So a great many people are wondering about the Malaysian Airlines MH370 which apparently disappeared off the face of the Earth a few days ago.
Guess I may as well as add my two-bits of randomness
Thinking aloud.
Assuming it did not prang near the specified location
Reasons may be
If the assembly was/is of value - someone (or someones, pardon my grammar!) went to some effort to get hold of it. Either it is to be disassembled, or mothballed.
Disassembly in the ocean ... uh - the imagination boggles! So regardless of disassembly, or mothball - it is on/in Terra Firma until it ceases to be valuable. Perhaps debris may appear once it is no longer valuable.
If mothballed, at some point it may need fuel/consumables/parts - parts may be acquired/fabricated. Fuel, and consumables OTOH are perishable unless stored by trained hands in proper containers.
Ergo, it may be in a 'hangar' - near a rejuvenated (surely someone would have noticed new construction?) strip (perhaps fitted with arrestors) capable of tolerating the mass of such a large aircraft under heavy braking.
That leaves the last possibility - the response (or response pattern) of some nations to the incident may be of value. Errr ... Oops!
Guess I may as well as add my two-bits of randomness
Thinking aloud.
Either it pranged, or did not.
Assuming it did not prang near the specified location
- from the absence of debris, and
- failure of the ELT
it went, or was taken, else-where
- some passenger was of value to someone
- some cargo was of value to someone
- the assembly was of value to someone
- the response of the various nations was of value to someone
If the assembly was/is of value - someone (or someones, pardon my grammar!) went to some effort to get hold of it. Either it is to be disassembled, or mothballed.
Disassembly in the ocean ... uh - the imagination boggles! So regardless of disassembly, or mothball - it is on/in Terra Firma until it ceases to be valuable. Perhaps debris may appear once it is no longer valuable.
If mothballed, at some point it may need fuel/consumables/parts - parts may be acquired/fabricated. Fuel, and consumables OTOH are perishable unless stored by trained hands in proper containers.
Ergo, it may be in a 'hangar' - near a rejuvenated (surely someone would have noticed new construction?) strip (perhaps fitted with arrestors) capable of tolerating the mass of such a large aircraft under heavy braking.
That leaves the last possibility - the response (or response pattern) of some nations to the incident may be of value. Errr ... Oops!