grumpyf1

It’s now 2 weeks since Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared. In this technology-stuffed age, how can an aeroplane simply vanish? Let’s face it, we’ve all lost stuff. Keys, wallet, you name it – I’ve even spent half an hour trying to find my car in a multi-story car park once (I was on the wrong floor). But I’ve always found my missing stuff again. An aeroplane, especially one carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, isn’t the sort of thing you can easily mislay though. So why is it, 14 days later, that there still seems to be no sign of it? Unlike the glossy, strange series ‘Lost’, it seems pretty unlikely that the aircraft’s occupants are now living some alternative existence on a desert island. Although, very much in common with the TV show, this real-life drama seems to have plot twists and turns that are sometimes bizarre and hard to believe. When the flight from Kuala Lumpur disappeared, I sadly assumed I’d be hearing evidence of a disastrous crash into the sea, dis...