Odyssey of Flight 33 Scenario Isn’t Sexy Anymore

Six days after my 3.11 “Monster of Nothingness” piece about the surreal disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, some CNN guys flirted with the notion of a supernatural explanation. But that’s old news. The new thought is that the pilot and his co-pilot are/were nutters who used a “terrain masking” procedure to avoid radar: “Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 dropped to altitudes as low as 5000 feet, using a dangerous flying technique called ‘terrain masking’, to avoid radar in at least three countries, investigators believe. Terrain masking is used by military pilots for stealth flights.” — Lindsay Murdoch, Sydney Morning Herald.