Charlie Martin writing for PJ Media Tattler muses about the MH3370 disappearance and comes up with a scenario I hadn't seen. His idea, the plane was hijacked by Muslim Uyghurs who were headed home to China with the transponder turned off.
Suppose the Chinese spotted MH370 on primary radar, sent up fighters, and when it wouldn't communicate with them, shot it down. Then they decided shooting down a plane full of civilians, including a number of Chinese, would look ugly.
So they cleaned up the debris field and then isolated the troops who did the dirty work, after issuing a later-admitted-to-be-false claim of debris in the Gulf of Thailand to cause searchers to look in the wrong location. Martin says it sounds like the plot of a decent B movie, I don't disagree.
MH370's pilot was a fervent backer of popular Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim who earlier in the day was sentenced to prison for homosexuality, a crime in Muslim Malaysia. It is widely believed his conviction was motivated by politics.
Perhaps the pilot was concerned that as a known supporter of Ibrahim he was also at risk and decided to disappear. If he planned to land the plane safely and conceal it, this would require substantial pre-planning and coordination, of which there is no evidence as yet.
