Seems several people are having a hard time accepting the satellite pings and the associated theory that this plane is no where near the point of last contact............Granted none of this has been corroborated in full yet
That's the problem ian.., once/if this is corroborated then hopefully we will get somewhere near closure and a sensible debate can hopefully take place, but at the moment IMHO apart from the extreme cases (alien abduction, rescue mission for Elvis) I reckon everyone has a valid scenario if that scenario is a technical possibility ...