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MH370 has engaged all my attention for the last 2 weeks – and this will be my last post on this event.

The pilots were somehow incapacitated and locked in the cockpit and the plane flew for many hours along a route taking it further and further away from any place to land and from anyone within communication range. Some of the crew – even if they had been given instructions by the cockpit not to be disturbed – must have realised that something was not right. And if they had any such suspicions but could not talk to the pilots, could not break into the cockpit and could not communicate with anyone, it would have been a hellish nightmare as the plane flew on and on – on autopilot – and until it ran out of fuel. Six hours of being powerless and unable to communicate. How the auto-pilot would have brought the plane down when the fuel ran out is a little uncertain. Would the life rafts have deployed? Could they have deployed? Perhaps it would have been best if the crew and passengers were all unconscious at the time of ditching. Was that the reason for the plane’s excursion to 45,000 feet? Was it a ghost plane that flew the last six hours to nowhere?

I hope so.

The mysteries are unlikely to be solved for many months – if ever.

I cannot get away from what it was like for those crew and passengers for those last helpless, powerless 6 hours.

I don’t think I want to write about this any more. 

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