Or supposedly did we don't know yet. Anyway I don't know if we should be joking about those people going to Galt's Gulch due to the fact hat around 300 people died. While it would have been great if they did go to the Gulch, people still died.

That plane was most likely shot down by the Vietnamese or Chinese military. It will take years to find that plane on the ocean floor and evidence will probably never be recovered to prove the cause of its crash.

With no other leads, at least this one gives me hope of something positive. I like it.

I hadn't thought about it but now that you mention it, it has to be in Galt's Gulch. It's the only plausible explanation.

With how many people who carry smartphones it just seems unreal that nobody would have called, or texted a loved one while the plane was being rerouted.

They should be looking at the repair records for that bird. One botched fuselage repair could result in instant decompression. But, I haven't kept up on the more recent reports. For all I know they spotted the aircraft doing loops through the St. Louis Arch 5 hours later...

Well there were 20 high ranking engineers aboard from a company that makes computer chips. That was in the initial news story and the company is reeling from the loss of talent.

I say the US knows alot more than it is saying...

Here are more details:

The majority of the passengers (152 of 227) were Chinese citizens, which included a group of 19 artists with 6 family members and 4 staff, returning from a calligraphy exhibition of their work in Kuala Lumpur; 38 passengers were Malaysian. The remaining passengers came from 13 different countries.[122] Of these, 20 were employees of Freescale Semiconductor, a company based in Austin, Texas – 12 were from Malaysia and 8 from China.[123]

Although it is highly unlikely, I think everyone is hoping they are all alive somewhere :(

Start of the new Galts Gulch Series on The Blaze or NetFlix?

Galts Gulch could be the answer to the Bermuda Triangle? All the writers could use past and present disappearances for story lines.
Like the schools teach our kids to be liberals/progressives, Galts Gulch could set the seeds of objectivist thinking. Entertaining like the series Lost, but with lessons.

It is my personal opinion that the plane was hijacked by exceptionally competent airline computer system hackers and that the passengers are on a beach drinking Mai Tais right now. I know, this theory is as absurd as most others on the morning news. But I like it.

Good point about the NSA. I wonder if they know where it is and they are just waiting til whoever it is makes their next move. Call in Jack Bauer!

To steal an airline without someone being able to track it for this long would require the skills of John Galt and Ragnar D. I'm guessing it probably was stolen, but this would require exceptional talent.

Where can you go now that NSA wouldn't be able to track you? It would required a Galtish invisibility cloak. I do know some of the physics necessary to make something like that happen, but to pull it off, that is out of my league. Once again, I feel like Quentin Daniels, Galt's eventual assistant.

The US is now looking into the possibility that someone stole it.