1. The Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak has said the ill-fated Flt 370 dropped 12,000 feet and sank into the southern Indian Ocean. This is now official. He has made a statement even as ships and planes scour the seas but it is still an announcement.

2. But the wreckage has not yet been identified if there is any wreckage at all, and so no one can say with any guarantee that it is from the 777. It is a conclusion predicated to two weeks of plotting a chart from satellite data. And seems more political than practical a statement.

3. The plane made a turn at 35,000 feet then dropped to 12,000 feet where it flew on for some time, that altitude not being under the radar. What made it do that and why was there no Mayday call? There is no other information except what is a very sketchy statement, almost like let’s close it down and end the investigation.

4. Why is the airline reluctant or even refusing to be transparent about what was in the cargo hold of the aircraft by releasing the cargo manifest? What is the call for secrecy?

5. Was there a fire of board, ostensibly triggered by a burning tire that on takeoff and smoke inhalation caused the pilots to suffocate and the aircraft just kept flying about till it ran out of fuel? Some pilots have suggested this scenario.

6. Other analysts say that there could have been a mechanical failure. In which case how did the aircraft stay airborne for so long?

7. There has been no further information about the two passengers on false passports or whether they had a role to play. It is like no one is talking about them any longer.

8. Most pilots will accept that in any of these scenarios there is enough time to send out a Mayday call on the transponder at 7700 frequency. No one wants to talk about that.

9. No data is available at this moment to indicate any objects that came up in the Australian coastal area and even the 75 feet long “suspicious” piece has become irrelevant.

10. There is no comfort to the next of kin of the passengers on what happened and it is still all a little more technical speculation and nothing else.

Conclusion: The feeling that nothing so fits into a proper grid will not go away.