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In reply to the discussion: Most rational hypothesis on missing Malaysian 777 so far [View all]2naSalit
(86,496 posts)for a couple simple reasons...
1) the airport in question looks really close to civilization, so after all this time nobody has notified anyone else that it hit the ground there, you know, folks in the area who were on the ground to begin with?
2) with all the searching going on in the first week, the plane would certainly have been noticed by a couple days' passing including wreckage debris and probably a lot of fuel on the surface.
Neither of those things have come to pass and we're nearing the end of week 2.
Seriously, fire or not, the plane landing that close or going into the water that close to land in that particular area would have been found by now and we'd have moved on to some other topic in our global short attention-span theater.