This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. No physical evidence of the Boeing 777 has been found, and other clues—logs of automated satellite communications and from military radar—have delivered more questions than answers. The 239 passengers and crew on board are presumed dead, and the official stance on the fate of the plane is that it crashed—somewhere—into the Indian Ocean, for unknown reasons.
The lack of evidence has spawned a number of theories from all corners of the Internet but, unlike theories surrounding 9/11 or the Kennedy assassination, few can be categorically disproven—even the wackier ones. Here are some of the most interesting, if not the most logical, ideas people have come up with.
The Cockpit Fire: One of our favorite—and the most plausible—theories comes from pilot Chris Goodfellow, who suggests a fire in the cockpit led the captain to turn to the west toward Palau Langkawi, a nearby airstrip. The loss of communication with the cockpit, Goodfellow says, jibes with an electrical fire and the need for the crew to focus on flying the plane rather than radioing in a distress call.
Russian Special Ops Took It: An article in New York magazine hypothesizes that nefarious actors could have broken into the electronics-and-equipment bay on the 777, accessed through the first-class cabin.
Faked Flight Plan: An email we received suggests that someone on board hijacked the plane, and kept its location concealed by faking a flight plan from an uncontrolled airport.
US Military Shot It Down: The atoll of Diego Garcia, complete with US military base, is located in the middle of the Indian Ocean. One theory suggests that the plane was headed there on some sort of kamikaze mission and it was secretly shot down by the US military before it could reach its target.
It’s in Pakistan: Rupert Murdoch hypothesized that the plane’s disappearance was part of a jihadist plot to “make trouble for China” and that the fight could have landed in northern Pakistan “like Bin Laden”, whatever that means.
Supernatural Forces: Thanks to Reddit for theories that the plane could have been snatched out of the sky by aliens, or a wormhole that sent it back in time like once occurred in an episode of The Twilight Zone.
08/05/15 Malaysia Chronicle
The lack of evidence has spawned a number of theories from all corners of the Internet but, unlike theories surrounding 9/11 or the Kennedy assassination, few can be categorically disproven—even the wackier ones. Here are some of the most interesting, if not the most logical, ideas people have come up with.
The Cockpit Fire: One of our favorite—and the most plausible—theories comes from pilot Chris Goodfellow, who suggests a fire in the cockpit led the captain to turn to the west toward Palau Langkawi, a nearby airstrip. The loss of communication with the cockpit, Goodfellow says, jibes with an electrical fire and the need for the crew to focus on flying the plane rather than radioing in a distress call.
Russian Special Ops Took It: An article in New York magazine hypothesizes that nefarious actors could have broken into the electronics-and-equipment bay on the 777, accessed through the first-class cabin.
Faked Flight Plan: An email we received suggests that someone on board hijacked the plane, and kept its location concealed by faking a flight plan from an uncontrolled airport.
US Military Shot It Down: The atoll of Diego Garcia, complete with US military base, is located in the middle of the Indian Ocean. One theory suggests that the plane was headed there on some sort of kamikaze mission and it was secretly shot down by the US military before it could reach its target.
It’s in Pakistan: Rupert Murdoch hypothesized that the plane’s disappearance was part of a jihadist plot to “make trouble for China” and that the fight could have landed in northern Pakistan “like Bin Laden”, whatever that means.
Supernatural Forces: Thanks to Reddit for theories that the plane could have been snatched out of the sky by aliens, or a wormhole that sent it back in time like once occurred in an episode of The Twilight Zone.
08/05/15 Malaysia Chronicle
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