Very sad that the relatives of those on a lost flight are still stuck in a hotel waiting for a free flight to a crash scene which can't be found.
The latest story, which I think is a 'false hope' story, is that phones of the missing are still ringing. one could be wishful thinking or ringing a wrong number. But a group suggests there must be a practical reason.
Several people have said that phones which are inactive or destroyed appear to be ringing because the network generates a ringing sound.
If the phones ring but nobody answers, nobody is alive to answer. Not even the owner of a stolen phone.
If the sound is generated from the location of the phone. If. Then the two most likely practical reasons are that the phones are intact underwater. Or intact on land.
I hesitate to speculate. Often what one thinks is disproved by news the next day.
What has happened to my family in the past? We have two phones because using your home phone on an overseas network is expensive. Or we travelled without a phone and had to buy another at the destination. Some people have a work phone and a private phone.
With all those people on a plane, several of them, most of them, will have two phones.
My first thought is some of them forgot their phone which is still at home. Others left at home the one on the local network, planning to buy or hire another phone in the other country's network at lower cost.
Another possibility is that the phone was in their luggage which was sent on a different plane. Either deliberately. (Stolen suitcases - baggage handlers. I've read articles or books on this.) Or accidentally misrouted.
There are hangars full of lost luggage. Those ringing phones could be in a hangar, and never left, or landed elsewhere.
Or the phones are waterproof and managed to survive underwater or on a coral reef. Or inside luggage or in a coat pocket in an airplane cupboard in a bit of tailplane deep underwater.
Who were the 'first class' passengers? Is there a connection between phones still ringing? The same network? Crew or first class all at front of plane?
What has anybody to gain by discussing this? Agitated forum readers often ask why one story dominates the news, when more are killed by wars or accidents elsewhere. Often it is because of the mystery. Suspense. Whodunnit. A missing child, a murder mystery, a missing plane, a phone which rings when the owner is missing.
We, the world, the authorities, the public, are learning all sorts of important things about safety. Checking passports.
We are troubled by mysteries. Our brain keeps churning over the facts looking for the answer. Once the mystery is solved, the newspapers will stop running the story. Our adrenalin will stop. The families will be able to 'rest in peace'.
The latest story, which I think is a 'false hope' story, is that phones of the missing are still ringing. one could be wishful thinking or ringing a wrong number. But a group suggests there must be a practical reason.
Several people have said that phones which are inactive or destroyed appear to be ringing because the network generates a ringing sound.
If the phones ring but nobody answers, nobody is alive to answer. Not even the owner of a stolen phone.
If the sound is generated from the location of the phone. If. Then the two most likely practical reasons are that the phones are intact underwater. Or intact on land.
I hesitate to speculate. Often what one thinks is disproved by news the next day.
What has happened to my family in the past? We have two phones because using your home phone on an overseas network is expensive. Or we travelled without a phone and had to buy another at the destination. Some people have a work phone and a private phone.
With all those people on a plane, several of them, most of them, will have two phones.
My first thought is some of them forgot their phone which is still at home. Others left at home the one on the local network, planning to buy or hire another phone in the other country's network at lower cost.
Another possibility is that the phone was in their luggage which was sent on a different plane. Either deliberately. (Stolen suitcases - baggage handlers. I've read articles or books on this.) Or accidentally misrouted.
There are hangars full of lost luggage. Those ringing phones could be in a hangar, and never left, or landed elsewhere.
Or the phones are waterproof and managed to survive underwater or on a coral reef. Or inside luggage or in a coat pocket in an airplane cupboard in a bit of tailplane deep underwater.
Who were the 'first class' passengers? Is there a connection between phones still ringing? The same network? Crew or first class all at front of plane?
What has anybody to gain by discussing this? Agitated forum readers often ask why one story dominates the news, when more are killed by wars or accidents elsewhere. Often it is because of the mystery. Suspense. Whodunnit. A missing child, a murder mystery, a missing plane, a phone which rings when the owner is missing.
We, the world, the authorities, the public, are learning all sorts of important things about safety. Checking passports.
We are troubled by mysteries. Our brain keeps churning over the facts looking for the answer. Once the mystery is solved, the newspapers will stop running the story. Our adrenalin will stop. The families will be able to 'rest in peace'.
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