A desperate search for the missing plane of Malaysia Flight 370 is still going for a week even with all the high tech equipment and advanced surveillance systems of various countries who helped in the search including the USA and China.
It’s still a humbling reality that even with all our high tech capabilities, nature will still pose a very big challenge to humankind. The vastness of the potential crash sites simply overwhelm many of the systems and processes used in the search.
Commercial airplanes have redundant systems on communications and flight systems. They have multiple systems for tracking and location reporting. So how come Flight 370 just suddenly disappeared? Terrorist attack? An accidental explosion?
Some sectors have started to entertain possible alien abduction. An equivalent of an ‘albularyo’ even conducted a ritual at the airport in Kuala Lumpur hoping to help locate the plane.
As the search continues, let us offer our prayers to the passengers and crew of Flight 370. Given more time, our high tech systems can eventually locate the plane and hopefully the survivors also. Let us just hope it would be found sooner than later.