[rooster]

Sure the black box thing sucks, but not one of those people used their cellphones? Have they even looked in to see if anyone made any calls or texts after the last recording?

Not a whole lot of cell towers over the pacific or Indian ocean.

They weren't over the middle of  an ocean though.
If they went back towards the Indian Ocean they would have passed back over land. And what's the tower range around the Gulf of Thailand? It's still hard to believe nothing came after the last contact point.

Mobiles generally dont work at cruising altitude either.

Citation needed.

[Ghost of V]

Citation needed.

"They" have also checked for phone calls, according to this article:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/18/travel/malaysia-airlines-no-phone-calls/

[rooster]

Citation needed.

"They" have also checked for phone calls, according to this article:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/18/travel/malaysia-airlines-no-phone-calls/

But it's still speculation and still being investigated.

The plane could have come low enough for phones to register with a tower at some point.

[Ghost of V]

But it's still speculation and still being investigated.

The plane could have come low enough for phones to register with a tower at some point.

It's certainly a possibility, but it's doubtful. They're probably all dead and miles under the sea, and if for some reason they did land the plane... no one seems to be reaching out, which also points to at least the passengers being dead. Of course, they could have landed the plane in a remote area with no cell coverage, and not everyone has long distance roaming plans, so some of them probably wouldn't even be able to make calls.

"Check the cell records" is such an obvious first step in an investigation, if something was found I'm sure we'd have heard about it by now, it would be breaking news.

[Rama Set]

Sure the black box thing sucks, but not one of those people used their cellphones? Have they even looked in to see if anyone made any calls or texts after the last recording?

Not a whole lot of cell towers over the pacific or Indian ocean.

They weren't over the middle of  an ocean though.
If they went back towards the Indian Ocean they would have passed back over land. And what's the tower range around the Gulf of Thailand? It's still hard to believe nothing came after the last contact point.

Mobiles generally dont work at cruising altitude either.

Citation needed.

http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/cell-air.htm

[rooster]

But it's still speculation and still being investigated.

The plane could have come low enough for phones to register with a tower at some point.

It's certainly a possibility, but it's doubtful. They're probably all dead and miles under the sea, and if for some reason they did land the plane... no one seems to be reaching out, which also points to at least the passengers being dead. Of course, they could have landed the plane in a remote area with no cell coverage, and not everyone has long distance roaming plans, so some of them probably wouldn't even be able to make calls.

"Check the cell records" is such an obvious first step in an investigation, if something was found I'm sure we'd have heard about it by now, it would be breaking news.

Yeah, I just assume they're all dead under the water. So maybe they were cruising too high and then falling too fast for there ever to be phone service.

OR the plane just went up into space.

[DDDDAts all folks]

I wonder how long the plane could stay in the air for before it ran out of fuel? Was it within the same time frame of the last known communication with the plane?

I think it's a little odd that military radar didn't seem to pick up a change in the planes flight path. They might have shot it down and their not telling anyone.

[Ghost of V]

They might have shot it down and their not telling anyone.

Interesting theory.

[DDDDAts all folks]

They might have shot it down and their not telling anyone.

Interesting theory.

Thanks it took me days to come up with.

[Ghost Spaghetti]

What if Malysia shot it down, after the plane went off course and the army got jumpy, and now they're shitting buckets worrying about China discovring that they just killed 200 of their people.

"Plane, what plane? No, no, mr China, I think you must be thinking of somewhere else. Mexico, maybe?..."

[Ghost of V]

Next they're going to start spreading UFO disinfo to cover up the fact that they shot down their own plane.

[Vindictus]

That link did a good job explaining why they had no reception. They simply didn't fly low enough to get any. There's also the possibility of the crew being incapacitated.

[Ghost of V]

New development

Apparently some "Hyderabad techie" uploaded a "satellite image" of the missing aircraft..

[Pete Svarrior]

Mobiles generally dont work at cruising altitude either.

Citation needed.

Far from a citation, but Rama's claim is consistent with my own observation. I'm that one douche that's often too lazy to switch my phone off (or put it in "airplane mode"), and my phone never picked up signal until shortly before landing. So, as long as they didn't land somewhere that has mobile coverage, they'd be completely undetected.

[DDDDAts all folks]

Perhaps a signal from a mobile phone that was left on interfered with the electronics of the plane causing it to do weird things.

[Pete Svarrior]

Perhaps a signal from a mobile phone that was left on interfered with the electronics of the plane causing it to do weird things.

Yes, and petrol stations blow up if you use a phone close to the pumps.

[Vindictus]

Mobiles generally dont work at cruising altitude either.

Citation needed.

Far from a citation, but Rama's claim is consistent with my own observation. I'm that one douche that's often too lazy to switch my phone off (or put it in "airplane mode"), and my phone never picked up signal until shortly before landing. So, as long as they didn't land somewhere that has mobile coverage, they'd be completely undetected.

I think that still leaves heaps of places to land.

[Pete Svarrior]

I think that still leaves heaps of places to land.

Absolutely.

[Rama Set]

Mobiles generally dont work at cruising altitude either.

Citation needed.

Far from a citation, but Rama's claim is consistent with my own observation.

In correct:

"Broadly, a citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source (not always the original source). "

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation

[Pete Svarrior]

"Broadly, a citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source (not always the original source). "

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation

I stand corrected. I was only aware of the stricter definition outlined later in the article.