I believe the search is too focused on specific areas. I check the BBC article daily for updates, and the search is always in the same area of ocean southwest of Perth based on predicted route calculations.

The search has completely neglected the areas where hundreds of items were picked up on French, Thai and American satellites. I think they should broaden the search back to the south again, regardless of how tricky the southern oceans can be.

But I’ve just read HMS Tireless (Royal Navy submarine) has arrived on scene to track the black box ping.

Interesting!!
http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/54153

If you’re referring to the engine fire extinguishers located in the wheel well then I would have thought they’d be more dense than water and just sunk straight to the bottom of the ocean after impact, like any other fire extinguisher. Plus the Maldives is thousands of miles away from the current search location southwest of Perth.
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An interesting theory doing the rounds is MH370 shadowed another flight (SIA 68) another 777 at 30,000 feet bound for Barcelona. By “piggy-backing” off SIA68 it would have been able to avoid detection from primary radar by only showing up as a single dot (SIA68).

SIA68 was in the exact location, flying in the same direction, as MAS370 was when the military finally lost radar contact with the unidentified aircraft at 02:15.

An interesting little theory if nothing else, I’ve noticed SQ68’s flight path wasn’t along any of the tracks the satellite’s final received ping came from though.

http://keithledgerwood.tumblr.com/post/79838944823/did-malaysian-airlines-370-disappear-using-sia68

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?

I just think we’re getting into the realms of conspiracy theorists here. Am I right in saying due to rostering, crews only find out who they’ll be flying with days before they fly (or even on the day that they fly) – perhaps Deano can give an insight? But if this is the case then you’re telling me all the crew were convinced to go along with a hijacking plot within the space of 5-48 hours without a single one reporting anything to the police?

With regard to “seeing the moon on the other side of the aircraft”. Let’s face it, when you’re on a plane the only window you look out of is your own (unless of course there’s a pretty view on the other side… but this was at night, so no pretty view). With this in mind, you wouldn’t be thinking “the moon’s swapped sides”, you’d just be thinking “the moon’s come into view”.

Seem to recall a search of one of the pilots homes was conducted earlier in the week with evidence of various screens and flight ware used either for practice or planning. Assume this has been looked into and more information is available other than which is being released.
Question: Can actions from the crew quarters disable or adjust cabin atmosphere to either incapacitate or kill the passengers? A theory could be that the B777 flew to a predestined site in the ocean and if wave conditions/winds were suitable, could the “hijacker” (since it appears someone…a pilot? took control) and pulled “a Scully” bellying it in where either passengers were taken hostage or more realistically, “sensitive or valuable materials” were offloaded? Because of flight distances involved it seemed hardly likely a suicidal pilot would fly this far to snuff himself.

I posted a link earlier in the thread to a tribute article on the captain, in it there were pictures of him using his advanced FSX simulator… At the time I thought nothing of it, but in hindsight maybe this was ‘training’ for his elaborate plot? Anyone can KO the first officer and plunge the aircraft into a suicidal dive, but make the aircraft simply disappear off the face of the planet requires the mind of a psychotic genius. If it were the captain, he probably exhibited similar psychological behavior to a serial killer during those five hours. He was no longer an airline pilot but a killer seeking revenge on the company, one of the passengers, one of the crew, someone who’d p***ed him off and was out to make a point? Who knows? One thing I can say to a degree of certainty, if it were the captain, Malaysian Airlines flight 370 to Beijing wasn’t chosen by accident.

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Search and rescue operations in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand have been called off, a clear sign of where things are leading in this investigation.

One interesting thought; CVRs only record (typically) 2 hours of previous cockpit communication. However this accident was potentially 5 hours long (a far cry from AF447’s 5 minute disaster), with this in mind will we ever have the full and definitive story on what happened? This may simply remain a great mystery even after the recorders are found.

It is also a sickening thought to imagine that when I first posted this thread to the forums in the early hours of Saturday morning last week, the frightened passengers could still have been in the air… Something I had never contemplated at the time.

Taking your first point, if verifiable, surely any unidentified aircraft in a nation’s airspace will be investigated and physically identified, won’t it, especially if it did not respond to radio calls?

They didn’t realise the significance of what they were seeing until after they had reports of a missing aircraft. Which raises the question did civil ATC wait too long before sounding the alarm?
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/world/asia/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-370.html?_r=0&referrer=

The BBC is also reporting the Chinese satellite images were released by “accident” however that happens?

But if you’ve got a decompression, surely the first thing you reach for is your oxygen mask in your side panel – not the heading select knob? Although it is a scary prospect to think if it was flying on auto it could be practically anywhere in the area, it would never be found.

If it did fly over Pulau Perak it must have flown back over the peninsular, but primary radar didn’t show any such reflection – it’s extremely odd that an aircraft can fly over Malaysia without any radar trace. I didn’t think Boeing had incorporated stealth mode into their commercial airliners? And if it did show up at Pulau Perak the transponder/secondary radar must have been turned back on again otherwise how do they even know it was MAS370 they saw? I’m beginning to believe the aircraft went down near to it’s last civil recorded position at 01:30 as it was being handed over to Vietnamese controllers, anything else and you’re verging on the science fiction outside of the whelm of logic. My advise to the SAR team… search harder in the area between Malaysia and Vietnam.