The Mystery of Missing Malaysia Airlines 370

[PDH]

I, for one, blame the Pope for this.

[grumbler]

I think it's possible the terrorists might have been flying to friendly territory and crashed it, either through incompetence or through Flight 93 esque intervention. If that were the case you'd expect cell phone calls from the family.

Unless the passengers were already dead.  Depressurize the cabin and disable the emergency oxygen system, and the passengers are too busy trying to breathe to dial home.

I am not saying this is likely, but it fits the facts if there was, indeed, some kind of hijacking.

[Queequeg]

Jesus, that's fucking horrifying. 

[alfred russel]

Jesus, that's fucking horrifying.

Do you consider it horrifying that we are all going to die, and most of us from things far more unpleasant than hypoxia?

[Grinning_Colossus]

Context. The image of a plane flying at 40k feet for hours through the night, its passengers blue and frozen, illuminated by reading lights, until it lands on an unused stretch of road somewhere in India, ready to be used for nefarious purposes... that's creepy.

[Valmy]

Context. The image of a plane flying at 40k feet for hours through the night, its passengers blue and frozen, illuminated by reading lights, until it lands on an unused stretch of road somewhere in India, ready to be used for nefarious purposes... that's creepy.

And then a group of investigators enter the plane and discover it was possessed by Satan?  Sounds like a winner.  That script may have already been written though.

[Queequeg]

Jesus, that's fucking horrifying.

Do you consider it horrifying that we are all going to die, and most of us from things far more unpleasant than hypoxia?

I'd much rather die by myself in pain from prolonged wasting disease after having made peace with loved ones and family then relatively quickly and painlessly from hypoxia after a few moments of sheer terror as terrorists depressurize the cabin.  It would be especially terrible if, as I suspect was the case for many on the plane, I was travelling with friends and family.  That's nightmare stuff.  Especially considering that my loved ones wouldn't know what the hell happened to me. 

[grumbler]

Context. The image of a plane flying at 40k feet for hours through the night, its passengers blue and frozen, illuminated by reading lights, until it lands on an unused stretch of road somewhere in India, ready to be used for nefarious purposes... that's creepy.

Needs more snakes and a sharknado.

[Caliga]

  Sharknado!

[grumbler]

Sharknado!

or, perhaps:

[Caliga]

Reminds me of how in GI Joe Lady Jaye used to shoot down Cobra fighter jets by throwing her spear at them.

[Zanza]

Sharknado!

or, perhaps:

Sounds legit.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Sharknado!

or, perhaps:
<picture of Mega Shark>

Sounds legit.

The question is, though, what happens when a sharknado moves over water (thus becoming a sharkspout) and happens to collide with Mega Shark during the latter's aerial movements?

[Savonarola]

Reminds me of how in GI Joe Lady Jaye used to shoot down Cobra fighter jets by throwing her spear at them.

Sid Meier used the example of Lady Jaye in order to develop phalanx versus stealth bomber combat engine. 

[Caliga]

Neat.