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7. Downed by a Jason Puncheon spot-kick

There's a lot of hostility regarding Australia's policy towards boat people in the region at the moment. If the debris turns out to be from the missing plane, its maybe not inconceivable that there might have been an intended 9/11-style attack on Perth?

Not as good as Inspector Rex, he solves mysteries in half the time Jonathan Creek does.

This was the problem with the link 'http://https://' (need one or t'other but not both) but its pasted now anyways

Does seem very convincing and logical

For sure. But wheeling a case of explosives straight off the train is so high risk by comparison with the security prevalent in the rest of the airport that it seems IMHO to be institutionally negligent not to have safeguards in place against it happening. Smacks of the pre-9/11 laxness in the US.

For sure. But terrorists seem to get extra brownie points for airports for whatever reason.

Maybe, but you'll be extremely unlikely to encounter one between getting off a train at LGW and wheeling 30kg of 'luggage' into the South Terminal. Been to airports where you need to have a boarding card to get within 20km of the terminal, but believe me Gatwick is an atrocity waiting to happen.

Scary thing is that any committed terrorist doesn't even need to go anywhere near boarding a plane or pass through any security checks at all. Just get on a FCC train anywhere from Brighton to Bedford and you can wheel 30kg of explosives into LGW South terminal. So far as I can see, there are no...

Assuming that Nobody Knows Anything, pretty bloody embarrassing for global spy agencies and the aviation industry as a whole that a workaday commercial jetliner can just apparently vanish into thin air. Thought Big Brother was watching us?

Quite. One thing you can be sure of is that the ability to disable the comms will be taken out of the pilots hands from here on in. The aviation industry always learns from catastrophes and subsequent flights are always safer as a result. Whole thing sucks though. Either international...

I can think of no other possibility Bry

Localised cockpit impact with something that caused internal damage to the cockpit's instruments?

Sounds by far the likeliest explanation IMHO.