Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
This has the characterestics of so many episodes. Any theories?
shareWhat a horrible situation for the passengers of that flight and the loved ones who are still waiting to find out where the wreckage actually is and what happened to it! Apparently the waters around the place the plane supposedly must have crashed are relatively shallow (about 100m if I remember correctly, in comparison to the Air France crash where the depth was 4000m it certainly makes for an easier search) so it should help in locating the plane and the black boxes.
I'm hoping in the end it turns out to be a mere technical problem, at least those can be improved on and try to avoid further tragedies like this. There is so much shady stuff in this accident, like the pilots apparently having let people who shouldn't be let into the flight deck (Kid in the cock pit anyone?) Not to even mention the passport hassle, but if the reports coming in about that are true it had probably more to do with the two men in possession of those wanting to get easy access to the Schengen area, not terrorism. They didn't even want to be on that exact flight if the reports are accurate.
My passport was stolen in Peru - coming from the Ecuadorian border - some time ago. While I obviously informed the police and my embassy that it got stolen, I hate the idea that it's circulating somewhere in South America (or wherever it is at the moment) just waiting to be misused. I always assumed that if my stolen passport has been reported to the Interpol some warning would flash in the system when it's checked on a computer on an airport or whichever passport check. But apparently this is not the case.
Anyways, RIP everyone who got killed on the flight no matter what the cause: technical problems, human error or negligence, or terrorism. Because while obviously we have no idea what happened, I think the hope of finding any survivors is quite slim.