

6. Plane is L O S T and you leave out Dharma Initiative? Quit covering for Ben

But seriously wouldn't you think terrorist or hostage takers would have claimed responsibility and/or sought ransom?

[Renew Deal]

11. Not sure

Because taking responsibility is a suicide mission. If those people are alive somewhere, they will be found.

[HereSince1628]

21. It seems terror is done for a political purpose...

an ambiguous disappearance can't say that.

If there is no connection made to the political cause, the act won't be seen as terror.

As for hostage taking...hostages are taken so they can be traded.

If no one knows they are on the market to be traded the hostage taker can't realize the value.

[TBF]

7. I'm going with Aliens -

unless that grumpy cat is in a really bad mood and had something to do with it.

[Arugula Latte]

8. Chem trails.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Obviously, it flew into a vortex...

sending it into another dimension.

Happens all the time to other things that are not noticed, or just remain mysteries.

http://vortexmaps.com/devils-triangle.php

This crackpot theory is, of course, every bit as valid as any other theory until more of those annoying things called "facts" are known.

[pinboy3niner]

10. Langoliers

Isn't it OBVIOUS?

[dipsydoodle]

13. Aliens ?

I went for "Hijacking and crashed" but it does seem odd that nobody had claimed responsibility.

[Renew Deal]

16. I've seen it suggested on the internets

Like everyone says "everything is on the table"

[dipsydoodle]

17. Yes but that would mean

The salt and pepper should be suspect too.

[MoonRiver]

43. There's such a thing as rogue terrorists.

They work alone or in very small groups. Maybe they were on the plane and tried to hijack it, but something went terribly wrong and they crashed. Can't take responsibility if you're the only one who knows what you're going to do and you die before revealing yourself.

[FSogol]

14. Other. See the last image below:

[longship]

60. I love air sharks!! nt

[Laffy Kat]

65. Sharknado! Of course.

I'm only disappointed that I didn't think of it first.

[FSogol]

69. Actually, it's Cannes Film Festival 'Palm d' Merde' winner: Megashark vs Giant Octopus

At one point Megashark takes a bite out of the Golden Gate Bridge. Him swallowing the Malaysian flight is better than most of the "theories."

[louis-t]

78. SHARKNADO!!!!!1!

[butterfly77]

15. I think..

it was hijacked and crash landed on some island with survivors or that is my best hope..

[randome]

19. We've seen that one before.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[butterfly77]

23. Was the Minnow hijacked?

Boat not plane.

[randome]

25. There were rumors.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[KharmaTrain]

64. Yep...The Mystery Is Solved...

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. Space Time

I also already covered the explanation in this thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024662083

[Ohio Joe]

20. Other - I do not know - nt

[Journeyman]

22. It's caught in the same time-traveling tailwind as Rod Serling's "Odyssey of Flight 33". . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_of_Flight_33

[Reter]

24. Other: Wormhole opened a portal into another dimension

Fun fact: There are actually several "Bermuda Triangle" type locations located around the world. Look up Hale Boggs, US House Majority Leader. The same thing happened to him in 1972 and his airplane was never found.

[spanone]

26. ....

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[hrmjustin]

27. I have no idea.

[shenmue]

28. I don't really know

I'm very confused.

[NuclearDem]

29. The US paid the pilots to crash it

And now Putin's gearing up to annex Malaysia.

[1000words]

30. I'm not saying it was aliens, but ...

(On edit: Damn! ... someone beat me to it.)

[Scootaloo]

31. Well, I'll tell you now, it WASN'T aliens...

[KamaAina]

33. What missing airplane?

[uppityperson]

34. They were raptured.

[Feral Child]

35. This:

http://www.zimbio.com/quiz/6JqMhk9dtV4/Character+Princess+Bride?result=30bSHc4GyjU

[rock]

36. Who me? I don't.

There's no way to arrive at a conclusion besides making it up.

[msongs]

37. maybe fox news has hidden it to boost ratings nt

[alsame]

38. I have no idea. nt

[librechik]

39. same thing that happened here:

complete dustification. Look it up. No debris left. It dissolved.

[Aerows]

40. It's just such a strange situation

I really don't know WHAT to think. At this point, who knows?

