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March 19, 2014

What if the Malaysia Flight is Never Found?

Matthew McConaughey on Malaysia Flight

In 1937, way before the so-called sophisticated tracking systems of today, 24/7 global news and social media, another high profile plane went missing and was never found. America’s most famous missing pilot, Ameila Earhart, was last heard stating she could not find a landing strip on her descent from the Pacific Ocean and was running low on gas. Her plane was never found.

Over the past eight decades, there have been countless theories on what really happened to Earhart. Some think she simply crashed into the Pacific Ocean, while others claim she was captured as part of an elaborate scheme to spy on the Japanese. Several Allied airman during World War 11 reported seeing her working as a nurse on Guadalcanal.

Fast-forward 76 years to another plane disappearance, complete with dozens of theories from every news outlet, blogger and Twitter account on the planet. Today, our world is consumed by  missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Struggling nightly newscaster Anderson Cooper has been among the biggest beneficiaries of public interest in this story. Twice last week, Nielsen reported his show had more than doubled its typical audience.

Hollywood couldn’t have made up a wilder story… tight shot on the exhausted face of Matthew McConaughey circling a command center. The camera pans out to show his fist slamming the table and McConaughey shouting at his team, “Find that damn plane!”

I hope for the sake of the families it doesn’t take much longer, but like Earhart, it is quite possible that we may never know what happened to Malaysia Flight 370. And in this hyper-connected world, that is the craziest thing of all.