Missing plane.....I take it I can no collect on all the 4/1 Hijacking bets I took?

[The Tony]

Ie confirmed it crashed at sea with no survivors.

[Rich]

[Monty91]

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[Chief Arrowhead]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Impossible to rule out hijacking as yet. Several scenarios (don't quite) fit the available information, an attempted hijacking is amongst them.

[Rich]

[Monty91]

[The Tony]

[Rich]

course took it. They know roughly where it crashed and debris has been spotted by the French, Chinese and Aussies.

It has to be pilot suicide, shirely? If it were a hijacking then someone would most likely have claimed responsibility and it would be surprising that no commotion was heard from the cockpit.

I'm guessing that both pilots entered on a suicide pact - which would explain the 'good night' call as well.

[delboy ceg]

Jeremy Clarkson ‏@JeremyClarkson 2h
The oxygen masks have deployed. Goodbye everyone.

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[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The facts don't add up to an obvious conclusion. Some sort of crew incapacitation seems the most likely, but there are several issues with that theory.

Unless they find the FDR we'll never know - and as the CVR will have been over-written after 2 hours, there's a good chance we'll never know anyway.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

They don't know the 'course' it flew, nor where that 'course' (you don't know what course means, do you?) took it.

No debris has been positively identified as coming from the aircraft. Quite a lot of debris has been positively identified as not having come from the aircraft. That situation may change tomorrow.

Now the rest of what you have written is so bizarre, it's made me feel a little weak... but I must just ask how the 'good night' call is relevant to anything? Please, please tell me about the good night call.

[Rich]

And as for the 'good night' call, I read that this was an unusual comment to come from the flight deck? Add that to the fact it was the final call that came before the location systems were shut down makes me think that it could be a morbid 'goodbye'. :-(

[Berni]

It's 2014. We can't just go around having things happen and us not understanding why,ffs! I demand an explanation! I don't care if it's correct or accurate, but I want a bloody explanation.

[Hillary]

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Was it flying a simple magnetic heading or a track programmed into the FMC? We don't know, and we may never know.

The only time one wouldn't say 'goodbye' in some informal way when being handed on by ATC is if the frequency is exceptionally, incredibly busy. Every airline pilot says, thanks, cheers, bye, good night or whatever at the end of his contact with an air traffic unit.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You could offer to swim down and root around for the FDR, I suppose, but I reckon it's a bit dark down there.

[Hillary]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Please God his sort aren't allowed into private practice.

[Rich]

I should really learn.

Also, I want to purchase a flight simulator. Do you know anything of these programmes, and if so, what are your thoughts on X-Plane 10?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

done inside a year. If you don't have continuity you'll spend twice as much in the long run.

Forget the technical terms, you'll pick up the stuff you need as you go along. Buy the 'Air Pilot's Manual' series by Trevor Thom. Book 1 will teach you the basic terms you need to learn.

I know nothing of simulated flight.

[Berni]

in 1945 sounded a bit fishy.

W e're through the looking glass here, aren't we? What do you know? Spill!

[Rich]

I imagine that going for a flight on a sunny summer's evening would a lovely way to pass some time.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It would appear that someone switched off the transponder and the ACARS, and then flew the aircraft west over the Malaysian peninsular, then south over Indonesia, and none of the military in the area noticed.

I'll say that again. A 300 ton aeroplane flew through the Gulf of Thailand, over Malaysia, over Indonesia, and all the military radar operators int he region were sleeping.

OK.

[Classic Jorge]

[Peter]

Flightpath, that is. :-)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

One must maintain standards.