MAXEY CHRONICLES ON VACATION -REPRINT OF EERIE BLOG ABOUT DISAPPEARANCE OF MALAYSIAN FLIGHT 370

Malaysian Flight 370, a Boeing 777, arguably the safest plane in the world,has disappeared along with over 230 souls.

That was last week.

Where is it?

Did it crash en route from Malaysia to China? No debris has been found.

Did it veer west, the pings from the plane to the satellite says yes. But no plane has been found.

Has it been hijacked? No ransom demands have been made.

Has it been diverted to an ageless High Lama in the Himalayas, for one of its passengers, like  CONWAY( Ronald Colman) in LOST HORIZON?

Flight 370 has turned into the S.S. MINNOW from GILLIGAN’S ISLAND, off on a routine flight, and lost.

One of the grating leitmotifs of President Obama is his raving praise for the 21^st Century; the 21^st Century with its NSA and its trademark omniscience phone and email taps,  with its CIA, FBI, GPS, satellites,and omnipresent cameras. The 21st Century with its  constant surveillance, its constant memorializing of every act and sound, regardless of how trivial.  Yet in this century, the 21st Century, a plane the size of a small ship cannot be located.

In the primitive 19^th Century, the mystery ship, the MARY CELESTE was found, not the crew but the ship.

With all the technology of the 21^st Century, we are incapable of finding an airplane loaded with hi-tech tracking equipment, monitored by a vast array of hi-tech instrumentation.

Strange.

This would be a comic event, save for the lives presumed lost and the déjà vu fact we have seen this set of occurrences before.

Flight 19.

“At 1410 on 5 December 1945, five TBM Avengers comprising Flight 19 rose into the sunny sky above NAS Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Turning east the formation headed out over the Atlantic on the first leg of a routine exercise from which neither the 14 men of Flight 19 nor the 13-man crew of a PBM Mariner sent out to search for them were ever to return.

The disappearance of the five Avengers and the PBM sparked one of the largest air and seas searches in history as hundreds of ships and aircraft combed over 200,00 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, while, on land, search parties scoured the interior of Florida on the outside chance that the aircraft might have gone down there undetected.

But nothing was ever found. No wreckage, no bodies, nothing. All that remained were the elements of mystery and a mystery it quickly and easily became. Flight 19 "The Lost Patrol" …. All five pilots are highly experienced aviators and all of the aircraft have been carefully checked prior to takeoff. “

At 1545 the tower at Fort Lauderdale got a call from  U.S. Navy Lt. Charles Carroll Taylor , the lead pilot, who had about 2,500 flying hours, mostly in aircraft of this type.

Taylor said: "Cannot see land; we seem to be off course."

That was followed by silence, then Taylor said""We cannot be sure where we are…repeat: Cannot see land."

“Taylor was told to broadcast on 4805 kilocycles. This order was not acknowledged so he was asked to switch to 3,000 kilocycles, the search and rescue frequency. Taylor replied: "I cannot switch frequencies. I must keep my planes intact.”

There was ten minutes of silence.

Then voices are heard, but not Taylor’s it was the voices of the crews, talking , confused.

“We can't find west. Everything is wrong. We can't be sure of any direction. Everything looks strange, even the ocean."

Silence again, then for some unfathomable reason, Taylor has handed his command to another pilot.

Twenty minutes of silence follow.

Then a new voice: "We can't tell where we are ...everything is …..can't make out anything. We think we may be about 225 miles northeast of base…It looks like we are entering white water…We're completely lost."

Those were the last words ever spoken from Flight 19.

“Within minutes a Mariner flying boat, carrying rescue equipment, is on its way to Flight 19's last estimated position. Ten minutes after takeoff, the PBM checks in with the tower . . .and is never heard from again. Coast Guard and Navy ships and aircraft comb the area for the six aircraft. They find a calm sea, clear skies, middling winds of up to 40 miles per hour and nothing else. For five days almost 250,000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf are searched. Yet, not a flare is seen, not an oil slick, life raft or telltale piece of wreckage is ever found.”    

In the saga of Flight 19, what is notable is the erratic behavior of the pilots. Please note the behavior of Flight 370.

-“… - classified analysis of electronic and satellite data suggests Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 likely crashed either in the Bay of Bengal or elsewhere in the Indian Ocean, CNN learned Friday…No one knows for sure. But Malaysian military radar did register dramatic changes for Flight 370 in altitude -- going up to 45,000 feet, before descending to 23,000 feet -- and an erratic path as it moved across Malaysia in what are some of the last known readings of the plane's location, according to a senior US official.

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Even if it had lost power, investigators would have been able to calculate its location within 100 miles or so based on its trajectory, he said. "Apparently it didn't, and somebody took it off course. That has to be a pilot or somebody in the cockpit to do that."

-the  plane's identifying transponder stopped working.

-How does a Boeing 777-200ER just disappear?

It doesn't. It -- or its pieces -- are somewhere. It doesn't help that Flight 370's flight path is unclear and that the search areas include vast waters and sparsely populated jungles and mountains…CNN”

Really? According to 21^st Century CNN, it is impossible for a plane to disappear   in the 21^st Century….yet six planes disappeared in one day in the 20^th Century….are we so far removed from the 20^th Century on the Time/Space Continuum that a natural  disappearance cannot occur?

-“(Flight 370)  its apparent disappearance is made even stranger by the fact that the jet was laden with massive amounts of technology, including a transponder, UHF and VHF radios, automatic beacons, GPS and computer communications systems, as well as the cell phones of the passengers and crew.... CNN”

"THERE IS ALWAYS MORE MYSTERY....Anais Nin