The aircraft took off after midnight and was well over an hour into its flight so about half of the passengers might have been asleep anyway. Even if the pilot altered course and headed in the opposite direction you’d suddenly have the moon on the other side (provided it was there). How many aware passengers that were not asleep would it take to notice that? According to news reports the aircraft changed altitute “drastically” several times. I’ve heard news reports that stated that several hours after the aircraft was reported missing, people tried to contact their relatives by their mobile phones – and they even rang! I believe that this has been denied since though, I’m not sure. However this gave me the vision of luggage-cases floating on the sea with a phone inside it ringing. If the aircraft was still in the air then, why didn’t passengers hear their phones ringing?
Would it be possible for changes in alitude and course of direction taking place unnoticed by 230 passengers (well at least those that were still awake) for seven hours? It would have been daylight after these seven hours had passed. Surely the aircraft would have been expected to have been over land by then. Apparently it wasn’t.
My wife asked the same questions to me and I also gave her pretty much this answer too.
If,if the flightdeck crew had the idea of what they were going to do,is it possible that the entire
flightcrew were also in on it too?
The attendants closing window blinds,making sure everyone was comfortable and resting,
the pilots even reassuring passengers over the tannoy that all the changes of altitude and
direction were under instruction from ATC and that all was well ?????
Maybe fanciful ideas,maybe not.
I think I’d be checking out(someone probably already is)all the remote airfields capable of
taking and hiding a 777.
By the time the a/c had been aloft for five or six hours it would’ve been a lot lighter than
TOW and from what I’ve seen on YouTube,a 777 can be landed and stopped
pretty smartly when required.
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