Date: 08th March 2014
It's strange, really. A huge airplane - the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 - has gone missing since early morning. And none of the 17 aircraft and nine ships involved in the search-and-rescue mission have managed to find even a seat floating around in the South China sea.
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Only a slender thread of information is available: According to the BBC, Vietnamese airforce officials say they noticed two oils slicks in the sea. The slicks were of the size aircraft usually leave behind when they crash into watery graves. But even then the search party is hesitant to deduce the inevitable.
Which is understandable. What isn't is that the plane has not been found as yet!
You see it's not as if this is the 19th century. Everyday, the Hubble space telescope peeps into distant galaxies. Satellites spy on anyone who so much as screams in terror or goes topless for world peace. And state-of-the-art ships fitted with sonar systems map virtually every pin and point of the ocean floor.
So, with so much available, it's a little puzzling that none of it has been deployed to locate the airplane. For had they to, a day will have been enough to come up with some tangible answers.
Instead all that has been said is: The plane is missing. And the search is on.
Yes, those are facts. No doubt about that. But it's almost a day now, and those facts aren't as yet in the past.
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