"Let's go back to horse and carriage, and no black boxes, please" suggested a talkbacker who called himself 'clever guy'...
Not a bad idea, I thought, considering the chain of events surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the Malaysian jet, flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Bejing on March 8, 2014.
A lot of speculations since then; it is believed the plane has crashed into the southern part of the Indian Ocean, but still no wreckage found, fate of passengers and crew not known.
"Look that plane up in Somalia" came a suggestion in the first week after the disappearance.
Right. Maybe the somalians have switched roles from ship pirates to plane hijackers.
"You better look it up in Yemen" wrote another.
Right again. Yemen, the birthplace of Osama bin Laden, founder of Al-Quaida fiercest terror net, seems quite a plausible location for a hijacked plane.
"The plane is sure in one of the -an suffix countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, getting ready for some huge terror mission, style 9/11"- that's the prevailing theory so far.
Very tempting to agree to that, judging by the troubling background of these countries.
" Bermuda Triangle strikes again" remarked some reader.
Could be, could be that the notorious Bermuda triangle that had "swallowed up" a lot of ships and planes in the past, has a twin somewhere between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
It would sound like a more reasonable possibility than the one of muslims hijacking a plane from their malaysian muslim brothers, which happens to have on board a lot of chinese, and... one doesn't do this sort of thing to China.
I approached the world map trying to look up all the places mentioned in the news,including the american military base Diego Garcia which has become the theme of wildest conspiracy theories.
Sad way to learn geography; too tragic a situation to learn at all, as all thoughts are focused on the tragedy of the passengers and their families.
There's one thing though I'm sure of - I'll always stick to my prayer to God for a safe journey before, during, and after flight.
Not a bad idea, I thought, considering the chain of events surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the Malaysian jet, flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Bejing on March 8, 2014.
A lot of speculations since then; it is believed the plane has crashed into the southern part of the Indian Ocean, but still no wreckage found, fate of passengers and crew not known.
"Look that plane up in Somalia" came a suggestion in the first week after the disappearance.
Right. Maybe the somalians have switched roles from ship pirates to plane hijackers.
"You better look it up in Yemen" wrote another.
Right again. Yemen, the birthplace of Osama bin Laden, founder of Al-Quaida fiercest terror net, seems quite a plausible location for a hijacked plane.
"The plane is sure in one of the -an suffix countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, getting ready for some huge terror mission, style 9/11"- that's the prevailing theory so far.
Very tempting to agree to that, judging by the troubling background of these countries.
" Bermuda Triangle strikes again" remarked some reader.
Could be, could be that the notorious Bermuda triangle that had "swallowed up" a lot of ships and planes in the past, has a twin somewhere between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
It would sound like a more reasonable possibility than the one of muslims hijacking a plane from their malaysian muslim brothers, which happens to have on board a lot of chinese, and... one doesn't do this sort of thing to China.
I approached the world map trying to look up all the places mentioned in the news,including the american military base Diego Garcia which has become the theme of wildest conspiracy theories.
Sad way to learn geography; too tragic a situation to learn at all, as all thoughts are focused on the tragedy of the passengers and their families.
There's one thing though I'm sure of - I'll always stick to my prayer to God for a safe journey before, during, and after flight.