Where is Flight MH370?

If you're anything like me, you've been glued to this story on the missing flight en route to Kuala Lumpur.  What's so strange about it is just how little everyone seems to know.  It seems completely impossible that a plan carrying that many people and that much technology can vanish without a trace.  But it's somehow happened and no one is exactly sure how.  I'm completely at a loss to even try to explain how this happens which is slightly terrifying to me.

What started last week with tales of possible terrorism (stolen passports that turned out not to be linked to any known terrorists but to 2 men just trying to flee Iraq), quickly turned to wrongdoing by the crew (the plane had turned back and veered 4 hours off course but then this theory was also debunked).  What's causing so much confusion is the very fact that so many nations are working together to figure this mystery out.  And they all seem to want to be the first with news or theories.

I must admit that I've gotten caught up in the news cycle as well, just because it's such a bizarre case.  I've been under the impression that this incident is an unprecedented one; that planes just don't vanish and that airline incidents are just one in million flukes.  But according to the story I read today after falling down the Huffington Post rabbit hole, there have been around 10 such incidents of air crafts going missing and never being hard from again.  We've all heard the myths about the Bermuda Triangle, but apparently crashes and vanishing planes have happened in other countries and parts of the world too.  That sole piece of information just may be enough to turn me off flying ever again (that is until it's time to again, then I'll probably get a bit braver).  

I suppose what we must realize in the weeks ahead is, while this story seemingly has it all for the media obsessed (terrorism? wrongdoing? supernatural? - who knows?!) there are families of 239 people who just want their loved ones home.  Hopefully, if the search crews and the media start focusing on that important fact, they'll start working more cohesively to at least give these families some closure.