It has been a lovely day, I haven't been out though apart from stepping out on to the porch from time to time. I haven't been very well, had a double whammy with my head - the pain and also the onset of a migraine. I took something strong which shifts the migraine, but nothing seems to touch the other pain in the base of my skull, but lying on a hot water bottle helps. So I slept on and off through the day.
During the time I was awake I was riveted to the news about the missing airliner. It is like living through a mystery novel, except that it is not moving fast enough, but you couldn't make it up.
Plane climbs up to the safest point of the flight, when it is cruising on auto pilot, then vanishes into thin air. Then the narrative goes down several dead ends which don't lead anywhere. Radar data suggests that the plane did a U turn to go back, but didn't make any contact to say they were going back. An oil slick is discovered, so it is at first thought it had gone down there, but lab tests showed it wasn't jet fuel. Two passengers boarded the flight with stolen passports. Lots of speculation there. Were they terrorists, did they take over the plane?????
Then it was revealed that their tickets were one way; bought the previous day by an Iranian; who paid cash. Much gnashing of teeth there. The self righteous were demanding to know why - in those circumstances - the passports weren't run through Interpol's stolen passport database. 20/20 hindsight is a wonderful thing. (pause, while I reflect on the fact that mine was lost since I've been here, the one I have now has never been used to travel - mine must be one of the 40 million on the database). I predict long delays at airports while all passports, for a while at least, are going to be run through the database.
It is not, however, being assumed that these two guys with stolen passports were terrorists. No, flying around south east Asia with false passports is actually quite common, but nothing to do with disappearing aircraft. Thailand apparently is a hotbed of stolen passports and people smuggling. I keep wondering where my passport is.
I hope there are more developments tomorrow. Like a book, or a film, that is moving too slowly I want to get to the end. Know where the plane is.
Looks like it's going to be a nice day. 83 must be the warmest day this year, so far. I am just off to bed, as you see I took this at 3.09 am. But then having slept a good part of the day I wasn't very sleepy.
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