Plane with 239 people on board crashes in Southern Indian Ocean

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http://malaysiandigest.com/news/492499-amid-missing-plane-crisis-islamic-groups-want-muslim-rules-on-mas-flights.html

An Islamic Group is pressing for "Muslim Rules" on Malaysian Airlines flights... Do we have a motive here?

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At this point I'm beginning to wonder if Malaysia Airlines flight 370 in addition to being code shared as China Southern Airlines flight 748 might not also have another code share as Oceanic Airlines flight 815.

Is that LOST reference supposed to be joke, or are we supposed to be looking for a smoke monster?

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Aliens. It's gotta be.

Sure, and the Easter Bunny is real too...

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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/radar-shows-plane-deliberately-flew-toward-indian-ocean-reports-n52561

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The article also mentions that scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China report that they detected a "seismic event" consistent with a plane crash "on the sea floor close to where the missing jet disappeared from civilian radar screens" at 2:55am, which would have been ~90 minutes after the plane was last seen by civilian radar.

I don't buy this - planes generally don't hit the bottom like the Titanic.

And I kind of agree with Ernest here, why would anyone with a motive to proclaim bring the plane down in a way that it can't be found?

There is something seriously fishy about this whole thing and frankly I'm having a hard time thinking of plausible scenarios.

Maybe there's someone on the plane named Gilligan, so now they're marooned somewhere?

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When was the last time that a plane went missing, and no wreckage was ever found?

I believe it happened about 10 years ago in Africa, but it wasn't full of passengers.

I thought it was Amelia Earheart's plane?

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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/former-proteus-airlines-boss-marc-dugain-claims-mh370-may-have-been-shot-down-by-us-military-near-diego-garcia/story-fniztvne-1227164555636?from=google_rss&google_editors_picks=true&nk=6f03489e59bf485fe41d019d5b0061db

First off, what idiot put this man in charge of an airline? Second, even though us Americans have a base there, I can't think it's high value for Al-qaeda and it's ilk. They'd be more likely to try this stunt at Guantanamo, quite honestly. Even so, a man who turns to conspiracy theories, probably shouldn't have been running a airline.