most if not all American drone operations are controlled now from US soil. So the Taliban would have to be in Virginia or Nevada. Out side of that Qatar or Saudi Arabia. Only maintenance personal would be in country and then they would likely be flown in. And kept on base.
Where that theory falls on its face is explaining just why it was necessary to get the drone controllers to Malaysia, and how the Taliban managed that, when it would have probably been easier and safer to get the equipment directly to China via the shared land boarder, or even through Pakistan.
I think this theory was already flat on it's face long before we moved to Malaysia, now its hanging on by shear will of belief.
If it was a government op, it was either planned that all passengers had to die, or something went catastrophically wrong.
once again if it was worth the lives of 200 people why then was it anywhere near a dangerous place? If it was that valuable the US government would never have allowed it outside of Area 51.
For the first scenario, it is really hard to think of anything valuable enough for any government to seriously consider, never mind sanction, such high profile mass murder. This isn't taking a bunch of guys few would miss behind a shed and hoping no one would notice or care. The world, or at least the Chinese, would not rest until they got answers. The consequences of discovery would be too catastrophic to risk no matter what was at stake or how small the chance of damning evidence being found.
exactly its a nonsensical theory put together by people looking to grind a ax against the US and Israel.
As such, I am leaning more towards covert mission gone horribly wrong. The scenario that springs most readily to mind would be a similar case to the infamous Moscow Theatre seige.
The plan was for the pilot to shake the plane about a bit, and then deploy masks instructing the crew and passengers to use them. No one would have thought to disobey such an order. Only instead of just air, the masks' supply were laced with sleeping gas (or they could have just released the gas directly through the plane's ventilation system. With it being a red eye, few would have been suspicious if they woke up all of a sudden without realising that they had fallen asleep).
The idea was to knock everyone out long enough for the agents to do what they needed to do. Then the pilot turns off the sleeping gas and everyone wakes up in Beijing none the wiser, with their mark and escort having no idea what happened to the package.
Problem was someone messed up the dosage and the gas ended up killing everyone.
Agents, and their handlers back at HQ freaked out when they realised what happened, that's when they disabled the transponders and started to actively try to evade radar by dropping to the deck. The many course corrections could be explained by the chaos of everyone trying to come to grips with the disaster and the agents getting contradictory orders as people higher and higher up the chain found out and everyone wanted it handled differently.
Ultimately the decision was to fly the plane as far off course as possible and ditch it in the hope that no one ever finds it, or at least no one can find the crash site in time to gather any incriminating evidence, like bodies filled with lethal concentrations of sleeping gas for example.
and just when it seems like reason has won the day... Wolf really do me a favor reread the theory, then google "9/11 drone conspiracy"
why because I have my own theory.
somewhere in the world wide web is a cabal of people who hate the US and Israel. These people feel so much dislike of these entities that they feel they must be behind everything that goes wrong. So years ago they created a theory based around the US and Israeli drone technology's this theory they felt must explain what happened on September 11,2001. Then years later a event happened also involving aircraft. And so this Cabal stepped up and pulled out there. Old theory long since debunked and did a rewrite. They argued that since the US went to war after 9/11 then surely there was something the US wanted in Afghanistan, and when that fell apart they reasoned that the drones themselves were the answer. They said that since there first theory was debunked they had to alter it, so the hijack technology was now the result of Israeli technology built after 9/11 and at a later date they then reason they would reveal that it was in fact the cause of 9/11, they learned of Iranians on the plane... Well that wouldn't do so they must have been Israelis masquerading as Iranians who were using some one else passports. Then this Cabal changed the secret base where the plane would land in the original version to Diego Garcia, reasoning that it was the perfect place for nefarious conspiracies. But what about the people? Well the Cabal Argues since they are Chinese and everyone knows the US and China are rivals then the US and Israelis killed them all and crashed the plane by remote in the Indian ocean. Then this Cabal posted it all on the world wide web and hoped that there soon to form following would buy in and join them in reveling the "Truth" about the evil doers of the world.
mean time the real investigation has been ongoing, and hampered not by secrets being held back but by busy seas, improperly prepared management, half dozen navys from across the region with varying degrees of SAR training, Chinese delegations demanding answers, a rabid press corps from all over the world Malaysia spokesmen who are getting contradictory advice on how to handle the next of kin and the sudden realization that every step they have take. Since they were born is now being cataloged and measured.