[cbdo2007]

41. Awesome, I selected Aliens to put it ahead!!

Really though I think it was hijacked and crashed into the Indian Ocean after a plane malfunction.

[R B Garr]

42. Anyone remember a flight that lost its altitude instruments and was flying steadily downward

and ultimately into the ocean? I think it was maybe 4 to 5 years ago...? If I remember, the flight crew was unaware of the altitude changes and their slow descent because it was determined that there was a failure of the instruments that determine altitude, so there was no sudden cabin pressure changes or anything else alarming to the crew or passengers. I'm not sure of the technical terms, so I hope I'm describing the phenomenon okay. I'm not that great of a Googler either, or I would try to find the articles on this crash.

Maybe it was something like that, which would possibly account for the "ping" being detected for some time as the plane was slowly descending. I'm just wondering why -- if there was a hijacking or other chaos -- why no one was able to at least make a call or video from their cell phone or from a phone from the plane. This would also account for why there were no mayday calls from the pilots.

At this point, I would think that if it was terrorism, some group would have come forward to take credit and make the rest of the world cower in fear. Then again, if was an inside job like a pilot, who knows.

[Beringia]

44. Just wild speculation

Since it had mainly Chinese citizens, I would think terrorism linked to China. But China is keeping everything silent about it. Also easier to hijack the plane leaving from Malaysia. Why no one has been able to find it? Maybe China does not have very good surveillance technology?

[Beringia]

47. crashed in the jungle

my updated speculation

[randome]

58. Send for Lord Greystoke now!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

[CTyankee]

45. well, this morning they were saying they thought a pilot turned off the plane's transponders at the

point they know the plane took a different direction toward an area that they couldn't be traced in.

That explanation kinda makes sense to me. It would mean it was a suicide misision or became one...I wonder if they have info on the mental health/condition of the pilots...surely they must...

[countryjake]

46. I really hate that they're moving toward blaming a pilot.

It doesn't seem fair to me, considering that they really have no idea what happened to the plane or even where it might be, at this point. I get that speculation is necessary as part of investigation, but now it's nearing a smear of two pilots who may be completely innocent.

I have a friend whose daughter piloted a jet that crashed, killing both pilots and two passengers. I don't know if it was because a couple of people involved were slightly well-known or simply because the flight captain was a woman, but that crash was sensationalized to the max in the press, and that poor pilot was drug thru the mud by the media, devastating her friends and family. As it eventually turned out, she wasn't to blame...the plane she flew failed her, but, of course, the final conclusion of that investigation barely made a blip in the news.

[morningfog]

49. Not only could they be completly innocent, they very well could be heros.

[countryjake]

89. Video from folks who believe that's true about at least one pilot...

A tribute to a man well loved by many...

[TorchTheWitch]

91. oh the authorities love to blame the pilots

Even when mechanical/technical failure is hands down absolutely proven, they still like to put something in there that somehow makes it at least partially the pilot's fault. Gotta protect the big companies that make the shoddy parts or their shoddy installation.

The one that pisses me off the most is the bogus claimed suicide of the pilot in the SilkAir Flight 185 disaster. There's no question that it was found positively to be a badly manufactured widget that caused the crash yet to this day the pilot is still believed to have committed suicide murdering all on board and for the most gross trumped up bullshit.

Excellent documentary about that flight...

[countryjake]

95. Thanks for the video! Greg Feith (former NTSB) just said that...

Last edited Thu Mar 20, 2014, 01:27 AM - Edit history (1)

on Sunday, as he was being "consulted" as an "expert". He brought up pilot-suicide and used the Silk Flight 185 as his example. I do believe that both our FAA and the NTSB will go to great lengths to shield US interests from lawsuits and possible financial liability. Boeing has been quiet as mouse throughout this whole thing and I would bet that none of our agencies are too keen on public discussion of any possible safety issues with their 777.

I'd already seen the documentary, when it first came out, and also, long ago our local newspaper did an entire investigation on its own, about the safety of the Boeing 737 (before that SilkAir crash). I found a page that links most all of those articles, you may be interested in reading them, here:

http://www.airlinesafety.com/faq/B-737Rudder.htm


And here's another piece that just came out yesterday in the Seattle Times, from the AP:

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2023152663_apxmalaysiaplanesuicide.html

[mnhtnbb]

48. I have been hoping it was a hijacking and plane made a safe landing...

but as time goes on and there is no communication for a ransom or demands...
well, looks like it has crashed somewhere and I'm beginning to doubt it will
ever be found.

