And as an aviation expert,* it's really bugging me.
*Translation - I watch a lot of "Air Disasters" and "Why Planes Crash."
To put myself in the running for the Randi Prize, I will boldly predict that the aircraft had a catastrophic structural failure and broke up in mid-air.
That's the only theory that seems to make sense, based on what we know right now.
Security experts are still theorizing that the aircraft may have been hijacked and forced to land, to be used for "other purposes later."
But we're talking about a Boeing 777. A big plane and it needs a long, paved runway to land, if you intend to use it again. You can land it any old place if you don't mind destroying the plane and killing all your hostages. Along with yourself.
A big plane but unfortunately a tiny object, compared to an ocean. I'm thinking about the Air France flight that disappeared in 2009, in the Atlantic Ocean. It took 2 years to find its wreckage and black boxes.
Also remembering that in almost every case I can think of where a large aircraft "disappeared," it turned out to be structural failure so sudden that the crew had no time to send a distress signal etc.
That goes all the way back to the very first commercial jet, the DeHavilland Comet. After a series of mysterious crashes, its problem turned out to be windows with square corners. Those caused stress cracks in the metal skin. And that's why the window you're looking out of today on your 747, 777, or whatever has round corners.
/usual free-form blathering
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