Originally Posted By: Russ
Originally Posted By: hikermor
... To say nothing of the grandaddy (grandmother?)of them all -Amelia Earhart.

One has to love the smell of runaway speculation in the morning....

Taking all that we think we know, Charles Hugh Smith who blogs on oftwominds.com lays out his analysis in What Happened to Flight 370? An Analysis of What Is Known . One key thought is that:
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...Either that, or some key data that has been released as fact is actually false....
You don't know what you don't know. People who do know deliberately hold back information all the time because of security or because they are embarrassed or for a number of other reasons -- basically they don't want us to know or they don't want to confirm what we think we know. We can't take everything at face value.


You also don't want to release information until you have confirmed it is accurate. You don't want to cause panic, wild speculation, knee-jerk reactions, etc.


Edited by Eugene (03/14/14 04:12 PM)