have you been to the Reno Air Races? Each race begins with formation flying around a mountain. each aircraft joins up with the lead....look at the military aircraft prior to all this advanced cockpit avionics they joined in formation day/night by looking out their cockpit window.

If the other a/c was still climbing out & Malaysia a/c spotted him he could catch up...the reality of it is if this was a planned a/c take over then they would have researched the standard flight paths for every airline flying out of Malaysia airports by just watching flight aware and other sites each night for a certain amount of time. runway/which sid changes...the Jet routes are usually pretty standard. That time of night there would be limited t/o delays so the timing could be more accurate then say during the day time.

Do I think this idea is far fetched? Yes, but I thought the article was interesting enough to share...and pray to God that that terrorist did not take this plane by any of these means because that means their planned attack on a city with the plane will be as stealth as this one. Scary to think about.

I am still leaning towards a a/c mechanical/bomb that caused the crew to turn towards their emergency airport area as there are countless airports in the area that they turned that are long enough for a triple 7 and it was the shortest route to land. see malaysia own website for their destination then you can see a map of the airports in the area the aircraft turn took them towards. The oil rig operator eye witness account that a plane at that time and area was "on fire" for about 10-15 seconds.