Teachme said
"If highjack, there is always the possibility that those responsible believed it could be flown farther than the fuel actually allowed. In such a situation it may have crashed short of the hijackers' destination."
It it were terrorism, have they not already been successful, regardless of the possibility they had a "destination" at all?
That seems to be lost on many. The first objective of terrorism is terror. We have 1 week of a missing plane, a plane we have just short of 0 info on for most all of that time. We are spending a fortune in both time and assets looking, and have zilch. In fact, we are still trying to figure out if it even is terror, and if it was, what their objective was. If the public was told it was terror tomorrow, think of the reaction that would be seen.
If this was terrorism, they have already been unbelievably successful; regardless if they pulled off their ultimate goal or not.