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It is on the ground somewhere. If I had to guess I would say one of the "stans", that they were able to go through Burma and Tibet. The Chinese Air Force is newly active in Tibet but I bet they dont have military radar up and running.

Have either of the pilots been linked to al-Qa'ida (or any similar group)?

Giving evidence at the trial in New York of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Badat said: “I gave one of my shoes to the Malaysians. I think it was to access the cockpit.”
Badat, who spoke via video link and is in hiding in the UK, said the Malaysian plot was being masterminded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the principal architect of 9/11.
According to Badat, Mohammed kept a list of the world’s tallest buildings and crossed out New York’s Twin Towers after the September 11, 2001 attacks with hijacked airliners as “a joke to make us laugh”.
Badat told the court last week that he believed the Malaysians, including the pilot, were “ready to perform an act.”
During the meeting, the possibility was raised that the cockpit door might be locked. Badat told the court: “So I said, 'How about I give you one of my bombs to open a cockpit door?’ ”
The disclosure that Malaysians were plotting a 9/11-style attack raises the prospect that both pilots were overpowered and the plane intended for use as a fuel-filled bomb.

There are not a lot of places where a plane that big can land

A British Airways plane with 87 passengers on board had a narrow escape after taking off from a runway that was too short for that type of aircraft, an air accident report said today.
In what was described as a 'serious incident', the BA crew mistook one plane taxiway for another and ended up at an intersection on the runway which was not an authorised point for Boeing 777s to take off.
The plane, leaving St Kitts airport in the Caribbean, was left with about 1,220 yards of take-off room, 695 yards less than if it had departed from the correct intersection.


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Bullshit, if a 777 can take off with 1220 feet I

this business of searching hi and low for this plane now seems ridiculous....given how skilled these people were and the obvious amount of planning that went into it I think it is safe to say that it landed in the dark and immediately was rolled into a hanger. No amount of plane/ship/satellite searching is going to find anything.

10,000 containers fall off of ships at sea every year, these boys and girls are getting way too excited about a fuzzy long distance pic of what looks like a container.