A year ago this week, the media were regaling us with 24/7 reports on the historic scope of search-and-rescue efforts to find this missing flight. Never mind that their reports consisted of little more than rank speculation – complete with references to pings, beacons, and floating debris, all of which served no purpose other than to heighten the suspense.
On the other hand, I revealed my fears in the title to my commentary, “Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 … ‘Lost’,” March 14, 2014.
Well, it seems I was all too prescient, even if a little too irreverent:
‘Good night Malaysian three-seven-zero’…
On March 8, 2014, at 1:19 a.m., someone spoke those last words from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to air traffic controllers before the Boeing 777 vanished.
A year later, searchers have no new clues as to where it went with 239 people on board.
(CNN, March 7, 2015)
Lost.
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