[alnorth]

well, im going to bed.

my own spooky, slightly-crazy theory is a suicide with a purpose. Pilot is ready to die, but doesn't want it to look like a suicide. He makes it look like the plane just mysteriously vanished in some kind of "asian triangle", living on in legend, never to be seen again. He makes sure of it by sneaking it out into the middle of nowhere in the south indian ocean far from any likely search areas before going down.