Missing Malaysian 777 (Page 5)

They are finally calling it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26716572 

Occam is resting well.

Yep.  Now the question is why.

So it WASN'T Bosnian pirates stealing some valuable mystery cargo, mini black holes, cockpit fires that selected only certain equipment to render inoperable, or rips in the space time continuum?  It just CRASHED?  Go figure.

My money is massive electronics failure, thought they were limping back to land but not (or couldn't), sploosh...  The end.

Apparently the Chinese people aren't very happy with Malaysia's handling of the investigation, prompting this gem:

"I've never been to Malaysia, and I will no longer plan to go there anymore,"
Meng Fei, the host of one of China's most popular TV shows, wrote Wednesday on
Weibo.

LOL........well ok then.

I know I can't, and hope I never will, understand the pain and anguish these families are going through.  But the part I don't understand is the borderline conspiracy theory mob mentality that is boiling over in China to the Malaysian consulate.  They said they want to see the raw data as if everyone is lying and the plane really did land and someone has their relatives.  I think I saw one quote say "Give us our family back" as if they were somewhere other than the bottom of the ocean.

I guess the "denial" phase of grief goes pretty deep and they grasp at anything to keep their loved ones "alive".

I have wondered what the cultural differences (from our culture) may be with regard to grieving/moving on with your life.  For instance, almost all chinese families only have 1 child.  As devestating as it is to lose a child, if your family is bigger you have an obligation to be strong and relistic because you have other children who depend on it.  Maybe no "closure" is worse for the Chineses than it is for us?  I'm just throwing it out there because some of the reaction I've seen is over the top from what I am used to seeing in tragic situations.

I don't know.  I added to my post in an edit.  I've been around some pretty crazy death scenes, and dealt with quite a few people who have alot of questions that we can't answer regarding the death of loved ones......I haven't seen many reactions like I've seen with this.  I also wonder how crazy the media is making everyone.

That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.  That makes sense.

Grief plus the mob mentality?  Maybe a family in grief is a bit more subdued and "reasonable".  Throw in the mob thing which ALWAYS gets people acting the fool in most cases which feeds the grief?

Yeah, maybe back in the day of the cold war if a Russian jet went down full of Americans (it's a stretch, I know.  We wouldn't be ON a Russian plane back then).  We would probably be screaming at the Russians if they looked like they were holding back or inept even if they didn't do anything wrong.