Actually, the most plausible theory is that it flew off into the middle of nowhere, crashed into the sea, and we haven’t found it because no one’s ever charted that part of the south Indian Ocean. There’s never been a reason to–no one in their right mind goes there. It’s not been useful for anything since the age of the clipper ships, which used to sail right into those seas because of the powerful west-to-east current. The same current that would have quickly swept any debris away from the crash site in the few days before the satellite data indicated that’s where the plane went.

It took almost two years to find Air France 447 when it went down at a known location not far off the coast of Brazil, and people think that finding something that crashed at an indeterminate location in the middle of uncharted, rough seas at or near the Antarctic Convergence is going to be easy?

The MH370 pilot goes rogue, switches off tracking systems, and drops beneath the radar while still in Malaysian airspace. The pilot negotiates with the Malaysian government about releasing the hostages and returning the plane – perhaps to secure the release of the opposition leader he supports – and lands in some closed airport IN MALAYSIA! Clumsily obscuring the facts while attempting to manage the crisis, Malaysian officials spin misinformation repeatedly, and when it is revealed that the satellite pinger has continued to be tracked for eight hours and locates the plane on an arc from Antarctica to Pakistan, everyone assumes the plane headed over the south Indian Ocean and crashed.

But THE 8 HOUR ARC ALSO PASSES RIGHT THROUGH MALAYSIA! To allow the Malaysian government to continue to hide their dirty little secret, the world goes searching for the plane off the coast of Australia. But the plane might really have been hidden away in a hanger at the Langkawi International Airport on the Malacca Straight – with the hostages – IN MALAYSIA!