Fracturing of the Antartic Ice Shelf in Late Southern Summer Yields Geologically Stable, Movable Airfield

Fracturing of the Antarctic Ice Shelf in Late Southern Summer Yields Geologically Stable, Movable Airfield

1. Late Summer's warm temperatures expose a large fracture line along the Antarctic ice-shelf.  These fractures have been monitored and measured for years.  Data and imagery is commonly available

2. An "island" sized section of ice shelf shows early signs of potentially breaking free from mainland shelf

3. Multi-year warming has created less turbulence and thus smoother surfaces along coastal ice-shelf

4. The 777 makes a direct course for subject ice-shelf

5. The 777 makes a not-unprecedented landing on firmly packed coastal shelf section. Plane lands safely, but without means to take-off

6. A series of small, but scientifically precise charges are fired, completing the natural fracturing, and subsequent dislocation of coastal ice field section

7. At over 1 mile in length and width, the "island-size iceberg" is in no way susceptible to "turtling" like a much smaller, calved iceberg would be.

8. South Indian Ocean currents, unimpeded for almost 365 degrees of latitude, quickly grip the now independent ice shelf fragment which begins quickly moving with the strong currents away from the latitude of origin.

9. Sensor reflective, camouflaged hangar is quickly erected over the fully intact and undamaged 777, preventing radar, radio, or heat signatures from being identified

10. Additional thermal wraps are used to cocoon the 777 while battery powered heat sources maintain minimum safe ambient aircraft temperatures, thus preventing any cold induced damage to the craft.

11. Peripheral structures of the same type are erected over large section bores which are open to the ocean below. These are used as docking stations by 1 or more nuclear submarines, which have long histories of polar habitation

12. Geologists work to optimize the size and shape of the naturally shaped ice field shard using imaging equipment that identifies opportunistic weak points. Additional shaped charges are used to "sculpt" a more efficiently shaped ice-barge.

13. Concurrently, engineers affix extremely large "sea anchors", used conversely as under-sea sails capable of catching even faster flowing under-sea currents capable of pulling the optimally shaped ice-barge at a rate of 12 NMPH.

14. After 10 days, the ice-barge is over 3,000 nautical miles latitudinally delta’d from its point of origin

15. Ex-military submarine recovery ship with suitable derrick lifts 777 unharmed onto cargo deck, and steams away at 15-20NMPH at a counter-intuitive/discordant vector.

16. Extraneous Jetsam has since been gathered and loaded into small craft with begin dumping their cargo in misleading, but not totally illogical locations. It is well understood by technicians what should be afloat after nearly 2 weeks, and what should not.

17. Cargo ship vectors off to any number of suitable, pre-arranged locations.

Motive? Why would anyone go through the trouble of stealing a roughly $350M jumbo jet? One which currently sits atop the world's "most wanted plane" list? Why go through the somewhat complex and modestly expensive hassle of stealing something that can readily be purchased? The first and easiest answer is: now you have something that no one knows you have....At an order of magnitude lower, we see this happen regularly with stolen art....$10's of millions spent on a pretty picture that you can never tell anyone you have.

But a fully functioning aircraft is a bit different. You don't make one disappear because you can't afford a new one. You steal one because you don't want it known that you possess one.....

777’s are now ubiquitous; possibly the most common heavy jet in the skies today. In the crowded skies, it would stand out like a Toyota Corolla on a Japanese motorway.

What to do with a 777 once you have it in "dry dock" is not a complicated problem. The motives and intents could be limitless, but bringing the 777 back to the skies would be only a small matter of technical identity theft....

At issue here for me is the "how", not "why"...