[closeupready]

63. Stuff floats, though, over time.

So even if it did sink into the ocean, there will eventually be debris.

[L0oniX]

50. It was hijacked by Obama haters and taken to Benghazi.

[Renew Deal]

53. And then they'd scream about another distraction from Benghazi®

[Warren DeMontague]

51. Well, duh.

[pipi_k]

52. Don't have a damned clue...

Any of them but perhaps none of them.


If we ever find out the truth, it might be either worse than we could have imagined, or so distressingly simple, like that crappy O-ring on the Challenger. Simple, yet so crucial.

[nadinbrzezinski]

54. I do like your option on Aliens

we should page this guy

[Rex]

56. Duh, aliens...I have it from a reliable source.

[randome]

57. Snakes.

On a plane.



[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[enid602]

59. rapture

Rapture

[Renew Deal]

61. You must have watched CNN last night.

They were talking about the "super natural"

[snagglepuss]

62. Hijacking but a dry run. Plane may be intact but it will be

destroyed. No one will take credit becasue whoever did this do not want any information to be available.

[yuiyoshida]

67. THIS IS SO EASY!!!

Don't you see?? HISTORY has been changed.. Instead of Al Gore, We got George W. Bush...THAT Airplane was taken back in TIME Where CARL ROVE and others changed history and we got four YEARS OF GEORGE W. BUSH! However, what you do not know, and now must be told, is that Secret Agents did the same thing and President Obama was elected by TWO LANDSLIDES... History has been restored!!

I rest my case, your Honor.


Um ...the only other answer could be... KAIJU

[B Calm]

68. I will wait for the truth. I'm not losing sleep

Worrying about it!

[Autumn]

71. According to CNN It was raptured by god. Turns out he only liked 200 people.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024679537

[npk]

72. Whatever happened to it, I just hope we find out

I can't stand not knowing. And I am sure for the families of those on board they feel the same way.

[JudyM]

73. Being used to promo a new Twilight Zone reality show. nt

[LostOne4Ever]

74. As a skeptic there is only one rational answer

Aliens.

No doubt about it

[Zorra]

75. Are Langoliers considered "aliens" or "other"?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

80. They have always been "other" to me. nt

[ellisonz]

76. Pilot Suicide

The only thing that really stands out is that Zaharie Ahmed Shah attended the guilty verdict of Anwar Ibrahim on that same day. Pilot had motive (retaliation against a repressive political regime) and opportunity (he was in the cockpit).

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/16/malaysian-airlines-pilot_n_4973402.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

None of the other theories seem all that plausible at this point.

[atreides1]

77. Aliens

It's as good of an explanation as any others, so far!

[spanone]

79. raptured

[Whisp]

81. Right around this time John Locke is

hunting for his first boar and teaching Walt backgammon.

[mainstreetonce]

83. Soon

They will spot the white tennis shoes hanging in a tree.

[X_Digger]

82. Other: I don't know, and I refuse to speculate. n/t

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

84. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 Redux

Hijackers seized control of the cockpit and ordered the crew to fly to a destination based on the aircraft's maximum theoretical range as reported by Wikipedia, it fell short and crashed.

[SidDithers]

85. Crashed into the ocean due to something not yet determined...

although I'm still open to the idea that the BFEE is somehow behind it all.



Sid

[AsahinaKimi]

86. Shouldn't GODZILLA BE ON THAT LIST????

[Shrike47]

88. He's not tall enough unless the plane was landing.

[countryjake]

90. Oh yeah?

New Godzilla is predicted to be at least 500 ft. tall.

[AsahinaKimi]

93. You obviously don't know about his Radio Active Breath....

[Warpy]

87. Jimmy Hoffa stole it

and flew it to wherever he's been hiding out for the last 40 years.

[dembotoz]

92. d b cooper was the co pilot

[Ex Lurker]

94. 251 souls on board

the jocularity in this thread is uncool.

[countryjake]

96. There are 239 passengers and crew on the missing Flight 370...

and people sometimes try to laugh to keep from crying.