All Lives Lost

Not surprising Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 landed in the remote part of the southern Indian Ocean according to the current search, and that everybody onboard died.

There is virtually no land to speak of in that part of the world, so the plane had to have landed in the water.

It's not going to be an easy task recovering any debris, let alone ever be able to pinpoint the exact location of where the plane landed/crashed:

Authorities from Australia, China and France have said that satellite images have indicated objects floating in the search zone. The area is roughly consistent with a southern flight path calculated from “pings” emitted by equipment aboard Flight 370 and picked up by a satellite for more than seven hours after ground controllers lost contact with the plane.

The search for the aircraft’s fuselage and other bulky parts of the jet that probably sank to the bottom of the ocean is likely to be focused within a limited distance from the suspected flight path. But the search for floating debris, which investigators say will offer proof that the jet hit the water, is likely to be increasingly widespread.

They Might As Well Start at Antactica and the West Coast of the US

For all the good the search has done since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down nearly two weeks ago, searchers might as well go the whole route.

"Authorities" are saying "foul play" was responsible despite there being no evidence, but hey, it gives the families of the passengers and crew false hope. It simply can't be a straightforward plane crash caused by some major malfunction and a loss of cabin pressure. No, that can't be entertained at all even though it is the only plausible explanation at this point.

I am going with this logical explanation until there are FACTS that state otherwise and not some dumb speculation.

However, on Sunday, Malaysia's transport minister said key communication equipment that keeps the ground updated about the health of a flying aircraft and its engines was disabled on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 before the last recorded conversation with the cockpit.

If deliberate action caused the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, who on board may be responsible? WSJ's Linda Freund reports.

"Yes, it was before," Hishammuddin Hussein said at a news conference Sunday in response to a reporter's question about whether the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, or ACARS, of Flight 370 was disabled before someone said, "All right, good night" from the cockpit.

The ACARS system being disabled before the last voice message from the cockpit backs up thinking by experts that somebody with intricate understanding of the Boeing 777-200 jet and its systems tampered with communication equipment on board. The system apparently could only have been disabled by someone in the cockpit, according to an executive of Rockwell Collins, which bought ARINC, the firm that invented the ACARS system. The executive spoke to The Wall Street Journal on condition of anonymity.

Or it was simply a major mechanical/electrical problem aboard, but we can't have that.

There is an off chance the pilot(s) deliberately crashed the plane as it has happened before in other cases as mentioned in the report, but so far there has been no evidence either pilot was depressed or was in a retaliatory mood.