Very very suspicious!

[DigitalBuddha]

  Hmmmm, very suspicious................

[Bullett00th]

My guess is that this is the first flight where all the passangers  listened to the flight attendant and turned off their mobile phones, instantly turning the plane to stealth mode

[DudeFairy]

I call bullshit just as I'm sure you do. Something a lot more fishier going on here than we are led to believe.

[DigitalBuddha]

Fuckin' eh!

[Stumblin Stumbleweed]

I call bullshit just as I'm sure you do. Something a lot more fishier going on here than we are led to believe.

I've been trying to stay out of this, but here goes:
It took the various government, public and secret, agencies the best part of three weeks to come up with a coherent story. That alone should be ringing our alarm bells.
Over recent decades, the term "conspiracy theory" has been developed to carry nothing but negative connotations; if you believe there's a cover-up or conspiracy, you're automatically dismissed as a tinfoil hat wearing weirdo, someone the square community wouldn't give a shit about.
In this instance, it could well be that the plane has been stolen for use in a forthcoming spectacular event. Think large crowds, big cities, maximum horror, unthinkable cruelty.
Or it might simply have malfunctioned and crashed. The phones thing muddies the waters a bit though.
Well, dude, we just don't know.

[LotsaBadKarma]

I have to wonder if there is a location, somewhere in the world, where a person sitting at a console could possibly take over control of a passenger jet, override the pilot and co-pilot, turn off all the on-board controls and tracking devices, and remotely fly the jet to a particular location where it would be landed and met by members of a rogue military group who would commandeer the plane and take all the occupants into custody. That way the plane might be used later for some sort of nefarious task.
Or am I just a "conspiracy theorist"?

[Stumblin Stumbleweed]

I have to wonder if there is a location, somewhere in the world, where a person sitting at a console could possibly take over control of a passenger jet, override the pilot and co-pilot, turn off all the on-board controls and tracking devices, and remotely fly the jet to a particular location where it would be landed and met by members of a rogue military group who would commandeer the plane and take all the occupants into custody. That way the plane might be used later for some sort of nefarious task.
Or am I just a "conspiracy theorist"?

That's exactly what I'm blathering about, man.
If they've landed the plane in an adequately well hidden location and can refuel & fly it, who knows what might happen, or when.
As for taking the passengers into custody, I wouldn't hold out too much hope; housing and feeding over 200 people might just represent an unwanted expense.

[Stumblin Stumbleweed]

And now this.
One might be forgiven for reading this cynically as something like: "We found some stuff, but it was too far away and the weather there was bad. So, now we're looking somewhere closer to shore, with better weather."
All these years of farcical airport security theatrics and they can still lose a whole aeroplane.

[Stumblin Stumbleweed]

What in God's holy name are they blathering about?
So, now that the black box recorder's batteries are beyond their normal lifespan, the various governmental and aviation authorities are saying that they can't be sure the signals they've detected are actually from the missing plane. Apparently, there's too much background noise.
Just how the fuck many missing planes are there 2.8 miles under the Indian Ocean?
I suppose us mere sheeple should be used to a diet of official lies, hypocrisy and general contempt from our rulers. But this story definitely feels extraordinarily wrong to me.

[Caesar dude]

Take it easy man.....how long do your batteries last in you Swiss fucking watch....I'll bet it;s longer than they advertise....this is an aircraft spec battery...I say double the expected lifespan..

Peace.

[Masked Dude]

In any kind of tech, there's a limit on power or weight, and then there's the actual ability. I remember in physics we talked about the campus elevator. It was rated for something like 2500 pounds. But it was probably more 4000 pounds. When food says good until 13 April, it's probably more like 13 June.

They'll only guarantee it for 14 days or so but to guarantee it you make it last, say, 25 days.

[jdurand]

Warranted run time would also be assuming the battery was one to be replaced tomorrow.  If these batteries had recently been replaced, then they'll last all the longer.