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Flight 370 Didn’t Disappear: We Missed It

SIN OF OMISSION

Why in the age of Netflix should airplanes carry precious information about what happened on boxes that sink to the bottom of the ocean?

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It almost seemed, sadly, a statement of the obvious when the Malaysians confirmed today that Flight MH370 had been lost.

This formal admission now triggers legal actions—technically the Boeing 777 becomes what is called a “hull loss.”

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