Missing Malaysian Airlines plane: How can a jet just disappear?

By Eileen Ng, Kristen Gelineau and Scott Mayerowitz
Updated March 11 2014 - 8:26am, first published 8:00am

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: In an age when people assume that any bit of information is just a click away, the thought that a jetliner could simply disappear over the ocean for more than two days is staggering. But Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is hardly the first reminder of how big the seas are, and of how agonising it can be to try to find something lost in them.

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