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The disappearance of a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 in the Gulf of Thailand between Malaysia and Vietnam is as fascinating as it is chilling. There was no distress signal. The airplane simply vanished in the dead of night. Whatever happened had to have been catastrophic and sudden.
It might have collided with another aircraft, an aircraft flying without lights and with its radar transponder turned off, or an aircraft controlled by a pilot with his brain turned off. It might have lost all electrical power, which seems equally unlikely. It might have been blown up by a bomb in its huge cargo bay. A pilot or hijacker might have dived the aircraft into the sea. It might have been shot down. Or I suppose it might have been hit by an asteroid (possible, although rather improbable).