Do we have a bag of rice as big as a plane?

This is the most logical theory I've seen yet. Occam's Razor vibe.

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh ... ical-fire/

Read that earlier today. I may be wrong, but it doesn't seem to jibe with what is being said about the left turn being programmed into the autopilot. The theory you linked to suggests the turn was done on the spot, while most outlets are saying the deviation was 'planned,' so to speak. It's all very weird.

This is the most logical theory I've seen yet. Occam's Razor vibe.

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh ... ical-fire/

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

The debunking that I saw on that theory was that the turn was preprogrammed 12 minutes in advance.

Although, how do they know when it was programmed?

The debunking that I saw on that theory was that the turn was preprogrammed 12 minutes in advance.

Although, how do they know when it was programmed?

Read that earlier today. I may be wrong, but it doesn't seem to jibe with what is being said about the left turn being programmed into the autopilot. The theory you linked to suggests the turn was done on the spot, while most outlets are saying the deviation was 'planned,' so to speak. It's all very weird.

New information from the Thai government bolsters the belief that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took a sharp westward turn after communication was lost.
And it looks like that turn was no accident.
A law enforcement official told CNN Tuesday that the aircraft's first turn to the west was almost certainly programmed by somebody in the cockpit.
The official, who has been briefed on the investigation, said the programmed change in direction was entered at least 12 minutes before the plane's co-pilot signed off to air traffic controllers, telling them, "All right, good night."
Analysts on CNN's "AC360" offered different interpretations of what that could mean -- with some experts cautioning the change in direction could have been part of an alternate flight plan programmed in advance in case of emergency, and others warning it could show something more nefarious was afoot.

The Pilot's flight simulator data was deleted recently


They say he was practicing weird landings


Im starting to think there's a chance of a hostage situation or at least the pilot might still be alive

Someone deleted files on their computer? No way!

A pilot was goofing around on his flight sim? Never happens.

Why do you always present stuff like you are on the scene with your microphone and camera crew, wind whipping through your hair?

You obviously read this somewhere on the net, unless you saw it on tv or heard it on the radio - after which you should admit as much (a la "I saw on CNN today that _____________.")

Link the fuck up, dude! Seriously.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Australia's prime minister said Thursday two objects possibly related to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight have been spotted on satellite imagery and an air force aircraft was diverted to the area to try to locate them.

The Orion aircraft was expected to arrive in the area Thursday afternoon, Prime Minister Tony Abott told Parliament in Canberra. Three additional aircraft are expected to follow for a more intensive search, he said.

Abbott cautioned, however, that the task of locating these objects will be extremely difficult and "it may turn out that they are not related to the search for flight MH370."

The latest revelation came as FBI and Malaysian investigators were working to retrieve files that were recently deleted from a home flight simulator belonging to a pilot on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in a hunt for clues as to where the plane headed after it changed course from its planned route to Beijing.

A source familiar with the ongoing investigation told Fox News on Wednesday that FBI agents are in Kuala Lumpur and Malaysian officials have asked them to assist in the data recovery efforts. Authorities also are looking to analyze the files in the context of other traffic on the pilot’s computer.

The massive multinational search for the jetliner – which involves 26 countries -- expanded to the southern Indian Ocean Wednesday.

Planes from the U.S., Australia and New Zealand are searching an area stretching across 117,000 square miles of the southern Indian Ocean, about 1,600 miles southwest of Perth, on Australia's west coast. The Pentagon said the Navy’s P8 Poseidon search aircraft is participating in the effort. The area was assigned to the U.S. by Australian officials, but the Pentagon would not give further details.

Nothing has been found, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.

Earlier in the day, Malaysia’s defense minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, said the plane’s pilot, Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah, is innocent until proven guilty of any wrongdoing. He added that members of his family are cooperating in the investigation.

Files containing records of simulations carried out on Shah’s machine were deleted Feb. 3, Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu said.

The Telegraph, citing Malaysian police, reported that Shah played the popular games Flight Simulator X, Flight Simulator 9 and X-Plane 10.

Deleting files would not necessarily represent anything unusual, especially if it were to free up memory space, but investigators would want to check the files for any signs of unusual flight paths that could help explain where the missing plane went.

The plane, with 239 people on board, disappeared March 8 on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Malaysian authorities have not ruled out any possible explanations, but have said the evidence so far suggests the flight was deliberately turned back across Malaysia to the Strait of Malacca. They are unsure what happened next.

Investigators have identified two giant arcs of territory spanning the possible positions of the plane about 7½ hours after takeoff, based on its last faint signal to a satellite. The arcs stretch up as far as Kazakhstan in central Asia and down deep into the southern Indian Ocean.

