Somebody suggested Uighurs, and it got me to thinking: we have Uighurs hanging out at the Mall of America. They wear flat-bill caps, and hang their pants real low so they blend in. Could be trouble.
Somebody suggested Uighurs, and it got me to thinking: we have Uighurs hanging out at the Mall of America. They wear flat-bill caps, and hang their pants real low so they blend in. Could be trouble.
No plane or wreckage yet? Someone stated they had enough fuel to fly to Antartica?
Well they had enough to make it to Beijing, or about 6-7 hours worth, far below the amount the plane is capable of carrying. It was an ER (extended range version) That means with full fuel tanks it could have had a range of 7,725 miles. But the tanks weren't full. All reports state this plane's fuel would only allow them to fly about 2500 miles, 5000 miles short of it's potential. It would be par for the course for these guys to hijack the plane and set out across the Indian Ocean thinking they had a "full tank". Heading west they'd be bucking headwinds and, if they tried flying low to evade radar, they'd quickly eat up what little fuel they did have. OOpsie! Splash!
OK, how many hypothetical scenarios does that make now?
Apparently, the engine tracking telemetry continued to report normal operations for hours after the plane "disappeared".
Missing Malaysia Airlines jet 'may have flown on for four hours', say US investigators
......yeah but now.............
"(Reuters) - Rolls-Royce said on Friday it concurred with denials from the Malaysian government that reports a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet may have flown on for hours after it vanished from radar screens were not true."
Rolls-Royce concurs with Malaysia on missing jet's engine data | Reuters
....so, you have that. As Clint Eastwood once said, "Swell".
The USS DESTROYER KIDD is on the scene now. Maybe we'll get answers. Our sattlelites picked up something so we sent our ship to confirm it. I still think we, our goverment knows more than were being told.