The biggest mystery

The missing flight has become the biggest news recently and also a big mystery.

An aircraft with 239 people vanished in the air. The huge, well-equipped multination searching force scanned the waters but found not even a clue.

Fake passports. Possible terrorist activity. The incident itself is a rare strange affair, and the rumors that are flying make the situation even more confusing.

Debris from the aircraft was found? The plane crashed into the Strait of Malacca? It was hijacked by psychotic pilots? Numerous messages popped up from nowhere and were diffused among more than 300 journalists in the media center in Kuala Lumpur. Although most of them quickly burst like bubbles, they were bewildering nonetheless.

Yesterday, a Malaysia wizard cast spells in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport to summon supernatural power to locate the jet and passengers. Without finding the plane.

Even when confirmed, any information is broken and complicated. If just one sentence were used to sum up the news conference yesterday, it would be: Trying to enter Germany, an Iranian man used a stolen Austrian passport and boarded a Malaysian flight with a ticket bought through China Southern Airlines but in the end disappeared in the air over Vietnam.

There is a lot of information there. Reporting of the news becomes a big game, in which even the smallest mistake causes a twist of truth.

After all the result of this chaos is that there is too little information. Basically, the only important and unshakable truth is that an aircraft with 239 people aboard is missing. Journalists are desperate with so little material available.

In order to out-shout the competition, some people have used unconfirmed sources, developed a story with insufficient facts, or exploited the people affected by the incident by pushing them to tell their sad feelings again and again.

Malaysian authorities also are anxious, taking the blame for fruitless searching. Without making real progress in the search-and-rescue effort, they are only able to stammer out an apology and offer a broken message to feed reporters every day.

The incomplete stories are torturing people who really care about the missing passengers. After meeting the families Guo Shaochun, head of the Chinese delegation, said the families have been on an emotional roller coaster because of the constantly alternating good and bad news.

All of them wish to find the plane and end all of the imagination.

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