A source close to the investigation told Reuters that authorities believe the jetliner is likely in the southern corridor. "The working assumption is that it went south, and furthermore that it went to the southern end of that corridor," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The theory is based on the lack of evidence from countries along the northern corridor that the jetliner crossed their airspace, and the failure to find any trace of wreckage in searches in that area, Reuters reported.

China has said it was reviewing radar data and deployed 21 satellites to search the northern corridor of the search area. But those searches so far have turned up no trace of the plane, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Wednesday.

On Tuesday, former FAA spokesman Scott Brenner said that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was already 12 minutes into its diverted course when the plane's co-pilot calmly told air traffic controllers that things were "all right."

"One of the pilots clearly had the intention ... that he was going to take (the plane) in a different direction," Brenner told host Megyn Kelly on "The Kelly File." "It's 100 percent clear this pilot, or this co-pilot, was going to take this plane with the intent of doing something bad."

Brenner also believes it's likely that co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid and Shah were both involved in the decision to change the flight's course.

"For a pilot or a co-pilot to punch in a new waypoint in their flight management system without the other one noticing would be hard to do," he said.

However, on Wednesday, Hussein dismissed the claim that the co-pilot signed off after the plane changed course, without elaborating, The Guardian reported.

“I can confirm that the aircraft flew on normal routing up until the waypoint IGARI,” Hussein told reporters, according to The Guardian. “There is no additional waypoint on MH370’s documented flight plan, which depicts normal routing all the way to Beijing.”

The waypoint IGARI is northeast of Malaysia.

Airline pilots and aviation safety experts told The Associated Press that an onboard computer called the flight management system would have to be deliberately programmed in order to follow the route taken by the plane as described by Malaysian authorities.

Hussein said background checks have been received from overseas agencies for all foreign passengers on the plane except for those from Ukraine and Russia -- which accounted for three passengers. He says none of the checks has turned up anything suspicious.

Meanwhile, relatives of passengers on the missing plane have grown increasingly frustrated over the lack of progress in the search, in its 12th day on Wednesday.

"It's really too much. I don't know why it is taking so long for so many people to find the plane. It's 12 days," Subaramaniam Gurusamy, 60, said in an interview from his home on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. His 34-year-old son, Pushpanathan Subramaniam, was on the flight heading to Beijing for a work trip.

Before Wednesday's news briefing at a hotel near the Kuala Lumpur airport, two Chinese relatives of passengers held up a banner saying "Truth" in Chinese and started shouting before security personnel escorted them out.

"I want you to help me to find my son!" one of the two women said.

Hussein announced that a delegation of Malaysian government officials, diplomats, air force and civil aviation officials will head to Beijing -- where many of the passengers' relatives are gathered -- to give briefings to the next of kin on the status of the search.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Not buying it...

Look at this fuckin' guy, trying to make the thread all about him...

Not buying it...

Alls I'm sayin' is I've seen too many movies involving planes and plane like objects to fall for what "they" are telling me. Nahmsayin'?

Caleb Williams isn't really a "true" rookie because he turned 23 late into his 1st season in the NFL!"

Don't go to Crystal Lake either. I saw too many movies of a serial killer who comes out of the water when you are fishing, kills you while you are making out with your girl. Doesn't even wait for you to finish!

Breaking news: "It's with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that according to this new data, Flight 370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean," Malaysia's Prime Minister said. Details developing live on CNN TV and CNN.com: http://cnn.it/1mqjwT0

He said police are focusing on four possibilities about what happened: a potential hijacking, sabotage, psychological issues or personal problems of the passengers and/or crew.
"Such cases may take up to a year," Khalid said, "so please don't jump to conclusions that the police are slow."
While investigators have yet to find even a piece of the plane, the Prime Minister based his announcement on what he described as unprecedented analysis of satellite data by British satellite provider Inmarsat and the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch. He didn't describe the nature of the analysis.
He said the data, drawn from satellite pings the ill-fated airliner continued to send throughout its final flight, made it clear that the plane's last position was in the middle of the southern Indian Ocean, "far from any possible landing sites."

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

With as crazy as this whole thing has been and how many dead ends there have been in the search, how can they be so sure of something they have not found anything for yet? Unprecedented analysis? If you are going to say that you should be able to share what this is.

With as crazy as this whole thing has been and how many dead ends there have been in the search, how can they be so sure of something they have not found anything for yet? Unprecedented analysis? If you are going to say that you should be able to share what this is.

You're right that it's probably down there based on what the data says, but if I were in charge of information... I would give the families exactly what you just wrote. I would not tell them that everyone is dead via text message.