Malaysia Airlines flight ...

[Becca Mills]

Is it one of the strangest things ever? It's looking like the pilot(s) switched off the transponder, sent the control tower one last message, and then ... what? Flew higher and lower and higher and lower and all over the place for seven hours until they ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean? It doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? If it was an act of terror, why not crash spectacularly into the ground somewhere, killing more people and terrifying everyone? Why just keep flying in this erratic way until you run out of fuel and then quietly disappear? Whether the pilots did it themselves or were forced to do it, the whole thing seems really weird.

www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight.html?hp

[SunshineOnMe]

I've heard a lot of conspiracy theories on this. Very sad and weird.

[Becca Mills]

Yeah. I still think about it pretty regularly. I doubt there's a conspiracy. I think it was either an act of terrorism (a weird one) or some very unlikely combination of accidental events. But nevertheless, it's haunting to have the thing just disappear and not get any answers.

I suppose they'll find the underwater wreckage eventually, though it might take technology we don't have now.

[Deleted]

I don't think there's a conspiracy. I think it crashed into the ocean, and it will take years before they find anything. (They never found Amelia Earhart or her plane.)