. Flight MH370 will probably emerge eventually. For now, it’s the mystery of the year — and a source of immense anguish for the families of the missing passengers and crew.There were media reports Tuesday, quoting Malaysia’s air force chief, Gen. Rodzali Daud, saying that military radar picked up the plane Saturday flying far off-course, to the west, hundreds of miles from its scheduled flight path. That would suggest foul play — for example, a cockpit intrusion and forced diversion — if the reports hold up. But these reports still do not reveal where the plane is, whether it crashed on land or at sea, or is intact somewhere“As we enter into Day 4, theaircraft is yet to be found,” Malaysia Airlines said Tuesday in the company’s 11th media update. The airline noted reports that the plane may have changed direction.“All angles are being looked at,” the airline said. “We are not ruling out any possibilities.”“I can’t think of an airplane getting lost for a longperiod of time — not a modern, regular airliner with all the communication equipment,” said San Diego-based aviation consultant Hans weberHHanseber. “Sometimes a small plane disappears and it’s not found for a small time, but this a completely different matter.”One possibility, he said, is that an engine malfunction could have sent a turbine disk through thE plane’s fuselage and caused an instant, catastrophic decompression. But that is very rare during the cruising ortion of a flight and would not explain the lack of debris on the sea surface. . Flight MH370 will probably emerge eventually. For now, it’s the mystery of the year — and a source of immense anguish for the families of the missing passengers and crew.There were media reports Tuesday, quoting Malaysia’s air force chief, Gen. Rodzali Daud, saying that military radar picked up the plane Saturday flying far off-course, to the west, hundreds of miles from its scheduled flight path. That would suggest foul play — for example, a cockpit intrusion and forced diversion — if the reports hold up. But these reports still do not reveal where the plane is, whether it crashed on land or at sea, or is intact somewhere“As we enter into Day 4, theaircraft is yet to be found,” Malaysia Airlines said Tuesday in the company’s 11th media update. The airline noted reports that the plane may have changed direction.“All angles are being looked at,” the airline said. “We are not ruling out any possibilities.”“I can’t think of an airplane getting lost for a longperiod of time — not a modern, regular airliner with all the communication equipment,” said San Diego-based aviation consultant Hans weberHHanseber. “Sometimes a small plane disappears and it’s not found for a small time, but this a completely different matter.”One possibility, he said, is that an engine malfunction could have sent a turbine disk through thE plane’s fuselage and caused an instant, catastrophic decompression. But that is very rare during the cruising ortion of a flight and would not explain the lack of debris on the sea surface.
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