Scientists now say our cousin Neanderthals could be taught to fly airliners, but not design them. Which means not all experienced pilots use critical thinking as part of their mental processes and this explains why hundreds (probably thousands) of pilots have not suggested this scenario. Actually, I have seen this suggested by some experts.

I’m waiting for some Christian to claim it was the Rapture of the Second coming of Christ that took the plane, right?

Very interesting indeed. Simple, logical, and to the point. The whole scenario being the actions of an experienced pilot responding to an emergency, but becoming incapacitated before he could land the aircraft. It seems odd that so many electrical systems would be out that he could not communicate in some way--after all, the autopilot appears to have been working--but it has happened before.

I believe the pieces will start to fall into place (pun not intended) when wreckage is found. If the aircraft went into the ocean, that will happen sooner or later. An aircraft diving into the ocean after running out of fuel would break into pieces when it hit the water. And some of those pieces would float.

First, the Searchers are engrossed in the first turn, and in making the pilot responsible for something that he was hiding by deleting something from his computer.

Second, perhaps the pilot was designing such a sequential pre-preplanning method, rather than in planning the distruction of the plane, not an advance in pre-planning usage.

Jim

if so, why don't they say so?

Could not the the Kuala Lumpur to Beijing airplane have several flight plans for sequentiol use; the first taking the plane back to Kuala Lumpur; the second as it did; the third to an airport in Viet Nam; the fourth to an airport in China; the fifth to another airport in China; etc.; until one took it to the Beijing airport?

Jim Wright

what about the fact that the turn was pre-programmed ?

Very good commentary, it is very possible and sounds much better than any other scenario. The Author gives some very good advice on what the pilots are taught and gives the reasons for the turn. The assessment is very plausible.

The ever changing and wild theories of what happened to Boeing 777, Flight 370 and the 279 souls on board will certainly become the Keystone Cops classic example of aviation accident investigation.

As a pilot and student of aviation mishaps, I even penned a fictional account of the loss of United 585 in 1991 and US Air 287 in 1994 entitled “Lady Laughing”, I will now bring you the final results of this current investigation.

The Boeing 777 will be found undamaged, undergoing a new paint job, complete with new registration numbers in a locked hanger at the airport of origination.

Baggage and cargo will have been sold piece by piece at the open air markets in downtown Kuala Lumpur.

All 279 people on board will have been provided new identification documents and allowed to immigrate into the US along the Mexican border with instructions to register to vote Democratic to save Obama’s failing socialist experiment.

No debit field with a fire on board?

it could possibly be from the plane. One piece is over 80 feet in length. They caution that it is along a shipping route where cargo containers do fall off of cargo ships. However they said cargo containers are not 80 feet in length.

Still: why the left turn? Or did the fire break out and foil whatever nefarious plan they had in mind?

By the way: they've been talking for the last six hours about satellite photos showing very large pieces of flotsam that might be wreckage from MH 370. Those pieces are along at least one of the theorized diverted courses.

Debris!

Certainly sounds plausible, but I think richrobinson makes a good point about the left turn.

Interesting, and very possible. I am a licensed pilot and remember being taught, "Aviate, navigate, communicate." I used that methodology a few times. When in doubt, fly the airplane first.

The "goodnight" statement may not have come from this particular aircraft. Unless the comm systems have really evolved since I stopped flying (about 15 years ago), the air traffic controllers wouldn't know where it came from.

An interesting theory and it makes sense. Thanks for posting it.

good point. and the left turn was pre-programmed into the auto pilot.

Plausible. The one thing that now contradicts this theory is that the left turn was made before the last voice transmission. If there was a fire the pilot certainly would have indicated that. We don't know what we don't know. Could be a lot of info being withheld.