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Originally Posted by G
^Might have missed it but have they checked that place yet?
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Did you not read this pilot's actual theory?
He figures that the pilots probably set the plane on a course for Palau Langkawi airport before being disabled by a fire... if that happened, the plane wouldn't have landed, but kept on going until ran out of fuel and ditched. If that's the case, "that place" is still a wedge of mostly ocean several thousand kilometers long and expanding to dozens if not hundreds of kilometers wide - it's still a MASSIVE area to search.
And, if you follow a line from approximately where last contact was, past Langkawi, and keep going for, say, 7 hours' flying time, you end up in the general vicinity of:
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Originally Posted by Lord Disick
Not sure what to think of this;
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Right. Dhaalu Atoll. Not PRECISELY... but if you figure the plane wasn't on autopilot, and wasn't under anyone's control, but just kept flying straight ahead in the general direction it was pointed... then it's not inconceivable.
The only thing that doesn't track with me on this theory (I didn't read the Reddit thread, I don't know if they mentioned it), is that the plane would have probably passed pretty close to Langkawi's air corridor, and over the tip of North Sumatra, and would have HAD to be picked up on SOMEONE'S RADAR along the way as a large unidentified blip. It couldn't have been under the RADAR, because at that low altitude, it wouldn't have had anywhere near the range it would at normal cruise.
Anyway, that aside, it sounds like a logical, reasonable explanation of what could have happened... which is more than one can say about most other theories.
Occam's Razor cuts deep...