Plane crashes are always political. That principle is on full view in the discordant mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which grew even murkier on Thursday, with reports that the plane may have flown for four hours after contact was lost.
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It doesn’t take terrorists shouting slogans to insert politics into an aviation disaster. That scenario hasn’t been ruled out in the case of Flight 370—nothing has, really. (Though if terrorists are responsible, why are none of them bragging about it?) But every flight in the air is guided by regulations and administrative bodies, covenants and international treaties, on paths that reflect trade-offs in security and free movement. When something goes wrong those choices are scrutinized. Transportation officials and other bureaucrats rush to the scene—often officials from more than one nation
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2014/03/the-political-mystery-of-malaysia-flight-370.htmlThis article might be a waste of time, I was curious about the title, but not really impressed...
Edit: Wait it's getting better...
The Malaysians flatly denied the Wall Street Journal’s report, on Wednesday, that there was data showing that the plane kept operating somewhere......
The data, supposedly, suggested that the plane kept operating for four hours after it was thought lost; at least, its systems seem to have tried to contact satellites for that long.
