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Originally Posted by underscore
Why couldn't it vanish? The areas that the satellite has narrowed it down to are hardly high tech, there's a whole pile of sweet crap all in most of that region. Do you think some rural farmer is gonna go contact the authorities just because he saw a plane fly by early in the morning? It wouldn't say it would be terribly difficult to hide 240 people in the desert in the middle of nowhere. It's not like they're saying it flew over New York and landed somewhere in central park.
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I wasn't talking about someone seeing a plane fly by. I'm talking about landing the plane in Iran or wherever and hiding it there. Do they execute 200+ people and then just hang onto the plane for future use? It sounds like pulling off something like this would take quite a bit of planning and everything would have to go right. What's the reward? A Boeing 777?
You'd think if someone is willing to do all that work they would do it for something a little bit more valuable. I don't know how much a plane costs nowadays... price list from Boeing suggests they are $300mil? What's it worth on the black market... $50mil?
I mean $50mil is a ton of money, but in the grand scheme of things, highjacking a plane and killing 200+ people over it doesn't sound plausible.
http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/prices/