Originally Posted by
LKB111
The 777 can land anywhere with 4k-5k feet of flat pavement that's at least 100 feet wide. (I think it takes 7k feet to take off again, though.)
The pavement has to be thick enough to hold a widebody...big-airport runways are probably 6-10feet thick concrete.
Originally Posted by
LKB111
The aircraft alone is worth $300 million bucks. The passengers are worth untold amounts. Who knows what valuables were in cargo that were attractive to the hijackers?
So is the Mona Lisa...but who is going to buy it? There are a relatively small number of 777's in existence so there would be no way you could just re-paint it and use it.
Originally Posted by
LKB111
I do not believe it crashed.
I do at this point.
Originally Posted by
LKB111
When planes crash, they automatically send out an emergency beacon picked up by satellite.
Not if it hit the water at high speed.
Originally Posted by
LKB111
They leave massive debris fields. On water, they leave massive oil slicks that would have been detected by now.
The debris/oil slick would have dissipated in the open ocean, possibly within hours before anyone started looking.
Originally Posted by
LKB111
The only thing that baffles me about this scenario is why a demand for money hasn't been made yet. But then, maybe they need more time to get their ducks in a row on that
Because the perp(s) are fishfood.