Is the missing Malaysian flight 370 in orbit?

Airplanes can not go into orbit for several reasons.

- No air for the wings to grab or the engines to burn.

- Insufficient speed. Low orbit is 17,000 miles per hour, an airliner can go about 600.

- Planes are pressurized because above 10,000 feet (they fly at 30,000) the air is too thin (and cold!) to breathe. But they are not designed to withstand hard vacuum, it would burst like rotten fruit.

- The toilets wouldn't work. Hundreds of people and no toilet would cause a mutiny.

- Look at the amount of fuel a space rocket requires. A plane couldn't carry enough fuel.

Most of the rocket in the videos is a huge fuel tank, full of way more powerful fuel than what airliners burn.

http://www.space.com/18422-apollo-saturn-v-moon-ro...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzCsDVfPQqk

But it could be in the Twilight Zone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm9CxxZBR2U

no...a plane does not have the capability to go into orbit.... at about 7.5 miles up the plane would cease to climb and possibly even plummit (it would recover). The plane hit the ground at some point... whether its on its wheels, bottom of the ocean or embeded in a mountain side is the only question

One possiblity to consider is that the plane was highjacked, hacked and the blackbox and tracers destroyed so that they could steal the plane for future attacks/plans. But most likely is that the plane no longer exists in one piece

The service ceiling on a B-777 is 43,000' But lightly loaded with fuel and passengers it could probably get up to 50,000' after which the engines won't be able to generate enough thrust and the wings won't be able to generate enough lift to maintain controlled flight

My best guess as to it's fate is that the aircraft was hijacked and flown below the radar to an undisclosed location on the Indian Subcontinent

Even if you ignore the three thousand reasons why an airplane cannot go into orbit, we would have detected it by now. US Space Command (part of the air force) keeps track of thousands of objects larger than a few inches in orbit by radar, and would have noticed something as big as a commercial jet almost instantly. A Boeing 777 is larger than the International Space Station.

1. Zero possibility of that.

An airliner has only a small fraction of the power that would be needed to achieve the

speed that would be required to boost it into into orbit.

Have you never seen the size of the rockets required to put even a small space-craft into

orbit?

2. A sudden, serious failure seems to have brought this plane down.

The failure of the cockpit windows could do that.

China has picked up debri from their footage from space in the area the burning plane was seen, so all seems to fit together now...but it has taken too long to find, and there needs to be better tracking and technology on all planes - the whole tracking system should change asap. This particular type of aircraft could also be faulty apparently and that should have been attended to as soon as they knew there was a fault in these aircrafts. There could also have been an early intervention ie help landing of the plane if it was tracked and shown it was in trouble at an early stage.

No, that is not possible for a variety of reasons.

My proposed theory is it was the result of the electronic controls and navigation systems being hacked and deceiving the crew into thinking they had to change course, altitude, block communications and directed them off radar. Eventually resulting in a crash in an area where no one would search.

Those who perpetrated that act were using them for and experiment and we will someday see their motives clearly implemented.

Okay, that was just for fun. Shall we produce the movie?

Escape Velocity is the speed needed to escape Earth's gravity and go into orbit.

That speed is 4,0716 kilometres per hour (25,300 miles per hour).

The missing plane is a Boeing 777.

The maximum speed of a 777 is 950 km/h (590 miles per hour).

That's just not fast enough to reach space.

So there's zero chance of the missing plane being in orbit.

That's why astronauts have to ride rockets into space instead of buying airline tickets.

Rockets are designed to reach those kinds of speeds. Airplanes aren't.

No - the engines would have flamed out long before it got close to orbit, jet engines need outside oxygen to burn fuel, and create thrust. Rockets can function in space because they carry oxidant with them.

the plane can not go into outer space. It would fall out of the sky.