As The Resident Plane Crash Blogger I Have To Report That The Search For MH370 Has Been Called Off
The $160 million, three-year hunt for the missing Malaysian jetliner in the Indian Ocean is officially over. https://t.co/5FgTVNxce0
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 17, 2017
Decision to stop searching #MH370 misguided and wrong while experts call area not searched “highest probability” of wreckage
— Richard Quest (@richardquest) January 17, 2017
I said this on Barstool Drive Time this morning and I’ll say it again — at this point it’s better if the plane isn’t found. It’s better for history, for intrigue, for the story, for everyone. Does it suck for the families? Of course it does but it sucks either way. These people aren’t coming back; if it were me, I’d rather be left with the faintest conspiracy theory hope that these folks are frolicking on some hidden island than know they’re lying among wreckage at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
If the plane’s found it just becomes another plane that crashed into the sea. Another statistic. There’s no lore, no legend, no conspiracy, no hope. But if it’s not found then its legend as the jumbo jet that mysteriously disappeared will live on forever. Yes there’s rumors of pieces of the plane floating ashore in like Madagascar but for the most part this fucking thing is the biggest mystery in decades. A massive commercial airliner straight up vanished into the night? That’s UNBELIEVABLE. It’s unfathomable. I’m not a conspiracy guy I’m just a there’s-no-fucking-way-that-can-happen guy. Sure we lost Japan’s entire pacific fleet back in 1941 but technology’s improved a lot since then. I can’t go to the bathroom without my boss, the tech guy, my government and Apple knowing exactly where I’m at. Yet this giant piece of extraordinary modern technology carrying 239 humans can disappear without a trace?
Yeah fucking right. No shot. And that’s why it’s better if this thing’s never found. I’ll entertain all theories except the one that says this plane simply just crashed into the Indian Ocean.