Malaysian 777

[Townhallsavoy]

Serious question -

I've seen it in movies, but I've doubted it's possibility. 

What are the chances that a second plane with radar blocking equipment engaged the 777?  Make a connection.  Send a few trained guys on board.  Commandeer plane. 

The latest I'm reading is that the plane flew quite a ways off track as if it were being controlled by a human.  It means one of three things: one of the pilots did it, an on board trained hijacker did it, or an outside party did it. 

Unless they've kept information about the passengers secret, there aren't any signs that any passenger could have been capable of flying the plane. 

[The Prowler]

Did no one have a cellphone on that plane?

[Townhallsavoy]

Did no one have a cellphone on that plane?

They did and that's added to the conspiracy.

Conventional wisdom is that if your phone is turned off - or submerged at the bottom of the sea - it goes straight to voicemail if you call it.  Many family members said they called passengers and the phones rang. 

[bottomfeeder]

It seems we have a naval base that way. 



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581488/It-WAS-hijacked-Malaysian-official-says-CONCLUSIVE-jet-carrying-239-hijacked-35-000-ft-individual-group-significant-flying-experience.html

[AU_Tiger_2000]

Serious question -

I've seen it in movies, but I've doubted it's possibility. 

What are the chances that a second plane with radar blocking equipment engaged the 777?  Make a connection.  Send a few trained guys on board.  Commandeer plane. 

The latest I'm reading is that the plane flew quite a ways off track as if it were being controlled by a human.  It means one of three things: one of the pilots did it, an on board trained hijacker did it, or an outside party did it. 

Unless they've kept information about the passengers secret, there aren't any signs that any passenger could have been capable of flying the plane.

Radar jammers/blockers don't really work that way.  They don't make the target disappear, they just make it fuzzy and indistinct but you still know there's something there.  Unless somebody has something new.  France was working on a radar evading ECM that worked by sending out radar waves 180 degrees out of phase that would block all signals but I don't think it was every really perfected.

I think the best bet is that it was one of the pilots.  One of the pilots was a member of a Malaysian opposition group whose leader was jailed the day of the flight.  There was a pic of him (pilot) on the news this morning wearing a "Democracy is Dead" shirt.