Who said they were untrained? One of them was 29 years old. How do you know what he's been doing the last 10 years? Did you look into his background?
Have I, personally, run a full background check on these guys? No, of course not, but obviously numerous other police agencies have by now and I don't recall hearing anything about either of them having any level of flight training.
However, I agree that landing the plane seems a little implausible.
"Flawlessly" avoiding multiple ground based radar? It was picked up by Malaysian military radar after the plane turned west and crossed the peninsula. Can you detail the other radar systems that it "flawlessly" avoided? Or can you admit that you're just making **** up now?
I'm a big believer in Occam's Razor. It's certainly
possible that two Iranian nationals were secretly trained to fly a 777 and somehow, in this post-9-11 world, managed to penetrate the cockpit and seize control of the airplane, then knew which instrument to turn off to disappear off radar, and knew enough about navigation to weave between other radar stations for the next several hours until crashing, undetected, in the ocean. But that does not seem like the most
likely explanation to me.
Let's look at what we know.
We know the plane never broadcast any kind of distress signals to ATC. The last communication was a perfectly normal one. No one declared Mayday or indicated any kind of distress at any time. So whatever happened, we know that either the pilots were in on it, or it happened too quickly for them to make a radio call, or the radios malfunctioned. Law enforcement agencies are scouring the histories of both pilots, and so far haven't come up with anything particularly damning, so I think it's unlikely that this was a deliberate action by one or more of the pilots. We also know that the mechanics and electronics on modern airliners are both extremely reliable, and backed up with multiple redundancies, particularly the radios. So that leaves something happening too quickly for them to declare an emergency and ask for help.
We know that the plane continued flying for several hours after losing contact with ATC. We know this because the engine manufacturer continued receiving electronic "pings" from the engines, indicating they were running normally.
We know that the plane did not appear on any other radar screens, except possibly one militar radar, even on "passive" radar (which would easily pick up something the size of a 777 even without an operating transponder). This tells us that the plane was either too low to be picked up by radar (which is impossibly low in the mountainous terrain of the region in question), or was out over the ocean where there are no radar stations to pick it up. The latter seems the most likely scenario. The "low altitude" theory is a red herring in my opinion. Passive radar has no problem picking up a little Cessna flying at 3,000 ft - why would it not be able to detect a massive 777 at the same altitude?
So we have pilots that didn't call for help, an airplane that continued flying for several hours, most likely over the ocean. To me, that says the pilots were medically incapacitated by hypoxia, and the plane flew out over the ocean until it ran out of fuel and crashed. It's happened before.
(Shaking on it)
