airguy
Cleared for Takeoff
Hmmm...
<tin foil hat on>So how far to the middle east? Or Somalia?<tin foil hat off>
I doesn't even have to be there - it just has to be someplace where a rogue group can get the airplane in, hide it, convert it, and fly it back out without appearing on anyones radar (figuratively and literally). That location could physically be on just about any country as long as it meets the "radar black hole" definition, we have some places in the middle of the US that come close to that, I would assume there are plenty locations within 777 range of the disappearance that they could go and not be noticed.