(Response to 1stSpotter, #3249,
http://www.pprune.org/8374926-post3249.html)
This seems a very clever job. Disappear at handover, change route a couple of times. Disable all communications.
The Malaysians and the US for sure know more than willing to tell the public. Too many smokescreens and confirm/unconfirms of leads. I am pretty sure those satellite images released by error by a Chinese state agency was another smoke screen to win time.
Exactly.
More logical surmise:
1. The US has known about the Malaysian mil radar track almost from the beginning. Not credible that they missed its significance; therefore all news since has been smoke.
2. As the plane was navigated after going silent the navigators had some other purpose than to crash it.
3. The Mal. radar track ends where their coverage drops off with the aircraft at FL29.5. The countries whose radar would have picked it up from there must be a short list. So obviously these parties have been queried. The likelihood is the US and Malaysia (at a minimum) know more about where the plane went.
Obvious questions now:
a. Where might it have landed without detection?
b. What would the min. infrastructure requirements be to allow it to be used further, and does that narrow the list from a.?
c. Could its identity be changed (different transponder data, different livery)?
d. Could a disguised 777 be used as a weapon, or weapon delivery system, in a target country such as the US, Europe, China, etc.?
I would welcome comments including leave off with such posts on this site.