It is extraordinarily bizarre that an airplane could just disappear, but Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 isn’t the first to do so. Time magazine has enumerated six others from history.
There’s Air France 447, the one many newscasters have mentioned as a parallel situation when discussing speculating about what might have happened to Flight MH370. There’s Amelia Earhart, probably the most famous airplane disappearance of all. There’s the Andes flight disaster made famous by Piers Paul Read in his book “Alive”. There’s Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, which disappeared between Guam and the Philippine Islands in 1962. There was another Andes crash in 1947 which was not revealed until engine bits were found in 1998.
And finally, there’s the Bermuda Triangle. The thing about the Triangle is that most of the incidents have been proven untrue. No matter. It’s fun to speculate about it, right?
But this one messes with my head cause the odds are pretty good that almost every single person on that plane had a cell phone or some other device with a form of GPS etc on it; something those other disappearing planes would not have had. Seems crazy that there are not blips somewhere from something. Hell, you cannot go to a restaurant without one of your devices pinpointing pretty much where you are sitting……my phone tells me as soon as I get in my car how long my commute to work is and if there are delays so this makes no sense at all.
You know, I hadn’t even thought of that (I’m still using a flip phone), but of course you’re right. That just adds to the mystery.