Missing 777

[SMKR]

https://mobile.twitter.com/chicoharlan/status/444770687064875009/photo/1

[thesource]

I still don't see how an aircraft this size just disappears from radar.

[talisman]

Why highjack the plane (either passenger or crew), disable the tracking systems, fly for hours afterwards and not land it somewhere? If they did infact land, then with there being no word of where, it can only be state sponsored terrorism. And if it is, why not claim it already. The only country that could/would be able to hide that would NK or Iran. I don't think they had the fuel for Iran or even PAK. If it was in PAK, we would know also.

If they went through all that effort to disguise where they were, it wouldn't make sense to crash it into the sea. If you were gonna do that, you would want someone to know you did it, so you crash it on land, populated area or turn on the tracking so it shows up somewhere.

my $.02 and we still don't know shit.

I wouldn't imagine they would claim it until after they used it. If that theory is correct, they're going to want to use it sooner rather than later. There aren't many places a plane like that can land and go unnoticed. Even a small island in that part of the world would have a population and word gets around too fast these days.

[SS Junk]

Real tall order to try and believe the plane made it to Afghanistan

my $.02 and we still don't know shit.

No one does.

[71chevellejohn]

How much runway would a plane that size need to land and also how much to take off again? Seems like that would be a limiting factor on where the plane could go if future use(terrorist) is the intent.

[mk5.0]

They have a separate system on which they transmit the data. That way some mechanic can't just "switch" the system off and run hours on it without logging them.

Actually you can switch off the DTU. You can either pull the cb powering it or they have a maintenance switch for when you are performing maintenance you do not log a bunch of erroneous fault codes.

[68RR]

for you geeks...read carefully and remember who was onboard..

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-11-18/html/2013-27342.htm

[KBScobravert]

Real tall order to try and believe the plane made it to Afghanistan

No one does.

I just went and looked. Not here. Besides, in Afghanistan, we control all the airfields.

In all seriousness. IF, and that is a BIG IF, that plane was in this part of the world these idiots would be all over their phones talking about it. Terrorism and their terrorists just don't know how to keep their mouths shut. For that, there are folks that listen in all day long to them chatting like little birds. Like I said, a operation that size would involve way too many people and there is no way they could keep it a secret this long.

If they landed that bitch, I would say coast of Africa.

It is in the ocean.

Hell, someone may have even shot it down and doesn't want to fess up.

[91CoupeMike]

I guess when you can't produce transcontinental missles. You just put the bomb in a transcontinental aircraft.

[talisman]

Hell, someone may have even shot it down and doesn't want to fess up.

Frankly I've always wondered if that is what really happened to Flight 93.

[davbrucas]

Frankly I've always wondered if that is what really happened to Flight 93.

Yup...make up the hero story and people buy it. There were some rumors and stories that it was shot down, but in this day and age and with how corrupt/shady the media is, who knows what the truth is about anything anymore.

[SS Junk]

Frankly I've always wondered if that is what really happened to Flight 93.

Highly doubtful since it flew straight into the ground. Debris field was minimal. But I also have a hard time believing the plane was taken back into control and deliberately flown into the ground as a preventative tactic.

[davbrucas]

[davbrucas]

Highly doubtful since it flew straight into the ground. Debris field was minimal. But I also have a hard time believing the plane was taken back into control and deliberately flown into the ground as a preventative tactic.

There was debris from the plane over 6 miles away.

[talisman]

Sorry for the, ahem, well, hijack.. But just came across this and found it interesting in regards to United 93.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44459345/ns/us_news-9_11_ten_years_later/#.UyR-pig1fww