Hey Jeff, love the show. What I haven't heard on the podcast or in other spheres of MH370 discussion is: what about the passengers? If an agent made a dash for the electronics bay, I would think in a post 9/11 age passengers would react and take actions to subdue that person. Secondly, where are they now? Was the plane able to be depress…
Hey Jeff, love the show. What I haven't heard on the podcast or in other spheres of MH370 discussion is: what about the passengers? If an agent made a dash for the electronics bay, I would think in a post 9/11 age passengers would react and take actions to subdue that person. Secondly, where are they now? Was the plane able to be depressurized so fast that they could all be killed before they could fight back, send messages, disrupt the flight, etc? Did they land alive with the plane and killed later? Are they all being held hostage? I would think all of these scenarios would leave behind some breadcrumb evidence either physically or digitally. I've been very much persuaded to your theory of Russians stealing the plane, but am curious how the removal of the passengers fits in.
Hey Trevor, Thanks! So happy to hear you're enjoying the show. I think you raise an excellent point about the expectation that passengers would stop someone accessing the E/E bay. What we're trying to do is lay out a maximalist vision of all the possible things that could have happened to the plane; so we're going to let our imaginations run wild and suppose that the attackers have maximal skills and resources, everything goes just right, etc. Then, having laid out the possibilities, we can put the possibilities side by side and see where the difficulties might lie. So, yes, if a plan depends on getting into the E/E, avoiding getting caught doing that would be an important feature of the plan.
As for the passengers, we don't really have any clues about their fate, except perhaps that no one answered either of the incoming phone calls, which suggests that they were incapacitated. Various people have suggested that whoever took the plane might have depressurized the cabin to accomplish that; there's no direct evidence for it but it seems to be the best idea anyone can come up with.
Interesting thoughts, that makes a ton of sense. My wife and I have been following this mystery pretty closely since it happened and we've never agreed on plausible scenario of how 200+ passengers and crew basically just vanished.
Hey Jeff, love the show. What I haven't heard on the podcast or in other spheres of MH370 discussion is: what about the passengers? If an agent made a dash for the electronics bay, I would think in a post 9/11 age passengers would react and take actions to subdue that person. Secondly, where are they now? Was the plane able to be depressurized so fast that they could all be killed before they could fight back, send messages, disrupt the flight, etc? Did they land alive with the plane and killed later? Are they all being held hostage? I would think all of these scenarios would leave behind some breadcrumb evidence either physically or digitally. I've been very much persuaded to your theory of Russians stealing the plane, but am curious how the removal of the passengers fits in.
Hey Trevor, Thanks! So happy to hear you're enjoying the show. I think you raise an excellent point about the expectation that passengers would stop someone accessing the E/E bay. What we're trying to do is lay out a maximalist vision of all the possible things that could have happened to the plane; so we're going to let our imaginations run wild and suppose that the attackers have maximal skills and resources, everything goes just right, etc. Then, having laid out the possibilities, we can put the possibilities side by side and see where the difficulties might lie. So, yes, if a plan depends on getting into the E/E, avoiding getting caught doing that would be an important feature of the plan.
As for the passengers, we don't really have any clues about their fate, except perhaps that no one answered either of the incoming phone calls, which suggests that they were incapacitated. Various people have suggested that whoever took the plane might have depressurized the cabin to accomplish that; there's no direct evidence for it but it seems to be the best idea anyone can come up with.
Interesting thoughts, that makes a ton of sense. My wife and I have been following this mystery pretty closely since it happened and we've never agreed on plausible scenario of how 200+ passengers and crew basically just vanished.
I'll be interested to hear what you think of tomorrow's episode...