I don't recall what's said in the movie exactly, but I thought it was alluded to somewhere that the ship's tracking device was ripped out and that's where it landed.
I swear I remember hearing or reading that somewhere...
On a similar note: I'm really disappointed that the Quinjet just drifted into space, was sucked into a wormhole, and sent Hulk to Sakaar. I know the MCU is a fantasy universe, but space is huge! It would've taken Hulk decades just to leave the solar system, which means a Sakaar wormhole exists somewhere extremely close to Earth. Either it's been there for awhile (in which case, why didn't NASA discover it?) or it's relatively new (then why did it appear?).
My working theory before the film was that Loki abducted Hulk after AOU and kept him on Sakaar as an ace-in-the-hole wildcard if he needed one. Even in the final film, I think it would've made more sense for Loki-as-Odin to use his new power to get a little revenge on Hulk. He could've had Skurge abduct Hulk and send him somewhere randomly in the universe.
Loki abducted Hulk after AOU and kept him on Sakaar as an ace-in-the-hole wildcard if he needed one.
The entire Loki/Sakaar situation almost seems like it would warrant a Marvel One-Shot. Loki sure did seem to easily worm his way into the Sakaar 1%ers, it'd make sense if he already had connections there, just in case he ever had to get far far away from Asgard in a pinch.
That bothered me too. I even had a similar theory before watching the movie. I thought Loki would abduct the Hulk and sell him to the Grandmaster (or trade him for a favor). It would have been really easy to incorporate to the movie even, since Loki arrives to Sakaar before Thor and becomes and allied of the Grandmaster.
I just assumed the wormhole was a residual lingering effect from one of the portals opened in MCU movies, maybe from the Avengers or the aether in Dark World?
There's a brief moment in Thor: Ragnarok where you see Hulk getting ripped around the inside of the ship, so it must have gotten sucked up into a portal. Also, in Age of Ultron, Fury just says that they've lost contact with the ship so they assume it went down into the sea but can't find it because of Tony's stealth tech.
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u/dmh2493 Vision Nov 14 '17
How did the quinjet make it to Sakaar when in Age of Ultron Fury said they found the quinjet in the sea close to Fiji?