My favorite its been hijacked and is being loaded with a weapon, my guess would be an low altitude EMP that is being deployed by Iran or Russia (sorry Russia... this would just be speculation based on the timing and possible motive of this jet disappearing)
Hijacking it to fit it with some form of weapon is laughable. Iran and Russia have plenty of their own planes. Why hijack one everybody is going to be looking for? ,
Not promoting this theory, but fringe groups exist and operate in countries whose governments don't necessarily approve of their beliefs/actions (especially in the middle east which is rife with secular religious groups). It is, I suppose, still feasibly possible that the plane was hijacked for one reason or another.
An unlikely and quite far-fetched plan regardless of who is doing it.
True, but human beings have a tendency to do ridiculous and stupid things. Either way, this is the least likely theory at this point. I still think the Malaysian government is hiding something though.
(don't post TLDR... I don't care.)
Why is it so unlikely and far-fetched to want a plane that isn't linked to the country you are at? I'm not saying its necessarily been taken by a government themselves but potentially groups in those countries. However, I wouldn't put it past any government to do something like this and then point the fingers at those fringe groups... another reason to take a plane from another country)
If it was hijacked, for whatever reason they do not want to be discovered or want take any immediate 'credit' for it. I would assume this plays into why they didn't use their "own planes". My guess is that if it has been loaded with a weapon, it would be detonated for the sole purpose of destroying an infrastructure as opposed to people, which is why I went with EMP.
(Not that the people wouldn't start dying off after this type of event, but you get the idea)
If those groups do not want immediate repercussion for their actions, they will want to hide their actions and cause confusion until they are ready for whatever their intent is.
Why steal a plane that you know will be searched for?
To learn intelligence agencies capabilities of finding a jet. To determine if the plane you will be using can get past modern radar & tracking systems. If the facts are all accurate, it doesn't make sense why you would disable radar communications and then make a turn... this seems to me that they were trying to steal a plane and give the impression it went down in the Gulf of Thailand.
I think the radar blip that was picked up after that radar system was disabled was not intended to happen by whoever took the plane. ...maybe testing out China's intelligence capabilities? plenty of Chinese on board, and I assume China would have had a bigger role in the search if we were still looking in the Gulf of Thailand.
The goal would be that they would never find the plane in that location and would need to exhaust all resources to find it - without any chance of ever finding it.
Suicide is the other plausible theory to fit what facts I have seen released to the public... but I just can't understand the need to hide the plane to go kill yourself? Maybe thinking it would create a legend around the disappearance and forever live in our memory? Hard to get yourself in the mind of someone psychotic, but I just can't see these particular pilots doing this.
Conspiracies aren't what they used to be... Conspiracy theories exist because conspiracy exists. We have evolved as a civilization and have made huge advancements in technology and I am not sure why people can't wrap their head around the fact that corruption, evil, and conspiracies have also evolved, and they all still exist.
