Thanks for posting Drew. I do still think the plane crashed, but hold out hope for a hijacking.

I can’t begin to see what they see from satellite images! My eyes just aren’t that good I suppose. Those close-ups help, but I don’t know if they are modified in anyway. ??

I also thought satellite images were not anything current. Does anyone know anything more about how new they can be??

How deep is the ocean at those coordinates? You really can not see that far down in open waters like that.

I also thought satellite images were not anything current. Does anyone know anything more about how new they can be??

I suppose it’s possible that satellites in this region were being refreshed more frequently in efforts to find some clue to what happened to the plane. The time stamp at the bottom of the image shows that this satellite image was refreshed on 3/12 at 3:58 AM.

Personally, this just looks like a randomized blob in the middle of the ocean. You can overlay images of planes just about anywhere in the ocean and convince yourself that it looks like something it isn’t. This just looks like another face on Mars to me.

I also thought satellite images were not anything current. Does anyone know anything more about how new they can be??

I suppose it’s possible that satellites in this region were being refreshed more frequently in efforts to find some clue to what happened to the plane. The time stamp at the bottom of the image shows that this satellite image was refreshed on 3/12 at 3:58 AM.

Personally, this just looks like a randomized blob in the middle of the ocean. You can overlay images of planes just about anywhere in the ocean and convince yourself that it looks like something it isn’t. This just looks like another face on Mars to me.

Thanks for pointing that out Vossler. I agree with you. I just don’t see how one could point out possible seats in the ocean from that far up…not matter how much we zoom.

You make a good point to Seagull.

Agree that it’s hard to make out exactly what is in the water. I’m guessing there could have been some wreckage visible if the sat photo was taken not long after the plane went into the water — if that’s what happened.

It’s odd no other news sites are displaying the photos
google news reports the last words from the cockpit were " all right …good night"
as the systems were being shut off

I think most of the evidence points to a hijacking. I find it suspicious that no parts of the plane have washed ashore, no jet fuel or oil on the surface of the ocean. Also the fact that the transponders were tuned of minute a part while the ping device in the engines reads that they were on hours after both transponders went off. It’s surely a strange event. Ranks up there with the missing flight 19.

Following this case off and on. Didnt they find possible oil slicks early on? Really a weird case so far, that’s for sure.

The prevailing theory among the experts in interviews was that it continued on arc’s either north or south in the Indian ocean and out of radar then for 4-6 hours after the transponders were shut off .
The southern route would have taken it to the deepest part of that ocean ,where it is almost impossible to recover the B boxes even if found
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It seems odd to me that, in the current climate, anyone even builds an ‘off’ switch into a transponder. Surely there is never any reason that any comms equipment ever needs to be switched off? For ground maintenance they could have such buttons located somewhere inaccessible while the plane is in flight, but to allow anyone, even the pilots, this kind of control nowadays seems like an unnecessary risk.
I don’t know what’s worse for the passengers, dying in a plane crash or being killed by hijackers. I find it very unlikely that any sinister element would factor in keeping a couple of hundred people alive when they don’t have to if the plane has landed somewhere. Absolutely horrible.

I’m wondering if the pilot could have snapped from a combination of factors, including marital issues and then the imprisonment of that Malaysian opposition leader — it was reported the pilot attended the final day of his trial. If it were terrorism or a hijacking, a statement or demand should have been issued by now…unless the goal was stealing the plane itself.

The most recent thing today to surface, is that somebody in the cockpit, manually changed the direction of the plane by typing in a command into the computer program. Whatever happened, originated in that cockpit.

I read today that the pilot is related to a son in law of the opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim. There were also some reports of an airliner seen flying low over the Maldives on the same day the plane went missing.

It seems odd to me that, in the current climate, anyone even builds an ‘off’ switch into a transponder.

Me too, but apparantly transponder traffic is so acute around some airports that they are disabled when planes are close-in; or so it was said on TV yesterday.
Logical, I suppose.
Not that I believe everything I hear on TV, though.