# The beginning of a conspiracy theory? Flight 370 landed on Diego Garcia. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-a-conspiracy-theory-flight-370-landed-on-diego-garcia/685316 "2014-04-04T03:26:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-a-conspiracy-theory-flight-370-landed-on-diego-garcia/685316/41 "2014-04-05T13:09:57Z")
The entire island isn’t under the control of the US military. Unless things have changed drastically since I worked there for about half a year, the entire British Indian Ocean Territory, including the island of Diego Garcia, is under the control of the British Armed Forces. The American military members there are under the control of both the British and the US military. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-a-conspiracy-theory-flight-370-landed-on-diego-garcia/685316/42 "2014-04-05T13:11:18Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The question of course, is how, when armed men suddenly take over the airplane you’re in, one manages to _surreptitiously_ drop trou in the middle of the cabin and conduct said insertion. Sounds like a new euphemism: “Drop trou and conduct insertion”. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-a-conspiracy-theory-flight-370-landed-on-diego-garcia/685316/43 "2014-04-05T13:14:37Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > How do you fit an iphone in your ass? Practice. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-a-conspiracy-theory-flight-370-landed-on-diego-garcia/685316/44 "2014-04-05T13:19:11Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The question of course, is how, when armed men suddenly take over the airplane you’re in, one manages to _surreptitiously_ drop trou in the middle of the cabin and conduct said insertion. Yes, but how are you ever going to get Wesley Snipes to say, “Always bet on Red”…? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-a-conspiracy-theory-flight-370-landed-on-diego-garcia/685316/45 "2014-04-05T19:17:29Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > On the subject, various labs have verified the GPS data from the photo was falsified. > > [Phillip Wood, Flight MH370, Diego Garcia and the black photo. - ThatsNonsense.com](http://thatsnonsense.com/blog/phillip-wood-flight-mh370-diego-garcia-and-the-black-photo/) Love the website name… ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-a-conspiracy-theory-flight-370-landed-on-diego-garcia/685316/46 "2014-04-06T16:59:41Z")
> [@williamweigand](#): > > I thought this was going to be a joke thread about the plane landing on that fat character from “Lost”. Was the character, or the actor’s, name something like Diego Garcia? Jorge Garcia was the actor - the character was Hugo Reyes, or"Hurley". ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-a-conspiracy-theory-flight-370-landed-on-diego-garcia/685316/47 "2014-04-06T17:28:01Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The question of course, is how, when armed men suddenly take over the airplane you’re in, one manages to _surreptitiously_ drop trou in the middle of the cabin and conduct said insertion. Frankly, I was wondering if Siri would work in this type of situation.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-a-conspiracy-theory-flight-370-landed-on-diego-garcia/685316/48 "2014-04-06T17:45:11Z")
Aside from the hard-to-believe idea that he’s supposed to have stashed the phone internally, the story is that the guy was able to select the camera icon, take the photo and then select the message or email icon, write out that message (including parentheses, capitalization and punctuation) and send it, all while blindfolded. I’m starting to get a little suspicious about this story. And also, doesn’t the iPhone have a camera flash? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-a-conspiracy-theory-flight-370-landed-on-diego-garcia/685316/49 "2014-04-07T18:50:34Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > And also, doesn’t the iPhone have a camera flash? Who’s going to notice the flash where he put it? 😃 I just want to mention that Diego Garcia was used as a forward base for B-2 bombers, so for sure it has a runway that could accommodate a commercial airliner. That actually makes this (really silly) claim more plausible than ideas that the plane was landed on a runway on the middle of the jungle somewhere. Plus, Diego Garcia _is_ in the general direction that the plane was last known to be flying in… ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-a-conspiracy-theory-flight-370-landed-on-diego-garcia/685316/50 "2014-04-07T19:16:40Z")
> [@nevadaexile](#): > > Frankly, I was wondering if Siri would work in this type of situation.😉 That made me giggle. “Flllrt”. “I’m sorry, but I don’t understand that.” IIRC, DG has hangars large enough to accomodate B-52s so a 777 would be a snap. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-a-conspiracy-theory-flight-370-landed-on-diego-garcia/685316/51 "2014-04-08T01:48:11Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > My conspiracy theories about this flight invariably end with Bronson Pinchot being hit in the face with a toaster. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-a-conspiracy-theory-flight-370-landed-on-diego-garcia/685316.md?page=2)