Yeah right. And no way would any country like Malaysia allow 11 countries to search on one side of the sea when their government knew the plane flew the other way. Yeah, it wasn't fully fueled.
Ah, well......what would a series of [assumed male] hijackers motivation be with a Malaysian Air cabin crew of hot girls? Hmm? Have you ever stayed at a hotel where their crew rested?
Holy Moly! Erection city. And then a 777 jet to land in maybe Western China after flying over the Himalayas? Or Burma.
In fact, a 777 doesn't need a very long runway at all. All the [pundits] are saying it needs 7500 feet. Well, this bigger plane only needed 6101 feet, remember?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/21/travel/kansas-cargo-plane-wrong-airport/
Gyaos.
We aren't talking about the government, we're talking about a private enterprise. Fuel costs roughly $10,000/hour for a 777. If you were working at any point in the chain and found out an aircraft wanted to carry $160,000 of EXTRA fuel, you don't think that would raise an eyebrow? This fuel doesn't disappear, it's not "free" to carry. If you need $60,000 worth of fuel to conduct your flight, but take $220,000, over the course of your 6 hours, you'll probably burn through an extra $60,000 worth of gas carrying it. Do you believe a single flight generates $60,000 in profit? If the captain ordered it, you don't think the First Officer would say, "Errr....sir? Why are we carrying 22 hours of fuel for a 6 hour flight?" Or vice versa? You don't think the refueller would've reported it as suspicious knowing that he routinely only puts $60,000 worth of gas in for this flight and suddenly they want $220,000? You don't think the maintenance crew when they received their first reports saying the aircraft was being flown with excessive fuel would've questioned it? You don't think the flight planner who had to revise their calculations to account for the extra $160,000 worth of fuel? You don't think the dispatcher who needs to calculate the weight loading and aircraft balance would question why the aircraft has so much? I'd be surprised if at least 2 of these groups wouldn't file paperwork on something like this. When you consider that, on average, about $150-175 per seat is the profit returned for a commercial airline, that means this flight of 239 people stood to make a profit of $41,825. So you're telling me that a pilot proposes to order $220,000 worth of fuel when $60,000 is enough, causing an extra $60,000 in fuel burn, resulting in a $42k profit turning into an $18k defecit at a minimum (because the plane might be overloaded for the next flight, in which case fuel is drained out, and considered contaminated so it can't be used again, wasting another...what? $30,000, so now they lost more than they stood to make), and management has no problem with that?
The plane wasn't fully loaded. It's inane to thinks so. And the government still doesn't "know" anything. Unless they're hiding something. But in any case, there is no way a commercial airlines leaves with $220,000 worth of gas for a $60,000 flight. It is not happening. No way, no how. That's a complete fiction. I've been saying all along that we don't have enough information to dismiss any probability, but I retract that statement. It is not possible, even remotely, that this aircraft left fully-loaded with fuel. 0% chance. Without a shred of doubt.
As for landing distance, may I ask where you got your figure from? I know the actual figures and I'm willing to share them with you, but I'd like to know where you get your information from that you're confident throwing around your numbers so matter-of-factly.
EDIT: Wait a minute, I just clued in to this...are you proposing that the plane was hijacked simply so that the pilots could rape the flight attendants? Have you met any commercial pilots? The reason I see SP's is because when women find out you fly big planes, they don't leave you alone and I'm not looking to settle down... It's certainly easy to get tail in this gig. Heck, when I flew jets in the military I had a harder time getting girls than I do as a commercial pilot.
