What Actually Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?
The mystery behind how a commercial airline with hundreds of passengers suddenly disappeared
The idea that a sophisticated machine, with its modern instruments and redundant communications, could simply vanish seems beyond the realm of possibility,” William Langewiesche at The Atlantic says.
I am currently re-watching Lost, a show about a plane crashing on an island and the subsequent survival of people on the island.
Of course, Lost is fiction, and in real life, the world was shocked by the recent mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in 2014, which led to the presumed deaths of all 239 people on board.
My Chinese-American family talked a lot about the disappearance — after all, the majority of passengers on the plane were Chinese, and the event got significant coverage in Chinese newspapers in our area. After all, the destination of the flight was Beijing.
On a personal level, plane crashes are very scary. Despite the fact that a plane crash is about 100 times less likely than a car crash, what’s scarier about a plane crash is the magnitude.
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