Missing Air-Liner
Stone's rare return to post a crappy Haiku

got me thinking about this.
This is one of those things I know about. Big disasters like this, if indeed it is a disaster, have always held an interest for me after growing up in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, living through a civil war & witnessing terrorist attacks, being shot at etc etc. I just have this interest in things like this. Some might remember I spent a big post on the assasination of JFK, after some interesting new evidence came to light...
Well, there's not alot of evidence in this case, is there?
I watch alot of thise Air-Crash investigation things, you know how it goes... I guess as I ride in a plane once in awhile, I have an interest in how safe they are to travel in in the same way as I'm interested in terrorism because, like flying in an airliner, it's something that's touched me directly. Terrorism & flying air-craft, of course, have been related subjects since long before Sept 11th
A quick recap of the facts as they stand last time I saw the news. Boeing 777 filled mostly with Chinese people departs Malaysia in the middle of the night for Beijing, like 1am local time or something. An hour later Malaysian Air Traffic Control verbally says goodnight to the plane & hands it over to, I think, Vietnamese control. But the plane never contacts Vietnamese control, & never reaches it's destination.
A thorough, week long search for wreckage in the South China Sea, over which this plane was flying when it dissapeared has been given up now. This area is only where the transponder, which communicates a planes ID, height & speed as it flies through air-space, was turned off. It turns out however, that other communications devices embedded within the Rolls Royce engines continued to send data for several more hours & a satellite has tracked these signals away from the South China Sea, & into two other possible areas, one an open space of Indian Ocean, another stretching across Asia, into China & up to Kazackstan.
Unless there's been some sort of malfunction with this Sat-comms system, it seems certain that someone on board who knew what they were doing deliberately turned off the planes transponder in the 10 or 15 minutes between Malaysian & Vietnamess Air Traffic Control, & changed direction. No-one, yet, knows what happened next...
We can be relatively certain on only one or two things at this stage, a week since the plane dissapeared. There was no catastrophic failure of the plane itself because if there had been I suspect wreckage would have been found by now, & no serious failure that might've caused the plane to wander off course & eventually crash, because this would have given the pilots time to issue a mayday!
It seems reasonable to assume that whatever happened is some sort of deliberate act, because the Sept 11th attackers also turned off the transponders on the aircraft they hijacked, which probably gave them time to hit their targets that they might not have had if the planes were being tracked by their transponders.
So, if the plane didn't crash because of some malfunction, what happend & where is it? Shall we take a couple of educated guesses? Honestly, a couple is all I've got before we get into the realms of mass alien abductions
1) The plane was redirected by a suicidal pilot, with the very intention of causing this confusion. The plane was ditched in the Indian Ocean when it ran out of fuel, or deliberately, & the wreckage has not been found because everybody, until now, has been looking in the wrong place. In this scenario, obviously, they're all dead. It's remotely possible that a pilot might have successfully landed the plane on the ocean & it sunk, again, everyone dead. Even if the plane was successfully landed on water & didn't sink, the chances of the passengers surviving, floating on the ocean surface for the last week are close to nil.
2) The plane has been flown, with everyone on board to some secret destination from which somebody plans to ransom the plane & the individuals on board. Sort of like a Somali Pirate of the Skies. This seems highly unlikely, but because it's a straw for families to grasp at, it's been menationed in the media.
3) The plane came down somewhere in Asia & again, nothing has been found because no-one knew, until the Satellite data came out, that the plane had flown for many hours after the transponder had been turned off & they've all been looking in the wrong place.
4) The plane & all it's passengers were the subject of a mass alien abdunction.