Originally Posted by
LKB111
Thanks for indulging me and responding to my post.
I guess I'm having a hard time understanding how/why this could have happened. It seems so strange that the person at the controls was able to do as much as he did and didn't have an end game. Conversely, if the end game was just to crash it, why would he fly for hours first?
As soon as I heard the transponder had been turned off, I believed it had to be something malicious. But even that doesn't add up with all the other evidence unless he could land it somewhere intact.
The Malaysians have to know much more than they're saying and that's super frustrating.
Three possibilities:
1) A fire or other malfunction of the avionics.
2.) A hijack or crew defection.
3.) A small bomb severed electrics and/or caused depressurization.
Just because there was no obvious end game, it does not mean there wasn't a planned end game. Any of the above three problems could have thrown a spanner in the works.
Landing "intact" would have been the least likely of end games.