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Fox news being the total idiots they are. Saying the Plane may be in Pakistan
There is a limit to low grade journalism.
While they are the faux news, but considering the 777 had fuel for 5 hours plus 1-2 contingency (which is normal for airliners), it can easily fly to Pakistan/India region. Now if it was flying below FL 300 (30,000ft) then it would seriously affect the range, but depending on speed and altitude, it is possible. It would be difficult to sneak in, considering both and India and Pakistan deploy high level radars around the Sindh/Gujarat/Punjab region, but it is plausible.
In no way i am saying it happened, but 777-200ER (9M-MRO) has more than enough range to fly to Pakistan and beyond, considering it barely flew 1 hour out of Malaysia until contact was lost. What they need to check is how much actual fuel was put on board.
"Seafloor event" possibly linked to MH370: Chinese researchers - Xinhua | English.news.cn
Chinese researchers have detected a "seafloor event" near the waters between Malaysia and Vietnam, an area suspected to be linked with the missing Malaysian jetliner MH370, a university announced on Friday.
The event occurred at about 2:55 a.m. local time on Saturday, about one and a half hours after the plane's last definitive sighting on civilian radar, according to a research group on seismology and physics of the earth's interior under the University of Science and Technology of China.
EXCLUSIVE - Radar data suggests missing Malaysia plane flown deliberately toward Andamans - sources| Reuters
(Reuters) - Military radar-tracking evidence suggests a Malaysia Airlines(MASM.KL) jetliner missing for nearly a week was deliberately flown across the Malay peninsula towards the Andaman Islands, sources familiar with the investigation told Reuters on Friday.
Two sources said an unidentified aircraft that investigators believe was Flight MH370 was following a route between navigational waypoints - indicating it was being flown by someone with aviation training - when it was last plotted on military radar off the country's northwest coast.
The last plot on the military radar's tracking suggested the plane was flying toward India's Andaman Islands, a chain of isles between the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, they said[
If it was following the waypoint route, then it would have been seen on some radar. That's why waypoints are established to keep airliners within tracking range, unless of course over large ocean.