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passed out or succumbed to smoke inhalation, that means. Others have said the plane could be
The Most Logical (And with the plane flying for hours until it ran out of outfitted with explosives or even a nuclear

Craziest) MH370 fuel and crashed. It's a great theory, except for weapon for future delivery, as if a big, slow, less
the lack of any solid evidence to support it. than agile passenger jet is the best tool for that.
Conspiracy Theories Russian Special Ops Took It: An article Supernatural Forces: Thanks to Reddit
in New York magazine hypothesizes that for theories that the plane could have been
March 8, 2018 marks the four-year anniversary nefarious actors could have broken into the snatched out of the sky by aliens, or a wormhole
of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight electronics-and-equipment bay on the 777, that sent it back in time like once occurred in an
370. No physical evidence of the Boeing 777 accessed through the first-class cabin. A well- episode of The Twilight Zone. Or perhaps a
has been found, and other clues—logs of trained hijacker could theoretically have started black hole ate the plane, as suggested by CNN
automated satellite communications and from pulling the plane's electronics apart and faked anchor Don Lemon.
military radar—have delivered more questions some of the satellite data that researchers have We're big fans of Occam's Razor, which
than answers. The 239 passengers and crew on used to try to pinpoint the path of the flight. suggests that the theory with the fewest
board are presumed dead, and the official stance Jeff Wise claims the plane must then assumptions is most likely to be correct. That
on the fate of the plane is that it crashed— have gone north, into Asia, rather than south means the plane most likely crashed in the
somewhere—into the Indian Ocean, for over the Indian Ocean, and into Kazakhstan gigantic Southern Indian Ocean, and no debris
unknown reasons. where there are runways and buildings large was found because the search for the missing
Flight 370 departed from Kuala Lumpur, enough to hide a Boeing 777. It's a well- aircraft started in the wrong place. But until—if
Malaysia for Beijing, China early on March 8, researched piece that doesn't prove anything. ever—we get more evidence, that reasonable
2014. It disappeared from air traffic control Faked Flight Plan: An email we guess is no more sure than any of these.
radar a few hours later, before popping up on a received suggests that someone on board Ries Vangalen of Simcoe, Ontario claims
few military radar screens and finally hijacked the plane, and kept its location that by using a method of dowsing using a
disappearing over the Andaman Sea. A concealed by faking a flight plan from an pendulum, and by putting a world map on the
comprehensive search was undertaken across uncontrolled airport. Then, the pilots could floow, he has been able to pinpoint the final
tens of thousands of square miles of ocean in a pretend to be a small business jet, and proceed to resting location of Flight 370 is in the India
number of different regions, and the current some hidden airfield somewhere with no one the Ocean at 23.9 degrees latitude and 90 degrees
search efforts are focused on the bottom of the wiser. Except for the fact that it's tricky to hide a longitude, which is west of Australia.
Indian Ocean more than a thousand miles Boeing 777 and several hundred passengers and Vangalen has sent letters to the members
southwest of Perth, Australia. crew. of the media, Australian High Commission in
Unsurprisingly, the lack of evidence has US Military Shot It Down: The atoll of Ottawa, High Commission of Malaysia,
spawned a number of theories from all corners Diego Garcia, complete with US military base, Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Ocean
of the Internet but, unlike theories surrounding is located in the middle of the Indian Ocean. One Infinity and other sources, who have ignored his
9/11 or the Kennedy assassination, few can be theory suggests that the plane was headed there mystical findings.
categorically disproven—even the wackier on some sort of kamikaze mission and it was An inquiry made by ‘X’ Chronicles
ones. Here are some of the most interesting, if secretly shot down by the US military before it Newspaper staff, authorities claim that after a
not the most logical, ideas people have come up could reach its target. The Americans would major incident involving the loss of life, they are
with. then have faked the satellite data and scooped up undated with crystal ball, tarot, psychic,
The Cockpit Fire: One of our every last bit of debris to keep the fate of the medium, dowsing, pendulum practitioners who
favorite—and the most plausible—theories plane and its passengers secret. This one is all claim to have received their information from
comes from pilot Chris Goodfellow, who particularly unlikely since the cleanup of the supernatural forces. These receive little or no
suggests a fire in the cockpit led the captain to airplane would have taken way too many people attention and focus on the scientific and physical
turn to the west toward Palau Langkawi, a to keep things quiet. used by experts in the solving of their mysteries.
nearby airstrip. The loss of communication with It's in Pakistan: Rupert Murdoch John Ventre with MUFON (Mutual UFO
the cockpit, Goodfellow says, jibes with an hypothesized that the plane's disappearance was Network) believes that Flight 370, passengers
electrical fire and the need for the crew to focus part of a jihadist plot to "make trouble for and crew were abducted by a huge UFO in
on flying the plane rather than radioing in a China" and that the fight could have landed in Earth’s orbit.
distress call. He thinks the pilots could have northern Pakistan "like Bin Laden", whatever Or maybe a meteor hit it? []