Originally posted by Rupert Possible. Your guess is as good as any. It is highly unlikely, given the circumstances, that we won't be finding the truth at some point. It's hard to believe that a "plot" of this magnitude would be withheld from the public by its perpetrators? No one makes a hole in one and keeps it all to themselves.
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Well, that depends: There are a few other possibilities: a) Someone wanted the plane itself, or something aboard it, ie, air piracy for one purpose or another b) It was an elaborate assassination plot (Fairly unlikely) c) it was a test run for something else.
I'm tending to go with a) whether or not they succeeded or crashed before they got where they were going. It seems the older pilot had the skills and knowledge to do these things, but the same reports said he's supposed to be a really good guy. (Which doesn't rule out duress.)
There isn't really enough information to go on released yet to narrow things down. It's possible there was some major electronics failure of some kind, but I don't know enough about the aircraft.