Originally Posted by
Mazster
It's relevant to earlier posts in the thread wherein I was questioning why an intercept was not attempted early on in the incident. I'm not talking about present day. NOTHING was known at that point and in my hypothetical world an intercept might have determined if the 777 was under AP or pilot control.
I still don't understand why this is relevant. If I recall correctly, Malaysian authorities didn't alert anyone of a problem until after the airplane failed to arrive at its destination. Even if the military tracked the aircraft west, do you really think they have airplanes sitting hot alert? In what magical world do you live in where 3rd world countries can scramble an intercept in minutes at 1am? Why aren't you asking if space lasers could tell if anyone was alive in the airplane?