Originally posted by: ohophelia
Oh, man. I went through a similar rabbit hole when I first read about this. It was fueled a lot more due to discussions with friends because I was still in school back when the news about its disappearance had come out.
There are a lot of conspiracy theories and speculations about it all and honestly nobody knows what exactly had happened or has there been any real cover up or the Malaysian authorities are actually as clueless as the rest of the world. But I wouldn't go as far as aliens, time wrap, or any other mumbo jumbo. That's just way too cuckoo for me personally 😆
I have always leaned towards this being a murder-suicide plot by the pilot OR technical difficulty with the plane that just got way out of hand (although Boeings are said to endure everything from fire to large disasters - don't know how much truth there is to it) OR Chinese military or any country mistakenly shooting down the plane thinking its encroaching their territory and all of this being a coverup because otherwise it would lead to a full blown war. I think fire or any other hazard can be ruled out because it was in the air for 8 hours after the loss of contact. Hijacking doesn't make sense because nobody had taken responsibility. It is unlike any terrorist org to not take claim for pulling off something like this. So by deletion it leaves only the first theory. The pilot had taken a sharp U-turn when steering back into Malaysia again after crossing Vietnam. This turn is to be impossible for a Boeing to carry out because it touched an altitude of close to 40,000-45,000 and then dropped to 23,000 under a minute. It would simply disintegrate into several pieces or the cabin would depressurize leading to the passengers losing consciousness and simply dying. The cockpit has higher oxygen sustainability. So the passengers were dead in the cabin for 8 hours when the pilot was flying around and eventually crashed in an unexplored part of the Indian Ocean due to fuel exhaustion? Experts have said the debris also suggests that the plane came into contact with the ocean at immense speed breaking into million pieces so the wreckage is impossible to be found. After all this Boeing actually conducted many experiments and simulations with trained pilots to see if such a turn was humanly possible and none of them could actually pull off except for one person. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Now these are strictly SPECULATIONS and I'm just making my own theories. I probably am and most definitely way off-base but can't deny stuff because there's no info about it out there.
"New radar data shows that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, now believed to have flown for several hours after losing touch with ground control, drastically altered course and altitude.
Unnamed officials gave the New York Times an educated guess at the plane's movements before disappearing, based on data from Malaysia's military radar. According to the military data, the plane rose to an altitude of 45,000 feet — about 10,000 feet higher than cruising Boeing 777-200 planes are supposed to fly — and later plummeted to 23,000 feet after disappearing from civilian radar screens. The plane made sharp turns throughout the journey, first flying west towards Penang, then shifting southwest and then going northwest over the Strait of Malacca and towards the Indian Ocean."
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/new-data-shows-mh370-may-have-drastically-altered-route-altitude/359206/