Charlie Martin writing at PJ Media has an intelligent analysis of the various scenarios of what happened to Flight 370. Charlie is an aviation buff and knows his stuff. He dismisses most of the more popular theories, and concentrates on a little discussed notion that the plane - off course, or being flown by hijackers - crossed into Chinese air space and was accidentally shot down. The story opens with the plot to take the plane, and the precipitating event — what Syd Field called “plot point 1″ — is when the hijackers take control. They’re now flying the plane, and they want to land successfully but don’t care about taking off again. It turns out that arc includes a good bit of Xin Jiang province — which is where the Uyghurs live — as well as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan. But to get to those places, you have to fly across a good bit of China. So, there’s the flight, trying to tiptoe along the frontier to get...(Read Full Post)