This is more like it, an incredibly simple answer. Heading to Langkawi for emergency landing, overcome by smoke, crashed into the sea.
Is this the most plausible theory on missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370?In a lengthy Google+ post, Goodfellow argues that the missing Malaysian Airlines flight probably fell victim to a fire, not a hijacking.
He says the plane’s sudden left turn is the key piece of evidence.
“We old pilots were drilled to know what is the closest airport of safe harbour while in cruise,” he writes. “If something happens, you don’t want to be thinking about what you are going to do — you already know what you are going to do. When I saw that left turn with a direct heading, I instinctively knew he was heading for an airport.”
Goodfellow believe Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shahs was taking a direct route to Pulau Langkawi, a 3,962-metre airstrip with an approach over water and no real obstacles. If the plane had turned back towards Kuala Lumpur, it would have needed to cross a series of high ridges.
According to Goodfellow, an electrical fire could explain MH370’s failure to communicate.
“For me, the loss of transponders and communications makes perfect sense in a fire. And there most likely was an electrical fire,” he says.
“In the case of a fire, the first response is to pull the main busses and restore circuits one by one until you have isolated the bad one. If they pulled the busses, the plane would go silent.
“It probably was a serious event and the flight crew was occupied with controlling the plane and trying to fight the fire. Aviate, navigate, and lastly, communicate is the mantra in such situations.”
Goodfellow also floats the possibility of a fire being caused by an overheating tyre on the plane’s landing gear.
“Once going, a tyre fire would produce horrific, incapacitating smoke,” he writes.
“What I think happened is the flight crew was overcome by smoke and the plane continued on the heading, probably on George (autopilot), until it ran out of fuel or the fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed.
“You will find it along that route — looking elsewhere is pointless.”
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/is-this-the-most-plausible-theory-o... Still doesn't explain the cell phones ringing, and someone having answered and turned off again.
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