http://nypost.com/2014/05/03/11-terrorists-arrested-in-connection-to-missing-jet/

I knew people who died on 9/11/2001, after four commercial aircraft were hijacked that day. There were no survivors on any of those jets, and over 3000 total fatalities; how soon some people forget. I once met a gal who survived the Columbine school shooting. I grew up in Connecticut—a state still recovering from the Newtown school shooting. I have family members who live in the Boston area, and fortunately they were not at the marathon bombing one year ago today. I watch, I listen, I read, and I have learned that our world isn’t the eternally safe place that the wish-thinkers cling to. Their view—maybe your view—of the world is prettier than mine, and I’m sad that recent events have begun creeping into your Utopia.

Do we know that MH370 was a hijacking? Absolutely not. But to disbelieve that it was even a possibility before the aircraft is found, and the facts are revealed, is to live in a world of lollipops and gummy bears. Usually, the middle of the herd is safe from predators, and only those on the edge see the sinister eyes peering from the shadows, and the fangs dripping with hunger and saliva. From the middle of the herd, the horizon is usually filled with the seemingly endless fuzzy fur of other sheep. But even a casual glance at today’s USA Today violent headlines reveals that deliberate evil deeds can and do occur in our world:

Utah Mom tells police she killed 6 newborns

Blast in Nigerian capital leaves 71 dead

Hate suspects often seniors (in reference to racial-slur infested hate mail sent to Hank Aaron on the anniversary of his Babe Ruth record-breaking homerun triumph)

And there is also reference to the fatal shooting at LAX airport five months ago in relation to a sports figure who can’t stay out of trouble (and recently made a bomb threat).

I hope that someday the sheeple will finally believe that predators do, in fact, lurk just outside of, and sometimes within, our herd. It will take all of us to make a better world, and we can begin by collectively seeing it the way it really is. Maybe MH370 wasn’t hijacked, but we can learn to prevent future air piracy by studying the missing jet scenario as a potential hijacking while the facts are slowly discovered.

The most likely outcome is that this plane has crashed somewhere. Anything else at this stage is wild speculation. For the plane to be hijacked in a Taliban-controlled area it would have had to have flown undetected through the airspace of several countries, navigated its way to a runway good enough to land on without being damaged (as any repairs would be impractical to the would-be terrorist in Waziristan), remain undetected on the runway, find a way of refuelling, dispose of 200 plus hostages, find a couple of trained pilots willing to kill themselves, pass into the airspace of an industrialised nation undetected and fly the plane into a structure of national importance, when they could just have turned the plane round and flown it into the Petronas towers and avoided all of the above.

I’m not saying that this is impossible, I just think that it’s less likely than the alternatives.