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Originally Posted by Damien
At the moment the best evidence we have points towards the ditching in the Indian Ocean. Maybe someone hijacked it, flew over Indian airspace without the Indians noticing, and landed on a airstrip big enough but remote enough to land a 777 and then hide it but there is no evidence that happened.
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There is no more evidence that it crashed in to the sea than there is evidence of it being landed somewhere. So if you want to base it on evidence both theories are equal.
Say for example a government agency somewhere hijacked the plane, they would have planned to turn off tracking and have another plane or boat send identifying signals and other radio signals instead, giving the appearance the plane continuing a certain direction.
We could say that is far fetched but a year ago if someone told you government agencies had servers ready to race responses back to individuals before the actual facebook/linkedin/other servers so they could serve up malware, most people would have said that is a conspiracy nut theory. Now we know they have been doing that among many other things.
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Originally Posted by Damien
With the 'everyone's opinion is equal' route then even if they find the plane in the South Indian Ocean the conspiracy people will tell us it was planted there by the Government who hijacked it and we'll have to treat that as equally plausible too.
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Not the government, aliens! Plausible is based on current understandings and different from likely. We wouldn't put it past some governments or agencies to shoot the plane out of the sky or hijack some of the engineers from the flight, so it's not easily dismissed. As there is currently no proof aliens have visited Earth, the theory of alien abduction is easily dismissed before you even get to asking questions such as why they would do it.