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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/
Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.
There are a lot of technical details in the article that raise some very interesting questions.
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What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane?
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 18 2019, @02:35AM (1 child)
That's a tough one, but MacGyver could surely have rigged something up to make that happen, especially with all the time available.
Or, you know, just about anybody with a boat. It is a rough patch of ocean there, but it's not entirely unreasonable to think that a private yacht could have coordinated with him to lead him to the GPS coordinates of the meeting point.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by coolgopher on Tuesday June 18 2019, @04:04AM
Would you be able to get any doors open at cruising altitude though? And would you have gear that would allow you to parachute from that altitude / deal with an unpressurised cabin that might be necessary to even open a door? And did the PIC have the necessary experience?
If the answer is yes, this to me would seem a plausible theory. If there was something being transported on the flight of sensitive political nature, I could see a depressed pilot being bought easier than him turning mass murderer for no gain other than suicide. The plan would have come from someone outside, shortly before the flight itself - on such short notice that he could not do a sim of the full thing, but would've wanted to at least confirmed the key points of the plan in his sim. (Does anyone know when his sim took place?) Of course he would not actually have been paid in the currency he expected, and I would be genuinely surprised if he is actually still alive.
Or for that matter, this may have been a case of blackmail. The lives of MH370 for e.g. the PIC's family. Again, politically motivated due so something (or someone) on that flight.
Just speculation of course.