08-04-2014, 01:42 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Steve Franklin Wrote:I can't imagine that anyone wandering around in the terminal would wonder about a Malaysian jetliner.
The problem with this theory, I think, is that those deadly keen aircraft spotters who spend their spare time spotting aircraft, writing down their tail numbers, taking photographs etc etc. Also, in an airport there are too many staff eyes too, who wouldn't keep quiet about something as important as this. Not least what happens to the passengers and crew? Are they to be kept in limbo for ever afterwards, leaving their "surviving" families to grow accustomed to the fact that they are dead?
Personally, I don't see how this could be the answer, but even so it's an interesting twist on the mystery.
Just a few points:
1) I'm not sure the number of plane spotters at Almaty International Airport in Kazakhstan at 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning is going to be anything other than vanishingly small.
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2) As I suggested, the plane may never have gotten anywhere near the main terminal and would most likely have taxied to a hangar far enough away to go unnoticed.
3) And, interestingly enough, Almaty International Airport, the main hub of Air Astana, the flag carrier of Kazakhstan, is located almost precisely on the final northern ping arc. See the map here: http://www.duncansteel.com/wp-content/up...C_3D_e.png