Flight MH 370

Malaysia airlines flight MH370 vanished around two weeks ago and there is still no proper trace of the missing aircraft.

The situation isn't being helped by various newspapers making up stories and purporting them as fact.
'The disappearance is crew related says flight expert'  What flight expert? How the hell can he or the paper be so sure with no wreckage or communication to tell from.

'The cargo of mangosteens had a bomb in them' says another. Or they may not have had a bomb in them.

'The cargo contained lithium batteries and there's been 140 fires on aircraft caused by these this year'.  If it did have lithium batteries on board (and that seems questionable) then they may or may not be a cause.

'The aircraft was hijacked by the crew/passengers/others'  Rather vague and of course they can't possibly tell yet, and remember that the aircraft has a reinforced door on the cockpit to stop hijackers getting in (although there are people coming forward saying the crew invited them into the cockpit in breach of rules) and if it was hijacked why hasn't it landed or a claim made by a terror group?

'It was crew suicide'  This raises more questions than it answers.  If it was suicide why can't they find the wreckage? there's no real point in flying miles off course to hide the wreckage if your all dead anyway.

'The plane had structural faults'  While it's true a different model has been issued with a warning to check part of the skin, thats not actually as uncommon as you might think. The warnings are issued when possible issues are spotted, often a few a week and related to all sorts of things on different planes.  
The missing aircraft had damaged a wing in a previous accident (I'm told) and it is just possible that may be related, but then so could pretty much anything elese.

'The plane was seen in the water near the Andaman islands'  This comes from a passenger on another plane who reported it before MH370 went missing (or around the same time, theres some confusion) The problem here is pilots say the plane the passenger was on was to high for her to be able to see a plane on the water, that coupled with the area being well searched suggests she was wrong.

The simple fact is aircraft are lost for a lot of different reasons, in the majority of cases some sort of mechanical defect triggers the initial problem, this is then often exacerbated by the crew  and leads to the full blown accident.  The truth is without finding some of the wreckage and ideally the so called black boxes we'll never really know what went on with MH370.