Originally Posted by
Ftrooppilot
Assume for a minute:
1. A Hijacking / suicide mission was well planned / executed.
2. It was a test .
3. No claim of responsibility would be made.
4. The airplane should be difficult if not impossible to find.
5. The cause and methods used would be near impossible to detect.
6. If undetected, the cause and methods could be used again.
Think lethal chemical or gas release in the cabin while wearing a protective mask. Then fly to remote location (end of fuel).
So who brought the gas and masks onboard? You saw the crew go through screening in KL. Most Asian screening is 100% better than the fat load TSA screeners. Unless they paid someone off, it would have been caught. The only way this is pulled off is with minimal assets - the fewer people involved, the more likely to "succeed". EVERYONE talks.
If this was terrorism, our vaunted NSA would have picked up "chatter". No way it was terrorists and they clammed up for both planning and post event. We'd have heard something.
This is the era of the "selfie". No way would a 777 land somewhere in some 3rd world crap hole and no one take a selfie with the 777 in the background and post to Twatter or FB.