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Would you agree the planes are far heavier when they take off as opposed to when they land? These planes were designed to take off and land with fuel on board. I'm more than certain the air frame and hydraulic landing gear can stand the stress. It has been handling the stress for years, in fact it works so well they incorporated it in their other ER models. Best- Richard

No we didn't circle around Heathrow for giggles. They do have certain hours when you can land at night. It's supposedly to keep the noise down, that's what we were told. I did say prolly on the fuel, not for 100% certain. The jets I fly say f/ GBIA t/ Schipol/Amsterdam, Moscow, etc...they fly loaded f/ bear! I understand this jet had enough fuel for 2,250 miles, or something like that. But we're all speculating. I reckon we just need to wait for the results of the investigation, and see then what the real deal was. I've been real close with my thoughts so far. Again, I may be wrong, and prolly am, but I believe the plane was commandered for some one's agenda, whatever that may be. It's suffice to say if this is the deal, it don't look good for the home team. Oh who, just who just who? Oh I don't know, maybe it was......SATAN! Old horny, the sinned stud, the prince of darkness? (Church Lady) Best- Richard

Don't fly "Cattle Car" and you won't have to worry about the kids, or the "fatties". The other scenarios really don't matter b/c you can't control anything about something happening. Thus the reason I don't sweat the small stuff. I just say the Apostle's Creed, just as I do before exiting the jump ship when I Sky Dive. After that, throw the brake handle back and let the rough edges ride! Best- Richard

It's obvious to me what he means by it. And he's right. He could mean anyone from the late Margaret Thatcher to HC, to Condaliza Rice. Best- Richard

He was driving a stolen car, thus the reason he was being pursued to begin with. Austin needs to wake up and smell the coffee when it comes to barricades. They should've called off the pursuit, they had an eye in the sky, no need for vehicular pursuit. This guy is a real dirt bag, why was he running around free to begin with? Best- Richard

The phones can be deactivated in the cock pit. Supposedly to keep passengers from using them at inappropriate times such as take-off and landing. I've used my Verizon phone at an altitude of 45K once when flying home f/ Saudi over Iraq before, (really good view of Kuwait, and Iraq burning down to the ground!) and it worked...Once. But it never works over water. Best- Richard

I approve, and 2nd this remark. Best- Richard

I can tell you from experience it was prolly loaded to the gills. They always fill the tanks on an E.R. type plane b/c it flys over large bodies of water for hours on end, and due to wx changing minute by minute and factoring in a "safety margin" I just bet they were full. I've flown O-Hare to London's Heathrow before, these people have designated take-off and landing hrs, sometimes we flew around in circles w/ other jets just to kill time before we were allowed to land, too much noise or some such is the explanation I was given...NO FUN! When I take off to go over seas, some times we're in the air for 10-11 hrs: GBIA-Schipol, Moscow, Japan or Bahrain Int'l for instance, over 3,500 miles. This is a possibility that could be very, very real. Al-Quiada has yet to avenge OBL, don't anyone lose sight of that as they do have a reputation for stealing planes that do not belong to them. And in their minds, we got it coming. I'll just bet our guys are watching every thing that moves, or don't move right now. We WILL find that missing plane, wrecked, stolen, high-jacked or what ever, we have to.

I know, I just didn't want to go there. If you know what I mean. Best- Richard

DOH! I know it! Ah well, I guess I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to those sort of things. Sorry bout' that. I'll pay more attention from now on. Best- Richard

No man, I'm Dave!! Best- Richard

They can't force him to change the name of his team, I bet that drives them wild. There may be some Native-Americans that would bee offended if they were to change the name of the team. Pete Roselle, (deceased ) and Paul Tagleableau

LOL! Heck, it's really not funny at all. However I saw the q&a by Art Acevedo, that was weak. And they think they done something. What they didn't do is have the proper barriers in place that would've stopped him in his tracks, how ever they must be credited f/ putting an "Eye In The Sky" over the suspect vehichle. I've complained inccesantly and got no where with this issue 1,000 times so far. Around the perimaters of our gigantic oil and gas drilling rigs we place big, heavy concrete barracades around the perimeter. After 09/11 when I went back to Saudi-Arabia they were every where. Why can't Mr. Acevedo be that smart. In the news report on 7 & 42 it was reported that Acevedo said that every precaution was taken to prevent these types of incidents. I'm going to have to call em' out on this point. I'll be in Austin tomorrow, courtesy of the city of Austin. It's good to know a few people. Hopefully they'll hear me. I know this, you can't get into Dahran, Damaam, or Al-Kobar, or any where abroad in the middle east, far east etc...unless you have security clearance and this is not granted unless you've been good for most of your life. Best- Richard

