[Halcyon]

Richard, most plane manufacturers (Boeing, Airbus, etc) have data sent to them as well as the airlines and engine manufacturers. This can help monitor problems and solve issues that arise.


What I find odd is that in a day and age where everything is being monitored why on earth did Malaysian Airlines not go to the military or other companies that have tracking capabilities straight away after losing contact with their own systems and the plane.

If we now know the plane most likely continued flying for several hours and they had seen it straight away on other radars they could have got some fighter jets up to see what is going on and patrol the skies.

Some of the last data received showed the plane gaining a lot of altitude and going beyond its flying ceiling. This could have been an attempt by the pilots to disable hijackers who were trying to gain access.
Equally, it could have been to de-pressurise the plane and cause passengers to pass out.
That being said, I doubt there was enough oxgen for them to fly for a good while at that altitude.

Whatever happened at that altitude someone was in control to bring the plane back down to the lower altitude.

Maybe there was a fire and they were trying to get to less air to force out the flames.

Whatever happened systems were switched off one by one so someone was doing it.

I am more and more inclined to think the plane never exploded and was intact until the very end.
It has most likely ran out of fuel after hours of gliding and then crashed.
But then why would no one have beeen able to seen it descending or mayday call due to failure of systems.