Three weeks into the search for Flight 370, clues to its whereabouts remain scarce while fanciful theories explaining the disappearance abound
Mar 24, 2014 | Erik Schechter, a defense and homeland security writer
Satellite imagery might yet locate Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing during a nighttime flight on March 8. Over the weekend, the governments of France and China said they had identified debris, possibly from the civilian airliner, in the southern Indian Ocean. Australian officials issued a similarly hopeful statement Thursday, but despite the best efforts of search teams, no confirmed wreckage has been found so far (although the Malaysian government certainly believes that MH370 went down in the area).
The seeming disappearance of a 64-meter-long Boeing 777-200ER in midair has encouraged speculation from the conspiratorial to the fantastical regarding MH370’s fate. None of these elaborate theories, however, adequately explains how a commercial airliner could simply vanish.
…It ain’t over ’til it’s over…
This will soon fade to a cold case, and investigating the questions raised in this article would be further hindered by the fact that these involve international agencies, none of which are exactly excited to share knowledge, particularly knowledge that shows something really huge got past them.