Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 left Kuala Lumpur on March 8 and disappeared from radar screens as if by magic somewhere over Southeast Asia. What happened to it? Is it true that the plane went off course? Why did the radio transmitter in the cockpit stop? Mechanical failure could be another strong possibility... But was it really a mechanical failure?

Malaysian authorities are baffled. They don’t know where the plane is or what really happened to it. There were no distress signals from the pilot and all communications stopped.

Reports from the media have been confusing and sometimes even conflicting. This is not the first time that a plane has vanished into thin air. In 2009, when an Air France state-of-the-art jetliner was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris it went down in the ocean. In this case, nearly two years went by before the wreckage and the majority of bodies were recovered, with the voice and data recorder found at the bottom of the ocean in May 2011. It’s such a wonderfulexperience to travel by air. But no matter how ingenious and sophisticated a jetliner is, accidents do happen.