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.
