re: #10 Charles Johnson

For what it’s worth: Malaysia 370, Day 10: One Fanciful Hypothesis, and Another That Begins to Make Sense - James Fallows - the Atlantic

When trouble arose, Goodfellow says, the pilots headed for what they knew to be the nearest very long runway, with an unobstructed over-water approach, on the Malaysian island of Pulau Langkawi. (Pulau means “island.”) Here’s the Google Earth idea of how the Langkawi runway might look in daylight, although the plane was of course approaching at night. That runway is 13,000 feet long — enormous.

The Pulau Langkawi possibility makes the most sense, actually. If there was an in-flight fire, the pilots may well have headed back to Langkawi International Airport in an attempt to land the plane and simply never made it.