EHW wrote:
Except that the plane has (apparently) been found off the West coast of Australia, which surely rules out all but a terrorist plot to down the plane where it would be fairly hard to find.
Unless they tried to turn it round to get to an airport to land but were overcome by smoke/lack of oxygen and the plane just flew until it ran out of fuel? Experts have confirmed this as a likely theory this morning.
Why would a terrorist ditch a seemingly non-descript set of passengers and plane into the sea miles from anywhere without transmitting any kind of message? It's not really terrorism.