777 Missing

The plane wasn't hijacked on Lost, though.

 

Thanks for the insight.

 

The first plane broke apart, but the 2nd one, sorta was hijacked and landed on the island. All the people on it that were not part of the island disappeared, so for all I know, one plane landed safely and the other in an alternate universe was hijacked. The 2nd plane is what I was referencing.

 

there was a plane that was hijacked on lost?

 

Second landing on the island. When they returned on purpose.

 

damn you are really trying to get me to go back and watch again aren't you?

i hate you.

 

Show me a remote 5000' runway in that region that could support a 500klb aircraft, then show me a hijacker crew that could actually put the plane down on it.

 

And I see it was already covered. Well done.

 

You can see for yourself what the 777 is capable of. http://www.boeing.com/assets/pdf/commercial/airports/acaps/7772sec3.pdf

 

Not saying it's plausible at all, but looking at the map, I wonder if they had enough fuel to make it to Somalia. If they made it to Africa, there is no telling what happened.

 

Damn. I thought that was gonna be a really cool video.

 

Yep...

That's where I would look. Repaint it, install new transponder so that it squawks as some other commercial aircraft, fill it up with gas and explosives, and then you have an extremely accurate cruise missile with a super long range that can fly anywhere in the world and sound no alarms until it hits something.

Sketchy...

 

It most likely would have been detected by the Indians as it crossed the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and then when it passed south of Sri Lanka.

 

I'd hold out for the Death Star. Much easier to highjack, operate, and conceal than a 777.

 

How far out from land does the radar coverage extend and is it possible for a plane that large to fly under it?

 

There is one is Spain. I saw it on Top Gear. It was supposed to be in a population center, but the population couldn't afford the houses and condos that were built.

Agreed that landing somewhere really isn't a possibility of any significance.

 

I can't find the fuel flow charts at the moment to show it, but fuel burn for turbines that size is comically astronomical down low. A typical air search radar has a range of several hundred miles.

 

While we are going for wild theories, there are airstrips in North Korea big enough to handle the plane and a guy running the country unstable enough to try to pull something like this off just so he could prove he did it.

 

My how the stories change.

First report called Malaysia Air one of the safest in the world and that the 777 has a great safety record.

Now comes this> http://news.yahoo.com/us-regulators-warned-problems-boeing-777s-153156057.html

 

Might want to look at a map and see just how many heavily defended coastlines they would have to fly along and somehow remain undetected to get there.