If The Plane Landed And Is Being Equipped To Be Used As A Weapon......

[global1]

as some theories have suggested - it seems to me that the to be used as a weapon - it would have to take off and when it does it would be detected by radar somewhere - right? Or is there some way that the plane can fly undetected?

So - have the military air forces in the area been notified that they are on alert to be scrambled should some unidentified blip would show up on the radar - so they can shoot down the plane?

It seems to me that out of sheer precaution - that air forces in the area have to be ready for such and occurrance.

[Skittles]

1. seems like that plane already did a good job flying undetected

[gerogie2]

2. It is being sold

This is not about terrorism or suicide or anything else. If it was that it would of happened that night at that spot or somewhere in SE Asia. This plane is being sold for money. Eleven year ago another Boeing passenger was stolen in Africa and was never found.

[WinkyDink]

9. That 727 wasn't being used as a passenger plane with hundreds of innocents. And no evidence it was

intended to be "sold for money," but rather, the concern WAS terrorism.
http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/the-727-that-vanished-2371187/?no-ist

[Javaman]

11. I was talking about that African flight just last night with my GF. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

3. I have a feeling this story is going to end up being not so much Tom Clancy, as Tom Arnold

As in, one guy just lost his shit in a particularly spectacularly bad way one day.

I could be wrong, of course. The whole thing is weird.

[MrScorpio]

7. Hey, Tom Arnold was in "True Lies"

Just sayin'!

[Warren DeMontague]

16. Touche!

Or somethin'.

[countryjake]

4. Seems to me some of those "air forces" wouldn't wait to be "notified"

"So - have the military air forces in the area been notified that they are on alert to be scrambled should some unidentified blip would show up on the radar - so they can shoot down the plane?"

How do you know that hasn't already happened?

[JesterCS]

5. plausible

trying to write the CYA story to sell to the families. Just a theory of course, but plausible nonetheless

[countryjake]

6. To my mind, it is the unthinkable, but, yes, quite possible...

and whoever might have been responsible wouldn't even need to cover their ass, they just lay low, play dumb, and hope it's never discovered. As soon as I learned that the flight may have turned back, early on, I was hoping that it wasn't Malaysia itself who might have taken action. But after reading a piece in the NYT, with a brief description of that "arc" that Flight 370 could have crossed, anything is plausible. A horrible hypothesis, indeed.

Malaysia Officials Open Criminal Inquiry Into Missing Jet

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight.html?hp&_r=0

The northern arc Mr. Najib described passes near some of the world’s most volatile countries that are home to insurgent groups, but also over areas with a strong military presence and robust air defense networks, some run by the American military.

The arc passes close to northern Iran, through Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, and through northern India and the Himalayas and Myanmar. An aircraft flying on that arc would have to pass through air defense networks in India and Pakistan, whose mutual border is heavily militarized, as well as through Afghanistan, where the United States and other NATO countries have operated air bases for more than a decade.

Air bases near that arc include Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, where the United States Air Force’s 455th Air Expeditionary Wing is based, and an Indian air base, Hindon Air Force Station.

[WinkyDink]

10. For example? Because we kept so quiet about KAL-007?

[WinkyDink]

8. I don't subscribe to this theory, but didn't we have radar on 9/11/01? J/S.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Theory: It was commadeered by Khan's crew of genetically modified outlaws:

And they are currently looking for the Genesis device as we speak.

[Orrex]

13. Finally a voice of reason.

[kentuck]

14. But would need to fly to Pakistan for nuclear weapon.

Then how would they deliver it??

[TorchTheWitch]

15. I still think it was shot down

If it didn't crash on its own. There's no way that any military would be tracking an unidentified aircraft, get no communications from it and just ignore it. They'd have been in the air checking it out and especially when they would have known that a commercial flight had gone missing. That's what they've done routinely even before 9/11.