Missing Malaysian 777

It had to be the pilot ... or the autopilot.

TW

I'm not sure what they would do with a plane.  I'm no expert, BUT, the transponder tells you what plan it is.  So if it shows up in the air radar as the 777 that's missing?  Red flags.  If they turn it off and a 777 "shows up" on the radar of any advanced country with no signature or flight plan?  They are not going to let some random unknown plan fly into their country.  If they get a transponder from another plane?  Again, a radar signature of a 777 with a gulfstream signature?  No way that's not getting shot down.

I just don't think you are flying a missing plan loaded with explosives anywhere near a major city of any country with an air force.  It's getting downed the second it crosses into US Airspace (or any other advance country).

MAYBE plausible, but very doubtful (unless someone can say otherwise).  I'm guessing the runway requirements to land a 777 are pretty substantial.  Long, wide and asphalt/concrete.  Some dirt strip in the jungle won't handle it.  Maybe a long stretch of highway with no power lines or trees?...  I'm guessing something like that is rare on a remote island.

Don't those things basically land themselves now based on the electronics at the airport and on the plane?  Landing one by hand would take a level of sophistication that would be hard to obtain by a group of pirates.  Sure, you could find a pilot and throw them on a simulator, and have an airfield constructed for them in some remote place.  But that's a LOT of resources to spend just to get some gold or something else valuable.

I still think it's a plane that lost it's way due to some failure of  and same failure probably made it crash.  Maybe the pilot go it down in one basic piece but it sunk right away so little debris or oil/fuel slick to be found?  Black box also failed... 

Here's part of an article on that and why it supposedly means nothing: 

Unfortunately, the ringing phones don't mean much of anything at all.

When you place a call, hit the send button, and your phone starts to ring, it "doesn’t mean it is ringing on the phone of the person you are calling," says wireless analyst Jeff Kagan.

"What it means is the network is at work, trying to locate the party you are calling," he says. "It rings once, twice, three times, and if it finds the phone, it delivers the call. If it doesn’t find the phone, then the call is disconnected.

"Family members over there are hearing the [ring] tone and they are hoping, but this is not a sign of anything. This is just how the networks work," Kagan says.

From here:

"The 777 is capable of landing on small air strips and on relatively unimproved surfaces, such as packed dirt and dry lake beds."

Not a conspiracy theorist here, but for as large as that airplane is, it only requires around 5,000 feet strip to land - which is surprising.

This is one of those deals I don't even care to follow until it is over.  Every network and every news feed has a different "expert" spouting off and lining up to get paid......and the idiots all contradict each other and make the misinformation level HUGE.  No thanks.

I'm a student of Occam's razor..... it crashed.