What does a blonde swimmer have to do w/ a 777 possibly running out of fuel? Is it your thought that they possibly ran out of fuel and said "it's too late to turn back now?" And crashed the jet to save face? If so, they would have most certainly have located the jet by now. When I get on board to fly to Moscow, Japan, Amsterdam, or where ever, In 1st class we all have our own GPS tracker, maps the whole nine yards. There's always at least 2 or 3 passengers that refuse to make their seat into a bed and either watch a show or listen to music. Me, we get to cruising altitude, I'll eat a samich hand have a diet coke a couple of sominex and it's over-rover!! I make my bed and enclose my area so it's pitch black dark and crash like a big dog. I don't worry about crashing, being hi-jacked, nothing like that simply b/c I can't change anything that's going to happen any way. I know I'll go to heaven if I die so that's a trade I'll make any day. I'm not gonna stress out at all and never have. There's no sense in it. Que sera' sera' Best- Richard

What gives you the idea they "couldn't make it?" And please don't say they could have run out of jet-a. While possible, if some one dumped fuel, to me it's just not plausible. To me, now. Not everyone else. As far as arab guys, there were arabs on that flight anyway. In fact there are a lot of arab muslims all over that side of the big blue marble. This wouldn't have raised a red flag for me. How ever, I totally cannot believe the stolen passports. They have plenty of foot soldiers in the int'l air ports over there. well over here as well. freakin' commies. It's a feeling I just couldn't explain, when every one you see that's an airport official is carrying fully automatic weapons with the switch set on fire all the time. they absolutely hate americans that work over there that travel back and forth f/ the US OF A. Only b/c they wish there country was as great of a place to live as the ol' US OF A! Best- Richard

Your referring to a "Shuttle Bus" flight in the lower 48, it's way easy for a Jet to make a miscalculation on how much fuel to load to make it to there next destination. I've flown shuttles in the lower 48 b/f, and 90 out of 100 times there was no flight engineer on board. After all between the flight engineer and the 2nd officer they are the ones who make these calculations and make the determination of how much fuel to load the same way we do so we can fly more volume of passengers and cut down time between flights. How ever on the flight in question, they load the tanks to the brim, "Just to be sure" And considering this plane was also an "ER" model indicating it's an Extended Reach air craft. There are no oceans in the lower 48, not so when flying internationally. So I don't think it's highly unlikely this jet ran out of fuel. I'm steady thinking up scenarios, especially in light of the plane not being found at all, none of it. Then w/ that thought in mind, why didn't anyone try to make calls to their loved ones? That plane had CC phones on the head rest in front of the passengers, yet no one used them. That's more than a little strange in my mind. I'd of been burning mine up trying to call my family to say "I love you, See you in heaven" Bearing in mind no one even attempted to use even 1 of them blows my mind, yet leads me to my next theory; It could've happened like this: Fling along singing a song, either a slow pressure loss in the cabin, and the pilots descending to a safe altitude to insure an altitude where there is oxgen. In an instant like this, the pilots and crew up front would have donned masks first b/f any one else, it would have been up to the planes sensors to drop masks f/ the passengers. Let's say for theories sake they were already hypoxic and were in no physical shape to don their oxgen masks. were the passengers alert enough to don their masks? Who knows? I am still of the belief there was a strategic plan by some one *cough* NK et:al stole the plane and BillVon is correct in making the remarks about where the plane could be. Run out of fuel, no way, unless of course some one shot holes in the wings which is just crazy. They would have seen another air craft on radar, OR NOT! but would it be reported in an instant like this? I don't know, I failed Terrorist 101 miserably. Best- Richard

It looks like your "project" is coming along nicely! Well done, it looks great! Best- Richard

Hippies!! yeah baaaabbbyyy! (Austin Powers) Who is everyone f/ L t/ R? I recognized most everyone, but not all. What is everybody in that pic, 15? J/K

