Malaysia Airlines 777 has gone missing

I don't know which of those explanations (or another) goes best with the fact that the last time anyone knew of the plane it was en route to Vietnam (northeast of island) but government officials are searching the west coast of the island at least 200 miles away.

 

Maybe they will find debris, but I still think the plane was intentionally splash-landed and sank intact. Why, we may never know. That's even worse for the passengers than a quick explosion at altitude.

 

I've been hanging around you folks too long because after reading this, I have a strong urge to post that "Aliens!" meme from History Channel

 

Thought of that too. Really though on the list of explanations could be 6) Some kind of phenomenon that we can't comprehend or explain.

Or like Mulder said, When convention and science offer us no answers, might we not finally turn to the fantastic as a plausibility?

 

Never been to Malaysia; haven't done any research on the terrain over the flight path. Is it possible the plane didn't come down in the water but against some remote mountainside? That wouldn't answer all the questions about this flight, but I'm wondering if the searchers are hundreds of miles off.

 

There is a theory it might have turned left and flown west for some time before crashing. So it could be possible, I guess.

 

Maybe the plane is in Cambodia. The US Navy was able to make it there
undetected.

 

I always wondered about this - why don't airlines just transmit and record all blackbox information so that it is immediately available following a crash? Turns out it is insanely expensive.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-10/malaysia-air-crash-why-do-airlines-keep-black-box-flight-data-trapped-on-planes

 

That would be a first in the history of history then.

 

So, no Langoliers action then?

 

Perhaps cabin depressurization killed everyone on board, then it just drifted until it crashed, ala Payne Stewart.

 

Thought about that too. But it would have flown on for miles before it ran out of fuel and went down. And that doesn't account for it dropping off of radar.