03-11-2014, 12:58 AM
Maybe Amelia didn't really "disappear". Maybe she was just incognito on a gingerly island-hopping excursion, trying to "find herself" sexually. She was a pioneer, after all.
This newest missing plane is really a head-scratcher.
The tickets for the two men traveling with stolen European passports were reportedly purchased by an Iranian -- but the travel agent doesn't think he was a terrorist because he just asked for a flight to Europe without specifics (the plane was headed to Europe after it stopped in Beijing).
Authorities are now saying that criminals often travel under false documentation and it may have nothing to do with the fate of the missing plane. It's also not clear now whether or not the men were Asian.
Also, turns out that there were five passengers who checked in for Flight MH370 didn't board the plane, and their luggage was removed from it, Malaysian authorities said. Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said this also was being investigated, but he didn't say whether this was suspicious.
It's looking like a process of elimination is how this mystery might get solved.
Possible causes of the apparent crash include an explosion, catastrophic engine failure, terrorist attack, extreme turbulence, pilot error or even suicide, according to experts, many of whom cautioned against speculation because so little is known.
On Sunday, a Vietnamese plane spotted a rectangular object that was thought to be one of the plane's doors, but ships could not locate it.
On Monday, a Singaporean search plane spotted a yellow object 140 kilometers (87 miles) southwest of Tho Chu island, but it turned out to be sea trash. Malaysian maritime officials found oil slicks in the South China Sea, but lab tests found that samples of it were not from an aircraft.
The search effort is now expanding to include 34 aircraft and 40 ships from several countries and the search area has been widened to a 100-nautical mile (115-mile, 185-kilometer) radius from the point the plane vanished from radar screens between Malaysia and Vietnam early Saturday with no distress signal.
This newest missing plane is really a head-scratcher.
The tickets for the two men traveling with stolen European passports were reportedly purchased by an Iranian -- but the travel agent doesn't think he was a terrorist because he just asked for a flight to Europe without specifics (the plane was headed to Europe after it stopped in Beijing).
Authorities are now saying that criminals often travel under false documentation and it may have nothing to do with the fate of the missing plane. It's also not clear now whether or not the men were Asian.
Also, turns out that there were five passengers who checked in for Flight MH370 didn't board the plane, and their luggage was removed from it, Malaysian authorities said. Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said this also was being investigated, but he didn't say whether this was suspicious.
It's looking like a process of elimination is how this mystery might get solved.
Possible causes of the apparent crash include an explosion, catastrophic engine failure, terrorist attack, extreme turbulence, pilot error or even suicide, according to experts, many of whom cautioned against speculation because so little is known.
On Sunday, a Vietnamese plane spotted a rectangular object that was thought to be one of the plane's doors, but ships could not locate it.
On Monday, a Singaporean search plane spotted a yellow object 140 kilometers (87 miles) southwest of Tho Chu island, but it turned out to be sea trash. Malaysian maritime officials found oil slicks in the South China Sea, but lab tests found that samples of it were not from an aircraft.
The search effort is now expanding to include 34 aircraft and 40 ships from several countries and the search area has been widened to a 100-nautical mile (115-mile, 185-kilometer) radius from the point the plane vanished from radar screens between Malaysia and Vietnam early Saturday with no distress signal.