What's your theory?
Mar 16th 2014, 4:01 pm
#31
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Re: What's your theory?
Phones were ringing, according to family in China, the day after the plane was meant to land.
The phones didn't go straight to voicemail which they would have done, if the SIM cards were unreachable - e.g. exploded, or submerged in water, or switched off.
Hence my theory that they have landed but the passengers are dead.
(As an aside, MrOS asked me why people would have their phones switched on during a flight - I gave him my "stop being a fekwit" look.)
The phones didn't go straight to voicemail which they would have done, if the SIM cards were unreachable - e.g. exploded, or submerged in water, or switched off.
Hence my theory that they have landed but the passengers are dead.
(As an aside, MrOS asked me why people would have their phones switched on during a flight - I gave him my "stop being a fekwit" look.)
Mar 16th 2014, 4:10 pm
#32
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Re: What's your theory?
BTW I have been ploughing through over 4500 posts (double that but Mods deleted half) in the professional pilots website. Which is how I 'know' all this shite.
Mar 16th 2014, 4:13 pm
#33
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Re: What's your theory?
haha, MW, me too - all 234 pages 
I wanted to argue about the messages/ringtone aspect though. I think a lot of them were talking from a US point of view re telecoms. From here, if you call someone's phone here and they are out of range/switched off/flying - it goes straight to the arabic message. it NEVER rings.
Same with messages. If the person's phone is on and in range, a message will show as delivered until it is read, when a bbm/whatsapp message shows as read. If the phone is off/out of range it would not show as delivered until the phone comes back into range.
I have never known a phone to ring when it is out of range/switched off. Ever.
I wanted to argue about the messages/ringtone aspect though. I think a lot of them were talking from a US point of view re telecoms. From here, if you call someone's phone here and they are out of range/switched off/flying - it goes straight to the arabic message. it NEVER rings.
Same with messages. If the person's phone is on and in range, a message will show as delivered until it is read, when a bbm/whatsapp message shows as read. If the phone is off/out of range it would not show as delivered until the phone comes back into range.
I have never known a phone to ring when it is out of range/switched off. Ever.
Mar 16th 2014, 4:16 pm
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Mar 16th 2014, 4:16 pm
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Re: What's your theory?
haha, MW, me too - all 234 pages
I wanted to argue about the messages/ringtone aspect though. I think a lot of them were talking from a US point of view re telecoms. From here, if you call someone's phone here and they are out of range/switched off/flying - it goes straight to the arabic message. it NEVER rings.
Same with messages. If the person's phone is on and in range, a message will show as delivered until it is read, when a bbm/whatsapp message shows as read. If the phone is off/out of range it would not show as delivered until the phone comes back into range.
I have never known a phone to ring when it is out of range/switched off. Ever.
I wanted to argue about the messages/ringtone aspect though. I think a lot of them were talking from a US point of view re telecoms. From here, if you call someone's phone here and they are out of range/switched off/flying - it goes straight to the arabic message. it NEVER rings.
Same with messages. If the person's phone is on and in range, a message will show as delivered until it is read, when a bbm/whatsapp message shows as read. If the phone is off/out of range it would not show as delivered until the phone comes back into range.
I have never known a phone to ring when it is out of range/switched off. Ever.
Mar 16th 2014, 4:22 pm
#36
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Re: What's your theory?
Dirty bombs are a bit of a myth. And is it really believable that it could fly from wherever it is now all the way to London - or anywhere - without being spotted and intercepted well before it got there? It would have to pass through very crowded airspace that would be on a heightened state of alert.
Mar 16th 2014, 4:38 pm
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Re: What's your theory?
So my theory is that a government somewhere has orchestrated this and the aircraft is on the ground somewhere. Because pilots do not generally commit suicide and this thing is too big and heavy to land anywhere but on a BIG runway. Somewhere remote so that there is no mobile signal and few people to see it.
Why? I think that there was something on it that this government wanted and now it's got it then the people and plane must remain hidden so no one discovers which country took whatever it was.
My take anyway.
Why? I think that there was something on it that this government wanted and now it's got it then the people and plane must remain hidden so no one discovers which country took whatever it was.
My take anyway.
There can only be a handfull of governments capable of pulling of such a grand scheme?
Mar 16th 2014, 5:58 pm
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Re: What's your theory?
What if it's a reality show?
Mar 16th 2014, 6:44 pm
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Re: What's your theory?
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...tact-lost.html
It's at page 237 now, so most probably will not go through each and every page.
Mar 16th 2014, 7:02 pm
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Re: What's your theory?
Once they'd released the advert they were too scared of the ASA to pull it so went along with it?
Mar 16th 2014, 7:17 pm
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Re: What's your theory?
Once they'd released the advert they were too scared of the ASA to pull it so went along with it?
http://i.imgur.com/N7oxvut.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/N7oxvut.jpg
Mar 16th 2014, 7:27 pm
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Re: What's your theory?
I'll leave that to common sense.