While this article is thought provoking, I think, yes that could be. Nothing should be ruled out in the early investigation phase in the search for the MIA air craft. I think the jet is alive and well...some where. I could be full of it and prolly am, but that's one theory I came up with b/c we have such good spy satellites. WHY didn't the PIC not follow protocol and maintain a "sterile cock pit?? It's my understanding that 2 young ladies had visited the co-pilot some time ago, what's that about?? The question of the new century so far. Heck the staff at the white house watched the raid in afghanistan when seal team 6 made a successful entry into OBL's quarters, acquired their target, then eliminated the threat. How is it possible they don't know where this jet is??? You got that right. We're talking luggage, life rafts, life preservers, seat cushions (etc...) No, I don't think ET, or any of the 249 souls on board will be phoning or trying to call home anytime soon. The only problem I have with my own theory is b/c I think if the plane was taken or stolen, is no one did "phone home" b/f what ever happened, happened. Yes, my thoughts as well. It's the "zero" sign of either that is really mind boggling. Why no debris washed up on the beach fronts as of yet?? I was also tossing around the idea that NK could have had a hand in it one way or another. (OT a bit, sorry) The young gestapo leader could have certainly boosted his young ego as well as being endowed with a larger male organ by his underlings, if he did have a hand in it. Ol' Pooty-Poot ("Mr. Iron Curtain") comes to mind as well. How ever, I don't think we'll ever know the complete truth about any of this particular event anytime soon. Like, I'll be dead and gone (Or NOT!) when and if they do release the fate of Flight # MH370. Misty water cooler memories of the The SS Edmund Fitzgerald. No telling why the jet is MIA like that, but it is. It's disturbing to say the least. Or so that's what we're being told for the moment. This is a baffling situation. What w/ all of the military grade spy equipment we have I'm just about convinced the jet was acquired for some one else's agenda. Again, I'm prolly full of it. Best- Richard

That was one of my first thoughts. I don't think whatever happened is being reported, however I am under the impression somebody knows what happened. Possibly keeping it under wraps for their own agendas. just thinking out loud. Best- Richard

I'm sure your speaking from personal experience on the "Ignorance is wonderful" comment. You guys in the UK are worse than the French, ya'll think the entire world is beneath you. I got news for ya friendo, it's not so. You poor devils. It's that kind of attitude that sets cultures apart. Thus the reason for so much hate and discontent in the entire globe. Focus your energies on something else once in a while, something positive. If I knew I had to go all the way back to Genesis to make my point I would have. It was an AD remark not BC. Get it?? Best- Richard

I'm sure he's referring to the colonial war. You know, when the brits thought they owned everything? I'm sure there's a few that still resent that fact. Odd no one has ever tried to commadere the UK, (Besides Hitler) but then I guess that's indicative of how bad anyone else wants that territory. Best- Richard

WOW! I wouldn't even jump any where near pest control chemicals are being sprayed. I used to drill a lot of wells in Burleson County in the Brazos river bottom during the height of the cotton season and the cute little dare devils were spraying their chemicals on the cotton. I'm not sure what the extended exposure to those chemicals will have on me in years to come, what I can tell you is it of course the chemicals smell really bad, but it'll make your skin burn too. I just started staying in my office when they were flying. Those "pilots" are really crazy the way they pull those planes up just in time to miss the power lines. We saw one that didn't make it and got hung up on the power lines. That made my year! Best- Richard

My thoughts are along the lines f/ "Stolen" to "High Jacked" Where is it? I think we'll know within 48 hrs. As soon as one of the senior officials grows a set of stones big enough to tell the public. I've been working in Sumatra or Sumetera which ever you prefer and it's a doggone scary place. I fly GBIA T/ Indonesia, (Jakarta) then to Sumatra. I was getting pretty overwhelmed with the relations between Singapore and Sumatra b/c of the forest fire smoke drifting into down town Singapore. Now this? I can also add I'm simply astonished how the "Stolen Pass Ports" passed through customs. But having said that, I'm sure "whitey" gets treated like dogs, while every one else who lives in the area gets pass after pass. I've been dragged into the "Little Room" where they pull you, your bags and everything else you came with and have endured 2-3 hour long questioning and harassing sessions. I believe they knew what my lay over time was and just decided to mess w/ an american. It's not the same for us. When I say us, I guess I should specify Petroleum based clientele. These are just my thoughts, not cleared statements from an official. Best- Richard

No one was even arguing about anything before you showed up. As far as you saying it's stupid, well I believe we just saw your true colors. Lighten up, just a tad. What do say? Best- Richard