In what may be an EPIC hijacking, it is looking like someone did hijack this plane.

The oil slick? That had nothing to do with this flight, the regulations on oil drilling and shipping in that area are quite lax - there is a guy on another board that flies 747 freighters from that part of the world to Europe, he says seeing oil in the ocean is common in that area. Not EVERYONE has an "EPA" like we do.

I've been away all week, and was still thinking they lost cabin pressure and it became a 'ghost flight' like Payne Stewart's ill-fated trip. But the guys on TheSpacePort (many who are 777 and 747 pilots) have come around in the past few days to hijacking.


Read the whole thread - or start around post 151:
Malaysia Airlines 777 missing w/239 souls - Page 7 - Airport Central - The Spaceport V5.5

I have learned more about aviation hanging around rocketwatcher, nin, scottb60, newsartist, and rougesaint than reading wiki or watching network non-news.