Now either the Malaysian government is not telling us something or they are whistling in the wind. The daily change of priorities comes off too much like an attempt to engage in diversionary tactics. At a certain point one begins to feel the wool is being pulled and the daily change in the search strategy has a choreographed texture to it.

Get a few things straight. This is day Nine. That plane is not up there flying. It is over and let’s gracefully and with a profound sense of grief give the families of those 239 people on Flight-370 closure. You cannot give them hope for so many days. It is bitterly cruel.

This is neither an episode of Lost nor has anyone been castaway. The Triple Seven could not possibly have flown seven hours without being tracked once the plane had gone missing. It is not a drone.

To consider scenarios that the wide-body has been spirited away to some island strip and camouflaged to be used in a potential 9/11 type on another country attack is ridiculous and is simply diverting from the most likely possibility; the plane has gone down over water. You couldn’t take off on a suicide mission from a makeshift airfield without being observed and pre-empted.

Then there are the logistics of feeding 239 people for nine days. It just does not work out right...do your sums they make no sense. But that said, there is something murky in the statements from the Malaysian authorities, something they know and are not telling the world. You get that odd feeling they know what happened to that plane or can make an educated guess but for some reason haven’t the courage to say it because there is far too much indictment and any such revelation would cause a furor.