Truth about MH370 flight ‘will emerge eventually’

Military personnel look out of a Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) C130 transport plane as they search for the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane over the South China Sea. Picture: Reuters

In AN age when people assume any bit of information is just a click away, the thought that a jet could simply disappear over the ocean for several days is staggering.

But Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is not the first reminder of how big the seas are, and of how agonising it can be to try to find something lost in them.

It took two years to find the main wreckage of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. Close to the area between Malaysia and Vietnam where Saturday’s flight vanished, it took a week for debris from an Indonesian jet to be spotted in 2007. Today, the mostly intact fuselage still sits on the bottom of the ocean.